Healthy Snack Ideas
Healthy snacks are really important; they help you balance your blood sugar and support your metabolism between meals.
If you are the type of person who gets very hungry between breakfast and lunch and/or lunch and dinner, and then sabotages your otherwise good diet with coffee and sweets, you should really check out these healthy snack ideas and recipes.
Though they are not the most exciting of the healthy snack ideas, raw vegetables do make a great snack.
Asparagus, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, celery, cucumbers, fennel, green beans,
red, green, and yellow peppers, radishes, snap peas, and zucchini are all vegetables that can be eaten raw as snacks. If you are trying to
lose weight, it is probably best to eat your veggies plain, but you could also use a healthy dip.
Other Healthy Snack Foods:
- Wheat-free rice crackers or homemade flax crackers or sweet potato chips with nut butter or raw cheese
- A healthy smoothie
- Fresh fruit and some raw cheese or a handful of nuts/seeds
(crispy nuts and seeds are good- see the directions here).
- 1/4 cup of gluten-free grains such as rice or quinoa or 1/2 baked sweet potato or baked squash
with a small serving of sliced organic deli meats or leftover protein dish or beans
- Warm water or chicken broth mixed with 1 Tb. organic coconut oil or
2 Tb. coconut milk
- Fresh vegetable juice- include a variety of vegetable and lots of greens in particular
(do not juice a lot of carrots as the natural sugar content of carrots is very high and this may raise some people's
blood sugar too much)
- Slices of organic deli meat such as roast beef or ham or
leftover chicken or turkey or some wild salmon or sardines mixed with homemade pesto and/or with any vegetable such as celery, cucumber or avocado
rolled up in lettuce leaves or atop a rice cake
- Kombucha and some raw nuts, cheese, or slices of sausage made without additives or preservatives
- Some tuna or salmon or sardines with chopped onion, celery, red or green pepper and natural mayo
(I recommend the vegan "Vegenaise" that is made with grapeseed oil or a mayonnaise made with olive oil)
in a cored and seeded tomato or 1/2 red pepper or 1/2 avocado
- Vegan raw food energy bar that is based on coconut
and/or fruit and nuts like a "Lara" bar
- A small bowl of beans/lentils over rice, quinoa, or millet
topped with a serving of cultured vegetables.
- A bowl of miso soup with veggies and seaweed
- Raw milk plain or warmed with raw honey or plain yogurt with a handful of almonds or walnuts
- Gluten-free rice, corn or spelt tortilla with raw cheese and lacto-fermented veggies
- Olives and/raw cheese with fruit
- Yogurt or kefir with berries or banana
- Hard boiled eggs or homemade devilled eggs
- Wholesome leftovers from any meal
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