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Snack Ideas for Home

 
  • Mix one cup of Cheddar cheese shreds with popcorn or pretzels.
  • Try pieces of angel food cake with a cup of strawberry yogurt.
  • Pour lowfat vanilla milk over a bowl of fresh berries.
  • Wrap Colby jack cheese around spears of asparagus.
  • Make a smoothie from fresh orange slices, strawberry yogurt and ice.
  • Mix canned salmon or crab with Ricotta cheese and eat on pita wedges.
  • Layer granola and fresh fruit with low-fat yogurt.
  • Dip graham crackers into a cold glass of low-fat milk.
  • Spread fat free refried beans on a tortilla and add reduced-fat Pepper Jack cheese.
  • Top low-fat vanilla yogurt with a few crushed pecans and cinnamon.
  • Blend strawberry milk with fresh bananas and ice.
  • Roll Monterey Jack cheese into a whole-wheat tortilla and dip in salsa.
  • Alternate small slices of apples and reduced fat cheddar cheese on skewers.
  • Wrap a slice of Swiss cheese, turkey and Dijon mustard in lettuce leaves.
  • Freeze squeezable yogurt to make a popsicle.
  • Blend a cup of fat free milk with frozen raspberries and sweetened cocoa.
  • Melt a slice of reduced-fat Colby Jack cheese over canned chicken on an English muffin.

Vending Machine Alternatives (Your secret "stash" at the office)

  • Unsweetened applesauce cups
  • Mini fat-free popcorn bags
  • Fat-free/sugar-free pudding cups
  • Small cans of V-8
  • Pretzel sticks, dried fruits, or dry roasted nuts
 
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