Great Healthy Snacks

One of the worst things about going on a diet is giving up our favorite snack foods. These foods are delicious - but are also full of calories, fat, carbs, and loaded with sugar. Some of my favorite snacks are chips and chocolate. But because I am on a diet and trying to have a better lifestyle I am being forced to give those up.

The good thing is there are substitutes that can make things just a little bit easier on us. When you head down the snack aisle at your grocery store the first thing that catches your eye are the chocolate chip cookies and crackers. Keep going down and you will run into the healthier snacks that taste just as good if not better.

You can find almost every flavor of 100 calorie packs. They come in sweet and salty snacks that taste just like the real thing. But be careful! If you are on a strict diet than they are not going to be the best thing you can have.

I have found that the best thing to have are the Quaker rice snacks. The first thing that pops into your head when you hear that are the large rice cakes with no flavor. But what I am talking about are similar but so much better.

These small cakes come in caramel, chocolate, ranch, and cheese flavors. They are very healthy and taste great. I am a cheese fanatic so going without any can be hard. But the Quaker rice cheese snacks are just like the real thing and they are healthy.

So next time you feel like reaching for that 250 calorie chocolate bar reach out instead for the 70 or 100 calories chocolate snack. Who said you can’t enjoy a diet?