What is a good, healthy, tasty snack to eat between lunch and dinner?

Banana? :)

Salad and boiled eggs. Easy and healthy.

fruits, vegies….

i think do it yourself for the dinner is good , healthy to eat ..

I am always hungry this time of day. Cashews or light yogurt usually help.

Apples, apples, apples. Oranges, tangerines, peaches and grapes are wonderful, too. But I love apples.

Cottage cheese (or yogurt, but cottage cheese is higher protein and lower carb) and fruit. I like using the peaches in light syrup or some frozen berries that have had time to thaw (if I use the berries, I typically add some Splenda because I like sweet). If it wasn’t winter, I would take fresh fruit to cut up. My other fruit of choice to have on its own right now is an orange because it takes a while to eat.

It always good to mix up your food groups in a snack. For example, you could do peanut butter and apple or banana or celery. Or veggies and hummus. Or crackers with hummus. I have a friend who swears by peanut butter and honey in brown rice wraps from Trader Joe’s. Puffed rice cakes are quite fun too.

@emma193 Mmm. Peanut butter, apple butter, and honey make my favorite sandwich. Noms.

Nuts! I keep a bag of Trader Joe’s Thai chili and lime cashews on my desk at work. They sustain me through lots of long, hard days.

Peanut butter on a bagel…peanut butter pretty much on anything

Nuts and dried fruit make a really good, filling afternoon snack. I have a handful of dried apricots and a handful of almonds every afternoon (often accompanied by a mug of hot ovaltine) – it’s very nutritious, and it fills me up enough that I don’t need to snack again before dinner.

Edamame – plain or roasted!

“The Secret of Edamame

Soy snack is a yummy – and healthy – handful

By Elaine Magee, MPH, RD
WebMD Weight Loss Clinic – Expert Column

What’s so secret about edamame? Well, the name for starters. The first few times I heard it, I had to ask, “eda-whaty?” As it turns out, it’s just a fancy name for boiled green soybeans—and the real secret is that they are much yummier than they sound.

I knew edamame had “arrived” when I saw Faith Hill snacking on them during a backstage-type interview for Country Music Television. They’re the snack my favorite Japanese restaurant brings you when you sit down to a table, and they’re the after-school snack my daughter asks for by name.

Say what you will about the debate over the health benefits of soy: any way you slice it, the edamame is a star legume! Just ½ cup of them a day really punches up the fiber, protein and vitamin/mineral content of your diet.

Here’s what you’ll find in a half-cup serving of shelled edamame (or 1 1/8 cup edamame in the pods):

* 120 calories
* 9 grams fiber
* 2.5 grams fat
* 1.5 grams polyunsaturated fat (0.3 grams plant omega-3 fatty acids)
* 0.5 gram monounsaturated fat
* 11 grams protein
* 13 grams carbohydrate
* 15 mg sodium
* 10% of the Daily Value for vitamin C
* 10% Daily Value for iron
* 8% Daily Value for vitamin A
* 4% Daily Value for calcium

As you can see, that little serving of edamame gives you a bunch of fiber: 9 grams, about the same amount you’ll find in 4 slices of whole-wheat bread or 4 cups of steamed zucchini. It has almost as much protein as it does carbohydrate. It contains around 10% of the Daily Value for two key antioxidants; vitamins C and A. And for a plant food, it’s quite high in iron; it has about as much as a 4-ounce roasted chicken breast.

The Soy Debate

The idea that soy is a wonder food has lost a bit of ground recently. An analysis of nearly 200 soy studies done over the past 20 years found that no firm conclusions could be made about most of the proposed benefits of soy.

According to Mark Messina, PhD, president of the nutritional consulting firm Nutrition Matters, these results aren’t surprising because firm conclusions can be made only on the basis of large, long-term studies. As you might expect, these types of studies are very expensive.

“Consequently, most of the soy studies have been relatively short in duration and usually involved relatively small subject numbers,” explains Messina.

Although most researchers agree that further research is needed, recent studies propose the following possible health benefits of soy:

* Soy protein may help reduce insulin resistance, kidney damage, and fatty liver in people with diabetes, according to a study in rats.
* A new study from the Chinese University of Hong Kong indicated that soy protein containing isoflavones (phytoestrogens) significantly reduced overall cholesterol and LDL “bad” cholesterol, and raised HDL or “good” cholesterol, especially in men.
* A study in women reported that regular consumption of soy foods was associated with healthy cholesterol levels.
* The component thought to be at least partly responsible for soy’s health benefits is a type of phytoestrogen called isoflavones. Isoflavones also appear to work with certain proteins in soy to protect against cancer, heart disease, and osteoporosis.
* Results from a new study in China suggest that eating more soybean protein may help prevent and treat hypertension.
* A study in which 12 postmenopausal women drank 36 ounces of soy milk daily for 16 weeks noted an anti-inflammatory effect of the isoflavones found in soy. According to the study authors, this may be important in the prevention of bone loss and cancer, among other things.

The bottom line: “It remains prudent to recommend soy in a heart-healthy diet because of [its] nutritional value and as a healthy substitute for protein sources that are higher in saturated fat and cholesterol,” says Pennsylvania State University nutrition researcher Penny Kris-Etherton, PhD, RD.

How Do You Buy It?

In my supermarket, you can find two types of edamame in the frozen vegetable section: shelled or with the pods. Both are already cooked and ready to be thawed and eaten.

I keep a bag of each in my freezer. I like the edamame in pods as a snack—you have to work harder to get to each soybean this way. And I use the shelled edamame in cooking (casseroles, soups/stews, noodle or rice dishes, etc.).

At the very least, you can keep a bag of edamame in pods around for a low-maintenance finger food. Just thaw it and keep it in the refrigerator for a quick snack. It’s perfect for when you (or a family member) are hungry but it’s still an hour or more until dinner. For only 120 calories, 1 1/8 cup of the edamame in pods is very satisfying, thanks to its protein, fiber, and a touch of smart fat. ...”

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First pick for me is grapes; get em anywhere, eat a million of them, they’re sweet and fill you up…baby carrots are good as well, I sometimes carry them in the car..I love Edamame as well, but since I like them hot, it only works at home or where microwave accessible.

Grapes and skim milk cheese will fill the bill. the cheese might require refrigeraton. i personally like the string cheese. together, they both will ease your hunger pains.

I usually bring a little picnic on long days consisting of salty and sweet snacks, because I won’t know what I’ll be in the mood for later on. Generally speaking a tube of Ritz crackers (to last a few days!) and a clementine or apple does the trick.

I always have little bags of pecans and apricots in my office. I also like half a pj and j sandwich on whole wheat bread when I’m a bit more hungry.

Slices of cheese and apples.

You can never go wrong with fruit. My girlfriend has her sister eat fruit right when she gets home from school before they have a healthy dinner.

pimiento cheese sandwich or on crackers

Peanut butter on a slice of whole wheat toast with slices of banana on top. yumm

I’m in the same position as you – a very long gap between lunch and dinner on a work-day – and I usually have a bag of mixed nuts, trail mix, sunflower seeds or something of that sort on my desk. Or rice crackers (the Japanese sort).

Something that’s high in protein rather than in carbohydrates. (The latter will cause your blood sugar to spike and then crash.) I like cashews or string cheese, personally.

Fruit or vegetables with dip.I eat that to stay healthy and happy.

fruits, carrots, goldfish, yogurt

(Goldfish crackers are loaded with fat.)