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Chips and salsa, so many great options. You should check the calorie count, but you could always make your own if you wanna really get into it. Swap the chips for a baked version if you wanna cut back on fried things.

Banana with brown almond butter (that one that is 100% almonds).

Strawberries, blueberries, red grapes, trail mix (but a quarter cup of Omega Mix packs a boatload of calories), yogurt, tangerines, oranges.

I've been dabbing into intermittent fasting for the last couple months.

It's not really a snack, but my doctor recommended that before I break my fast, to drink warm lemon water. So I do,

I run my tap until it's hot as it gets, and squeeze half a lemon of juice in a cup, and fill it with that warm water. The first one was rough, I didn't like it. But after a short time, I really like them now and just drink one or two, or sometimes three times a day. The warm water helps my tummy feel full and the lemon nearly tastes sweet at this point. My doctor said it makes thw fat cells "move". So move it!

For meals,I stopped buying butter, and cook everything from scratch. Sometimes I'll just roast a sweet potato or squash and eat that. Roasted veggies are under rated. The take like 20-45 mins depending, but I like I can do it in the air fryer or toaster oven. Olive oil and spices its a win.

Years ago, I lost 100 pounds in a year. I ate, whole prepared foods, but didn't really cut anything out. I used a smaller plate. I just ate less. I still would have bread and butter, just less. And, it still worked for me. Take whole or real food meals you like, and just have a smaller plate. This is easier if you use an actual, small plate.

I also made everything spicy as hell, by the end of the year I was chopping raw habeneros and putting them on like, a ham sandwhich. I don't eat deli meats anymore, but making any food spicy will intuitively help you to slow down. Eating slower makes a huge difference. I also often would eat meals with chopsticks, that will also slow your eating habits.

Edit, to add, homemade popcorn in avocado oil, with a little salt, black pepper, nooch and cayenne pepper is amazing. You can eat a whole bowl and its only like 300 calories. I make mine on the stove in a dutch oven, but you can put a 1/4 cup of kernals in a lunch sack paper bag, fold it up and microwave it too! Its guilt free snacking.

Carrots, celery broccoli... idk otherwise. Peanut butter is good

Oh also I LOVE rice and burger with spicy diced tomatoes. So easy and fricken delicious to me . Also throw some beans in

"Healthy snacks" are an edge concern - I snack on whatever the fuck I want, because that's not the prime driver.

Every meal is the prime mover. Balance that for you, and you'll be closer to where you want to be, and less interested in bad snacks.

When I'm eating right I'm not interested in the bad-for-me stuff nearly as much.

A glass of water with a bit of apple cider vinegar in it. It takes the cravings and it improves digestion and lowers blood sugar levels.

Also consider taking psyllium, it's a prebiotic and helps with all sorts of things. It makes me feel more full and helps with digestion.

I eat dark chocolate with at least 70 % cocoa. You don't feel like eating too much of it, but it tastes good and helps on the cravings.

Popcorn, minimally salted

Popcorn is great. It's like fiber, butter, salt and spices.

Been snacking on pita, labne (Lebanese yogurt I love it it has just a hint of the taste of cream cheese but it's light and quot like yogurt) and toum (ingredients: garlic, oil, lemon juice, salt, magic). I imagine it's doing great things for my cholesterol and vampire infestation.

Oh! And there's the only one pounds bag of gummi worms. That's healthy because shut up.

Wife likes putting peas (with some BBQ rub on em, brush on a little oil or get em damp if you want the rub to actually stick) in the air fryer, she says it makes em poop

MOINKs ate pretty great if you want to put the time into it

Medjool date and a coffee. Perfect dessert.

I just remembered, sweet corn is relatively healthy if you don't add too much butter etc. Grilled corn on the cob is a classic, but it's a lot easier and quicker to just buy a can of corn without the cob, season them and bake them.

Yoghurt (plain is ideal but I like a little bit of vanilla), nuts, rice cakes, homemade dried fruit oat bars, apples, and homemade protein bars.

Iceberg lettuce is nice. Its just crunchy water, tastes almost like nothing and is relativly cheap

Put a fresh date (e.g. Mazafati or Mejool) onto a fork. Add a piece of dark chocolate. Dip it into Tahini (Sesame paste). It's soo tasty and rather healthy!

Deep-fried macaroni pie. It's a Scottish delicacy.

• Take macaroni cheese
• Encase it in a hot water pastry crust
• Dip it in batter
• Deep-fry it
• Put it inside a well-buttered morning roll
• Eat
• Die happy. Soon, but happy.

Mmm, carbilicious action.

Cucumber dipped in tzaziki with sriracha

Bumps on a log (celery sticks with peanutbutter and raisins)

fruit. any kind