These healthy snack recipes are nutritious and filling ways to stay energized. Each of these snacks meets our heart-healthy nutritional parameters by being low in saturated fat and sodium-conscious. Plus, these snacks are also made with anti-inflammatory ingredients like nuts, berries, and dark chocolate that promote heart health and fight pesky symptoms of inflammation like mental fog, digestive issues, and pain. joints. Recipes like our Blueberry Lemon Energy Balls and Yogurt Raspberry Cereal Bowl will help you feel refreshed and ready to take on whatever the day throws at you.
Iced Lemon Cookie Energy Balls
The next time you crave Girl Scout cookies, try these healthier no-bake cookies instead. Their crisp, lemony flavor is balanced by the sweetness of Medjool dates, and they’re held together with millet and almond flour. Keeping the dough cool and dusting your hands with icing sugar will keep them from sticking to your hands while you shape them.
Peanut Butter Banana Cinnamon Toast
This delicious peanut butter and banana toast is sprinkled with cinnamon for extra flavor.
All Avocado Bagel Toast
Get all the flavor of a bagel all married with the creaminess of avocado toast in a healthy breakfast. Just grill, top, sprinkle and grab that quick morning meal when you need to get out fast. Want to take it up a notch? Garnish with a poached or fried egg.
Blueberry-Lemon Energy Balls
If you’re looking for a midday pick-me-up, these irresistible blueberry-lemon balls come together in minutes and are the perfect on-the-go snack. Walnuts add extra plant-based protein and help keep you energized, while a little maple syrup adds sweetness.
Oatmeal with fruits and nuts
This protein-packed healthy breakfast recipe gets a touch of sweetness from apple and crunch from nuts. Feel free to choose your favorite fruits (try berries or pears) and nuts (perhaps almonds or pistachios) to customize your healthy oatmeal.
Lemon Parmesan Popcorn
Spruce up your popcorn with a little lemon pepper and parmesan cheese.
Cinnamon Almond Butter Apple
With a pinch of cinnamon, this healthy snack goes from basic to brilliant.
Raspberry yogurt cereal bowl
For healthy breakfast, snack or dessert, try using yogurt instead of milk for your cereal. If you’re making it a snack on the go, keep the cereal separate and top it just before eating.
Chocolate Banana Protein Smoothie
Red lentils give this smoothie a plant-based protein boost. To make this smoothie vegan, try using an unsweetened coconut drink or almond milk in place of dairy milk.
Mini frozen yogurt parfaits
These mini yogurt parfaits are the perfect sweet treat. You can use raspberries, blueberries or strawberries in these bite-sized parfaits.
Fruit and yogurt smoothie
This easy fruit smoothie recipe only requires three ingredients: yogurt, fruit juice and frozen fruit. Mix up your day-to-day fruit combinations for a healthy breakfast or snack that never gets boring.
Dates stuffed with almonds
Medjool dates are softer than their semi-dry Deglet Nour cousins and therefore much easier to stuff with almonds. This healthy snack recipe can also be turned into an addictive appetizer by adding a little blue cheese to the stuffing.
Blueberry Almond Chia Pudding
Change up your morning oatmeal routine with this oh-so-easy chia pudding recipe. It’s made like overnight oats – combine chia and milk of your choice, soak overnight, then top with juicy blueberries and crunchy almonds and enjoy!
Rice cake snackwich
Upgrade your rice cake snack with an almond butter schmear and apple slices. This quick sandwich has 5 grams of fiber and protein to help keep you full.
Banana Energy Bites
Perfect for a breakfast or a snack on the go, these energy bites will allow you to fill up on energy.
Cinnamon and Sugar Roasted Chickpeas
Roasting canned chickpeas until crisp is an easy and healthy snack. In this riff of candied nuts, the chickpeas are coated in cinnamon sugar to make them irresistible! This snack is best eaten the day it is prepared.
Homemade trail mix
Try this with a portable mix with any combination of dried fruits and nuts.
Coconut Cashew Breakfast Bites
NEVER SKIP BREAKFAST AGAIN: Store these coconut and date breakfast bites in the fridge or freezer, and you’ll always have a grab-and-go option for busy mornings.