Snack ideas?

sugboog29
sugboog29 Posts: 630 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I'm looking for new snack ideas. I currently take a serving of plain almonds with me to work and make them last throughout the day. I've also brought in Cutie's every now and then to eat. Any suggestions? In the mood for something new and exciting!

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  • nbradshw
    nbradshw Posts: 2
    Try carrot sticks, celery stalks, cucumber slices, bell pepper (yellow, orange & red) slices, grape tomatoes, Triscuits, and 100 calorie snacks. All fresh fruit is better than canned but there is also fruit cups in natural fruit juice not syrup. Jello-O cups, Fat-Free Pudding cups. The only thing about snacks is to monitor the sugar intake but they have protein and fiber benefits.
  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
    Some of my go-tos include:
    nuts
    hummus (with veggies)
    laughing cow cheese wedges (with carrots or special K crackers)
    hard boiled eggs
    trail mix
    Greek yogurt (often I mix mine with fruit, granola, PB2, or nuts)
  • jennymendiola
    jennymendiola Posts: 77 Member
    My favorite snacks for the work day are: the 100 cal popcorn bags, almonds, apple with pb, carrots with hummus, triscuits with laughing cow cheese slice
  • MG_Fit
    MG_Fit Posts: 1,143 Member
    I eat carrots and hummus for my snack.
  • jillmarie125
    jillmarie125 Posts: 418 Member
    I love apples and PB. Cucumber slices and salsa is also really good and very low cal.
  • PhotogNerd
    PhotogNerd Posts: 420 Member
    Tacos or sausages. Hands down.
  • DeeVanderbles
    DeeVanderbles Posts: 589 Member
    Mine:

    Apples
    Bananas
    Celery
    Peanuts (allergic to actual nuts)
    String Cheese (low sodium or low fat)
    Crackers and Peanut Butter when I need something higher calorie
  • x_cinder_x
    x_cinder_x Posts: 118 Member
    The Laughing cow has these light cheese spreads. One of my favorites is garlic and cheese. 35 calories per wedge :happy: and imo it goes far. I use it on/in all sorts of stuff. I like to split a wedge between two light rice cakes. Totally culls my cheese & cracker type cravings for under 100 calories.
  • lseed87
    lseed87 Posts: 1,105 Member
    Yogurt with banana slices and some strawberries. Even some walnuts if you wanted.
  • UrbanLotus
    UrbanLotus Posts: 1,163 Member
    My standards that I take to work are:
    1/2 avocado with lemon/salt
    grapefruit
    string cheese
    laughing cow wedges
    Eggo waffles
    Campbell's soup to go cans
    hard boiled eggs
  • aseymour13
    aseymour13 Posts: 767 Member
    I'm right there =-
    hummus w/veggies
    celery w/PB
    nonfat cottage cheese w/fruit OR veggies
    radishes & cucumbers in Rice finger with some seasoning.
    apples, tangerines, grapfruit.
    String cheese
  • Rgon1102
    Rgon1102 Posts: 7 Member
    My local health food store (Berkeley Bowl) sells these amazing dehydrated vegetable chips. My favorite are the green beans. These are straight up dehydrated vegetables - no flour, oil, or other addititives like most "veggie" chips in the market today.
  • darlilama
    darlilama Posts: 794 Member
    I've been mixing 1T of ranch-yogurt dip (10 cals) with a 3 oz can of chicken breast meat (70 cals) and wrap that in Romaine lettuce leaves. Tasty, very filling, good way to get in some protein and under 100 calories!
  • toxikon
    toxikon Posts: 2,383 Member
    I am loving flavoured popcorn. Half a bag (3 cups!) is around 170 calories and it really fills you up. I have Spicy Nacho at home and they also have Dill PIckle and Sour Cream & Onion. It's a great crunchy, salty alternative to chips. And it's not horribly unhealthy.

