100 Calorie "Snack Packs"

From the Martha Stewart website- a good way to prepare for sudden hunger attacks :)

"The best way to banish the temptation to eat unhealthy foods is to make time each day to sit down for at least three nutritious meals to prevent hunger, and to keep healthy options at the ready for when you're on the go. A good idea is to carry one of these "destress snack packs," each of which contains about 100 calories.

Fresh Snack Packs
-3/4 cup fresh blueberries
-1 cup strawberries, sliced
-Helpful nutrients: folate and Vitamin C

-1 medium tangerine, peeled and separated into sections
-20 grapes
-Helpful nutrients: Vitamin C

Savory Snack Packs
-3/4 cup cheese popcorn
-7 small whole-wheat pretzel twists
-Nutrients: All the B vitamins, Mg and folate

-1 Cup popcorn
-6 small pretzel twists
-Nutrients: B6, B12, Mg and Folate (*This snack pack was featured today on the Martha Stewart Show)

-15 mini rice crackers
-3 tablespoons wasabi peas
-1/2 sheet nori, broken up
-Nutrients: B6, B12, Mg, and folate

Sweet and Savory Snack Packs
-5 halves dried apricots, cut into strips
-1/3 ounce roasted hulled pumpkin seeds
-Helpful nutrients: B6 and Mg

-2 unsweetened pineapple rings, cut into wedges
-1/2 cup puffed rice
-Nutrients: Vitamin C, B6, and Mg

-5 halves dried apricots
-1/3 ounce roasted hulled pumpkin seeds
-Nutrients - B6 and Mg (*This snack pack was featured today on the Martha Stewart Show)

Sweet Snack Packs
-1 sheet graham cracker, broken into pieces
-2 tablespoons mini marshmallows
-1 1/2 teaspoons mini semisweet chocolate chips
-Nutrients: essentially, none"

These sound way more nutritious than the boxed 100 calorie packs. Thanks!

Very nice! Much better than the portion controlled, over-priced, junk food snack packs! I gave those up 2 weeks into my weight loss -- I'd rather have real food!

This is fantastic!!!!  Thanks soooo much for posting this :)

Much healthier than the packaged stuff and most can be made ahead as well, so they are easy to grab and go.

Thanks!!!!!!

these are SUCH great ideas- why waste money on the prepackagedness when you can get Fresh food with Actual nutrients!!? I would totally think of and post more ideas if i had any sort of time right now, but for the moment i'll just throw the challenege out there: who can think of the most Awesome, fresh, 100-cal throw in a plastic-bag-able?

No problem, glad I could help. I find it really helps to just carry an emergency snack with you, something satisfying but healthy- just in case you're held up somewhere or are late waiting at the bus stop and you're absolutely starving, enjoying your mini snack helps ease cravings and makes you less likely to stuff yourself when you do get to sit down and eat.

My personal favourite: 1/4 cup Kashi cereal (i like the mini-wheat type one), 1 tbsp dried cranberries, 1 tsp soynuts, and then something kind of special like 5 yogurt covered raisins.

thanks for posting! ive been tryign to find ways to replace those devilish 100 cal oreos instead of just flat out cutting my snack.

what is puffed rice, though? cereal?

wow!! thank you for sharing!!!

Thanks for posting, I just bought my first and last box of 100 cal snack pack peanut butter cookies last week. It was a terrible impulse buy. First of all, they had practically ZERO nutritional value and because of this did nothing to stave off my hunger. Secondly, I paid like $3.49 for very few total cookies, just because I'm apparently too stupid to not eat an entire box and need my portions individually wrapped. (I'm working on this problem, but still).

I am totally going to try to prepare some of these "snack packs" ahead of time so that I can get something healthy and low cal in a pinch.

Well...I don't know if it could be considered a snack pack but I LOVE rice crackers (Koyo, 40 calories) and reduced fat peanut butter (only 1/4 a serving so half a spoonful and 40-50 calories) and it's below 100! It's so good! OR carrots and Follow your heart spicy southwest ranch dressing (Whole Foods) which is 25 calories and...I don't know how many carrots are but they can't be that high. :)