I've been trying to eat healthy here lately, the only thing healthy I have eaten thus far is Celery with Peanut Butter on it, but that's not really that healthy.

 I'm looking for idea's on some quick and easy snack foods, some things that might not take long at all to fix but are good and tasty.

I don't mean throw a microwave dinner in the m'wave  and hit start, I mean something from the old school world that is, or where you actually handle the food and throw something on it.

Any healthy thoughts on quick snack foods? I know I could bing or google this, but a real person doesn't reply with their serious thoughts on the subject, you just get a story, with no reply.....

Any idea's? Everything I seem to try and think of for quick snacks contains grease or some other form of toxin.

I want SNACKS!!! NOW!!! And I want them to be healthy to eat, and don't tell me my only choice is oatmeal, I"ll just add some butter and sugar to it and go wicked on the unhealthy eating habits!

In all honesty : " What are some tasty quick healthy snacks that you might know of, my diet has changed and I'm getting sick of the no salt no taste thing"??????

Hard to beat a good Apple.
I try to eat one everyday.

DeeS


Hard to beat a good Apple.
I try to eat one everyday.

I cannot eat an apple without Salt, that's my only problem, although that does bring to mind peaches, or perhaps a grapefruit for breakfast. Hmmm, fruits, that's good idea. I guess I need to look at the entire family of fruits and veggies, I've been being one dimensional, and somewhat distorted with my train of thought you might say.

Cereal's are no good for me because I can't tolerate Milk, strange though because cheese doesn't bother me one bit, but if I drink a cup or glass of milk I feel sick.

Thanks for the reply and idea, that's a good thought,  it's a tricky thing trying to eat healthy. It always makes me laugh and no offense meant to anyone, but it makes me laugh to see an overweight person drinking a diet coke and eating a 500 calorie candy bar, that's just plain insane.

Thanks,

Bobby

DeeS


Hard to beat a good Apple.
I try to eat one everyday.

I am rather partial to bananas myself, Fruit is the obvious choice and keeping a well stocked fruit bowl with some variety is a good idea.
 
The other thing is moderation do you really need to cut things out 100% ?. If you like cheese avoid edam and cheddar as you will want a large portion and have something like Danish Blue or Stilton where a small portion give you a lot of taste.
 
Buy a bread maker and have fresh baked whole meal bread with a fraction of the sugar and salt in a supermarket loaf (50% Wholemeal 50% whole grain rye is nice). Its tastier too so you won't need to smother it large quantities of butter etc.

Well, I was on the weight loss kick for a year. The doctor said something about congestive heart failure and I had to lose weight, but I wasn't payin' attention, I dunno' for sure what he said. All they want is your damn money anyways. hehe I lost 100 + in 9 months so I have a lot of tips for you. :) The biggest thing I did was walk 3.5 miles a day and forced myself to drink more water than any one human should have to endure.

Chicken is good for you if you don't cook it in the skin. Get some boneless breasts, cook them really good, cut them up in to little squares, sprinkle some Tabasco sauce in a zip lock baggie, throw the chicken in and shake it around really good then snack on it. You're getting good meat and something spicy to fill you up. Spicy foods tend to fill you up faster. Stay away from turkey, it's loaded with cholesterol.

Pickles are good too. Even those huge ones only have a few calories, unless you get sweet pickles. Those are a deal breaker.

Unsalted pretzels aren't that bad for you either, especially when dipped in mustard. Mustard has very little calories.

Salsa is good for you. A whole jar has only 200 calories. Or, you could get fresh tomato's and make your own salsa and use less salt. I used to do that. Year before last I had so many tomato's I couldn't eat them fast enough, last year, I had 4 tomato's out of 8 plants! DOH! This last year was rough on gardens. You can get unsalted chips that are baked so you don't get all that saturated fat that's oh so good, or just eat the salsa by itself, again the hotter the better.

Carrots. Get fresh ones, they are really good and you can eat a bushel off them and they won't hurt you.

Grapes, cantaloupe, watermelon. Cantaloupe with whip cream is really good, and whip cream isn't that bad for you if you get the light stuff. I think 10 calories a serving iirc.

I just heard on the radio today that diet soda is now linked to heart disease. Thanks for ruining that one for us eh? Water sucks.

Those are the things I would snack on when I couldn't make it to dinner time. Just try to do some music to get it off your mind. :) Drink lots of coffee, zero calories if you drink it black.

The biggest thing you need to overcome is that thing in your head saying, "DAMN IT! WHY DO I HAVE TO EAT THIS!! I HATE IT! WHY ME? WHY!? THIS IS YOUR FAULT NOT MINE!!!! IT'S NOT FAIR DAMN IT! AHHHHHHHHH!!!"

The quicker you quell that demon, the more better off you'll be. Just don't let him come back in, things get really ugly then and it's harder to get rid of him once you let him back in. :((

Good luck!

Bub.

Bub


Well, I was on the weight loss kick for a year. The doctor said something about congestive heart failure and I had to lose weight, but I wasn't payin' attention, I dunno' for sure what he said. All they want is your damn money anyways. hehe I lost 100 + in 9 months so I have a lot of tips for you. :) The biggest thing I did was walk 3.5 miles a day and forced myself to drink more water than any one human should have to endure.

