This post is sponsored by Woolworths
few months ago I wrote a post about How grown ups can pack healthy lunches to take to work. Since then, I’ve received heaps of emails asking for healthy snack ideas as well. One email bordered on being slightly psychotic, so in the interest of my own protection I thought I’d do a follow up post on healthy snacks. Now I know not everyone counts calories but I’ve included the break down of energy in each snack because I think it’s important for people to understand how much food they should be eating. I certainly don’t believe that everyone should be counting every morsel they eat and carting around a pair of kitchen scales to weigh every meal but I trust science and I think it’s important to be a little plugged into your calorie intake versus your calorie expenditure. If you don’t give a crap about your weight then these snacks are great for you too. They’re nutritious, quick, healthy and cheap, regardless of whether or not you’re trying to shrink your waistline.
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Boiled egg with mustard on a rice cake
- Boiled egg – 61
- Mustard – 6
- Macro Rice cake – 23
- Total calories – 90
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Hot Chocolate
- 2 teaspoons of drinking chocolate – 55
- 100mls steamed skim milk – 50
- Total calories – 105
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Carrot and hommus
- 1 tablespoon of skinny hommus – 80
- 1 small carrot – 30
- Total calories – 110
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Natural Yogurt
Total calories – 102
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Tuna on a rice cake
Tinned tuna is one of the most versatile and portable snacks. You can buy a packet of rice cakes and a couple of tins of tuna and store them at work. That way you’ll always have a healthy snack on hand so you won’t duck down to the vending machines.
- Tin of tuna in brine – 70
- macro Rice cake – 23
- Spinach leaves – 5
- Total calories – 98
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Celery and peanut butter
- 2 teaspoons of macro peanut butter – 60
- 2 celery sticks – 10
- Total calories – 70
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Mini Almond Milk Banana Smoothie
- 1/2 banana – 40
- 1 tablespoon of protein powder – 25
- 1 cup almond milk – 40
- Total calories – 105 calories
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Popcorn
Buy ready made packets or make your own for about 60 calories per cup. I like the mini macro packets because the cheese flavour is amazing.
Total calories – 60
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Apple with natural almonds
- Small apple – 45
- 10 almonds – 64
- Total calories – 109
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Blueberries and ricotta on toast
- 1 tablespoon of low fat ricotta – 15
- 1 handfull of frozen blueberries – 15
- I slice of toast – 60
- Total calories – 90
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The Best Emergency Snack Bars
I’m usually not a huge advocate of snack bars because they often have added sugar and nasty stuff but sometimes if you’re working late and you have to duck straight to an event or to a gym class and you’re going to faint if you don’t have something in your stomach, then these are a few of the the best ones. I prefer raw food bars or protein based bars. I find nut based bars aren’t worth the calorie spend: they’re often about 350 calories when a raw food or protein bar is usually about 200. These are top favourites. Bounce Balls, macro Raw Food Bars, Aussie Bodies Protein Bars and macro Fruit Filled Bars. The little fruit filled bars have just 85 calories so they’re an excellent alternative to an afternoon chocolate biscuit.