Bring a Basket of Fruit to the Beach for Healthy, Portable Snacks

Usually when you go to the beach there are two choices when it comes to food: you can buy overpriced high fat and high calorie snacks if there are vendors at the beach or you can bring your own snacks from home, which required planning, coolers, and usually results in sandy snacks. There is another solution though. You can bring a basket of fruit from home filled with delicious and healthy citrus fruits. A fruit basket is easy to carry, even when you’re loaded down with towels, sunscreen, beach toys and other items. And since citrus fruits like oranges and grapefruit are wrapped in a naturally protective peel you don’t need to worry if you drop one or if the kids drop their fruit, the fruit will still be edible.

Citrus fruits are the perfect beach snack. They are full of fiber, which will help you and the kids stay full even when you’re swimming and running around, but they are not heavy or greasy. Eating burgers and other fast food at the beach can make swimming or running around uncomfortable and may even make you sick. Light citrus fruits are the perfect on the go snack because they will keep you satisfied but not make you overly full. Oranges also are packed with vitamins and minerals that will give you and your family more energy, which you will need when you’re playing on the beach or swimming.Orange juice and grapefruit juice also contain electrolytes which will help keep everyone hydrated. Sodas and sugary drinks are the worst things to drink at the beach because it’s so easy to get dehydrated in the hot sun when you’re swimming and being very physically active. Drinking a natural fruit juice like orange juice will refresh you and make sure your body stays energized and healthy.

This summer instead of packing a cooler with ice and taking sandwiches, sodas and other foods to the beach for the day just bring a basket of fruit. An assorted fruit basket will have enough different kinds of fruits to make sure that everyone can find something they like, and a basket of fruit is easy to transport both to and from the beach even if you end up having to walk quite a distance from your car to get to the beach. A trip to the beach should be fun, not a hassle. Pack a basket of fruit and some water and head out for a fun day in the sun.

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