Quick, healthy, low calorie snacks???? Anyone?

amywils77
amywils77 Posts: 22 Member
edited November 8 in Food and Nutrition
My go to snacks are getting boring. I snack on a lot of popcorn and fruit. I'm really trying to watch my sugar content also. Anyone have any great ideas for different snack ideas?

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  • koosdel
    koosdel Posts: 3,317 Member
    Bacon ain't gotta lotta sugar.
  • hannahmayr30
    hannahmayr30 Posts: 93 Member
    String cheese
  • ThinningDownChick
    ThinningDownChick Posts: 95 Member
    I keep baggies of hard boiled egg whites in my fridge, nuts, seeds, homemade protein bars, fruit, raw veggies with hummus
  • AddA2UDE
    AddA2UDE Posts: 382
    Cut up a protein bar into little bite-sized snacks.
  • koosdel
    koosdel Posts: 3,317 Member
    Bacon and string cheese! Dipped in ranch!
  • brendabuckeye
    brendabuckeye Posts: 53 Member
    Bacon and string cheese! Dipped in ranch!
    Yeah, thats great for helping you lose weight. You can't gain anything if your dead, silly! :P

    I like cereal for a snack. Chex cinnamon is good - just enough sugar to keep me happy and I get to munch.
  • oddree80
    oddree80 Posts: 71 Member
    Cut up a cucumber and dip it like a chip in salsa! My go to favorite! :smile:
  • Lesa_Sass
    Lesa_Sass Posts: 2,213 Member
    50 calorie string cheese
    a few almonds
    2 slices of real or fake deli meat

    This is a good snack that sticks with me for a while for around 150 calories
  • kvreeken
    kvreeken Posts: 137 Member
    Cut up a protein bar into little bite-sized snacks.


    Brilliant idea!
  • pspetralia
    pspetralia Posts: 963 Member
    I love a half cup of sliced cucumber, 5 large baby carrots and a laughing cow cheese wedge... only 69 calories and very filling!
  • amywils77
    amywils77 Posts: 22 Member
    I keep baggies of hard boiled egg whites in my fridge, nuts, seeds, homemade protein bars, fruit, raw veggies with hummus

    Have to get your recipe for homemade protein bars!!!!! Sounds good and I never considered making my own!
  • transfixedtoast
    transfixedtoast Posts: 89 Member
    V8 juice usually satasfies any craving I have no matter what it is.
    It's probably not a snack food but it's really yummy ;D
  • yarmiah
    yarmiah Posts: 325 Member
    my new favorite snack is chobani greek yogurt with 1/4c of kashi toasted berry cereal- under `150 cal!
  • sandeev
    sandeev Posts: 44
    a couple of celery sticks spread with laughing cow cheese, an apple dipped in low cal carmel ice cream syrup,sugar free chocolate pudding made with skim milk.
  • amywils77
    amywils77 Posts: 22 Member
    Does anyone else wish there was a "like" button on here like Facebook?????
  • dls06
    dls06 Posts: 6,774 Member
    This was posted last week. 100 snacks under 100 cals

    1. 1 tablespoon hummus with 1 rye crisp, 1/4 cup cherry tomatoes, 2 celery stalks

    2. 1/4 cup berries with 2 tablespoons full fat, plain yogurt and 1 tablespoon chopped nuts or seeds

    3. 1 cup unsweetened chocolate almond milk and ½ scoop chocolate-flavoured protein powder blended with a couple of ice cubes

    4. 5 almonds, ½ cup air-popped popcorn, 2 tablespoons raisins

    5. 1 small tomato sliced with 1 ounce crumbled feta cheese

    6. ½ slice of whole-wheat toast with 1 tablespoon almond butter and ½ an apple or pear

    7. 1/4 cup cooked quinoa with 3 tablespoons chickpeas and ½ cup diced veggies

    8. 1 rye crisp topped with ½ sliced hardboiled egg and 1 sliced plum tomato

    9. 1/4 cup high-fibre, low-sugar cereal with 1/4 cup diced fruit or berries and 1/4 cup plain soymilk

    10. ½ mini pita stuffed with 2 tablespoons each of mashed avocado and chopped tomato

    11. Chopped steamed broccoli florets sprinkled with 1 ounce of cheese

    12. Can of diced tomatoes sprinkled with 1 ounce of cheese

    13. Small baked potato with a ½ cup salsa and 2 tablespoons non-fat sour cream

    14. ½ cup orange juice (try freezing it and eating it as sorbet!)

