1. Edamame (Whole soybeans. Buy them frozen then parboil and SALT well after draining. To eat: put the whole pod in your mouth then pull out while dragging the soybeans out with your teeth so you can taste the salt.)

2. Nori (dried seaweed) wrapped around steamed rice

3. Sushi (veggie roll, or any roll without cream cheese or fried stuff in it--no spider rolls)

4. summer rolls (ask me for the recipe if you want it)

5. Lightly-steamed cold broccolli with lemon

6. turkey jerky

7. english muffin with tomatoes and low-fat sharp cheese

8. Apple or pear slices with paper-thin slices of parmesean cheese

9. PINK STUFF: LF cottage cheese with chopped tomatoes and salt/pepper

10. Toast or a half bagel sprinkled with asiago cheese (full-fat but full of flavor so you use less)

a few extras:

11. Cucumbers or celery (or any veggie you like) steeped in vinegar
 and a little salt

12. Taco seasoning on popcorn or veggies

13. Mix fat-free cream cheese with splenda or any sweetener you like and spread on vanilla wafers or graham crackers for a cheesecake-like experience

Thanks so much for posting your recipes...they sound YUM!
Pam

Great tips, thanks!  Tampabayb

MYTWOCENTS:

I love my snacks and would not make it through the day without them!

Here's my top 10 - all easy to grab and go!

1. Pretzel nuggets: Low fat, low calorie and filling. Prebag them so they are in the right quantities. I can eat 16 of these with NO fat and only 100 calories!
2. Popcorn: I buy the 100 calorie bags. I can eat all of it if I want and no guilt. It's very filling.
3. Frozen Fruit Bars: I love the Edy's frozen fruit bars. The orange one tastes just like a creamsicle! 80 calories, 1.5 gr fat.
4. Veggies: Baby carrots and celery sticks are ready to go! Cucumber slices are refreshing too - prepare them a bunch at a time and store them in the fridge.
5. Yogurt: I buy the low fat kind. With all the awesome flavors, how can you resist. My fav is Boston Cream Pie.
6. Seltzer: I love cans of Seltzer. i grab one when I htink I'm hungy, but always feel better after a flavored drink.
7. Fruit: Expand your horizons and try a new fruit. Cut up a bunch before the week starts and store in plastic containers - ready to go!
8. No fat pudding cups: Can you say CHOCOLATE? I love these!
9. Sugar Free Jello cups: Easy to transport. All kinds of good flavors.
10. Rice Cakes: I love the no fat apple/cinnamon kind. These taste like DESSERT!

Do you have favorite grab and go snacks? Post your top 10 and let's grow this list!

What a great thread you started!  Look at all the wonderful ideas that have come in since October.

This is the great part about alli: having a community of people who share terrific ideas and help each other out.

Keep up the good work!

Pat Baird, MA, RD, registered dietitian

 snacks make life worth living  Here are some of mine:

Cooked peeled shrimp with cocktail sauce - I throw 7 in a baggie frozen in the morning.  By snacktime they are thawed and I keep a bottle of cocktail sauce in the desk drawer - lol. 

Apple or pear and one ounce of cheddar cheese - mmmm like a picnic in my office.

A slice of whole wheat bread with a light coat of peanut butter - this is my after dinner thing.  Filling and feels like a cheat, but its not.

veggies and hummus - better than pita bread, more flavor

homemade bagel chips.  one bagel makes ALOT. (4 servings easily) slice anyflavor bagel in thin (1/4 inch) circles, spray lightly with pam or olive oil spray, put them in a baggie with your favorite flavors - I like adobo, paprika and garlic powder, shake it all up and spread on a baking sheet.  Bake for 7 minutes at 350 or broil for 3 minutes until toasted.  Crunch, salty and satisfying.

FF fudgsicle, cause sometimes ya gotta have chocolate. Even the not FF are not taboo.

bean dip and baked scoops chips. (I add one heaping tbsp salsa to 1/2 cup lowfat or ff refried black beans or any refried beans, nuke it 30 seconds before eating and I am hap hap happy.)

