Sunday, May 31, 2015

Healthy Snacks for Work (Daily Recommendations 13)

Welcome back to Healthy Snacks for Work!

Hope you enjoy today's tasty healthy ideas.

1. Hardboiled Egg White, Cucumber Slices, Craisins and Dried Coconut Chips

2. Nonfat Plain Greek Yogurt, Nutella, Banana Slices and Chia Seeds

Made with real nuts and chocolate, Nutella is a guilt-less indulgence. Add it to nonfat Greek yogurt and top with banana slices and chia seeds, and you've just created a decadent healthy snack.

3. Rolled Up All Natural Turkey and All Natural Cheese

Add all-natural cheese slices to all natural turkey and roll it up. Then, enjoy!

4. Ellenos Real Greek Yogurt with Mango

Creamy and delectable, this is truly one of the richest yet healthiest snacks out there.

5. Hard Boiled Eggs

Full of protein and fat-free, hard boiled eggs make a great mid-day snack.

6. Izzy Blackberry Sparkling Water, with No Added Sugar or Preservatives.

If you crave the sparkling sensation of soda, grab an Izzy no-sugar, no-preservatives beverage. It's still bubbly and refreshing, but has no additives.

7. Gorge Delights Just Fruit Bar in Pear Cranberry

8. True North 100% Natural Cashew Crunch

These nutty clusters are the perfect combination of sweet and salty. They are gourmet snacks at non-groumet price. Get them at True North Cashew Crunch.

Find these delicious nut clusters here.

9. Sahale Crunchers Almond Snack

Nuts with Parmesan and herbs? Yes please!

10. Snikiddy Eat Your Veggies All Natural Vegetable Chips

Add more veggies to your diet with Snikiddy's crunchy, delicious veggie chips. They are flavorful and fun to eat, and are also gluten-free and GMO-free. With plenty of vitamins, fiber and protein per serving, they are perfect healthy snacks for work and play.

Get them at Snikiddy Veggie Chips.

These veggie chips are addictive! Get them here.

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Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Healthy Packaged Snack Review: Go Raw Ginger Snap Sprouted Cookie

Awesome healthy snacks for work: Go Raw Ginger Snap Cookies

What is the raw food diet?

The raw food diet, or raw foodism, is the practice of eating solely uncooked and unprocessed foods. It's a more stringent version of the clean eating diet plan, and is known for providing health and weight loss benefits due to the diet's heavy consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables.

Research shows that the raw food diet benefits the human body because when food hasn't been heated, microwaved, genetically-engineered or exposed to pesticides, it keeps most of its nutrients, and therefore betters health when consumed.

Find them at Go Raw Ginger Snap Cookies

Go Raw Ginger Snap Cookies

About GoRaw Junk-Free Healthy Packaged Snacks

According to GoRaw's website at www.goraw.com, "raw foods are loaded with enzymes that help the body to properly digest and assimilate food for optimal nutritional value." GoRaw snacks are made with seed-based and densely-nutritious foods that are naturally sprouted, soaked and rinsed to boost their natural enzymes, vitamins and minerals.

Nutritiously, Go Raw Cookies sound like winning healthy snacks, but what about flavor?

Let's just say that I couldn't put these ginger snaps down! Keep reading for the full review.

Go Raw Ginger Snap Cookies

Review: Go Raw Ginger Snap Sprouted Cookies

Ingredients

Unsulfered Organic Coconuts, Sprouted Organic Sesame Seeds, Organic Dates, Organic Ginger

Nutritional Information

Calories 160 Per Serving | 80 Calories from Fat

Total Fat 9 g | 5 g (25%) Saturated Fat | 0 g Trans Fat

Cholesterol 0 mg

Sodium 10 mg

Total Carbohydrate 18g

Dietary Fiber 4 g

Sugars 11 g

Protein 2 g

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Vitamin A 0% | Vitamin C 0% | Calcium 8% | Iron 0%

* Percent daily values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.

