Healthy Homemade Snacks?

[sparrow13]

Hi All!

Just looking for some ideas for healthy, homemade snacks. I make 99 percent of what we eat from scratch and for snacks I have been making whole wheat crackers, sweet & spicy almonds and paprika chick peas. In fact I've been making them so much that DH and I are totally burned on them! If you guys have recipes for snacks that are of the crunchy variety and basically healthy, please share!

TIA!

Sparrow



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[janiejoey]

Try a homemade salsa with ingredients you both enjoy and dip your marvelous crackers into. Try black beans, kidney, or other beans. Add lemon and blend into a dip. Yum Yum Yum! Instead of crackers, try homemade bread, pita bread, bread sticks, rice crackers, vegies are great to dip into these dips. Add protein when needed and don't forget about rice. Egge whites salsa and rice in a whole wheat flour wrap is great too. Oh and add beans to that and you have yourself a dinner.

Hope this helps, I live on stuff like that.

Janie

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[6Swans4me]

The only one I can think of off the top of my head is roasted pumpkin seeds. Unfortunately, it's not pumpkin season.

Could you share your wheat cracker and paprika chick pea recipes? Both sound yummy. I would ask for the almond recipe, but I don't need any more almond enabling. Raw almonds work well enough already.

Thanks,
Wendy

 

[eal3183]

I love mush an avocado and mix with salsa and lemon juice to make homemade guacamole. Yummy and Healthy... can't beat that!! And it is killer with some fresh roasted pita chips!!

Ashli

 

[Miss Lee]

Trying to find crunchy snacks that are also healthy is a never ending battle around here. I mean, aside from nuts and veggies what is there? I try to vary things by using different dips and spreads that I make with yogurt. I drain off the whey then mix the cheese with a variety of fresh herbs. For even more flavor you can add roasted red peppers or sun dried tomatoes, and roasted garlic. You can also make a sweet spread by adding honey or agave nectar, etc. I don't have a recipe -- I just throw in whatever I have on hand. I use these spreads to top bagels or toast, or as a veggie dip.

I love the idea of making your own pita chips, too. There are several suggestions online for different flavor combos.

Giada De Laurentiis has a recipe for veggie chips that I've been wanting to try - something that I might put on my "occasional treat" list. http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,,FOOD_9936_71450,00.html

Here's another, possibly healthier, variation: http://www.recipezaar.com/159598

I would love your cracker recipe whenever you have time to post it

ETA Ooh, this looks good http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,,FOOD_9936_2896,00.html

 

[Beavs]

I like to mix soy nuts with M&Ms for a salty sweet combo. I also make my own popcorn and mix with whatever snappy seasonings I find in my cabinets.

 

[Stephanie0523]

I love the idea of soynuts with m&ms. Definitely will give that a go.

I recently made a snack mix that was pretty good. I took multi-grain cheerios and mixed them with craisins, All Bran Extra Fiber (the one that looks and tastes like little twigs), and natural almonds (or you could use soynuts). It's pretty yummy, though it would be even yummier if you added some semi-sweet chocolate chips to the mix (just a few).

ETA: I almost forgot! I made the yummiest candied walnuts that DH absolutely went nuts over (pun intended). You take I believe it's two cups of walnuts and one-fourth cup of pure maple syrup and heat it up in a saute pan until the nuts caramelize (just a couple of minutes). Then spread the nuts out onto parchment paper to cool. I lightly salt mine while they still are hot just to get that salty/sweet flavor. When they cool, just keep them in an airtight container. They are very very yummy. And SO filling. A little goes a long way.

 

[Beavs]

Oh Stephanie, those do sound good, especially since it's the season to make up some fresh syrup :9