Healthy finger snacks and desserts help you create a healthy diet. If you work diligently toward eating your healthy meals, but then you eat junk food for snacks and dessert, you are jeopardizing all your healthy efforts. You can eat finger foods and desserts that actually provide you with nutrients.
Mini Pita Snacks
Mini pita snacks are healthiest if you use whole-grain pita bread. Check its ingredients to ensure that it is listed as "whole" grain and that it contains about 3 or more grams of fiber per two mini pitas. Place a dollop of garlic hummus on top, in the middle of the pita. Put a pinch of sprouts on top of the hummus and a slice of avocado on the sprouts. The hummus acts like glue to hold all the ingredients together.
Cuke Subs
Cuke subs consist of stuffed raw cucumbers. You simply slice the cucumber in half, longwise and remove the seeds. Put sun-dried tomato hummus or spiced quinoa inside the cuke, avocado, cilantro, lime and season it with herbs. Place the other half of the cucumber on top to make it into a sandwich-like snack or keep it open-faced.
Fruit Salad
Eat fresh fruit salad as a snack or dessert. If you make it yourself, you can avoid added sugars. It should still be sweet, because it has natural sugars from the fruits themselves. Canned fruit cocktails are usually less healthy, because the fruit is cooked, which destroys most of its vitamins or it may contain added sweeteners like corn sugar or high fructose corn sugar that you want to avoid.
Banana, Peanut Butter, Chocolate Cookies
You can make decadent, but healthy cookies by using whole-grain flour like whole wheat and ground flaxseeds. Instead of butter, use a non-hydrogenated butter substitute that is made from vegetable oils, which will greatly reduce your intake of saturated fat. Peanut butter provides you with protein and healthy oils. If you are allergic to peanuts, try other types of nut butters. Bananas contain an important mineral, potassium. Potassium is retained in the bananas when eaten raw, so you don't want to bake them. When the cookies are finished baking, slice bananas and put them on top.
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