After developing a little bit of high blood pressure, I was advised by doctor to start limiting sodium (salt) in my diet and to try to lose a bit of weight. Bummer. Never mind that my BMI was totally in the normal range, but I digress.
I visited a licensed, certified nutritionist and she helped me set a calorie and exercise goal. One of the things she suggested was that I keep packages of healthy 100 calorie snacks around to help keep "THE HUNGRIES" (those invisible monsters that make you want to eat the whole package of Cheetos at once) at bay. After looking at the nutrition labels on a bunch of different ones, I found the sodium content to be just a little out of my comfort zone and that they could easily push me over my daily limit for sodium if I started eating more than one of them along with my regular daily intake.
So what's a girl to do??? Make her own snacks and package them up in snack-size Ziplocs for her purse and in little plastic containers for home, of course!
Here's what I came up with:
¾ c roasted, without salt, Almonds
¾ c roasted, without salt, shelled Pistachios
1¼ c raw, hulled, Pepitas (pumpkin seeds)
1½ c Craisins
Toast the pepitas in the oven or toaster oven. Let cool. Mix everything together in a big bowl.
Measure 2 level-ish Tablespoons of Nut Snack into individual containers. You should get 21 containers with 1T of snack left over to put on your salad at lunch.
Each container will have approximately 119 calories of snacky goodness and only 55 mg of sodium.
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