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[Alli]

In our house, we like to eat apples and natural peanut butter, pears and artisan cheese, or nuts and raisins as a snack. Edamame is another popular snack option when we can get it.
What does everyone else do for healthy snacks?

[Shortpoet-GTD]

1 to 1 1/2 cup unsalted, shelled peanuts
1-1/2 tablespoons of flax-seed oil
1/2 teaspoon salt
(optional- sweeten with add 2 tbsp of honey)

Just grind and blend till its the way you want it. Store it in the fridge or else it will go bad in a few days.
It lasts about 2 weeks in the refrigerator. It's easier with a food processor but i have done it with a regular blender.
http://ran.org/palm-oil
But to produce palm oil in large enough quantities to meet growing demand, farmers across Southeast Asia have been clearing huge swaths of biodiversity-rich tropical rainforest to make room for massive palm plantations. Today palm oil production is the largest cause of deforestation in Indonesia and other equatorial countries with dwindling expanses of tropical rainforest.
Indonesia’s endangered orangutan population, which depends upon the rainforest, has dwindled by as much as 50 percent in recent years.

The clearing of these forests is a big factor in global warming, given how much carbon dioxide (CO₂) trees store when left alone. Once forests are cut, tons of CO₂ heads skyward where it does the most harm. Also, when not replaced by palm oil plantations, rainforests help maintain water resources by absorbing rainfall and then releasing it into streams and rivers, thus minimizing flooding and soil depletion."
http://www.scientifi...and-rainforests

[Germs]

Natural peanut butter has always been my personal favorite healthy snack, that and any kind of fruit really.

[yoder]

Dates are my cheap and healthy snack at work.  I live just 6 blocks from a middle eastern / mediterranean grocery store, so I'm very lucky.

[zararina]

We love eating some foods made from banana for afternoon snack. Such as banana que, turon and maruya. And also some made from sweet potato such as camote que and cassava cake. (Filipino foods/delicacies)
There are times that  we just eat fresh fruits for snacks.

[eds]

Walnuts, sprinkled on breakfast cereal, loose in a bowl on the table,
. . . apple, banana, pear, in between meals.
. . . Helps you lose weight, cut down the size and proportions of each meal, and
. . . fight off hunger and Diabetes.

[mariaandrea]

Almonds - I buy 'em raw and roast them at home with olive oil
Garbanzo bean dip - it's like hummus without the tahini, just a can of beans, clove of garlic, squeeze of lemon juice and drizzle of olive oil in the blender. Served with raw carrots, broccoli and cucumber and whole grain crackers.
Yogurt - any kind, love it
Strawberries

[cherrichiodo]

Baked kale chips
Natural (farmers market bought) almond butter
Granny smith apples
Rice cakes with almond butter

Unfortunately, we have given up peanut butter. My daughters ND said that peanuts contain aflatoxins that are toxic to the liver so we switched over to almond butter. I buy both creamy and crunchy. Tastes great on toast!

[steph84]

When in season, I really love eating figs. Fresh fruit is on the top of my list for healthy snacks. I love strawberries, dates and apricots. I love fruit, but sometimes I don't want a lot of sugar in my diet and switch to sliced cucumber, carrots and other veggies. I love Kashi crackers with a little bit of cheese too. I just started eating raw fruit and veggie snack bars by Pure Bar. They're pretty tasty and I like them when I'm on the go.

[Mon-Jes]

Fruit, fruit, fruit, more fruit, um... fruit, did I mention fruit?

I used to drive my father nuts because I'd eat most of the fruit from a grocery run within a couple of days. I can't buy as much now because I try to eat organic fruit when I can -- costs more -- but seriously, forget the gourmet chilled strawberry puree or cherry soup -- give me the plain fruit itself.

[steph84]

I hear you Mon-Jes! I have an apricot, plum, orange and apple tree out back and I usually eat them all before getting them to the house! I just started growing my own strawberries and try to hurry up and pick them before the birds do. It is so affordable if you just grow your own fruit! If you don't have the space, try to grow them indoors. Look into hydroponics as well! You can grow your own tasty food indoors and save at the market. I also hate how the markets put all of that wax on our fruit and stickers. It's just not appetizing for me.

[Shortpoet-GTD]

Nuts.

[sunny]

Sunflower seeds, corn salads, blackberries, cranberries ...

[gangandealer]

Well we really like to eat cereal and throwing some strawberries and bananas inside.

[tinkerbulilit]

For me and my family, nothing beats the goodness of fresh fruits. We just snack on sliced fruits such as apples, ripe mangoes, grapes, guyabano and watermelon. We love fruits and we basically eat almost all kinds.

Aside from getting a lot of vitamin C from fruits, we can also reduce the risk of developing various cancer types. And it is also amazing how eating fruits can potentially slow down age process. Good news to the not-so-young ones!

[Mon-Jes]

Steph84, when I was a little kid, the house we lived in had a backyard with lots of fruit trees. I used to eat peaches and oranges right off the tree, to the real annoyance of the rest of my family. I was always so disappointed that lemons were sour, because that tree was one of the more prolific -- if they were sour, I really couldn't eat them straight from the tree. :-)

[soccerbai123]

I just like eating mangoes and bananas. At home, I would pput some milk on the banana to give more taste. And for the mango, I normally slice it in cubes cause to I like it's design.

[sbjc]

My healthiest snack I eat is vegetable salad. I see to it that I have two servings of vegetable salad per day. I also love eating grapes without seeds, and cucumber dipped into vinegar with pepper. Ohh! I am now craving for it! LOL

[dugluss]

I like to change my healthy snacks on a daily basis as I sometimes get bored of having the same item all week. I will mainly eat my snacks in work at my desk so I try to eat more healthy items rather than cakes, sweets etc. Various types of fruit tend to be my favourite snacks. Love apples, bananas, pears etc. At the moment though I find myself eating rather a lot of various cereal bars. One of my favourites is the made by Eat Natural. It is a yoghurt coated puffed rice, seed and nut bar and I find them delicious. If you see the Eat Natural bars it is the one in the Orange wrapper - highly recommended! It is great for filling you up till lunch time as well.

[karmaman]

I love nuts, but I usually eat them in the form of organic peanut or almond butter. I want to eat more raw vegetables, but most of the time I end up with fruit instead at the grocery store.

One of my favorite snacks when I'm a little bit more hungry is hummus. I want to make some of my own to play around with different flavorings like garlic and tomato paste.