What are your favorite healthy snacks?
I saw my doctor recently and while talking about what a lazy fat-ass I am, he mentioned something about replacing the crap I usually snack on with healthier snacks like seasoned air-fried cauliflower or something like that. So what are your favorite healthy-ish snacks that can be made relatively quickly when I feel like shoving food in my face for no reason other than boredom and force of habit?
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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.
I feel personally attacked
There was a cartoon. One person says that the only time they clean their apartment is when someone special is coming over. The other says "Don't you think you're special?"
So do I... Because it"is accurate when I'm not eating right! Haha 😮
How I received the post
Mind you, I do all that (without fail) and I'm still a lardarse.
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15 minute a day plan. The only equipment you need is a stopwatch.
Starts at a level anyone who can walk around the block can do.
Ah. I can't walk around the block. I have CFS and post exertional malaise.
Damn, thats tough, you have strict limitations on the level of physical exertion you can do. This means that your diet is really the only realistic way to manage your weight.
You mentioned you already eat healthy snacks but if you are still overweight, you have been eating more kcal than you use, over a long period of time. Tracking calories is not fun but have you tried it? Its not something you need to do forever, just long enough to have an understanding of what you need to eat.
Most people have gluttony eating disorder. They cannot stop eating and cannot fathom suffering with hunger... Which is required to lose weight. They will make 6 fancy meals a day instead of snacking, if they change habits at all.
Eating air fried cauliflower will fix nothing, as they will eat 800 calories of it in a sitting, and cannot imagine that they need 1500 calories a day for 3 years to not prematurely die in the next 5-10 years.
It's the worst epidemic we have.
Where did you get the 'most people' statistic?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/research-news/12328/
"About 74 percent of adults in the U.S. are overweight, according to the CDC
That includes nearly 43 percent who are considered obese. "
I mean, look around... And it's a disorder because they cannot stop, they cannot help themselves no matter what education you give them, and it's directly connected to universally understood negative medical outcomes. It's a disease based on addiction psychopathology.
Do air fried chickpeas count as healthy? Goes great with some spicy seasonings :3
This is the type of thing I was hoping for. Something savory or spicy. Any particular recipes?
I don't follow any particular recipe tbh (and just buy them from the snack section at the store half the time lol), but basically you just want to get them really dry before frying https://basilandbay.com/crispy-chickpeas-3-flavor-options/ there's a few recipes you can find online that detail the process :3 for spices I just kinda eyeball salt,.pepper, chili powder, garlic powder, paprika, and cumin sometimes
I'd imagine some of the popcorn seasonings you can get would work well, too... Might try making them at home, I've gotten a bag of them pre-made before and liked them. Don't have an air fryer, but I'd imagine a toaster oven would probably work well
This works for peas and you don't need a recipe. Put boiled peas in an air-fryer to crisp them up a bit. Then sprinkle on whatever spices you like. Can add lemon, or sauces or whatever you like. Experiment as you like. Just be careful not to make it unhealthy by drowning it in sauce.
You could do the same with cutting aubergine into thin slices and making them crisp in an airfryer or oven and making "chips" out of them.
Bats eat those? As for healthy, probably depends mainly on how much salt they end up containing
Salt content can always be adjusted if you're making it yourself :3
(And as far as im aware bats don't generally eat chickpeas :3.. most are insectivores, or frugivores (some vampire bats too) lol. For someone with a bat fursona I should really know more bat facts tho)
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.
Rude
come on down!
Nuts are very caloricly dense, yes but since they are whole foods they do not have the same effect on your weight as a processes snack with the same amount of calories (say chips or candy). If you're gonna snack on something, whole foods are always better.
That's not how calories work.
Outside of a human body, a calorie is a calorie. Once inside being digested things get more complex. What I stated was not pulled out of thin air, take a look here
The truth is: Energy measurements of foods do not accurately reflect the energy a human body will get out of them.
Not to mention the fact that different people get different energy out of the same foods, since an integral part of our digestive system are hundres of different species of bacteria that vary between humans.
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.
Hmmm, yes, they do say popcorn can be a healthy snack, huh? Still, to invest in a machine that only makes one kind of food, in my not-too-big apartment...
Is it a big machine? Can you clean it in the dishwasher?
You can just make it on the stovetop in a pot with a top
Air poppers can be small, mine is about ten inches tall, five inches wide and deep. I'm no fan of single use appliances but it makes a healthy snack so easy (just pour half a cup of kernels in and switch it on) that it gets a pass. It's fast too, takes about a minute and can't burn them. The only cleaning it needs it to shake out any popcorn bits that for some reason didn't get ejected. It was a great value purchase for seven bucks.
The downside is it's loud AF.
I have a collapsible silicone bucket with a lid for popcorn making that goes into the microwave. It's easy to use, doesn't require any fat, also serves as a bowl and you can just throw it into the dishwasher. Size-wise, it's probably not that different from an air popper when collapsed, but it's easier to find a spot for; mine is on top of the stack of roughly bowl-shaped things. And you could also use it as a bowl for other things, so it's not necessarily single-purpose.
