Keep on Track with your Healthy Diet with these Ideas for Snacks

It can be very difficult to keep on track with your healthy diet and often the biggest blow-out is caused by the snacks we eat. Some snacks have as many calories as a full meal and the food is often high in salt, saturated fat and sugar. Before you know it, you are hungry again and reaching for another packet of chips.

I have put together a list of snacks which are filling, nutritious and healthy. Snacking on each of these options will improve your diet, rather than detract from it.

Snacks under 200 kCalories

• 28 grams mixed nuts
• Capsicum cut into strips with 85 grams guacamole
• 100 grams Greek yogurt with 1/2 cup berries
• 1 cup cucumber slices with 100 grams hummus
• 1 piece of fresh fruit
• Chia pudding – see my recipe for directions
• 2 boiled eggs
• 1 cup Edamame (steamed unripened soya beans)
• 25 mixed olives
• Miso soup
• 1 tomato, 28 gram feta cheese, drizzled with 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 egg on toast
• Homemade vegetable soup – see my recipe for directions

Snacks under 300 kCalories

• Apple slices and 1 tablespoon peanut butter
• 5 celery sticks and 60 gram cottage cheese
• 3 corn thins with 1/2 avocado
• 1 cup cherry tomatoes and 60 gram mozarella cheese
• 60 gram piece of cheese
• 100 gram ricotta cheese and sliced pear
• strawberries dipped in melted dark chocolate
• Banana, 1/4 cup Greek yogurt and 2 tablespoons nuts