Your Favorite Healthy Snacks?

[ryankmfdm]

OK, so as of next week, I'll be going back to college to finish up my degree. Between work and my fairly heavy courseload, I don't foresee having a whole lot of time to cook and prep meals, which got me thinking: what are some easy, healthy snacks/meals that require minimal prep time?

I'm thinking of things like:

-baby carrots and hummus
-celery and peanut butter
-salmon and mulitgrain crackers
Etc.

Because I know these days everybody has a different idea of what constitutes "healthy," I'd consider a healthy diet to be one comprised primarily of fruit, vegetables, nuts, seeds, with some occasional lean meat and fatty fish here and there.

[Bob]

Greek yogurt

Grape Nuts

Oatmeal



Just cook something, like chicken (boneless, skinless) once a week.  Fairly easy, and then you're set for the week.


I think they're might be (probably is) a subreddit on this.  Either healthy or quick or both.

[thalbergmad]

I eat about 3 tons of blueberries every day.

Yummy.

Thal

[kawai_cs]

Hummus is great. You can eat it with veggies or wholewheat crackers. Cauliflower is tasty. It crunches nicely and I love crunchy stuff. Just add a little protein to it and you have a meal. Baked tofu that you can buy is ready to eat and tastes good. Just add a little salad to it.
Selfmade salads with lots of stuff are great too. You can make a salad e.g. with orzo and anything you have in fridge/or feel like eating. I make a salad with orzo, tuna, red peppers, chives and lemon juice.
Or just a green salad with some veggies plus and hard-boiled egg and a little bit of dressing of your choice. Gosh, I can't do it anymore.  Got hungry !

[indianajo]

Since 2008, I've dropped 40 lb, 30 points of chloresterol, gotten A1C under the spec to sometimes I don't have to take pills (I went diabetic in 2008)
Breakfast - 4 oz wheat squares (bowlfull) , 2 oz lowfat soy milk (6g suger/oz).  
Other days 6 oz wheat flour only pancake (self rising) , 1/2 oz olive oil margerine, 2 oz sugar free pancake syrup.  Canola oil in fry pan to cover bottom.  
Lunch - salad (iceberg lettuce, raw kale, cut up onions, sometimes tomato) Full bowl.   1.5 tblspoon Low sugar salad dressing, <1 g sugar/tblspoon. Usually ceasar's or greek dressing.  Sometimes 3 cheese ranch dressing
cheese tortilla - 1.5 oz cheese. melted in toaster.  Mostly corn tortillas, sometimes wheat on swiss or other expensive cheeses. 
Meat sandwich - 2 slice low sugar 55 cal italian bread (<1 g sugar/slice), 50 g turkey or chicken, 1.5 tblspn Olive oil mayonaiise, or sometimes lite mayonaisses of soybean oil.  Mayonaise under 1 g sugar/tblspn. I find 40 cal breads fall apart and Natures Own sugar free bread tastes vile, also the seven grain.  Italian Bread usually Arnolds, peppermint farm, sometimes store bakery sourdough breads. 
Peanut butter jelly sandwich.  2 slc italian bread, 1.5 tblspn natural crunchy peanut butter, (no ingredients but peanuts), 1 g sugar/tblspn . Sugar free jelly, 1 tblspoon, blackberry, raspberry, cherry, or grape.  These peanut butters have to be stirred.
Sometimes 1 oz nuts (almonds, peanuts) sometimes 1 oz blueberry or rasberry if under $5 a lb, or a nectarine, or apple, grapes,  or a plum.  Sometimes none of this fruit if it is too expensive. I'm retired before social security started paying.  
Dessert, often 10 g dark sugar free chocolate, sometimes 1 mint or cocoanut sugar free candy
Dinner same as lunch.  Alternate 2 oz tuna fish for 50 g chicken or turkey most days. Dill pickles for flavor.    Occasionally instead of sandwich and cheese tortilla, a helping of  meat free spaghetti for dinner: low sugar (italian) pasta 1 g/16 oz, 1 can tom sauce, 1 can tom paste, 1 can tom diced, oregano, basil, dried onions,
Couple of times I month I substitute a sugar free cherry pie slice plus soymilk for the chocolate piece.  Sometimes two chocolate chip sugar free cookies.  Near holidays, 1 sugar free red velvet cake slice dessert.
Probably 2500 cal/ day, I've lost 5 lb on this this summer, but usually gain it back in the winter. I don't watch salt even though I have HBP, I don't think I have that gene.  2 g salt added (microwave Hormel dinners) or subtracted, doesn't affect my blood pressure, only the pills.  
Beef I view as a party food.  One BK whopper or an Outback Steak/potato/vegetable or a Mexican fajita+rice/beans/guacamole salad outing a month.  No fries or ketsup.
Note I increased fat consumption in 2008, the year that I dropped the serum chloresterol so much.  No pills for that.  I suspect the vegetable fats (peanut oil, canola oil) dissolved the saturated fats in my blood from eating sandwiches so many years out of the machines on third shift.  I did drop beef intake that year; I had been eating fried beef or pork dinners, and balogna or lunch meat sandwiches for lunch, There were no PBJ sandwich in the machines and no sugar free anything in restaurants.  Subway sandwich can be sugar free but you have to pick the right bread and right ingredients, including lite mayonaisse only.  I think the italian bread is sugar free.  
Good luck.  read Dr Furman's Incredible health, and Dr Cooper's Aerobics books.  Furman's diet followed me instead of lead it, but he has the data for what I am doing.  I just started eating more like my grandparent's in 2008.  I ride 70 mi/week on the bike and pick up tree parts in the warm months and ride 30 min exerbike 4 -5 days,  pulse 120-150 bpm,  and lift weights (5 lb) in the winter.  Plus I play three (15 min) Scott Joplin rags on piano 5-6 nights a week, plus any other repretoire I feel up to.  

[Bob]

Tortilla shells and salsa.  Not too unhealthy.  You can back or nuke the tortilla shells to make them harden up.

Avocatos.

Salad or green stuff like that.  Napa cabbage.  Bok choy.  Napa cabbage and bok choy taste great on their own.  I've been buying something, anything that looks interesting, from the veggie/produce section when I go shopping.  Once in a while. 

[chopinlover01]

Pico de Galo for me. Not sure if it's actually that healthy, but it's all vegetables so it can't be that bad