100 Healthy Snacks To Share
May 8, 2012 21 Comments
Snack Girl is celebrating an anniversary today. THREE whole years of writing about healthy snacks.
Can you get her a gift? Of course! Just share this post with your friends via e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, or a phone call.
Yes, that is me up there and I am a real person who writes this website in an attempt to make a living. As more people read my message and share my recipes, this site grows and I get paid for my hard work.
So, help me out AND your friends by sharing this post. These are some good ideas I have had over the last three years to help people stop eating junk food and start eating healthier.
100 Healthy Snack Ideas
The tips below are divided into 4 sections:
- Super Quick and Easy Snack Recipes - Under 1 Minute Preparation
- Quick and Easy Snack Recipes - Under 5 Minutes Preparation - these may have longer cooking times but most of these recipes can be prepared in 5 minutes or less (there are a few exceptions)
- Snacks To Avoid
- Healthy Packaged Snacks
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Super Quick and Easy Snack Recipes
 | 1. DIY Microwave Popcorn: Healthy, Yummy, and CHEAP Popcorn is a whole grain snack that is really low in calories and has that great crunch we crave. But, the packaged stuff in the supermarket is expensive and can be high in sodium.... |
 | 2. Banana Quesadilla: A Delicious After-Exercise Snack Whether you do yoga, walk, spin, bike, run, or swim, you usually get hungry after activity. Many people reach for energy bars such as PowerBar, but with a little creativity, you can do a WHOLE lot better.... |
 | 3. Quick and Healthy Pizza Is it necessary to add 3/4 of a pound of cheese to a pizza to have it be delicious? Do you need a cheese stuffed crust to have a great eating experience? I don't think so.... |
 | 4. How To Pick Healthy Bread - A Toast to Toast One of the first snacks suggested for Snack-Girl was toast. It is simple, versatile, and if you choose right, a healthy choice.... |
 | 5. Save Money, Calories, and the Environment with this Yogurt Is it possible to find a yogurt that tastes great and doesn't inflate your waist? Yes! Does yogurt have to have Sucralose or other artificial sweeteners to be low calorie? No!... |
 | 6. A Chocolate Shake With Only 116 Cals As the weather gets warm, we want to reach for something cold. How about a chocolate shake? Most of us need to drop the ice cream from this indulgence and it isn't hard if you own a blender.... |
 | 7. A Pumpkin Spice Latte With 77 Calories Do you have any buddies who anxiously await the arrival of the Starbucks' Pumpkin Spice Latte? It has been here for a month and people love it.... |
 | 8. An Amazing Apple Pie Makeover In Two Minutes Is it possible to cut the calories of apple pie in half and have it still taste good? Well, when you are working with food as great as Apples anything is possible.... |
 | 9. Colorful and Healthy: Carrot, Raisin, Cream Cheese Bite The healthiest eaters among us incorporate vegetables or fruit in every meal. This can be tricky because vegetables take time to prepare.... |
 | 10. The Tiniest (and Yummiest) Pizzas on The Planet The quest for the quickest (and healthiest) pizza continues! One dedicated Snack-Girl reader, Theresa, sent me her solution for a pizza makeover after I posted English Muffin Pizza.... |
 | 11. Love Bagels and Cream Cheese? Try This Makeover Has anyone else noticed the size of your bagel getting bigger in the last 20 years? And the amount of cream cheese spread on them seems to be growing too!... |
 | 12. This Gadget Will Change Your Life An apple has a tough time competing with a bag of Doritos.... |
 | 13. Turn Your Dull Toast into a Terrific Snack What can you spread on your toast that will help guard against high blood pressure, heart disease, and stroke? Butter, right?... |
 | 14. When It Heats Up Try This Simple Zero Calorie Drink There is usually just one small step from ordinary to elegant. I know that sounds optimistic, but sometimes just a little change makes ALL the difference. |
 | 15. A Little Ranch Dressing Isn't Gonna Kill Ya Raw vegetables are probably the healthiest food that you can eat. Low in calories, high in vitamins and fiber, it is hard to go wrong. Why don't we eat more of them?... |
