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Hi, I’m Aviva Goldfarb of the Six O’Clock Scramble, and we are going to talk about one of my favorite subjects, and maybe yours—snacking, but healthy snacking. These are ideas for healthy snacks for adults or kids.
A lot of times, in the early morning or late afternoon, you’ve digested your lunch, you’ve got a few hours left until your six o’clock scramble dinnertime, but you get hungry. And you want something that’s going to energize you and nourish you, but not fill you up too much and not have too many calories. So I have some great ideas that you might not have thought of. And if there are any ideas that you have thought of that I did not mention, please leave a comment below the video so we can share our ideas together.
So, first, starting from this side, this is something I love. It tastes so decadent, almost like a dessert, but it’s so good for you. This is a sliced banana, and I drizzled unsweetened almond butter on it and sprinkled some cinnamon, and then put cacao nibs, or cocoa nibs—and you can learn more about those in one of my other videos, but they’re an awesome, sugar free form of chocolate.
And then of course, sort of a classic, but we have veggies and hummus. And it’s a good idea sometimes to measure out your hummus if you’re conscious about calories so that you don’t consume too much. And have a lot of veggies to go with it. We have a variety of vegetables here—red bell pepper strips, cucumbers, carrots, and one thing I do is sometimes I cut up all the veggies right at the beginning of the week so that I will be sure and my family will be sure to eat a lot of vegetables during the week.
A lot of people think I’m strange, but I love Turkey Jerky. It gives you a little high protein, salty, flavory snack. You can bring it in the car or on trips too. But it just, you know, it fills you up with something, and it takes a while to chew, so you have that sense that you’re really eating something.
Then, kind of a classic too, apples and cheddar. If you cut up the apple, it kind of feels like it goes a longer way. And if you use a cheese stick, any kind of cheddar or any kind of cheese you like is great, but a cheese stick gives you sort of a pre-measured portion also.
Then, here’s sort of an unusual one, but I love it. This is a couple of hard boiled eggs, and what I do is I sprinkle on a little bit of curry powder—I just noticed my curry powder doesn’t have its shaker—but you sprinkle on some curry powder and then a little bit of salt. And they are so good that way. I don’t know, maybe you like other spices on your hard boiled eggs—let me know!
Then, classic, but we almost forget about edamame! Such a healthy snack, fun to eat, gives you energy, lots of protein, lots of fiber. So these are something you can pack on the road, you can send them in your kids’ lunchboxes, you can just eat them for a snack.
This is my favorite kind of cracker. I think my in-laws introduced me to these. They’re just really simple—Finn Crisp—they’re crispy and dark and crunchy, and what I do is I usually spread some avocado and sprinkle some salt on it, or a little bit of cheese. I usually measure out three Finn Crisps so I don’t overdo it, and I put whatever I like on them.
Speaking of avocados, one of the things that I like to do since I love avocados so much is I just cut one in half, and I squeeze a little bit of lime on it, or you can do lemon if you prefer, right on there. And then you take a little bit of your grain salt and put that on there too, and you can just eat it right out of here. You can cut it up, you can put it on your crackers, whatever you like, but you just eat it right out of there and you have that creamy, flavorful, filling, healthy fat that is provided in an avocado that is so good for your skin and your brain and everything else. I’m a little obsessed with avocados, I know. If you watch a lot of my videos, you’ll know that.