Snack Time - Pregnancy Snacks

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Snack Time
Snack Time

Snacks are important because they keep your energy levels up and make you less likely to overindulge at regular meals. Low salt pretzels, yogurt, fruit, cheese and crackers, carrots and celery sticks, peanut butter spread on a banana... anything light and healthy makes a great snack midmorning or late afternoon. A quick and tasty pick-me-up is all you need to get you through until the next meal.

Love yogurt, but find that eating it as your morning snack day after day is making it seem a little bland? What about those pre-lunch veggies, could they use a taste booster?

Yogurt Parfait

You will need:
4 - 6 ounces of plain or vanilla low fat yogurt
½ cup fresh berries
2 Tbsp granola (or whole grain cereal)

Directions:
1. Put a third of the yogurt into a small bowl or 4 ounce drinking glass

2. Pour half of berries over yogurt, followed by a third of the granola.

3. Spoon in another third of the yogurt to cover berries and granola.

4. Pour remainder of berries onto yogurt. Add another third of granola.

5. Pour remainder of yogurt in.

6. Top with remaining granola.

7. Enjoy.

Serves one.

This is so much tastier than the fruit on the bottom type yogurts, though there is certainly room in your diet for those, as well. For a summer treat, prepare parfait in a freezable container. Freeze in container, pull out ten to fifteen minutes before you're ready to eat, and enjoy as a frozen treat.

Dill snack dip

Looking for something to spice up those whole wheat pretzels or raw cut up veggies? This quick dip is delicious!

You will need:
4 - 6 ounces of plain yogurt
½ small clove of garlic, minced (or ¼ tsp of jarred minced garlic)
½ tsp of fresh dill or ¼ tsp of dried dill (more or less according to taste)

Directions:
1. Mix yogurt, garlic, and dill together.

2. Enjoy with your favorite dippers.

Makes two to three servings depending on amount of yogurt used. This dip will store nicely for twenty four hours in the fridge, so whatever does not get consumed today can be used for tomorrow's snack or as a salad dressing.