Is there a snack that I can feel good about?

I like rice cakes - very versatile with salad and soft cheese, marmite, or ham. Or you can eat them on their own.

I like edemame.

Dry roasted edamame- super tasty, crunchy and lots of healthy protein as well as fiber!

Do you do that yourself? Or can you buy them somewhere? I didn't even know what that was until this post

I do this myself. The only edamame we have around here are still in the pods. So, I boil them, remove the pods, and roast them in the oven with whatever seasoning sounds good at the time (salt & pepper, lemon pepper, garlic, etc.)

Definitely plain non-fat greek yogurt with about 5-10 natural almonds. It's super high in protein and very filling, for not too many calories. Mix some honey, if you want to go natural or some splenda to make it sweeter.

Try hard boiled eggs as well. High protein.

I think it's important to have snacks be high in protein.

I have a very weird snack I like to have... chick peas with fat free feta cheese mixed with some balsamic vinegar for flavoring, lol. It's very high protein. I love chick peas so...this works for me but it's not something I would recommend to people as it's pretty odd.

I often wonder how much is to much, why do you think it's important to have high protein? The "it makes me feel full" aspect, the "it helps me repair if I'm exercising" aspect or other?

And actually, that sounds really good...I love balsamic vinegar. Sometimes I put it on salad as is (but if people are around I add olive oil and dressing-like-things so I don't look odd lol

I am only 5'1'' tall and weigh 139lbs. I eat my body weight in protein grams and I've been on a high protein diet eating close to 300 grams of protein per day. It helps so much when you're weight training in order to repair and build your muscles. It's also SUPER important to drink at least half a gallon (8 cups) of water a day when you're doing this. This also helps flush out the acids that build in your muscles that make you sore.

Also, when you're losing weight, you want to lose fat, not muscle and protein helps with this

And as was mentioned, higher protein absolutely does help with having less sugary cravings.

Falafel chips and spicy red pepper hummus


http://www.falafelchips.com/products.php

jerky (you can make your own), turkey pepporoni, low fat string cheese, sugar free jello pudding, greek yogurt, cocoa roast almonds (emerlads nuts) a fave of mine!, dova sugar free chocolate, craisons, raisons, dried fruits period, banana chips, granola bars, granola, trail mix, assorted nuts, planters energy mix nuts, choc covered soy nuts, sunflower seeds, dry cerel (oat cerel, i like kashi heart to heart) i could go on...

Orville Reddenbacker Popcorn in the 100 Calorie Mini bags

Bowl of whole grain cereal such as Cheerios Honey Nut w/ non-fat milk or without.

Both are easy, low calorie and whole grain

Sugar-free jello but I use diet soda instead of old water! AND new all time favorite is chocolate Cherrios!

I really like celery with laughing cow cheese...or celery with peanut butter and raisins, it's the perfect amount of sweet, peanut and sweet. I prefer it to granola bars.

I'll usually have it with a v8 low sodium shot, I find the juice really fills me up.

here is a recipe i shared with team mates for a challenge im doing this month

Ingredients are
1 - can of fava beans - http://www.cedarsmarket.com/CannedSeeds-Vegetables.htm - i use CNV-10 - if there are middle eastern stores close, you will definitely find these there.
1 - large lemon - seedless if you can, this will help - peel this just enough to take the yellow peel off, but leave the white part of the peel, this is used for flavor.
1- spices needed are - salt, ground cumin, paprika

here is what needs to be done,

> empty contents of fava bean can(including the water already in the can) into a pot and bring to a boil for 5 mins. after this boils, drain the water out completely and dump into a bowl.
> peel lemon (remember to keep the white part underneath the yellow peel) and slice in 1/4 inch triangles - also add into bowl with the beans
> add 1/2 teaspoon of salt / 1 teaspoon of cumin and mix thoroughly with hands, do not use cooking utensils because you might smush the beans. I usually add paprika here for spice, if you do not like heat do not use anything spicy.


Add these into a serving platter; I usually sprinkle more cumin here, for added flavor. The cumin is the superstar of this dish, so you need to like cumin to enjoy this dish.

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Also I sometimes substitute baby carrots instead of the fava beans. I do this when I do not have any beans at home. It's a great filling snack, sometimes I just have this for dinner

Try string cheese or celery and peanut butter.
Also, here is a sweet dessert:

2 Square Chocolate graham crackers
2 T Fat Free Cool Whip

Put 2T of cool whip on 1 square of graham cracker, top with other square and freeze. For Weight Watchers it is 1 point, otherwise I am not sure of the break down. However, it is a great alternative to Ice Cream Sandwiches.

I have done that with chocolate rice cakes,the mini ones!! Hungry Girl had it on her site! Yum!