 | 16. Try This Breakfast Solution: Faster and Healthier Than Cereal Are you running out of time every morning and grabbing a cereal bar? Try this instead.... |
 | 17. Fast, Delicious, Healthy - What Else Could You Want? Snack Girl's daily snack conundrum comes down to convenience. What can I grab to shove in my face when I'm hungry?.... |
 | 18. How To Make A Healthy and Glamorous Snack Holiday parties don't have to be about meatballs, 7 layer dip, and cheese. You can do festive things with vegetables and people won't even realize they are eating them.... |
 | 19. Mix It Up For A Delicious Snack Do you sometimes get bored with the same old snack? Perhaps the snack you brought to work is SO dull, you make a little trip to the vending machine.... |
 | 20. Potato Chip CRUNCH For One Calorie Fresh produce is rolling into supermarkets and farmer's markets all around the country. June is a fantastic month for healthy eating and these little jewels jumped into my car.... |
 | 21. Fun for kids to make and eat (adults too!) Ants on a log is a combination of celery, cream cheese (or peanut butter), and raisins... |
 | 22. Healthy Banana Pudding from Jack LaLanne Before Jillian Michaels, Jane Fonda, and Zumba there was Jack LaLanne. He presented fitness and exercise advice on TV for 34 years!... |
Quick and Easy Snack Recipes
 | 23. Have a Healthy Brownie! (a Mere 77 Calories) Is it possible to create a healthy brownie? A regular brownie contains oodles of butter, sugar, eggs, and chocolate. They are a confection of MEGA calorific proportions and should be eaten as a treat.... |
 | 24. Kale Chips There are bunches of kale ready to eat in someone's garden right now. What are you going to do with it all?... |
 | 25. Turn Cauliflower into YUMMYflower You can eat 2 cups of cauliflower and only add 88 calories to your waistline. Not only that, but the stuff is really good for you. This is one of the vegetables your doctor is telling you to eat.... |
 | 26. Energy Bar Recipe At $2 per bar, products like PowerBar can really take a bite out of your wallet. Of course they are incredibly convenient to buy and eat. Can you really make these at home?... |
 | 27. Healthier Brownies With A Secret Ingredient Snack Girl is not someone who thinks you should alter the almighty brownie treat. Why take something so indulgent and delicious and change it?.... |
 | 28. Got Apples? Try This Awesome Healthy Snack If you read this website, you BETTER have apples in your fridge (or I'm gonna buy you some :) This is it people - apple season!... |
 | 29. A Grab And Go Breakfast With Staying Power My daughter begged me to serve her pancakes for her first day of school. Pancakes are usually a weekend treat, but how could I deny her?... |
 | 30. Better and Faster than A Bowl of Cold Cereal Life hasn't been easy since Snack-Girl set a new cereal standard in our house. I've tested many of our cereals and I've come up with very few that pass the Candy or Breakfast? Evaluate Your Cereal test.... |
 | 31. What TO Have for Breakfast Snack Girl is obsessed with breakfast. Why? Because, it is the most important meal of the day and so many of us skip it or eat the wrong food.... |
 | 32. Replace French Fries with This Easy and Healthy Snack The most eaten vegetable in the United States is the potato. Found in fast food venues from coast to coast the delicious French Fries are hard to avoid.... |
 | 33. Chocolate Pumpkin Protein Bars - YUM! You would expect that a food blog called Lilveggiepatch.com would be set in a rural spot like Athens, GA.... |
 | 34. How to Replace Butter without Sacrificing Flavor Is it possible? Can you remove butter from a great recipe and still want to eat it? Well, I was skeptical, until I decided to work this out for my waistline.... |
 | 35. A Dip that Won't Kill You Have you noticed how many calories a sour cream and onion dip has? We can fool ourselves into believing we are eating healthily by dipping veggies in these dips.... |
 | 36. Change Your Deviled Eggs into Angeled Eggs (Low Cal Recipe) Snack-Girl is a working mother and sometimes she doesn't get around to things as timely as other food writers. I would say most food blogs featured deviled eggs last week. Now that I have 2 dozen Hard Boiled Eggs in my fridge, I am ON IT!... |
