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healthy homemade snack recipes?

anawhatsme
anawhatsme Posts: 261 Member
edited December 2024 in Recipes
we are looking for healthy snacks i can make at home.
these snacks need to be able to be taken to school and work.

any ideas that aren't muffins or granola?

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  • KayleMeyrick
    KayleMeyrick Posts: 235 Member
    Grapes, oranges, strawberries etc.

    Crackerbreads with hummus
  • kborton1122
    kborton1122 Posts: 914 Member
    Pita chips with salsa or hummus.

    You can make your own pita chips by cutting up pita bread and baking it. It's alot cheaper than buying a bag of pita chips at the store, and they are much lower in calories/fat than tortilla chips.
  • KathyJSR
    KathyJSR Posts: 24 Member
    These may not be low calorie, but you can control the size + very dense & pack well,

    1 cup peanut butter
    3/4 cup loats (instant oatmeal)
    1/2 cup (diced) each: dried apricots, dates, cashews, raisins, dried plums (prunes), dried cherries, dried blueberries, etc. - as many or few as you like. If you use a lot, may cut back on oatmeal.

    Melt peanut butter and honey toegther in sauce pan until shiny & smooth. Sit in all other ingredients until mixed well. Press into 8 x 8 or 9 x 9 baking pan & let cool. Before completely cool, cut into rectangles - I usually get 18 bars, so about 1" wide & 2-3 " long.
    rmove from pan & roll indivisual pieces in wax paper. This recipe is from a backpack food website.

    We took these on a 5 day canoe trip last summer - one in the morning & one in afternoon kept us going between meals.
  • sunray11julie
    sunray11julie Posts: 27 Member
    i make my kids little snack baggies... one with veggies (carrots, celery, cucumber, bell peppers, sugar snap peas... etc... what ever i have on hand that day), another for fruit, grapes strawberries... etc... then the 3rd is a variety.. like a homemade trail mix... i usually put in a grain. whole wheat crackers, high fiber cereal, pretzels, also handful of nuts, and a handful of dried fruit.
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