Beef jerky is high in protein and doesn't raise your insulin levels meaning you don't store any more fat... Check to find some with a low sodium content! It's not all about the calories, so long as you have the right calories it can aid weight loss. Eat like a king in the morning and a pauper at night and try to eat 5 smaller meals a day! You'll be fuller, feel like you're eating more! Typical diet... Oats in the morning, poached eggs on whole meal toast, chicken and broccoli for lunch and loads of veg with Turkey/chicken/beef/fish for tea... Snack on fruit and if you fancy some nuts or something have it in the morning oppose to the afternoon. Stick with it for a week without any cheats and hopefully the results will hope you fight off the cravings and you won't want them hope this helps p.s. I'm not a nutritionist just had a few years training and my mum keeps asking me how to lose weight so that's what I tell her... Nothing is guaranteed and take no responsibility for any advice given... This is just advice! Best of look and hope it helps

I tend to go for savory snacks. As an alternative to potato chips, I make microwave chips. I do them plain or I dehydrate jalapenos, grind them to a powder and sprinkle them on. I can control the sodium, there's no fat and I'm very satisfied. I also love dehydrated zucchini chips.

Carrot sticks and homous.. always works for me ☺

Popcorn (homemade) or roasted chick peas (salty, crunchy, high fibre) or pickles. For fast in the heat, I love a dill pickle spear.

If it's something sweet that your craving, myself I always have caramel chocolate chip rice cakes in my cupboards only 60 calories each and one does the trick with a bottle of water

If it's something sweet you crave I like the 1-2-3 cake at only 81 calories

I have found Fiber one has lots of snacks with low cal and lots of yummy flavors. I am eating lemon bars that contain only 90 cal. and 8 sugar.

There's a company called Lesser Evil that makes amazing snacks, organic, healthy ingredients. I am a kettle corn addict, and the Himalayan Sweetness is seriously the best salty-sweet popcorn I have ever had. My only complaint is that it's very hard not to wolf down the whole bag. You can read a useful review of their products here: http://www.godairyfree.org/product-reviews/lesserevil-organic-snacks. I buy mine at Sprouts, but you can get them on subscribe and save on Amazon.

I have trouble getting enough protein, so I keep Pacific Gold beef jerky and Planters Nut-rition single serve packs on hand.

What kind of craving? Here's my list of snacks I work into my day:

-Sweet potato pop chips (LOVE)
-Trader joes dark chocolate espresso beans (just a few not a full serving does the trick for some chocolate)
-plain Greek yogurt with a bit of honey and pistachios or 1tb granola or if I really have the room in my day I mix in PB and mini chocolate chips...cookie dough!!!
-trader joes graham cracker with low fat strawberry cream cheese. I pair this with a vanilla protein shake or eat alone for something sweet and not overkill.
-cottage cheese with cinnamon or fresh pineapple, raspberries, or mandarin oranges
-popcorn (which I usually save for when I want a beer )
-Popsicles
-mini peppers with garlic herb laughing cow cheese

Frozen grapes are delish

how do you make dehydrated zucchini chips?

phat072015 wrote: »

how do you make dehydrated zucchini chips?

If you have a dehydrator, just slice them very thin (I use a mandoline), spray or brush with olive oil, season and put them in until they become crisp.

If you don't have a dehydrator, do the same except bake them at 225 for about two hours, flipping them half way through.

I like to make parmesan cheese crisps. I take tablespoons of finely shredded parmesan cheese, place on a cookie sheet about an inch and half apart, and bake at 400 degrees for 5 minutes. They crisp up beautifully. Sometimes I add a little finely chopped turkey pepperoni to the cheese before I bake and then I dip them in salsa or marinara sauce. They will keep in a sealed container for about a week (if they last that long).

I like to make homemade potato chips. You can find recipes all over - but I usually do a thin coat of olive oil and bake in the oven at (I think) 400 for about 10 or 15 minutes (I think....geeze. I may have to look this up again!) and then let them cool - sprinkle with whatever seasonings you want first! You could maybe do it without the oil, but I haven't tried that.

I like the Weight Watchers Fudge Ice Cream bars...Mini Quaker rice cakes with peanut butter...and when I really need something indulgent, I toast a chocolate chocolate chip Muffin Top and add a scoop of light vanilla ice-cream . Tastes like a brownie alamode (almost)