What To Munch On In Large Amounts?

Kristin2626

Lowest in calories would be leafy greens like spinach, kale ad romaine -- not your typical snack food, but I have heard of people munching spinach right out of the bag (you can also roast with olive oil, but be careful how many calories you add!) Also good (and really addictive!) are SeaSnax, which are 15 calories a package -- they are roasted seaweed with olive oil and salt and they taste a lot like chips. Also, I drink a ton of unsweetened herbal iced tea, because I have an insane sweet tooth and I will literally overeat even fruit and blow my diet, that's how bad it is. Also, drink tons, especially no calorie beverages like water and tea. Generally I try to avoid snacking, but I always have to have some kind of sweet after a meal, so either tea or a single serving of fruit.

streamgirl

Thin slices of cucumber paired with fresh salsa--kind of chips and dip but less calories and salt!

cross2bear

Kale chips (using minimal oil) or brussel sprouts chips (peel them into separate leaves) and then roast in a hot oven are pretty good choices too, but my favourite is popcorn for the handfuls you can eat! I also like Kelloggs cracker chips - 80 calories for 20 grams and they come in all sorts of flavours, and they really speak to my potato chip issues!

gettingreallyfedupnow

I snack on roasted cauliflower ....I can easily munch through a whole one!

dliv90

Half-sour dill pickles -- huge, tasty, and 5 calories for each spear. You can't munch on more than a couple of these before your stomach explodes!

jaga13

lemurcat12 wrote: »

jaga13 wrote: »

lemurcat12 wrote: »

Raw vegetables. I did it when transitioning to no snacking.

Do you mind elaborating on your no snacking transition? I'd love to hear more about that.

I just realized that I tended to eat well at meals and that I was overeating due to mindless snacking at work. So I decided to cut out the snacking and eat only at mealtimes (sometimes I do a planned snack, depending on my workout schedule).

If I eat sensible, balanced meals with adequate calories (they tend to be about the same size -- 400 for breakfast, 500 for dinner, 500 for dessert, maybe 200 for a planned snack or after dinner dessert if I'm aiming for 1600), there's no reason I should be hungry between meals. I knew that I never was when I ate that way at school or when I was living at home growing up. It's just that I got into bad habits because of food being so easily available and around and a tendency toward stress eating. So that was something I knew mentally going into it.

If I wanted to eat between meals I simply thought about how delicious my next meal would be and that it wasn't that far away. At first the desire to munch was stronger so I allowed myself raw vegetables as a replacement, but that went away pretty quickly. I will have a cup of coffee instead of a snack, sometimes.

What I find is that when I'm in the habit of this I really don't think about eating outside of mealtimes (unless something really amazing comes up that I might make room for, as a rare thing). When I struggle is when I get out of the habit and have to get back into it (for example, I went on a week-long biking trip where we were eating all the time, since riding all the time, and when I came back I had that desire to continue to eat all day long, but I just had to focus and get back to my usual habits).

I know lots of people enjoy snacking or more small meals, but for me thinking of their being 3 mealtimes and other times not for food works best and I love it.

Thank you for elaborating I too try to focus on 3 meals but luckily they are timed a lot closer together (9am, 12:30 or 1, dinner and dessert together around 4:30). I used to pre log snacks but now most days is rather save the calories for my meals and really enjoy it.

jyvonne27

Chewing gum does it for me.