Often throughout the day, I want to eat something. But it is not time for a regular meal. So I try to eat healthy low fat snacks.
One of my favorite snacks are bananas. Fruits make great low fat snacks. Oranges are another one of my favorites. I also enjoy apples, but they are harder to eat with my braces. I would need to slice them up.
Another snack that I eat often (usually when I am at home) are small potatoes. I will slice them into quarters, sprinkle a little salt on them. Yummy.
For late night snacks, I will maybe eat a fat free pudding from Jello. These are really good! I have tried most of the available flavors so far, and have liked them all. The tapioca and the chocolate/vanilla are my favorites so far. But I limit myself to one an evening. I don’t want to load up on these, as there are healthier things I can be eating.
Another thing I will eat while at home is fat-free cottage cheese with pineapple. I get these at the local grocery store, and they are really good! 10 grams of protein, and 17 grams of carbs per serving!!! Yummy!
Last night, I ate a couple of tuna sandwiches made with Hellman’s reduced fat mayonnaise. I love mayonnaise, but unfortunately, mayonnaise is almost pure fat! The reduced fat mayonnaise is not as good as regular mayo, but it is decent enough. It tastes okay mixed in with the tuna.
But whatever you choose to snack on, make sure it is low fat!!! Try not to pick something that is pure sugar either. It is okay to eat sweets in SMALL quantities. When I was losing most of my weight, I had Jolly Rancher candies in my desk drawer. And if I wanted something sweet, I would take a single candy, put it into my mouth, and just let it slowly dissolve. These days, I have a friend at work who has an M&M dispenser on his desk. I will go over there, and get a small handful of M&Ms. I will make a couple trips over there during the work day. I even bought him a couple bags of M&Ms to keep it filled. If I kept a bag of M&Ms at my own desk, it would be gone within a day and a half.

Posted by Rob in Nutrition on February 18th, 2007 |