Well, we've always had great threads going to share recipes for dinner, or share what's in our lunchboxes, so its only natural for us to have a thread to get some great snack ideas from each other! I know my biggest downfall is snacks - what do you munch on during your work day? what do you have when you're watching a movie?
Here are some of my faves:
-Cheecha Snacks (puffed wheat snacks in chip flavours - delicious, and only 2g of fat in a 2 cup serving) - Totally kicks a chip craving in the butt!!
- Animal Crackers (you can have 7 for 130 cals, 4 grams of fat - very satisfying snack)
- Popcorn
I don't really eat snacks much. I just eat small amounts of regular food. For example, at work each day this week, I have a frozen entree for "lunch" around 11:30, but I eat breakfast at anout 5:30am, so I have a "snack" in between at around 8:30am. My "snack" is 2 cups of spaghetti squash with sauce that has turkey sausage cooked in. It's a big container of food for only about 250 calories.
I also sometimes snack on yogurt because it's so quick and easy. When I'm at home, I'll snack on a piece of cheese, sugar-free, fat-free instant pudding, fruit, any possible leftovers from dinner in the past few days (although I try to only cook as much as the 2 of us can eat in one sitting since too many leftovers have gone bad in the past), a small meat-and-cheese sandwich, a grilled cheese sandwich, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich (I really like sandwiches and I can make a great sandwich for around 200 calories), and sometimes I buy flavored hummus and eat it on some unsalted rice crackers or something, but that's not very frequent.
* Baby Carrots
* Green Pepper Slices
* Cucumber Slices with Fat Free Ranch
* Popcorn
* Popcorn with Splenda and Cinnamon Sprinkled on It
* Apples with Splenda and Cinnamon
* Unbaked Apples (Rather then coring and baking them I cut them into little chunks add a pinch of butter (or butter substitute) and two packets of Splenda and Cinnamon and cook on stove until soft.)
* Goldfish Crackers (1 serving is 55 fish)
* Kraft Pre-Cubed Cheese (I think it is 7 cubes for 90 calories)
* Celery with Reduced Fat Peanut Butter
* Rice Cakes
* Fat Free Wheat Bread with Reduce Fat Peanut Butter
- Nuts (have to be careful about portion)
- 100 calorie microwave popcorn (sometimes I just need a snack and these are good and portion controlled for you)
- baby carrots (fiber and delicious!)
- frozen strawberries (a sweet treat)
- 1 slice of 100% whole wheat bread with a dab of natural pb and unsweetened jam
- cut veggies and hummus
- 1 slice of 100% whole wheat bread with hummus
Rememberhowtosmile - I love goldfish but I can eat a whole bag so I stay away.
• 2 Yves veggie dogs... they're huge, delicious, 90 calories & 15g of protein a piece!
• 100 calorie bag of popcorn
• Red bell peppers
• If you like dill pickle chips, the dill pickle Crispy Minis taste exactly like them... 120 calories for 16, and because they're all puffed, they're far more satisfying than chips
• Teddy grahams! 130 calories for 25! And you get to bite their wee heads off.. hehehe
I eat a lot of leftover steamed vegetables for snacks in the evening ... microwave with a squirt of lemon or lime juice on them, yum!
A mix of equal parts nuts, dried fruit, and steel-cut oats
Cut-up raw vegetables dipped in salsa
Wasa crackers and Laughing Cow cheese
Yogurt with fruit and/or nuts, cereal
my favorites are:
100 calorie popcorn bags (these seem to be awfully popular )
carrot sticks/baby carrots
fat free vanilla yogurt with sliced fresh strawberries
pumpkin & squash seeds (roasted, unsalted)
mini apple cinnamon rice cakes with reduced fat peanut butter
and
most of the 100 calorie snack packs (the cookies are GREAT for sugar cravings, but i try to avoid them otherwise)
oh, and DH would kill me if i ever forgot to get the Hershey's 100 calorie bars. he's a fiend for Dark Chocolate.
Nelie - I could do the same thing with the goldfish crackers, normally I take them as a side to my lunch or a mid-afternoon snack if I'm at school. So before I leave I count out one serving that way I'm not tempted by the whole box (I currently have a 33 oz carton in my kitchen).
A couple more things (I like snacks)
* Sugar free cool whip with a chocolate graham cracker crushed in it.
* Sugar free jello pudding snacks (Sometimes with a tsp of cool whip on top)
* Hummas with carrots and celery
* When I have extra calories to use up I will make 1 cup of french fries (baked not deep fried).
* Pears and plums
Here are mine:
I love pickles.
Little deli meat roll ups (like turkey with a thin layer of cream cheese and spinach).
Sugar Snap Peas!!!
Cottage Cheese with a tablespoon of granola.
Cottage cheese with garlic powder and carrot sticks.
handful of almonds (once a day, max).
cereal - but I have to be careful because one serving does not equal "as much as you can shove into a bowl!"
*sandwich bags with a mixture of raw carrots, cabbage, green pepper & celery (I make up 7 bags every Sunday for the next week)
*almonds
*small (pre-packaged) 1/2 cups of vanilla ice cream
*animal crackers
*100 calorie bags of popcorn