Your fav low cal snack?

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  • Summerful2014
    Summerful2014 Posts: 3 Member
    Well heres what I like for low cal snacks...
    -Fruit (apples, pineapple, grapes, berries, mango is typical for me)
    -Steamed veggies (favorite is asparagus)
    -Diet pop (favorite is the crush orange, grape, cream soda)

    If I am desperate for something other than that I usually go for:
    -Rice cakes/light rice crisps
    -plain popcorn or lightly buttered/salt
    -'walden farm' chocolate syrup with fruit or something like that. I find it is okay but I know its probably not good for you or tastes as good since its 0 cal so beware lol
    -low cal almond milk (chocolate/vanilla) plain or in a milk shake
    -salad with a light dressing or a homemade one (lots of low calorie recipes online)
    -homemade baked goods with low cal sugar and low fat is always a special treat...

    My favorite of all time would be raw brownies (homemade). They may not be low calorie but they are very healthy and delicious. Basically just use a food processor to blend dates (pit removed), walnuts, coconut shreds, liquid sweetener, cocoa powder, and optional peanut butter. Once that's done all you do flatten it into a brownie pan and let it sit in the fridge for a while. They taste amazing in my opinion!! :)
  • silken555
    silken555 Posts: 478 Member
    I'm also usually at a bit of a loss to make my snacks more varied...you guys have great ideas!

    My 'go to's depend on the day.

    If I'm on a low carb, then I'll usually do some kind of cheese (any kind, yum!) by itself or wrapped with deli-meat of some kind, nuts, hummus with carrots and cucumbers or just plain veggies or cottage cheese.

    If it's a higher carb day, I'll do whole grain crackers with cheese, plain or vanilla greek yogurt with some granola and fruit, strawberries, blue corn tortilla chips with salsa, air popped popcorn with only a little bit of butter or a couple of Lifestyle cookies (they are so good!).
  • bkciddir
    bkciddir Posts: 42 Member
    I love - 1 cup of frozen blueberries (place in a bowl) add about 3 tablespoons of skim milk and mix add a small packet of sugar substitute or raw sugar and mix. It is like a quick fresh low calorie ice cream.
  • norahwynn
    norahwynn Posts: 862 Member
    roasted chick peas--about 150 calories for 1/2 cup or so....
  • Two squares of sea salt dark chocolate (Lindt -96 cal) dipped in a cup of black tea (basically 0 cal) or white tea (10 cals)
  • stevetee123
    stevetee123 Posts: 5 Member
    American Lasagne: Red, White and Chocolate!

    Fat free whipped topping, one small shot in bottom of a bowl.
    Top with half of a package of Oreo Crisps (100 calorie pack)
    Another small shot of whipped topping on top of the cookies.
    Push the rest of the Oreo Crisps into the topping.
    1/4 cup sliced strawberries on top of all that.

    Wait 1/2 hour (if you can....:)

    Add one last shot of topping or a drizzle of sugar free chocolate syrup. Sing the Star Spangled Banner. Dive in!

