Low-Cal Snack Ideas??

I've started buying chocolate bars which contain at least 70% cocoa. I can only take about 2 squares because the flavour is so strong, but it's enough to give me the feeling that I've had some - and the flavour stays on your tongue for a good while.

I'm also doing the same with cheese - buying strongly flavoured ones so that I don't need to eat as much.

I have a serious sweet tooth too. I like the jello thing too (I get sugar free). I also buy the sugar free jello pudding mix and mix it w/ skim milk. It's ready in 5 minutes or less and there are a ton of flavors. You can portion it out into 1 cup servings and keep in your fridge.

I also like low cal chocolate milk like a low fat chocolate soy milk or chocolate almond milk. Or sometimes I'll do plain unsweetened almond milk with a few strawberries. You could also blend that into a little smoothie/shake.

Also try blending some frozen fruit with just a little water to get it to mix and it's sorbet. It tastes sweet but if it isn't sweet enough you could always add stevia, honey or a little maple syrup.

For salty I like popcorn (low fat, low butter), pistachios that you peel yourself (so you eat less of them), peanut butter on celery, string cheese (I get a weight watchers smokey white cheddar or something), hummus and carrot or celery sticks, peanut butter on a banana (but this isn't as low cal as others). I don't love almonds but I'm trying to add those as a snack since they're so healthy

I definitely try to keep it to something healthy (as opposed to a low cal sugary food) because if it's high sugar, it'll make me want more sugar later....vicious cycle!

When I am idol, I snack. My favorite low cal are almonds and air popped corn. I think I am going to add the PB Cheerios.

Emerald Brand dark cocoa dusted almonds. They are quite tasty, very fillng, and give you the sweet-salty-chocolatey fix you need.


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First off, my suggestion is evaluate what you are eating. If it is processed or frozen or "Sugar Free" or "Fat Free", chances are they contain an artificial sweetener., Artificial sweeteners tend to enhance cravings more often. Second, if you work out, you need to bulk up your protein rich foods (chickpeas, boneless skinless chicken, almonds etc). I would also suggest, when you get a craving, immediately chug a minimum of 8 oz of water. Not Diet Soda or fruit juice...simply clear, nothing added to it water and wait 10 minutes. If you have the craving still, carry natures candy with you (clementines, almonds, apples, bananas, or simply dried fruit, etc) and enjoy one of those. Sometimes cravings are your body's way of asking you for something it needs at that time (sodium, fat, carbohydrate, etc).

Snacking on the wrong things can derail your successes, ergo causing you to get fed up and quit. When I started my journey, I gave up ALL processed foods (diet soda included) from a traditional grocery store, went gluten free, and eat everything raw with the exception of meat and some veggies. I dropped 23 pounds in 3 weeks.

My advice nix the breads and starchy veggies, diet sodas, anything labeled "healthy" in your grocers freezer or shelves. Everything you need can be found along the outer walls of the grocery store. Just my 2 cents.

First off, my suggestion is evaluate what you are eating. If it is processed or frozen or "Sugar Free" or "Fat Free", chances are they contain an artificial sweetener., Artificial sweeteners tend to enhance cravings more often. Second, if you work out, you need to bulk up your protein rich foods (chickpeas, boneless skinless chicken, almonds etc). I would also suggest, when you get a craving, immediately chug a minimum of 8 oz of water. Not Diet Soda or fruit juice...simply clear, nothing added to it water and wait 10 minutes. If you have the craving still, carry natures candy with you (clementines, almonds, apples, bananas, or simply dried fruit, etc) and enjoy one of those. Sometimes cravings are your body's way of asking you for something it needs at that time (sodium, fat, carbohydrate, etc).

Snacking on the wrong things can derail your successes, ergo causing you to get fed up and quit. When I started my journey, I gave up ALL processed foods (diet soda included) from a traditional grocery store, went gluten free, and eat everything raw with the exception of meat and some veggies. I dropped 23 pounds in 3 weeks.

My advice nix the breads and starchy veggies, diet sodas, anything labeled "healthy" in your grocers freezer or shelves. Everything you need can be found along the outer walls of the grocery store. Just my 2 cents.

should have read down... exactly this!

Special K chips - they are very similar to potato chips but they're 110 calories for 30 chips. For me 15 chips does the trick! I'm sure they're loaded up with bad stuff but at least you don't get the calories.

1 tbsp of dry roasted salted edamame

I get bags of frozen edamame, and steam about a cup to nibble on all day.

I am a mega snacker too. I loooove snacks. Some of my favourites are:

14 almonds - 90 calories
Banana - 90 calories
Muller lights - approximately 90 calories depending on the flavour - my favourite is cherry
Dried unsulphured/natural/organic apricots - 50g of Suma ones is 79 calories
Pitted dates - 50g of Suma ones is 135 calories
Apples - approx 72 calories
Special K cereal bars - red berry are 90 calories each, double chocolate are 80 calories each
Pear - approx 74 calories
Propercorn fiery worcester sauce and sun dried tomato - 96 calories
Hartley's low calorie jellies - 9 calories
Pepper - 50 calories - with a tablespoon of Sainsbury's BGTY blue cheese dressing - 9 calories

And as a treat...
Aero white choc bubble mousses - 99 calories
Aldi Grandessa creamy chocolate mousse - 97 calories
Aldi Creme Caramel - 107 calories
Chocolate Orange segsations - 44 calories each
Mini creme eggs - 50 calories each

Hopefully this should give you some ideas

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Full size rice cake with Nutella. So good! I also really like the yoplait greek yogurts that are only 100 calories, they have less sugar then Chobani and taste way better. If you are at home you can make a smoothie with frozen mixed berries and some apple or orange juice, throw in some fresh spinach for the nutrients (you can't taste it) add some vanilla yogurt too. Yummy.

Fiber One chocolate brownie warmed up for 10 seconds in the microwave! 90 calories