What are some good snack foods...?
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Here are some of my favorite snacks~
celery with peanut butter
air-popped popcorn
dry cereal in a trail mix (chex, cherrios, kix)
baked tortilla chips with salsa
1/2 a peanut butter & jelly sandwich
low fat smoothie with fresh fruits and yogurt
granola bar such as luna, pria, or balance
low-fat cheese
low-fat ice cream , frozen yogurt, or sorbet
homemade fruit parfait (use strawberries, yogurt, and nuts)
carrots and light ranch dip
fat-free chocolate pudding
sugar free JELLO cup
one medium apple
mini flavored quaker rice cakes
Triscuit crackers
veggie wrap
pretzels
one banana
a cup of strawberries with light whipped cream
I hope you found some good snacks for next time a craving hits! Good Luck!
blueberries, raspberries,blackberries, watermelon, pineapple, cranberries, carrots, dried apricots
Well you could eat sweet fruits and whatnot with a low carb vanilla yogurt.
My favorites tend to be some sort of healthy chips in dips. Or things like ritz crackers in hummus; I like the kind of hummus you can buy at marks around the fruit area.
I like popcorn and watermelon
I'm not sure if you eat veggies or not but some good snacks I keep around the house are..
~Yogurt
~Fruit(Eat it plain, with Peanut B. or with Yogurt)
~Those Mini Bags of Act II Popcorn
~Whole Wheat Crackers w/ Cheese or Hummus
~Pretzels
~Pita Chips
~100 Cal. Packs
~Shredded Wheat Cereal(Makes a great snack)
~Graham Crackers w/ Sliced Bananas and Peanut Butter
~Fruit & Cheese Tray(Slice your favorite fruit and pair it up with cheese and yogurt or cream cheese)
~Wheat Thins or Triscuts(My fav.)
~Veggie Pitas or Wraps
~Baked Tortilla Chips w/ Salsa
~Trail Mix
~Fruit Smoothies(My fav.)
Happy Snacking
I make it a point to have healthy and nutritious snacks daily. And, it's not only "what" to eat , but "when" to eat--In addition to three meails a day, I'll eat snacks between meals--so, at mid-morning, mid-afternoon and a post-dinner/pre bed-time snack. This way, with my 3 meals of the day and the snakcs in between, my metabolism is always going and I'm fueling by body to give it the energy it needs to burn fat.
The goal is to find foods, like you say, that are low in Calories, high in nutrients (and, yes, taste good). But, I personally wouldn't worry about the Caloric content as much as the sugar content. Sugar will end up turning into fat through the digestion process...so why not eat something that happens to be a tad high in Calories, if it's healthy for you, and if it's going to aid in the "staying fit and trim" process?
Here's some of the snack foods that I eat--you might not find all of them tastey, but perhaps you can find a variation.
1. Apples with natural peanut butter. You get a great blend of protein and healthy carbs. 2 table spoons of pb is about 8 grams of protein.
2. shelled raw pumpkin seeds, shelled raw sunflower seeds. These rock--and you can find them at a natural food store (or you might luck out and find them at a regular grocers) Just to give you an example, raw sunflower seeds have 8 grams of protein in just 1/4 cup! The fat content is high, but it's a "good fat"...it contains Omega 3--so its not the same kind of fat, say, in DONUTS or in a greasy hamburger...
3. Avocados (make guacamole and have them with some chips...again, high in fat--but the good kind of fat
4. Canned meats. There's a section in the grocery store where you can find chicken, and different flavors of fish--pre-packaged and really inexpensive. Chicken of the Sea makes flavored salmon and tuna cups (like mandarine organge salmon, and honey bbq tuna) I'm not a huge fish fan--but this personal-sized serving is so healthy for you--and if it makes it easier...mix it up with a hard-boiled egg. Or, you can find packaged personal servings of chicken which is very healthy because of the protein.
5. brown rice --high in carbs--but rice is a natural colon cleanser because the grains will attract particles along your intestine as it digests--making easier for foods that follow to asorb so you get the maximum nutritional content from them. Mix some tuna or chicken in with this for a great snack.
6. Figs/Dates
7. (low-salt)Beef Jerky
8 If you're wanting something sweeter, look for Kashi snack bars in the snack aisle--they're granola bars--but a lot of fiber and protein and there's not tons of sugar
9. Yogurt cups.
10. Oatmeal (try this instead of cereal)
11. Edamame Beans ---sometimes can find them ready-to-eat in frozen vegie aisle
12. Sugar Snap pees
13. Mini-carrots
14. Celery with pb or cream cheese.
Again, my main goal is to avoid sugar--not in an Atkins sort of way where you eliminate carbs all-togehter, but --trying to make an effort to really cut out any excess processed sugar. So fruits are okay---but a Jolly Rancher, not so much.
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