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Thursday, August 19, 2021

Healthy Snacks To Satisfy Your 3 AM Cravings - MensXP.com

I have some news for you, my friend. Your tummy talks when it’s hungry. And the longer it takes for you to prepare a snack, the louder it gets.

But is it possible to eat a bag of chips and not worry about weight gain? 

With fried potato chips? No. With beetroot chips? Yes. 

Welcome to the generation that has forgotten how to sleep at 10:00 p.m. Most youngsters are either working or hooked to the apps on their phones at 3 a.m. But you can’t always call leftovers your midnight snack especially if you’re working hard to stay fit. 

So here are some quick, easy, tasty and of course, healthy snacks you can munch on at 3 a.m. while binge-watching The Good Doctor.

1. Dark Chocolate + Mixed Nuts

Calories: 227.7 per 40g

Cook time: The amount of time it takes you to reach your freezer and come back. 

Ingredients: Cocoa mass, maltitol, stevia, cocoa butter, almonds, emulsifier, natural vanilla flavouring.

Preparation: Just peel the wrapper and eat. Besides this, you can take bites of plain dark chocolate with some nuts of your choice as both are filling. 

2. Healthy Bhelpuri

Calories: 149 per serving

Cook time: 15 minutes

Ingredients: Roasted puffed rice, lemon juice, finely chopped tomato, finely chopped onion and coriander leaves, chaat masala, finely chopped green chillies, salt to taste, namkeen (optional).

Preparation: Mix all the ingredients in a large bowl and eat it while the puffed rice is crispy.

3. Roasted Makhana & Gur Chana

Calories: Roasted makhana - 180 per 50g, gur chana - 194 per 50g

Cook time: 10 + 10 minutes

Ingredients: Roasted makhana - 1 tbsp ghee, 2 cups makhana, salt and pepper to taste.

Gur chana - 2 cups roasted chickpeas, 3/4 cups grated jaggery, 1 tbsp cardamom powder

Preparation

To prepare roasted makhana, heat ghee in a pan or kadhai. Add makhana and roast them until they turn light brown. Switch off the gas. Add salt, pepper and any other spice that you like. Mix them well and enjoy! Allow them to cool before storing any leftovers.

To prepare gur chana, dry roast chickpeas in a pan. Keep it aside and melt jaggery on low flame. Switch off the flame once it’s in a liquid state. Add cardamom powder and chickpeas to the pan and mix them for a couple of minutes. Allow it to cool once the chickpeas are fully coated with jaggery. 

4. Apple Slices + Peanut Butter/ Dark Chocolate Almond Butter

Calories: 274 per serving (approx)

Cook time: How quickly can you slice an apple?

Ingredients: Apple, peanut butter/ dark chocolate almond butter

Preparation: Slice an apple. Apply chilled nut butter of your choice on it and enjoy. It fills you up real nice.

5. Vaccum Cooked Vegetable Chips + Turmeric Yoghurt Dip

Calories: 390 per 100g

Cook time: Shouldn’t take more than a couple of minutes if you’re really hungry.

Ingredients: A pack of vegetable chips of your choice, 1 cup plain whole-milk Greek yoghurt, 2 tbsp chopped fresh chives, 1 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil, 2 tsp fresh lemon juice, 1 tsp ground turmeric,1 tsp onion powder, 3/4 tsp kosher salt,1/8 tsp ground red pepper

Preparation: Serve vegetable chips in a bowl. Combine yoghurt and the rest of the ingredients to make turmeric yoghurt dip. 

6. Chia Pudding

Calories: 169 per serving

Cook time: 10 minutes

Ingredients: 1 tbsp chia seeds, 1/3 cup of coconut milk, 1 tbsp cocoa powder, 1 tbsp peanut butter, berries (optional), a pinch of stevia or other sweeteners, if desired. 

Preparation: Combine chia seeds and coconut milk in a bowl. Cover and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes. Add cocoa powder, peanut butter, berries and sweetener. 

7. Protein Shake

Calories: 150-200 per serving

Cook time: 5 minutes

Ingredients: 225 ml of unsweetened almond milk, 1 scoop whey powder, a pinch of stevia or other healthy sweeteners, if desired, 1/2 cup of crushed ice.

Preparation: Combine all ingredients in a blender and process until smooth.

8. Monkey Toast

Calories: 155 per toast

Cook time: 5 minutes 

Ingredients: 1 tbsp Peanut butter, 1 sliced banana, 1 tsp honey, 1 slice of bread, 1 tsp chia seeds.

Preparation: Smear a slice of toasted multigrain bread with peanut butter and banana slices. Top it up with a drizzle of honey and a sprinkle of chia seeds for some extra fibre.

9. Berry Yoghurt Toast

Calories: 195 per toast

Cook time: 5 minutes

Ingredients: A slice of bread, Greek yoghurt, berries, 1 tsp of chia seed.

Preparation: Smear a slice of toasted bread with yoghurt and berries. Sprinkle chia seeds and enjoy.

10. Corn Chaat

Calories: 217 per serving

Cook time: 10 minutes 

Ingredients: 2 cups of sweet corn kernels, ½ cup of finely chopped onions, 1 tsp of chopped green chilli peppers, ¼ cup of chopped tomatoes and 2 tbsp of chopped coriander, ½ tsp chaat masala, ½ tsp black salt, ½ tsp red chilli powder, 1 tbsp lime juice, 2 tsp tamarind chutney and 2 tsp green chutney.

Preparation: Mix all ingredients in a large bowl. Serve immediately.

The Bottomline

When your next craving hits, aim for whole foods instead of highly processed, fattening options and please stop scrolling through food delivery apps over and over again. 

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