Which is better?

Pembily

I am not looking for low fat, I am looking for the healthiest, low sugar, decent snack for final year and my sweet tooth!!

Snack 1

(a) -a bag of treble crunch (tayto crisps)
(b) - garlic seasme sticks (gram flour, veg oil and flavourings)


Snack 2

(a) -natural confectionary jellies (sugar sweetened),
(b) - de bon jellies (malitol sweeted)

I know healthy is relative and neither a nor b of either are very healthy they will be used max max once a week and its just for snacks!!!

Thanks

jam_mac_jam

not being smart but really, neither and neither. The jellies are nothing but sugar anway, aditives or not. Have a banana or some nuts, a yogurt, even a small piece of dark chocolate would be better, sorry, just my opinion. I dont know which would have less sugar with the tayto or seasame things but a lot of them are trying to seem healthy while they are junk.

If you are talking about once a week as a treat really which ever you like the taste better.

Melia

I'd say they're probably much of a muchness - if it's only once a week then eat whichever one you prefer, and enjoy it! You're very healthy the rest of the time.

Ideally you'd be prepared with the fruit/yoghurt/nuts, but sometimes that just doesn't cut it!

Pembily

jam_mac_jam wrote: »

not being smart but really, neither and neither. The jellies are nothing but sugar anway, aditives or not. Have a banana or some nuts, a yogurt, even a small piece of dark chocolate would be better, sorry, just my opinion. I dont know which would have less sugar with the tayto or seasame things but a lot of them are trying to seem healthy while they are junk.

If you are talking about once a week as a treat really which ever you like the taste better.

I gave those options as I know my other options

- I don't eat bananas - they give me wicked cramps
- I can't eat nuts at the minute
- I eat yogurt already

Melia wrote: »

I'd say they're probably much of a muchness - if it's only once a week then eat whichever one you prefer, and enjoy it! You're very healthy the rest of the time.

Ideally you'd be prepared with the fruit/yoghurt/nuts, but sometimes that just doesn't cut it!

MMM, Yeah normally I eat the fruit and yogurt (see above about nuts) but sometimes (when I have been sitting studying design or patents for hours...

EileenG

What about dried fruit? Still very very sweet, but a bit more nutritious. One of the local kids was in the house recently and joined my kids in munching on dried apricots. She asked for another jelly. I gave her some and told her they were apricots. She spat it out and said "Ew, I never eat fruit."

Melia

EileenG wrote: »

What about dried fruit? Still very very sweet, but a bit more nutritious. One of the local kids was in the house recently and joined my kids in munching on dried apricots. She asked for another jelly. I gave her some and told her they were apricots. She spat it out and said "Ew, I never eat fruit."

That is shocking, what is she being taught at home?

EileenG

Melia wrote: »

That is shocking, what is she being taught at home?

They eat lots of pizza and takeaway and chipper chips.

Melia

That's so sad.

I know it's easy for me to say, not having any children, but I think it's downright neglectful to raise kids like that - you're depriving your children of their health, and making it much less likely that they'll be a normal weight when they're adults. It's awful seeing the number of overweight children these days.

Getwellsoon

Go for whatever you want Em, it's a once a week treat... so treat away!

Personally, I'd go with Eileen G though, I'd prefer to snack on dried fruit any day!

Sapsorrow

Home bakings the key to healthy munchies! Definately stay away from the sesame sticks they are full of crappy oil thats been heat damaged.

Iristxo

khrystyna100 wrote: »

Home bakings the key to healthy munchies! Definately stay away from the sesame sticks they are full of crappy oil thats been heat damaged.

Khrystina, what for example would you bake? Could you post any "not so damaging" recipes?

Getwellsoon

these two things look delicious and are very healthy, what with being gluten, wheat and dairy free and sweetened with xylitol:

http://can-eat.blogspot.com/search/label/Dairy%20Free

But I think Pembily is off nuts at the moment.

Pembily

Getwellsoon wrote: »

these two things look delicious and are very healthy, what with being gluten, wheat and dairy free and sweetened with xylitol:

http://can-eat.blogspot.com/search/label/Dairy%20Free

But I think Pembily is off nuts at the moment.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHH nyommy I will replace the nuts (how I do miss them) with some gram flour or oat flour and the nut butter with tahini and will report back!!

Thanks for all the replies!!! Nuts were my snack but am off them for a few months now!

Sapsorrow

Ya loads from my diary I'm on an eternal quest to develop healthy munchies that satisfy my sweet tooth (and my very picky boyfriends :rolleyes:), they won't be suitable for everyones diet plan though, and bear in mind they're supposed to be treats so they're never going to be 100% healthy! Sorry I don't know how to do that thing where you link an individual post so I'll have to link you full pages of my diary.

