Having healthy snacks on hand is essential to staying on track with any diet plan. (That and ridding the house of the junk foods!)

Here’s some of the healthy snack foods I keep on hand:

Nuts: pecans, peanuts
Dried cranberries (a good snack is to combine nuts and dried fruits)
Bananas
Apples
Frozen Peaches (for smoothies)
Rice or Popcorn Cakes - Cracker Jack Butter Toffee is very tasty!
Cereal

Here’s some links that have some other healthy snack ideas and recipes:

2 Minute Recipes (from FitTV)

GI-Friendly snacks (Discussion Thread from Prevention.com)

What are your favorite healthy snacks?

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These fruit shakes are easy to make and great for breakfast, a snack or dessert. Each is around 200 calories per serving, depending on the type of milk and fruit that you use.

For each serving pour 1 cup milk into the blender, then mix and match fruit and 1/4 package of Sugar Free Jello powder. Just be sure to add the Jell-o last otherwise it sticks to the bottom of the blender container. The following are the suggestions from the magazine but the possibilities are really endless. I like using bananas or peaches with raspberry Jell-O.

This idea comes from the Kraft Food & Family Magazine. It’s a free magazine that’s delivered quarterly and always has great recipes.

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I’d say it’s pretty healthy, considering it’s coming from a guy who considers Thanksgiving his favorite meal.

Boil a pound of white chicken meat. Cool it and cut into chunks.
Chop two carrots, two peppers, (it’s more fun with a couple different colored ones) two stalks of celery and one onion.

Open a can of pineapple chunks. Drain half the juice.

Open a jar of sweet and sour sauce.

Dump everything into a crockpot, stir, set on low and leave alone for three or four hours. Three would obviously be crunchiest. ;)>

Serve over crispy noodles.

Now THAT’S good!!

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