By now in your health and fitness journey, I’m sure you’ve found that eating whole food is the key to feeling better.
If you’re looking for an easy place to start, I’ve got you: healthy snacks.
What are healthy snacks?
Healthy snacks are a small portion of food consumed between your everyday regular meals.
They include a high amount of vitamins, are low in saturated fat, low in added sugars, and have a low-sodium content.
Ideally, these healthy snacks follow the whole-food plant-based diet.
Healthy snacking is essential for those in the midst of a busy day and are looking for an energy boost.
Tips for healthy snacking
Find healthier substitutes for high-fat snacks
If your favorite snack is potato chips and dip, try baby carrots and hummus – or better yet try out a new recipe and make your own chips at home (fun solo or date night idea).
Make snacks interesting
If the idea of a plain piece of fruit doesn’t appeal to you, try a smoothie bowl with fun toppings like nuts, seeds, coconut flakes, chocolate drizzle (cacao powder, plant-based milk, pure maple syrup), sea salt.
Be prepared
Have snacks ready for when you get hungry; make sure to pack a lunchbox and keep healthy snacks with you at work, school, in your car, and at home.
If you have a healthy snack in-sight and on-hand, you’re more likely to steer away from the fatty foods and reach for the healthier alternative.
Remember that the key to long-term results is choosing the healthy alternative time and time again, consistently overtime.
Healthy snacks examples
- Fresh fruit bowl
- Apples and peanut butter
- Oatmeal with pure maple syrup, cacao powder and fruit
- Nuts and raisins trail mix
- Baby carrots with hummus
- Cucumber slices with homemade bean dip
- Granola cereal topped with fresh bananas
- Low-fat, low-sodium popcorn
- Whole-grain crackers with avocado (+ hot sauce)
- Sliced tomato with black pepper
- Edamame with sea salt
- Fruit smoothie with chia seeds (+ flax seeds)
Healthy snacking combos are endless!
Read your labels
As always, remember to check your labels. A jar of peanut butter can have 5 weird ingredients for example, or just 1-2 normal ones (peanuts, maybe salt).
You may have to look at a few brands before choosing the best, however those small switches make all the difference.
Take that extra 30 seconds to be sure of what you’re buying because that’s what you’re ultimately fueling yourself with. Health starts at the grocery store.
Wrapping Up
A great first step to better health is to think about what you normally like to snack on and how can you make it healthier. If you have any questions or need more ideas / feedback, just comment below or message me, I got you!
Enjoy the moment, enjoy the food, one snack at a time 🙂
