Snacks

Snackworthy Foods

Somersaults

Cinnamon Crunch Nutrition Facts

I really enjoy these biscuit-cookie things.  They are fairly balanced in Fat-Carb-Protein ratios unlike most snacks.  You can find them sometimes at Marshalls/TJ-Maxx in the food section at the back.  If you don't mind spending a bit more, you can buy them on Amazon.

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Nori

Nori, more commonly known as seaweed is delicious to some people and disgusting to others.  If you enjoy it and can afford it, it is an amazing snack.  It has numerous Health Benefits.

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Trail mix is delicious and far better for you than a candy bar or chips.  It is on the expensive side but you can make it yourself by buying the ingredients in bulk.  When you buy your own ingredients, you can customize it to your liking.  Avoid chocolate covered things, yogurt covered things, candy, and dried fruit that has been killed by sugar.  If you look on the label and it shows papaya chunks with parentheses saying (sugar, corn syrup, etc) then avoid that, it might as well be candy. Dark chocolate is good occasionally.

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Dried fruit image borrowed from beregina.com

Dried fruit is delicious and easy to store.  Most will last at least 6 months in the pantry but as long as a year or more in the fridge or freezer. (1)  Dried fruit is useful post-workout as most contain a large portion of glucose as well as fructose. (2, 3, 4)  Certain fruits still retain some vitamins after the drying process and all will retain their minerals. (5, 6)

1 eatbydate.com 

2 Figs

3 Cherries - I know these aren't dried.  The USDA database doesn't have unsweetened dried cherries but the sugar composition(glucose/fructose/sucrose etc) is going to be nearly the same.

4 Raisins

5 Apricots Raw

6 Apricots Dried - It is important to note that drying reduced the mass of the apricots greatly by removing water so it seems as though the dried apricots have many more nutrients but in reality they are just more concentrated.

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