Looking for Practical Snack Ideas

superchick12
superchick12 Posts: 1
edited November 9 in Recipes
The reason why snacking so so popular is because it's easy. I grab a back of Reeses and have a few (or sometimes more than a few). I mean I work 40 hours a week, all hours of the day. Some days I'm at work from 9am-8 or 9pm and other days I'm 4pm-12am (or one weekends 2am) and I have a two year old son at home. I get 4-8 hours a sleep a night (8 on a good night) not because I'm stressed but because that's all I have time for!
I don't want to make avocado french dip salad or whatever, or have to spend extra money on some bland or over-grainy bread for my healthy feta and 12-grain wheat toast. I'm looking for practical healthy snacks. Something I can share with my 2 year old and that he'd enjoy.

Thanks.

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  • Laurend224
    Laurend224 Posts: 1,748 Member
    Apples and a tablespoon of peanut butter
    Pretzels
    An ounce of nuts
    Crudite and ranch dressing
    A glass of chocolate milk
    A hard boiled egg
    Cheerios.....


  • LandyBreigh
    LandyBreigh Posts: 207 Member
    Banana
    Fruit cups, no sugar added
    Pretzels,
    Nuts,
    Cottage cheese, low fat with or without fruit
    Apple with peanut butter
    Low fat cheese with an apple or a few crackers
    Teddy grahams, tasty and there's a good amount per serving
    Sugar free pudding cups
    Celery with dip made from Salsa and Greek yogurt
    Veggies, broccoli, cauliflower with low fat dressing
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    apple with PB
    single serving nut or nut and fruit mix
    wheat crackers and humus
    pretzels and humus
    crudite and humus or dressing
    A quest bar
    A south beach bar
    etc. etc. etc.
  • erindunphy
    erindunphy Posts: 46 Member
    Simply 7 Quinoa chips! 130 calories and 9 grams of protein for 20, my fave flavour is cheddar :)
  • SueInAz
    SueInAz Posts: 6,592 Member
    It really depends on your definition of "healthy" and your nutritional goals. Some of these things I wouldn't snack on now, but did before I tried to cut most of the empty carbs out of my snacks:

    Low sugar breakfast cereal, dry (Cheerios, Kix, Chex)
    Pretzels
    Graham Crackers with peanut butter
    Any of the gazillion 100 calorie packs available in the snack aisle
    Wheat crackers (Triscuits, etc.) with cheese
    Pudding cups
    Jello cups

    Here are some more ideas for foods higher in carbs/sugar but more natural:
    Portable whole fruit (apples, Cuties/Halos, bananas, grapes)
    Fruit cups
    Cottage cheese (lots of sodium, though) either plain, with fruit or with salsa
    Baby Carrots, Grape or Cherry tomatoes with a salad dressing dip
    Flavored Greek yogurt

    Lower carb ideas:
    Hard boiled eggs
    Nuts
    Cubes of turkey, chicken or ham
    String Cheese
    Cut green veggies with Ranch dip or hummus
    Plain Greek yogurt with a handful of berries
  • jessthep1rate
    jessthep1rate Posts: 47 Member
    -Almonds (or other nuts)
    -greek yogurt (with or without granola)
    -fruit- fresh/frozen or canned in fruit juice
    -rice cake 'pizza'- top with peanut butter or nutella and sliced fruit
    -part-skim mozzarella cheese sticks
    -celery with peanut butter- add raisins for "ants on a log"
    -baby carrots with ranch dip (make your own with plain yogurt for even lower calories)
    -make a quick quesadilla with low-fat cheese inside a whole-wheat tortilla- with canola oil spray in a skillet, or even in the microwave a few seconds
    -mini bagel with cream cheese or peanut butter
    -hummus and pita chips or veggies

    And of course, plenty of other prepackaged stuff--nothing wrong with those, but I figure those are easy enough to find and read labels on/look at prices on your own.
  • pdxwine
    pdxwine Posts: 389 Member
    My snacks are unsalted almonds in the morning and hummus with vegetables on the afternoon.
  • Notreadytoquit
    Notreadytoquit Posts: 234 Member
    Medjool date with 1/2 tablespoon chunky peanut or almond butter
    Tablespoon raisins, raw pumpkin seeds, 5 raw cashew or almonds, pinch salt, shake cayenne.Mix.
  • Eire228
    Eire228 Posts: 238 Member
    SkinnyPop or Boom Chicka Pop popcorn. Either the lightly sweet or regular lightly salted are amazingly delicious. They taste so buttery and salty, but it's made with only corn, salt, and sunflower oil, no butter at all. And only 35 calories a cup!! Super easy and delicious.
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