Lower Carb Snacks?

Shadowmf023
Shadowmf023 Posts: 812 Member
edited December 2 in Food and Nutrition
I've been advised by some fellow mfp members to add more fat to my diet, because it might help with my mini-binges and satiety issues when in a deficit. (My diet used to be low fat) So currently my macros are something like this - 100g protein, 50-100g carbs, and 90g fat.

But I can for the love of me not come up with simple, easy low carb snacks. So far I've got cheese, nuts, PB and protein shakes, and that's it. Any ideas?

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  • Gallowmere1984
    Gallowmere1984 Posts: 6,626 Member
    edited July 2016
    I wrap Mozarella cheese in salame, but most any meat/cheese combination works great.

    ETA: hard-boiled eggs are great for it as well, since you can make and peel a bunch of them, and grab one whenever.
  • aeb09
    aeb09 Posts: 424 Member
    Cucumbers + ranch, celery + low sugar peanut butter, cheese sticks, almonds, mini bell peppers + flavored cream cheese, pickles, roll-ups with turkey/roast beef/salami and cheese, hard boiled eggs, and if you want something to cool you down, sugar free popsicles. Truth be told I basically never snack on keto and just eat 2-3 meals, but those are the first things that come to mind.
  • Cheesy567
    Cheesy567 Posts: 1,186 Member
    I keep a roasted chicken in the fridge to pick at when I need more protein. After cooking meat, cut up extra snack portions to keep bagged in the fridge to grab and go.

    Chopped low-carb veggies are easy too.

    In a couple weeks your appetite will decrease, you might not snack as much.

    Don't forget to up your electrolyte intake, look for saltier snacks.
  • Shadowmf023
    Shadowmf023 Posts: 812 Member
    Cheesy567 wrote: »
    I keep a roasted chicken in the fridge to pick at when I need more protein. After cooking meat, cut up extra snack portions to keep bagged in the fridge to grab and go.

    Chopped low-carb veggies are easy too.

    In a couple weeks your appetite will decrease, you might not snack as much.

    Don't forget to up your electrolyte intake, look for saltier snacks.

    Yeah - I need to remember the salt thing. I eat too little as is. My blood pressure is always low. Guess I'll have to start drinking bouillon cubes. :)
  • ladipoet
    ladipoet Posts: 4,180 Member
    Pork rinds, dark chocolate (the higher the cacao %, the better as the lower in carbs it will usually be), homemade fat bombs (just try googling the term - there are a zillion recipes out there for them), jerky (watch the hidden carbs/sugars). I concur with @abe09 above though...even though I follow a LCHF WOE, I rarely if ever snack myself. I just have the typical 3 meals / day during the week, and sometimes on the week-ends I'll have 2 larger meals / day instead of 3. Hope you can find something that works for you.
  • RodaRose
    RodaRose Posts: 9,562 Member
    Cook a bunch of bacon, portion it, and put in the fridge.
    Also, google "Fat Bombs" (usually made from variations of butter, coconut oil, nuts and seeds)
  • 85Cardinals
    85Cardinals Posts: 733 Member
    edited July 2016
    nuts and cheese all day erry day, maybe jerky now and then.
  • Shadowmf023
    Shadowmf023 Posts: 812 Member
    Lol @Fat bombs. I could just eat one of those a day and then I'll be all out of calories. :D

    Little update. I'm on day 2 of lower carb. Feeling not hungry at all. Which is SUPER unlike me after eating A LOT over the weekend. I tend to want to keep eating and so far I'm very well satiated:dizzy:

    No carb flu yet either. I've been drinking a bouillon cube everyday. Seems to be working. I'll see how the remaining 12 day trial goes.
  • Gallowmere1984
    Gallowmere1984 Posts: 6,626 Member
    Shadowmf023 wrote: »
    Lol @Fat bombs. I could just eat one of those a day and then I'll be all out of calories. :D

    Little update. I'm on day 2 of lower carb. Feeling not hungry at all. Which is SUPER unlike me after eating A LOT over the weekend. I tend to want to keep eating and so far I'm very well satiated:dizzy:

    No carb flu yet either. I've been drinking a bouillon cube everyday. Seems to be working. I'll see how the remaining 12 day trial goes.

    Really? The fat bombs that I made (http://www.ruled.me/savory-pizza-fat-bombs/) only come out to be 110 kcal per. Yeah, if you ate all 6 of them at once, it would be a bit hard on your daily allotment, depending upon your goals.
  • Shadowmf023
    Shadowmf023 Posts: 812 Member
    edited July 2016
    Gallowmere1984 wrote: »
    Shadowmf023 wrote: »
    Lol @Fat bombs. I could just eat one of those a day and then I'll be all out of calories. :D

    Little update. I'm on day 2 of lower carb. Feeling not hungry at all. Which is SUPER unlike me after eating A LOT over the weekend. I tend to want to keep eating and so far I'm very well satiated:dizzy:

    No carb flu yet either. I've been drinking a bouillon cube everyday. Seems to be working. I'll see how the remaining 12 day trial goes.

    Really? The fat bombs that I made (http://www.ruled.me/savory-pizza-fat-bombs/) only come out to be 110 kcal per. Yeah, if you ate all 6 of them at once, it would be a bit hard on your daily allotment, depending upon your goals.

    Oh Lol...the recipies I found were like 1400-7500:cold_sweat:
  • tryett
    tryett Posts: 530 Member
    All the fat bombs I have found are between 100-200 calories.
  • Shadowmf023
    Shadowmf023 Posts: 812 Member
    I guess I saw the count for the WHOLE RECIPE and freaked out :sweat_smile: oopsie.
  • Gallowmere1984
    Gallowmere1984 Posts: 6,626 Member
    Shadowmf023 wrote: »
    I guess I saw the count for the WHOLE RECIPE and freaked out :sweat_smile: oopsie.

    Haha, yeah that'll do it. I think I might actually feel a bit queasy if I tried to eat an entire fat bomb recipe in one sitting, for some of the bigger ones.
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