Tuesday, August 09, 2011

Healthy Snacks

Fruits and vegetables are good choices for healthy snacks. They are full of vitamins and low in calories and fat. Some crackers and cheeses also make good snacks.
Some examples of healthy snacks are:
  • Apples (dried or cut into wedges)
  • Bananas
  • Raisins
  • Fruit leather (dried fruit puree)
  • Carrots (regular carrots cut into strips, or baby carrots )
  • Snap peas (the pods are edible)
  • Nuts (but not too many)
  • Dry cereal (if sugar is not listed as one of the first 2 ingredients)
  • Pretzels
  • String cheese
  • 1/3 cup of grape nuts with 4 ounces of nonfat plain vanilla yogurt
  • 8 ounce low-fat or nonfat yogurt
  • Toasted English muffin with jelly
  • Dozen baked potato chips
  • Air popped popcorn
  • 1/2 cup cherry or grape tomatoes
  • 1/4 cup hummus, 3 carrot sticks
  • 1/2 cup pumpkin seeds in shell

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