healthy snack ideas

they had miniature corn at the co-op the other day, in tiny husks and everything!

baby carrots are awesome

so are snacks

I would pass out if I didn't have something in the afternoon. :(

this may qualify us for some kind of death camp apparently

stay tuned :)

In all honesty, I eat every 4 to 5 hours, so if I know I'm not eating dinner until 8 I will prob eat a snack at 4 or so but if I'm not eating until 6/7, I won't have a snack. And if I'm out and about, gah, that is why I need to remember to put almonds in my bag.

Seriously though I don't understand non-snackers. I eat lunch around 12:30 or 1 most days and by 4 I am starving. If I don't have something small then I'd have a headache by 5. Maybe I'm eating the wrong things or at the wrong times or something. idk.

do you guys wish that snacking wasn't allowed inside so you could take snack breaks the same way smokers get to take smoke breaks? you get to lean against the building with shades on bumming baby carrots from a coworker all saying you gotta quit someday.

baby carrots + hummus all the way, no brakes. i made some hummus and bought baby carrots the other day so i have some waiting for me right now! i know they are weird repurposed and overpackaged carrot bits, but still i love them. actual carrots are good too.

Okay maybe if baby carrots are your only option in the face of chips, then sure, but otherwise wtf

Totally bought baby carrots tonight. Don't be mad, Robyn. :/

http://pterodactylpants.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/baby-carrot2.jpg

Snacks are where I'm a nutrition nazi viking! I'm sorry :/

I feel though if you're eating every 4-5 hours then some of that constitutes snacking, no?

I also just got back from 5 days at my friends' organic vegetable farm

meals are either snacks or feasts, nothing in-between

If my lunch is at noon and is snack size and dinner is at 7:30 or later then there will be a 4:30 snack
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Carrots are really great, possibly underrated

carrots really taste better juiced, probably because of all that sugar that's released somehow.

usually I will forget to have a snack and be dying by 6:30 but will carry on without food for the snack window has closed
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always have a snack in my purse at all times
either lol larabar or almonds
it's not a good idea for me to feel like i am dying of hunger

don't get the snack hate itt

my desk drawer at work is full of larabars and almonds
I'd be chewing on the furniture mid afternoon if it wasn't for <3 snacks <3

my snack militancy and regulated times btwn meals/snacks is because if i freely snack, i will be in physical pain (nausea due to blood-sugar wackiness and/or digestive inflammation, which i can only describe as a painful tightness that only goes away with time (rather than with some other bodily function...), so pain is kind of a motivator there.
so keep having fun with all your snacking, you pain-free lucky bastards.

I'm like E, I get headaches if I don't. :(

I have sensitive teeth and a love of carrots so I use my mandoline to slice em into coins
Then I can trick myself into thinking they're chocolate coins

that's some impressive trickery

whats a larabar?

basically a datebar - diff flavors to trick you into thinking they're not made from dates but in the end they all just taste like datebars

but tasty anyway so yay

http://i.imgur.com/Sua1E.jpg

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Post that to every ilx thread I guess

gr80 didn't you revive this thread? pshaw

gr80 goes all sally struthers on a snack thread

we can't all be benedictine monks

I'm hungry

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its weird how humans evolved to get headaches and cranky if they didnt eat exactly on time everyday

they were probably cranky before but never go to talk about it on the internet

frozen grapes are really good, thx grdawg

they're like little round popsicles

ugh i tried this for the first time recently and they were SO GROSS - the texture was mushy and just ugh

maybe u did not freeze them for long enough

I think they were in for a couple days?

maybe u dont like them

Today I start, prunes

frozen prunes?

I love prunes.

M-O-O-N that spells prunes.

I had no idea, until recently, that prunes were dried plums. Not sure how you get juice out of a dried fruit but w/e.

choose

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3046/2571324873_a3269c6ab2.jpg

http://i00.i.aliimg.com/photo/266045314/Fruit_dehydrator.jpg

option A seems fraught with danger

I don't eat enough dried fruit/jerky to buy a dehydrator.

Besides, making THAT much dried fruit would tempt me to eat that much dried fruit which = bathroom sadness

frozen grapes should not have mushy texture. they are more like artillery shells.

on frozen bananas front:
frozen bananas with skins -- deadly weapon
frozen bananas without skins -- bruising weapon
i fooled two people with banana-based ice cream but one person went "this is just bananas!"