Any good snack ideas?

Ok... the food information on this site is great, bus sadly it is mainly geared towards the American market, so does anyone have any good snack recommendations for the UK?

Fruit is great, but I don't know if you're like me but everynow and then I need to trick my body into thinking it's getting some sweet/chocolate fix!

I have found a few things (listed below) but if anyone has any other ideas I'd love to know! I'm finding it hard to get through a day at work without my galaxy caramel and my muffin

So far I've been having:

Skinny Cow hot chocolate - 37cal 1.5g fat, really nice and doesn't taste low fat or watery.

Skinny Cow Berry Blush Sticks - These are like a sorbet lolly and they are really fruity and they are only 71 calories per stick and no fat. Also, they are on offer at the moment in Sainsburys for 97p for 3!

Low calorie jelly - tastes exactly the same and is only 8 calories per serving.

Sainsburys be good to yourself chocolate mousse - 89 cal and 1.8g fat. Really nice and gives me the chocolate fix.

If anyone has any ideas though, please let me know, the snacks keep me going at work hehe!

why not try having the fun size bars stil get your fix but at a lot less calories

Mmmm, reading your post sent me off into a little daydream about galaxy caramels...haha :)

I'm very new to this not having two choc bars a day malarkey so the only two things i've found so far are

Options hot chocolate: same cals as the skinny cow (havent tried them yet!) and lots of differnet flavors like choc orange, choc banana and coconut..i love them for a nice evening chocolate fix :)

Onken fat free strawberry yogurt: Little bit artificial tasting but definately sweet, I quite like it and something like 55 cals a serving. Come in 500ml tubs and even if you ate a whole tub it would still be under 300 cals so spaced over a couple of days works quite well :)

I shall have to get for of that jelly....8 calories!!

I will let you know when i find other good little treats :)

Now where was I.......Galaxyyyy....

Oh and I forgot.....MINI MILKS!

If I remember correctly, 30 cals each and come in boxes with 3 milk, 3 strawberry and 3 chocolate!

*updates shopping list* :)

Here's a few of my favourites:

Jumbo snack-a-jacks chocolate or caramel flavour

Snack-a-jacks popcorn (there's a chocolate flavour too)

Highlights mini biscuit things

Funsize chocolate buttons (I suck them so they last longer)

Weight Watchers belgian chocolate cakes

Can't remember the calories for any of them but I'm sure they're all less than 100 as they're all 1.5 weight watchers points or less.

All I'm thinking of now is chocolate....

Anyway, just to brake the trend, I'm addicted to smoothies at the min.  Wether it's inocent smoothy or home-made I can't get enough.

Snak-a-jacks are helping me with my sweet tooth aswell.

Also, Muller light yogarts 100cals (200g) each and ASDA Good For You Chocolate Moose 70cals (60g) each.

I find the special k stuff are good!

They have soooooooooooo many flavours to choose from, they even have chocolate chip and are only about 90kcal!

Have a look on the website Special k products

They've helped me with so many cravings.

Hope i've helped!

My life savers are:

Mars Ice Cream Bars 51ml - 143cals!!! Proper ice-cream hit!!

Skinny Cow Ice-cream .I love Hagan Dazs ice cream but it has a weeks worth of calories in one teaspoon :(

I freeze muller light and WW yogurts - take ages to eat, best if you stir after an hr or so to stop it from freezing solid.

Tried those new Mikado sticks, 11cal each, not bad if you're desperate for a choccy hit and trying to hold off for a while

kinder milky snack bars (not sure of the proper name) about 110 cals

Chomps and Freddos about 110cals

KitKats, all flavours (106cals) and Tunnocks Teacakes (106cals) are my absolute favourites.

I don't bother with diet choccy bars realy as you can get the real stuff for the same amount of calories if you check the labels!

Also a range of what I call 'lunchbox' bars are now available in the supermarkets all advertised as 99cals, things like blue ribbons, breakaway, etc

I've swapped my crisps for pine nuts.

The only downside is that they are high cal for a small quantity (175 kcal for a handful). But they are a healthy snack, high fibre and I really enjoy them.

If you don't fancy them raw, buy a big bag you can toast them all in a dry frying pan until they are golden on each side (they taste great) and then split them into portions and freeze what you don't want that day. They are really great to throw in with pasta or salads.

