Healthy cupboard snack

HappyUser

Hello and happy new year!

I want to stock in my cupboard (or fridge) a healthy fulfilling snack with low sugar. Do you have any recommendations?

Now I stock tuna cans which is very nice. Is there anything else that I can stock that has long shelf life and keeps fresh?

Thanks

sarah1972

HappyUser wrote: »

Hello and happy new year!

I want to stock in my cupboard (or fridge) a healthy fulfilling snack with low sugar. Do you have any recommendations?

Now I stock tuna cans which is very nice. Is there anything else that I can stock that has long shelf life and keeps fresh?

Thanks

Yes, there are plenty of things. Google low sugar snacks and a multitude come up.

I wouldn’t call a tin of tuna a snack though, that’s a meal.

And maybe ditch deliveroo and just eat

unrecordings

Per Sarah's response, depends on what you define as snack. For example during chemo, my snack of choice were Frusli cereal bars. Generally quite expensive, but often reduced to half price every couple of months. We also try to keep a fruit bowl and keep a bowl of cherry tomatoes and/or grapes on the kitchen table. The latter not store cupboard friendly obviously but gives you the general idea of how we graze.
Nairns (oat biscuits) are also good because you can just go for a couple of dry biscuits, or alter course and dive in the fridge for added cheese, pickles, hummous etc

Marcon

Why not learn to cook?

baggins11

I am on a very low (processed) sugar diet and snack on cashews, home made oat bars (sweetened with dates) and very dark chocolate. Also houmous is filling and overnight oats are good to have in the fridge.

I think to do low sugar and not be completely restrictive its a good idea to batch cook and freeze things.

Virtually all the shop bought sweet snacks even those labelled as healthy are full of sugar. I do buy aldi paleo snack bars which are just nuts and dates blended. They have sugar obviously with the dates but are natural sugar which is fine for me.

HappyUser

Droewors are excellent but very expensive and they tend to make them lean, while the fatty are the best.

unrecordings

HappyUser wrote: »

Droewors are excellent but very expensive and they tend to make them lean, while the fatty are the best.

I almost thought I'd landed on the wrong thread for a minute, but googled droewors. Funnily enough it was exactly that kind of thing that drove me to Frusli when I was on a certain kind of chemo that comes with dietary restrictions.

baggins11

LOL! I googled too

Owain_Moneysaver

Mixed bean salad (tinned). Waitrose Essential is in water, some brands have sugar added.

Eat from the tin, drain and fill pittas, serve on top of salad leaves, etc

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/213498/what-shall-i-do-with-a-tin-of-3-bean-salad

sausageelza

Trying to think of food that you don't have to make:

Peanut butter (without sugar etc) which you can have with an apple or some other fruit. Nuts, crackers, cheese, plain yoghurt/greek yoghurt, berries, carrot sticks, wholemeal bread etc.

HTH

unrecordings

Here's a good one that some reason I forgot about considering I'm always harping on about it on the CFO forum: Ramen. An old dole and/or studio favourite. I prefer Nissin ramen. Boil a kettle, chuck the noodles and whatever else you can find into a bowl, let the noodles soften then eat. The original rule was that you could only forage for stuff while the kettle was boiling (back when kettles took ages to boil).