Snacks for Adults on The Run
Grab a bite, that’s right!
- Plan snacks as you plan your meals
- Try to include foods from two of the food groups from ‘Eating Well with Canada’s Food Guide’
- Keep your kitchen stocked with a variety of snack foods
- When you are out and about, remember to pack a snack
Good snacks
- Raw vegetables such as cucumber, green pepper, cauliflower, celery, carrots, cherry tomatoes. Eat alone or with a dip made from low fat yogourt
- All kinds of fruit, such as melons, grapes, peaches, apples, bananas, pears, oranges, nectarines or dried fruit
- Pita bread
- Low fat crackers (soda, rye, melba, rice, matzo, water biscuits, breadsticks)
- A bagel
- Small whole grain muffins
- Bean spreads such as hummus
- A thin layer of peanut butter or low fat processed cheese spread (on crackers or bread)
- Salsa
- A hard boiled egg
- Yogourt (2% M.F. or less)
- Cheese (20% M.F. or less)
- Milk pudding made from 2% M.F. or less
- Ice milk
Note: Look for %M.F. (milk fat) or %B.F. (butter fat) on the labels of dairy products. It tells you how much fat is in the product.
Are you thirsty?
Try:
- Milk (skim, 1%, 2%)
- Fruit juices (instead of fruit punch or drinks)
- Vegetable juices
- Water
- Decaffeinated tea and coffee
The equivalent of four cups of coffee/day is the maximum intake of caffeine recommended per day
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