    15. 4-ounce container of low-fat yogurt

    16. 4-ounce container of low-fat pudding

    17. 1 container no-sugar-added rice pudding

    18. 1 piece of toast cut into sticks with ½ cup of applesauce for dipping

    19. 1 slice reduced-calorie bread with ¼ cup cottage cheese, 2 tablespoons applesauce and dash of cinnamon

    20. 1 cup unsweetened applesauce (or ½ cup sweetened)

    21. 1 cup berries with 3 tablespoons fat-free Cool Whip (or 1 tablespoon regular Cool Whip)

    22. 1 cup berries with 2 tablespoons of plain yogurt and 1 teaspoon honey

    23. 10 strawberries dipped in 2 tablespoons of light chocolate syrup

    24. ½ cantaloupe

    25. 3 plums

    26. 1 medium banana

    27. 1 large apple

    28. 1 medium orange

    29. 2 cups watermelon chunks

    30. 4 dates

    31. ¼ cup dried cranberries

    32. 10 dried apricot halves

    33. 30 grapes (try them frozen!)

    34. 1 cup chopped mango

    35. Small sweet potato

    36. Corn on the cob (1 ear)

    37. 2 tablespoons sunflower seeds

    38. 10 cashews

    39. 10 almonds

    40. 10 walnut halves

    41. 25 pistachios

    42. ¼ cup pumpkin seeds

    43. 2 tablespoon roasted soy nuts

    44. 1 tablespoon nuts mixed with 2 tablespoons dried cranberries or raisins

    45. 6 crackers with 2 teaspoons nut butter

    46. 2 graham crackers with 2 teaspoons nut butter

    47. Large stock of celery with 1 tablespoon nut butter

    48. 1 rice cake with 1 tablespoon nut butter

    49. 1 small apple and ½ tablespoon natural peanut butter

    50. 1 rye crisp cracker with ½ tablespoon almond butter

    51. 1 cup pureed cauliflower with salt and pepper to taste

    52. 1 carrot with 2 tablespoons tzatziki

    53. 1 cup baby carrots with 2 tablespoons hummus

    54. One packet unsweetened instant oatmeal

    55. 1 cup minestrone soup

    56. ½ cup split-pea soup

    57. 1 cup tomato soup (with 1% milk; fewer calories with water)

    58. 1 cup vegetable juice with 2 ounces roasted turkey breast

    59. 8 shrimp with 4 tablespoons cocktail sauce

    60. 10 jelly beans

    61. 14 gummy bears

    62. 15 chocolate-covered raisins

    63. ½ cup edamame (measured with shell)

    64. 3 cups air-popped popcorn

    65. 2 cheese strings

    66. ¼ pita bread with 2 tablespoons hummus


    67. ½ red bell pepper with 3 tablespoons hummus

    68. 2 egg whites on one slice whole-grain toast

    69. 1 hard-boiled egg with one slice Melba toast

    70. 3 breadsticks in 3 tablespoons of salsa

    71. 5-ounce tossed salad with ¼ cup fat-free dressing

    72. 1 multigrain waffle

    73. 1 low-fat granola bar

    74. 1 snack pack of plain cottage cheese

    75. ½ cup low-fat cottage cheese with 5 strawberries

    76. 1 serving of Jello sugar-free chocolate pudding

    77. ½ cup vanilla soy ice cream

    78. ½ cup sherbet or sorbet

    79. ½ cup frozen yogurt

    80. ½ cup unsweetened applesauce with 2 teaspoons of crushed walnuts

    81. 2 tablespoons of fat-free ranch dressing with chopped celery and red pepper

    82. 2 ounces smoked salmon with 1 tablespoon fat-free cream cheese

    83. 1 ounce smoked salmon on ½ mini bagel

    84. ½ cup of low-fat fibre-rich cereal with ½ cup vanilla unsweetened almond milk

