1200 Calorie Diet: Snacks

SNACKS: between 100-150 calories. These can be fruit, bars, toast with cheese, shakes, pudding cups, oatmeal, loaded coffee, fruit salad, regular salad, soup even ice cream ...whatever you crave as long as it fits within the calorie limit. Here are some samples that worked for me.

Loaded Coffee: Make your own and count it out. Use low cal creamer (30 calories), stevia (0 calories), light whip topping (15 calories), sprinkle flavors -raspberry (5 calories), cinnamon..- Coffee counts as a snack because it does have calories. If you dont use creamer or whip topping, then you dont have to count any calories.

FRUITS OR VEGGIES

Any kind of fruit works.

Veggies: sugar peas are sweet and really low in calories.

Fruit salad with whip topping

fruit salad and apple carrot salad with sour cream and stevia

Fruit Smoothie: Make your own and count what you put in. Stevia works for sweetener.

DAIRY: Cottage cheese and yogurt work great.

Cottage Cheese: 1/2 Cup cottage cheese with stevia, fruit, and pretzel pieces optional.

Yogurt and Rice Cakes: rice cakes are great for adding crunch to yogurt. The regular unflavored ones are only 35 calories each. With 80 calories yogurt + rice cake = 115 calories. With 110 calorie yogurt + rice cake= 145 calories.

GRAINS: Bread and cheese always work great. Make sure to use low calorie whole grain bread and fat free cheeses.

Toast: 110 calorie bread, fat free creme cheese 30 calories, 50/50 jam 5 calories for a total of 145 calories.

Toast 2: 110 calorie whole wheat bread and 1/4 Tbsp Better"n peanut butter spread (25 calories) + 1 Tbsp light cool whip (10 calories): total of 145 calories.

Easy Wrap: 100 calorie wrap with garlic herb laughing cow cheese (35 calories) and cilantro.

Quessadilla with Trader Joes tortilla and 1/8 cup fat free cheese: 140 calories.

Simple oatmeal: 100-120 calorie pack with some almond milk and pretzel pieces for a total of 150 calories.

SAVORY SALADS: Salads are around 50-150 calories with low calorie dressing. They can be a side for any meal or simply a snack on their own. For low calorie dressings go to products page. I like to be creative with my salad. A lot of times I throw in fruit in there such as grapes, sliced apples, oranges, or a few berries. Its also good to use some crumbled pretzel pieces instead of nuts for extra crunch.

Spring Salad: coleslaw mix, 1/2 tomato, grapes, radish, pretzel pieces and 50 calorie dressing.

Regular Tuna Salad: 150 calories: 1 can of tuna with egg whites, 1 prune, celery, fat free mayo, mustard, salt and pepper.

My Crazy Tuna Salad: 1/2 can of tuna, 2 prunes, 2 sweet tomatoes, some sprouts, some cilantro, fat free mayo, and a bit of mustard, salt and pepper.

Broccoli Cauliflower Salad

Imitation crab salad: with corn and celery.

Regular Coleslaw: with your own low calorie dressing.

Beet and Banana Spinach salad: with mushrooms, bell peppers, and poppyseed dressing.

SOUPS: Can be store bought or home made. Watch the SODIUM because it can make you retain water weight.

Sometimes I make soup at home, and sometimes I buy canned soups.

I buy broth at the store to make my soup. It is usually very low in calories but always check the label. This one has only 20 calories per cup.

White bean soup: with onions and dill, can be served with sour cream.

Green Pea Soup: With frozen peas, onions, can be served with a stalk of celery.

Cheesy Broccoli Soup

Egg drop soup: If you use only egg whites instead of whole egg, the recipe is really low in calories.

Canned Soup: There are a few good canned soups out there. The one above is the fat free clam chowder which is really good. This below has 140 calories for the whole can (2 servings at 70 calories each). I find myself eating all the broth and chicken but not the carrots or the noodles because they seem to have lost all flavor while sitting in a can. So the total calorie intake from an entire can is most likely around 70 calories (since the noodles have a lot of calories).

SIMPLE SNACKS ON THE GO: These are great prepacked snacks that are ready to grab and go. I usually keep a few bars in my car, and one in my purse so I am never left hungry.

These are my favorite 100-150 calorie bars.

Jello Fruit cup- 90 calories

Pudding Cups: Tapioca pudding cup. there are many types out there, whatever you like. chocolate, vanilla, mouse, caramel...all for less than 100 calories. some are only 60 calories!

Yogurt; 80-110 calories per cup

Popcorn:100-110 calories. Check the package label.

DESSERTS: These are the snacks you should limit to having only when you are having cravings. That includes all cakes, ice creams, and muffins, cookies...