Healthy Snacks for a Sweet Tooth!

These choices may help satisfy your sweet tooth, without the guilt!  

Healthy Choice 100 Calorie Fudge Bar (5 g fiber)

VitaTop:  Deep Chocolate or Banana Nut!

Fresh pear slices sprinkled with ground cinnamon

Sugar Free Iced Coffee

Skinny Cow candy

Mini Cupcakes:  Use a cake mix and blend with a 15 oz can of pumpkin

Skinny Cow Ice Cream treat, or similar such as Weight Watchers Cups

Air popped popcorn with butter spray and ground cinnamon

5-6 oz plain Greek yogurt with Truvia or protein powder to flavor

PureProtein, Kind, Trio or other lower carb bar

Low fat/fat free/sugar free pudding

Sparkling flavored water such as Lime La Croix

Steaz Flavored Green Tea (cold, in a can)

Graham cracker square with peanut butter and 10 mini chocolate chips

Protein shake:  Mix water, strawberry protein powder, frozen strawberries and ice, or create your own version!

Cocoa Roast Almonds (for example Emerald or Blue Diamond brand)

Roasted SoyNuts (can be flavored)

Spread Apple Slices with a Laughing Cow Cheese Wedge

FiberOne 50 calorie yogurt with 1 TBSP muesli or granola

Luigi’s Lemon Italian Ice, no added sugar

Chocolate Soy milk, such as Silk Light Chocolate.

Chocolate Soy Milk, blended with 1/3 frozen banana and ½ scoop flavored protein powder

Dove Dark Chocolate Squares—2 or 3 squares!

FiberOne Chocolate Brownies

Finely chopped up fresh strawberries over ½ cup “½ the fat” vanilla ice cream (or my favorite is Edy’s Light French Silk, ½ the fat)

-Jill Koegel, RD, CSSD, CDE
(Jill Koegel is an Omaha based certified specialist in sports dietetics and a certified diabetes educator)