Low calorie snacks to keep you going throughout the day!
New research by the Food Doctor has shown that more than half of U.K women snack twice per day. However, 84% of those people feel guilty about it afterwards.
Firstly, snacking between meals doesn’t have to be bad for you. In fact, eating a little but often can actually help to boost your metabolism and trick your body into burning more calories. The key is what you’re eating between meals.
Sugary snacks are causing more harm than good and your body is receiving no nutritional benefit. Ditch the chocolate, biscuits and sugar-filled cereal bars and introduce the likes of veg, berries, full-fat Greek yoghurt and almonds. Blueberries and raspberries are sweet and delicious, yet low in natural sugars and packed full of nutrients.
So, follow our guide to these diet-friendly, low cal snacks and feel safe in the knowledge that none of them are over 100 cals.
Go on, treat yourself to one of these tasty low calorie snacks…
Crisp bread with cream cheese and tomato
Crisp bread – 35 calories
Cream cheese – 34 calories
X7 cherry tomatoes (halved) – 16 calories
TOTAL: 85 calories
Crisp bread with cream cheese and pepper
Crisp bread – 35 calories
Cream cheese – 34 calories
50g pepper – 20 calories
TOTAL: 89 calories
Crisp bread with cream cheese and radish
Crisp bread – 35 calories
Cream cheese – 34 calories
X2 radishes sliced – 30 calories
TOTAL: 99 calories
Crisp bread with cream cheese and cress
Crisp bread – 35 calories
Cream cheese – 34 calories
35g Cress – 16 calories
TOTAL: 85 calories
Crisp bread with cream cheese and avocado
Crisp bread – 35 calories
Cream cheese – 34 calories
15g Avocado thinly sliced: 30g
TOTAL: 99 calories
Crisp bread with cream cheese and blueberries
Crisp bread – 35 calories
Cream cheese – 34 calories
40g blueberries – 21 calories
TOTAL: 90 calories
Rice cakes with cucumber, tomato, radishes and feta (optional)
X1 rice cake – 29 calories
100g Cucumber – 10 calories
X7 cherry tomatoes (halved) – 16 calories
X2 radishes sliced – 30 calories
10g Feta – 27 calories
Different combinations = 100 calories – build your own 100 calorie snack!
Two breadsticks with houmous: 100 calories
3 celery sticks stuffed with cottage cheese: 75 calories
2 stuffed vine leaves: 91 calories
Handful of green olives: 70 calories
3 thin slices of pineapple: 90 calories
Almonds
A handful of almonds can be full of your recommended daily intake of vitamins! A 15g serving contains 89 calories
Deliciously spiced, baked chickpea shells that are only 77 calories per bag
Guilt Free Snacking Moroccan Spiced Chickpea Shells, M&S,
5 x 20g, £2
Crunchy, moreish popcorn that is only 77 calories per bag!
Guilt Free Snacking Sweet Popcorn, M&S,
6 x 15g, £2
A packet of Fruit Bowl Raspberry Fruit Flakes: 66 cals
1 Fruyo Blueberry Greek Fat Free Yoghurt: 82 cals
Hartley’s Raspberry Jelly: 10 cals
Snack-a-Jacks Sour Cream & Chive: 92 cals
10 salted peanuts: 74 calories
A packet of Special K Sweet Chilli Cracker Crisps: 86 cals
Try eating a crumpet with 1tbsp of honey for just 100 calories!
1 packet of Fruit Bowl Fruit Flakes Tropical: 66 cals
Half a pack of Jacobs’ Oddities: 69 cals
1 Muller Light Toffee Yoghurt: 99 cals
Weight Watchers from Heinz Tomato soup: 76 calories
Boots’ Shapers salt & vinegar crisps: 73 cals
1 Weight Watchers chocolate and vanilla mousse: 100 calories
10g 85% drk chocolate: 55 cals
100g sweet cherries: 63 calories
1 Muller Light Rhubarb Yoghurt: 99 cals
2 Nairn’s biscuits: 86 calories
Prêt Rhubarb & Blueberry Jelly: 92 calories
One tbsp with taramasalata with two celery sticks: 84 calories
Two jumbo BBQ Snack-a-Jacks: 76 calories
Special K cereal bar: 84 calories
25 Pistachio nuts: 90 calories
Two tuna nigiri sushi: 98 calories
One pot of fromage frais with six cherries: 100 calories
2 poppadums with salsa: 94 calories
Mini pitta bread and one tablespoon of houmous
6 dried apricots: 100 calories
Mullerlight strawberry yoghurt: 89 calories
1 thin slice of Soreen malt loaf: 86 calories
1 mini vegetable samosa: 70 calories
Kallo Dark Chocolate Rice Cake: 55 calories
8 cashew nuts: 100 calories
2 Cauldron falafel: 78 calories
1 Go Ahead! Strawberry Yoghurt Break Bar: 72 calories
Special K chocolate chip cereal bar: 83 calories