An Evening Snack

Need2Know4Sure

Anyone recommend a nice healthy evening snack.

I always get peckish about 9.30 and tend to eat a bowl of cereal but then feel bloated going to bed.

Any suggestions?

EileenG

Tub of cottage cheese. Won't make you feel bloated, but will fill you up.

Or if you are someone who nibbles, then a small bag of Munchy seeds. www.munchyseeds.co.uk/products.php?pd=sv I like those for nibbling.

Need2Know4Sure

Thanks EileenG....Might give the nuts a try.

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Need2Know4Sure wrote: »

Anyone recommend a nice healthy evening snack.

I always get peckish about 9.30 and tend to eat a bowl of cereal but then feel bloated going to bed.

Any suggestions?

Eat some fruit (mango, pineapple, apple).
It will ease the hunger, keep the system going and consequently help loose weight.

EileenG

Eat fruit by all means, but if you pick mangoes or bananas or pineapple, you will have to watch the amounts carefully. It's one of the big nutrition mistakes people make, feeling that as fruit is so good for you, it's a free food that you can eat as much as you like.

I know from personal experience that it's scary easy to put away 300-400 cals of fruit without thinking if you pick the wrong ones.

Go for the low gi, high fiber fruits like berries or currents or apples etc. As much as possible, try to eat local fruit in season, not stuff that's been flown a couple of thousand miles to your fruit bowl.

Khannie

Bag of popcorn ftw. Nyom. Nyom. Nyom. Salty enough mind you so if you're avoiding salt you'd need to bear that in mind.

EileenG

The dangers of salt have been over-hyped. In general, healthy people can salt to taste. It's just a problem if you have high blood pressure and are not active. Anyone who scrapes salt crystals off your face at the end of a workout has no worries.

Khannie

Agreed. I deliberately add salt to my diet.

corkcomp

agreed, depending on how much you sweat. a sedentary person who doesnt regularly sweat wouldnt want to be going over board on salt, IMO. of course salt is also known to cause bloating and water retention in some individuals.

Darkginger

My ideal snack before bed is a big glass of red wine and a chunk of Stilton Bring on the dreams!

jam_mac_jam

yogurt and blueberries, hummus and cucumber, fruit but one banana or an orange not loads, small handfull of nuts.

El_Dangeroso

corkcomp wrote: »

agreed, depending on how much you sweat. a sedentary person who doesnt regularly sweat wouldnt want to be going over board on salt, IMO. of course salt is also known to cause bloating and water retention in some individuals.

I wonder if increased salt intake and craving is a result of eating a crap diet rather than a contributing cause?

A lot of people find their taste for salt drastically reduces when they started eating real foods instead of processed crap. I know mine definitely did. Used to be a real salt fiend, now a lot of things taste awfully salty.

EileenG

Food manufacturers use a carefully blended mix of sugar and salt to make food addictive. If you over salt something, you normally stop eating. If there's a pile of sugar in there too, it masks it and you keep going.