Snacks

[Maydup]

Other than fruit and veg, what low cal snacks can people recommend?

I eat fruit mid-morning and rarely crave a snack in the afternoon, but after my evening meal I have a yoghurt and am sometimes looking around for a snack mid evening.

What works for you when this happens?

[Nini74]

cereal is always a good one - fills you up and no guilt, provided its a healthy cereal of course! sugar free jelly is one of my favourites - in fact i usually add a yoghurt and maybe some dried fruit, and make myself a little trifle out of it! xxx

[237SJ]

Ryvita thins (or anything else - carrot, celery) dipped into half fat hoummos

[Maydup]

Good ideas there, many thanks keep them coming!

[vodkancoke]

At night I often half a small cantaloupe melon, de-seed it, add raspberries, blueberries, low fat yoghurt and either some natural almonds or mixed seeds on top. It sorts out a sweet craving and is very filling.

I also cut a flour tortilla into triangles. Sprinkle with paprika and chilli powder and bake or grill until crisp. I either have it with home-made salsa or hoummos.

Frozen chocolate covered bananas. Melt some dark choc, skewer the bananas with wooden skewers, dip into the chocolate, sprinkle with either some toasted coconut or chopped nuts.Place on a baking sheet and freeze.

[MrIncredible]

Have you tried Houmous?
I take a pot to work with raw carrots and celery and a pot of houmous, great to snack on (not sure of the calorie content but its got to be Better than chocolate or crisps and you can get low fat houmous)
Asda do a fantasic range of different flavoured houmous
roasted garlic
sweet chilli
Jalepeno (hot)
Morrocon style (my fave)

[MrIncredible]

http://groceries.asda...=v1&_requestid=125939

[arwyn]

I'm off to vodcaandcokes house yummy.

[vodkancoke]

lol you are more than welcome! :)

[tiggerblue10]

I usually have Shape Chocolate Delights stacked up in my fridge but I've now switched to small pots of greek yogurt with honey.

[DTCwordfan]

vodka, you have just been coopted to the First Church of Answer Bank for your banana suggestion....we Elders are most impressed.

[vodkancoke]

Oooh thanks muchly.....I don't know what that is, but thanks all the same! lol ;)

[Old_Geezer]

Fruit has been banned as an answer has it :-( Oh well, apart from that I tend to keep some of the "Go Ahead" snacks in my desk in case I can't resist having something late afternoon. A bag of the baked "crisps" come in at just around 100 kc. Sunbites about 120 kc. Just don't have all options on the same afternoon.

[DTCwordfan]

Great silliness, vodka,

http://www.theanswerb.../Question1066858.html

[Maydup]

Thanks again everyone.

I do eat quite a bit of hummous (low fat option) for lunch with crispbread or for dinner with a jacket potato and salad. Mid evening I tend to look for something sweet or neutral tasting and head for rice cakes or the odd low cal snack bar. I'll check out the Go Ahead range (thanks OG) and replenish the stock of Ryvitas.

[Jan1957]

I keep boiled eggs in the fridge for a snack or low fat cheese triangles with crispbread and cherry tomatoes.

[Maydup]

Low fat cheese spread, that's an idea. Looking for things to scrape over my crispbreads or rice cakes. Thanks Jan

[Maydup]

And Jan - do you ever get a sweet tooth? How do you over come it?

Mine isn't too bad but every now and then it catches me out.

[Jan1957]

Sorry Maidup, popped offline for a while. I don't really have a sweet tooth but if I do have a craving I find that fruit really helps me. Now savoury, that's another story! I just don't buy anything that would tempt me so it's never around to lead me astray.

[TheOtherHalf]

I sometimes have 3 M & S Cheese & Onion pastry rolls with a huge salad for a meal. They are like mini sausage rolls except they are cheese and onion of course. They are really tasty and being a veggi, I love them. They are only about £1.50 for 6 and each one is only 4 syns on SW. So if me and OH have 3 each, thats only 12 of my syns I have used of which we are allowed 15 per day. You could probably have them as an evening snack. Not sure how many calories they are. havnt got any in freezer at the mo to check

[Im a BusyBee]

Alpen light Bars, 2 finger kitkat or curly wurly. Add a choc options sachet + diet sweetner to quark to make a choc cheescake kinda thing - delicious with some strawberrys or other fruit (can be used as a dip). I make a sweet omlette whisk up 2 eggs with some sweetner and vanilla essence and fry using fry lite to make an omlette put on a plate and then add some frozen mixed berries (defrosted) fold in half and pour over fat free fromage frais and that is very yummy.