Healthy Snacks??? WTF!!!
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Are you just trying to avoid chemicals which remaining under 200 calories and a dessert? Why not just make homemade cookies or pie? You could freeze out 200 calorie portions.0
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frozen yogurt? fewer calories than ice cream but yummy
you could make some sweet potato chips or kale chips
mini pretzel twists
Quaker Crispy Minis
After Eight chocolates (40 cals per)
Congrats on your weight loss! To be honest I would eat what I wanted for a "cheat snack" and fit it in.
Hmmmm. After 8 chocolates at 40 cals...........................0 -
I make my own Homemade Larabars. There are a lot of recipes if you do a search for them. The base of them is some kind of nut and then dates to hold everything all together. My favorite is cashews, dates, almond butter and a little vanilla. Sometimes I add a few dark chocolate chips that I chop up. They taste like cookie dough but I don't feel guilty eating them. Before everyone flips out- yes, dates have a lot of sugar. In my opinion, I feel better about eating natural sugars rather than artificial.
I have also make one with almonds, pecans, dates and pumpkin pie spice. It tastes like a cookie.
They store really well in the freezer.0 -
What exactly is "bad" about Oreos and ice cream sandwiches? Cite your sources, please.
trying to stay under 200 calories. 3 oreos are about 150. 6 oreos are 'bout tree fiddy.......0 -
Some of our favorite healthy snacks are:
* Fat-free greek yogurt + frozen fruit (make sure you get the kind with no sugar added)
* Quinoa Pizza Bites: [http://www.nutritionalwisdom.com/recipes/quinoa-pizza-bites/] We make these on Sunday and keep them in the fridge for the week
* Larabars (these are a bit high in carbs/calories/fat, so I'd limit them to 1/day. But they are DELICIOUS, convenient, and have 3-4 ingredients, all of which are nuts or fruit. No preservatives.)
* Hard boiled eggs
* Fruit: Oranges, bananas, grapes
* Home-made ranch dressing or tzatziki sauce using greek yogurt, plus baby carrots for dipping. This ranch recipe is ok...may want to be generous with the spices (except the onion powder): http://fitmiss.org/clean-eating-ranch-dressing-that-my-kids-will-eat/0 -
Slow churn ice cream0
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Are you just trying to avoid chemicals which remaining under 200 calories and a dessert? Why not just make homemade cookies or pie? You could freeze out 200 calorie portions.
Exactly. Search for recipes for "clean" snacks and desserts. There are also a lot of resources for single-serving desserts if you don't want to have a freezer full of sweets. Many are not that difficult to make.0 -
Dark Chocolate - and it's actually good for your brain / antioxidents.
My cheat/reward meals usually conssist of Buffalo wings. The sauce has some bad sugar/carbs but I'm still getting tons of protein. So it's not all bad.
LeadingMuscle.com
I used Red Devil Cayenne Pepper sauce in place in Buffalo sauce. No cal No carbs0 -
Honestly, if you're at the point that you don't even ask for a cheat day or meal, have whatever you want to have as cheat snack. I don't think you could do much harm. I can hardly think at any snack that could be considered "cheat" and "healthy" all at once.
Doesn't have to be healthy. I just want something tasty, sweet, and filling under 200 calories.0 -
What exactly is "bad" about Oreos and ice cream sandwiches? Cite your sources, please.
This
If I want a sweet snack then I might have something along the lines of 2 Oreos (small bwl of ice cream, handful of potato chips) . I can surely arrange my calories and macros to allow for a small treat once a week. Maybe the problem lies not in the Oreos but in consuming more than a reasonable amount.0 -
My snacks of choice are ...
Commercial Processed / Packaged: Yoplait yogurt. Beef Jerky. Bottle of Diet Soda. Nature's Bakery Fig Bars; Cheerios; Canned or Snack Pack size Green Beans, Carrots, Peas, Corn, Mushrooms, Olives. Bacon
Fresh Produce: Celery sliced like fries (and then dipped in mustard); Cantaloupe; Banana; Sliced Green Bell Pepper; Radishes; Green Onions
Now the thing is, to me it isn't so much a cheat, its figuring out where I'm going to get the biggest bang for my buck. In weight loss terms that's fill and flavor vs calorie intake. For that, the best I've found are the Celery sticks, Oatmeal, Banana, and Cantaloupe. From a nutrition balancing standpoint, in my list that'd probably be the Fig Bars. From the items you listed, the granola is likely to be fairly well rounded.
