Discover my top gluten free healthy junk food swaps and the challenges I face with growing my social media presence. 🍋
Finding balance between indulgence and health + overcoming obstacles in online growth 🌱
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Crunching on Guilt-Free Goodies: Navigating Social Media Growth in a Gluten-Free World 🌿
Let’s ASMR this some of you are immediately clicking away from the video simply because I did that and I can’t say that I believe you I want to talk to you today about balance with food specifically junk food recently I’ve been putting a lot of time into a social media platform called lemon8 honestly I.
Have not had much luck on Tik Tok or Instagram and it’s probably me I know that I have valuable information to share and I’ve just been looking for the right platform and I think the Right audience and I found it so for those of you who don’t know me my name is V I am a certified holistic health coach I honestly just want people to live happy.
Well-balanced holistic lives maybe there is someone out there who like me is realistic and doesn’t eat 100% clean all of the time I try my best every once in a while I just need to eat something that is not grown in the dirt that’s that’s the only way I can describe it and so I eat processed foods sometimes I live an.
8020 lifestyle so 80% of my foods are holistic made from scratch then the other 20% they’re foods that maintain balance and make me feel like I’m a normal human being this is the video for someone who is tired of restricting and wants to live a reasonable able balanced life because I think the problem with going 100% on anything is that at some.
Point you’re going to teeter totter back there’s a positive there’s a negative right if you’re going to go high you’re going to go low and that’s just life and so I think if you can avoid this and you can get more to a place like this then life is more manageable I have a gluten allergy I’ve been glutenfree for about two or three years.
Now with having a gluten allergy means there are a lot of processed foods that you cannot eat you want to eat them but you simply can’t because then your inflammation will go through the roof and you will start having IBS and chronic inflammation and brain fog and you’ll sleep for hours and hours yeah you’ll be an emotional roller coaster.
And gluten does scary scary things to me with that I had to find healthy alternatives to the junk foods that I loved and cherished so so much so I guess one of the first easiest swaps I want to start with is ollipop I get a lot of mixed reviews on ollipop some people love them and others absolutely hate them and think that they taste like.
Garbage garbage fruit water I however absolutely love and cherish lollipop some people like Poppy I tried poppy it seemed super artificially sweet to me artificially flavored and I couldn’t do it one of my favorites is the grape I think this is like a great equivalent for the classic Fanta grape soda another one is the orange I love the orange it’s.
Like a perfect equivalent to crush I really like the root beer I think the root beer is it’s different for sure it like when you’re drinking it you’re like this is healthy it’s still like a good supplement I think for root beer can’t say that I love the coke I didn’t like the Vintage Cola and then the Dr Goodwin was supposed to be like a Dr Pepper.
Equivalent and I was a Dr Pepper girl growing up I identified with Dr Pepper in junior high I can say it does not taste the same at all so there are some wins there are some losses with ollipop when I first started drinking these I definitely noticed that they have probiotics in them because I would drink one and then immediately need a go to.
The bathroom but now I have a healthier gut microbiome that isn’t so reactive when it finally gets probiotics or prebiotics in it and I can treat these like a normal human being without having to run to the bathroom overall been a really good replacement for soda if you are interested in trying ollipop I do have a.
Link listed below where you can get $15 off your first order I would definitely try the variety pack if it’s your first time you can also go to like a local Target they have them in Walmart you can go try them if you want that $15 off your first order you can go to the link below so we’re going to break this up into categories and the first category.
We’re going to talk about is salty I am a salty girl salty salty leave your desserts at home bring me a bag of chips that is all I am interested in thank you I do not care for Mass amounts of sugar I just want salt all day I personally personally enjoy lays but they are so so so greasy I eat Cape Cod and I just get the original sea salt potato chips and.
They are just and Costco sells like a giant bag of them I will take that and happily eat it in its entirety if I don’t portion control myself if I don’t grab my cute little bowl and put the chips in it and say that is all you’re going to eat I will eat the whole bag but it’s okay we just portion control we’re fine craft.
Mac and cheese that was one of the hardest things to lose and the craft one specifically because you know there’s just something about it the savoriness of the cheese te and the the the chewiness of the noodle and just but it’s okay because Annie’s made a pretty good equivalent and it is gluten-free.
It’s the rice pasta and cheddar they also have a white cheddar that’s pretty good but like if you’re looking for that craft equivalent you know those weird little macaronis that your go-to all of you salty girls out there you salty cheesy girls chees it I know I know I miss cheit I found a.