Where do they sell this skinny cow stuff? Is it most supermarkets or just Sainsburys coz we normally jsut shop at Tesco at home.

If anyone's from London this new shop's opened in Soho and South Kensington called "Snog" they do amazing frozen yoghurt for 79kcals per 100g or less and you choose your own (mainly fruit) toppings.

Air-popped popcorn @ 100cals per oz is good - you spray the bottom of a scpan with Fry Light 1 Cal Spray, heat it up on medium high, chuck in the kernels, jam the lid on, lower the heat just a little unless you want to set off the fire alarm, and shake the pan to keep the corn moving.

Del Monte Fruit Smoothies have 98 calories each.  They are frozen fruit puree (mango or raspberry) and yoghurt.  No nasty ingredients, nice and sweet, and big too!

I've seen Skinny Cow at Tesco.

I notice that a lot of the sweet treats and snacks suggestions posted here are actually junk food.  You could have a go at making your own 'icecream', using any pureed fruit and plain yoghurt and something like Splenda if you must.

Peach Ice

1 pound ripe peaches or nectarines
1 small or medium banana
1 1/2 cups plain low-fat yogurt
1/4 cup honey or equivalent in sweetener
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Skin the peaches and chop up with the banana.  Put in the freezer to go hard, overnight or a good few hours ahead of when you want to eat it. 

In a food processor, put the yoghurt, honey and vanilla and add the broken up bits of frozen fruit.  Process smooth scraping down the sides.  You should put it back into the freezer for a few hours to firm up.

You can make banana ice the same way - use 4 large or 6 medium fruits.  The riper the fruit, the more pronounced the flavour.  You could also make strawberry or raspberry ice, but I suggest you sieve out the seeds.  Oh, before I forget, passionfruit ice is banana ice with a few sieved passionfruits added to it. 

Let me know how you get on.

The icecream recipe sounds great!!! I shall give it a go tomorrow.

I have found porridge with a teaspoon of honey in it to be a nice sweet treat and filling too - especially just before bed. Very comforting

Beth

I know its not a snack  but I just had a nice lunch at Pizza Express. Kids and Hubby had their usual, but I had a Pizza Leggera (Apparently "leggera" is italian for "Light") which is a new range that they are doing. It was actually really nice and it delcares itself to be 500 calories. Its a pizza with the middle missing and replaces by a tasty salad. It filled me up and I didn;t crave the kids' Margheritas.

It was great because I didn't think I would be able to eat out while I was dieting. Are their any other places that do this kind of thing?

(I think they do leggera puddings too!)

Beth

For a sweet but not too calorific treat I have a slice of Soreen Maltloaf (about 85 calories per 1 oz slice) - less calorifc than cake but dense more fillng than a biscuit.  Of course you do have to resist the temptation to put butter on it!

Hi, I've been eating:

Activia fat free yoghurts, raspberry, forest fruits & vanilla all around 60 cals for 125ml.

Twister chocolate ice creams (small bought in a multipack box). I think they are 40 or 60 cals each - a real fix for me as I love choc & ice cream, yummmmmmmeeeee

And knackebrod (bought from Ikea, 40 cals - like ryvita) with cottage cheese on top, very low cal breakfast/snack which keeps me going for ages.

For something different I have a belgian choc options (or skinny cow hot choc) stirred into a vanilla or cherry muller light. Creamy & sweet :)

Hope this helps, xx

Marmite ricecakes are just over 100 calories a bag and quite a big munch.  All that polystyrene takes some chewing.

Reading all this is making me hungry, Jaffa cakes, an old favorite 45 cals per cake about half or more then most choc Biscuits, whole nuts are a good source of healthy fats and recommended in moderation. 

I would recommend a bag of almonds, but the key is to feel full so I always load up with a big breakfast of porridge, raisins and sliced banana which takes me through to lunch.

Rice cakes aere a nice idea, esp the marmite ones, as ordinarily they take like the bottom on a rabbit hutch.

Rusks? They were good when I was 1. Maybe they are still good. Although if it follows that most things I thought were uber cool as a kid (Ulyses31, Battle of the Planets, The A Team) turn out to be banal and awful in adulthood, then I wouldn't bother with them.