Looking for a low-fat snack? Think pretzels. They are relatively inexpensive. The bag I have in front of me is made by Rold Gold. They are small pretzels about an inch and half across. A serving consists 16 pretzels. A serving has 110 calories and only 10 of those come from fat. The source of the other 100 calories is the 2 grams of protein and the 23 grams of carbohydrates. And if you think those carbs look scary, sugars make up less than 1 gram of them. That means most of those carbs are the good complex starchy kind!
The downside of pretzels is the 450 mg of sodium. That’s a lot of salt! An average Healthy Choice meal seems to have around 600mg. That’s for a whole meal. And 16 pretzels can be wolfed down in no time.
But pretzels are a convenient snack food. They don’t need to be heated or cooled. They really don’t go bad quickly.

Posted by Rob in Whatever on April 16th, 2007 |