Starting the day with a healthy breakfast and after sweating hard over the gym, if you too experience it hard to resist the snacking that helps you gain weight, this article is for you.
Good News! You don’t need to suppress your cravings for some lip-smacking snacks. No need to make your evening tea feel alone! This article is all about Healthy Snacks. So, welcome aboard, and let’s make health, tasty!
Snacks can be healthy!
When we sweat over our health, it seems rather impossible to enjoy the tasty food! It’ll be so great if someone tells us that health and taste can go hand in hand. No? Here, this article includes some ways in which our snacks can be tastier, in addition to having a plethora of health benefits in it. Let’s see them one by one.
This article lists the Top 11 healthy snack recipes, which everyone will definitely love to, try and repeat and repeat. Have a look at all of them and find your favorite one. Let’s GO!
1. Avocado Fries tastes so good with Lime Sauce!
Benefits of Avocado:
- This is ‘fatty’ food. Yes, you read this rightly! But this fatty food can help you lose weight so easily. The reason is that it does not pile up the calories, but aids lubrication of joints.
- It is the ‘Most nutritive fruit’ known to exist, brimming with over 20 vitamins and nutrients.
- It helps in the regulation of Blood Pressure and also has really good inflammation properties.
Avocado fries taste so good with the Lemon sauce. Plus, it has a high nutritive value. It offers a good amount of carbs, fiber, protein, and sugars.
Use this tip: DO NOT ‘Deep fry’ these fries! Bake them in the oven or an air fryer! This will reduce the unnecessary oil fats and make it way healthier to enjoy!
2. Mango and Raspberry form a sweet fruit roll up
Preparing a fruit snack simply means that you have sweet food, without adding the real sugar to it. So have sweet health without sugar!
Benefits of Raspberry: Raspberries do not have many calories in them, but is a wide store of vitamins, fiber, and some very useful antioxidants. Raspberries can even help fight deadly disorders, like cancer, diabetes, obesity, and also have useful anti-aging effects.
The best part: This snack contains 0-gram fat, but has great health benefits to offer. So, the next time, you want a sweet snack, you only need mangoes and raspberries!
3. A healthy, creative Yogurt!
Yogurt’s great benefits:
- Yogurt is rich in calcium, vitamin B, and offers almost all the nutrients, required to keep the human body healthy and fit.
- Yogurt is appetizing! We generally eat packed snacks, which are claimed to have low calories. These are also protein-deficient. As a matter of fact, yogurt is rich in protein, is appetizing, and also low in calorie count.
- Yogurt contains some efficient nutrients, that strengthen the immune system and helps us fight illnesses.
Adding some nuts and chopped dry fruits, add to its nutritive value and acts as rich fiber food. So, next time you want some high-fiber and protein snacks, yogurt and nuts should be the best option! They can even be consumed for breakfast, considering its appetizing nature.
4. Oats Cake Cookies!
Raise your hand if you cannot stop yourself from looking into this snack’s recipe!
Healthy cakes and cookies! Ever thought of these?
Oats are the best when it comes to taste with health. These are the best anti-oxidants and helps lower cholesterol levels. This fiber food can even control and Regulate Blood Sugar levels. The best way to consume oats, (which I found till now!) is by preparing this tasty and healthy oats cookie cake!
To add natural sugars and fiber to these cookies, add some tasty raisins and walnuts. Some carrot in these cookie cakes will make it all the more lip-smacking!
5. Chocolaty Popcorn!
Popcorns are the most common, light, and healthy snacks. Let us make them healthier by adding a sprinkle of Dark chocolate!
Dark Chocolate have a plethora of great benefits to offer! From providing nutrition and anti-oxidation, to reducing heart risks and regulating brain functioning, dark chocolate is an amalgam of chocolate love and health.
6. An apple a day with Almond Dip!
Jump over your bed once to show your love for Almond Butter! Don’t Worry, I know you are always tensed about the number of calories it passes on to you!
