Snack Attacks

I'm a salty/crunchy snacker, so my go-to is the snack-sized bags of popcorn and a collection of flavour shakers.

Apples, blueberries, strawberries (just had some from the local stand and they were super sweet!) dipped in Greek Yogurt with cinnamon, snap peas, Yasso bars, Enlightened ice cream, snap peas dipped in low cal yogurt dressing like Bolthouse. I also have a big salad each day for lunch and the volume of it feels like I'm munching but for a low amount of calories.

I crave the wrong things.. chips, Ice cream cupcakes.. especially when bored or extreme temps...or when sleepy or lonely

When I plan ahead I have popcorn apples and carrot sticks.

H hungry
A angry
L lonely
T tired

Dried apples, fresh fruit and veggies.

Halo top salted caramel ice cream yummy😋😋😋😋 oh and Kirkland cocoa drizzled nut bar. 200 cals. So so satisfying. 😋😋😋😋

Carrots (sometimes with houmous), fruit, sugar snap peas, oat cakes. Now its summer I sometimes have a yoomoo frozen yoghurt ice lolly or a twister.

Cottage cheese with fruit, a splash of raspberry balsamic and a small spoonful of Grape Nuts.

Hot air popcorn- with 4g butter and truffle salt if I feel frisky

Cherries, cherries and more cherries. I loooove cherry season.

Greek yogurt whipped with a few grams of sugar free pudding mix, pariciluarly cheesecake or chocolate, and maybe a few sprinkles of chocolate hagel schlag (hagel is a Dutch treat available on Amazon, and is to American sprinkles what fine Belgian chocolate is to cheap chocolate, and a few grams costs only a few calories)

Banana/almond milk/vanilla/dry oatmeal/cocoa powder/ice smoothie with either PBP or almond butter

Orange

Homemade beef jerky. My last batch was to die for. I marinated it in pineapple juice and Trader Joe’s Soyaki before drying and it is so tangy and just sweet enough. (If anyone else knows a good way to clean the dehydrator grids, please pass it long!)

Graham crackers with almond or peanut butter if I have a lot of calories left

Kind or Trader Joe’s nutty bars

Cheese stick

Pomegranate green tea is strangely filling to me

Water with ice. When I get frantically hungry, it’s usually not hunger. It’s dehydration. The water salves the dehydration and crunching the ice relieves the mental “need to feed”.

I save calories for a nighttime snack every evening. My favorite is Triscuit Fire Roasted Tomato Crackers with a slice of Swiss cheese. The crackers satisfy my need for salty and crunchy foods.

Chocolate. 25g is around 100kcals.

I've recently discovered Rhythm Superfoods Dried Carrot Sticks. They're basically just dried carrots, but the process helps to bring out the little bit of sweet in carrots, plus they have the chip-like crunch. At 140 calories a bag (and 11g fiber), they've become a go-to for me.

Popcorn or tortilla chips + salsa: measure 1 serving out into a small, cute bowl and put the rest away so not tempted to keep going. I get as much salsa as I want though because it's low cal.
Pickles. I'll even make "quick pickles" with some cucumbers + apple cider vinegar and salt if I'm wanting a salty snack. These are very low cal.
Strawberries, clementine oranges, pineapple, or apples when I want something sweet.
1 piece of a rich-flavored individually wrapped chocolate (again, so I don't keep eating a whole chocolate bar). I like things like this or this because they are rich so are pretty satisfying with a single piece.

If it's really something like soda I'm craving, I'll have a spindrift sparkling water - they have a little juice in them so they are still a little sweet but only like 10 calories (I can't stand the taste of most artificial sweeteners which is why I don't drink diet pop).

I like to mix equal amounts of nonfat Greek Yogurt and my favorite hummus with a little lemon juice. I like to eat this lightened up, tangy yogurt hummus the best with sliced raw zucchini and/or Trader Joe's roasted plantain chips.

Nonfat Greek Yogurt with a packet of stevia and a splash of McCormick's raspberry extract. Berries on top are delicious, with it, too.

A small portion of overnight oats with PB2.

Half of a light (low cal) English muffin with PB2 and a little low cal jam.

Scrambled egg.

smoofinator wrote: »

I, too, am a snacker, so I have to plan for the inevitable. I'm eating some Skinny Pop right now! I keep my snacking in check by weighing everything (to the .1 gram) so, as long as I keep the portions small, I can have a lot of different snacks.

• Apples
• Special K Pastry Crisps
• Ritz Crisp & Thins crackers
• Yasso frozen yogurt bars
• Hard boiled eggs
• Oreos (in small numbers!)
• Goldfish crackers
• Granola bars
• Dark chocolate morsels
• Bagel chips
• Whatever fits into my calorie budget, honestly

There's a great thread about new and interesting food products people come across. Check out some of the posts for inspiration. That's how I found out about the Enlightened ice cream pints (soooo good).

The Enlightened Ice creams are delicious. My go to snack every few days is a small cone with one of them—mint chocolate chip is my current favorite I also love the simple truth low cow lemon cake.