Healthy Snacks

BennPiper

So im fed up of eatting unhealthy and seem to snack on bags of crisps. What healthy snacks do you have? Was thinking of making rolled oat flapjacks.

cmriverside

Snacks...hummus and vegetables, Greek yogurt, cottage cheese, whole wheat bread w/ peanut butter...

TavistockToad

Fruit, boiled eggs, cheese, peanut butter, beef jerky, popcorn...

kommodevaran

Anything you can eat for a meal you can eat as a snack. Snacking is optional too. I prefer to not snack.

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mmapags

kommodevaran wrote: »

Anything you can eat for a meal you can eat as a snack. Snacking is optional too. I prefer to not snack.

This!
Why not just eat enough at meal time and forget "snacks". If you are getting high satiety foods with adequate protein, you shouldn't feel hungry every couple of hours.

I don't want to think about food that often. I do IF and typically only eat 2 satisfying meals per day plus an after dinner treat of fruit or ice cream. Works fine for me. YMMV

namelesshere

It is so easy to mindlessly eat chips until the bag is gone. No need to give them up, just count out your serving size, put in a bowl and enjoy. (Do not go back for seconds!) Don't forget to log the calories as part of your intake.

SusanMFindlay

fruit
raw veggies with guacamole, hummus or tzatziki
cherry tomatoes!
nuts (weighed; they are calorie dense)
cheese
rye crackers with cream cheese
turkey pepperoni
dark chocolate
salsa with tortilla chips (phrased that way round because I have a lot of salsa and not a lot of chips)
Greek yogurt

ludds

Pickled gherkin, rice cake topped with cream cheese and beetroot, strawberry mousse made with 0%Greek yoghurt and sugar free strawberry jelly,

Psychgrrl

I like plantain chips, soy nuts, quest protein chips (cheddar), hard boiled eggs, cheese, nuts, kind pressed fruit bars, other bars ....

JeromeBarry1

Dill pickles are tasty, cheap, low calorie. Watermelon is filling, sweet, somewhat messy, fun, and actually fairly low calorie for the filling bulk you get from it. Jicama, a central American root of a poisonous plant, is crunchy, sweet, very filling. I imagine that spears of jicama in ice would be a great snack.

Finding a snack to replace the products of Frito-Lay is a challenge. Perhaps you will do better if you plan better meals and need no snacks at all?

blackcars7411

Homemade Kale chips sprinkled with paremasan cheese, plain Greek yogurt with crushed gramhn cracker, peanut butter & drizzled with honey is great for sweet tooth. Grapefruits, banana with peanut butter. If u drink coffee, putting coconut oil in it in the morning will keep u full because of the fat, where u won't need a snack til late afternoon. If u must have chips, maybe just try the 100 calorie bags

Sheisinlove109

Fruits, veggies, nuts, string cheese..

I like
Wasa crackers with laughing cow
Apple with sliced Parmesan
Hummus and carrots
Pretzels (no salt) and cream cheese (pineapple)
Celery and peanut butter
Cottage cheese, applesauce, cinnamon
Toast with peanut butter and banana
Greek yogurt and granola
V8 low sodium
Coconut water
Frozen grapes and cheese

Purplebunnysarah

I do fruit with cheese in the afternoons on work days. Just enough tide me over from lunch (11:30) until dinner (6:00ish).

new_arc87

Greek yogurt (seems popular here!)
Carrots
Egg

evergreenlake

I used to snack on a lot of crisps and popcorn too. I found eating raw almonds as a snack satisfies the textural part of snacking and is full of healthy fats and protein. Celery or carrot sticks with humus or peanut/almond butter helps with the crunchy as well! Or homemade granola

lgill1127

My favorite savory snacks are: Crunchmaster Sea Salt Crackers (7 crackers) with one wedge of Laughing Cow cheese, a jalapeno string cheese with 3 oz baby carrots, 2 cups sea salt popcorn, or a piece of toast with goat cheese and 2 oz deli turkey.

jgnatca

Repackage the chips in to single serving or 100 calorie portions. Then it's not mindless eating any more but purposeful eating.

I find by habit I get to "know" how much a bag of chips is, or two cookies, or whatever my habitual snack is. If I routinely change my portion size to something more reasonable, I get used to the new portion and don't feel deprived.

Compare the calorie load on your rolled oat flapjacks. I bet they are not much different than the bag of chips.

Except its a whole lot easier to eat bag after bag of chips.....

DX2JX2

If you want to wean yourself off of salty junk food, start eating raw celery/carrots/radishes/whatever veggies you want and dipping the end in salt. It'll give you your salt/crunch fix without the extra calories. You can wean yourself off the salt gradually over a couple of days until you no longer miss it.

My favorite snack...cottage cheese straight up. I don't even care that it's healthy. I've loved the stuff since I was a kid.

TxTiffani

I like carrots or thinly sliced cucumbers with ranch or Zesty Italian dressing, apples with vanilla Greek yogurt, 100 cal bags of popcorn, frozen dark sweet cherries (my fav for late night sweet tooth...they're delicious and you have to take your time with them because they're frozen)

Seffell

You might try not snacking altogether. I'm not saying it is a bad thing or anything but I found it to be working very well for me considering in the past I only snacked all day instead of eating peoper meals.

I think it comes to training your organism to get used to being hungry at specific times. It's been going very nicely for me. It's been 18 months and I don't ever need a snack now. This saves me calories for better desserts at dinner. (Again, it is just a suggestion, not saying snacking is bad.)

P.S. Flapjacks are sadly very high in calories.