✰ My favourite healthy ✰ snacking alternatives✰

It's the New Year and lots of us have probably got the 'eat more healthy' line on our list of resolution and

like everyone i often get peckish in between meals, although weight is not a concern for me i still care about what i'm putting into my body and want to make sure i'm taking care of myself. So i wanted to share with you some of my favourite foods/snacks which happen to be very healthy and nutritious. 

Yoghurt and honey

Yum! Yum! YUM! This is my go to snack food at home, 

if i'm hungry my first instinct is to grab some nice organic yogurt and either drizzle it with honey or chop up some banana into it! Or maybe even both.

Of course you can put other things in your yoghurt, sometimes i like to put a spoonful of jam in with it instead 

but i must stress, i have seen a lot of people think that they can just completely cover their yoghurt in jam or honey of sugar and it's 'still healthy because it's yoghurt 

..........it doesn't work like that!  

try to stick to just one tea spoon of honey/jam or sugar, that's all it needs.

Fruit/veg smoothies 

Okay so i know these aren't necessarily quick, but if you have some spare time you can make a batch and it'll last a few days. My favourite smoothie recipe is

• 1 Mango
• 2 chopped carrots
• 1 or 2 peeled oranges
• 1/2 cup water or orange juice

Some people like to add a quarter tea spoon of ginger and you can also skip the mango!!

Smoothies are so fun to experiment with but they're always brilliant at filling you up and you know it's always going to be healthy as you know it's only fruit/veg going into your body.

If you can't be asked to make your own, you can always get an innocent smoothie or a variation as they're just as delicious and healthy but it's obviously more fun to make your own.

Rice cakes with almost anything

Oooo! My mouth is watering just thinking about them!!!

I really love rice cakes and i could happily eat them on their own but i know most people find that bland.

A few good things to put on your rice cakes are: 

• Peanut butter (make sure you get a brand that doesn't use palm oil, or that gets it from a sustainable source)
• Cream Cheese
• Cream cheese/cucumber
• Cream cheese/ smoked salmon
• Smoked salmon and lemon
• Houmous
• Tahini
• Honey

You could put ANYTHING ON THEM!! They're just so delicious. My favourite is smoked salmon and cream cheese with a squeeze of lemon. Rice cakes are the perfect alternative to bread/toast and they are so much better for you. My mum is even fond of making rice cake sandwiches which are unsurprisingly delicious.

FRUIT AND VEG

Honestly nothing baffles me more than when people say they're trying to get healthy but 'it's just so hard to find nice foods to eat'

What about simply some fruit and veg? It's cheap, you usually don't need to prepare it and it's really tasty.

You could just grab a banana or an apple or my favourite, some blueberries.

Or if you have a little time, chop up some carrots and dunk them in some houmous! 

Cut a grapefruit in half and sprinkle some sugar on top! 

Hell, make a fruit salad if you feel like it.

It's very common now days for people's taste buds to be 'warn out' and for your body to crave snack foods and junk but i promise just a couple days of eating fruit and veg in place of the usual unhealthy stuff and it'll start being the healthy stuff you crave instead, it's amazing how quickly your body gets back to wanting the healthy stuff.

I'd love to hear some of your favourite healthy foods so comment below and enjoy all the yummy food

～❤