Looking for New Snack Food

I love oven baked chickpeas with garlic powder and parmesan cheese YUM.....avocado with salt and pepper..... hardboiled eggs with salt and pepper ...... string cheese

Air popped Popcorn...sprayed with Popcorn (butter flavor-no calories) Spritzer! 3 Tbsp. popcorn = low calories :happy:

organic Blue tortilla chips 130 calories + organic salsa 15 calories+ two tbsps of reduced fat shredded cheese 27 calories= 172 calories
& if you have a bit of wiggle room on your calorie count add 1 tbsp of light sour cream or greek yogurt..Instant nachos

Celery with a wedge of laughing cow cheese. It is roughly 50 calories.

I seriously miss chips and dip..but have replaced them with Breton Minis (snack crackers) in Garden Vegetable flavor (140 calories for 29 crackers)..with a wedge of Laughing Cow Light Blue Cheese or French Onion..35 calories a wedge. Makes an awesome snack in the evening and totally takes care of my chips/dip craving.

Chocolate Vita top muffin tops. In the frozen food aisle and only 100 calories. Actually I eat them for breakfast as well and put 1 pat of butter on top. Yum! Under 200 calories and keeps me full until lunch. Also, no additives or preservatives.

Oh, also Popchips! you can have 23 of them for 120 calories. They are like potato chips, but no fat. Not fried, not baked. Popped. They come in lots of flavors and also have no additives or preservatives.

I am a pinterest freak and found this super yummy low cal recipe that had three of my favorite things in it....bananas, oatmeal, and chocolate! I took the recipe and made 38 mini muffins that are only 70 (well 66.9) calories per mini muffin.

Here is the link...enjoy!!
http://www.emilybites.com/2012/01/banana-chocolate-chip-baked-oatmeal.html?m=1

Veggies and hummus... 1/4 cup of hummus is about 140 calories (Sabra brand, anyway). I like to eat it with carrots, broccoli, red pepper, whatever I have on hand. 3 medium carrots are around 75 calories. 1 medium red pepper is about 30 calories, and around a cup of broccoli clusters (65g) is about 20 calories, so you can have a good mix of veggies and a decent amount of hummus for around 200 calories.

Cottage cheese, 1/2 cup is about 100 calories with 14g protein, I often stir in applesauce or chunks of fruit.

Kefir, 1 cup is about 140 calories, 11g protein.

1/2 c of Stonyfield farm Banilla yogurt with 1 tbsp of peanut butter stirred in, 200 calories. Or 6 oz of plain greek yogurt (fage) with a tbsp of peanut butter and a tbsp of honey, around 250 calories for ~21g protein.

I would also second the roasted chickpeas. You can make them spicy/savory, or sweet, depending on what you are in the mood for.

You can see I love my protein >.> I like to have high protein snacks, though, because then they tend to keep me more full. I love popcorn and other snacks like that, but I get hungry a lot sooner.

ETA: Also bananas. Yum.... sometimes I dip them in my greek yogurt/honey/peanut butter mix.

Canteloup and cottage cheese

Celery with a laughing cow wedge

Apples, orages and pears

Popcorn

Watermellon, canteloup or honeydew

Be careful... a calorie is not a calorie