What's your go to healthy snack when ravenous ?!

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Other than the obvious drink a pint of water
I find it so hard not to just binge on sugar mid afternoon

A teaspoon of peanutbutter usually takes away the feeling of me wanting to stuff my face! Or I like a tablespoon of quark with raspberries. If I have chocolate in the house I grate a wee bit over it to make it more pudding like. It's the little things!

Banana. Filling and natural, good afternoon sugar and potassium boost.

Juicy orange straight from the fridge or carrot sticks dipped in fat free Greek yoghurt with some curry powder and a drop of honey mixed in. Delicious!

Greek yoghurt

I usually make ds up a little snack plate of some kind for when he gets home from school about 4pm, some crackers and cheese, fruit and a couple of biscuits and we share it!
It’s just a part of a balanced diet, I don’t cut anything out but letting myself have some chocolate biscuits means I don’t end up eating fruit and boiled eggs and rice cakes in an attempt to satisfy a craving and yet still rifling through the chocolates in the cupboard which is what usually happens when I don’t bother with his snack plate 😂

A cappuccino/latte coffee made with my espresso machine about 200ml of steamed full fat milk. I wouldn't say it's "healthy" due to the caffeine but it's also not really sugary other than the natural lactose in milk.

Also I think if you manage to abstain from snacks between meals for a few days, the cravings start to go away.

If I've eaten a meal recently and I'm ravenous, it's more a craving than actual hunger. If it's getting closer to my next meal and I'm ravenous, I can put up with that feeling for an hour or so and just wait.

30g mixed nuts

Homemade fruit smoothies. Very filling 😋

Can't beat a milk chocolate digestive.

Ok, maybe not totally "healthy" but as long as you just have one it's 83cals and really cheers up the afternoon when had with a hot cup of tea. Back to the desk and good to go til dinner time. 😊

Crisp bread with tuna mayonnaise. Works well for me to cut that craving

It's one of my faves @DrunkenElephant

Better in warmer weather but, jellies (individual, you can make your own). Rich tea light biscuits.

I also find rye Ryvita with eg marmite and spread and cheese slices (2 separate ones) help.

No sugar squash in water.

Sorry to rain on anyone’s parade but the smoothies and nuts are packed full of calories!

I can’t talk though on way to work for snack for later picked up nature valley protein peanut and chocolate bars.

on the Michael Mosley programme the other day he had satsuma slices half dipped in dark chocolate and a healthy looking cookie but no recipes unless you presumably go to his one of his conferences.

This. In other words: protein, which is filling, nutritious and provides fuel.

Though sometimes a piece of fruit or a carrot is all that's needed to stop cravings.

The key is to wean yourself off UPF, sugar and refined carbs.

The Sugar Solution, Ultraprocessed People and YouTube talks by Dr Becky Gillaspy and the Glucose Goddess are useful.

When I was losing weight, it was diet fizzy drinks. Fills up the belly with bubbles.

Now that I'm at a healthy weight, we've given up all fizzy drinks (more for cost, but also health), so I'll usually grab a handful of nuts or a banana.

Thanks everyone
To clarify I'm not always ravenous and don't snack every day maybe should have been more clearer in my op. Wanted suggestions for the occasions I am.
For breakfast usually have bran flakes with raspberries or porridge with grated apple and cinnamon. Don't have bags of time 2 young kids and out the door before 8am.
Trying to lose my last half a stone til ideal weight so trying to choose healthy options

I dont often get ravenous, since I started volume eating plants. I definitely did prior to that! 😁 But sometimes if its cold outside or pmt strikes I feel so hungry that I want to chew a wall. I make porridge with water and add a chopped banana. Proper filling comfort food.

I will have a piece of fruit or a handful of grapes with a cup of tea. If I'm particularly hungry I'll have a banana sliced into some 0% fat greek yoghurt. Sometimes I'll have a packet of Aldi lentil curls or Tesco sweet and salty popcorn.

Loving all these virtuous people who never snack!!

My body is like a clock so it learns very quickly to expect things at certain times. I do find if I force myself to wait for lunch until 1 and not snack for a few days it stops expecting these things.

Otherwise I try to do coffee before 12 and herbal tea afterwards

I build in an afternoon snack to fend of pre-dinner grab-and-binge.

My day when losing about 1lb a week:

Breakfast: grains / oat bran / all bran / some linseed stuff / 1spoon f/fat Greek yog and froz blueberries (maybe apple and or banana)

Lunch: 1 slice of wholemeal toast with soup or egg or tinned mackerel or sardines or cottage cheese or avocado, plus salad (including pulses if the soup or toast topping was protein light)

Snack: e.g 2 oatcake biscuits with cottage cheese and some carrot batons, cherry toms or cucumber / satsuma plus 30g cheese / small mug of s-skim milk with cocoa powder (no sugar) and an apple

Dinner: normal meal but be realistic about portion size. bigger portions of veg, smaller portions of carbs, avoid deep fried. Couple of squares of dark choc.

Luckily I love v dark choc , and cottage cheese. (Longley Farm, but it is expensive compared to Lidl deluxe version)

Miso soup. Instant satchets you can buy and just dissolve in hot water.

Ha I do this.

It works for me very well.

Sorry to rain on anyone’s parade but the smoothies and nuts are packed full of calories!

The OP said healthy, not low-calorie. Even if you are trying to lose weight, going for very low-calorie foods is not always the best solution. They are often also low in nutrients and don't fill you up, leading to more snacking.

Don't let yourself get ravenous? Hydrate throughout the day. Have filling meals with plenty of protein and wholegrains. Plan small healthy snacks ahead of time, it's easier to make good decisions in advance!

Apple with some cheese.

I remember Fern Brittain saying on This Morning yonks ago that you should always have some protein when having a snack.