Snacks that are filling

KillerFrostie

Hi! Just started yesterday and starting to think about snacks that I can bring to work that won't use up too many of my calories.
I came home yesterday SO HUNGRY after only a small turkey on peppridge farm white bread sandwich and a banana.
Or perhaps I just need a more filling lunch to bring.
What gets you through your work day? Easy to pack items a plus
Thanks!!

Deanner03

I boil a dozen eggs at the beginning of the week and bring one or two for snacks. I also like string cheese, pre-weighed or pre-packaged bags of nuts, veggies and dip, beef sticks, cheese and pepperoni...
I'm low carb, but really anything that you can pre-weigh/measure so you can easily account for it would work.

If you're always hungry, you may want to try either increasing your protein, or increasing your volume. I find that by including a protein, some fat of some sort and lots of veggies (low carb for me) in EVERY meal, I am fuller longer. For breakfast I like eggs with spinach and cheese or some sauteed zucchini or asparagus with a poached egg on top. For lunch most days it's leftover meat and veggies from the night before (today it's chicken thigh and grilled zucchini). For supper, it's meat and a veggie. The veggies give you a lot of bulk for not a lot of calories. You could add lettuce, onion, and tomato to your sandwich for very little calorie gain and it would bulk it up. You could add some cut up raw veggies.

lporter229

My go to afternoon snack is plain Fage 2% yogurt or cottage cheese and some fresh berries, usually blueberries or raspberries. Lots of protein that keeps me satisfied. Sometimes I add a dab of honey.

I agree with the above that protein (and some fat) definitely helps keep me satisfied more than carbs.

babysladkaya

My favorite snacks are:
12 dry roasted almonds with a full sliced apple
1 oz of smoked salmon with 1/2 of avocado
1/2 cup cottage cheese with blueberry or raspberry
4 finn crisp crackers with 2 wedges of Laughing cow cheese
I also space these out during the day. Here is how my typical menu looks like and I am staying under my daily limit of 1,200 calories, and not using exercise calories:
Breakfast: 2 eggs, either hard boiled or scrambled into an omelet, slice of American cheese on the omelet, Coffee with fat free milk, no sugar.
Morning snack: almonds and apple
Lunch: Salad with arugula, tomato, onion, cucumber, and 4 oz lean protein.
Afternoon snack: Finn crisp with laughing cow or smoked salmon with avocado or cottage cheese with berries.
No dinner, so all the meals take place between 9-5. I am not consciously doing the intermittent fasting, but it worked out this way and has been working for me so far. I have a very long way to go, but I am 1/10 of the journey today so it does not seem so bad.

BasedGawd412

I've found popcorn to be very fulfilling. I forgot the name of the brand I buy but it's only 110 calories per a bag popped.

ginjennie

For me bananas, eggs and yoghurt I find filling. At work I like to eat fruit I can pick at like grapes, blueberries etc.

Katmary71

lporter229 wrote: »

My go to afternoon snack is plain Fage 2% yogurt or cottage cheese and some fresh berries, usually blueberries or raspberries. Lots of protein that keeps me satisfied. Sometimes I add a dab of honey.

I agree with the above that protein (and some fat) definitely helps keep me satisfied more than carbs.

This is exactly what I have, Fage 2% with berries. I add cinnamon and dip my strawberries in it, then add blueberries.

alondrakar

Fruits!