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?
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Deep-fried macaroni pie. It’s a Scottish delicacy.
- Take macaroni cheese
- Encase it in a hot water pastry crust
- Dip it in batter
- Deep-fry it
- Put it inside a well-buttered morning roll
- Eat
- Die happy. Soon, but happy.
Mmm, carbilicious action.
Where’s the “healthy” part? Lmao, excuse me while i go make an ungodly amount of these.
Ah, yes, well. The healthy bit comes straight after ‘un’. It’s possible I didn’t read the question correctly.
I don’t know what a hot water pastry crust is or a morning roll. Where I live we eat Southern biscuits for breakfast.
You have the rare honour of being the first comment I’ve both downvoted and saved.
(Downvoted simply because it’s the opposite kind of answer to what OP is looking for, if it actually bugs you let me know and I’ll remove, nbd).
I can take the downvotes when I deserve them, so I’ve upvoted you for using the downvote correctly!
Banana and nuts? I usually eat them as snacks. Any easy to peel fruits will do. I might add a glass of soy milk, too, if really hungry.
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.
Outside of a human body, a calorie is a calorie. Once inside being digested things get more complex. What I stated was not pulled out of thin air, take a look here
The truth is: Energy measurements of foods do not accurately reflect the energy a human body will get out of them.
Not to mention the fact that different people get different energy out of the same foods, since an integral part of our digestive system are hundres of different species of bacteria that vary between humans.
fruit. any kind
Nuts
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.
Popcorn, minimally salted
No one mentioned it, so I’ll throw it out here:
Popcorn.
I’m not particularly concerned about avoiding fat or salt, so I drown it in butter, but you do you.
After one of my kids killed our microwave by putting a package of popcorn in it and turning it on for way too long and forgetting it, I banned microwave popcorn from the house and got an air-popper. The thing is awesome. I never liked the microwave popcorn, but the air-popped popcorn became my snack of choice.
Hmmm, yes, they do say popcorn can be a healthy snack, huh? Still, to invest in a machine that only makes one kind of food, in my not-too-big apartment…
Is it a big machine? Can you clean it in the dishwasher?
You can take the plain popcorn and pop it in a microwave in a brown paper lunch sack that is folded over. No need for a one off machine.
You can just make it on the stovetop in a pot with a top
I have a collapsible silicone bucket with a lid for popcorn making that goes into the microwave. It’s easy to use, doesn’t require any fat, also serves as a bowl and you can just throw it into the dishwasher. Size-wise, it’s probably not that different from an air popper when collapsed, but it’s easier to find a spot for; mine is on top of the stack of roughly bowl-shaped things. And you could also use it as a bowl for other things, so it’s not necessarily single-purpose.
I have one of these. A perfect product honestly.
Just any pot works, you dont need a machine.
I use spoonful of coconut oil or clarified butter, but coconut oil works better. Heat oil
put corn kernels, i put just to cover bottom of the pot, or a bit less.
Then you cover and shake.
Use fine salt and fine msg for seasoning. I like adding smoked paprika powder.
Stove top popcorn is too stupidly easy to buy a one off gadget. I make popcorn on the stove at least 3 times a week just using vegetable oil and flavacol. My wife and I are now spoiled on this popcorn.
Air poppers can be small, mine is about ten inches tall, five inches wide and deep. I’m no fan of single use appliances but it makes a healthy snack so easy (just pour half a cup of kernels in and switch it on) that it gets a pass. It’s fast too, takes about a minute and can’t burn them. The only cleaning it needs it to shake out any popcorn bits that for some reason didn’t get ejected. It was a great value purchase for seven bucks.
The downside is it’s loud AF.
Came here to say exactly this, people sleep on popcorn as a low calorie fiber source.
I buy it pre-popped by the bag at Aldi, since it’s pretty cheap and for healthy snacks I need to prioritize convenience to make sure I actually eat them.
Trader Joe’s has ranch seasoning that is amazing on popcorn!!
I’ve been using nutritional yeast and it is like a cheese dust replacement. Would not recommend eating it by itself though (ie what’s leftover at the bottom of the bowl).
So a double whammy for health. To OP: Do an internet search for volume eating - lots of good suggestions there.
I don’t think nutritional yeast tastes like cheese, it’s a unique flavor, but wow it is incredible on popcorn, particularly with chili powder, and also on grits, with cheese and butter.
Yes!! I totally forgot about nutritional yeast, it is SO GOOD!!
Isn’t it!!! I might make some yeasty popcorn tonight.
Are peanuts considered healthy?
In moderation yes.
Sometimes for a late night snack I’ll do a tube of silken tofu with soy sauce and chili oil. Very few calories, a few grams of protein, and it feels kind of nice and refreshing out of the fridge. Basically works with any seasoning too
Bananas.
Fruit, I guess that’s my favorite healthy snacks.
In winter, bananas. In summer, watermelon. If I’m craving something sorbet like I snack on frozen berries.
Nuts are also another good one but they’re not low calorie.
An apple among many other fruits, some salad with a light dressing.
I may also hunt for bare carrots, Bugs Bunny like ;)A slice of handmade bread I just cut, too. Just the bread, it tastes so good.
Thin slice apples, dust with cinnamon, throw into the microwave. It’s basically healthy pie filling.
You can cut up and dust with cinnamon, throw in fridge, and those are still good later in the day.
Im right here with you, I’ve recently been replacing all the candy snacks I have with various rustic snacks. I’ll have like, 6 cheese curds and salami slices, 3 dates instead of my peanut butter cups, I 've been really into Japanese style peanuts, peacans just on their own.
When it comes to quick and not unhealthy meals, I found out I can make cheese rice in my rice cooker. Follow the usual rice cooker instructions, just add a cup of shredded cheddar, a tbsp of butter, garlic, salt, pepper, and if you want it extra rich replace 1/3 of the water with milk.
If you’re air frying any veg, I highly suggest mixing your seasoning in a little oil and vinegar, then tossing the veg in it. That half assed vinegarette feels really fancy and if helps get an even coating of seasoning. Balsamic brings sweetness, all the others bring sour. You can even make it in bulk, put it in the fridge, and if keeps basically forever.
If you do ramen a lot, toss some frozen veg mix in with it while it’s boiling, then replace half the packet with a splash of soy sauce, and some garlic. It’s less and somehow so much more.
Recently I’ve gotten into “soy meat” it’s dried, crumbled, tofu that’s a really popular meat substitute in Mexico. Pound of beef equivalent for 97¢ at the local Hispanic grocery. Since it’s dried and functionally flavorless, you can mix you up a slurry of spices and the stuff will sponge it all up. Toss it in a pan and it comes out the exact same texture as ground beef, but you can make it taste like everything from plain beef to Italian sausage, maple cured bacon, even smoked pepperoni. I’ve taken to adding it to chilli, sloppy joes, pasta, not only because it halves the cost of meat, but because it can add such an amazing depth of flavor and it seems to naturally correct acidity.
Hope some of this helps. I personally fell for the idea that eating right had to be miserable for so long and now it’s like, why is this not the standard? This is so fucking good!
