Finger foods infront of tv?

Kst76
Kst76 Posts: 935 Member
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I would love some ideas for snacks in front of tv that is healthy, low in calories but tasty. Also, we like to drink wine on weekends. What goes good with wine that is not too bad for you. We normally would eat cheese and sausage but thats just too fattening. Any ideas would be appreciated

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  • His_Buttercup2015
    His_Buttercup2015 Posts: 114 Member
    I'm not a wine drinker but isn't fruit a good combo? Depending on the cheese you can find varieties that aren't too bad on calories . Then there's the obvious veggies. Some cucumber finger sandwiches sound pretty darn good and the small portion size should help calorie wise. I recently found turkey pepperoni from Armour that is 70 calories for 16 slices! 4g fat no sugar 380mg sodium. Personally I can't tell a real difference other than they aren't greasy.
    There's my 2¢ :)
  • AleciaG724
    AleciaG724 Posts: 705 Member
    Celery sticks or cucumbers with a Laughing Cow wedge of cheese and 1/2 an apple or pear (sliced really thinly so you get lots of pieces to nibble on). Or air-popped popcorn with a little garlic salt or Mrs. Dash.
  • teamiconic
    teamiconic Posts: 141 Member
    Air popped pop corn thats all you need. One serving is 6 cups. Enjoy
  • Kst76
    Kst76 Posts: 935 Member
    Those are good choices. Thanks!
  • JeneticTraining
    JeneticTraining Posts: 663 Member
    Baby carrots, apple slivers, sliced cucumbers, air popped popcorn.
    A tall glass of water and tea!
  • mlcantwell
    mlcantwell Posts: 243 Member
    beef jerky is also pretty good and low calorie, high protein
  • Vailara
    Vailara Posts: 2,467 Member
    I've found that putting salt and pepper on foods often improves them and makes them more "snacky". Obviously, don't do this if you're limiting your salt intake! But low-cal things like carrot sticks, pepper and cucumber slices seem to taste so much nicer with a little bit of freshly ground pepper and salt.

    I gave Tesco's extra light mayonnaise a go recently and I was surprised that it actually tasted OK. I'd been eating tiny bits of full-fat mayonnaise thinking that I didn't want to sacrifice the taste. But now I sometimes use the extra light mayonnaise to dip raw veg sticks in.

    It really depends on how many calories you have to spare.
  • neandermagnon
    neandermagnon Posts: 7,436 Member
    frozen berries straight out of the freezer. they're too cold to eat very quickly and they're like little frozen sweets.

    You can make some nice dips for veggies out of yoghurt (greek yoghurt, regular yoghurt, or labneh, which is the Arabic version of greek yoghurt although it contains more fat, if you can get that where you live) e.g. add a little mustard and vinegar or lemon juice, or add fresh mint and coriander, or finely chopped onions and tomato. All kinds of things.
  • maulop
    maulop Posts: 15 Member
    You can make sticks of carrot and celery, they're good snacks. Also you can make a dip from plain white yoghurt mixed with a little bit of lemon juice and some dill. (it will taste as sour cream but with less calories).

    Also you can make grilled potato slices and add some fresh cilantro, also get kanikama sticks. Hardboiled egg slices, rice buns, palmitos slices.

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