Pretty good equivalent and it has a lot more flavor and spice if you’re a plain girly and you just want like cheese and salt maybe these aren’t for you but if you’re the type of girl that wants to explore different herbal blends of your crackers I would give these a go um it is the simple Mills Farmhouse cheddar crackers Farmhouse cheddar crackers why.
Is that so hard to say farmhouse cheddar crackers Farmhouse cheddar crackers Farmhouse cheddar crackers wow they’re bomb honestly like the first time I tried them I was shook as the kids say I was like wow this is the cheese equivalent that I was looking for and it has even more flavor and I think because of the use of the spices it’s more.
Satiating meaning that like when I eat it I feel full I feel satisfied pre-popped popcorn traditionally I would have just done like a run-of-the-mill one maybe like skinny pop or smart food or whatever the Lesser evil him and salt popcorn y’ it comes in this huge bag and it’s like actually full when does that ever happen sour cream and onion chips.
The good crisp company I in like a pringle style uh container and they’re kind of Pringles style but they are so good and they honestly like genuinely it tastes like real sour cream real onion and like just a little hint of salt pizza rolls I loved Pizza pizza rolls I would come home from school I would run into the kitchen I’d grab the pizza.
Rolls from the freezer I’d throw them onto a plate and i’ pop those puppies in the microwave and waiting watching as the cheese oozed out of the sides then I would eat them I would devour them but it was so good and I missed that experience until recently colli power came out with little pizza bites they’re good they’re little expensive when you.
Open up the package you’re going to be disappointed at how many are in there but if you have it in your budget to waste money on things like that then go for it I certainly don’t have it in my budget but for some reason I do it every once in a while so that I can relive those cherish childhood memories let’s move on probably isn’t the.
Healthiest alternative but I don’t care okay the whole point of this is that it’s junk food so I don’t need you in my comments saying that microwave popcorn is terrible for you you shouldn’t even use a microwave get out of here leave this video isn’t for you obviously if you want to keep avoiding all of the oils and all of the radiation and.
Technology and you don’t want to just sometimes live your life fine go find someone else’s Channel that’s not me popped popcorn I grew up on the ACT too extreme butter like extra buttery buttery nasty nasty popcorn like the kind that you could still feel it on you the next day it was crazy like I would go to the orthodontist weeks later and.
They’d be like you had popcorn and I’d be like that was so long ago maybe that was just my oral hygiene now I eat oral reading boers lightly Salted Popcorn the Orval red Embers Naturals simply salted they’re very good and I’ve also fed them to children and the children approved and said it was very good as.
Well so I love cheese I love cheese it does not hurt me it does not affect me and I think that is just because of my milkmade Scandinavian ancestors is spreadable cheese so like the Laughing Cow Cheese or like cream cheese I recently discovered this cheese while in Saudi Arabia and let me tell you in Saudi Arabia they have real Dairy not.
Like here where everything is homogenized and over pasteurized and it basically by the time it gets to you it’s water no there’s real fat in this stuff and it is so good there was a chocolate milk over there that I am like I’m still when I go back that’s the first thing I’m doing the plane lands I’m going into one of the little stores.
I’m grabbing that chocolate milk and I’m just going to keep chugging it and chugging it and chugging it until it hurts that’s how good the chocolate milk was cuz that’s how good their Dairy is I discovered this spreadable cheese and it is so good with bagels and with crackers basically anything that you would want to put spreadable cheese on it is.
Amazing and it is called Kiri KY and it is a full fat spreadable cheese comes in a cute little block changed my life got to say it’s changed my life another recent discovery that I’ve made that has been vital to the Healthy Junk Food swap development of my life Doritos the nacho cheese I don’t care about Cool Ranch get out of here nacho cheese is the superior.
Dorito flavor and I will take To My Grave I was roaming the aisles lost desperately wanting to find my Dorito equivalent when suddenly I saw it there the Target brand tortilla chips nacho cheese flavored and they’re glutenfree see how easy it is Doritos see how easy it is targeted it I took them home in hopes that they would fulfill my needs.
And they delivered I smashed that bag in under 24 hours and I went back and got two more if you have been desperately searching for a nacho cheese Dorito equivalent for your gluten allergy that’s the one and honestly like if you just want to eat something cleaner it has such better ingredients that’s like the point of all of these is that they.
