What do you reach for first when you are needing a little snack? French fries or cookies? What if you are going about trying to eat better? Finding yummy and hearty snacks can be a big challenge, especially if the foods you like best for snacking are loaded with sugar or salt. In this article, you will learn how to whip your own healthy snacks to fulfill those cravings. The following are foods you can consume while watching your diet and weight. Are you a little skeptical? Have a look!
Dipped Pretzels are a delicious and hearty snack that you can eat that won’t make you feel like you are repressing yourself in taste or calories. Microwave a half a cup’s worth of semi sweet chocolate until it has reached the melting point. This will take between 1.5 and 2 minutes and see to it that you stir it up really well before you use it. Dip low-salt pretzels into the melted chocolate until they are well coated and then set them on parchment in a single layer. Allow the chocolate dipped pretzels to cool completely at room temperature or stick them in the fridge for twenty minutes or so.
Delicious Tortilla Chips are snacks that, unbelievably, you can make on your own at home. When you buy tortilla chips at the store, the chips are basically coated in salt and are very unhealthy. In this yummy snack, you whip the chips yourself using corn tortillas. Slice roughly ten corn tortillas in 6 parts. Put the corn tortilla pieces onto a baking sheet and spray with a light coat of a spray you can put together yourself by blending canola oil and a quarter of a teaspoon of chili powder, half a teaspoon of cumin and a quarter of a teaspoon of sea salt. See to it that each piece gets coated with the mixture and then bake the lot at 350 degrees for fifteen minutes. Allow them to cool down totally before eating them.
You can make your very own caramel corn! You may be thinking that caramel corn is a snack you simply can’t eat thanks to the very high sugar and calorie count. See if you can make this (much heartier) recipe instead. In a big stock pot, you should melt two tablespoons of butter and then stir in a couple of tablespoons of brown sugar, one tablespoon of water and 1/4 teaspoon of kosher salt. Try using a whisk to blend all of the ingredients and then dump seven cups of air popped popcorn into the pot. If you love lightly salted peanuts, mix in about an ounce of those as well. Mix all if it together until the popcorn (and peanuts) is coated equally and then let it cool before you eat it.
If you don’t have a problem doing some research, you can find all sorts of healthy recipes that give you the tastes you crave but have a lot less calories and unhealthy ingredients. There are lots of great tasting options for snacks that are both nutritious and delectable. You’ll have to be patient so that you can find them and then make them yourself. Being in good health doesn’t have to be tough. Being healthy completely doable!
