Healthy Snacks

Healthy Snacks

To Snack or Not to Snack?

How would you define a snack?

Another way to think of this question is: Why do we have a snack to eat?

Define snacking:

Anytime that we eat food or consume a beverage between our regular meals.

The word snack often brings to mind fast foods: high in fat, sugar, salt & not particularly nutritious items.

Remember all foods can be eaten in moderation, but nutritious snacks should be consumed over junk food most of the time.

Multiple Choice

What is the definition of a snack?

• It is a meal eaten at dinner.

• It is a food we eat between our regular meals.

Healthy Snack Options:

• Snacks should be enjoyable, filling and nutritious.

• Foods that are...

• high in fiber

• contain carbs for quick fuel (energy)

• or contain protein

Multiple Choice

True or False: A healthy snack should contain plenty of sugar, fat and salt.

• True

• False

Healthy Snack Examples

Healthy snacks are also good when you have 2 or more food groups combined to make up you snack item.

What are some of your favorite healthy snacks?

Healthy Snacks!

- Fruits

- nuts

- Popcorn

- cheese

- whole grain bread or crackers

- Fruit Smoothies

- hard boiled egg

- raw vegetables

- peanut butter

- Hummus

How much of a snack should I have?

Eat just enough to control your hunger without feeling full or stuffed.

A good rule of thumb is about 200 calories or less per snack.

Multiple Select

True or False: A snack should be about 200 calories or less.

• True

• False

How much of a snack should I have continued...

You can use your hand as a guide to measure out some common snacks. This way you will not have too much to eat while snacking.

The hand as a guide for portion control for some common healthy snacks:

Example: Hummus or Peanut Butter - A thumb tip or two is about a Tablespoon.

Ex. for Cheese or lean meat (turkey, chicken or beef) - A thumb is about an ounce.

Ex. for whole grain crackers, raw vegetables or fruit - 1 fist full = a cup

Ex. Popcorn - 3 to 4 fistfuls a serving

Multiple Select

What snack can I have a healthy serving size of by using one fistful of to measure a serving of this food?

Not all Snacks are as healthy as others: What snacks to limit...

• Limit fast foods & highly processed foods... Why?

• They tend to be low in vitamins, but high in: Salt, fat, sugar and high in calories.

It's okay to have these once-in-a-while foods as snacks, but not as a daily snack everyday.

Can you tell me what some of these snacks are that we should limit in our daily diet?

Here is a list of the "once-in-a-while" snacks. Here are just a few...

- soda

- snack chips

- fast food

- cookies

- candy

- ice cream

Multiple Select

Which of the following snacks can you have everyday?

Poll

What is the class's most popular healthy snack from the items listed?

Let's watch this short video on healthy snacks to review what we learned today.

see video on next slide

What's your favorite healthy snack?

Go to your Google Classroom and click on the tab for directions on your in-class activity.