Heath is becoming a huge concern for people all around the world with the new norms of life. We want to eat healthily, live healthily, and stay happy and fit. But old and bad habits don’t break that easily.
Here are a few evening snacks with their recipes, that will keep you in shape and keep you full:
A couple of items that you can just chew on, which are tasty, healthy, and stomach-filling include-
- Nuts
- Chia seeds
- Bell peppers (boiled and salted)
- Yogurt (frozen or mixed with diet sugar)
- Fruits (all kinds)
- Cheese
- Paneer (salted or peppered)
- Tofu
- Celery sticks (with soup or with cheese)
- Multigrain bread
- Kale chips
- Dark chocolate (with mild or almonds)
- Soy Milk with rusk
- Cucumber, carrot, beetroot
- Cheese and tomatoes
- Boiled eggs (with salt and pepper)
- Boiled chicken
- Popcorn
- Peanut butter (with apple slices)
- Sunflower seeds (they keep you fit and give you a glow)
- Apricots
Now here are the munching items you’ll need recipes for:
These are short and sweet and durable recipes. These can also be used as a meditation mechanism- to keep you mentally and physically fit.
- Spiced boiled meat
Get your preferred meat (any quantity you wish to consume) and marinate it with oil (low-fat sunflower), salt, pepper, and any spice you prefer.
Leave the mixture for a couple of minutes.
Put the meat in a bowl of boiling water and let it boil for 20 minutes. After boiling, apply spices and eat up!
- Greek Salad
Another healthy item to munch upon is a Greek salad.
A Greek salad includes tomatoes, cucumber, cheese (fete or normal), bell peppers, red onions, and spring onions.
Cut them, and mix them with salt, pepper, and oregano, and squeeze some lemon onto them.
In a bowl, lay out some lettuce leaves and then pour the salad into the bowl.
- Hummus
Take chickpeas in a bowl (about 150 grams) and wash them.
Then soak them in ample water for about 9 to 10 hours. You will notice that after soaking, the chickpeas increase in size and volume. Drain the water and pour the chickpeas into a pressure cooker.
Add salt according to your taste, add a pinch of baking soda to soften the chickpeas, add water enough to soak up the chickpeas, and turn the pressure cooker on for 15 minutes.
Mash the chickpeas with a spoon, and then keep them aside for some time. Roast some white sesame seeds in a pan with oil.
Do not brown them, just roast them till you hear a cracking sound and then let them cool. Grind the roasted sesame seeds to a powder texture.
Add some chopped garlic to them along with a hint of lemon juice. Add ¼ cup of olive oil and some cumin powder. Now grind this mixture again.
To this, in the same mixer grinder, add all the chickpeas. Blend the entire thing till it’s fine. Add some water if needed till you get a semi-thick mixture. Your hummus is ready! You can add some spices to garnish it as per your taste. You can eat it with almost anything you like!
- Watermelon cups
This is a personal favorite. Cut watermelon into nice big cubes.
Finely chop some cucumber, into very very small pieces, finely chop some red onion as well, and take some fresh mint as well. mix all these ingredients with lime juice and cilantro.
After this, all this mix on top of a watermelon and eat it up!! This will keep you cool and also hydrate you.
- Roasted peppers with Cauliflower
This is a very healthy item that you can eat when you’re hungry, unwell, or on a diet. Chop some bell peppers into any size you are comfortable with.
Now take a pan, add some butter to it, and put the bell peppers into the pan. Keep the pan on low heat. Now add some salt, pepper, and spice to them.
Let it saute. Take some cauliflower and boil it with salt. After boiling, add the cauliflower to the bell pepper pan and roast them all together.
Put the dish in a bowl covered with lettuce leaves. Add some garnishing or oregano for taste and enjoy!