Chicken is good for you if you don't cook it in the skin. Get some boneless breasts, cook them really good, cut them up in to little squares, sprinkle some Tabasco sauce in a zip lock baggie, throw the chicken in and shake it around really good then snack on it. You're getting good meat and something spicy to fill you up. Spicy foods tend to fill you up faster. Stay away from turkey, it's loaded with cholesterol.

Pickles are good too. Even those huge ones only have a few calories, unless you get sweet pickles. Those are a deal breaker.

Unsalted pretzels aren't that bad for you either, especially when dipped in mustard. Mustard has very little calories.

Salsa is good for you. A whole jar has only 200 calories. Or, you could get fresh tomato's and make your own salsa and use less salt. I used to do that. Year before last I had so many tomato's I couldn't eat them fast enough, last year, I had 4 tomato's out of 8 plants! DOH! This last year was rough on gardens. You can get unsalted chips that are baked so you don't get all that saturated fat that's oh so good, or just eat the salsa by itself, again the hotter the better.

Carrots. Get fresh ones, they are really good and you can eat a bushel off them and they won't hurt you.

Grapes, cantaloupe, watermelon. Cantaloupe with whip cream is really good, and whip cream isn't that bad for you if you get the light stuff. I think 10 calories a serving iirc.

I just heard on the radio today that diet soda is now linked to heart disease. Thanks for ruining that one for us eh? Water sucks.

Those are the things I would snack on when I couldn't make it to dinner time. Just try to do some music to get it off your mind. :) Drink lots of coffee, zero calories if you drink it black.

The biggest thing you need to overcome is that thing in your head saying, "DAMN IT! WHY DO I HAVE TO EAT THIS!! I HATE IT! WHY ME? WHY!? THIS IS YOUR FAULT NOT MINE!!!! IT'S NOT FAIR DAMN IT! AHHHHHHHHH!!!"

The quicker you quell that demon, the more better off you'll be. Just don't let him come back in, things get really ugly then and it's harder to get rid of him once you let him back in. :((

Good luck!

Bub.

        Thanks and your right on with what your saying. It's a serious pain in the Arse! So to speak.  I miss the day's of salt on EVERYTHING and chocolate is a distant memory, that is if I wanna live. No BS about that. Sorry for the drama, but if it helps someone else then I don't care if they think I'm a A-hole or not.

Man, what really bothers me is I was watching this show about eating Salmon. They were saying after studying people eating salmon that eating "WILD CAUGHT SALMON" that it was better for you than store purchased. One of the reason's THEY SAID was because they said the farms for these fish use a coloring to make them pink to look better. Oh Well that's what the show said anyway, and it makes sense when you think about it.

I can guarantee you and everyone this much, regardless of however acid rain or whatever falls from the clouds this season, I'm having me one serious heck of a garden! 

Thanks for the advice, I'll keep it all in mind,

On a lighter note so to speak, my neighbors wife walked out showing the neighborhood a couple of Mellons,  I thought about saying "Hey baby, Blah blah,Blah and doing the motor boat thing" but then I realized I need more than just some mellons, and it just ain't gonna happen.

Oh Well. I'm going to crunch on some nice salt free wheat crackers, healthy or not, at least they don't make my arse itch!

Bobby

What is it that you call healthy snacks? Are you trying to avoid something particular - salt, sugar, fat. Should the snack also give you energy for days activities or only make your jaws move?
We do need many things, like fat, but it's the amounts and relation to physical exercise that is the problem.

Put some ketchup on a dark rye bread, add canned tuna, spiced or plain, and some cheese slices. One minute in micro. That is healthy and also has energy enough to keep you going.

Cottage cheese with pickled cucumber.

If you like cereals but don't tolerate milk, eat the cereals with blueberry, rasberry or other soup that also over there are most likely available in bricks.

Toast kik-peas with onion in a frying pan in a small amunt of olive oil. That's surprisingly tasty, healthy and gives you energy, too.

About those salmons: Yes. The farmed ones are cloned, vaccinated etc. The colour to the meat comes from the very same  chemicals as in the wild, but they don't have the shrimp around it.
Who has the money to eat wild salmon nowadays? Still in the 1800's in Finland when a farm hand made the contract for the next year he/she could add a paragraph that the employer mustn't offer salmon meal more than, say, once a week. Otherwise it could happen they had to eat salmon seven days a week.

Did you know they transport the farmed fish (not all, of course) by air from Norway (maybe from elsewhere as well) to China just to be cut and packed, cause it's cheaper? That's what I call an environmental crime.

I love my sweet peppers..

fresh fruits and vegatables.  those are the best healthy snacks.
 
bobby - after your heart attack the doctor should have told you to see a nutritionist for help with your diet.  if he/she didn't then you should anyway.  I don't know what kind of insurance you have or if it would cover it, but you might need to contact your physician and get him/her to refer you to a nutritionist.  and you should follow his/her advice!

^^^^^

Wise words from the Beag there.


I'm rather partial to raw carrots & hummus with coriander.

I cannot imagine, however, putting salt on an apple.