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?

  • doyun@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 天前

    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

  • kewjo@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 天前

    some type of bean salad with a bunch of veggies, tomatoes and a vinegar dressing, maybe some cheese? make a giant bowl that lasts a week and gets better each day. just leave it in the fridge and grab a small bowl as a snack when you’re hungry. also works great as a quick meal/side

  • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today
    3·
    3 天前

    Peanuts are apparently healthy, just not the salt that comes with them. I also really like peanut butter.

    I used to straight up eat flaxseed with a spoon, and I felt better, until it made me sick.

  • DagwoodIII@piefed.socialEnglish
    38·
    5 天前

    It’s also important to change how you eat.

    Do you tear open a box/bag of something and gun it down in front of a screen?

    Try making yourself actual meals. Use napkins and silverware and non-paper plates. Make a protein, a carb, and some greens. Sit at the dinner table, not in front of the TV.

    Even if it’s just a snack you can present it nicely. Cut the apple up and lay it out with bits of cheese.

    Make the meal seem special.

    • Lemming6969@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 天前

      Most people have gluttony eating disorder. They cannot stop eating and cannot fathom suffering with hunger… Which is required to lose weight. They will make 6 fancy meals a day instead of snacking, if they change habits at all.

      Eating air fried cauliflower will fix nothing, as they will eat 800 calories of it in a sitting, and cannot imagine that they need 1500 calories a day for 3 years to not prematurely die in the next 5-10 years.

      It’s the worst epidemic we have.

        • Lemming6969@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 天前

          https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/research-news/12328/

          "About 74 percent of adults in the U.S. are overweight, according to the CDC

          That includes nearly 43 percent who are considered obese. "

          I mean, look around… And it’s a disorder because they cannot stop, they cannot help themselves no matter what education you give them, and it’s directly connected to universally understood negative medical outcomes. It’s a disease based on addiction psychopathology.

          • undeffeined@lemmy.ml
            4·
            3 天前

            Damn, thats tough, you have strict limitations on the level of physical exertion you can do. This means that your diet is really the only realistic way to manage your weight.

            You mentioned you already eat healthy snacks but if you are still overweight, you have been eating more kcal than you use, over a long period of time. Tracking calories is not fun but have you tried it? Its not something you need to do forever, just long enough to have an understanding of what you need to eat.

        • Kristell@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol
          2·
          5 天前

          I’d imagine some of the popcorn seasonings you can get would work well, too… Might try making them at home, I’ve gotten a bag of them pre-made before and liked them. Don’t have an air fryer, but I’d imagine a toaster oven would probably work well

      • cRazi_man@europe.pub
        4·
        5 天前

        This works for peas and you don’t need a recipe. Put boiled peas in an air-fryer to crisp them up a bit. Then sprinkle on whatever spices you like. Can add lemon, or sauces or whatever you like. Experiment as you like. Just be careful not to make it unhealthy by drowning it in sauce.

        You could do the same with cutting aubergine into thin slices and making them crisp in an airfryer or oven and making “chips” out of them.

      • TabbsTheBat (they/them)@pawb.social
        2·
        5 天前

        Salt content can always be adjusted if you’re making it yourself :3

        (And as far as im aware bats don’t generally eat chickpeas :3… most are insectivores, or frugivores (some vampire bats too) lol. For someone with a bat fursona I should really know more bat facts tho)

  • quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    30·
    5 天前

    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.

    • undeffeined@lemmy.ml
      23·
      4 天前

      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.

        • undeffeined@lemmy.ml
          2·
          3 天前

          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.

    • worhui@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 天前

      I take the cherry tomatoes and cut them in half, then add a dressing of balsamic vinegar, powered soup base, chicken flavored, olive oil and basil. The leftover taste even better the day after.

  • BreadOven@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 天前

    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.

  • starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    4 天前

    This is probably my #1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crispbread Either plain or with low calorie butter

    Good suggestions for snacks but I think a lot of people missed the “when I want to shove something in my face as a force of habit.” You really want to get the lowest calorie thing possible, ideal would be lettuce and celery since those are basically nothing but still give you something to eat. Next would probably be apple slices, berries have surprisingly low sugar, egg white is basically pure protein but a full egg is fine too. Sprouts can be good if you grow them right. I sometimes just slowly eat a spoonful of peanut butter over like an hour but…

    I would also recommend having random drinks you can go between, like tea soymilk coffee, even diet soda. Just avoid anything with sugar or fat. Things like nuts are healthy but not a great constant snack food because they do have a lot of fat, so that should be an intentional thing rather than something to reach for.

  • unicornBro@sh.itjust.works
    31·
    3 天前

    A can of tuna mixed with sweet relish, mayo, salt, pepper, and a few minimally salted crackers.

    Red seedless grapes.

    Imitation crab meat with cocktail sauce on the side. Maybe cheddar slices or olives on the side.

    I consider these healthyish at the moment.

  • NABDad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    5 天前

    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.

    • toothpaste_sandwich@thebrainbin.org
      8·
      5 天前

      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?

      • worhui@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 天前

        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.

      • lietuva@lemmy.world
        6·
        4 天前

        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.

      • Hetare King@piefed.socialEnglish
        6·
        4 天前

        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.

      • harmbugler@piefed.socialEnglish
        7·
        5 天前

        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.

      • LordFireCrotch@lemmy.todayEnglish
        4·
        5 天前

        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.

      • StickyDango@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        4 天前

        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.

        • RBWells@lemmy.world
          1·
          4 天前

          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.

    • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      3·
      4 天前

      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.