To ask what healthy snacks are there for fruit/veggie haters?

[overweightcat]

Currently trying to loose weight and reviewing my diet.

My issue since childhood is my complete hate of all fruit and most vegetables (long story).
I will tolerate broccoli, cauliflower, peas, green beans, and most blended vegetable soups and I also try to make hidden vegetable sauces for my meals (for example I Blend spinach, peppers, carrot, fresh tomatoes, onion and so on to make bolognese with). I cannot stand any raw vegetables - I will happily prepare my DH a salad/smoothie or whatever but if I tried to eat it myself I have a gag reflex.
I'm fine with stuff like l

It's embarrassing I know.
I'm a big snacker and up until now would have a few biscuits through the day, maybe some crisps of chocolate but I want to substitute them with healthy options instead.

My question is what can I snack on between meals that's good for me?
I know there's nuts but there's only so many times a week I can have a handful of nuts as a snack before I'm bored to tears - I also know not to have too many due to the high fat content.
Lots of blogs I've read suggest raw veggie sticks with hummus and so on but I can't have that.

Would anyone have any advice for me?

Have you tried dried fruit ? It’s a different texture to fresh fruit. High sugar content so you’d have to limit them, also have you toasted the nuts - different texture etc. I’m making flapjacks with less butter and sugar and cutting them into small squares to keep the calories low(er) 😬

If you don’t mind prepping veg have you tried vegetable crisps ? If you make them at home you can limit the fat and salt content but if it’s taste rather than texture that won’t work. Sorry!

Thanks @Pollyanna58 it's a lot to do with texture especially raw e.g. I can happily have orange juice as long as it's smooth/has no bits. But it must be to do with taste too, we have a nutrition ninja blender, I tried making a smoothie to see if I could have it that way and I couldn't handle the taste of the raw fruit/veg.

Vegetable crisps sound ok I might try those.

smoothies are a waste of good food unless you don't have teeth. The veg you do eat are fine.

just eat a bit more at meals, no-one needs to be snacking.

Perhaps healthier versions of your snacks?
I've done low in fat choc muffins using blended courgette and yogurt to keep the moisture. (You can't taste the courgette or even see it if you've blended enough and it keeps them moist.)
Peanut butter which has no salt or sugar added can be used for cookies. You do have to be careful with portion sizes but plenty of recipes give calorie counts so you can keep track.
Yogurt could be a good snack choice - you could add a little honey instead of fruit?

Oatcakes aren't bad. Also Dairylea triangles/cottage cheese on a rivita. You could make a frittata and keep it in the fridge to have slices of occasionally. Hard boiled eggs are nice, and you can mix them with salad cream and have on a rivita. Hummus is also nice with rivitas or oatcakes. Sugar free jelly pots aren't too bad for you. Home made popcorn (buy a popcorn maker) is cheap and pretty decent health wise, as long as you don't slather it in stuff (you can add a pinch of salt or some other seasonings). Home-made ice lollies from sugar-free squash are hydrating and non-fattening. There's lots of stuff.

Boiled eggs and mini baby bells are my snacks of choice.

I love salt and vinegar rice snacks.

Don’t snack is probably the answer.

Salsa? Make it spicy and it’ll disguise the tomato and onion. I like FinnCrisp crackers - more crunchy than Ryvita - and they’re high in fibre so they fill you up. Mini rice crackers - Lidl do chilli ones which aren’t like eating polystyrene (my problem with the big ones).

Yoghurts can be a good shout too, if you choose them wisely. You can get a low fat natural yoghurt and add a touch of honey. Seafood sticks have protein but hardly any calories (watch the salt though). Frozen prawns and other seafood items are also like that. Some weirder ideas are tinned tuna/salmon and vinegar (really hoping you've not said that you're a vegetarian anywhere I've somehow missed); mushy peas and tomato ketchup and cooled baked potato, but they may not be to most people's tastes.

Protein balls with chocolate?

A milky drink?

Beef jerky or ham wrapped around gerkins?

Chicken satay with dipping sauce?

To be honest though I'd try and stop snacking. I found a lot of my snacking was due to boredom or habit rather than genuine hunger. I try and wait as long as I can before breakfast and then there isnt a big gap between breakfast and lunch so no snack needed and you can have lunch late and then dinner at normal time so less snacking needed. It might be the difference between losing weight and not

Erm. Why not just try not to have snacks in between meals at all?

Yoghurt, a slice of cheese or ham/salami, a small slice of toast. I love my fruit and veg but those are my go to non fruit and veg snacks. But as a pp said for losing weight efficiently it’s probably best to avoid the snacks - especially if the very low calorie fruit and veggie ones aren’t an option. If you are a ‘snacker’ then I would advise finding something fun to do that keeps your hands busy - even something like mindfulness colouring - you can’t snack too much when your hands are occupied.

I agree that snacking isn't needed.
If you must however, how about some bread sticks dipped in hummus? Not overly healthy but at least there's some nutrients involved.

Yoghurt (not one with shit loads of sugar)
Make a smoked mackerel pate using quark instead of cream cheese. Eat with oatcakes.
Popcorn (again, not sugary)

Popcorn, rye crisp bread or crackers with toppings, and if you like chickpeas try roasting them in the oven with olive oil and salt then you can add spices afterwards. High protein, cheaper and healthier than crisps.

As said, eggs, bits, of cheese. Also protein, so chicken, smal tin of tuna. Move away from carbs and sugar and you'll feel less hungry.

Try to get out of the habit of snacking and if you need to have an extra meal, even if it's a half tin of soup.

Popcorn!

Cheese
Eggs

Keep away from the carby snacks!!

Well, if you eliminate fruit and vegetables, and you're bored of nuts, that leaves only a few options :

• dairy (low fat plain yoghourt with honey.)
• dried meat (jerky and such)
• bread (not low cal though)
• cereal (oat bars, oat cakes. You can buy them or ideally make them yourself)
• like a pp suggested, make your own cakes/biscuit with low fat and sugar

If you're trying to lose weight, honestly snacking is a killer so I'd recommend cutting it out completely. It's a sneaky way more calories get in there so although you feel like you're eating healthy meals you're filling up on snacks.

If you really can't cut out the snacking, then breadsticks, high fibre / low sugar biscuits, perhaps vegetable crisps might be a good idea?

Hmm, I know you've said texture is an issue regarding fruit, so can I suggest freezing grapes and blueberries as snacks? Completely different texture, more like boiled sweets! Though I appreciate you don't like fruit so could be useless to you.
There's not much else I can think of that hasn't already been suggested. Honestly though, if you're trying to lose weight, cutting calories is a good idea so no snacks, but proper meals is going to help more with that. Even healthy snacks can add up to a lot of extra calories on top of meals, which won't help long term. Good luck!

I tried some sort of curried cauliflower snacks at a friend's house and they were absolutely delicious. I did ask briefly how she made them as I had grand plans to do it myself but never did. I'll ask her and find out but I think it was along the lines of literally breaking of florets of cauli, sprinkling on desired spices and baking. It really was so nice.

Make you are snacking for hunger reasons, not because you are thirsty. Try a glass of really cold water, keep a jug in the fridge, drunk slowly instead of a snack. No calories, gives your mouth something to do, helps keep your body hydrated and your digestion moving(in case that's an issue)

You might be ok with roast kale. Much tastier than it sounds!

Chop the leaves (get rid of the stalky bits), toss in a couple of tablespoons of oil plus salt. They go really crispy. I used to have a bowl of roast kale instead of crisps when I was trying to lose weight.