Sentences with phrase «carrot sticks instead»

Or pick and choose: Have the burger but choose apple slices or carrot sticks instead of fries.

Try giving your senior dog a carrot stick instead.

Not exact matches

In other words, Alberta is using a carrot instead of a stick to create higher - end manufacturing jobs.

Although it's true that financial repression has traditionally been practiced using the stick of high mandatory reserve requirements, whereas the Fed has instead been employing carrots in the shape of ON - RRP and IOER interest incentives, the ultimate result — more credit for the government, and less for everyone else — is the same.

Instead of french fries, bake some (sweet) potato wedges or carrot sticks.

Instead of just slicing the carrots, I think the salad is nicer if the carrots are finely sliced and chopped into small match sticks, or coarsely grated.

I was the kid with tuna fish and carrot sticks for lunch instead of peanut butter and Doritos in grade school and strawberries and pasta salad instead of a Coke and a candy bar in junior high.

(And, by the way, when it comes to those apple slices, at least one media report indicated that instead of a bag of apples, kids might eventually get a bag of carrot sticks, pineapple spears or raisins.)

Instead of going down the cracker aisle at the store, explore a bit with different snacks — yogurt sticks / cups, cheese sticks or chopped up cheese, grapes, strawberries, carrots and dip / hummus, pita chips, pretzels, homemade trail mix (cheerios, peanuts, raisins, pretzels, leftovery stuff), a bowl of cereal, cottage cheese, hard boiled eggs, apples / celery / carrots and peanut butter, yogurt fruit smoothies, dried fruit (make sure it's actually fruit and not sugar), cheese and lunch meat rolled up, or popcorn.

Instead of making an emotional appeal, there was a variety of carrots and sticks used to argue the point.

Baumberg fosters collaborations using a carrot instead of a stick.

Try taking away the chips and candy, and replace them with carrot sticks or another favorite vegetable instead or try stretching, sipping tea, or turning the TV off altogether.

And if you want to be extra calorie - conscious, skip the pita chips and scoop up this dip with carrot or celery sticks instead.

Instead of getting hungry and being tempted by that muffin or brownie, have some cut - up carrots, celery sticks or nuts available.

Try sending a lunch box with an assortment of small portions with a variety, rounding out the meal with inexpensive carrot sticks, bananas, bulk sunflower seeds, etc. instead of a large snack / side dish.

While some of us crave carrot sticks and roasted chickpeas not all of us are so lucky and instead suffer from the all - too - common sweet tooth.

and have been reaching for it instead of carrot sticks as an afternoon snack with hummus or almond butter.

Unlike NCLB, however, RttT proffered carrots instead of sticks: money for recession - strapped states that promised to implement education reform strategies, specifically, better teacher - evaluation practices, including using student performance as a metric; better teacher training; improved data gathering; and more school turnaround strategies, including more charter schools.

He proposes to preserve testing requirements but create a better measuring stick, require teachers be evaluated by performance (not credentials), and use carrots instead of sticks to encourage progress.

When we step away from the traditional carrot or stick to motivate employees, we can engage in a new and meaningful dialogue about the work instead.»

Or, you can use a carrot instead of a stick.

In a clumsy attempt to hide the stick behind the carrot, they promised «improved low award availability» (whatever that means) and five new redemption tiers instead of existing three.

Luckily, Roberts» piece also summarizes ways to address this problem, including using emotional carrots instead of sticks and expanding the number of reasons to take action.

It seems to me that we tend to «beat» enough intrinsic motivation out of our students with testing and grading now, and that carrots and sticks might not work very effectively if we're trying to help transform character... Instead, it seems to me that we should focus on encouragement and self - reflection, and help students see how developing these qualities are in their short and long - term self interest.