Snack Time

It's not easy finding snacks that are healthy in our grocery stores.  Most foods now come high in sodium, full of sugar, and honestly, just not what your body needs.  I've made a list for you of some of my favorite things to snack on and you can have them without any guilt!

Fruits:
Raspberries
Strawberries, sliced
Bananas sliced with a dab of peanut butter and just a couple chocolate chips
Apples with peanut butter or low fat cheese
Grapes
Clementines
Pears
Sliced Kiwi
 Fruit salsa--recipe below

Veggies:
Bells peppers
Baby Carrots
Sliced cucumbers
Broccoli florets
Cauliflower florets
--all the above dipped in Greek yogurt ranch ( Skinny Ranch Dip )

Dairy:
Low fat string cheese
Low fat string cheese wrapped with a piece of low fat lunch meat
Cottage cheese
Hard boiled eggs
Greek yogurt

Nuts & Seeds:
Cashews
Walnuts
Peanuts
Almonds
Pine Nuts
Pumpkin seeds
Sunflower seeds

Fruit Salsa Recipe:
1 small orange, zested and juiced
2 small kiwi, peeled and diced
1 apple, diced
1 pint strawberries, diced
2 tbsp. brown sugar
1 tbsp. apple jelly

Combine the apple, kiwi, and strawberries in a mixing bowl.  Add the juice and zest of the orange.  Add jelly and sugar.  Mix well until jelly is coating all fruit.  Serve with cinnamon sugar pita chips or eat plain.  Great on top of frozen yogurt or mixed into plain yogurt as well.