Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Low Carb Snacks

Here are some suggestions in case you are having trouble coming up with some healthy snacks :


  • Celery with peanut butter 
  • Apple with peanut butter
  • Celery with tuna salad
  • Hard boiled eggs
  • Deviled eggs
  • Dill pickles and cheddar cheese
  • 1/4 cup berries with 1/3 cup cottage cheese
  • Nuts
  • Sunflower seeds (get them in the shell so it will take longer to eat them)
  • Other seeds
  • Jerky (beef or turkey -- try to find low-sugar varieties)
  • Cheese sticks, such as string cheese
  • Sugar-free Jello, alone or with cottage cheese and a sprinkling of nuts
  • Make sugar-free lime Jello with part coconut milk -- For a large package, dissolve the powder in a cup of boiling water, add a can of coconut milk, and then add the rest of the water. Stir well.
  • Cheese with a few apple slices
  • 4-ounce plain or sugar-free yogurt with berries and flax seed meal
  • Smoked salmon and cream cheese on cucumber slices
  • Lettuce Roll-ups –- Roll luncheon meat, egg salad, tuna or other filling and veggies in lettuce leaves
  • Lunch Meat Roll-ups –- Roll cheese or veggies in lunch meat (read the labels for carbs on the lunch meat)
  • Spread bean dip, spinach dip, or other low-carb dip or spread on the lunch meat or lettuce and then roll it up
  • Raw veggies and spinach dip, or other low-carb dip
  • Pork rinds, with or without dip
  • Ricotta cheese with fruit and/or nuts and/or flax seed meal
  • Mushrooms with cheese spread inside (or other spreads or dips)
  • Low-carb snack bars (watch out for sugar alcohols, especially maltitol)
  • Pepperoni Chips -- Microwave pepperoni slices until crisp. Great with cheeses and dips 
Till next time.

HAPPY SNACKING!

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