10 healthy living bloggers share their favorite snacks so you’ll never be hangry again.
Let’s talk about snacks bay-be, let’s talk about you and me. Ok, cool, now that I got that one out of my system, we can really talk snacks.
As I mentioned before, a lot of people let me know on my reader survey that they were on the hunt for more healthy snack ideas. Healthy snacks are clutch when it comes to maintaining a healthy diet. In fact, one of my biggest stumbling blocks is letting myself get too hungry, over eating and feeling bleh later. A nutritious, balanced snack between meals is a great way to combat that.
When I say balanced, I’m referring to a snack that has some combination of fats, carbs and protein from whole food ingredients. Almost all of these snacks check at least two of those boxes if not three. Having a balance of fat, protein and carbs can help ward away hunger and give you the energy you need to get through the day without relying on too much sugar or caffeine.
For this post I enlisted the help of some of my healthy living blogger buddies. I put out the bat signal calling for everyone’s favorite snacks. I got an amazing response! So many creative healthy ideas. I ended up choosing 10 snacks all of which I also enjoy and I think you will too! Definitely check out these bloggers’ sites because they’re filled with so many delicious ideas. I don’t think it will come as a surprise to see that most of these snacks involved avocado or nut butter in some way. What can I say, errybody is team #healthyfat and proud.
Edamame Lightly Salted
My girl Emilie from emilieeats.com suggested this delicious snack which is a great vegan protein source. She also recommends pairing these bad boys with veggies & hummus.
Nut Butter Dates
Leah, the vegan goddess behind lovemefeedme.net, suggested one of my all time favorite snacks: nut butter dates. The ones pictured are topped with chia, goji & pecans but she also suggested adding a bit of homemade granola, because she’s a vegan genius.
Peanut Butter, Chocolate Chip Bananas
This classic combination of flavors was suggested by Lauren, the blogger behind breathedeeplyandsmile.com. I topped these slices with Enjoy Life Chips so vegans and not vegans alike can enjoy this sweet, satisfying snack.
Avocado with Chile Flakes, Salt & Lime
Molly, the wonderful blogger behind apolloandluna.com suggests enjoying the mighty avocado in its full glory. Sprinkle this bad boy with a little Himalayan Salt, cayenne pepper flakes and lime juice. Will do, Molly, Will do.
Rice Cakes with Nut Butter & Avocado
Great minds think alike because the ladies behind myhealthyishlife.com and thecleaneatingcouple.com both suggested using rice cakes as vehicles for nut butter and avocado. They are smart ladies. Very smart ladies.
Greek Yogurt with Granola, Berries & Nut Butter
Both Natalie from afitphilosophy.com and Ashley from fitmittenkitchen.com suggested the classic combo of greek yogurt, granola, nut butter and berries. Can you go wrong with this combo? Short answer: no.
Greek Yogurt with Berries, Almond Butter & a Square Bar
This one was my own creation. This could double as a bigger snack or lighter breakfast. With the combined protein power from greek yogurt and squarebar, combined with the healthy fat from the almond butter this will keep your tastebuds and body satisfied for several hours.
Avocado Toast with Pepitas
This was a snack that almost everyone I asked suggested, and if you follow my Instagram you know it’s heavy on my rotation too. I don’t understand how something so simple could be so delicious and satisfying but alas, there lies the magic of the avocado.
Apples with Peanut Butter & Hemp Seeds
A snack as old as time, this classic comes highly recommended by Christina from theblissfulbalance.com who swears by this bad boy to ward of hunger. I trust everything Christina says and does and this snack is no exception.
Hard boiled Eggs with an Avocado
Rachel from ahealthfulheart.com suggested this savory combo that packs a hunger crushing protein, fat combo. This delicious pairing is great when you’re trying to tame your sweet tooth.
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Now It’s Your Turn:
Ok, so I totally want to do another one of these posts so tell me:
- What’s your favorite snack?
I love having nut butter banana toast! Or even nut butter toast topped with chia seeds. Nothing keeps me full more than a piece of toast with nut butter!
Oo totally forgot about nut butter toast, but it’s a classic. Love the idea of topping it with chia seeds.
Love salted edamame and apples+PB. I need to try that whole avocado+red pepper+lime–too simple not to try. My favorite snack will forever be roasted chickpeas. Not the quickest snack, but they’re well worth the wait.
Mmm gotta try me some roasted chickpeas. My timing is never right because I always seem to forget about them and let them burn but alas I shall prevail
yay for more delicious snacky ideas! I really need to try that avocado with chili flakes, salt and lime asap because it sounds like a party in my mouth!
Haha absolutely! Avocado partaaay
ALL OF THE ABOVE! I love Rachel’s idea of hard boiled eggs and avocado. Simple but filling.
