I saw my doctor recently and while talking about what a lazy fat-ass I am, he mentioned something about replacing the crap I usually snack on with healthier snacks like seasoned air-fried cauliflower or something like that. So what are your favorite healthy-ish snacks that can be made relatively quickly when I feel like shoving food in my face for no reason other than boredom and force of habit?
I like popcorn. I can make a bunch with like 2 tbsp of oil and 1 tsp of finely ground salt. Look up “popcorn” by Bryan David Gilbert. I don’t usually use the lao gan ma, but it’s nice if you want to. Also I prefer a flat-bottom pot to the wok.
Fizzy water. When you feel like a snack, drink some carbonated water. I found a lot of time I wanted water and flavor more than the food.
And high fiber/bran stuff fills you up. Get stuff made of whole grains like popcorn, whole wheat (or real corn) tortillas, fruits with peels on, and the like.
Blueberries freeze really well, spread em on a baking sheet so they stay separate before you bag them. Muffins are pretty easy to bake at home and with a little practice you can make a whole wheat muffin with sunflower seeds fucking tasty.
The pain in the ass is that healthy ingredients go bad much faster. Whole wheat flour goes stale in a hurry compared to AP flour.
One thing that worked for me was fasting. It is far easier for me to skip a meal than to eat in moderation. I figure I want to eat a 2000 calorie meal every time i sit down, maybe that’s a sign I should only do it once a day, very much ymmv on that one, but I lost 50# in a year just … eating until I was full, but only once a day.
As a nice side bonus, your bathroom schedule also becomes very predictable, which is handy for scheduling,
This is probably my #1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crispbread Either plain or with low calorie butter
Good suggestions for snacks but I think a lot of people missed the “when I want to shove something in my face as a force of habit.” You really want to get the lowest calorie thing possible, ideal would be lettuce and celery since those are basically nothing but still give you something to eat. Next would probably be apple slices, berries have surprisingly low sugar, egg white is basically pure protein but a full egg is fine too. Sprouts can be good if you grow them right. I sometimes just slowly eat a spoonful of peanut butter over like an hour but…
I would also recommend having random drinks you can go between, like tea soymilk coffee, even diet soda. Just avoid anything with sugar or fat. Things like nuts are healthy but not a great constant snack food because they do have a lot of fat, so that should be an intentional thing rather than something to reach for.
Egg white being protein, yes (and one of the best suited for human). But if you don’t use the protein in excercise, it can be considered a dense form of calories, even more so than fat.
Nuts, fruit, steamed veggies (with or without seasoning), popcorn, GOOD beef jerky, yogurt.
Highly recommend you read Ultra-Processed People. I found that learning about what’s in the normal unhealthy snacks sort of makes you not want to eat them at all, which will make eating healthy snacks so much easier. Just my experience though.Almonds, roasted veggies, celery with peanut butter, fruit.
Yoghurt (plain is ideal but I like a little bit of vanilla), nuts, rice cakes, homemade dried fruit oat bars, apples, and homemade protein bars.
Popcorn is great. It’s like fiber, butter, salt and spices.
Been snacking on pita, labne (Lebanese yogurt I love it it has just a hint of the taste of cream cheese but it’s light and quot like yogurt) and toum (ingredients: garlic, oil, lemon juice, salt, magic). I imagine it’s doing great things for my cholesterol and vampire infestation.
Oh! And there’s the only one pounds bag of gummi worms. That’s healthy because shut up.
Wife likes putting peas (with some BBQ rub on em, brush on a little oil or get em damp if you want the rub to actually stick) in the air fryer, she says it makes em poop
MOINKs ate pretty great if you want to put the time into it
Sometimes I just go to town on an entire container of cherry tomatoes
Fruit, sardines, kimchi, pickles, cucumbers, bell peppers, dark chocolate…
Lots of veggies make tasty snacks if you chop them small, toss with olive oil, salt, and garlic powder, and roast them. Not as easy as grabbing a bag from a cabinet but still super easy. Does take some time, though.
Similarly, lots of leafy greens can be cooked up quickly and easily as a snack.
Marinated soft or medium boiled eggs, such as Korean mayak eggs, Chinese tea eggs, or Japanese ajitsuki tamago (ajitama).
Down that vein, deviled eggs.
Chips and salsa, so many great options. You should check the calorie count, but you could always make your own if you wanna really get into it. Swap the chips for a baked version if you wanna cut back on fried things.