    I also enjoy apple slices with peanut butter, a banana (with peanut butter or yogurt), cheese slices and mandarins.
  • jennamt87
    jennamt87 Posts: 17 Member
    My favorite snacks which I almost always have at my desk:

    Fiber One bars
    Special K cereal bars
    clementines
    Greek yogurt
    grapes (try them frozen!! yummmm!!)
    rice cakes
    raisins
    whole wheat English muffin or toast with some PB

    It is true that most of these have sugar, so be sure to watch that, if thats a concern of yours!
  • darlilama
    darlilama Posts: 794 Member
    Also, I use PB2 paste made with water with my celery sticks instead of actual peanut butter to keep the calories way down (3 oz celery sticks and 1T PB2 paste is around 60 cals).
  • robin820
    robin820 Posts: 150 Member
    sunflower seeds, sugar free jello, sugar free pudding cups, popcorn, fiber one bars, nature valley protein bars, apples and fat free caramel dip, little hard candies, some honey nut cheerios, mini marshmellows, fruit snacks or fruit roll ups. lite applesauce, enlgish muffin and PB. So many options out there. low cal string cheese, hershey simple pleasures.... list goes on and on, weight watchers fudge bars, or fruit smoothie bars. smoothies,
  • healthyskinnystrong
    healthyskinnystrong Posts: 22
    Fresh fruit, raisins, fat free yoghurt, celery and carrot sticks, apple slices... I could go on forever! Maybe try other nuts instead of almonds for a bit of variety. I personally love cashews, pistachios and pecans! You could dip your carrot sticks in hummus, dip your apple slices or celery in pb and dip your fresh fruit in yoghurt! c:
  • JHarr454
    JHarr454 Posts: 50 Member
    dried fruit
    fresh fruit
    almonds
    Lara bars
  • XRavenhood
    XRavenhood Posts: 102
    Cheesy Kale chips!

    Ingredients: 1/2 bunch kale (6 cups lightly packed), 1/4 cup nutritional yeast, 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil, 1/8-1/4 tsp salt.

    Directions: Rinse the kale and shred it into pieces. Stir the olive oil, lemon juice/nutritional yeast and sea salt together in a bowl. Add the kale to the bowl and coat the leaves with the dressing with your hands. Lay out on a baking sheet and bake at 200-250F until they get crispy, keeping an eye on them, rotating racks and flipping the chips once they start to get a bit crispy. (May take half an hour or an hour. Best made with a dehydrator though, nutrition and taste wise.

    They are deliciously addictive, loaded with vitamins and protein. They make you thirsty afterwards though as the kale will soak up whatever liquids you got in you, haha, so make sure to drink up.
  • XRavenhood
    XRavenhood Posts: 102
    Also, carrots go surprisingly well with natural peanut butter!
  • texasgrower
    texasgrower Posts: 22
    My favorite snack is Kim's Magic Pop. It is a Korean snack that I buy in the grocery store in the "healthy food" section. It is lighter than a rice cake and about the size of a tortilla. It comes in various flavors (I like cheese the best) and it is only 15 calories.
  • SamanthaClarexo
    SamanthaClarexo Posts: 353 Member
    Oatcakes with hummous, babybels wrapped in chicken slices, celery with peanut butter, cucumber & carrot slices dipped in sour cream, few squares of dark chocolate, brazil nuts :drinker:
  • rduhlir
    rduhlir Posts: 3,550 Member
    Carrot and celery sticks with nut butter (peanut/almond/etc...)
    Reduced fat cheese cubes with crackers and low sodium deli meat
    Cottage cheese with veggie sticks
    Hummus with veggie sticks
    Hummus with Pita chips (homemade if possible)
    Pepper Nachos...(Homemade pico de gallo, reduced fat shredded cheese, some black beans and use cut bell pepper instead of chips)
    Light fruit cups (check ingredients to make sure there is no added sugar) or homemade fruit salad
    Greek Yogurt
  • rtrcarrie
    rtrcarrie Posts: 50 Member
    I love chewy granola bars, apples, 100 calorie snack packs, light yogurts of several flavors for variety, and banana chips. Make my own 100 calories snack packs out of things like baked chips, reduced fat cheez it's, and other "regular" foods too. Snack size baggies make it easier to make your own right sized snacks! AND I have a snack between breakfast and lunch and another between lunch and supper so I don't get too hungry at any time during the day :)
  • Mapalicious
    Mapalicious Posts: 412 Member
    I was just searching around for calorie content in those veggie chips.

    They have the same calorie content as potato chips, unfortunately!

    Hooray for Berkeley Bowl - but we can't fool ourselves ;)

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