 | 37. Replace Mayo With This Healthy Spread Seems like it is time to take on mayonnaise. I love the stuff, but when you start adding it to sandwiches, the calories sky rocket... |
 | 38. What The World Eats (Cheap and Healthy) Many poor people in the United States don't buy fresh fruits and vegetables because they are expensive relative to processed foods. I agree that a $1 hamburger will fill you up much more than a $1 apple (and, yes, they can cost that much).... |
 | 39. How To Bake Your Own Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day If you could make your own healthy bread in five minutes a day would you do it? Could you find the time for such an enterprise?... |
 | 40. Got Watermelon? Try This Awesome and Simple Recipe This is the season of watermelon. Supermarkets position these lovely creatures right at the front door so they hop into your cart! Really!... |
 | 41. Try This Pumpkin Pie Makeover For Thanksgiving Why would Snack Girl mess with Thanksgiving? Come on, live a little!... |
 | 42. How To Incorporate Veggies in Your Breakfast Snack-Girl is always looking at great snack ideas - and What's Gaby Cooking? is an inspirational food blog.... |
 | 43. Beyond Hard Boiled Eggs Eggs are incredibly nutritious. Just think, a baby embryo was supposed to consume that yolk to become a chick! (hmmmm, maybe you don't want to think about that :)... |
 | 44. DIY Cereal For A Healthy Snack National Cereal Day is this Sunday. How should we celebrate? How about making your own cereal? I'm sure the people at General Mills will LOVE this idea.... |
 | 45. How To Make a Power Breakfast (44% of your DV of Iron) Snack Girl has a problem. It is a GREAT problem to have - too much fresh spinach in her refrigerator.... |
 | 46. 100 Calories of Snack From Russia Have you ever wondered what snacks exist in other countries? Well, Snack Girl is on the case!.... |
 | 47. DIY Popsicles: A Happy, Healthy Snack Summer is here, baby! My town hit 87 degrees and I was hot. Fortunately, I had just made some of these delicious treats for the website.... |
 | 48. Elegant, Easy, and Eggilicious The best way to enjoy an egg doesn't involve any butter or cheese! Really! I know all those quiche lovers out there aren't going to believe me - but you have to give this a try.... |
 | 49. 63 Calories of Salty, Sweet, Sour, Spicy and Veggie Goodness for a Dime After writing about Parmesan Corn Recipe, I felt bad about adulterating corn into a high calorie food. Parmesan Corn Recipe is a GREAT snack, but not the best choice for us who are watching our weight.... |
 | 50. Smokeratoes: A Fabulous New Snack Sometimes you have to open your eyes to what is in front of you. Recently, my vision changed in the canned seafood section of the supermarket. There was a product I had never noticed on my search for great tuna fish.... |
 | 51. Jamie Oliver's Delicious Cheesy Corn Do you need a food revolution? Jamie Oliver thinks we do. And with 7 out of 10 Americans overweight or obese, I am inclined to agree with him.... |
 | 52. Do NOT Be Afraid of This Vegetable - In Season NOW and Yummy! A sure sign of that spring is here is the lovely strawberries, asparagus and artichokes that show up in the supermarkets. My store has them right at the entrance beckoning to me.... |
Snacks to Avoid
 | 53. McDonald's Burger Left for Two Weeks After 11 days of sitting at room temperature in a Ziploc bag, this is the photo of the 2 burgers. Obviously, the one on the right is the homemade burger and the one on the left is the McDonald's cheeseburger.... |
| 54. Stanford University Scientist Comments On Burger Experiment Last week's post on the rotting cheeseburger has created controversy here on Snack-Girl. If you didn't see it check it out here McDonald's Burger Left for Two Weeks.... |
 | 55. Guess What's in The Picture My pal, Hemi at Fooducate provides a lot of great advice on buying healthy food at the supermarket..... |
 | 56. What Everyone Needs to Know About Tostitos Every once in a while, I read an article that reflects my grumpiness about food marketing... |
 | 57. 3 Reasons to Avoid Ritz Crackers I'm locking my doors tonight in case the people from Nabsico try to take their revenge. Why, Snack-Girl, do you need to mess with an American icon?... |
