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It’s often hard to get through the day without a snack (or two), but snacking can be a slippery slope. With options like chips, cheese puffs, and candy to choose from, many snacks are lacking beneficial nutrients that nourish our bodies and keep us feeling full until the next meal.
However, there are healthy snack choices out there, whether you’re wandering the aisles of your local grocery store or whipping something up at home. With the latter scenario in mind, we’ve compiled a list of our healthiest (and most-saved) snacks ever, using data from the new MyRecipes tool, a digital recipe box that allows you to easily save and store recipes for your favorite REAL SIMPLE dishes in one place. It’s a great way to improve your snack game, finally pick a dinner recipe that everyone in your family will love, and more.
Without further ado, here are our seven most-saved healthy snack recipes of all time.
Butternut Squash Fries
Yes, you can make fries out of butternut squash, and yes, they taste delicious. While these crispy delights would obviously pair perfectly with a burger or salad, they’re also a stellar snack to enjoy when you’re feeling a tad peckish. Plus, they’re considerably healthier than your standard bag of potato chips, as butternut squash is an excellent source of antioxidants, fiber, and more.
Carrot Cake Breakfast Cookies
Believe it or not, these cookies are healthy, meaning you can totally snack on them if your stomach starts to growl between meals. These oft-saved sweet treats are made with nutrient-dense grated carrots and satiating oats, as well as flavorful ingredients such as cinnamon, ground nutmeg, and maple syrup. It should come as no surprise that these cookies are significantly healthier than many packaged options you can buy.
Sesame-Crusted Tofu With Spicy Dipping Sauce
This snack requires a bit more effort than reaching into the pantry for a bag of chips, but we promise it’s worth it. Here, you’ll dredge thin slices of tofu in a mixture of sesame seeds, cornstarch, and five-spice powder before a quick pan-fry. The result is crispy, flavorful tofu pieces you can dunk in a garlic-chili dipping sauce that’s ready in about 30 seconds.
Maple-Roasted Spiced Nuts
Greg DuPree, Food Stylist: Emily Nabors Hall, Prop Stylist: Julia Bayless
Why snack on packaged nuts (which are often made with questionable oils and too much salt) when you can make your own seasoned nut mix at home? This recipe, which happens to be a reader favorite, calls for a sweet mix of pecans, walnuts, almonds, and cashews accentuated by the cinnamon, cloves, fennel, star anise, and Szechuan pepper that makes up Chinese five-spice seasoning. Make a big batch on Sunday so you have enough to snack on throughout the week, and toss any leftovers in a salad or grain bowl.
Strawberry-Chia Pudding
Greg DuPree
For another snack that you can make ahead of time, give this protein-packed chia seed pudding a try. In this frequently saved recipe, small but mighty chia seeds are soaked in yogurt and pure vanilla extract, and then layered with a combination of juicy, macerated strawberries and granola, or mixed berries and toasted nuts. Feel free to use whatever fruits and nuts you have on hand—it’s nearly impossible to go wrong here.
Good Morning Green Smoothie
A snack you can sip? Yes, please! This healthy smoothie comes together in minutes, and gets a combination of delicious flavors and nutrients from ingredients such as soy milk, baby spinach, pineapple and apple chunks, and agave nectar.
Apple Cinnamon Chia Pudding
Greg Dupree, Prop Stylist: Chelsea zimmer, Food Stylist: Claire Spollen
This take on chia pudding is another fan favorite that can be prepared in advance, though it’s a bit more spice-forward than the recipe above. Here, chia seeds are soaked in milk steeped with cinnamon and cardamom, and then combined with a yogurt mixture that also includes nut butter, vanilla, and orange zest. Once you’re ready for a snack, top each pudding cup with fresh fruit and a drizzle of maple syrup, and dig in!
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