Foods Great for Making Snacks
Please check on these foods' levels on the food list, as they'll provide a little more context why they're listed here. For example, bananas vary widely - including up into the high range, but are generally well tolerated, especially when ripe. So please do your research and talk with your dietician/nutritionist first on which foods you should work with!
Dairy
- Cottage cheese
- Unflavored yogurt
- Cream cheese
- Swiss cheese
- Monterrey Jack cheese
- Harvarti
- Provolone
- Mozarella
- Cheese sticks - string cheese
- Brie
- White cheddar cheese
- Goat cheese (unflavored)
- Sour cream
- Whisps - parmesan chips
Wheat Products
- Crackers
- Weet-bix
- Granola - homemade with sal safe ingredients
- Special K cereal
- Melba/petite toasts
- Baguettes, slided
- Sourdough
- Pita chips
- Clean tortilla
- Pretzels (small and crunchy)
- Soft pretzels
- Bagel (plain or whole wheat)
Gluten-Free Options
- Toasted rice cakes
- GF Weet-bix
- Special K Cereal (brown rice)
- GF Pita chips
- GF tortilla
- Sorghum popable pop"corn"
- GF Bagel
Beans/Legumes
- Toasted soy nuts (edamame - the green version - is moderate)
- Toasted garbanzo beans
- Canned, soaked, or cooked garbanzo beans for making hummus
- White bean Beanitos chips
- Black bean Beanitos chips
- Wowbutter/Soy butter
Nuts and Seeds
Try these in small amounts (less than 2 Tablespoons per day) to see how you many react.
- Nut/seed butters: cashew, pecan, hazelnut, sunflower seed
- Cashews (raw or roasted is fine)
- Pecans
- Hazelnuts
- Sunflower seeds
- Consider making your own nutella: hazelnut and chocolate spread
Fruits
- Peeled pears
- Canned pears (homemade or in syrup)
- Golden Delicious apples, peeled
- Pink Lady apples, peeled, have also tested fairly low
- Bananas - choose very ripe ones, and these can vary in sals
- Plantain chips - I've done ok with these. I think the Trader Joes brand uses sunflower oil.
Vegetables
- Celery sticks
- Iceberg lettuce for wraps
Meats, Eggs, and Fish
- Clean turkey lunch meat
- Clean ham
- Clean Canadian Bacon
- Canned Salmon or Tuna
- Cold shrimp
- Clean bacon - precook
- Precooked chicken
- Pancetta and Prosciutto
- Boiled eggs
Baking
- Carob
- Chocolate chips
Snack Ideas
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- Celery sticks with Salmon Cream Dip
- Crackers with Salmon Cream Dip
- Toast with Salmon Cream Dip
- Lettuce wraps with Salmon Cream Dip
- Yogurt with pears or pear jam
- Yogurt with homemade granola
- Yogurt with Weet-bix
- Yogurt with Special K cereal
- Cottage cheese with homemade pear jam
- Celery sticks and cream cheese
- Celery sticks and Wowbutter or nut butter
- Apples with hard white cheeses
- Apple with soft cheese (goat cheese, brie)
- Beanitos (bean) chips with cheese melted on top
- Chips/crisps with sour cream
- Hummus with celery
- Hummus with bean chips
- Hummus with crackers
- Hummus with bread - Melba/petite toasts/ toasted baguette slices
- Hummus with pita chips
- Prosciutto with mozarella wrap
- Pancetta with cheese and pear jam
- Nut mix with chocolate
- Lettuce wraps - cheese
- Lettuce wraps - lunch meat with cheese
- Boiled eggs
- Handful of roasted chickpeas or roasted soy nuts
- Lettuce wraps - ham, turkey or lunch meat with cheese
- Lettuce warps - cold chicken, green onions, and sour cream, chickpeans, beans or mung bean sprouts
- Lettuce wrap, canned tuna or salad, sour cream
- Shrimp lettuce wrap
- Tortilla wraps - lunch meat and cheese
- Popable sorghum - serve with butter and salt
- Nut/soy butter and jelly sandwich (use homemade pear jam)
- Small pretzels served with cubed white cheddar
- Large pretzels with homemade dippable cheese sauce (I'll find a recipe soon to post, after testing)
- Keto cheese-waffle: chaffle, serve with butter
- Parmesan chips with cured meat (bacon or canadian bacon)
- Peeled apple slides (rounds), topped with nut or soy butter topped with granola.
- Homemade granola bars
- Bananas served with nut/soy butter
- Bananas served with nut/soy butter - rolled in granola or served with some chocolate
- Bagel with cream cheese
- Brie and petite toast (or sliced baquette) with sliced apples or pear
- Homemade protein granola: https://low-sal-life.com/recipes/recipe/45-homemade-protein-granola
Grab and Go - while you're out and travelling
- Potato chips made with sal-safe oils. Peeled potatoes are best
- Mozarella sticks
- Boiled eggs
- Decaf coffee with heavy cream (keeps me full for awhile)
- Salmon and rice sushi/sashimi box (don't eat the wasabi and ginger)
- Prosciutto with mozarella wrap