cheap/ healthy snacks

mummysaver

I found eating stopped me feeling sick too! Ginger biscuits and grapes worked well though, had the biscuits in the morning before I got out of bed and the grapes throughout the day. The sickness feeling did pass though, I didn't continue eating constantly for 9 months, lol! Hope your's passes soon too!

elliep_2

I'm sorry if this has been asked before. My OH and I are having to cut back a bit on our grocery bill and I'm struggling because I like to snack rather than have a proper lunch while he's at work.

I'm used to eating a small lunch e.g. sandwich or pasta with some tinned tomato, a packet of crisps, a few snack size chocolate thingys (whatever we have for OHs lunch), maybe a few biscuits, whatever fruit we have lying about etc.

Besides being unhealthy snack choices that's not a very cheap way to eat so what do you all do when you want to snack? I've tried increasing my portion sizes but I still get hungry about 10ish (too early for lunch) and just before DH gets home and he doesn't want dinner on the tabe immediately.

Thank you for any help anyone can give.

betterlife

im assuming its 10ish in morning, so what about some toast and jam, crumpets, pancakes, muffins, hm flapjacks, keep a bowl of fruit salad in the fridge to pick on, cheese and crackers, hm buns/cakes/biscuits, make up a pan of soup or stew for lunch might find it a bit more filling. hope this helps x

Pink.

Hi elliep,

This earlier thread has lots of good ideas that may help:

cheap/ healthy snacks

I'll add your thread to that one later to keep the suggestions together.

Pink

dutchy

If you're anything like me, I crave salty, crunchy, savoury snacks. The answer I have found is.... Pickles! From gherkins, cornichons, silver skinned onions, up to and including pickled eggs; all in a tub together to be picked at during the day. I don't think it's very fattening and it's ...mmmmm. Yummy!

rosemarym_2

I know biscuits are not very healthy, but Value and Basic chocolate biscuits are very good and very cheap.

betterbargains4u

Make a huge fruit salad and keep it in the fridge. Snacking on fruit is good for you and the baby.
Alternatively, you could snack on crudites with some low fat hummus, cottage cheese or tarasmalata. Mmmmm...yummy.

Mellika

I was going to start a new thread with this question but figured I should just add it here.

Right, I was thinking about vegetable sticks as snacks.

I know there's carrot and cucumber. And I don't really like raw peppers. So what else can I cut up for raw veggie sticks to eat at the desk?

Thanks in advance, Meli xx

newlywed

I like raw cauliflower florets Some think that's strange though

Celery? Spring onion (if you have some mints for after )

Mange tout are nice or sugar snaps.

Some other ideas here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/cruditesanddips_68060.shtml

Nigella_2

How do you beat the munchies??
I try not to buy multi packs of anything munchy so to resist the temptation !!!!

If a friend buys me crisps / cakes / chocolate I can't hold on to them for long!

BUT I still get hunger pangs so I can't resist to woof things down a bit more than normal.