Snack foods for maintenance

Can anyone suggest some snacks that are healthy and good choices now that I'm maintaining my goal weight?  I've lost a total of 75 pounds and am scared to death of regaining this weight.  I eat alot of fruit, but it tends to be hard to digest for me.  I'm 58 and have struggled with my weight for 50 of those years.  This site has been instrumental in helping me achieve this goal - that and the realization that I had to just make wiser choices. Thank you so much.

Hmm...I do use fruit as a snack a lot, but besides fruit here are a few I like.

Air-Popped popcorn:
You can get a lot of popcorn for not a lot of calories.
Here are some of the ones I use
Air-popping 3tbsp popcorn, use a spray bottle to spray it with soy sauce.
For sweet popcorn: Spray lightly with non-stick canloa oil spray, toss with cinnimon and splenda


Quick Grab em snacks:
Cherry tomatoes
Dill pickles
Cauliflower, use a little mustard or spray with soy sauce
Carrots (I cover 'em and give them a quick steam in the microwave)
Low-calorie yogurt

Low calorie wheat toast, top with sugar-free maple syrup
Mini-muffins
If you bake at all, I'd invest in a mini-muffin pan. Find a reduced
caloire muffin recipie you like and make mini-muffins.

Dark Chocolate squares:
Hersheys and Gridelli both make induvidually wrapped chocolate squares. A serving is about 4 pieces, but usaully just one of them will satisfy a chocalte craving.

Almond milk:
Unsweetened Chocolate almond milk (45 cal, 8oz)
Add Splenda or sweetner to taste and heat. Tastes like chocolate milk.

1/2 cup cottage chees with 1tsp cocca powder and no-calorie sweetener (or honey if you don't mind a few exra calories).

Get a scale and pre-measure a cereal you like into 1oz servings into snack sized zip lock bags

Kashi also makes some good snack bars. Many of them are between 120-150 calories and they taste pretty good.

Trail mix:
Mix up your own trail mix with your favorite nuts and a low-calorie
cereal, put the scale to use and put the results in snack bags.

Pretzels:
Be careful as the various kinds have widely varying calorie counts, but if you get a good kind and pre-measure into snack bags they work well for the salt craving :).

Frozen Yogurt:
Just check the label info, but their are some tasty ones that are
fairly low in caliores and as long as you measure a serving it should be fine. The smaller regular icecream cones only have 20 cal a cone so if you stick with one serving of frozen yogurt you can get away with putting in a cone.

I don't do it personally, but I know someone who uses the Metemucial fiber wafers as a snack (they claim they taste good).

The key for me is having lots of pre-measrued/easy to measure options  already on hand. Craving salty? Grab a couple dill pickles or air-pop some popcorn. Sweet?  Grab the pre-measured cereal or
the single piece of *good* chocolate, or the yogurt.

I hope these help!

David

Thank you so much.  I really appreciate all the time this took you.  This is great information!

yes, great post David.

Wow thats awsome!
I was going to suggest apple/fruit puree... Its acutally nice. And a bit of cottage cheese... but that list is awesome.
How's your health? I use my snacks to boost my nutrition from what I dont get at meals (as when I have red meat, I dont have dairy so I can absorb the max. iron. So I have dairy snacks, like yogurt, mini-icecreams for kids taht are also low fat, frozen fruit)
I also like whizzing up a frozen banana in a blender - so good.
Or oatbran (less cals than oats, easier to digest IMHO) made like porridge

Hey just want to say hi to another old person. I'm 51. I keep reading posts of people who have their numbers backwards... 15 instead of 51.