What do you snack on?

[upinsmoke]

Shiftyjunior is now hungry ALL the time, I can only imagine he is having a growth spurt. He snacks on fruit, nuts and seeds, rice pudding, dried fruit sometimes, oatcakes with peanut butter,oatcakes and hummous, quesilladas, marmite on toast if hes lucky,spelt bisuits if h's very very lucky, yogurts, cherry toms or veg sticks(sometimes with a dip sometimes not). I also give him a nice warm drinks like hot chocolate or ovaltine as they are quite filling and will see him through until next meal time.
When he is this hungry I like to give him somethign like floradix as an extra boost, my reasoning being he must need all the nutrition I can possibly squeeze into him if hes having a growth spurt. Must capitalise on the growth spurts

Just be careful, my son had many of these growth spurts and i thought they were cute, kept feeding him and now he's almost 16 stone ( solid i might add, not an inch of fat) and 6 ft 2!

starve the child, starve him!!!

 

[Final]

Nuts. Ideally cashews and walnuts and stuff, but often just dry roasted... mmm...

 

[catrina]

I'm trying very hard to be healthy with my snacking, but healthy stuff just doesn't seem to fill me up atall.

I used to feel like this, but I realised that you're better off snacking on four apples than a single chocolate bar. I'm not exactly stuffed after 2 apples, but two apples distracts me enough to last me a couple hours, and that's only 100 kcal. A chocolate bar is hardly filling and packs in 250 kcal on average.

I used to snack on bananas because they're very filling, but unfortunately they give me migraines.

Muesli is healthy but it's not lo cal, so if you're trying to shift some weight by cutting out snack calories, it's not such a good idea.

ETA: yes, yes, cherry tomatoes are a very good snack.

 

[Herbsman.]

...cherry tomatoes are a very good snack.

Even better is cherry tomatoes halved, sprinkled with coarse salt and freshly ground black pepper, mixed with cubes of stale bread and nuff fresh basil leaves, drizzled with olive oil and splashed with balsamic vinegar, and maybe with a bit of parmesan shaved on top.

Yommeh.

 

[Geri]

you're better off snacking on four apples than a single chocolate bar.

Anyone who would chose to eat four apples instead of a chocolate bar is clearly wrong in the head.

 

[_angel_]

Cheese.