Quick & Healthy Snack Ideas To Keep You Lean
Quick & healthy mid-meal ideas to keep you lean:
Apple or other fruit with almond butter
Hummus with carrots sticks or sliced red/yellow/orange peppers
Guacamole with carrot sticks or sliced red/yellow/orange
Ricotta cheese (grass-fed if possible) mixed with cocoa powder, stevia, and vanilla extract (delicious high protein, low carb snack!)
Hard boiled egg with carrot and celery sticks,red pepper hummus is my favorite
Celery sticks with organic peanut butter or almond butter ( a classic quick snack)
Avocado slices wrapped in deli turkey breast (one of my favorite quick snack)
A piece of sprouted grain toast (sprouted grain preferred nutritionally over “whole grain” with nut butter
Fresh sliced pineapple with a handful of macadamia nuts
Protein Shakes
Meatballs
Egg salad, chicken salad, tuna salad, turkey salad, or shrimp salad on Nut Thins or cucumber, zucchini, celery, tomatoes or red pepper slices…
Turkey jerky, turkey sticks
Pumpkin or sunflower seeds
Turkey or chicken franks, cut up with or with out dip
Olives
Omelets
Meat Rollups:
To make one meat rollup:
One lettuce leaf (except head/iceberg lettuce)
Thinly sliced meat (i.e. chicken, bologna (nitrate/nitrite free) beef (free range)
Spread 1 stp Mayo (home made mayo (see recipe) or nut butter)
Roll up lettuce leaf and use a toothpick to hold it together
Can add sliced havarti or provolone if not dairy intolerant
Mayonnaise (home made):
· 1 whole egg (organic only)
· 1 egg yolk
· ½ tsp celtic salt or mineral salt
· ½ Tbsp lemon juice (optional)
· 1 ½ cups expeller pressed oil (use a combo of olive and grapeseed and flaxseed oils)
· In blender or food processor blend egg, salt and lemon juice. Blend for 5 seconds, then SLOWLY add oil by pouring in a thin thread as you blend. Do Not Over Mix. Pour in a glass jar. Additions: if desired :Horseradish, Wasabi, Stevia, Glycerin
Now you have ZERO EXCUSES for resorting to junk food snacks on the road or at the office, when you have all of the delicious and healthy fat-burning snack ideas right here!