Looking for healthy snacks to get you through the day? Registered dietician Gina Stear recommends the following mid-morning/mid-afternoon treats for vegetarians:

• Fresh fruit or fruit salad. Low-fat yoghurt and mixed seeds can be added to the fruit.

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  Dried fruit rolls, sticks and bars, e.g. SAD Mebos sticks/bars, Woolworths Cranberry-and-Almond bar, Apricot-and-Sesame bar, Date-and-Seed bar, Seed bar.
• 1 small muffin (banana, carrot, date & nut or bran) and a fruit.
• 175ml yoghurt or 300ml drinking yoghurt (low fat) and a fruit.
• Peanuts and raisins or dried-fruit-and-nut mix with a fruit.
• A slice of wholegrain bread, rice cakes, Cornthins, Provitas or digestive biscuits with peanut butter and/or honey. Other toppings could include cottage cheese, cheese, Marmite, avocado pear, jam (adding tomato, lettuce and cucumber to the topping will increase the nutritional value).
• Vegetable bites, e.g. tomato wedges, cucumber sticks, carrot sticks, celery sticks, baby tomatoes (low-fat cottage cheese will add some calories and taste variety).
• Popcorn (made with a small amount of vegetable oil).

-(Health24, October 2007)
 

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