 | 58. The Worst Pizza on the Planet What evil mind came up with this pizza combination? Was it the corporate folks at Domino's? Or some neighborhood pizzeria trying to change the world?... |
 | 59. What NOT To Have For Breakfast Snack Girl has begun to receive many products and books for review on the website. If I don't like something, I usually just don't mention it - why be negative? There is so much negativity in the world!... |
 | 60. The worst snack in America? What would it take to be the worst snack in America? There are facts - calories, ingredients, etc. - then there is the more subjective factor: taste.... |
 | 61. A Habit That May Be Costing You 500 Calories per Day Warm milk, sugar, and a little coffee mixed together is a definition of bliss. In the afternoon, when you are flagging at your desk, a visit to Starbucks keeps you going in a dreamlike state so your day goes faster.... |
 | 62. When 100% Whole Grain Means Nothing Snack Girl's search for healthy crackers never ends. I am always looking for that holy grail of a packaged snack that is also good for you.... |
 | 63. Candy or Breakfast? Evaluate Your Cereal The longest aisle in the supermarket is the breakfast cereal aisle. It seems to stretch forever with boxes of so many colors and sizes. How is a person to choose the healthy option?... |
 | 64. Three Reasons to Rethink that Diet Coke You’re About to Drink So you decided a long time ago to go with artificial sweeteners. After a while, you didn’t even notice the slightly different taste compared to sugar sweetened beverages.... |
 | 65. 560 Calories For Your Rapid Consumption From McDonald's How do you get 560 calories into a 16 ounce drink? That takes the talent of a major global corporation: McDonald's (of course).... |
 | 66. The Worst Snack of 2010 It was a difficult decision. Snack Girl has made her choice. |
 | 67. A Dangerous Combination, Like Teenagers and Alcohol The results of this duo are not unprotected sex, but unwanted pounds. This terrifying image will probably haunt you all day long... |
 | 68. So What's Inside Yoplait Yogurt Anyway? Yoplait is ubiquitous and has a very healthy (and European) image. But, you can't judge a book by its cover.... |
 | 69. The Worst Snack You Can Drink The largest market for energy drinks, such as RockStar, RedBull, and Monster is between the ages of 12 and 24 years old. These drinks feature caffeine and sugar. |
 | 70. Check Out This Cookie (Scary) Snack Girl has a problem she wants to share.... |
 | 71. This Blueberry Muffin Has a Dark Secret This blueberry muffin seems like an innocuous food. But, lurking in its floury depths lies a painful truth.... |
 | 72. This "Juice" Has HFCS and More Sugar Per Serving Than Soda The inspiration for Snack-Girl was a bottle of juice. That juice was one that my 3 year old daughter chose from a cooler in a convenience store... |
 | 73. Is a GoGurt a Healthy Go or a Junk Food No? The convenience of yogurt in a tube is phenomenal. No need for spoons and SO easy to pack make GoGurts a potential healthy choice for parents looking for something fun to add to lunch boxes.... |
 | 74. You Can De-Ice an Aircraft With This New WORST Drink Winner When you buy a slushy, ice-cold, blue, sugary drink, you KNOW you aren't making a healthy choice. The famous "Slurpee" machine at the 7-Eleven spews out colorful sludge for hot people.... |
 | 75. Which Favorite Snack has 35 Ingredients? There is a snack that earns Frito-Lay around $600 million a year. The multiple flavors of this chip and colors of the packages are incredibly enticing.... |
 | 76. What Everybody Ought to Know about Chips Ahoy They look so delicious floating in the air. They are the perfect cookie. They have lots of chips, and they are symmetrically round. BUT... |
 | 77. How to Snack Well (Hint: Avoid SnackWell's) Are SnackWell's the product of Satan? The cookie's name "Devil's Food cake" promises a treat of sinful proportions. AND, they are going to pull it off without fat, cholesterol or sodium.... |
Healthy Packaged Snacks
 | 78. A Rare Find: A Packaged Food that is Healthy and Delicious! Given the state of manufactured food in this country (think Twinkies), it can be difficult to trust that you can find something healthy and packaged. Snack-Girl is ALWAYS on the lookout for food that makes life easier and is good for you.... |
