Easy Recipes for Healthy Snacks

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It is often said that the words 'delicious' and 'healthy' do not go hand in hand. This is not true. Let's take a look at some toothsome recipes made with wholesome ingredients.

There are many fun and healthy snack recipes that we can make use of, to whip up some wonderful, tasty snacks for ourselves. People are becoming more and more health conscious with each passing day. Snacking between meals has become a regular habit and everyone is looking for a healthy option for snacking.

Healthy, Homemade Snack Recipes

Here are some quick healthy snacks recipes that do not require elaborate preparation methods, and consist of a small list of ingredients.

Healthy Veggie Sandwich

Ingredients for the Sandwich Dip Low-fat cottage cheese, ½ cup Lemon pepper, ¼ teaspoon Baby carrots (finely chopped), ½ cup Snow peas, ½ cup

Method Combine the cottage cheese and lemon pepper; add the carrots and snow peas to the cottage cheese mixture and your dip is ready to be served.

Sandwich Ingredients Avocado (ripe, sliced), 1 Lemon juice, ½ teaspoon Black pepper (cracked), ⅛ teaspoon Whole-wheat bread, 2 slices Smoked salmon (thinly sliced), 2 ounces Cucumber, 12 slices

Method Put the lemon juice, pepper, and the prepared vegetable dip, in a bowl and stir well. Spread a thin layer of the vegetable dip on a single bread slice and top it with the sliced salmon, along with avocado and cucumber. Place another slice of bread on top of this and your sandwich is ready to be savored.

Eggs with Crab

Ingredients Hard-boiled eggs (cooled and peeled), 6 Crab meat (finely chopped), ¼ cup Red pepper (finely chopped), 2 tablespoons Green onion (finely chopped), 2 tablespoons Fat-free mayonnaise, 2 tablespoons

Dijon mustard, 2 teaspoons Ground nutmeg, 2 pinches Dried parsley, ½ teaspoon A dash of black pepper

Method Cut the eggs into half, lengthwise, and remove the yolks. Take egg yolks of only three of the eggs and crumble them.

Now, add the crab meat, red pepper, green onion, mayonnaise, mustard, nutmeg, and parsley, to the crumbled yolks and mix well. Add the dash of pepper to taste. Spoon the mixture into the hollow egg halves and serve.

Healthy Snack Recipes for Kids

Children often eat unhealthy food, and for a health-conscious mother it can become a taxing job to feed her children nutritious meals. However, here are some wholesome recipes, that will become a hit with your children, where they will not turn towards unhealthy snacks. At the same time, these are also a hit with adults.

Apple Chips

Ingredients Sugar, 2 tablespoons Ground cinnamon, 1 tablespoon Apples (thinly sliced), 4

Method To make the chips as crispy as the ones we get in the market, slice them as thin as possible. They do not necessarily have to be round in shape. Preheat the oven to 250 °F, while you prepare the apples. In a bowl, mix the sugar and cinnamon well.

Add apple slices to the mixture and toss, so that both sides of the apples are well coated. Now, line two baking trays with parchment paper and scatter the apples in a single layer. Transfer the baking tray to the oven and let the apples bake till they turn light brown in color and slightly crisp.

Basic Smoothie

Ingredients Strawberries (hulled), 1 quart Banana (sliced), 1 Peaches, 2 Orange-peach-mango juice, 1 cup Ice, 2 cups

Method In a blender, blend the strawberries, banana, and peaches, till the fruits are pureed. Now, add the juice and blend well, again. Lastly, add the ice and blend to a desired consistency, pour, and serve the smoothie.