    85. 2 ounces water-packed tuna with ½ cup chopped tomatoes sprinkled with lemon juice, salt and pepper

    86. Two ounces of water-packed tuna with 1 tablespoon fat-free mayo

    87. ¾ cup whole-grain, low-fat cereal

    88. 8 animal crackers

    89. 4 whole-grain crackers with 1 tablespoon fat-free cream cheese

    90. One slice pumpernickel bread with 1 tablespoon fat-free cream cheese

    91. 1 piece whole-grain bread with 1 tablespoon no-sugar-added raspberry jam

    92. 1 cup unsweetened vanilla almond milk with 1 packet of light hot chocolate

    93. 1 cup skim milk and 1 teaspoon unsweetened cocoa

    94. 3 tablespoons of guacamole with ¾ cup raw red pepper strips

    95. 2 sesame breadsticks

    96. ½ English muffin with ½ teaspoon butter

    97. 1 frozen fruit bar

    98. 1 fudge popsicle

    99. 50 small pretzel sticks

    100. 8 low-fat tortilla chips with 3 tablespoons of salsa
  • joanipowell
    joanipowell Posts: 30 Member
    Sounds Good!! yummy
  • Try frozen grapes. You suck on them like hard candy so they last a long while, plus they are surprisingly satisfying.:happy: :happy:
  • I am gluten-free so I have to get quite creative with snacking. One of my favorites is Rice Cakes with all-natural peanut butter. Quaker rice cakes are only 50 calories! I also love almonds and fruit. When I need a salty snack, I love edamame (the kind you can microwave) with a little bit of salt, or sunflower seeds/soy nuts. Pop chips are new and gf too. They're kind of like special K cracker chips and definitely a great alternative to other high-fat/ high-cal chips.
  • Leeza200
    Leeza200 Posts: 1 Member
    Cabot Serious Snackers 50% Reduced calorie cheese squares and baby carrots or grape tomatoes, beef jerky tis a good snack too
  • amywils77
    amywils77 Posts: 22 Member
    Yum....you all have some great ideas! Thanks!
  • My favorite are:
    Veggies and FF Ranch
    Celery and PB
    Veggies and Hummus
    Apple Cinn Rice Cake and PB
    Beef Jerky
    Nuts

    Cheese and grains are a weight gain trigger for me so I try to stay away from them as much as possible
  • SGRHO23
    SGRHO23 Posts: 145 Member
    Great list!
  • kathdela
    kathdela Posts: 148 Member
    Lately, my favorite snacks have been
    - 2 pieces of light string cheese
    -oranges
    -speciak K Cracker/Chips
    -1/2 cup of greek yogurt with frozen strawberries mixed in
  • i love slicing a cucumber thin and put in a bowl and squeeze the juice of a whole lemon over the top. So yummy!
  • meli_mel25
    meli_mel25 Posts: 17 Member
    I love edamame!
  • My fav snack is 2-3 lettuce leaves 6 slices of lean turkey lunch meat and a little bit of honey mustard. Roll 2-3 pieces of meat in each leaf and add a touch of mustard, 100 calories. Yummy and filling too. I also like 3 wasa crisp bread slices with 1 laughing cow wedge and 5 grape tomatoes sliced on top, also 100 calories. 1 other easy one--Lipton cup of soup packet, 50-60 calories. I am usually craving a savory snack.
  • karagav
    karagav Posts: 172 Member
    Melba toast w/cottage cheese
  • macx2mommy
    macx2mommy Posts: 170 Member
    Roasted seaweed, either the sheets, or the little packages. Its like eating chips, but really healthy.

    Tonight, we did our own version of sushi without rice. Made seaweed 'wraps'. We used a baked scramble egg, sliced thinly, imitation crab meat, shrimp, shredded carrots, cumber strips, advocado, and rolled it in the seeweed. Depending on what I put it, it was under 100 cal, and was almost like sushi. We dipped it in the soy and wasabi...
  • Yoplait Satisfy yogurts are my favourite. Most of them are 70-90 calories, too. You also get a decent serving and they fill you up really nicely :) Skinny cows are also great, as well as special K 100 calorie dessert bars! Be warned these are quite small though so they're not nearly as satisfying as the first two suggestions :)
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