Healthy Life Lessons

  I realized when I was planning this post that nut butters are one food that both healthy eaters and junk food eaters can usually agree on. Now healthy eaters may go for unsweetened, organic varieties and junk food eaters the sweetened grocery store kind, but still it is a generally universally appealing food. Often people use nut butters as a source of protein in their diet, but it isn't generally all that high in protein. I typically use it as a source of fat. So I was pretty stoked about the idea of high protein nut butters which were sent to me by Bowmar Nutrition . Two tablespoons has 10g of protein compared to about 6g for regular almond butter.  They sent me 3 flavours to try: 1. Cake Pop Cashew 2. Cinnamon Crunch Cereal 3. Apple Pie Almond Even though my kids are not the biggest nut butter fans (I know I just said everyone loves them but my kids are weird), I thought they would like these flavours. But the teenager blows hot and cold with nut butters and the tween only occ