Melon chunks wrapped in turkey ham slices.  salty and sweet.  Nice!  2 slices of meat cut into strips will do about10 chuncks of melon. 

Microwave popcorn - add 1/4 of the dried cheese from the kraft macaroni and cheese after the corn pops, (make a wreath with the "pasta") shake it up.  High on the sodium count so beware.

frozen small banana dipped (once) in heated fat free hot fudge.  Portion control is important on this one.  But if you have calories but no fat grams to spare oh man is this good. 

Great topic.  I've been doing this for 4 days now.  Down 2lbs already!  Totally awesome.

Love the snack ideas...Here is my shot

1.  100 Calorie cheetos

2.   Sara Lee 45 and Delightful - 90 calories, 1 g fat and 5 g of fiber in 2 slices.  Put a little pb on it and BAM - great and filling

3.  Hard boiled egg whites - 17 calories and 0 fat per egg

4.  Pretzel rods - 3 for a little over 100 calories

5.  New Special K crackers - multi grain - 90 calories, 20 calories from fat.  I think it's 2g fat.  found at Wal-Mart

6.  100 calorie Pudding cups

That's all i have figured out so far

 1.bannana teddy grahams sometimes if i haven't reached my fat grams I dipem in peanut butter

 24 teddy bears in a serving

 2.Bannana strawberry smoothie with wheat germ and ice and orange juice or apple juice               gives me full filling and energy

 3.weight watchers icecream sandwiches 140 calories 1.5 total fat 0.5 saturated fat

 4.apple dipped in lowfat yogurt

 5.light popcorn

 6.hawiian punch in single serve packets pour into 16 ounce bottle of water and go

 7.graham crackers with a 1/4 a teaspoon of peanut butter

 8. toast with about an 1/8  of teaspoon of grape jelly

 9.ramen noodles with soy sauce

10. coffee with 2 packets of sweetner and hazelnut fat free creamer

I also have some favorite snacks:  apples, raisins, pretzels and Oreo Thin Crisps in the 100 calories packages.

BUT my favorite snack is Kelloggs Special K Crackers in multi grain.  For 17 crackers the calories are 90 with 2 grams of fat.  I did find them in individual packets in a box but even better was the box of these crackers that I just saw at Wal-Mart for $2.  They have 2 serving sizes (24 crackers and 17 crackers) with nutrition info on side of box.  7 servings of 24 crackers are in the box so it looks like almost 10 servings of 17 crackers so that's a great deal and saves you money.

Jo

 i'll try to find those crackers; they sound good. i like crackers, especially healthy ones.

thx

 i was wondering if you could give me some helpful daily or weekly plans for the diet. as far as lunch and dinner and how often do you take the alli pill. i would like something thats very quick and easy to fix.

thanks for your help.

 Here's my fav top 10:

1/2 frozen banana with spoonful of peanut butter - fills me up

Fat free Pretzels- just a handful

Handful of Baked tortilla chips and salsa 

Cupfull of sliced cucumbers and cherry tomatoes - really refreshing

Green tea with lemon and teaspoon of honey -  just sweet enough to taste guilty

1/2 cup fresh strawberries and about a tablespoon fo melted chocolate chips - nuke the chips for just a couple of seconds

Plain 94% Fat Free microwave popcorn sprinkled with cinnamon/sugar (or) chili powder

I love red grapes  -whole bunch of them

Cup of Melon cubes

Fresh fruit salad - mix up whatever is in season

 whehn Thanks for the great idea of chocolate chips and strawberries sounds sinful.

 Thanks so much for all these great snacks!  I'll have to try them all.

Step Reflect how are you doing?  I'm doing good, still on vacation and trying to stay on my alli plan.  Once you get used to it, it's not so bad. I don't feel sorry for myself, by ordering the low fat item on the menu, while everyone else is getting something with full fat cheese, and cream sauces! Mine is still pretty good!

thanks for the support, lets keep it up, linda