Ummmmm snack time! - Yummy! :D

I have different cravings at different times of day. For instance, my mid-morning snack time is usually spent on fruit. A banana, an orange or an apple. Sometimes grapes or nectarine or strawberries.

But it is usually that PM-slope that gets me. I like something smooth & crunchy, like a Butterfinger! - but alas! - A Butterfinger is not part of my menu! So I switch it up a bit... a hand full of healthy nuts & a slice of whole grain bread spread with natural peanut butter is usually what I go for!

I also enjoy the 100 calorie bag of popcorn, some baby carrots, sliced yellow, red, or orange peppers, a handful of raw almonds, a boiled egg, a few thinly sliced pieces of turkey & a low fat cheese stick, or a frozen fruit bar, frozen yogurt, or even a fudgesicle, which only has 80 calories.

Getting creative & broadening my "food palate" is what helps me with this particular problem! :D

I assume that you are at work when the snack attack overcomes you... I have a few suggestions to help you even if they are a repeat of what others have said...

- Small bag of baby carrots with 1 wedge of laughing cow light cheese

- Mix a couple tablespoons of each: f.f cottage cheese, dannon light & fit vanilla yogurt and unsweetened applesauce, it rocks! Put it in a small tupperwear container w. a freezer pack so it stays cold all day

- 1 piece of Sargento's light string cheese w. a small piece of fruit

- Apple w. 1 handlful of nuts

- Kashi granola bar

I hope this has given you some ideas. You may go over the 100 calories a little but it is not a big deal if you watch your portions at your other meals. It's all about balance and not going so long without eating that you'd gourge yourself b/c your blood sugar got too low...

For 100 calories of less

- 2 reg rice cakes with peanut butter
- 2 flavoured rice cakes
- edamane
- yogurt
- fruit
- veggies (celery, cucumber, peppers), cut up with hummus or salad or light cream cheese or antipasto
- slice of toast with a small amount of light cream cheese and veggies
- cheese string
- turkey pepperoni (can have with a cheese cheese for less then 100)
- I like those 100 cal snack packs, I even found some 90 ones little rice cakes with chocolate
- 100 cal chocolate bar
- 100 cal bags of popcorn
- ryveta crispbread crackers with a fat free chesse slice or maybe some lunch meat
- pickles (usually have with some cheese and crackers)
- instant package of oatmeal (usually around 120 or so)
- dried fruit
- a tablespoon or so of peanuts (usually have with something else like dried fruit, but that brings it up over 100)

Originally Posted by RidiculouslyAddicted:
Hmmm... snacks 100 calories or less... these are my faves:

-string cheese (~80 calories, I think)
-hard-boiled egg

Mmm, yes, hard-boiled eggs, I love those too. I usually pull the yolk out, though, and just eat the white. Another thing I love doing is cutting tomatoes into wedges and dumping them in a bowl of fat-free cottage cheese. Just a tad of salt & pepper sprinkled over and it's a satisfying snack for me. Sometimes I'll toss in a few celery sticks as well.

I too love edamame. I do the same thing with blackeyed peas. I buy the dry kind and cook them up to where they're edible but still slightly firm, then toss them with a tad bit of olive oil and garlic powder and put them in the toaster oven until they're crunchy.

Great snack!

Hello,
I am usually looking for a sweet snack! I love the weight watchers ice cream bars with all the cookie crumbs on them for 2 pts. Also for salty I melt 75% free cabot cheddar cheese on melba rounds(about 5 ). I did see a mix for a choc. snack, I think on this web site. Something with fat free hot coco mix, marshmellows and ice. If anyone has heard of that let me know. I can't find it now and I think there is more to it.
I am also looking for recipes to use my fat free yogurt in. I used it with No Pudge brownies(they were yummy!) and I have alot left. I can't eat it. I am not a big yogurt fan(unless it is yoplait whips choc/rasp).
Lisa

Courtnie,
Hi, You are the same height as me (5'2"). I started about 4 weeks ago at 209.5lbs. You have lost a considerable amount of weight! Awesome! How long and are you following any type of plan? I also noticed you have those 100cal packs. Those scare me. I would love the brownie bites and all that yummie good sweet snacks!
If I counted my cal intake I guess I could count them but I don't know when to eat them if not.
Keep up the good work!
Lisa

Thanks everyone for the great advice......now maybe I won't be quite so crabby in the afternoon :D At any rate, I sent my dh to the store with quite the list of healthy snack options.

:hug: :D Thanks again!!:D :hug:

My saving grace are fat free fudgesicles at 60 calories and those little oatmeal/cinnamon cookies which are 5 small cookies for 130 calories. Yum! Either gets rid of the crankies for me. In fact today driving out of Walmart after a massive grocery shopping while hungry I ripped a fudgesicle out of the pack while driving home. MMMMM good!

I love my water carr crackers for an occassional crunch (aside from my baby carrots) and a carb fix. I only have a couple, I break them up into little peices and take my time. I think that 1 serving is 4 (70 cals).

Laughing cow cheese on veggies, crackers, or by itself. I also try to keep the veggie: protien 2:1. Cottage cheese is a big lifesaver for me, a half cup is a serving and you can put that in a regular bowl with veggies and it looks like alot more food than 100 calories. Like you I need that midafternoon snack but I also need the visual that its food, not "diet" food, yanno? I will tell you, the laughing cow cheese, light, french onion is fantabulous!!! Fiber One makes a great cereal style bar and so does kashi. YUMMMY. Another trick, is hot tea, when I feel that need to munch, a cup of hot tea, wait 20-30 mins then see if I still need food.

~Soup............alot of the Progresso soups are 100 calories for 1 cup.

~Kashi granola bars ( 140 calories, but very filling and they hold me over for a long time )

~Cheese stick

~Apple with a tiny bit of peanut butter

~A few slices of turkey breast lunch meat


Shannon