Hmmmm.................Fig Bars.0 -
What exactly is "bad" about Oreos and ice cream sandwiches? Cite your sources, please.
This
If I want a sweet snack then I might have something along the lines of 2 Oreos (small bwl of ice cream, handful of potato chips) . I can surely arrange my calories and macros to allow for a small treat once a week. Maybe the problem lies not in the Oreos but in consuming more than a reasonable amount.
Yes. I dont see myself eating three Oreos. Playing with fire..................0 -
Lots of good ideas though.........................Gonna have an orange later.0
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Honestly, if you're at the point that you don't even ask for a cheat day or meal, have whatever you want to have as cheat snack. I don't think you could do much harm. I can hardly think at any snack that could be considered "cheat" and "healthy" all at once.
Doesn't have to be healthy. I just want something tasty, sweet, and filling under 200 calories.
There are several snacks here you could eat for less than 200 kcals but they're not very filling. I think fruit is the only thing you can get in a decent quantity to fill yourself up with 200 kcals. Maybe whole wheat bread sliced with diet jam, or homemade oatmeal cookies. All depends on your definition of "filling" and "tasty". I usually have fruit, yogurt, juice with flakes, cereal bars, or other commercial snacks, but unless it's something kind of raw and handmade, it's hard to get such few calories with a filling serving.0 -
What about fruit dipped in dark chocolate?
Frozen banana "ice cream" (freeze bananas and then put in blender or if you have a good juicer you can put it through that and it goes fluffy)
make your own snacks from recipes you feel comfortable with (gluten free, raw foods, etc)
or just have the serving size of something you really love that is decadent0 -
I make my own cookie dough, cut my rounds off of it for cookies and freeze it. I pull a few out at a time when I want a cookie. There is no such thing as moderation when it comes to fresh hot cookies out of the oven.
Icecream, real icecream.
I also have a cuisenart frozen yogurt maker that I can make my own frozen yogurt, I even put some kale and spinach into my blender mixture to add a touch of nutrition.
Dark Chocolate
Dried berries....with dark chocolate.0 -
I mash bananas with almond butter and make pancakes for a snack they are sweet and low calorie.0
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I invested in a popcorn maker and pop my own kernels. Bit bland but you get used to it.
You could add some of the calorie free "butter" spray. The I Can't Believe It's Not Butter isn't bad at all.
~ducks all the 'clean eaters' griping about the chemicals in the spray~0 -
IMO anything marketed as 'healthy' or low fat or whatever is likely to be the opposite. If it's a treat I'd rather just have a snicker
Recently discovered payday bars - (I'm in the uk so only some places do them) 7g protein 0 -
BelVita Breakfast cookies
Luna Protein Chocolate Peanut Butter snack bar
Luna Protein Chocolate Cookie Dough
Kind snack bars
Laura Bars
Skinny Cow Ice Cream and their chocolate candy0 -
How is a 200 calorie snack a "cheat"?0
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Honestly, if you're at the point that you don't even ask for a cheat day or meal, have whatever you want to have as cheat snack. I don't think you could do much harm. I can hardly think at any snack that could be considered "cheat" and "healthy" all at once.
Doesn't have to be healthy. I just want something tasty, sweet, and filling under 200 calories.
Half a pint a of TCBY Strawberry Frozen Greek Yogurt. I just downed a whole pint at only 400 calories for the whole thing?! I'm in love.0 -
italian gelato
A typical 3.5-ounce serving of vanilla ice cream (small) contains 125 calories, 7 grams of fat and 14 grams of sugar.
Because the lower fat content in gelato means your taste buds can experience flavors more intensely, gelato does not need as much added sugar as ice cream to produce the same sweet flavor.
I never eat ice cream, only gelato with small amount of dark chocolate melted on top, hmmm I am hungry now ...0 -
I've recently been doing the low calorie pudding you cook yourself, and using soy milk instead of regular milk, then add a dollop of light whipped cream. It satisfies my sweet tooth, is pretty low cal, and I think it's filling.
