Quick Snack Ideas

Small meals throughout the day are a great way to “boost your metabolism.” However sometimes it is difficult to differentiate between a small meal and a regular sized meal and this can lead to overeating. If regular meals mixed with snacks throughout the day makes more sense to you, below are some examples. Remember snack does not equal junk food! If you wouldn’t eat it for breakfast or feed it to your kids for dinner, then don’t eat it for a snack!

Many of these snacks can be prepared beforehand and stored in your fridge, freezer or pantry for easy snacking!

Savory-

• Vegetable crudites
• Baked potato with salsa, marina sauce, sautéed onions, broth or fat free sour cream
• 2 Salt free/ low sodium rice cake topped with avocado and salsa
• 100% whole grain pita dipped in hummus
• Toasted “Food for Life Bread “(in freezer section) with some natural peanut butter
• 7 “Hint of Salt Triscuits” topped with tomato slices and heated in microwave
• Quesadillas with low-fat cheese and salsa on an “Ezekiel Tortilla”
• 100% whole grain English muffins with pizza sauce and sautéed onions
• Small palmful of no-added-salt nuts
• Plain popcorn topped with nutritional yeast or some “Mrs. Dash”
• Fresh vegetable slices dipped in low fat/ fat free cottage cheese, plain yogurt or hummus
• Celery with fat free/ low fat cream cheese
•  Baby carrots dipped in 2 tbsp pb
•  Low-fat string cheese with an apple or pear
• Omelet with 1 tsp oil, 2 eggs and diced vegetables
• 2 boiled eggs
• Salad (forget the dressing and croutons and top with salsa, vinegar and/or moist veggies)
• Veggie/ turkey  burger topped with tomato sliced and mustard
•  Last night’s leftovers!!!

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Sweet-

• A piece or pieces of fruit
• Granola/ energy bars (Look for one with few ingredients)
• A “Larabar”
• Trail mix with 1 box of raisins and small palmful of no-added-salt nuts
• Boiled apples with cinnamon and vanilla
• 2 rice cakes topped with mango and strawberry slices
•  Plain yogurt topped with berries
• Smoothie- frozen fruit blended with skim or soy milk
• Soycream- tofu blended with frozen fruit
• Oatmeal supreme- plain oatmeal topped with cinnamon, fruit and 4-5 chopped pecans
• Pb cup oatmeal-  plain oatmeal with 1 tbsp pb, 1 tsp coco powder and ½ cup soymilk
• Autumn oatmeal- plain oatmeal mixed with canned pumpkin and pumpkin pie spice
• 1 banana with 1 tbsp pb
• PBJ Rollup- natural peanut butter and grapes sliced in half on half of an “Ezekiel Tortilla”
• Baked sweet potato with cinnamon