Satisfying healthy snacks

[Anonymous]

I eat lunch around 11 and get home around 4:30. Sometimes I'll eat some fruit in between that time but usually I don't have a chance to eat. So I get home and it's not dinner time but I'm starving.

This is where my diet usually goes wrong and I go for carby leftovers like pasta, or crackers. A handful of nuts doesn't satisfy at all when I'm hungry and ready for a meal, so if I eat something like nuts, I eat too many.

My dinners are generally homemade and healthy/balance, so the overeating and bad choices usually happen in that hour or two before dinner.

What are some heathy snacks that are actually filling and satisfying?

[Anonymous]

Can you eat dinner earlier? Or lunch later?

[Anonymous]

I can't eat lunch later. I'd have to cook dinner to eat it, which takes some time and by that time I just need to eat SOMETHING easy.

[Anonymous]

Nuts, cheese stick, kind bar...think protein

[Anonymous]

Apple slices with just a dab of peanut butter
Carrots and hummus
For the nuts, can you pre-portion them, so you don’t over eat? Like, make up a week’s worth of single serve baggies? Or try eating pistachios because shelling them slows you down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Apple slices with just a dab of peanut butter
Carrots and hummus
For the nuts, can you pre-portion them, so you don’t over eat? Like, make up a week’s worth of single serve baggies? Or try eating pistachios because shelling them slows you down.

I've tried that, or buying single serving bags, but the fact is, a single serving just doesn't fill me up or even take the edge off.

[Anonymous]

In your shoes there is no way I could be okay with something you'd call a "snack." I would need to eat at least a small meal, and more likely it would be one of my big meals of the day (and then I'd eat a very small portion at dinner). It would entail leftovers or maybe something like a wrap I purchased from Trade Joe's. But for me you plan of just having a good snack and then a normal sized-dinner would be completely unrealistic.

[Anonymous]

Have a big apple with the serving size of nuts. Or an apple with a non-sugary cereal. It won't be to everyone's taste, but I like plain shredded wheat (the mini size) eaten dry along with an apple. It's something crunchy but without the salt, fat and other stuff in processed snacks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In your shoes there is no way I could be okay with something you'd call a "snack." I would need to eat at least a small meal, and more likely it would be one of my big meals of the day (and then I'd eat a very small portion at dinner). It would entail leftovers or maybe something like a wrap I purchased from Trade Joe's. But for me you plan of just having a good snack and then a normal sized-dinner would be completely unrealistic.

I think this sums up my problem. I need a meal at that time. But then I want to enjoy my dinner that I cooked, so I over eat with the 2 combined.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have a big apple with the serving size of nuts. Or an apple with a non-sugary cereal. It won't be to everyone's taste, but I like plain shredded wheat (the mini size) eaten dry along with an apple. It's something crunchy but without the salt, fat and other stuff in processed snacks.

I actually do like shredded wheat but always forget about it - that's not a bad idea.

[Anonymous]

Greek yogurt with fruit and some toasted sesame seeds sprinkled on top. You can even add a teaspoon of sugar (just 18 calories) to make it a little sweet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Greek yogurt with fruit and some toasted sesame seeds sprinkled on top. You can even add a teaspoon of sugar (just 18 calories) to make it a little sweet.

I do eat Greek yogurt with lunch almost every day. Never thought to add seeds!

[Anonymous]

Sugar snap peas, raw and straight out of the bag. Celery and carrots.

[Anonymous]

Can you prep dinner ahead of time? I have a similar schedule (lunch usually at 11), and I eat as soon as I get home from daycare pickup. Almost all my dinners are prepped in advance, either on the weekends or the night before. If I leave it to night of I do not make healthy choices because I’m so incredibly hungry.

[Anonymous]

apple with peanut butter is what i give my kids.