What are your favorite healthy snacks?

Do air fried chickpeas count as healthy? Goes great with some spicy seasonings :3

It's also important to change how you eat.

Do you tear open a box/bag of something and gun it down in front of a screen?

Try making yourself actual meals. Use napkins and silverware and non-paper plates. Make a protein, a carb, and some greens. Sit at the dinner table, not in front of the TV.

Even if it's just a snack you can present it nicely. Cut the apple up and lay it out with bits of cheese.

Make the meal seem special.

Mandarins

They are easy to peel and unlike banana peels, its peels are relatively dry and smell nice, you can keep them comfortably in your pocket until you find a trash bin.

Many people is mentioning nuts. Yes, they are healthy but they are very calorie dense.

No one mentioned it, so I'll throw it out here:

Popcorn.

I'm not particularly concerned about avoiding fat or salt, so I drown it in butter, but you do you.

After one of my kids killed our microwave by putting a package of popcorn in it and turning it on for way too long and forgetting it, I banned microwave popcorn from the house and got an air-popper. The thing is awesome. I never liked the microwave popcorn, but the air-popped popcorn became my snack of choice.

Nuts are pretty healthy. I usually have a bag of various nuts nearby. If you like it put in some raisins or cranberries or other dried fruit.

And of course fresh fruits are king. A banana takes almost zero effort.

My favorite is frozen mango. I like to eat them as a quick cold snack straight from the freezer.

Another one is raw carrots with hummus as a dip.

Im right here with you, I've recently been replacing all the candy snacks I have with various rustic snacks. I'll have like, 6 cheese curds and salami slices, 3 dates instead of my peanut butter cups, I 've been really into Japanese style peanuts, peacans just on their own.

When it comes to quick and not unhealthy meals, I found out I can make cheese rice in my rice cooker. Follow the usual rice cooker instructions, just add a cup of shredded cheddar, a tbsp of butter, garlic, salt, pepper, and if you want it extra rich replace 1/3 of the water with milk.

If you're air frying any veg, I highly suggest mixing your seasoning in a little oil and vinegar, then tossing the veg in it. That half assed vinegarette feels really fancy and if helps get an even coating of seasoning. Balsamic brings sweetness, all the others bring sour. You can even make it in bulk, put it in the fridge, and if keeps basically forever.

If you do ramen a lot, toss some frozen veg mix in with it while it's boiling, then replace half the packet with a splash of soy sauce, and some garlic. It's less and somehow so much more.

Recently I've gotten into "soy meat" it's dried, crumbled, tofu that's a really popular meat substitute in Mexico. Pound of beef equivalent for 97¢ at the local Hispanic grocery. Since it's dried and functionally flavorless, you can mix you up a slurry of spices and the stuff will sponge it all up. Toss it in a pan and it comes out the exact same texture as ground beef, but you can make it taste like everything from plain beef to Italian sausage, maple cured bacon, even smoked pepperoni. I've taken to adding it to chilli, sloppy joes, pasta, not only because it halves the cost of meat, but because it can add such an amazing depth of flavor and it seems to naturally correct acidity.

Hope some of this helps. I personally fell for the idea that eating right had to be miserable for so long and now it's like, why is this not the standard? This is so fucking good!

Apple slices with peanut butter

Blueberries are tasty and keep surprisingly long in the fridge.

When I'm at the supermarket, prepackaged salad is pretty nice and comes in portions that I eat before they spoil (in contrast to heads of salad). Try not to drown it in dressing, but honestly even drowned in dressing it should still be healthier than regular junk food snacks.

Fruit. Nobody has ever gotten fat from eating too much fruit.

Sometimes I just go to town on an entire container of cherry tomatoes

Edamame is great.

Roasted chickpeas

Air-fried spinach leaves.

Add some species you like to the leaves, spray them with some olive oil and airfry for 10-15 mins at 200°C.

Makes for a great alternative to normal chips but takes some practice to find the perfect timing to make them crispy but not burned.

Dried apricots are my favorite and are rich in fiber and vitamins. Other dried fruits are good too, but personally I like apricots the most.

