10 Tasty Treats That Will Fit In With any Diet or Health Plan

Ten Tasty Treats That Will Fit in With Any Diet or Health Plan

Most diet articles, magazines, or health experts recommend avoiding eating between meals, or snacking. The word snacking implies eating when you don’t really need to. For instance, times when you are not actually hungry or have just eaten a complete meal. Registered Dieticians and health fanatics say to eat cucumber slices or raw carrot sticks in between meals if you have the munchies. While this suggestion is tried and true, why not spice it up? Tweak it a bit! Here are ten tasty treats to try that will not put you over your calorie limit while keeping you so satiated you’ll forget it’s a healthy alternative!

1.Do Eat Those Carrots Sticks, just add some flavor! It may get mundane but do keep that orange in your diet! Carrots contain beta carotene in the form of Vitamin A, which is proven to provide benefits to your skin! Carrots or other orange vegetables such as sweet potatoes or green leafy vegetables keep your skin moist and works to prevent wrinkles, sun spots, and even skin cancer. To make carrots tastier without using fattening dressings or dips, try salsa! Most tomato or vegetable based salsas (such as Tostitos or home-made) only have 10 calories per serving!

2. Got a sweet tooth and want a fruity treat? Try a banana rolled in 1tbsp of frozen semisweet chocolate chips. This has only 123 calories and has chocolate! You can’t go wrong with that!

3. Try Chobani or Fage Greek Total Yogurt. Greek Yogurt has significantly less calories and sugar than regular and every flavor contains up to 10 grams more protein! The plain Chobani yogurt has only 100 calories, 18 grams of protein, and only 7 grams of sugar. Add some fresh fruit to the plain yogurt for flavor!

4. Craving something salty? Try olives. One serving has only 45 calories and healthy fats.

5. Dry cheerios! Cheerios and most sugarless cereals are secretly low in calories. 42 plain cheerios has only 10 calories! Yes, 10 for 42! So feel free to go to town!

6. Another 10-calorie snack that actually allows for a significant serving is a container of tropical berry for strawberry-kiwi sugar-free Jello-O.

7. They say an apple a day keeps the doctor away and it will also keep the munchies away. Apples are low in calories, fat, and sodium and are high in fiber. Fiber expands in your stomach to keep you full for longer. Try eating an apple before meals so that you won’t overdo it. Five grams of fiber (or 3 apples) is enough to keep you full for hours.

8. If all your roommates are having ice cream and you don’t want to be left out because of your diet try Stonybrook Farm Frozen Yogurt. A ½ cup has 140 calories and only 2.5 grams of fat. It’s creamier than regular ice cream and comes in so many delicious flavors such as chocolate mint, cookie dough, and vanilla bean, that you’ll forget it’s actually an ice cream alternative!

9. Remember string-cheese in your brown bag lunch in elementary school? Well re-introduce it by trying part-skim string cheese. It’s only 80 calories per stick!

10. Seeking something crunchy? Make a home-made “cape-cod” mix with unsweetened dried cranberries, a tbsp of vanilla chips, and cashews.

Enjoy!