I am looking for ideas for very inexpensive, low fat, healthy snacks. I do have access to a microwave at work and not always a fridge. I eat apples and pretzels every day and need something else.
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Triscuts with thin slices of cheese (any kind), maybe a slice or two of olive, pepperoni (or deli meat), tomato, or anything else. Microwave for about 10 seconds. The cracker remains crisp, and the snack taste awesome. Kids love it. And it only uses a tiny bit of cheese if you slice it thin but packs a bunch of taste. Totally healthy, full of calcuim and fiber but tastes almost like nachos only less soggy. four or five will keep your child tide over till dinnertime and wont ruin their appetite.
Have you ever tried garbanzo beans (a.k.a., chick peas)?
They're available in grocery store bulk bins, dried, and these are much better than the canned version (which are pre-cooked and usually over-cooked).
One of my favourite snacks is to soak and cook them, but not to the point where they're soft.
Cover with water, soak for an hour,
bring to a boil and simmer for 10 minutes
(or a bit longer, checking consistency).
Cook them to the point of a nut-like hardness (much like peanuts or cashews).
Drain, add spices: garlic powder, salt, onion powder, dill ... whatever combination you prefer.
Just plain salt is good, too.
Toss or stir to distribute spices and voila! Nut-like snack with none of the fat content and all the flavour/texture.
Cook a fair-sized batch and freeze in 2-cup-size containers. Thaw each in the fridge and season according to preference.
Almonds, SmartBalance microwave popcorn, beef jerky, Wheat Thin crackers, soy chips or soy nuts. On days you have access to a fridge you could take yogart, cherry tomatoes, celery & carrot sticks, grapes or broccolli florets and low cal ranch dressing.
I love to snack on the Post Honeynut Shredded Wheats (dry)! So good for you and tastes great.
You should have some kind of protein with the apple and etc. Cheese, hardboiled egg, peanut butter, the kind with only peanuts and maybe salt added, you need it for the energy and stamina.
Until I met a lady GIVING away free Organic Produce
from her garden, I NEVER heard of this before she told me, but cucumber slices make a great healthy snack food. I sort of snickered when she told me, but when I got home and tried them, she was right! I actually not only ate them like a snack, but cut slices and added them to my pickle jar, which took about two weeks to "make". I don't eat many pickled
Remember that before eating carb snacks, like pretzels, you could havea can of tuna or "a V8 "! LOL
Tuna, peanut butter, boiled/microwaved eggs are
some of the best high protein "snacks" one can eat. Boiled eggs will be safe unrefrig. for about a week if the shell is unbroken. They are about the cheapest
high protein available.
If you have access to a grocery/market, you could zip
in and choose a small bag of mixed single item veggies and a can of "refried beans" for their dip, rather than
rely on a refrig. to keep a salad dressing cool for all
occasions.
As was described on this site, corn on the cob can be microwaved IN THE SHUCKS for about 20 sec. and it turns out GREAT, even for a snack with a little salt/pepper?
You can hardly beat an apple from New Zealand, all organic, I was told. Organic bananas are DELICIOUS. Popcorn can be microwaved. Wheat crackers and bean dip beat chips/ "other" dip in my opinion, in nutritional value, healthy food facts. Drink plenty of water with whatever you choose, even in Winter.
Are you stuffing your hollowed apple with peanut butter? or cheese? Are you able to buy bread at a discount store? " 'Animal' breads" are the absolute best buy in those stores, at about 6-8 loaves/packages for $1.50, and you can also find wheat bread in them occasionally, as well as fried pies! Even if they are smashed as they are told to do, we have found them to be perfectly edible even
so.
The best information you can receive is to try for a healthy balance in your diet with proteins (meats/nuts/eggs), veggies (tomatoes, carrots, raw
Hope you will consider these? God bless you in your best decisions/choices. : )
mix a jar of apple cider vinegar (hopefully raw) and sugar and water (you have to play with the amounts to get a mix just right for your sweet/sour taste) with just a touch of salt.
pour this over any kind of cut raw vegetable for refrigerator pickles. let it set in the fridge a while. you can reuse the dressing on the same type vegetable at least one more time.
Thank you for all your suggestions.....it is so easy for me to get a rut and keep eating the same things until I can no longer look at an apple.
Good eatings to you all -- I love this site!!
how about freeze drieed fruit.... rice cakes with peanut butter.........raisins.......applesauce..fruitcups
Healthy Snack Ideas
Yogurt
Fruit cup
Apple
Banana
Pear
Peach
Grapes
Plum
Orange
Berries
Watermelon
Raisins
Carrots
Celery
Broccoli
Mixed nuts
Tomato
Chicken noodle soup
Cauliflower
Green or red peppers
Peanut butter crackers
Nuts
Whole wheat cereal with skim milk
Trail mix
Oatmeal
Whole wheat bagel or toast
Pure bran muffins
Fruit smoothie
Spinach
Sweet potato
Broth-based vegetable soup
Skim and low-fat milk
Bean soup
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