{"id":1167,"date":"2010-04-08T08:41:26","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T07:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2017-05-20T11:50:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T10:50:24","slug":"counting-the-calories-in-that-gluten-free-snack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/counting-the-calories-in-that-gluten-free-snack\/","title":{"rendered":"Counting the Calories in that Gluten Free Snack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-content\/bananas1.jpg\" alt=\"bananas\" title=\"bananas\" width=\"250\" height=\"375\" align=\"right\" \/>Have you thought much about the calorie content in those gluten free snacks? If you\u2019re anything like me, you\u2019re probably so pleased to find something gluten free that your child enjoys that you buy it anyway, but perhaps it\u2019s worth double checking that label. <\/p>\n<p>We had an interesting experience in the last week of school, when our coeliac had an unexpected research task: examine the quality of the snacks each person had brought in for the day, and see which were the least healthy, based on the ingredients panel.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve already guessed the result: the gluten free chocolate biscuit bar she\u2019d taken in was the least healthy, based on the number of calories and the amounts of fat and sugar.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, anybody else\u2019s snack would have been much more unhealthy *for her*, and moderation over the course of a week is the best plan, but that wasn\u2019t the point of the lesson.  And yes, she could have chosen fruit, though even the healthiest of eaters needs a treat sometimes; there are only so many bananas a child can eat. But I was still surprised that her choice was the worst.<\/p>\n<p>Note to self: check those labels occasionally, and not just to see if the product is gluten free!<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearall\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you thought much about the calorie content in those gluten free snacks? If you\u2019re anything like me, you\u2019re probably so pleased to find something gluten free that your child enjoys that you buy it anyway, but perhaps it\u2019s worth double checking that label. We had an interesting experience in the last week of school, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[133,132,134,131],"class_list":{"0":"post-1167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-living-gluten-free","8":"tag-calories","9":"tag-elevenses","10":"tag-healthy","11":"tag-snack","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}