Great Healthy Snack Foods

Walking down the aisle of your favorite supermarket looking for groceries can be really frustrating at times. There are bars of Dairy Milk, jars of Nutella, bars of Haagen Daaz staring at you, alluring you with their shiny wrappers and yummy flavors and you have just committed to having nothing but the most healthy of foods.What a truly horrible feeling having to cross over to the fruits and vegetables section and ignoring all those scrumptious treats. They even call out to you with their low fat, low calorie or diet snack labels and for a moment you almost give up your and chuck in a few into your grocery basket. But wait, is healthy snacking really that bad? If your answer is yes, you are obviously doing something wrong.

Eating healthy doesn’t mean eating bland, boring, tasteless stuff. It doesn’t have to be so taxing on your taste buds at all. The fat free, diet foods in a scrumptious array offer you no nutritional value at all. You may cheat a little and try out some but they will leave you feeling guilty knowing you just imposed some very unwelcome food on your body not to mention the few extra calories you could have certainly done without.

Now coming back to the original question: what are some great tasting healthy snack foods. There are a whole lot of food groups that offer great nutritional value. Take the example of non-fat dairy products. These not only provide protein but are also rich in calcium. Nuts and seeds are another good source of non-meat protein. Fruits and vegetables offer a whole lot of nutrition from minerals and vitamins to fiber. Fiber is also contained in whole grain foods which make another food group that offers healthy snacks. For those who are unsure what these groups really offer, have a look at the variety mentioned here, and remember these are just a very few of your choices: Raw almonds, apples, mandarin, cherry tomatoes, dried fruit, banana, grapes, tuna, dried peas, pop corn, baby carrots, celery and hummus, Whole-grain Crisp bread with Cottage Cheese and bean salad.

Still unsure any of these can beat the treats in the supermarket? Try these substitutes.

• Rice cracker chips for a usual one.
• Carrot juice for a can of fizzy drink.
• Strawberry flavored frozen yogurt instead of strawberry ice cream.

Now that doesn’t sound so bad, does it? You can make your own substitutes if you use your imagination along with your resolve to eat healthy. It’s really not that difficult to find a combination of health and taste.

At home as well, you can satisfy your craving for those high calories, unhealthy foods. There are plenty of ways in which you can do this and, some favorites are given below:

• Fill a bell pepper with left-over chicken; add cottage cheese and a salsa dressing in any flavor of your liking.
• Make a smoothie by mixing your favorite berry with low fat milk and yogurt in a blender.
• Mix soy nuts with tuna and eat with a whole wheat slice of bread.
• Make a tasty salad with some turkey breast, spinach and a light dressing.
• Healthy snacks don’t mean tasteless, boring food you have to force-feed yourself. A little creativity can take you a long way. In keeping to your diet and regime.

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