Healthy Snacks

 Healthy Snack Ideas

Here's my mega list of over 75 easy, healthy snacks in different categories - depending on what you may be craving: Chocolate, Savory, Crunchy/Salty, Tangy/Fruity, Creamy, Frozen/Chilled.

I look at this list:

a) when I'm hungry, or

b) when planning my Weekly Food Prep, or

c) when I hear someone in the house say, "What is there to eat?"

Chocolate

1. Cashew Cocoa Fudge Bites
2. Chocolate Smoothie
3. Dairy Free Chocolate Pudding
4. 1 ounce dark chocolate and ¼ cup raw almonds
5. Fresh strawberries dipped in dark chocolate
6. Frozen banana slices dipped in chocolate
7. Chocolate Coconut Protein Bars (recipe coming soon)
8. Chocolate smoothie bowl Make with frozen banana, spoonful of cocoa powder, spinach, chia seeds, protein powder, coconut milk
9. Mint chocolate chip green smoothie (recipe coming soon)
10. GF Chocolate Mug Cake 
11. dates split open filled with a pecan, drizzled with chocolate
12. Raw almonds drizzled with melted dark chocolate and sprinkled with sea salt - chilled or frozen until firm
13. Raw Salted Chocolate Snack Bars ( from Pinch of Yum) ( I love these so much!)

 

Savory

1. Edamame in the pod - heat in microwave and sprinkle with sea salt. It’s fun to pop the edamame beans in your mouth 🙂 Great movie snack!
2. Boiled egg with salt, paprika, seasoned salt, or Mrs. Dash
3. Fresh sliced tomato with salt, pepper, and parmesan cheese
4. A bowl of vegetable soup
5. Tuna or chicken salad on endive leaves, or cucumber slices
6. Cottage cheese sprinkled with Mrs. Dash or Salad Supreme, with celery sticks to dip in it
7. Cold chicken meatballs
8. Cold chicken slices
9. Blue Cheese Ranch Dip and veggies
10. Kale Superfood Salad
11. Avocado egg salad stuffed in celery and mini bell peppers
12. Olives, feta cheese chunks, cucumber slices, and grape tomato on a stick, dipped in greek dressing
13. Celery with protein peanut butter ( recipe coming soon) - add a few raisins to make ants on a log
14. Sandwich filling on cucumber slices ( tuna salad, chicken salad, meat and cheese)
15. Asparagus wrapped in ham or turkey bacon, drizzled with balsamic vinegar, and broiled - great hot or cold!
16. Snap peas, carrot sticks, celery sticks, cucumber slices dipped in hummus
17. roasted chickpeas
18. Black beans mixed with salsa and avocado chunks
19. Deviled eggs (recipe coming soon)
20. Beef or turkey jerky ( look for nitrite free if possible)

Crunchy and/or Salty

1. Celery stuffed with goat cheese, topped with pistachios or other nuts
2. Kale chips
3. Microwave plain popcorn in a paper lunch sack ( folded over), flavor with 1 spoonful melted coconut oil and 1 spoonful melted butter and a little salt
4. ¼ cup of nuts
5. ¼ cup of dried fruit and nut mix - Some good combos are: dried apples and walnuts, pineapple and pistachios, apricots and almonds, cranberries and pecans
6. A bag of baby carrots - I often stash a 16 oz. bag of baby carrots in my Cooler Purse Organizer when I need to bring something healthy with me but I don’t have time to put any effort into it. And I find it helpful to crunch on carrots when I’m concentrating on work, for some reason that helps me focus!
7. A good old fashioned apple
8. Celery sticks - you actually burn more calories chewing and digesting them than there is in the celery itself! Great if you already ate your healthy meal but are still hungry 🙂
9. Sunflower seeds in the shell
10. Pistachios in the shell
11. Dill pickles
12. Crunchy Microwave Baked Chips (from Eclectic Momsense)
13. dill pickles
14. sugar snap peas, or snow peas
    

Tangy/Fruity

1.  frozen grapes
2. Pineapple with cottage cheese
3. Plain Greek yogurt mixed with frozen berries
4. Apricot sorbet: blend a can of apricots with an equal amount of frozen apricots until smooth. Eat immediately. This also works well with mangos and peaches.
5. Apple slices sprinkled with cinnamon and coconut sugar and microwaved until softened
6. Cut a grapefruit in half and broil it until just warm.
7. A green apple and a spoonful of goat cheese or other soft cheese
8. A green apple and a spoonful of peanut butter or cashew butter
9. Roasted peach drizzled with honey
10. Pineapple cubes sprinkled with coconut
11. Cubed watermelon tossed with feta or other soft white cheese, and sprinkled with balsamic dressing ( it’s better than you think)
12. Frozen blueberries or cherries
13. Strawberry Lime Slushie
14. apricots - only 17 calories each!
15. cantaloupe and cottage cheese
16. peaches or plums - less than 50 calories each!
17. star fruit - low in calories, and they look great in a bento box 🙂

 

Creamy

1. Greek yogurt with sliced bananas, chopped walnuts, and a drizzle of honey
2. 1 or 2 Mini Cheesecakes
3. Nut butter protein balls (recipe coming soon)
4. Chocolate Smoothie 
5. Tropical Green Smoothie
6. Smoothie Bowl
7. Greek yogurt mixed with a spoonful of all-fruit jam
8. String cheese - is it creamy? Not sure, but this is the best category I could find for cheese
9. Laughing Cow cheese wedge
10. cottage cheese
11. banana with a spoonful of nut butter
12. Peach Instant Oatmeal
13. Chocolate P.B. Overnight Oats

 

Frozen/Chilled Snacks

1. Smoothie Bowl
2. Strawberry Lime Slushie
3. Chocolate smoothie
4. Tropical Green Smoothie 
5. Mini cheesecakes
6. frozen grapes - they're like little popsicle balls
7. frozen cherries - I love these even more than frozen grapes!
8. frozen blueberries

Free download!

I love having a printed list of all these snack ideas on my fridge, since that's where everyone heads when they're hungry. Here's one for you to download and keep for yourself:

Healthy Snack Ideas Master List

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