Healthy snacks

Sarri93

I have a very bad time with healthy snacks to eat. I'm a fairly picky eater, so I tend to stick with what I know I like. Which tends to be the super unhealthy crap.

What healthy snacks do you guys eat? My mom has started buying a whole lot of the yogurts that she mixes with nuts. That's ok on occasion, but I can't take it all the time. Fruits tend to be something I have to be in the mood for. Otherwise it tends to make me a bit queazy. I just want to lose weight, and I've never really paid attention to diet so I don't know where to start with it.

elleloch

Apples
Bananas
Pears
Oranges
Almonds
Pistachios
Hard boiled eggs
Raw veggies with hummus
Nut butters
Half a baked sweet potato
Larabars
Greek yogurt with honey
Homemade granola

IsaackGMOON

I find that some carrots are nice to munch on, about 100g (41~ calories) is all I can eat but they make me feel full for about an hour or so.
If you can, Kellog's Nutri-Grain bars are ok but I've sort of been eating a lot of them; they're around 130 to 133 calories a bar.

If you can, try to avoid foods with lots of sugars because they tend to make you even hungrier on an insulin spike. But, it' differs to each person.

Dried fruits are quite nice to have, dried cranberries and raisins. And if you can get hold of them, banana chips!!

tmj4477

Fiber One bars
Hummus
cheese sticks
pepperidge farm goldfish crackers

AmyRhubarb

Sliced apples dipped in peanut butter
Sliced apples with a cheese stick or BabyBel round cheese
Hummus & carrots or sugar snap peas or sliced red or orange bell pepper (or a mixture of all the veggies!)
Raw almonds with some dark chocolate chips or a few squares from a dark chocolate bar
Plain Greek yogurt (2% tastes better than fat free and has more protein than full fat) with fresh berries and honey

It's summer! Grapes, peaches, berries, melons....lots of good snackable fruit coming in now!

MaryJane_8810002

nuts

giggitygoo

I do these the most:

Turkey Jerky
Protein shake
Cottage cheese with banana
Banana with peanut butter
Apple with peanut butter
Celery with peanut butter
Turkey slices wrapped around veggies

See a theme here lol? Mostly turkey and peanut butter.

PonderinGal

I believe it really depends on what kind of diet you're on. Are you counting calories, carbs, fat, etc? Also, at what time of the day do you have the munchies, because for munchies in the midday versus late-night munchies I would recommend different foods. For me, I think that fruit is a good choice, but fruit is high in carbohydrates and sugar; I tend to pick things like berries; frozen berries are a great idea for the summer and they take longer to eat, and are just sweet enough. For salty cravings, I'll take half a brown rice cake and put some crunchy peanut butter with flaxseeds spread on it. A handful of almonds with a fig or a date or two, celery with hummus (good, organic hummus!), or a can of tuna in water with a minced clove of garlic. I've also had luck with filling half of a large glass with green tea and the other half with unsweetened almond milk, put a tiny bit of stevia in it as needed, and sip on either hot or cold. Kale chips, half of an avocado with cilantro, onion, and tomatoes mixed in; a grapefruit or cup of cold watermelon. I mean, the list is really endless, just so long as you're mindful of what you've already eaten, what your goals are, and what are healthy foods. Sorry for going on so long. I hope I helped a little bit.

TheVirgoddess

Every Sunday I prep for the week. I wash and cut all my fruits and veggies (strawberries, grapes, watermelon, cucumbers, carrots, sugar snap peas and broccoli). Those are all in plastic baggies ready to be eaten. I also hard boil a few eggs to have on hand. Other snacks include: Pirate's Booty (I might be addicted to this stuff), Clif bars, Special K protein bars, mixed nuts, popcorn and Quaker Popped BBQ rice things.

benaddict

Blue Diamond makes coconut flavored almonds that I LOVE (and I don't usually like nuts at all), they have lots of other flavors too like chocolate, vanilla, caramel, etc
Chobani peach Greek yogurt
one slice of toasted bread with a bit of spreadable goat cheese (or you might like peanut butter, I don't)
carrots and hummus
Nut-Thins and hummus
strawberries and a little dab of cool whip

Sarri93

Alright thanks guys! I'll probably be stocking up on things tomorrow.
I'm not on a particular diet. Just trying to eat better. I have a bad habit of forgetting to eat sometimes (some days I'm lucky if I eat anything all day long) and other days I binge. I've been finding recently that I don't have the energy to get through my workouts and that's really tough.
Anyway I've thought about just setting an alarm on my phone or something. That way I eat every few hours or so.

RosieWest8

It really depends on what foods you like but I would often keep this stuff around for snacks:

Raw sliced bell peppers to eat by themselves or with hummus
Sliced apples to eat by themselves or with PB
Fage yogurt (their are different flavors for the different fat %s....I used to get the blueberry/peach ones). The flavored ones are great because you don't have to add all of the fruit part if you don't want to and it was too sweet with all of it for my taste. I actually also started buying the 0% plain Fage as well and I'd add that to some toasted nuts/coconut/granola or I'd have 1/2 an avocado with Fage/honey/granola. Sometimes I tell people I ate that and they give me a gross look but I loved it!
Dried fruits and nuts (my fav. combo is dried cherries/walnuts)

And then I really like salty stuff too....so I'd have olives
Those flat pretzel chips with hummus or those triangle cheese spreads or one of the little wax Babybell cheeses

Also, Blue Diamond makes some flavored almonds with all kinds of seasonings on them. For my sweet tooth I'd keep around the cocoa ones and the cinnamon/sugar ones.