I found two apps this week that help folks stick to a healthy diet in an innovative way. One lets you take a photo of your food and estimates the calories to help you track at the ballpark level and one helps you come up with new, healthy snack ideas so that you don’t get bored of eating the same old things!
Meal Snap lets you take pictures of the meal you eat, and then “magically” tells you what food was in your meal. The magic? They analyze what is on your plate and then break out what you ate and also gives you a ballpark calorie range. Some sample meals people highlighted were a steak, rice and roasted asparagus plate at the local steakhouse which clocked in at between 329 and 434 calories. The app also lets you categorize your snapshots by meal type and/or snacks and keeps a running tally of your daily total (range). It not a bad way to count calories, though, it won’t be 100 percent accurate. Great for making sure you are in the ballpark for sure! (iOS only, $2.99)
While I was looking at this, I came across a reference to Daily Burn’s Food Scanner app. It is now (a bit inexplicably) available with a version of Meal Snap for free with a bunch of other tools with the Daily Burn Tracker app (also available on Android). Check it out! I will, too and will let you know what I find!
Shake a Snack helps you to keep snacky healthy and interesting. You shake your iPhone or iPod touch to watch the ingredients whiz by and land on one of over 300 snack recipes. You can choose from sweet or savory snacks and you can put in the ingredients you have on hand for easy snack ideas. You can even filter out ingredients you don’t like or choose to view only vegetarian or vegan recipes. You can then save your favorite sweet and savory snack recipes for quick reference. Healthy snacking has never been more fun! Only $.99 on App Store and iTunes.
What do you think? Worth a try?
I found lots of great summer clearances and other deals this week:
- Check out these summer clearances:
- Save 40% on clearance items at Icebreaker – great deals!
- Get an additional $25 off of $100 purchases at c wonder with code SF25OFF100
- Today only, Piperlime is offering an extra 20% off items in its Summer White Sale with code LOVE at checkout.
- Get 50% off thousands of styles at ModCloth
- Take 40% off sale items at Ralph Lauren with code RLSUM40
- Get 25% off your entire order at Lands’ End today plus free shipping on orders over $50; enter code TREAT and pin 1015
- Save 30% or more at the CRAFT clearance on cycling, running and other sport apparel and accessories.
- Save 40% on photobooks at Shutterfly with code UP40PB
- Check out great deals at Gilt City get 25% off if you are not a member and sign up – free!
- They have great deals at Bliss Spas nationwide and get 50% off online vouchers for jewelry from Marrin Costello Designs.
- In Chicago get 50% off on car detailing at River North Hand Wash, 50% off on pilates at Soulistic Studio and Spa in Westtown and more.
- In NYC, save 60+% off on rock climbing classes at Brooklyn Boulders, up to 67% off of yoga classes at Maha Padma Yoga in Union Square and more
- In LA, save 50% on French classes at Alliance Francaise and more
- Lots of great deals in other major metros, too!
- Friend’s Find from Wendy C: Surprise clearance at Kate Spade up to 75% off
- New customers, get 20% off on natural products at vine.com and free shipping with code VINE20 or 3 months free shipping with code GOCRAZY
- Get $20 off of your purchase at Finish Line with code 20SUN150.
- For a limited time, get 20% OFF your entire purchase at RoadID.com. Go Shopping! Use coupon code ActiveAdv2013. Offer expires 08/23/13.
- Did you know that kid’s deal site Zulily has awesome deals on women’s clothes and accessories and for the home? Check out their buyer’s pics!
- Hey Chicago friends, eat at Native Foods today (8/6) to benefit Friends of Chicago Animal Care and Control or tomorrow 8/7 to benefit WITS – Working in the Schools! Good food – good causes! (Community days available in LA, Colorado and Portland, too!)
- Last days, The Windy City Rubber Ducky Derby benefiting Special Olympics Illinois (SOILL) is Thursday (8/8) and you still have time to be part of it. Adopt A Duck for $5 or a Quack Pack for $25 to help SOILL reach their goal and get a chance to win great prizes!
Still Available:
- New customers to Bulubox can get a free box with the code TWEET10 at checkout and new customers to Bestowed (healthy curated box from celeb nutritionist Heather Bauer) get the first month for $10 with the code HELLOYUM.
- Get $15 off of your $60 purchase and free shipping at Shoebuy.com until 8/7.
- Get 25% off on spa treatments at exhale spas when you book with a friend with code friend25 by 8/31.
- In Chicago, Zozi has a great deal on the Super Hero Scramble on August 24 (which sounds crazy to me!), 50% off on the Petco 5K9 walk/run and 50% off on Yoga Rocks Chicago and more. Check out their national, other major metro and travel deals, too!
- Get 25% off when you sign up for email at Derailed and free shipping for orders over $45 with code DALAUG3.
- Get discounted gift cards for your favorite stores plus $5 off $75 for new customers at Raise with code RAISE75AF.
Have a great day all! Find anything good lately? Let me know!
PS. Don’t forget to check out our awesome Honey’s Runners raffle to support the American Cancer Society. Only $5 to enter, 100% match to $2500 and GREAT prizes and there is still time to win a one year membership to Green Polka Dot Box ($50 value) if you add a comment on this post.