Tips for quick healthy snacks
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Most of us live in a rushed world. The hustle and bustle of daily life, can sometimes leave us hungry,
with no time for lunch or any real meal during our busy days. So when we’re hungry and in a hurry,
we reach for quick snacks that are often unhealthy, such as crackers, potato chips and countless other carbohydrates.
It is extremely important to add healthy foods and snacks into your daily routine.
So, when life is hectic, and your moving too fast, how do you keep a balanced diet?
Well I can tell you it isn’t chips or crackers.
ALL YOUR MEALS, INCLUDING SNACKS, SHOULD BE A BALANCE OF DIFFERENT NUTRIENTS!
This includes carbohydrates, proteins and fats. Create a balance of approximately: 20–35% protein,
20%-35% fat and 45%-60% carbohydrates.
Snacks like the suggestions below, help to balance blood sugar, stabilize hormones,
and keep your metabolism working well, and helps you feel full longer.
Fat also helps assimilate or absorb the nutrients in fruits and vegetables too.
HERE ARE A FEW NO PREP SNACK OPTIONS THAT WILL HELP BALANCE YOUR DAILY LIFE
- Handful of nuts and a few pieces of dark chocolate.
- Slice of cheese and an apple.
- homemade chicken broth you can add garlic, ginger or sea salt.
- Tomato sliced, sprinkled with olive oil on a bagel or English muffin.
- Yogurt, sunflower, pumpkin, or hemp seeds, and berries.
- Fresh blueberries or grapes with a cup of plain yogurt
- Avocado with tortilla chips, plantain chips, or Sun chips.
- Raw carrots and hummus, or celery and peanut butter (a fav treat when I was a kid)
- A hard boiled egg, piece of chesse, and a few berries or piece of fruit.
- Chicken breast, nitrate free deli meat, and a cucumber, or carrot.
- An apple or celery stalk and nut butter, there are others beside peanut, try some cashew butter, or Nutella
- Yogurt and granola with berries
- Watermelon or other refreshing fruits.
- Papaya with cottage cheese in the middle.
- Figs and more cheeses (the variety of cheese is endless)
- Olives right out of the jar, my fav are the stuffed green ones with feta inside
- Stuffed artichokes (make these ahead of time) or marinated artichokes in a bottle.
- Nuts with dried fruit (no sugar or soybean oil please)
- Kale chips and nuts
- Popcorn popped in coconut oil (SO delicious!)
- Beef jerky or grass-fed beef sticks
- Pineapple with cherries or rasberries (stay away from store bought ready made “fruit cocktails”, they are full of sugar.
Keep your fridge and shelves stocked with some of these snack options. The snacks on this list will
help give you much needed energy and tie you over until your next meal.
If you want to add some healthy snacks to the list, please feel free to post them below,
or simply start a convo about your favorite snacks on this list, or that you have tried before.
