Had some lovely spinach / artichoke dip with celery sticks today for a snack. What types of healthy snacks have you been eating today?

This is a low carb site & I struggle with the idea of low carb snacks.

Today, I had a handful of raw almonds. Is that a carb or a protein?

Dear Yvonnie -

There are tons of low carb snacks out there! Cheese. Celery sticks. Olives. Nuts. Raspberries. Devilled eggs!

Here's the nutrition information for almonds -

http://www.bellaonline.com/nutrition/detail.asp?id=12061&qty=5

So 23 almonds is 6g carbs - but 3g of that is fiber, which is good for you and doesn't get digested. So that leaves only 3g of digestible carbs. It has 6g of protein. So it offers both. It also has fat too, so really it has all energy groups except alcohol represented

Many foods are like that, they have a bit of each.

I'm enjoying a mid-evening snack of celery sticks with garlic hommus. What are you enjoying tonight? Anything tasty?

Dear Lisa Carb, Last saturday ,I went into a meeting at my gym,where it was mentionned not more than 12 almonds.This afternoon met an old friend she eats almonds every day.never more than 12 . She eats 6 to 8 small meals per day. So isn't 23 too much?Oh by the way she puts them in the oven at vey low temperature slightly covered with soya sauce,for a better taste.I mean slightly. So what do I do? your the expert? She had me buy a coffee grinder ,because ,i found them too hard to eat,so i'll be grinding them. I await your answer loong

Carrots with Marzetti Ranch Veggie Dip

Fresh fruit, cheese with whole grain/nut crackers, a simple garden salad.

Dear Loong -

We are all different shapes and sizes so there's no way to say that all humans beings on the earth should only eat X amount A toddler might only eat 3 almonds! A football player might eat 30. That is why life is so wonderful, because we have such stunning diversity in the world.

It's not like almonds are nutritionally required for life, so someone could easily eat zero almonds a day and do quite fine. Almonds are just one of a myriad of foods that we can choose from, in amounts that work well for our size, shape, and diet mix.

I love cottage cheese with some herbs mixed in it -- thyme, a little garlic powder, pepper, basil are my favorite seasonings for cottage cheese. I have plain crackers (waverly wafers) to go with it.

My family think it is funny that I season my cottage cheese. Does anyone else do this, or do you prefer cottage cheese plain?

I like salt and pepper in my cottage cheese