Share you snack ideas - for very active people

[Claybury]

I need inspiration for healthy snacks, low sugar, high protein.
I train 6 days a week, need to eat plentifully and healthily, trying to reduce sugar.
I found some fresh ricotta in the deli today and and was recommended to have it on toast with cinnamon.
Any other ideas ?

Oooh wod never think of ricotta and cinammon!

Very unoriginal bug I snack on tinned sardines and tuna, slices meats from the deli wrapped up with onion chutney. Need to stop my sweet habit though!

Snacks that I regularly have:

Smoked salmon or smoked mackerel (or mackerel pate) on brown toast.

Peanut butter on toast.

Avocado mashed up with lemon juice and pepper on toast.

Carrot/pepper/cucumber sticks with houmous.

I often eat chicken breast as a snack, also any tinned fish straight out of the tin. Hard boiled eggs. Nuts.

tuna mashed into avocado is lovely but maybe an acquired taste

is it all sugar you are cutting down on? I think the banana is very hard to beat as a snack, is literally the only thing (apart from disgusting gels) I can eat and then run straight away

nut butters on rice cakes, those sesame seed ones are especially delicious

I'm not sure you do need to snack. Just eat three good meals at the usual times of day. I think it's a bit of a myth that you need to snack 'little and often'.

there's so much anti-snacking stuff on MN sometimes

it's really unhelpful when people are simply trying to get enough calories in to sustain their activities and reach/maintain a healthy weight

Ricotta on a toasted bagel topped with strawberries is yum I had that today for breakfast.
Ryvita and peanut butter or nutella with sliced banana.

Sorry I'm lacking in ideas I came on to get some inspiration

I definitely need to snack two or three times a day snack some days, and as a minimum I snack between lunch at 12.30 ish and dinner at 7.30 ish. I would faint if I didnt!

Diet consist of roughly:

7.30am - porridge and fruit
10.30 (after gym) sometimes have a small snack - banana, apple woth peanut butter or some small protein-ey thing
12 ish - protein (usually eggs with fish, or sometimes chicken) with a big salad
3/4-ish yogurt w/ seeds & berries or peanut butter/avocado on toast or houmous and veg crudites
7/8 - dinner - protein of some sort, lots of veg, small portion of complex carbs

If I took out these snacks I wouldnt have the energy to train 5 times a week!

Mitchy...I only say that as that's what I do, train six days a week, often in the mornings and evening.

I usually have 3 shredded wheat and bannana for brekkie, sarnie/wrap a packet of chrisps and a few apples for lunch then a large, hopefully healthy, dinner (after doing any exercise!). I know if I snaked in between I'd be eating too much so only eating at mealtimes helps me control the amount I eat. Horses for courses I suppose but I don't think either way is better than the other.

I think it's probably very personal isn't it, I could add all the calories from my snacks to my meals but I'd feel too full - even stuff that is calorie dense without taking up too much space (like almond butter) just makes you feel really full I think.

Didn't mean to snap at you, is one of those cumulative things where I keep seeing advice not to snack between meals because it's a Pathway To Obesity and taking it personally when it's nothing to do with me

haha, no worries Mitchy! And yeh, I like feeling really full after a meal!