I have one of these. A perfect product honestly.
Just any pot works, you dont need a machine.
I use spoonful of coconut oil or clarified butter, but coconut oil works better. Heat oil
put corn kernels, i put just to cover bottom of the pot, or a bit less.
Then you cover and shake.
Use fine salt and fine msg for seasoning. I like adding smoked paprika powder.
Stove top popcorn is too stupidly easy to buy a one off gadget. I make popcorn on the stove at least 3 times a week just using vegetable oil and flavacol. My wife and I are now spoiled on this popcorn.
You can take the plain popcorn and pop it in a microwave in a brown paper lunch sack that is folded over. No need for a one off machine.
Trader Joe’s has ranch seasoning that is amazing on popcorn!!
I've been using nutritional yeast and it is like a cheese dust replacement. Would not recommend eating it by itself though (ie what's leftover at the bottom of the bowl).
So a double whammy for health. To OP: Do an internet search for volume eating - lots of good suggestions there.
Yes!! I totally forgot about nutritional yeast, it is SO GOOD!!
Isn't it!!! I might make some yeasty popcorn tonight.
I don't think nutritional yeast tastes like cheese, it's a unique flavor, but wow it is incredible on popcorn, particularly with chili powder, and also on grits, with cheese and butter.
Came here to say exactly this, people sleep on popcorn as a low calorie fiber source.
I buy it pre-popped by the bag at Aldi, since it’s pretty cheap and for healthy snacks I need to prioritize convenience to make sure I actually eat them.
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.
I absolutely love nuts, but plenty of them are very dense in energy. Not to discourage from nuts because they are healthy though in moderation and I could easily empty any size bag of pistachios without thinking about it.
Hell yeah brother
I need to gain weight and was recommended to eat nuts. The only problem is that I'm deathly allergic to tree nuts and even peanuts can be cross contaminated. The closest I've been willing to go is peanut butter.
almonds with plain yogurt.
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.
I should get some frozen mango, that sounds good! Doesn't it get very sticky?
I usually buy them pre-sliced in cubes, which is what makes it so convenient as a snack. You can just pop one in your mouth while they're still frozen, just be careful with brain freeze :)
Alternatively you put them in a small bowl and eat them with a fork after they've thawed.
After thawing is better.
Raw Carrots, absolutely an S+ tier healthy food
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!
Sometimes I just go to town on an entire container of cherry tomatoes
I take the cherry tomatoes and cut them in half, then add a dressing of balsamic vinegar, powered soup base, chicken flavored, olive oil and basil. The leftover taste even better the day after.
ah, you see I'm weirdly picky about tomatoes where I'll basically eat them whole or as salsa but nowhere in between.
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.
A tasty vinegar, evoo and seasonings is a good dressing with healthy fat. ACV with the mother can help digestion and gut flora, and maybe BP. A nice balsamic vinegar can double as marinade. Fruit infused vinegars are tasty.
What's evoo, ACV and BP?
Extra virgin olive oil, apple cider vinegar, blood pressure.
A long time ago, someone on the internet gave me a link that's been immensely helpful to me over the years! Maybe you will also find it helpful: https://acronymfinder.com/
I feel like that someone might have contributed to your excessive use of acronyms.
They definitely contributed to me not being too lazy to look things up. I'm certainly glad acronyms aren't prevelant everywhere, all the time.
And yet you obnoxiously abbreviated "blood pressure" as "BP".
It's common parlance, as is RPG, FPS. IRC, GG, TYVM, IRS. CIA. Go touch grass, your problem seems to be you.
Eta: https://feddit.org/comment/10998176
Love these but they've gotten crazy expensive :(
Fruit. Nobody has ever gotten fat from eating too much fruit.
Challenge accepted.
Enjoy your new relationship with the toilet!
My porcelain pal and me!
May I introduce you to avocados?
You can even vary it up and add an occasional mango or coconut.
Many fruit contain a lot of sugar and not all of them have such a strong laxative effect as apples. It's harder to overeat on them than with cheese or bags of chips and they certainly contain a lot of healthy stuff like vitamins and fiber that many people are a bit short on, but it doesn't take that much additional sugar in your diet to become overweight. It's especially dangerous when you start processing them, e.g. smoothies or juices.
Fruit is the healthiest snack you can eat. The sugar thing is bullshit unless you eat a pound of grapes every day.
Yeah. Fruits have sugars but they come "packaged" differently and impact our bodies differently
OP is asking about snacks. Eating a banana or pear or whatever as a snack will not cause the issues you warn against. Fruit is filling and contains moisture in addition to fiber. Should a person eat nothing but fruit? No. But for snacking? Hell yes.
