Healthy bites for holiday delights (Plus, free recipes!)
If you're searching for a 'healthier and healthier' way to spend the April holiday, hop down the rabbit hole with the Vitality HealthyFood Studio for helpful hosting tips and fashionably free healthy recipes.
We're all hungry here, so let's dive right in. If you want to win at planning April holidays for the family, this is how you do it.
1. Make it curious
What makes a party more than a party? A brilliant theme and silly dress code! Amuse the adults, kids and furry friends with funky décor, party hats and nibbles to match.
2. Embrace the nuttiness
Swap out crisps and dips with a nutritious array of nuts, wholegrain crackers, vegetable kebabs, olives and julienned carrots and cucumber served with hummus.
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3. Chase the rabbit, dodge the flamingos
Fill the days with active games for adults and kids to play, like croquet, hopscotch, hot potato, musical chairs, Simon says or a scavenger hunt. Whatever gets them off the couch.
4. Feed the plates a shrinking potion
Excess weight around the waist can raise one's risk of high blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease. "I never want to go back to having that huge belly and the health problems it brought me," Sakhiwo says. "That's one of the things that keeps motivating me to continue exercising and eating healthily every day."
5. Good, good, good, good hydration
Flavoured water stations are a holiday must-have. Instead of serving sugary drinks, infuse water with fresh fruits and aromatic herbs like apple, basil, blueberries, cucumber, ginger, grapefruit, lavender, lemon, lime, mint, rosemary, sage and thyme.
BONUS TIP: use our free recipes!
Everyone will say, 'hats off to you', once you've served them exquisitely golden Brie and Apple Phyllo Roses or maddeningly morish Spiced Pear and Date Frangipane Tart.