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    Need protein-rich snacks ideas, but can't have nuts!!

    Posts: 8 Member
    edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
    I am just starting this journey, and my dietitian recommended snacking between meals to help me reduce portions. My go-to snacks so far have been:

    Triple zero Greek yogurt
    Cheese stick and carrots or an apple
    Low-fat cottage cheese

    I'm looking for some different ideas. My problem is I cannot eat peanuts or tree nuts.

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    • Posts: 179 Member
      If you're not a vegetarian, Turkey Jerky.
    • Posts: 25,902 Member
      It is difficult. I can only manage a very small amount of peanuts or tree nuts or milk.

      So ... I use yogurt, those cracker and cheese packets, cracker and tuna packets, cottage cheese, and I include a tin of chicken in most of my lunches. The only time I don't are when I'm having something with lentils.

    • Posts: 10 Member
      Roasted seaweed, dry shredded squid , tofu , most of this items you can find at a local Asian food store. Very tasty
    • Posts: 971 Member
      Boiled eggs; roasted chickpeas; vegetables with hummus; tuna
    • Posts: 8 Member
      MsRuffBuffNStuff wrote: »
      Can you have seeds? Sunflower seeds have a lot of protein.

      Yes! I can do seeds!
    • Posts: 35,719 Member
      sea food
      low fat dairy
      boiled eggs
      beef jerky
      protein bars
    • Posts: 1,679 Member
      Cheese, Hummus, kefir.
    • Posts: 292 Member
      You can cut up a chicken sausage or soy hot dogs into bite-sized pieces and bake until brown. These travel well, are high in protein and satisfying. Many are around 150 calories each or less!
      Good luck with your journey!
    • Posts: 1,787 Member
      edited October 2016
      Edamame; you can get frozen and cook in microwave, there are also roasted snack versions available that are good (there's a spicy one with wasabi that I like). If you google "tofu snacks" there are a lot of recipes out there for things you can do with tofu, like these:

      http://www.yummly.com/recipes/tofu-snacks
    • Posts: 125 Member
      mylifeisbeautiful wrote: »
      You can cut up a chicken sausage or soy hot dogs into bite-sized pieces and bake until brown. These travel well, are high in protein and satisfying. Many are around 150 calories each or less!
      Good luck with your journey!

      I've done the beef good quality hot dogs but find them to high in sodium. In fact I have had to drop all processed lunch meat because of high sodium
    • Posts: 1,559 Member
      Steamed shrimp
      tuna
      salmon
      boiled eggs
      cottage cheese
      siggi yogurt
      bluebonnet dual action whey
      any leftover protein from dinner
    • Posts: 127 Member
      Beans
      tofu
      tempeh
      seitan
      sunflower seed butter is a god alternative to peanut butter
      soy products (yoghurts & milks, tofu)

      brussels sprouts
      broccoli
      spinach
      kale

      cocoa powder ;)

      of course if you eat anything, you can have meat, dairy, eggs, cheese, protein bars, protein shakes and anything else.
    • Posts: 8 Member
      Thank you for all these suggestions!! I see a trip to the grocery store in my future. :smiley:
    • Posts: 9 Member
      I like to make myself oat-milk by mixing finely-ground oat bran with water
    • Posts: 18 Member
      Arla protein found in the yogurt section. come ins several flavours
    • Posts: 30 Member
      Roasted soybeans are great.
    • Posts: 1,199 Member
      I like mixing chocolate whey with coffee flavored Greek yogurt to make a mocha pudding. Jerky, of curse, has been mentioned.
    • Posts: 952 Member
      I make mug cakes with protein powder.

      https://theproteinchef.co/healthy-low-carb-protein-mug-cake-recipe/
    • Posts: 26,368 Member
      Any kind of cheese/cottage cheese/Greek yogurt.

      Nuts are not a good source of protein anyway.
    • Posts: 49 Member
      edited October 2016
      My peanut and tree nut allergic daughter eats these: https://www.amazon.com/Enjoy-Life-Mountain-Gluten-1-63-Ounce/dp/B008IYCGT8/ref=sr_1_2_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1476923631&sr=8-2&keywords=enjoy+life+seeds&th=1

      Everything of this brand is peanut and tree nut free. There are also other flavors (but we like this one best) and it comes in different sized packages. So do a search on Amazon and look at all of them.
    • Posts: 18,748 Member
      Nuts aren't a really good source of protein, they're more a fat source.
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