Taste

Skeptical at first, I expected raw cookies to taste as gross as nibbling on weed. After eating the first few, though, these raw cookies pleasantly surprised me with their sweet-and-tangy combination of ginger, coconut and dates. Each bite exploded with a zing at first, due to ginger's strong spiciness; but coconut and dates' sweetness, along with wholesome toasted sesames, soon took over.

The overall taste-experience was pleasurable with sweet, tangy and spicy flavors. If I didn't watch intake, I would have easily finished the whole bag!

Texture

Go Raw Ginger Snaps come in dime-sized bites, with raised, uneven texture from mending toasted coconuts, sesames and ginger with dates. They're crunchy but still soft to chew, and have the size and texture of any fun finger foods.

In my opinion, their texture and size are perfect.

Work Friendliness

These healthy packaged snack bites are not messy, sticky or greasy, and make great healthy snacks for work.

That come in clean-cut, re-sealable bags that are great for carrying and storing. They won't leave your desk messy or your fingers sticky. Also, they don't have strong odor, so you can enjoy them without bothering co-workers.

Because these cookies have no artificial additives, they won't leave you feeling greasy, bloated or tired. In fact, they give you natural energy to endure tough work days with.

Final Thoughts

The Go Raw Ginger Snap Super Cookies serve as both desserts and health foods. They're raw, and therefore contain foods' full nutrients, but are also tasty to snack on at work.

The only problem? They might leave you wanting more!

Re-Purchase?

Absolutely!

Find them at GoRaw Ginger Snap Super Cookies!

Monday, May 18, 2015

Healthy Snacks for Work (Daily Recommendations 12)

1. Trader Joe's Just Mango

Just mangoes and nothing else. They're sweet, soft, delightful and awesome healthy snacks for work!

2. Dark Chocolate Covered Edamame

Dark chocolate-covered-anything sounds amazing, but especially protein-rich edamame. Don't you think?

3. kashi All Natural Hummus Chips in Sundried Tomato, Basil and Feta Flavor

If you like other Kashi-brand snacks, you'll like these tasty healthy chips. At only 90 calories per serving, they make a great choice for snacking light at work.

4. Apple Slices and Carrots

5. Dried Cranberries

A simple sweet and sour combo always makes a delicious choice.

6. Banana Slices with All Natural Crunchy Peanut Butter

Soft and faintly sweet banana with crunchy and heart peanut butter--yum!

7. Snikiddy Baked Mac n' Cheese Puffs

These puffs are baked to a perfect crisp and will melt in your mouth. They aren't artificially enhanced with flavor or coloring--just natural deliciousness. They're fluffy and fun to eat, but won't leave your fingers dis-colored or your desk messy. They're just what you need when you crave something crunchy at work.

8. Quaker Popped Hummus Chips

Hummus is made with garbanzo beans and therefore rich in protein and fiber. These hummus chips are air popped and not fried to reduce fat and calories. They're nutritious, light and flavorful, and great ideas for healthy snacks for work.

9. Grapes

With only 62 calories per serving, grapes are guiltless sweets you can enjoy any time during the work day.

10. FIT Popcorn

These Biggest Loser-approved snacks are crunchy, tasty and low-cal. They have only 40 calories per cup, but are packed with flavor. Try the one in extra virgin olive oil; it's completely savory.

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Healthy Snacks for Work (Daily Recommendations 10)

1. Medjool Dates with Nonfat Goat Cheese

Sweet and creamy, this combination makes perfect bites for quick energy. With calcium-rich goat cheese and iron-filled dates, they're nutritious and delicious.

2. Simple Truth Dry Mango Slices

Instead of candy, munch on dry mango slices. They have no sugar, artificial coloring or preservatives; just sweet, tender mango that's delicious and fun to snack on.

3. Grapes, Blue Cheese Crumb and Honey

Sweet and spicy, this trio is perfect for healthy snacking at work.