My point is that it's absolutely possible to get fat from fruit, in contrast to the comment I replied to. If you pig out on calorie-dense fruit like bananas or cherries every day, you will absolutely get fat. So, OP should be mindful about which fruit he chooses for his snacks and control his portions.
Cherries? I had no idea.
Avocados can sneak up on you in the calories department!
Not if you only have 1.
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Edamame is great.
Just note that despite looking similar to peas, the pods are inedible.
That's true of many peas as well!
Roasted chickpeas
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.
These used to be one of my favorites, they really shot up in price
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.
This sounds good!
Bags of baby carrots are nice.
Also those cans of fruit with no sugar added. I call those adult fruit cups.
Grapes, apples, nuts
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.
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
Pistachios and sunflower seeds with shells.
For the good and bad you get faster over time snapping them open with your teeth and separating the shell and the kernel in an optimized motion.
They're great, but only healty if you eat just a few, there's a lot of fat in them.
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.
Don't buy Aldi's.
Why not?
I'll put it this way: Aldi brands are hit or miss. This one was a miss. Also their coffee. Teas aren't great, but not undrinkable.
I agree with you, but I don't know if Aldi brands are the same in every country. I'm in Australia and I also find their tea lame and coffe horrendous, but I understand Aldis are not the same everywhere
Apparently Aldi USA is Aldi Sur, but even if Oz is the same, suppliers may not be.
More to my point then?
Yes, I was acknowledging your point I hadn't prior considered.
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
Portobellos are my favorite mushrooms. I never thought of combining them with hummus. I'll keep in mind
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.
Seconding Crispbread, but also think about Zwieback - it's at least twice as crunchy and delicious, it's right in the name!
For real though, Zwieback and tea ist ein perfekter Snack für Zwischendurch.
Good beef jerky/biltong. Not the usual 7-11 stuff. Make it yourself ori have a few good brands if you want recommendations.
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.
That's a pretty calorie dense snack, though. After a couple of bites you're basically having a meal.
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.
Full fat Greek yogurt is also healthy.
And delicious!
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)
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.
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
Cheese and cold cuts (maybe besides chicken/turkey cuts, but especially anything salami or sausage related) I would argue are not healthy. Better than the worst of the worst like ice cream, desserts, and candy, but it is just saturated fan + saturated fat + a small amount of protein, zero fiber, and not many vitamins or minerals.
Very tasty, and fine to snack on in small amounts, but literally any edible plant, nut, fruit, yogurt, legume, or even things like granola or protein bars have much more nutritional content.
Thin slice apples, dust with cinnamon, throw into the microwave. It's basically healthy pie filling.
You can cut up and dust with cinnamon, throw in fridge, and those are still good later in the day.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hell yeah brother
I love watermelon and I love cheese, but the thought of putting them together has never occurred to me.
Not sure about the watermelon, but feta is a Greek cheese, and they use mint too so you might be right.
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.
Banana with brown almond butter (that one that is 100% almonds).
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.
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.
Iceberg lettuce is nice. Its just crunchy water, tastes almost like nothing and is relativly cheap
Strawberries, blueberries, red grapes, trail mix (but a quarter cup of Omega Mix packs a boatload of calories), yogurt, tangerines, oranges.
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.
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
Medjool date and a coffee. Perfect dessert.
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
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.
Cucumber dipped in tzaziki with sriracha
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!
Omg, that sounds delicious.
Onigiri! And I live in Europe. That shit is really good.
It's very easy to make with a mold, and you can add any fillings you like
if you're even lazier like me, you can get the snack seaweed packs and eat it deconstructed.
just cooked rice with an optional splash of rice vinegar and a simple tuna salad. use the seaweed to grab a pinch of both.
another great filling is some Chinese sausages, sliced and pan fried
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.
Just handy slices of raw vegetables like carrots tomatoes or pepper with a bit of spice.
fruit. any kind
Bumps on a log (celery sticks with peanutbutter and raisins)
Deep-fried macaroni pie. It's a Scottish delicacy.
Mmm, carbilicious action.
Where's the "healthy" part? Lmao, excuse me while i go make an ungodly amount of these.
Ah, yes, well. The healthy bit comes straight after 'un'. It's possible I didn't read the question correctly.
You have the rare honour of being the first comment I've both downvoted and saved.
(Downvoted simply because it's the opposite kind of answer to what OP is looking for, if it actually bugs you let me know and I'll remove, nbd).
I can take the downvotes when I deserve them, so I've upvoted you for using the downvote correctly!
I don't know what a hot water pastry crust is or a morning roll. Where I live we eat Southern biscuits for breakfast.
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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.
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
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.
Yoghurt ranks high for me.
"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.
How do I find an balance for me?
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
A Fuji or honey crisp apple. Juicy, sweet, tasty, filling, a bit messy. The perfect snack.
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.
Cottage cheese
Are peanuts considered healthy?
In moderation yes.
Almonds, roasted veggies, celery with peanut butter, fruit.
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.
Bananas.
Nuts
East my ass!