Do have better ingredients and they don’t have dyes in them so that’s something that matters to you I have always been a ramen noodle girl I’ve been trying to search for an equivalent to the spicy noodles the spicy cup noodles the shin ramun or whatever and I haven’t found like the exact equivalent when it comes to spice level but as far.
As like savoriness and EAS of application how easy it is to make them Tom Yum Ramen that I found online Maz Gourmet it’s got really clean ingredients it’s vegan glutenfree it honestly it’s so easy to make and I usually put an egg in it with a little like extra garlic powder and onion powder and cayenne honestly it’s.
Really good let’s move on to sweets for my dessert girlies the chocolate that you buy in the store sells your regular Hershey’s Reese’s it is not giving you the full profile of the chocolate it’s kind of like if you were constantly drinking Frappuccinos instead of just drinking coffee you would never really know what coffee tasted like.
There is an amazing brand called enjoy life they are very allergy conscious chocolate candy bars and all kinds of other stuff too but these are primarily what I use they make chocolate chips that you can also use in baking yeah they have rice milk they even have like a Crunch bar equivalent and their dark chocolate is my absolute favorite.
Honestly a cherished childhood food of mine childhood candy is an Almond Joy my mom used to always get one when we go to the grocery store and she would split it with me and honestly there’s nothing really wrong with Almond Joys it’s just they’re incredibly sweet and again you’re missing like profile that hint of like nuttiness and coconut and chocolate.
Because it’s being smothered by the amount of sugar that they’re putting into it a good equivalent that I’ve found for this are the unreal coconut bars they don’t have the almonds in them so I just kind of like will eat those on the side and like combine it together that’s been the best equivalent I’ve been able to find that’s like healthier.
If you have found an Almond Joy equivalent like a 100% or like even better like with dark chocolate please put it in the comments because I Des desperately desperately would like to experience that whole thing together another one that I recently became like re obsessed with I wasn’t crazy about Reese’s peanut butter cups when I was a.
Kid but my mom was and then recently in my adult life I’ve like become more enthused by peanut butter and chocolate as a combination and my go-to for peanut butter cups now is Trader Joe’s dark chocolate peanut butter cups or the Justin’s peanut butter cups those are good if you don’t have a Trader Joe’s in your area I recently tried ares’s for.
The first time again in a very long time and I took one bite and spit it out because it was so sweet like my mouth was hurting it was weird so another equivalent that my recently new husband had actually discovered Fruit Loop equivalent my husband found the magic spoon fruity cereal and it is pretty dang clothes it’s not the same it has a.
Little more viices to it again like most of this processed stuff all they need is the artificial flavor and sugar but when you take those elements out you have to supplement with actual real ingredients right and so it’s not going to taste exactly the same sometimes it’s going to have a different texture honestly I was happy with it it had like a little too.
Much of a cinnamon spice on the end I know what they were trying to accomplish and I’m happy with it as a replacement one that I’ve been recently very impressed with has been a replacement for waffles just like regular old toaster waffles frozen waffles that you throw in the oven or you throw in the toaster the kodiac gluten-free Frontier.
Oat waffles they’re actually really good again my husband discovered these at a store immediately grab them he’s always so excited to introduce new gluten-free foods that he finds to me it didn’t feel like I was eating something gluten-free or I was eating something healthier right it just tasted like a waffle to me it’s obviously not going to taste like.
Egos because it has probably like half the sugar as you start eating healthier your palette changes and you start to taste things differently literally when I stopped eating gluten I felt like I could taste my food better it was crazy so Skittles has been in the news recently for or having toxic toxic ingredients I’ll leave that linked below.
For you to read about if you’re a skittles person good replacement to Skittles would be yum Earth’s Giggles which is a chewy hard candy there are no dyes no weird ingredients I would try those so that is all that I have for you if I discover more I will be posting them on my lemon8 if you want to follow follow me there I would be happy to have.
You join our community my handle is I am V Harmon and I will be posting lots more holistic health content there and if you want to learn more about the details of these foods go check out the blog post that I recently wrote and posted on this and that will be linked below I hope you enjoy the rest of your day I hope that you go easy on yourself and and remember.
That balance is key nobody is perfect and we all deserve to enjoy life guilty pleasures every once in a while within moderation take care of yourself I’ll see you in the next one
