With the warm weather upon us, many people are starting to venture outdoors. Whether it's hiking, biking or just having a picnic, packing a healthy snack for your outing can sometimes be a challenge. I decided to find out what our top searched healthy snacks are on AOL Search. The list of healthy snacks below sounds great, but you still need to be aware of nutrition labels.
For example, popcorn is a great healthy snack if you choose the Orville Redenbacher's original popcorn with only 1.5 grams of fat instead of the ultimate butter popcorn which is loaded with 11grams of fat. Same with Hershey Kisses -- be sure to choose the dark chocolate ones and don't eat too many (each kiss contains about 1.5 grams of fat).
Have kids? Here are some fun ideas for healthy snacks. You can create "ants on a log" by taking a celery stick, filling it with peanut butter and then putting a few raisins on the top of it. "Clown faces" are another easy idea: Take a rice cake, spread some cream cheese on it and use raisins for eyes, a cherry tomato for a nose and some popcorn for a mouth.
Do you know of some healthy snacks that did not show up on our list? If so, please tell us about them. Also try searching for healthy snacks on AOL Search or visit AOL Food for some healthy snack recipes.
Top Searched Healthy Snacks on AOL Search:
1. Vegetable Snacks
2. Hard-Boiled Egg Snacks
3. Hummus Snacks
4. Fruit Snacks
5. Popcorn Snacks
6. Peanut Butter Snacks
7. Goldfish Snacks
8. JELL-O Snacks
9. Cottage Cheese Snacks
10. Hershey Kisses Snacks
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As snacks I love berries, almonds(24 almonds is one ounce and a nice snacks), flavored rice cakes (the chocolate is fantstic with a teaspon of peanut butter)
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5. buy a few sticks of licorice, and park and chew (real sticks).
Grow stevia and mint and chew a 1/4 inch square of stevia with a baby mint leaf. Better yet, make strong mint tea with stevia for a filling, candy like drink hot or cold that has no calories. Add a pinch of sugar if your stevia flavor is noticeable.
Buy a self-fill oil sprayer bottle (Williams Sonoma, etc.), and spray your air-popped popcorn (a layer in a brown lunchsack tightly folded and sealed with scotchtape microwaved until popping pipes down) with extra virgin olive oil and flavor or herbs or stevia and cinnamon.
Buy a can/bottle of powdered wasabi. Mix it with fat free sour cream and fresh lemon juice and make it really spicey. Add a finely sliced cabbage and lots of grated carrots for a virtually calorie-free food that really fills you up - gets very mild overnite in the fridge, so use a teaspoon of wasabi and more than one lemon. Makes any low cal food a feast.
Steam green beans (longbeans take little prep time). Spray with extra virgin olive oil and a dusting of hot pepper powder, mixing several times overnite. Or use well beaten lemon and ginger. A hearty side dish, appetizer, or snack. Or, add garlic, onions, peppers, etc., while steaming beans or other firm veggies, before mixing. Good hot, room temp, or cold.
Toast thin sliced whole wheat french bread. Top it with the veggies you made above swirled briefly in blender or processor. Top that with grated cheese or salt for a healthy low calorie appetizer or lunch. The trick is to eat immediately, so make it WITH the people you are feeding. Add olives, balsamic vinegar, onions, sardines or tuna, beans, seeds - or let them choose toppers for creativity without guilt.
Make dessert plates with sliced cored apples and various sugar and fat free or low-fat toppings ready to use, like Trader Joe's bettern pnut butter with a little water or stevia water plus cocoa, or fat free sour cream with stevia and lemon; and powders for dusting-with-a pinch, like cinnamon, ginger, or cocoa.
Mix spaghetti squash with Trader Joe's OG spaghetti sauce and then serve it on anything low calorie like thinly sliced jicama, whole wheat french bread toast, or steamed cabbage leaves. Spray it with extra virgin olive oil and dust with grated cheese or salt to give it a rich mouth feel for a low or almost low calorie treat - another one where you can eat all you want without empty sugars, heavy salt, or lots of calories.
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