Fast, Healthy Snack Foods
Fast and healthy snack food doesn’t have to be boring. Celery and low fat cream cheese used to be the only healthy snack food you could eat when what you really wanted was chips and cookies.
Now, both of those items can be included on your healthy menu.
Health magazine (May 2006 issue) has compiled a list of healthy snack food that you can find in your local grocery store or online.
All are tasty and healthy versions of the snack food you like to eat but have made you gain weight in the past. Some items are more difficult to find than others so some web site addresses are included. I’ve attempted to convert nutritional info to weight watcher point values for most of the products but some items don’t have all the info on their web sites.
100% whole grain Chips Ahoy cookies: 3 weight watcher points; 2 grams of fiber and 120 calories per serving.
Kettle Brand Bakes Hickory Honey BBQ : 2 ww points; 3 grams of fat and 120 calories per serving.
Sahale Snacks Valdosta Blend A combination of pecans, dried cranberries, orange zest and a dash of black pepper has 14 grams of heart-healthy fat per serving.
Snyders of Hanover Eat Smart Malt Vinegar and Sea Salt Café Fries: 150 calories, 7 grams of fat and no trans fat per 1 ounce serving. Other flavors available;
Healthy Snack Foods in Your Fridge
Al Fresco All Natural Country Style Breakfast Chicken Sausage 1 weight watcher point, 60 calories, 2.5 fat grams per link.
Horizon Organic, Organic Colby Cheese Sticks; 110 calories and 9 grams of per serving but made with no hormones or antibiotics.
Laura’s Lean Beef Pot Roast au jus; 3 weight watcher points, 110 calories, 4 fat grams per serving
Frozen healthy snack food
Amy’s Mediterranean Pizza with Cornmeal Crust; 8 weight watcher points, 360 calories and 15 grams of fat. About the same as a Papa John’s pizza slice only much healthier ingredients.
Edy’s/Dreyer’s Slow Churned Light Ice Cream, French Silk;3 weight watcher points, 130 calories and 4.5 grams of fat per ½ cup serving.
Green Giant Select Vegetables with Tuscan Herb Sauce;2 grams of fat per ½ cup serving.
Lean Cuisine Dinnertime Selects, Chicken Portabello; 8 weight watcher points; 380 calories, 7 grams of fat
South Beach Diet, Denver-style Breakfast Wraps; 180 calories, 7 grams of fat; 3 weight watcher points.
Van’s All-natural Hearty Oats Waffles, Maple Fusion 4 weight watcher points, 210 calories, 9 grams of fat
Breads and Breakfast Foods
Usually breads and breakfast foods are not known as healthy snack foods but this list gives a few options to try that may surprise you. Make sure you check sugar content when a food label says “fat-free” or “low fat”…sometimes they’ll take out the fat but put in more sugar so that it still tastes good. Sugar turns to fat if you eat to much!
Earth Grains Honey Whole Grain Bread; 110 calories, 2 grams of fiber, 2-3 weight watcher points depending on fat content per slice.
Post Healthy Classics Raisin Bran cereal bars, Cranberry; 120 calories, 2 grams of fat and 3 grams of fiber, 2 weight watcher points per bar.
Quaker Weight Control Instant Oatmeal; 160 calories, 3 grams of fat, 6 grams of fiber and 3 weight watcher points per serving.
Sara Lee Heart Healthy 100% Whole Wheat Bagels; 220 calories, 6 grams of fiber, 11 grams of protein, 4 weight watcher points per bagel.
Total Honey Clusters cereal; 3 grams of fiber and 1 weight watcher point per serving.
Tumaro’s Gourmet Tortillas Multi-Grain; 146 calories, 4 grams of fat, 12 grams of fiber and 2 weight watcher points.
Pantry Healthy Snack Food
Campbell’s Select Savory Lentil Soup; 140 calories, 0.5 grams of fat, 6 grams of fiber and 2 weight watcher points.
Starkist Albacore Lemon & Cracked Pepper Tuna Fillet; 33 grams of protein, good source of Omega 3’s. No other nutritional info available.
Thai Kitchen, Thai Peanut Noodle Cart; 265 calories, 7 grams of fat, 5 weight watcher points.
Uncle Ben’s Ready Rice Whole Grain Brown Rice; 220 calories, 4 grams of fat, 15 weight watcher points per 1 cup serving.
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