 | 79. The Healthiest Cracker On The Planet How would you like a cracker that just oozes health? A cracker that makes you think, "Hey, this is really good for me!!" |
 | 80. Love Ice Cream? Try This 130 Calorie Makeover Snack-Girl has been on the hunt for yogurt that makes her heart flutter. A yogurt so good that she wouldn't even miss ice cream. Is it possible?... |
 | 81. A Great Choice in Frozen Pizza Pizza can be a great snack. Snack-Girl has featured Mini Mini Pizzas and English Muffin Pizza as a way to get your pizza fix for less calories.... |
 | 82. A Healthy Choice at McDonald's Snack Girl is probably the last person on the planet to discover that McDonald's has yummy salads. I don't get out much.... |
 | 83. Cheerios: A Good Choice For a Healthy Snack? Snack Girl has spent A LOT of time in the cereal aisle looking for a great choice for Snack Girl readers. It isn't easy to find a cereal that passes the Candy or Breakfast? Evaluate Your Cereal test... |
 | 84. Natural Jif: What's The Dif? After Snack Girl's recent exposé on Whole Grain vs Original Wheat Thins, readers have started sending her other potential food fakes.... |
 | 85. How To Make Healthy Nachos I know what you are thinking. The words "healthy" and "nachos" do not belong together in a sentence. But, Snack Girl has been sent a new product that has changed her mind.... |
 | 86. Can A New Drink Change Your Life? Recently, a reader sent me a strange message about Almond Breeze. She wrote that it had CHANGED HER LIFE!... |
 | 87. Candy that is good for you Can you have a treat that is also nutritious? Absolutely. There is no reason why you need to chose a food that lacks nutrients to get a great treat. |
 | 88. A Whole Food Snack of Salty Deliciousness and A Winner! I really appreciate Snack-Girl readers, and am thrilled when someone suggests something that I need to review. Crystal wrote me a very nice e-mail admonishing me for leaving these veggie goodies off the site. So, today, I will fix this situation.... |
 | 89. You Have Never Had Beef Jerky Like This! A few weeks ago, Snack Girl featured an alarming photograph of mechanically separated chicken. Is this what goes into our food?... |
 | 90. A Kid's Energy Bar for Lunch Boxes and Adults I was first introduced to these bars on a tour of a supermarket with a nutritionist. "THESE are great bars!", she said. I was skeptical.... |
 | 91. A Great Choice For A Frozen Waffle Breakfastpalooza continues here on Snack Girl with a question about frozen waffles.... |
 | 92. A Breakfast Cereal You Can Feel Good About Back in March, I wrote Candy or Breakfast? Evaluate Your Cereal and since then I have been on a search for cereals that pass my, "Healthy or Crappy Cereal Test" (patent pending :)... |
 | 93. The Odwalla Smoothie Dilemma What could be wrong about an entire mango in a bottle of juice? What if there was no added sugar but just non-GMO fruit mixed in a bottle for your healthy consumption?... |
 | 94. One Sweet Reason To Avoid Artificial Sweeteners Artificial sweeteners make it possible to eat or drink something and have it taste sweet without the calories. They serve a purpose for diabetics and dieters. Snack-Girl has been asked many times which one she recommends.... |
 | 95. How To Pick A Healthy Jam or Jelly It isn’t that hard to find a healthy jam or jelly if you know what to look for.... |
 | 96. A Healthy Snack for a Busy World Do you have time to sit and peel a fresh mango every time you want a snack? No? Well, I'm sure you are in the majority.... |
 | 97. The Healthiest Microwave Popcorn A while back, I wrote a post on Homemade Microwave Popcorn that was enjoyed by many. The simplicity of it was shocking.... |
 | 98. This Food is An Instant Party in Your Mouth Is there a food out there that can explode with taste and also fight cancer? The obvious answer is berries, but the fresh ones are pretty pricey.... |
 | 99. Cheese Stick Also known as string cheese, this cheese stick is an example of a packaged snack that is good for you... |
 | 100. A Healthy 100 Calorie Snack Pack How can you eat healthy without spending a lot of time or money? This is a vexing question because most of us are limited in either money or time (and most likely - both).... |
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