Most of us like snacking. However, most of snack food that we can find all over supermarkets and grocery stores contain some ingredients that are not good for our health, such as food enhancers, too much salt, too sweet, high fat, and so on. So we’d better be smart and start finding some good and healthy snacks. We don’t want to get ill just because of following our snack craving.
Here are some healthy and smart snacks for different preferences, just in case our snacking urges call us.
- Crunchies:apples and pears, breadsticks, carrot and celery sticks, green pepper sticks, zucchini circles, radishes, broccoli spears, cauliflowerets, unsalted rice cakes.
- Hot Stuff: clear soups - homemade vegetable or tomato (commercially canned soups may be high in sodium), cocoa made with nonfat milk.
- Munchies: unsalted sunflower seeds, whole-grain breads, mozzarella (part-skim), ricotta (part-skim), plain low-fat yogurt, bagels, almonds, walnuts and other nuts.
- Thirst Quenchers: nonfat milk or buttermilk, unsweetened juices, tomato or mixed vegetable juice (commercially canned vegetable juices may be high in sodium).
- Sweet Stuff: unsweetened canned fruit, thin slice of angel food cake, baked apple, raisins, dried fruit gelatin gems, frozen bananas, frozen grapes, fresh fruit.
Have a try!
