Healthy Snacking Made Easy...

Disclaimer:  I'm not being pad to recommend any products or stores, just sharing our little healthy snacking hacks.💖

Hi Honeys 

Welcome back🤗 Day two of Blogtober and today I thought I'd share how we're trying to make our snacking habits a little healthier🍉🍊🍋 

As with everything in life, a little planning can go a long way and when it comes to healthier snacking, planning is everything.  Imagine, you're at home and start to feel a wee bit peckish.  Into the kitchen we go in search of nibbles.  

Now, I know when I'm hungry and go looking for something to eat, whatever is to hand is what will be munched on.😋  Off to the fridge I go and open the door, and this is where that planning I mentioned is just everything...

Prepare, prepare, prepare...

It takes no time at all to wash and slice up some carrots to make yummy, crunchy carrot batons.  The same can be done with cucumber too.  Why not make celery sticks and keep a jar of your favourite (healthy) dip in the fridge too?    

Why not peel and slice your favourite fruits?   What about berries?  Having watermelon slices to snack on is not only healthy, but a great way to work towards staying hydrated too.  Any and all of these can then be stored in containers in your fridge, all ready for when anyone is feeling peckish or to be taken to work to ward off the attraction of those vending machines.😊

The best thing is that all of this preparation could take maybe an hour or so and you can fill your fridge up with enough healthy snacks to last you all week.  

Imagine making up a huge healthy, crunchy salad on a Sunday and filling up sealable containers, and then knowing that each day you can just reach into the fridge and there's a healthy lunch waiting to be enjoyed?

 

This can save you money too honeys.  Why eat takeaway food for lunch when it's so easy to plan ahead and you get to choose what you love too?  

Perfect portions always waiting...

Back to healthy snacking then.🍎 How awesome would it be to wander into the kitchen and find perfect little portions of yummy treats all waiting?  

Small containers and jars can be collected and used to help prepare your snacks.  Among our favourites snacks, usually prepared on a Sunday for the week ahead, are frozen fruit or berries in the bottom of a glass jar, this jar is then topped up with natural (unflavoured and unsweetened) yogurt. Another popular choice with both Hubby and I are little containers of raisins or dry roasted peanuts.   

Containers for those snacks...

In Pound/dollar stores you'll usually find sets of tiny containers for around £1/$1.  We bought these little glass jars (intended to be used for homemade jams or preserves) in a set of 3 for £1 a while ago.  The plastic tubs I think came from small mouses of some kind but the containers were such great quality I kept them.  

   

It's really not necessary though to buy these things.  If you take a closer look at your usual weekly grocery shop you might find that you have little jars of sauces etc.  When these are empty, wash them out and keep for snack preparation.  For nuts, crisps/potato chips or fruit, why not use small zip lock bags?  These can last quite a while if carefully washed, dried and re-used.

So, there we have it honeys.  Our tiny attempt at healthy snacking.  Some of these things we've been doing for quite some time and some are recent additions, like the little jars of carrot batons, also joined right now in our fridge by jars of cucumber batons and jars of tiny cherry tomatoes.😋

What are your favourite snacks?  Do you meal/or snack prep?  Do you have suggestions for different snack combinations?  If so, why not share them in the comments section below?  

Till next time dear ones, thank you for keeping me company, hugs always, xx