    About 150 calories, made in the USA. ;)
  • salduck1978
    salduck1978 Posts: 4 Member
    For those of you in the UK (not sure you get half this stuff in the US) Here is my list of 100 calorie snacks I have been using
    Ice Lollies
    • Del Monte 100% juice Pineapple - 65cals
    • Weight Watchers mini chocolate sticks - 90-95cals
    • Aero BubbleBall - 99cals
    • Solero Exotic - 99cals
    • Fruit Pastilles Lolly - 61cals
    • The skinny cow mint double choc stick - 94cals
    • FAB - 79cals
    • Twister - 85cals
    • Mivvi Strawberries & clotted cream - 92cals
    • Strawberry & Lemon Calippo Shots - 25cals
    • Mini Milk- 30 cals
    Ideas
    • Tomatoes x 10 – 22cals
    • Hard boiled egg- 76 cals
    • Sugar free jelly- 32 cals
    • Jammie dodgers snack pack- 86 cals
    • Laughing cow extra light triangle- 20 cals
    • Ryvita crispbread- 19cals
    • 20 olives- 98 cals
    • Rice cake- 20 cals
    • 70g TOTAL 2% yogurt with 80g strawberries 69 calories
    • One Müller Light cherry yoghurt 94 calories
    • One bag of Ryvita Salt and Vinegar Mini Bites 93 calories
    • One McVitie's chocolate digestive 83 calories
    • 2 crackers lightly spread with smooth peanut butter 93 calories
    • Sainsburys Melba toast 12cals per slice
    • Mini wholemeal pitta bread 69cals
    • Aldi tom and onion tuna bout 86 cals for small tin
    • Aldi oat crackers x3 (60 cal) and half tin of the tuna
    • Three mushrooms no stalk two blue cheese triangle spread on top with 1/4 piece of small white bread made into breadcrumbs baked with a little bit of rocket n dash of balsamic viniger
    • Ww soup tom and chicken under 100 cals or noodle is under 60! But they are high in salt
    • Home made tom soup split into batches and frozen
    • Asda children's spaghetti just over 100 cal
    • Low calorie jelly one pot is only 10 cals!
    • Flying saucers you can have lots of them!
    • Toasted warburton thins 100cals for top and bottom with a bit of butter or low cal cheese triangle
    • And crisps mmmm quavers, squares, watsits, sunbites, hoops and crosses YUMMY!!!
  • TangoBB
    TangoBB Posts: 1 Member
    I found this recipe on FaceBook. I call them Banana Oatmeal Bars, and they have 47 calories per serving.
    Ingredients:
    3 mashed bananas (I used a sandwich bag)
    1/3 cup apple sauce
    2 cups oats
    1/4 cup almond milk
    1/2 cup raisins (optional)
    1 tsp vanilla
    1 tsp cinnamon
    Pat into pan and bake at 350º for 15-20 minutes.

    Yum! And you can have 2 and still be below 100 calories!
  • dltaylorii
    dltaylorii Posts: 132
    I love to snack on some turkey perky jerky.

    Low calorie, lots of protein, no preservatives and it tastes delicious.

    *This message has been brought to you by Performance Enhancing Meat Snacks, Inc. Grab a jerk and go!
  • thefewsteps
    thefewsteps Posts: 201 Member
    soy nuts.
    broccoli with salsa.
  • Puffin's cinnamon cereal... that's it no milk :D
    great source of fiber too!
  • wendimlee
    wendimlee Posts: 34 Member
    Okay...here is my go to snack....

    Take one large container of cottage cheese (fat-free) and mix with any flavor jello-o packet (I love cherry!!). Then fold-in half container of fat-free cool whip. Add any type of fruit and sit overnight! Can we say "HEAVENLY"?? :smokin:

    I also love almonds, baby-bell cheese, fiber-one bars, and laughing cow products!

    Yum! Must try this!


    Here are some of my under 100 calorie snacks:

    - baby carrots and reduced guilt guacamole from Trader Joes
    - string cheese
    - one piece of whole wheat or sprouted bread, toasted and topped with sliced cucumber and 1 tsp of spicy brown or dijon mustard
    - laughing cow low-calorie wedges
    - 1 T of dark chocolate peanut butter from Peanut Butter & Co
    - half a serving of Chipins (love the white cheddar flavor, and 14 chips is 60 cals!)

    I also keep 90 cal bars on me at all times, just in case I get hungry. Right now I really like Special K's pretzel dark chocolate bar. So good!
  • SDkitty
    SDkitty Posts: 446 Member
    I love

