Low-fat office snacks

Appetizing crackling chips, chocolates and fat popcorn - here are snacks people of any age and social status cannot resist resist. They are especially dangerous to those who try to grow thin or supervise a diet. For some of us such snack - original therapy, a medicine for stress, boredom or bad mood. But whether it is possible to take pleasure in eating of snacks and thus to keep a harmonous figure? The secret consists in a rational choice of snack.
Try to replace harmful fat and high-calorie snacks by low-fat, helping to support healthy power level. In our article you will find some healthy and tasty snacks with low fat content, which you can eat, without being afraid weight gain. So, it is time to release kitchen regiments and a refrigerator from chips, nutlets and other popcorns and fill vacant space with low-fat snacks that will cause no harm either to your health, or figure.
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Frequent low-fat snacks help keeping energy, supporting normal level of sugar in blood, and also constrain appetite. However, snack should be indispensable healthy and low-fat.
Some low-fat snacks satisfy hunger well, therefore you eat less at dinner or supper. Result - reduction of general daily quantity of consumed calories.
On the other hand, a hobby for unhealthy snacks with the high maintenance of trans-fats can cause acute differences of sugar level in blood, what, in its turn, can lead to acute changes of mood, apathy and irritability. Fat maintenance in a product influences its taste, consistence, structure, period of storage and appearance. But it is not necessary to forget that all products with high maintenance of cholesterol, sated and trans-fats can affect cholesterol level in blood, what, in its turn, increases probability of heart diseases development. Therefore both children, and adults should only buy low-fat snacks, but also learn cooking them independently, as it is very simple.
Healthy snacks
Choose snacks containing complex carbohydrates, for example, peanut oil, cheese or low-fat yoghurt. Forget about products with high maintenance of simple carbohydrates and glucose, for example, sweets, sweet water, etc.
At purchase of any products familiarise with information on packing (components, period of storage).
Granola stick (sweetened porridge with addition of nuts and raisin) can contain trans-fats, however it is an considered excellent healthy snack. Check up information on packing.
Choose snacks with such combination of components, which provides an organism with necessary quantity of carbohydrates (providing with energy), fibers (slowing down sugar emission in blood and by that keeping energy), cellulose (causing feeling of saturation) and healthy nonsaturated fats.
Low-fat snacks
Fresh fruits, crude vegetables, nuts, crackers or bread from integral grain flour, low-fat popcorn and cheese - here are the most healthy snacks recommended by dieticians. Some fruits, slices of vegetables, a small amount of nut kernels, low-fat spicy %u043F%u043E%u043F%u043A%u043E%u0440%u043D and cheese - here are quite accessible and useful snacks.
Other simple low-fat snacks:
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Corn chips, correctly cooked.
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Bagels from integral grain flour with natural peanut oil
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Middle-sized roll with bran
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Boiled egg with salt, pepper or mustard
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Pretzel, banana or stalk of celery with natural peanut oil
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Crude vegetables with hummus, yoghurt or low-fat cheese, fresh fruits with yoghurt
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Cocktail with yoghurt, ice and slices of fresh fruits (smoothie) (try various combinations)
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Small cut tuna fillet and celery, filled with low-fat mayonnaise
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Pita, filled with lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber with low-fat seasoning
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Flakes ready to use from integral grain flour with soya milk
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Low-fat popcorn, low-fat cheese, low-fat yoghurt, rice pies - excellent snack after supper.
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Apple slices, grapes or berries with honey
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Crude vegetables of any type with fat-free sauce
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Pretzels, popcorn of fast preparation, rice pies
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Milk cocktail (from low-fat milk) with banana, berries or grapes, you can replace milk with a low-fat yoghurt or orange juice.
Secrets of low-fat snacks cooking
Low-fat snacks should not be absolutely tasteless. You can  independently cook healthy low-fat snacks and treat your friends and relatives with them.
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Not to use sunflower or olive oil, cook non-stick cookware.
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Instead of frying vegetables or fish on a frying pan, take advantage of a microwave owen - so you can do without oil.
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Mozzarella of average hardness, fibrous cheese (cheese roll), cottage cheese contain few fat in comparison with other sorts of cheese.
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Replace cheeses from cow milk with cheese from goat milk - it contains less fat.
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Try to choose low-fat potato or corn chips
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For preparation of sandwiches use bread from integral grain flour.
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Try to eat cold and hot porridges of fast preparation more often - they practically do not contain fats.
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Replace margarine, butter, mayonnaise and sour cream with sauces on the basis of yoghurt and spices.
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Replace fat sauces with seasonings, spices and low-fat marinades.
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If you need to use eggs, it is better to replace two egg whites with one whole egg.
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It is better to replace sour cream with simple low-fat yoghurt or cottage cheese.
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