Grapes, apples, nuts

Nori is fantastic, it's very light and has a strong taste. So you're not eating much by weight. It's also healthy, if you're not eating tons every day.

Mini portobello mushrooms dipped in hummus is my go-to. Also pistachios, nori, grapes, cherries. Salami works instead of chips, but gotta watch the salt content too

Fruit, I guess that's my favorite healthy snacks.

In winter, bananas. In summer, watermelon. If I'm craving something sorbet like I snack on frozen berries.

Nuts are also another good one but they're not low calorie.

Bags of baby carrots are nice.

Also those cans of fruit with no sugar added. I call those adult fruit cups.

Peanuts with shell, salt-free. The fact that it takes a bit of effort to open the shell is a plus, because it slows the consumption. And apples too

This is probably my #1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crispbread Either plain or with low calorie butter

Good suggestions for snacks but I think a lot of people missed the "when I want to shove something in my face as a force of habit." You really want to get the lowest calorie thing possible, ideal would be lettuce and celery since those are basically nothing but still give you something to eat. Next would probably be apple slices, berries have surprisingly low sugar, egg white is basically pure protein but a full egg is fine too. Sprouts can be good if you grow them right. I sometimes just slowly eat a spoonful of peanut butter over like an hour but...

I would also recommend having random drinks you can go between, like tea soymilk coffee, even diet soda. Just avoid anything with sugar or fat. Things like nuts are healthy but not a great constant snack food because they do have a lot of fat, so that should be an intentional thing rather than something to reach for.

I've been dabbing into intermittent fasting for the last couple months.

It's not really a snack, but my doctor recommended that before I break my fast, to drink warm lemon water. So I do,

I run my tap until it's hot as it gets, and squeeze half a lemon of juice in a cup, and fill it with that warm water. The first one was rough, I didn't like it. But after a short time, I really like them now and just drink one or two, or sometimes three times a day. The warm water helps my tummy feel full and the lemon nearly tastes sweet at this point. My doctor said it makes thw fat cells "move". So move it!

For meals,I stopped buying butter, and cook everything from scratch. Sometimes I'll just roast a sweet potato or squash and eat that. Roasted veggies are under rated. The take like 20-45 mins depending, but I like I can do it in the air fryer or toaster oven. Olive oil and spices its a win.

Years ago, I lost 100 pounds in a year. I ate, whole prepared foods, but didn't really cut anything out. I used a smaller plate. I just ate less. I still would have bread and butter, just less. And, it still worked for me. Take whole or real food meals you like, and just have a smaller plate. This is easier if you use an actual, small plate.

I also made everything spicy as hell, by the end of the year I was chopping raw habeneros and putting them on like, a ham sandwhich. I don't eat deli meats anymore, but making any food spicy will intuitively help you to slow down. Eating slower makes a huge difference. I also often would eat meals with chopsticks, that will also slow your eating habits.

Edit, to add, homemade popcorn in avocado oil, with a little salt, black pepper, nooch and cayenne pepper is amazing. You can eat a whole bowl and its only like 300 calories. I make mine on the stove in a dutch oven, but you can put a 1/4 cup of kernals in a lunch sack paper bag, fold it up and microwave it too! Its guilt free snacking.

Fizzy water. When you feel like a snack, drink some carbonated water. I found a lot of time I wanted water and flavor more than the food.

And high fiber/bran stuff fills you up. Get stuff made of whole grains like popcorn, whole wheat (or real corn) tortillas, fruits with peels on, and the like.

Blueberries freeze really well, spread em on a baking sheet so they stay separate before you bag them. Muffins are pretty easy to bake at home and with a little practice you can make a whole wheat muffin with sunflower seeds fucking tasty.

The pain in the ass is that healthy ingredients go bad much faster. Whole wheat flour goes stale in a hurry compared to AP flour.

One thing that worked for me was fasting. It is far easier for me to skip a meal than to eat in moderation. I figure I want to eat a 2000 calorie meal every time i sit down, maybe that's a sign I should only do it once a day, very much ymmv on that one, but I lost 50# in a year just ... eating until I was full, but only once a day.

