I need a fillling snack about 3 pm

[dailyduel]

Do you have any ideas?

I have breakfast at 7. Usually always eggs.

Lunch at work is at 12 noon. I’ll have something like a whole meal wrap with cream cheese, roast chicken or may be ham, some veg sticks and a protein yoghurt or kvarg/quark.

By 3 pm I’m getting hungry.

I don’t eat big portions, preferring to eat little and often.

At work, I can’t eat anything smelly and I can’t head off to the kitchen and make something in the microwave or toaster at 3 pm.

I did find grenade protein bars very filling but to be frank they are full of shit and expensive.

Ok, have you had that snack yet?

Perhaps you should talk to your body builder mum about protein and how much you actually need to build and maintain muscle. Because there is no way she was eat 40g a day. You could triple it and some

@Gymmum82

She was bodybuilding, of course she had a high protein intake.

I'm not a bodybuilder trying to gain muscle or lose weight or change my body, so I'm just enjoying a healthy, balanced and nutritious diet. It's a healthier attitude towards food

i like a seeded cracker with peanut butter and sliced avocado. Or peanut butter on a celery stick with a few raisins (aka ants on a log).

I often eat a babybell and orange as my snack.

Heat some soup at lunchtime, pour into a thermal mug?

The food you describe does not have much fruit/veg so I would suggest either fruit or veg sticks and hummus dip.

I have an apple, a homemade power ball and a Babybel or a protein yogurt most afternoons. Perhaps if you added some cheese to the lunch, you could move the yogurt to later on?

I'd have a drink or miso soup or natural kefir.

Oh I love celery and peanut butter with sirachi sauce. I'd forgotten about that and not had it for ages!

With the chilli sauce sounds nice @justtidying! I'll try that

The Barebells protein bars are pricey but delicious and I think not quite so full of additives. 20g protein, 200 calories. I absolutely love the peanut chocolate one.

Glass of milk and a banana would be my other suggestion - 230 calories (330ml milk) 12.8g protein.

Or All Bran, yogurt and a chopped up pear - I have that for breakfast at work. 350 calories, 16.3g fibre, 11g protein - though if you had it with a different yogurt like Skyr you could have more protein.

Or make yourself some energy balls. these were about 150 calories when I put them into Nutracheck. Quite satisfying and tasty, and making it yourself you know what's in there, and they only take 10 minutes to make, 30 minutes in the fridge, then they keep for a week in the fridge or you can freeze them. It's only 6g protein per ball but I found them satisfying anyway. "Fills a little hole" as my mum would say. And depending on how much you are eating you could have two and that would be a fair amount of protein.

https://www.thehealthymaven.com/no-bake-oatmeal-protein-energy-balls/

Indeed. 1.2 g a day x kg bodyweight is the usual recommended amount, then people doing a lot of training may need more.

I have 80-100g a day (weight 78kgs), mostly from fish, dairy and chicken. Managed to have 100g the other day on a low calorie day even - 1,100 calories.

Too much protein is bad for you though and people should also focus on fibre. Most days I have 30g.

Of fibre I mean, not protein.

My preferred afternoon snack is a small apple or half a large apple, and a chunk of cheddar cheese. Keeps me fairly full until dinner.

@shearwater2

I think if that's the amount of protein that works for you, that's fine.

What I minded was complete strangers on the internet suddenly telling me what I 'should' and 'should not' be doing.

My BMI is 18 - has been for a long time as it suits my marathon running (I don't actually need to train these days as I can, and do, just turn up to full marathons and run without any stress - muscle memory I guess), and I have no interest in losing weight or gaining muscle.

I don't know how much protein I have in a day as I don't monitor it closely, but it's definitely not as much as others here are having. For me, I really don't seem to need to and that's my body.

I'm happy and healthy and have no weight issues, so I'm noy going to suddenly start stuffing myself with protein

My mother was a body builder and would have protein shakes, bland boring chicken breast etc and it manifested into a mild eating disorder, so I have a pretty negative view of monitoring food /protein intake etc too closely

I'd rather just eat a crossoint

Cup a soup
Banana
Baby bells
Protein bar
Satsumas

How about corn cakes (like rice cakes, but thinner, and taste nicer, imo!) with peanut butter? Anything crunchy which takes longer to eat makes me feel fuller, somehow!

Roasted chickpeas with garlic and chilli? I batch cook these as an alternative to crisps and decant into little tubs as a snack.

Yes, I get that. I hate random people telling me what to do also when what I do is working. Loads of people have told me (unasked) that 80g protein is not enough. But this thread isn't about telling you what to do, it's about giving the OP advice on a filling snack she can have at work.

I watch macros mainly as I'm watching calories and try to eat energy dense and nutritious food so that I don't overeat. If you can maintain a BMI of 18 without bothering too much about what you eat then great. My diet is anything but bland and boring.

Personally when I don't bother about what or how much I eat my BMI can creep up to the 30s, particularly if I "just have a croissant" and other things like that and I don't want type two diabetes which my mum has.

Lots of other people are the same and that's why they come to this Weight loss chat section of Mumsnet because they are interested in maintaining/gaining muscle mass or just plain old losing weight. If you are happy and healthy and don't need to lose weight then this probably isn't the area of Mumsnet for you.

@shearwater2

Yeah I totally get that some people need to watch their macro's or the pounds creep up. 😊 I didn't mean to find myself in the weight loss section (even said so earlier above ) - it just came up on active - thought it was the recipes section. Someone suggested potato salad which is also one of my 'stop hunger' foods so I joined in saying 'great idea' and it spiraled from there 😅

I gave my toddler pieces of pair with a bit of peanut butter on them the other day and it was so delicious I vowed to snack on it myself in future!

I like the sound of these! Could I sub the cinnamon with something else? I'm not particularly keen......

Nuts or cheese and maybe try and add a bit more protein to your lunch.

Jason Vale’s protein/energy balls, you could make them once a week.

My “holding snack” is an apple chopped up with a spoon of peanut butter, a light babybel and a raw carrot.