Snack Ideas

LOTS of questions I have gotten about what my healthy go-to's are when it comes to snacks! (Yoda...?) I definitely love my snacks and throughout my many munching years, I have developed a few yummy go-to's. Here are some of my favs!

Low calorie "midnight snacking" type of snacks

• lightly salted rice cake
• lightly salted rice cake with warm chocolate PB2 drizzled on top (or "slathered" on top if you're me...)
• apple 
• cotton candy grapes... 😛😍 or just normal seedless grapes (I love to freeze them!!)
• 45 cal bread toast with spray butter on top
• Almond milk smoothies

Healthy every-day "fat burning" type of snacks

• lightly salted almonds
• lightly salted cashews (THE BIG BINS FROM COSTCO ARE BAE)
• chocolate almonds (NOT the chocolate covered ones... Walmart sells a brand that is "chocolate flavored" and they're to die for!)
• pistachios
• popcorn (with little to zero butter)
• apple
• apple dipped in Sara Natha's maple almond butter 
• cotton candy grapes... 😛😍 or just normal seedless grapes (I love to freeze them!!)
• 45 cal bread toast with spray butter on top (or chunky peanut butter)
• multi grain crackers with sliced turkey on top (or the light/low-fat string cheese on top) (or both)
• light string cheese
• lightly salted rice cake topped with chunky peanut butter and jam 
• roasted chickpeas (the store bought ones are really good but even better, try roasting them on your own without any oil.. yum 👌)
• Two Moms in the Raw blueberry or cacao nib granola bars
• Larabars or RX bars
• reduced sugar chewy granola bars
• peanut butter ginger chews
• dark chocolate - in moderation (👈 the moderation part rarely ever happens for me so if I know I am going to scarf it, sometimes I'll just try to completely avoid it!)
• my homemade oat banana bread :):):):):):) (I love heating it up in the microwave and putting maple almond butter or "I can't Believe it's not Butter" spray butter on top!)
• CO2's salted caramel coconut chips 
• Almond milk smoothies (ice+banana+almond milk+cocoa/cacao powder+stevia+pink himalayan sea salt) or (ice+banana+almond milk+PB2 powder+stevia+pink himalayan sea salt)

MY BIG SNACKING TIPS:

-Remember moderation. Too many times I've started snacking, then continued snacking on seconds, then switched to a different snack, then another, then all of a sudden I've eaten the equivalent of an entire meal... plus my stomach hurts.
-Carry a water bottle around!! I notice that when I'm feeling snacky, sometimes I'm actually just thirsty. Now that I carry a water bottle around with me everywhere, I have noticed that my stomach feels satisfied more often!