Healthy Snacks

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Are there healthy snacks? I can have sooooooooooo much trouble finding healthy snacks.

almost any fruit and veg can be eaten as a snack, it can also be yummy if you add any of these. peanut butter, hummus, Greek yogurt.
homemade popcorn is healthy, lots of fiber and vitamins.
rice cakes are also good.

Grapes, strawberries, and nuts. Helps to limit the unhealthy unhealthy snacks around.

I like to eat dehydrated fruit and rice crackers as a healthy snack.

Eat right. Stay fit. Die anyway.

^ Y'know, healthy eating won't make you immortal, but it's better life without cancers, heart attacks and blood pressure problems, ain't it?

Personally I eat what I want (in sensible doses, of course) but check ingredients beforehand. I.e. when looking for salted chips I expect potato + rapeseed / sunflower oil + salt, not emulsified "enhanced" quasi-potato product fried on hydrogenated margarine

As far as I'm concerned a snack is just another meal, only smaller and hopefully more convenient.

I don't personally approve of snacks because it can get unhealthy, but more recently I've come to believe I've got postprandial hypotension, which would make me a fall risk so it's kind of dangerous, and it seems to get better when I eat smaller meals, so I might start having those in larger numbers than the standard 3 square meals per day, and obviously they'd have to be smaller, so I guess that would qualify as snacking.

I make a good wholemeal sultana loaf with cinnamon in it, and that's very convenient and more or less healthy. No added sugar or other dangerous additives. There's a fair bit of natural sugar in the sultanas and cinnamon, so it's important not to overdo it. But it's very filling so it's not too hard to use restraint. And I gather natural sugar sources aren't quite as bad for your teeth.

Grapes are another easy one for snacks. No mess as long as they're seedless.

I used to love crisps but they're probably unhealthy and I think they design them to make you want more. They're horrendously popular, same as fizzy pop and a lot of the other stuff that the marketers have heaped on us in abundance. The very word "snacking" sounds like it could be an ad-speak word they invented to fleece us while we destroy our health. I'm sure a lot of people these days don't think they could live without snacks.

I seem to remember reading that a lot of these "healthy" snacks like Granola bars that they sell these days are little or no healthier than regular junk snacks. So they might be just a cunning trap for people who love snacks but fear the health risks. Don't know for sure though. I just err on the safe side and steer clear of them, though I'm not against the occasional transgression. Wouldn't want to be a complete w*ker about it.

I like a protein bar me