Let’s make it healthy! Apple slices with almond butter are way too good a combination.
Almond Butter is a good source of Vitamin B and a lot of other vitamins and fiber, which helps strengthen heart health. Apple is famous for its health benefits and is considered to be a whole package for sustaining good health.
For added taste and health, add some nuts and dry fruits. Make it appetizing!
7. Baked Pears with Honey and walnut
All you need to prepare this proteinous and fibrous snack is pears, honey, walnuts, and some additional frozen yogurt.
This snack is not only appetizing but provides a bucket of quick energy to get started with your day. So, this makes a good, energetic, and healthy start of the day.
8. Sweet Potato Chips
For all the sweet potato lovers out there, this is a healthy snack for you. Bake some freshly boiled sweet potato, with a sprinkle of good olive oil and some salt.
Sweet potato is considered as a superfood, for a reason that it contains good fiber, proteins, and a lot of potassium. What are you waiting for? Leap out of bed and make these Crisp Bites!
9. Banana Ice Cream
Banana is a rich source of Vitamin C, Magnesium, and Potassium, which helps to regulate Blood Pressure and strengthens heart health.
MORE than that, Bananas are an efficient way to suffice your sweet cravings. They are packed with natural sugars, proteins, carbs, and fibers.
HOW TO MAKE INSTANT BANANA ICE-CREAM
This is a very special recipe, which I personally make and enjoy, whenever I have instant cravings for some Chilled Ice-cream.
- Always have 2-3 bananas frozen in your freezer.
- Mash them nicely in a blender and add some coco-powder to add some choco taste. Your taste may vary and you can add strawberry or any other flavor too!
- Mash them until it becomes soft and creamy. You will see a fine texture of the ice-cream.
- Take it out of the blender and add some honey to it. You can add some nuts or small dry fruits for aesthetic and health purposes.
The instant ice-cream is ready. You can have it anytime and it has multiple health benefits too!
10. Blueberry and Oats Muffins filled with Greek yogurt
Blueberries are great anti-oxidants and Greek Yogurt is full of proteins. Together they form a very delicious and healthy snack.
Let us look into its very simple, yet classy recipe. So, ride with me into this delicious world!
STEPS TO MAKE BLUEBERRY, OATS MUFFINS:
- Take 1 cup of flour, baking powder, oats, and some little salt in a large bowl. These are our dry ingredients for the snack.
- In another bowl, mix well, yogurt, some eggs, milk, and honey together. This forms the bowl of wet ingredients.
- Mix both the wet and the dry ingredients together, until they are well into each other.
- Sprinkle some blueberries and form a fine batter out of this.
- Use this batter to make some lip-smacking, rather too healthy oats and blueberries muffins.
This is undoubtedly a very healthy recipe, because it includes remarkably fine ingredients, with several health benefits, like Oats, Yogurt, Blueberries, Eggs, Honey, and Milk.
11. Caprese Salad
This gluten-free salad snack will take you with itself. You will crave to have this snack every day, once you have it.
This colorful salad contains Roma tomato and Mozzarella as its main ingredients. Drizzle some vinegar and olive oil and have it finally, with some chopped basil leaves. Health Benefits: Tomatoes are a great source of vital Vitamin-C. In addition to just this, this salad also offers a good amount of protein and refreshment. Basil Leaves are very good for skin and helps digestion.
Conclusion:
So, Finally, we have ended the list of top 11 healthy snacks that offers taste over boring healthy leafy dishes. Do try at least one of them today and make it a habit. You will start realizing its benefits, once you make healthy living a habit.
These are some super tasty dishes, which you can have as snacks, over the conventional fried and fatty food, we take for snacks every day. Now, just jump into your kitchen and make some appetizer for yourself and thanks me later!
Thanks for reading the article. I hope you all enjoyed it and already have a craving for at least 1 of these 11 snacks! Good Luck!
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