Low-Carb Snacks!

Needing some easy ideas for snacks on your low-carb days?  Here are a few suggestions:

• Celery with natural peanut butter or almond butter
• Celery with tuna salad
• Hard boiled eggs
• 1/4 cup berries with 1/3 cup cottage cheese
• Nuts (keep raw ones in the freezer if you think you'll overeat them)
• Sunflower seeds (get them in the shell so it will take longer to eat them)
• Low-Carb Trail Mix (see below for recipe)
• Jerky (beef or turkey -- try to find low-sugar varieties)
• Low-carb shakes
• Cheese sticks, such as string cheese
• Cheese with apple slices
• 4-ounce plain Greek Yogurt with Truvia sweetwner or with berries and flax seed meal
• Smoked salmon and cream cheese on cucumber slices
• Lettuce Roll-ups -- Roll luncheon meat, egg salad, tuna or other filling and veggies in lettuce leaves
• Lunch Meat Roll-ups -- Roll cheese or veggies in lunch meat (read the labels for carbs and sodium on the lunch meat)
• Spread bean dip, spinach dip, or other low-carb dip or spread on the lunch meat or lettuce and then roll it up
• Raw veggies dipped in mashed avocado and/or salsa
• Low-carb snack bars (with no sugar alcohols, especially maltitol)
• Ricotta cheese with raspberries

Yes, some of these snacks include fruit.  It's okay.  :)

Make your own Trail Mix:
1 cup roasted peanuts
1 cup raw or roasted almonds
1 cup pumpkin or squash seeds (you can purchase these already toasted)
2 oz unsweetened coconut
½ cup raisins or currants (loosely-packed, i.e. don’t cram in as many as possible)
3T 100% cacao chocolate chips