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Delicious and Nutritious Healthy Food

Many Wellspring Adventure campers have had numerous nutrition classes, met with a dietitian or two and are already familiar with the food pyramid. Before finding Wellspring, many families have tried many fad diets and approaches—Atkins Diet, Weight Watchers, South Beach Diet, to name a few, not to mention countless teen diets or fad diets. At Wellspring Adventure Camp we focus on a very low-fat, low calorie-density diet, of less then 20 grams per day. Cutting out fat means reducing the caloric density of what we’re eating, this means fewer calories.

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You’ll never be hungry at Wellspring Adventure Camp because, in addition to fantastic entrees that taste and look like the foods you’re used to eating, you always have unlimited access to a variety of fat-free foods such as fruits, vegetables, homemade soups, fat-free tuna salad and egg salad, fat-free yogurts, fat-free cottage cheese, and more.

Wellspring’s way of eating is unique, but after you experience it, you’ll ask: “Why doesn’t everyone do it this way?” Instead of restricting all foods and leaving campers hungry like many traditional weight loss camps, diet camps or “fat camps” – an approach that is not sustainable after campers return home – Wellspring combines “controlled” foods with unlimited “uncontrolled” foods available at every meal.  It’s a new way of eating that you and your family will continue after camp.

Examples of Menus

Here are examples of menus served at Wellspring Adventure Camp last summer:

Breakfast

• Bagels, Smoked Atlantic Salmon, Fat-Free Cream Cheese, Capers, Onions, Fresh Fruit and several varieties of Fat-Free Yogurt
• Apple Flapjacks, Fresh Fruit and several varieties of Fat-Free Yogurt
• Scrambled Eggs with Veggie Sausage and Cheese Pitas

Lunch

• Black Bean Burritos with Steamed Rice, Hot Salsa, Fat-Free Cheese, Onions and Mushrooms
• Low-Fat Buffalo Hot Dogs, Dough-Boy Style (over fire) with Fixings

Dinner

• Linguini with Marinara Sauce and Veggie Sausage
• Marinated Chicken with Roast Potatoes, Beet Greens and Curried Corn
• Fat-Free Mac & Cheese Cook-Off with Steamed Broccoli and Apple Bread
• Veggie Chili with Cornbread