    • white cheddar rice cakes
    • fresh berries
    • celery with PB (keep in mind you can't go crazy with the PB on this one :laugh: )
    • cracker barrel mini cheese squares
    • hard boiled eggs
  • rhia575
    rhia575 Posts: 212 Member
    I'm really lovin strawberries right now...and if you really feel like treatin yourself put a small amount of nutella on the top mmm (:
    and carrots, they make great snacks just to crunch away on
  • codeine
    codeine Posts: 1
    Stew apples and pears either or. Add cinnamon powder ( plenty of) bit of sugar if you like, i add a bit of cocoa powder too. Stew up store in fridge. mix with either, yogurt, cottage cheese, porridge or as it is. If you add alot of cinnamon it really comes out in the mixtures you add it to same with the cocoa powder
  • wannabfitnevarez
    wannabfitnevarez Posts: 27 Member
    Wow i was reading some of the other replies on snacks, i snack a big part of my day in between meals and i also look for low calorie snacks myself. i have found if you have a dollar tree store near by where EVERYTHING is a dollar that is the place to go for your low calorie snacks without spending a large amount of money as if you went to a supermarket. i also eat snack pack puddings under 100 calories. animal crackers, vegetable crackers, they have these cookie packs made with fudge striped cookies, or regular cookie packs that are 100 calories also. Jelly bellies are the bomb only at 4 calories for each jelly belly. i also buy my chips there they are called right bites you can eat 22 of these small chips for only 140 calories, i also purchase my chunky salsa there its delicious. so many snacks to choose from at dollar tree, so if you have one nearby go and stock up.
  • I LOVE the new Kellogg's Special K® Chocolatey Caramel Pastry Crisps, they are only 100 calories for 2 crisps, and they are perfect for a sweet snack!! :tongue:
  • roni87
    roni87 Posts: 10 Member
    apples and pb
    clery and pb
    fiber one 90 cal bars... delish
    fruit salad... it is the season
    slices of peppers carrots and cucumber with fat free ranch to dip them in
    a bowl of honey nut cheereos with almond milk
    popcorn
  • Kitteeee
    Kitteeee Posts: 66 Member
    bump 4 later :)
  • emmadailey39
    emmadailey39 Posts: 4 Member
    blue buny fudge lites 2 bars 70 cal makes feel like u r cheating because u can eat 2 lol
  • freemystery
    freemystery Posts: 184 Member
    I might be the only person I know who LOVES tofu but about 100g or say half a cup cubed and a miso soup on the side and I'm still coming in under 100 cals. Plenty of protein to keep me full, it's practically a mini meal!

    You could chow down on 2 cups of steamed broccoli and it's still around 100cals. Same goes for roasted veggies so long as you're roasting the right ones: Squash, onions, tomatoes, zucchini/courgette, eggplant/aubergine etc. I've found I don't even need any oil for these and they're still so so good!

    For protein a half cup of beans. I usually dry fry to make them warm and a little mushy, plenty of lemon and maybe mixed herbs and that will keep me going a while... around 100cals again!

    I think on the whole I try to go for unprocessed and fresh as possible, I find I can usually get more bang for my buck in terms of volume of food I can eat. When I compare 100cals of say cookies vs 100 cals of watermelon I know what's going to keep me going for longer.
  • mindyrae22
    mindyrae22 Posts: 19 Member
    bump!
  • wendimlee
    wendimlee Posts: 34 Member
    So many great ideas!
  • Yoplait light yogurt, Glass of low sodium V8 with about 8 whole wheat Crackers, Light Frigo Cheese stick with a piece of fruit, Celery with PB, Hummus on a 100 Cal Pita bread slice, Carrots and PB or Hummus, Banana, Protein bar, just a few of my snacks of choice!
  • chelseascounter
    chelseascounter Posts: 1,283 Member
    Mines boring but spinach with balsamic vinaigrette = 39 cals.

    I want to try one of those ww pops that are 80 cals
  • MyChocolateDiet
    MyChocolateDiet Posts: 22,281 Member
    rice cakes. yeah the "cardboard" stuff. i like the caramel and the cheese flavors of them.
  • Markguns
    Markguns Posts: 554 Member
    Greek Strained Yogurt Dip(Tzatziki) and veggies.
    Dill Pickles
    Microwave Bowl popcorn (you pop your own in a bowl like Nordic Ware Microwave Popcorn Popper bowl) :bigsmile:
  • booksgiver
    booksgiver Posts: 149 Member
    Agree!
  • sweetpeas317
    sweetpeas317 Posts: 44 Member
    bump for later