As a nice side bonus, your bathroom schedule also becomes very predictable, which is handy for scheduling,

Nuts, mini carrots, berries, just a bottle of water sometimes goes as a snack (the water inside the bottle, not the bottle itself)

A few suggestions based on whether you need more calories. If you are trying to gain weight:

Triscuit crackers and hummus

Nuts, whichever you like.

Whole fat Greek yogurt with honey or savory with olives and crackers (again, Triscuit if you need calories)

If you need to reduce calories:

Apple & a few slices of good cheddar

An avocado

Boiled egg

Popcorn made at home

NONfat Greek yogurt with fruit and/or a little honey.

A walk. Sometimes you are bored not hungry.

Hummus. There is some degree of effort involved, where you have to put 5 or so ingredients in a blender and blend them. Use crackers, pita, tortilla, veggies, etc. to deliver hummus to your mouth.

Good beef jerky/biltong. Not the usual 7-11 stuff. Make it yourself ori have a few good brands if you want recommendations.

Chickpeas, either out of the can or roasted

In shell peanuts

Bananas

Cheese and cold cuts from the deli

Yogurt

Everything in moderation of course

I'm starting to not fit in my made to measure suit anymore, so I figured I'd get some help and see an actual dietician. Fully covered by insurance, too—it saves them a lot of money in the long run if I'm not overweight.

This is a useful thread. I'm having trouble finding snacks that aren't unhealthy... Some carrots dipped in hummus, I suppose. But that doesn't really scratch the itch.

An apple among many other fruits, some salad with a light dressing.
I may also hunt for bare carrots, Bugs Bunny like ;)

A slice of handmade bread I just cut, too. Just the bread, it tastes so good.

Apples can work real wonders. But if you are more into a crisps/popcorn type of mood (something small to eat over the duration of a movie), grapes are a good alternative.

Thin slice apples, dust with cinnamon, throw into the microwave. It's basically healthy pie filling.

Banana and nuts? I usually eat them as snacks. Any easy to peel fruits will do. I might add a glass of soy milk, too, if really hungry.

• Do oatmeal cookies count?

• grapes, raisins or nuts mixed with raisins

• golden sultanas are the best, but i like them best when mixed eith nuts or some other types of dried fruit.

• Bircher, AKA overnight oats made by soaking yoghurt, oats,p & fruit in apple juice and refrigerating over several days

Anything fermented or pickled is a delight to eat and you can make them at home very easily as long as you're sanitising your jars in boiling water between each use. A youtuber/tiktoker(?) Called Kirsten Kaminski is how i learned about this stuff. She has a cookbook if you're interested.

Would definitely recommend pickled onions, they're absolutely stupendous.

Air dried cauliflower i wouldn't go near but i would try it as a pickle or ferment food.

A glass of water with a bit of apple cider vinegar in it. It takes the cravings and it improves digestion and lowers blood sugar levels.

Also consider taking psyllium, it's a prebiotic and helps with all sorts of things. It makes me feel more full and helps with digestion.

I eat dark chocolate with at least 70 % cocoa. You don't feel like eating too much of it, but it tastes good and helps on the cravings.

Chips and salsa, so many great options. You should check the calorie count, but you could always make your own if you wanna really get into it. Swap the chips for a baked version if you wanna cut back on fried things.

Nuts, fruit, steamed veggies (with or without seasoning), popcorn, GOOD beef jerky, yogurt.
Highly recommend you read Ultra-Processed People. I found that learning about what's in the normal unhealthy snacks sort of makes you not want to eat them at all, which will make eating healthy snacks so much easier. Just my experience though.

Strawberries, blueberries, red grapes, trail mix (but a quarter cup of Omega Mix packs a boatload of calories), yogurt, tangerines, oranges.

Iceberg lettuce is nice. Its just crunchy water, tastes almost like nothing and is relativly cheap

Banana with brown almond butter (that one that is 100% almonds).

I just remembered, sweet corn is relatively healthy if you don't add too much butter etc. Grilled corn on the cob is a classic, but it's a lot easier and quicker to just buy a can of corn without the cob, season them and bake them.

Popcorn is great. It's like fiber, butter, salt and spices.

