Healthy vegan snacks?

Fruits. Vegetables. Small amounts of nuts or seeds. Vegan bread or toast with nut-butter spread, with a glass of nondairy milk if your calories allow. Hummus and veggies or pita chips (check the ingredients of whatever brand you buy, or make your own). Toasted seeweed snacks. Smaller amounts of whatever you like to eat for meals.

You're going to need to define "low calorie" to get more specific advice about quantities.

There are some popcorn snacks out there with no butter. Although they have coconut oil, it's minimal, and you feel like you're eating a lot. It's also whole grain. I think the ones by Lesser Evil are decent tasting (they're Paleo so they should be dairy free).

Also.... maybe a soup or broth if that's your thing? Or you can make chia pudding pretty low-cal: 2 tbsp chia, about 1 cup nut milk, and whatever flavour you like (vanilla and cinnamon for me) I also usually add maybe 50grams of fruit in, for my breakfast.

Home made popcorn - you can pop it I a pan (with lid!) without any oil. Then just add sea salt and paprika. Delicious.

Crudites: carrot, cucumber, red bell pepper and celery sticks, baby corns and raw sugar snaps. If you need more calories the snack, add some vegan guacamole or humous to dip them in.

Nakd bars are good. Just dates, nuts, dried fruit and natural flavourings. they are delicious. Maybe quite high in fruit sugars but really good if you are very hungry or craving sugar and need a healthy boost at not too many calories (about 140 cals)

If you like seaweed, the Itsu nori thins are delicious and only 22 calories a packet.

I agree with @cherys - best way to keep it low calories would be raw veggies that you can have with some chickpea/lentil hummus or even peanut butter.
You can also make some rolls using green leaves and maybe some hot sauce.

Peanut or almond butter are higher in calories but really healthy and you can combine them with berries that are lower in calories - you can try sunbutter too!

A god alternative is also roasting some chickpeas in the oven and adding spices so you get some protein too.

If you feel like something sweet, you can mash a banana and add some cocoa powder with no added sugar.

I usually have fruit as a snack, and like to keep it home-made, so avoiding bars and premade snacks, but they are clearly super handy if you are in a hurry,
You can make your energy balls combining dates, seeds and nuts in a food processor too!

Spiced roasted chickpeas are so delicious and snacks great

Nuts are delicious, but logging them on here was a real eye opener. One Brazil nut is 30 calories. So only three nuts is a snack quota. If you actually feel hungry, it might be better to have the bulk of raw veg sticks or home popped corn.

happysquidmuffin wrote: »

I don’t know if this counts as a snack, but I recently made a small side salad of shredded cabbage, and the dressing was a mixture of small amounts of sesame oil, ponzu sauce, soy sauce, and lemon juice, plus sesame seeds. Nice and crunchy, hardly any calories.

That sounds tasty, and would be a good snack, but I'd point out that OP should be careful about Ponzu. It's common for it to contain something like bonito flakes, so not be vegan.

cherys wrote: »

Nuts are delicious, but logging them on here was a real eye opener. One Brazil nut is 30 calories. So only three nuts is a snack quota. If you actually feel hungry, it might be better to have the bulk of raw veg sticks or home popped corn.

That might be a good thing. It's actually possible - quite easily - to exceed the USDA tolerable upper limit for selenium by regularly eating quite modest amounts of brazil nuts, which are high in it. (Tolerable upper limit is where recurring consumption at that level would be risky.)

Selenium RDA for adults is 55mcg (slightly higher if pregnant or lactating). Tolerable upper limit for adults is 400mcg. One brazil nut typically has something in the range of 68-91mcg.

https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Selenium-HealthProfessional/

I think this is sad, because I love brazil nuts.

AnnPT77 wrote: »

That sounds tasty, and would be a good snack, but I'd point out that OP should be careful about Ponzu. It's common for it to contain something like bonito flakes, so not be vegan.

Oh that’s wild! I checked, yes my Kikkoman Ponzu sauce does have bonito extract, so it’s not vegan. My bad! Didn’t know. Could just leave that out. Soy sauce adds plenty of flavor without it.

I really like "Opadipity" yoghurt/dill dip. I get 1/2 c. of baby carrots and dip them once per carrot. They take awhile to chew, so it helps me when I'm in my "munchies" mood.

I'd recommending checking out High Carb Hannah's videos on YouTube - she prioritises a lot of her meals and snacks around low calorie density hacks, e.g. this video for 300-cal dishes. Also this video playlist.

DanyellMcGinnis wrote: »

There are some popcorn snacks out there with no butter. Although they have coconut oil, it's minimal, and you feel like you're eating a lot. It's also whole grain. I think the ones by Lesser Evil are decent tasting (they're Paleo so they should be dairy free).

You can buy a popper that goes in the microwave (or use a paper bag), throw in some kernels, and add the coconut oil yourself.