Easy healthy snacks recipes

Still, swallow cookies and sweets at work? Small snacks before the main meals are important if you want to maintain a healthy diet. But we often either ignore this rule or choose different diet supplements. If you want to read more about supplements, you can do it by clicking on the link. We decided to show you some healthy and nutritious snacks recipes. They can be easily cooked at home and, what is more, all of them are budget friendly.

● Chicken roll

Ingredients: Fine lavash - half a sheet, boiled or baked chicken fillet - 50 grams, vegetables - 50 grams, yogurt - 20 grams, spices to taste.

Preparation:

Cut the vegetables and chicken into small pieces. Cut lavash into squares. If desired, the bread leaf can be greased with sauce. To do this, add salt, pepper, and spices to thick yogurt. This sauce will be delicious with garlic and herbs.

Do not use ready-made sore sauces. They are very high-calorie and mayonnaise-based. 100 grams of this sauce contains about 450 calories. It's like a great "snicker". It is also better to choose dry yeast pita with bran, it is more useful than usual bread or lavash.

Put the stuffing on the lavash squares and make a roll. Bake in the oven for 10 minutes.

● Dried fruits and nuts

You will need: peanuts - 100 grams, hazelnuts - 100 grams, walnuts - 100 grams, dried apricots - 100 grams, prunes - 100 grams.

An option for those who do not want to cook anything. Nuts and dried fruits are a good alternative to sweets and cookies. This amount of ingredients will last you for a whole week.

It is best to simply buy different nuts and dried fruits and mix them together by yourself. It will turn out cheaper than buying ready-made mixtures. Also, you can vary the amount of one ingredient or another.

Though nuts and fruits are much more useful than sweets, you still need to be careful. Nuts contain a lot of useful fats but are very high in calories. Therefore, no more than 50 grams of nuts per day.

It is best also to avoid very beautiful and perfectly even dried fruits. They were surely processed with something or may contain sugar syrup to be sweeter. You shouldn’t buy banana chips either, they are very calories-dense and it is better just to eat a regular banana.

● Hummus with vegetable sticks

Ingredients: Nut - 100 grams, olive oil, garlic, spices, herbs, cucumber, carrots, celery, wheat bread - 2 pcs.

Humus can be cooked on your own, or you can buy a ready-made one. It is very nutritious and rich in vitamins. This is a favorite snack of all vegans!

Preparation:

The nut should first soak in water at least for 6 hours, you can leave it to soak overnight, and then cook until fully soft and ready (it will take at least 1.5-2 hours). Then put it in the blender, and add garlic, spices, you can also add some greens and start to blend everything together. Add oil but do not overdo it. A tablespoon will be enough.

In the end, you will get a smooth thick paste. If it turned out dry, you can mix in a little water or nut broath. This amount of hummus will be enough for two portions.

Vegetables should be simply cut into large straws. Then you can pack them in a container with you and next time you will get hungry, just pull out the vegetables, stick them into hummus and enjoy!

Vegetables should be simply cut into large straws. Then you can pack them in a container with you and next time you will get hungry, just pull out the vegetables, stick them into hummus and enjoy!

 

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