Healthy Snacks

My favorite snack is fat-free homemade hummus (just chickpeas, water, lemon juice and fresh garlic in the food processor) with romaine lettuce "chips" (I just dig in to the hummus with the lettuce leaves!) or celery sticks (the fresher, the better!).

I also like seaweed and tamari rice cakes (60 cal each), bananas, apples, and simple protein shakes (protein powder, rice milk, strawberries, banana).

I am a recovering binge eater, and I found myself eating whatever I saw. I snack a lot less when I carefully schedule my meals ahead of time (just at the beginning of the day -- I am a terrible long-term meal planner!) and eat according to the same schedule every day. I even set alarms on my phone to tell me when to eat, lol.

Here are more ideas passed on to me by another member:

http://www.canadianparents.com/article/100-family-snacks-under-100-calories

If i am hungry, so need somthing to fill me up:
Rice crackers with cottage cheese or hummus
Nuts (unroasted and no salt)
Small tin of tuna
Boiled egg
slice of cheese

If I want somthing sweet:
Fruit
About 1/2 a teaspoon of honey (works wonders giving you a sugar hit)
Muslie Bar (always check the cals on the box, and go for the lowest you can find)

For crunch:
popppdums work wonders. You can cook them in the microwave and they are just like eating potato chips without the fat!

For a bad sweet tooth (like mine) find the 3-2-1 cake thread on here. It's fantastic. Here, I'll re-post it.

Mix a box of angel food cake mix and a box of any flavor regular cake mix together. When you want your cake, take 3 tablespoons of cake mix and stir it together in a bowl with 2 tablespoons of water. Leave some room for it to rise a bit. Microwave it for 1 minute (I do mine for slightly less because then the sides are still a little gooey, yum). The thread says it's 42 calories but I haven't actually figured it out myself. I just trusted the recipe.

This sounds great thank you for sharing.

I just discovered a deeeeelicious, fat-free, my-new-favorite thing to eat for dessert. Raspberry fat-free Greek yogurt (I used Chobani) with some Walden Farms calorie-free chocolate syrup poured on. The raspberry/chocolate combo tastes so decadent and rich, yum! It's low calorie, fat-free, high protein, and the chocolate sauce really makes it taste like dessert without adding extra sugar or calories. If you don't want the extra sugar from the raspberry, the chocolate sauce tastes really good in plain yogurt too.

I love to make fresh hummus, but I make it with olive oil instead of water. Does water do the job of olive oil? Olive oil adds so many calories and fat! The next batch I will try with water instead of olive oil. Idea: what if you use spray butter instead of olive oil or water? Don't know. I may try that too.

It works really well, just ends up a little thinner, which is not a bad thing for dipping! Even better, reserve some of your chickpea cooking water, then you're still adding flavour without the fat.

I snack on cold cooked chicken breast cut in half thin way so its easy to chew. I even put it in zip lock baggies like a snack food. I also love pistachios. Plain vreek yogart and frozen berries sometimes.

I look forward to a cup of low cal hot chocolate and a dutch crisp bread in the evening. Sometimes I also have oatc cakes and pate. Not many calories and satisfying.

bump thanks for the ideas!

Frozen blueberries straight from the freezer are like sweets!