Black bean brownies: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055783234&page=21

-These are definately the winner out of the lot! No one has copped they were odd until I told them and any one I've fed them to so far has been raving about them since!

Sweet potato-peanut butter cookies: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055783234&page=12

Pomegranate- mango-berry-pecan salad
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055783234&page=11

Hot milk with rose water: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055783234&page=8


Oat-berry muffins: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055783234&page=6

Rice flour chocolate chip cookies: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055783234&page=5

Berry macaroons: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055783234&page=4

Omega carrot-parsnip muffins: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055783234&page=28

Another good one I haven't done lately is to put a 1/2 bad of frozen berries or other frozen fruit into a processor, add some xylitol, vanilla extract, rose water and some cream and you've got instant ice-cream! My mum came up with it and we always have it with toasted nuts, it's gorgeous!

If you want a low fat version, freeze a couple of bananas with the skins removed in cling film and some other fruits and then blitz them in a processor with some sweetener and vanilla extract.

At christmas my mum made this lovely 'pick and mix' style brittle where she made a really strong water-xylitol solution with cinnamon and a few other spices in it and she coated loads of different nuts in it and roast them in a really low oven and then when they cooled she mixed in different types of dried fruit and I threw in some xylitol sweetened chocolate drops too

jam_mac_jam

Pembily wrote: »

I gave those options as I know my other options

- I don't eat bananas - they give me wicked cramps
- I can't eat nuts at the minute
- I eat yogurt already



MMM, Yeah normally I eat the fruit and yogurt (see above about nuts) but sometimes (when I have been sitting studying design or patents for hours...

Fair enough, in that case its only once a week, eat which ever you best like the taste of, if you are eating well all the rest of the time you are doing very well.

shipwreck

Ah K, your food always has me droooolllling!!! yummy treats!
Im gonna convert over to using xylitol for my own baking from now on!
I have to have a blast at making those maroons...Im always staring at the ones in Brown Thomas but I know I cant have any!!

Em, I like to munch on just frozen berries in the evening...I got a lovely big box of them in Tesco for 2.40euro...its feels like Im eating sweeties but alot healthier!!

Sapsorrow

Just got these out of the oven there and they're gorgeous (I'm totally smitten ), these are my best healthy cookie concoction to date by a long shot! So if yer gonna give one of my cookie recipes a go make it this one!

If you like cookies that are a bit sticky and chewy (like I do) then these are perfect for you!


Sticky ginger nut cookies!

Mix;

1 cup roughly chopped nuts (cashews, walnuts, pecans etc)
3/4 cup ground flax
1/2 cup xylitol (or sugar)
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1-2 tsp cinnamon powder
2 tbs orange zest
1 tbs fresh ginger - minced/grated


Cream together;

1/2 cup chunky peanut butter (any nut butter'll do though!)
1 medium or 2 small eggs
Few drops of orange blossom water -If you have it!

Mix the wet and dry ingredients and roll the dough into little balls (just smaller than a golf ball) andusing wet hands press them flat onto a tray covered in greaseproof paper.

Bake in a pre-heated oven at 180 until brown and crispy and cool on a rack.

Be sure and leave thema fair bit of space on the tray they expand quite a bit!

If anyone tries them be sure and let me know what ye think of them!

Pembily

khrystyna100 wrote: »

Just got these out of the oven there and they're gorgeous (I'm totally smitten ), these are my best healthy cookie concoction to date by a long shot! So if yer gonna give one of my cookie recipes a go make it this one!

If you like cookies that are a bit sticky and chewy (like I do) then these are perfect for you!


Sticky ginger nut cookies!

Mix;

1 cup roughly chopped nuts (cashews, walnuts, pecans etc)
3/4 cup ground flax
1/2 cup xylitol (or sugar)
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1-2 tsp cinnamon powder
2 tbs orange zest
1 tbs fresh ginger - minced/grated


Cream together;

1/2 cup chunky peanut butter (any nut butter'll do though!)
1 medium or 2 small eggs
Few drops of orange blossom water -If you have it!

Mix the wet and dry ingredients and roll the dough into little balls (just smaller than a golf ball) andusing wet hands press them flat onto a tray covered in greaseproof paper.

Bake in a pre-heated oven at 180 until brown and crispy and cool on a rack.

Be sure and leave thema fair bit of space on the tray they expand quite a bit!

If anyone tries them be sure and let me know what ye think of them!

You have to stop I have 10000 words of my thesis to write and am way happier baking and that recipe is NOT HELPING me get my thesis done!!!!!!!!!!

Sapsorrow

Pembily wrote: »

You have to stop I have 10000 words of my thesis to write and am way happier baking and that recipe is NOT HELPING me get my thesis done!!!!!!!!!!

Ha ha sure I'm the same with my lit review! Thats the only reason I'm baking and doing housework today!!! :pac::pac::pac: