2024-03-11 14:30:14
In general, 7 to 8 hours pass between lunch and dinner… compared to 4 to 5 hours between breakfast and lunch! As a result, it is not uncommon to feel a little peckish at the end of the followingnoon. the solution ? A healthy and balanced snack that will last until dinner without having any impact on your figure!
Should we taste it or not?
Everything depends. If we feel a little hungry in the followingnoon, nothing stops us from having a snack, on the contrary. Better to have a snack and a balanced dinner… rather than skipping the snack and stuffing yourself at dinner time! In this case, the goal will be to eat a healthy snack to avoid arriving hungry for dinner! On the other hand, if you don’t feel hungry or low on energy, you are absolutely not obliged to taste… and you can hold back until dinner!
What is the ideal snack?
In their ‘Healthy Eating Guide’Julie Chapon and Anthony Berthou deliver the composition ofan ideal snack :
1 or 2 squares of dark chocolate – which will promote the production of serotonin known as the happiness hormone – OR 1 fruit – to stock up on fiber and energy – such as a handful of blueberries, a few plums, 1 apple, 1 pear, 1 kiwi, 1 banana, a few dried apricots… a cup of green tea or white tea, to stock up on antioxidants, 30 g of oilseeds to stock up on omega-3 and magnesium, 1 small portion of carbohydrates (optional) which will allow you to stall effectively… without having an impact on weight gain if you choose them of sufficient quality!
Snack: foods to avoid
biscuits and cakes
Eat cookies for snack? This isn’t really a good idea. Very rich in sugar, industrial biscuits risk causing a spike in blood sugar levels in the short term and then fatigue immediately followingwards… On the other hand, there is no objection to swallowing a few homemade biscuits as a snack! When you prepare them yourself, you try to have a light hand on the sugar, fat, etc. and we monitor their composition to include the foods recommended above,
Devoid of fiber – unlike fruit – fruit juice is above all a source of sugar… which we benefit from depriving ourselves of.
ready-made nut mixtures
Cashew nuts, Brazil nuts, almonds… Ready-made bags mixing various kinds of nuts are tempting. Certainly. Their fault? They are generally made with roasted oilseeds which, in fact, lose their nutritional value. It is better to favor raw oilseeds.
5 balanced snack ideas
Balanced snack idea 1: 1 cup of green tea or white tea (loose) + 1 or 2 squares of 70% cocoa dark chocolate + 30 g of nuts and almonds. Balanced snack idea 2: 1 cup of green tea or white tea (loose) + 1 apple + 30 g of Brazil nuts. Balanced snack idea 3: 1 cup of green tea or white tea (loose) + a little cocoa powder + 30 g of cashew nuts. Balanced snack idea 4: 1 cup of green tea or white tea (loose) + 1 kiwi + 30 g of nuts + a handful of oatmeal (optional). Balanced snack idea 5: 1 cup of green tea or white tea (loose) + 1 pear + 30 g almonds + 1 small piece of sourdough bread (optional).
To read. The healthy eating guide, by Julie Chapon and Anthony Berthou.
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