It’s also important to change how you eat.
Do you tear open a box/bag of something and gun it down in front of a screen?
Try making yourself actual meals. Use napkins and silverware and non-paper plates. Make a protein, a carb, and some greens. Sit at the dinner table, not in front of the TV.
Even if it’s just a snack you can present it nicely. Cut the apple up and lay it out with bits of cheese.
Make the meal seem special.
I feel personally attacked
There was a cartoon. One person says that the only time they clean their apartment is when someone special is coming over. The other says “Don’t you think you’re special?”
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So do I… Because it"is accurate when I’m not eating right! Haha 😮
Mind you, I do all that (without fail) and I’m still a lardarse.
https://leisureguy.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/rcaf_xbx_5bx_exercise_plans_text.pdf
15 minute a day plan. The only equipment you need is a stopwatch.
Starts at a level anyone who can walk around the block can do.
Ah. I can’t walk around the block. I have CFS and post exertional malaise.
Damn, thats tough, you have strict limitations on the level of physical exertion you can do. This means that your diet is really the only realistic way to manage your weight.
You mentioned you already eat healthy snacks but if you are still overweight, you have been eating more kcal than you use, over a long period of time. Tracking calories is not fin but have you tried it? Its not something you need to do forever, just long enough to have an understanding of what you need to eat.
A few suggestions based on whether you need more calories. If you are trying to gain weight:
Triscuit crackers and hummus
Nuts, whichever you like.
Whole fat Greek yogurt with honey or savory with olives and crackers (again, Triscuit if you need calories)
If you need to reduce calories:
Apple & a few slices of good cheddar
An avocado
Boiled egg
Popcorn made at home
NONfat Greek yogurt with fruit and/or a little honey.
A walk. Sometimes you are bored not hungry.
Full fat Greek yogurt is also healthy.
And delicious!
Do air fried chickpeas count as healthy? Goes great with some spicy seasonings :3
This is the type of thing I was hoping for. Something savory or spicy. Any particular recipes?
I don’t follow any particular recipe tbh (and just buy them from the snack section at the store half the time lol), but basically you just want to get them really dry before frying https://basilandbay.com/crispy-chickpeas-3-flavor-options/ there’s a few recipes you can find online that detail the process :3 for spices I just kinda eyeball salt,.pepper, chili powder, garlic powder, paprika, and cumin sometimes
I’d imagine some of the popcorn seasonings you can get would work well, too… Might try making them at home, I’ve gotten a bag of them pre-made before and liked them. Don’t have an air fryer, but I’d imagine a toaster oven would probably work well
This works for peas and you don’t need a recipe. Put boiled peas in an air-fryer to crisp them up a bit. Then sprinkle on whatever spices you like. Can add lemon, or sauces or whatever you like. Experiment as you like. Just be careful not to make it unhealthy by drowning it in sauce.
You could do the same with cutting aubergine into thin slices and making them crisp in an airfryer or oven and making “chips” out of them.
Bats eat those? As for healthy, probably depends mainly on how much salt they end up containing
Salt content can always be adjusted if you’re making it yourself :3
(And as far as im aware bats don’t generally eat chickpeas :3… most are insectivores, or frugivores (some vampire bats too) lol. For someone with a bat fursona I should really know more bat facts tho)
Chickpeas, either out of the can or roasted
In shell peanuts
Bananas
Cheese and cold cuts from the deli
Yogurt
Everything in moderation of course
Cheese and cold cuts (maybe besides chicken/turkey cuts, but especially anything salami or sausage related) I would argue are not healthy. Better than the worst of the worst like ice cream, desserts, and candy, but it is just saturated fan + saturated fat + a small amount of protein, zero fiber, and not many vitamins or minerals.
Very tasty, and fine to snack on in small amounts, but literally any edible plant, nut, fruit, yogurt, legume, or even things like granola or protein bars have much more nutritional content.
Mandarins
They are easy to peel and unlike banana peels, its peels are relatively dry and smell nice, you can keep them comfortably in your pocket until you find a trash bin.
Many people is mentioning nuts. Yes, they are healthy but they are very calorie dense.
Rude
come on down!
Nuts are very caloricly dense, yes but since they are whole foods they do not have the same effect on your weight as a processes snack with the same amount of calories (say chips or candy). If you’re gonna snack on something, whole foods are always better.
That’s not how calories work.