Otherwise, you could try some sort of vegetable dip with celery or a small portion of bread.
I enjoy pumpernickel bread in spinach dip. (*＾ワ＾*)0 -
I make my own peanut butter cups with very little sugar and not processed and dairy free! My little boy is allergic to dairy and soya so this is a great little treat for him!0
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no sugar add turkey hill Vanilla Ice Cream with 2 or 3 strwaberrys chopped and mixed in ice cream is 70 cal then just add strawberry cal0
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Okay,
So I have been a good boy and have been eating "clean" for over 3 months.
-I don't want a cheat day
-I don't want a cheat meal
I want a cheat snack once a week.
Preferably under 200 calories and filling. Anyway I figured I would stay away from "bad" snacks like Oreos, Chips Ahoy, Keebler Cookies, Ice Cream sandwiches and look at "healthy" snacks. So I am at the store looking at the nutritional labels on granola bars, rice cakes, oatmeal bars, fiber bars, graham crackers, ritz crackers, saltines, etc etc etc and getting a headache. And to my amazement when you compare similar gram weights of the "healthly" snacks to Oreos, the Oreos (3 cookies) have a similar or better calorie/nutrient component than the healthy snacks. WTF!
So besides fruit, yogurt, jello, and low cal sugar free pudding, which I am leaning to anyway. Does anyone have any ideas on some good snack ideas I can look at. The low cal pudding and low cal whipped cream looks pretty good. I could get by on that for a few years.
BTW. These food companies are sneaky bastardos. They take Oreos, make them bite sized, stick them in a small package and label them as 100 calories Oreos. Hey, you are just putting fewer of the same damn Oreos in a smaller package. Don't tell me they are 100 calorie Oreos! They are the same Oreo.......
I use Isagenix so I buy their protein bars and snack items which also pack protein. The protein bars are all natural with 24 g of protein and 240 calories - a meal replacement actually. For the salty side I eat their Whey thins. they are a new product. 100 calories and they come in BBQ or sour cream and chive flavor. I really like them both. I try to go for one of those options instead of a processed unnatural snack that just has calories and no nutrition. Eat to live, don't live to eat is my motto.0 -
I make my own peanut butter cups with very little sugar and not processed and dairy free! My little boy is allergic to dairy and soya so this is a great little treat for him!
Recipe please!0 -
I don't know anyone who thinks the foods in the 100 calorie packs are any different than the original. The purpose of those products is to help people deal with portion control. 1) Most people don't know what 100 calories worth of cookies looks like. 2) Even for people who know what a reasonable portion is, it's much easier to limit intake when it's already in a ready to take portion...it's harder to stop once you open a regular, full size box of cookies.BTW. These food companies are sneaky bastardos. They take Oreos, make them bite sized, stick them in a small package and label them as 100 calories Oreos. Hey, you are just putting fewer of the same damn Oreos in a smaller package. Don't tell me they are 100 calorie Oreos! They are the same Oreo.......
Love those thingies! And yes, at only 100 calories a pop I can have them with lunch every other day or as a snack , and they are fairly easy to fit into my calorie allotment. The pieces are made smaller and the creme filling is omitted, so you get like 20 pieces per container, super crunchy and yup 100 calories. I can't buy multiple bags at once, though. I'd just eat everything0 -
My favorite processed treat is cinnamon raisin bread toasted with butter. mmm.
Also, trader joe's makes some good ice cream cookie sandwiches. they are actually the best thing ever if you want something sweet. They are 440 calories though.
I currently have a stash of trader joe's Soy Vanilla Ice Cream Sandwiches, which are only 90 calories. They are also decently priced, don't have any HFCS (but they do have industrial caramel coloring). But if you're looking for a cheat they are decent.
By favorite 200 calorie sweet treat however is telanti gelato. It's about 200-250 calories/serving and is heaven on earth. Best thing, it only has like five ingredients. My favorite is the sea salt caramel one. The caribbean coconut is also really good, the vanilla bean one is decent. But the sea salt caramel one is freaking orgasmic. And no HFCS.
The skinny cow stuff is tasty too I'm not going to lie, but if you care about eating clean definitely check out the ingredient list before you buy. They not only have HFCS but a lot of other additives.0
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