The Healthy Snack Thread

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Recently I have been spending a lot of time in the kitchen, especially at night, which has resulted in far too many late night snacks! These have all been of the unhealthy sort like crisps, chocs, biscuits etc and I want to start snacking on tasty but healthy recipes rather.

I reckon snacking is probably one of the biggest causes of weight-gain so I am hoping you can share some of your ideas for a healthy snack that can replace crisps and biscuits!
 
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Carrot slices and homemade dip.

Pros: Versatile because the dip can change and stores well in the fridge. Also pretty cheap.
Cons: Requires preparation of a dip although you could make a bunch in advance like humus which is pretty healthy and tasty!
 
Veg pasta salad - just roast some veg with good balsamic, whole garlic, chilli and plenty black pepper. Boil pasta (could even use 2min noodles but ditch the MSG induced kark they give you). Combine with a little olive oil if necessary when ready!

Pros: versatile as you can change the theme to thai by adding oyster and soy sauce instead of balsamic and adding some grated ginger - or whatever theme you like. Stores well too in the fridge. Veg cna be bought pre-packed too and this is a pretty good healthy lunch as well.

Cons: Requires cooking and cleaning, the latter nobody enjoys. Cooking can be a pro if you enjoy it and are an insomniac like me.
 
You can also make crisps out of almost all veg. One of my favourites is tomato crisps. Thinly sliced, salt, cayenne pepper, 100 deg C oven and takes about 30-40min till crisp. Cool and enjoy...

Pros: great substitute for crisps and much healthier and tastier. Can create your own flavour combinations just avoid too much salt and MSG.

Cons: Lenghty cooking time
 
Maybe work out why you are not sleeping and then you don't have to worry about what you are eating late at night. I also suffer from insomnia from time to time but I've found that Melatonin sorts that out for me. It's a herbal product that you can get from any good pharmacy. Works great, and you don't get that hung-over feeling the next day. Give it a bash! :D
 
MadMailMan said:
Maybe work out why you are not sleeping and then you don't have to worry about what you are eating late at night. I also suffer from insomnia from time to time but I've found that Melatonin sorts that out for me. It's a herbal product that you can get from any good pharmacy. Works great, and you don't get that hung-over feeling the next day. Give it a bash! :D
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Thanks, but I am quite enjoying this no sleep thing. I always found it to be an unproductive, over rated excercise. Off to the doc though cause I believe one more day and I could go insane! Its been 4 days no sleep now!
 
dj go to your doctor and get something called a dormican (spelling)

i have the same problem only i take half of these just about every other night

nothing better than a full one to make for an interesting evening :)
 
prevention is better than cure, rather cure your insomnia first, then concentrate on the healthy snax..

I recommend a glass a warm milk + honey before bed, with a slow release magnesium tablet. Calcium and Magnesium work well together and promote good sleep.
 
Dude are you been serious? Four days and you haven't slept?

Clearly you don't train, try exercising more often during the day and you should be tired by the end of the day. Killove is right, a calcium/magnesium supplement such as Ocean's Milk or even ZMA will definitely promote good sleep.

You need at least a minimum of 6 hours sleep. Try Bio-Boost also to help you sleep.

Regarding your healthy snack. Buy Cracker-Bread from Spar, slices of lean ham/chicken. Slice some tomatoes and slice some cheese. Put it all on the Cracker Bread and there is your healthy snack. You can always alter it, use tuna, slice cucumber - just keep it healthy....
 
Reduced oil mayonnaise - normal mayo is tooooo fatty. Provita is considered a biscuit :) Ry-Vita and Cracker-Bread are less in calories :D
 
Tree bark :p

Try some pretzels instead of crisps and if you have chocies and stuff go for the diabetic's type(all sugar free:), but expensive:()
 
yea it did with me

try taking a microdot and double droping good pillz like discobiscuits

if i didnt have sleeping tablets i would not sleep for 4 days straight

nothing worse than lying in bed and your eye are wide open and you cannot sleep

THANK GOODNESS FOR SLEEPING TABLETS

not this kuk you buy off the counter at a pharmacy though

in fact just before i stopped taking drugs, dealers where selling dormicans

R300 for 10 which is not a bad price
 
Has your sleeping cycle settled to somewhat normal now? How long have you been off tha pillz?
 
Whoa, just woke up - man that stuff sent me on a buzz before dropping me into LALALAND!

Nope, no drugs anymore. Been clean for 3 years now :)
 
*Shameful bump*

So the insomnia is over and I figured we could therefore actually attempt to remain on topic...

Any more recipe ideas? Where's Bwana and his delicious recipes (or are none of them of the healthy variety?)
 
My problem is the sweet stuff after supper, (chocolate is good for you, really)

Anyway, was shopping the other day and I saw those dried fruit squares. Haven't had them in ages and when I last had them they were all like banana and apricot flavour (blech!) and the mystery green ones?

These days they're all red and black, strawberry and (other)berry flavour, excellect!

Finished a whole bag in a few days, now I'm longing for more.

Dunno how heathy they are though, still very sweet
 
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