Right? Can’t go wrong there!
I’m all aboard the Greek yogurt and nut butter train. It’s my go-to mid-afternoon snack! I’d LOVE to have more of the savory snacks though, especially hard boiled eggs and avocado because YES.
The greek yogurt train is a favorite train of mine. Yes and hard boiled eggs with avo is perfection!
Love this! So many good ideas. Thanks for sharing homie.
Abso-fruitly girl! Thank YOU for the inspiration.
Food bloggers sure know how to eat!
Heck yes! If only we could all share a big kitchen.
I typically keep my snacks super simple…flavored almonds, apples, or a HUGE spoonful of nut butter. I like to eat REAL foods for snacks…And these are always my favorite!
Love it! Simple, delicious, satisfying.
A big Fuji apple and almond butter will always be my #1 <3 These are all such great and easy ideas!
Yummm – a total classic
Snackssssss!! I’d be happy to have any of these at snack time, especially that apple with nut butter – such a simple snack but you made it look magical.
Aww thanks, nothing like having the magic power of hemp seeds aka food fairy dust
Thanks for sharing my healthy snack idea! These all look so wonderful – snacking is my favorite 🙂 can’t wait to try some apple and PB with hemp seeds, what a great addition!
Of course! Such a great one. Hemp seeds are like snacking fairy dust! Badabing bada-protein!
I LOVE what you did here. So fun and creative. Obviously I’m obsessed with all of these ideas. Snack time is da best time <3 Thanks for including my thoughts! Yogurt+granola etc etc will always have my heart 🙂
Such good ideas! I love them all 😉 I can only add some carrots with hummus there.
I’m a big fan of celery sticks and carrots with peanut butter! It may sound strange at first, but it’s super tasty, promise.
I also love me a good grapefruit – drizzled with honey for a sweet snack OR drizzled with olive oil and sea salt!
I just love all of the photographs! You make anything look delicious!
Love all these drizzle drool pictures and recipes!
My favorite snack has also been dried fruit with nut butter!! Instead of dates I have been on a dried plum or dried apricot kick. The plums have a quite a bit less sugar than dates and are just as tasty! Also cutting up an apple and sprinkling it with some cinnamon has been a new found love of mine. Great for dessert too!
So many new, great ideas – and so many links to new blogs! Awesome all around. I’m a huge fruit + dark chocolate snacker, or fruit + pb. I LOVE the idea of adding pumpkin seeds to avocado toast. I’m curious if the flavor of the pumpkin seeds would actually come across or whether they just add a nice crunch? Excited to try – thank you!
YUM. I’m wanting a lot of these right now. My go-to snack is an apple with peanut butter and I’m currently loving pb oatmeal balls right now. I’m in love with them haha.
Oh my gosh…so many great ideas here! And the photos are fantastic.
I want all of these right now!
This is such a cute idea! Every picture made me so hungry… food bloggers definitely know how to snack!
Thanks for including my little avocado snack stand-by 🙂
all of these look so delicious! love all the avocado 😉
my favorite snacks are apples and peanut butter, avocado toast, and carrots and pita chips with hummus!
Great roundup! All of these look delicious!
Thank you so much Ashlyn
I love all of these, but small smoothies are another way I like to fill in the in between meals time. With all the nola on top ofc 😀
Oo yes! Such a good one, that I never think to have as a snack but they’re so easy to make bigger or smaller depending on how hungry you are.
I love all of these snack ideas! Sidenote, I still have yet to try a squarebar and I need to change this asap. They look so good on top of that yogurt! Lately my go-to has been banana with peanut butter or almond butter and chia. I smear a little nut butter on banana, then dip it in chia seeds and repeat before each bite. SO good!
Woaaaah. Mind. Blow. Definitely trying the chia-almondbutter-nanna asap.
yum, yum yum! I’d be down to eat any (or ALL) of these. Having some major healthy snack cravings now!
Right? Bloggers know how to snack!
This is such a great round-up!! I definitely loooooove all these snacks!
Thanks Rebecca!
Mmmh, snacks. I like that none of these take a million years to prepare because nobody’s got time for that. One of my current favourite don’t-knock-it-till-you-try-it snacks is the combination of shredded carrots, chickpeas, cottage cheese and nutritional yeast. I know it sounds odd but it’s so satisfying when a savoury craving hits.
Oo I always need more ideas for savory snacks and I love the idea of mixing nutritional yeast in there. Thanks for the suggestion!
I LOVE this idea! I love pretzels or veggies and hummus, smoothies, and apples with string cheese.
Apples and string cheese! That’s genius – probably such a yummy combo.
Thank for including my favorite snack. It looks like you did it right-plenty of chocolate chips and peanut butter!
Heck yes, no scrimping on chocolate here