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While I try to figure out some more inspiration for the easy healthy dinners series, I thought I’d bring you some suggestions for healthy snacks!
I take a filling breakfast (muesli, yoghurt and fruit) plus lunch (normally something involving hummus and veggies in a pitta or a wrap) to work but I still always need an afternoon snack. Without one, I will inevitably wind up eating chocolate or a shop-bought granola bar (even the healthiest options in most shops aren’t too healthy – I would go for an eat natural bar or elevenses bar if I had no other options – but they’re both high in sugar) by mid afternoon.
The key (I think) is to be prepared and take healthy snacks to work so that you’re less tempted to buy chocolate or whatnot in the mid-afternoon. Here’s my run down of great healthy snack options!
Malt loaf
I’m not even completely sure what malt loaf is…. it has raisins… and malt I guess. Its a kind of a malty raisin-y bread. Its also delicious, low in fat and keeps you full for a long time. You can buy soreen snack packs for 99p but I prefer to buy a tesco value loaf and take two slices to work in tin foil. SAVINGS!
Nuts and raisins
This is great for keeping you full since it has protein and carbs, plus the raisins will satisfy a sugar craving.
Fruit!
Fruit is a great snack, duh! But its VERY expensive to buy pre-prepared fruit and fruit salads in most shops. If you have a local greengrocer, check out whats in season and save yourself a pretty penny.
Protip – keep a jar of peanut butter in your desk drawer to eat with apple slices. The perfect snack!
Whats your favourite snack?
Kerry Cooks 
Thank you for these tips! I always avoided malt loaf because it feels like it’s calorie packed when I’m eating it (to be fair, I never checked the label properly). It’s so tasty, so I’ll be swapping my boring cereal bars for malt loaf now 🙂
And definitely having nuts and sultanas on standby (I prefer sultanas to raisins), and perhaps a fruit salad, which I find much more inviting to eat than bare pieces of fruit you have to tackle at your desk. Oranges are a nightmare! 🙂
I think malt loaf is one of those things that seems unhealthy but is actually just energy packed. One sixth of a loaf is 82 calories according to my (tesco value!) malt loaf!
I need some healthy snack inspiration indeed! Summer really is around the corner for us here!
Watermelon is the best summer snack – so yum yet so inexplicably healthy!
Ooooooh I do love malt loaf! It reminds me of afternoons round my nans! I have to be careful not to smother too much butter on it though!!!
My favourites are ryvittas with a little bit of butter! I don’t know why but I love the flavour of ryvittas and they now do all fancy ones with extra seeds too!
Yum! Ryvita/crackers are a good one too – they do a rice cracker with chocolate on but its too addictive!