What’s your favourite healthy snack?

[EnamelledStars]

After reading (and getting very hungry) reading the unhealthy treat, I started thinking about getting a list of healthy options to eat.

I absolutely love green veggies steamed served with a knob of butter and chilli flakes or pine nuts (or both).

What’s your go-to?

Hard boiled eggs
Apple sauce
Cottage cheese
Lentil and veg soup
Apples

Bread sticks and herby cream cheese.
Raw veg.
Fruit and yoghurt (not great for sugar I know)

Peanut butter crops up all the time in food threads, especially sandwich or toast related. To the pp who just mentioned tinned sardines. I have just had mackerel and I usually have that or sardines twice a week. However, I've just realised I'm not keen on either, or any tinned apart from tuna. Started a few months ago as part of a healthy eating regime, which they are, but I feel I'm just eating them because I'm meant to and not really enjoying. So planning on saving the rest to eat if there's no other choice!

@LightACandleHoney

I was on purees for a month once, so I feel your frustration. Mine was across Christmas - mashed potato and turkey gravy three days running!

I had mashed banana for breakfast, jacket potato & cheese, soup (covent garden soups are nice) - pretty much the same every day except the soups varied. Wasn't getting enough calories so had to have compulsory chocolate mousse. When I had a baby a year or two later, I wished someone had given me an Annabel Karmel book earlier - lots of puree recipes.

My go to snacks are:
Fruit
Olives
Cheese & crackers
Peanut butter (I could quite happily eat the stuff with a spoon!!)
Nuts, especially pistachios as a snack
Yogurt

In absolutely love boiled eggs but if I go and just boil myself an egg DP thinks I’m a weirdo and it’s breakfast food only

Better than a bag of crisps surely ?!

Avocado with salt and chili flakes, either on its own or on crackers

Raw cauliflower and carrots

Nuts and seeds. Sunflower seeds especially.

Leftover cold chicken or pork, if there is any in the fridge.

Kiwi fruit - in season at the moment, I think.

When we went to Armenia last year we really enjoyed the sweetcorn boiled in great pans by the side of the road with just a sprinkle of salt. Now have mini ones in the freezer for quick snacks

Porridge - especially with cranberry or rhubarb compote

I made rhubarb and plum compote yesterday - that's amazing

Not sure if it has been said yet but on the last thread someone said don't snack I've just had my tea and I'm already hungry.

I don't get it. I think I eat fairly ok but the more healthy the meal, the hungrier I am. Following with interest.

Baby bell wrapped in lettuce with some spring onions
Or a stick of celery with the groove in the celery filled with a wee bit pâté

Dates topped with a spoon of peanut butter (sprinkle of cinnamon optional) frozen.

Right now - asparagus, as it's the season! And miraculously DS8 likes it too, so every time I go shopping I buy two big bundles.

Bowl of banana, plain yoghurt and walnuts. Heaven!!

Apple slices with a peanut butter dip.

Baked beans on wholemeal toast.

Tinned mackerel on toast.

Cheese cubes with celery and grapes.

Carrots and houmous.

Pea soup.

Slices of sharp green apples with almond butter and a sprinkle of cinnamon. Yum!

Lightly boiled shredded cabbage tossed in butter with lots of black pepper

A salad with about a million different ingredients sprinkled sparsely through, so I get really excited when I find each one because it is a surprise. LOL. "A PISTACHIO! I HAVEN'T HAD A PISTACHIO IN THE LAST SEVEN BITES!" It takes forever to make though.

Needs a good variety of colours and textures: crispy bits, juicy items, chewy morsels...

Chili oil all over it, obviously.

Prawns with lemon juice.

Some good ideas here - cheese cubes made me want cheese and pineapple! it’s funny though I’d def count things like beans on toast or a large salad as a meal, normally lunch, so wondering if some snackers skip meals?

Chorizo
Cheese
Hazelnut butter
Unsweetened desiccated coconut
Cocktail sausage
Pistachios
Pecans
Olives
Pickled garlic cloves

Some of these are not snacks!

Is there a healthy snack?
I try to stick to two meals a day without snacks leaving 16/17 hour period of not eating. I don’t snack unless I’m doing far more exercise such as a day’s hill walking. If I do snack, it’s in social settings such as drinks with friends, so I don’t worry too much about a handful of crisps.

The idea that anyone needs to have something in their mouths every hour or so is just ridiculous.

CherryPavlova

Just because you have a 2 meal eating habit, it doesn’t mean that’s how everyone else eats. And your requirements don’t account for others needs - when I’ve been working out hard I need a lot more (healthier) options to sustain me.

And even if people are snacking unnecessarily, isn’t it better to share healthy alternatives rather than reaching for the crisps or chocolate cornflake bites (me yesterday)?

Obviously, carrot is better than doughnuts but snacking generally isn’t a good habit.

If you’re working out hard, a few slithers of cauliflower aren’t going to be much use. A banana might be ideal. No single item of food is either healthy or unhealthy. It’s the whole diet that matters not the odd crispy cake.

Oh I love most fruits but top ones would be white fleshed nectarines or white guavas.

Oh Cherry We know what is and what isn’t good for us it’s a nice sharing sometimes eyebrow raising you really like that combination of food thread