4. Radish and Carrot Salad (recipe here)

You'd have to make the salad and pack it before work, but it's worth the effort. It's light, sweet and crunchy, and doesn't have a strong smell. A little unusual as healthy snacks for work but still nice to try.

Find recipe at Clean Eating Radish and Carrot Salad.

5. Roasted Chickpeas with Sea Salt

Craving something different? How about a bag of Biena roasted chickpeas with sea salt? These veggie snacks are all-natural, fiber-rich, protein-rich, low fat and gluten-free. Plus, they taste good. Get them at Biena Chickepeas.

Find them here.

6. Go Raw Ginger Snap Sprouted Cookies

The Raw Food Diet began in the late 1800's, when Dr. Maximilian Bircher-Benner discovered that he could cure his own jaundice by eating raw apples. He then researched the benefits of raw foods on the human body, and discovered that when food has been cooked, microwaved, contaminated or genetically-altered, their immune-boosting nutrients dissipate. Therefore, raw foods are healthier than cooked foods. (Source: USNews Health - Raw Food Diet) In addition to maintaining all nutritional value, raw foods are low in calories and help with weight loss.

These Go Raw Ginger Snaps are pure and clean, with gluten-, soy-, nut-, GMO- and transfat-free ingredients, but are still flavorful and mess-free enough for work.

Find them at Go Raw Ginger Snaps.

7. BARE Baked Chocolate Coconut Chips

These chocolate-flavored coconut chips are baked to reduce fat. They're also gluten-free, GMO-free and preservatives-free. They taste like fresh coconuts with a hint of chocolate. Sounds delicious, right? Find them at Bare Coconut Chips.

Get them at BARE Chocolate Bliss Coconut Chips

8. Sweet Corn Puffs

Anything sweet and made with corn sounds good!

9. Teriyaki Nori

Nori, or seaweed, is light and antioxidant-rich. Roasted to perfect crispiness and cooked in teriyaki flavor, they're ideal snacks for paleo, low-cal, low-carb and clean eating diet.

10. Gluten-Free Glutino Chocolate Pretzels

Are you gluten-intolerant too? Try these sweet and crunchy chocolate-covered pretzels from Glutino. You'll love them

Find these chocolate covered pretzels at this place!

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Happy snacking, and have fun at work!

Sunday, May 10, 2015

Quick Easy Healthy Snack Recipe for Work

Easy Healthy Snack Idea for Work

Quick, easy, delicious and mess-free!

1. Give yourself a generous spoonful of nonfat plain Greek yogurt.

2. Pile on fresh fruits like banana, blueberries and raspberries.

3. Drizzle honey on top.

Enjoy!

(Fage Greek Yogurt is a FANTASTIC choice, by the way!)

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Happy Healthy Snacking!

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Healthy Snacks for Work (Daily Recommendations 9)

1. Nonfat plain Greek yogurt with honey and raspberries.

This healthy snack idea is easy to prepare, deliciously sweet and naturally filling. It's the perfect healthy snack for work.

2. Apple Slices with All Natural Peanut Butter

Preferably you will use freshly ground peanut butter that's available at health food stores like Whole Foods. If not, then try Teddie All Natural Peanut Butter, which is non-GMO, gluten-free, vegan friendly, preservatives- and sugar-free.

3. LARABAR

LARABARS are as sweet and tasty as candy bars but made with all natural ingredients that provide real energy. LARABAR comes in many flavors, and they're all tasty. The "chocolate coconut chew" flavor, however, is one of the best.

Find them at LARABAR Chocolate Coconut Chew.

Find these at Chocolate Coconut Chew Larabar.

4. Trader Joe's Dried California Persimmon

Originating from East Asia, persimmons are sweet, juicy and tender-textured fruits packed with vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and betacarotene. Due to their sweetness, persimmons are eaten as dessert in Asia.

Because persimmon fruits are juice, they're too messy to snack on at work. However, these dried persimmon slices from Trader Joe's are mess- and liquid-free. They contain the same sweetness and nutrients but are much more ideal as work snacks.