Healthy cheap snacks

MMF007

Oh yes, freshly made popcorn! If you want a topping, drizzle melted butter and a little syrup over, or some curry powder. So cheap.
I must admit that I love fruit as a snack but only if it peeled and sliced (well obv not berry fruit!).
Toast crusts to make bread sticks for hummus (hummus is so cheap to make a large batch from scratch).
If you want cake occasionally, cook it in a loaf tin so you can slice it fairly thinly. It goes a lot further than a round cake and of course each portion is fewer calories
Microwave some 'raw' popadums but break them up a bit before cooking, again, they go further that
way!

Slices of malt loaf toasted, no need for butter, are filling and good for those with a sweet tooth.

Slices of cheese with crispy apple slices, cut both components quite thinly.

Hmmm, now I want a snack! *mutters* I am on a low carb diet, snack equals cheese, nuts or dark chocolate squares

freyasmum

Keeping a chopped up fruit salad in a lock and lock tub in the fridge means that we can all grab an easy snack.

My daughter loves crumpets with peanut butter and jam.

I love apple slices with peanut butter (might have this now, actually...)

We both love pickled silverskin onions with cheese (I have a low fat babybel, but obviously cheese cubes can be used!). She will even just sit and eat a jar of gherkins if she was given the chance!

Veggie sticks with garlic and herb philadelphia.

I helped her make some wraps and she was able to put together a quick snack of a warmed wrap with the aforementioned philadelphia and sliced cucumber.

Also have to vouch for twinks!

jackyann

If you can stretch the pennies to add some dried fruit or choc chips to the flapjack / twinks recipe, they feel very luxurious and are more nutritious. One of my tricks was also to melt a very little chocolate and drizzle it on the top - cost was minimal but kids saw 'chocolate'!

Home made hummus is also nutritious & filling, with the raw veg mentioned above.
I also put stale ends of bread (or even a sliced loaf if on offer) into the freezer so I can always do toast - which goes very well with hummus, is of course nice with jam, and for a treat: cinnamon toast costs very little.

Primrose

Save all your loaf crusts in the freezer until you have enough to make it worth using the oven.
Then cut them into small cubes, mix well with a little olive or vegetable oil and chopped garlic to make garlic croutons. Bake in hot oven for about 10 mins or until turning crispy.