Snacks for work - Australian

It's hard to think of low cal long life type foods
I always have little tubs of fruit and some small boxes of sultanas
but I bring in a choice of "slice of cheese", a boiled egg, 10 peanuts, strawberries, grapes, mandarins on a daily basis.

I find carrot and celery sticks are good to chew on during the day. I cut a whole heap up and they last a couple of days.
Also I buy packets of nuts and berries from Woolies.

Strawberries are on special there at the moment

If I am hungry during the day I try and just have a cup of green tea.

Strawberries at Woolies - $3.50 for two HUGE punnets!

Aldi does snack-packs of those little Japanese rice crackers. Weight watchers bars. Fruit and nut mixes.

Usually I'll just have a yoghurt, fruit or a row of multigrain rice crackers

Cruskits with cottage cheese are also pretty yum!

I get the little bags of popcorn from the health food aisle at Woolies - Mini Macro. They come in a multi pack of 3 flavours and I think they're about 50 to 60 calories per bag.

I love strawberries, vita wheats and vegemite, mexican tuna from coles! only like 49 cals, mandarins, I made some yummy brownies yesterday, 89 cals a serve, breakfast prunes, all fruits really!

Have you tried BodyTrim's protein bars? I like the choc mint crisp one and its only 142 calories and 17.5 grams of protein - great filling snack.
My other go to snacks in work are:
Golden wholemeal crumpets and half a teaspoon peanutbutter (crumpet is 93 cals)
Belvita Crunchy Oats Breakfast Biscuit - 56 cals per buscuit
Nature Valley Roasted Almond Granola Bars - Two bars in one pack I force myself to each only one which is 95 cals
Brownes no fat vanilla yoghurt and half a punnet of strawberries - 3/4 cups of yoghurt and strawberries comes in at 113 cals

Hope this helps - feel free to add me to check out my diary for ideas :-)

If you feel like some chocolate try Well Naturaly's sugar free 70% cocoa mint crisp bar for only 68 calories for two peices. It's sweetened with stevia which is natural and they do have other flavours in the range. Bought it from Coles, Woolies and IGA I believe.

Slim Fruits pastilles are ok to nibble on too but sweetened with artificial stuff so I only have a little now and then. They are rather hard/chewy so take a little while to eat and only 9 calories for 5 pastilles. I didn't like the rubard flavour as much as the other which was peach.

Yamagataya seasoned seaweed from the supermarket also is only 4cals for a little pack.

Beef jerky is handy and only around 70 calories for the pack of Jack Links brand I have and less than a gram of fat plus 11g of protein!!!

Chobani or Five:am yogurt in individual servings - it's alright out of the fridge for a day or 2. Chobani is only 161 cals per 170g tub.
Harvest boxes, delivered to your house or work - dried fruit, nuts, occasional chocolate chips, yummy and 173 cals.
Fruit in individual servings in tubs with peelable lids, Woolies and Coles have fresh fruit salad in the fridge near the cherry tomatoes, berries etc. and canned type fruit in the aisle near the desserts.
If you need lunch, they have pre-made salads in that fridge as well, and canned fish and chicken in the other aisles.
100 cal packs of chips in the chip aisle and small bottles of soft drink in the drinks aisle, as well as flavored waters too.

Just because things are low in cals doesn't mean they're okay, like chips are still high in saturated fat and salt, and a small soft drink is still high in sugar, they may be tasty but they will only satisfy you for a tiny amount of time!

My favourite work snacks are:
- almonds (count them out though, don't just eat a handful because the cals add up quickly)
- be natural muesli bars
- crackers (usually something like vitawheat wholegrain)
- laughing cow light cheese triangles
- mini can of tuna
- mini can of baked beans
- fruit
- hommus and veggies (if I get organised and bring it from home)
- yoghurt (I'm currently loving Black Swan Low Fat Greek style natural yoghurt)
- boiled eggs (but you have to bring them each day, don't keep them in the drawer!)
and the lollie jar in my colleague's office but I'm trying to pretend that isn't there!

bump, great ideas

In my drawer (or my secret compartment in the fridge!) right now... Dried blueberries, unsalted cashews, cheese and crackers (mainland brand, in packs with 3 crackers and 3 slices of cheese), tins of tuna, yoghurt, rice wheels, baked beans, helgas sandwich thins, laughing cow cheese.

I try to have lots of choices because the vending machine gets VERY tempting! I also tend to forget breakfast and have a couple of snacks when I get to work, and throughout the morning. I'm constantly wanting to eat and having stuff portioned out with variety makes life easier.

I have peanuts, lots of popcorn, motts natual applesauce, small individual cups of mixed fruit, chicken broth, Newton Fruit Thins (Cherry and Vanilla), Snyder's braided pretzels twists and goldfish. Here's how I break it down when I'm snacking. I don't always eat the full serving size:

Newton Fruit Thins: 2 thins for 93 cals
Snyder's Pretzel Twists: 5 twists for 85 cals
Goldfish: 35 pieces for 95 cals
Individual bag of Orville's naturals buttery salt & cracked pepper: 1 bag for 160 cals
Mott's Natural Applesauce: 1 individually packaged cup for 50 cals
Chicken broth: 1 cup for 38 cals (depends on brand)
Del Monte mixed fruit: 1 cup for 70 cals
Planters Spanish Redskin Peanuts with sea salt: 27 pieces for 85 cals

I add fresh fruit and veggie as well, but I keep these in my office for a variety of choices. I get bored eatting the same things over and over again.