Low Calorie Snacks: 10 Suggestions

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By Jean Dewitt

If you're someone who struggles with weight, and you frequently find yourself putting things in your mouth just for comfort, here are ten things that might help you to keep the calorie count down.

1) Wint-O-green Life Savers, since they tend to decrease appetite. Of course there are other flavors to choose from, but you don't want to get a flavor that you like so much you're popping one after another.

2) Picante with Tostitos white corn chips. The chips are only 140 calories for 24 of them and picante has next to no calories at all. Plus picante is actually good for you...so that's a bonus!

3) Smuckers sugar-free peach preserves on Tostitos white corn chips. God bless Smuckers! They have actually come up with a preserve that has only 10 calories per TBLS, and it tastes scrumptious on the Tostitos chips. You could eat two servings (48 chips, 6 TBLS) and only consume 340 calories! It would "feel" like you're cheating, but you're not!

4) How about cup of nuts? They not only take awhile to chew, but they're a great protein blast. And although they are high in calories, they are a snack that burns up fast; so the calories don't land on you.

5) Pretzels...my all time favorite low-calorie, salty snack. They clock-in at only 110 calories for 28 sticks, and you can make them last longer by breaking the sticks in half (then you get 56 sticks)!

6) Two pieces of thin deli cheese (whatever you like) wrapped around some deli smoked chicken. Serve with mustard. Again, since chicken is protein it burns fast, and because you got your cheese sliced thin it should only be about 60 calories each. If you take two pieces of cheese, and wrap 2 slices of the chicken in each piece of cheese, you'll only get about 200 calories. (I eat this for breakfast about 4 days per week.)

7) One apple cut up into small little pieces. Eat with fork. (This is my little trick for making things last longer. May daughter says I'm persnickety...she may be right!)

8) Flavored rice cakes...eat them till you drop and you still won't get many calories! You'll get lots of flavor though.

9) Plain yogurt with frozen cherries or blueberries mixed in. First dish out the yogurt from the container into a small bowl. Then cut your cherries (or toss your blueberries) in and mix. The calorie count should be around 150. By the way, the reason I say to put the yogurt in a small bowl versus keeping it in its original container is because it will actually seem like more to your senses. And that's a good thing.

10) Cut up a tomato and cucumber (deseed for optimum flavor) in small bite-size pieces and spray some salad spritz on it.

So now that you have ten tasty, low-calorie snacks; here's to your success as you start to substitute these items with high-calorie snacks that are currently in your diet. Good luck!

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