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The Importance of Healthy Snacking
Most people adhere to a healthy lifestyle and try to consume healthy food throughout the week. However, it is often challenging to resist the urge for tasty snacks and treats during the weekends or late evenings after meals. A responsible treat can help with a more active metabolism, a more stable blood sugar level, and it prevents feelings of hunger. To help you with this problem, we have researched some responsible treats so that you can enjoy something tasty without immediately breaking your diet or healthy eating habits.
Vegetables and Fruits
An easy choice for a healthy snack is, of course, fruits or vegetables, which you can never have too much of. Additionally, fruits and vegetables contain a tremendous amount of nutrients that alleviate hunger.
Fruits contain sugars (= carbohydrates) and a plethora of nutrients. The best choices include apples, oranges, bananas, kiwis, strawberries, goji berries, raspberries, mangoes, or grapefruits. If you’re not keen on just eating a piece of fruit, you can always opt for a healthy smoothie made with various fruits (or even vegetables).
Vegetables are naturally super healthy, low in calories, and you can never get enough of them. If you suddenly get hungry in the evening, make sure to have a well-stocked fridge with carrots, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, and celery. You can also enhance the taste of vegetables by adding a ‘sauce.’ This sauce can be made with low-fat yogurt and some herbs and spices such as chives, parsley, pepper, and basil. But hummus is also a good tasty combination with raw vegetables. You can blend everything with a bit of protein powder to create a healthy smoothie:
Healthy Smoothies
Smoothie variant 1:
Freshly squeezed oranges, banana, mango, strawberries, and some chia seeds and crushed ice in the blender and you have a delicious smoothie in no time.
Smoothie variant 2:
Low-fat sugar-free yogurt combined with fruits such as kiwi, banana, and strawberry blended together gives you an ultra-healthy dairy smoothie.
Smoothie variant 3:
Spinach, pears, blueberries, celery, and a small splash of water. You won’t taste the fruit through the odd combination of vegetables but it’s not any less healthy!
Quark as a Responsible Treat
If you choose low-fat and sugar-free yogurt or low-fat quark, this can serve as a great responsible treat. Quark and yogurt contain a lot of proteins, giving you a long-lasting feeling of satisfaction. You can make yogurt or quark extra tasty by adding fruit or fiber-rich muesli. Pouring low-fat yogurt into an ice cream mold, adding some fruit and honey, and then letting it harden in the freezer will give you homemade frozen yogurt!
Rice Cakes
In the supermarket, you can find various types of rice cakes. Some rice cakes contain a lot of calories due to the unnecessary sugars and salts added to them. But in addition to these high-calorie rice cakes, there is always a variant of rice cake that contains very few calories and these have many healthy nutrients and still give you the feeling of a ‘snack.’
Muesli Bars
Just like with rice cakes, there are muesli bars in the supermarket that contain many bad nutrients and lots of calories, but of course, there are also plenty of healthy muesli bars. You are best off choosing muesli bars with whole grains without saturated fats, added sugars, and without colorings, flavorings, and preservatives. Healthy muesli bars are often very filling due to the high number of fibers and are good for a healthy metabolism.
Nuts
Nuts contain relatively many calories, but the calories mainly come from essential proteins and unsaturated fatty acids and are therefore not bad for your body at all. Especially almonds, walnuts, unsalted pistachios, and cashews are very nutritious.