Been snacking on pita, labne (Lebanese yogurt I love it it has just a hint of the taste of cream cheese but it's light and quot like yogurt) and toum (ingredients: garlic, oil, lemon juice, salt, magic). I imagine it's doing great things for my cholesterol and vampire infestation.

Oh! And there's the only one pounds bag of gummi worms. That's healthy because shut up.

Wife likes putting peas (with some BBQ rub on em, brush on a little oil or get em damp if you want the rub to actually stick) in the air fryer, she says it makes em poop

MOINKs ate pretty great if you want to put the time into it

Popcorn, minimally salted

Yoghurt (plain is ideal but I like a little bit of vanilla), nuts, rice cakes, homemade dried fruit oat bars, apples, and homemade protein bars.

Carrots, celery broccoli... idk otherwise. Peanut butter is good

Oh also I LOVE rice and burger with spicy diced tomatoes. So easy and fricken delicious to me . Also throw some beans in

Put a fresh date (e.g. Mazafati or Mejool) onto a fork. Add a piece of dark chocolate. Dip it into Tahini (Sesame paste). It's soo tasty and rather healthy!

Medjool date and a coffee. Perfect dessert.

Cucumber dipped in tzaziki with sriracha

Yoghurt ranks high for me.

Peanuts are apparently healthy, just not the salt that comes with them. I also really like peanut butter.

I used to straight up eat flaxseed with a spoon, and I felt better, until it made me sick.

fruit. any kind

Deep-fried macaroni pie. It's a Scottish delicacy.

• Take macaroni cheese
• Encase it in a hot water pastry crust
• Dip it in batter
• Deep-fry it
• Put it inside a well-buttered morning roll
• Eat
• Die happy. Soon, but happy.

Mmm, carbilicious action.

Bumps on a log (celery sticks with peanutbutter and raisins)

some type of bean salad with a bunch of veggies, tomatoes and a vinegar dressing, maybe some cheese? make a giant bowl that lasts a week and gets better each day. just leave it in the fridge and grab a small bowl as a snack when you're hungry. also works great as a quick meal/side

"Healthy snacks" are an edge concern - I snack on whatever the fuck I want, because that's not the prime driver.

Every meal is the prime mover. Balance that for you, and you'll be closer to where you want to be, and less interested in bad snacks.

When I'm eating right I'm not interested in the bad-for-me stuff nearly as much.

Just handy slices of raw vegetables like carrots tomatoes or pepper with a bit of spice.

Onigiri! And I live in Europe. That shit is really good.

I like popcorn. I can make a bunch with like 2 tbsp of oil and 1 tsp of finely ground salt. Look up "popcorn" by Bryan David Gilbert. I don't usually use the lao gan ma, but it's nice if you want to. Also I prefer a flat-bottom pot to the wok.

Sometimes for a late night snack I'll do a tube of silken tofu with soy sauce and chili oil. Very few calories, a few grams of protein, and it feels kind of nice and refreshing out of the fridge. Basically works with any seasoning too

Fruit, sardines, kimchi, pickles, cucumbers, bell peppers, dark chocolate....

Lots of veggies make tasty snacks if you chop them small, toss with olive oil, salt, and garlic powder, and roast them. Not as easy as grabbing a bag from a cabinet but still super easy. Does take some time, though.

Similarly, lots of leafy greens can be cooked up quickly and easily as a snack.

Marinated soft or medium boiled eggs, such as Korean mayak eggs, Chinese tea eggs, or Japanese ajitsuki tamago (ajitama).

Down that vein, deviled eggs.

Carrots are dirt cheap where I live. I buy a kilo, peel them, chop them into batons and store them in the fridge in an airtight container. Satisfying crunch and full of vitamins. Dip into humus for extra yum.

A can of tuna mixed with sweet relish, mayo, salt, pepper, and a few minimally salted crackers.

Red seedless grapes.

Imitation crab meat with cocktail sauce on the side. Maybe cheddar slices or olives on the side.

I consider these healthyish at the moment.

A Fuji or honey crisp apple. Juicy, sweet, tasty, filling, a bit messy. The perfect snack.

Cottage cheese

Almonds, roasted veggies, celery with peanut butter, fruit.

Are peanuts considered healthy?

Nuts

Bananas.

East my ass!