However, remember that dates are very sweet, so stick to one portion at a time, or about three dates. Summary Dates are very sweet, so they can fix your craving for sugar while providing you other beneficial nutrients too.

Sweet potatoes are nutritious, sweet and very filling. They contain mostly carbs but also fiber and a number of vitamins and minerals, including vitamin A, vitamin C and potassium. For a delicious treat, try them roasted with cinnamon and paprika like in this recipe.

Including a source of protein like meat, poultry or fish in your meals may help prevent sugar cravings 28 , In fact, if you are trying to lose weight , eating adequate amounts of protein may be very important for managing your food intake, cravings and weight 30 , 31 , 32 , Summary Good sources of protein like meat, poultry and fish may help keep you full and prevent cravings for sweets.

The sweetness of the fruit combined with the filling effects of yogurt can satisfy your need for something sweet, all while providing lots of beneficial nutrients. Summary Smoothies made with whole fruits and yogurt can combat your cravings for sweets.

Soda is extremely sweet, and drinking high amounts of sugar-sweetened beverages has been linked to a number of diseases, including heart disease and diabetes 36 , 37 , Switching to a sugar-free version can help you get a sweet fix without the added sugar and calories.

Summary Switching out your high-sugar drinks for ones made with artificial sweeteners can give you a sweet taste without all the added sugar.

Prunes are dried plums. This means you can reach for them as a healthy alternative to candy when you just have to have some sugar. Their high fiber content and naturally occurring sorbitol also mean they may help relieve constipation.

Sorbitol is a naturally occurring sugar alcohol that tastes sweet but is absorbed slowly in your gut Summary Prunes are sweet, nutritious and high in fiber, so they can be a healthy food for satisfying cravings for sweets.

Eggs are another high-protein food that may help keep your appetite and cravings in check. In fact, research has shown that having a high-protein breakfast like eggs may reduce hunger and help people eat less throughout the day 41 , 42 , This may be partly because a high-protein breakfast suppresses the hunger hormone ghrelin and increases some of the hormones that make you feel full, including peptide YY PYY and glucagon-like peptide-1 GLP-1 44 , 45 , This suggests that an egg breakfast could keep you feeling fuller for longer and keep the cravings at bay 43 , Summary Eggs can be a good choice, especially for breakfast.

Trail mix is the name often given to a snack containing dried fruit and nuts. Nuts contain healthy fats, proteins, fiber and plant compounds. Eating them has been linked to a number of health benefits , including improved risk factors for heart disease and diabetes Summary Trail mix combines the sweetness of dried fruits with nuts.

This gives your sweet fix some added nutritional value. Fermented foods like yogurt, kimchi, kombucha and sauerkraut are sources of beneficial bacteria. This makes it possible for your gut bacteria to influence your food intake in a number of ways.

Some of these compounds may even mimic hunger or fullness hormones in your body, influencing your appetite and food cravings 51 , However, no studies to date have examined the effects of eating fermented foods on food cravings, and more research is needed Summary Fermented foods can contribute to maintaining a healthy gut, which could influence your appetite and food intake.

Whole grains are high in fiber and contain nutrients including B vitamins, magnesium, iron, phosphorus, manganese and selenium 54 , Eating whole grains has been linked to a longer, healthier life, and their high fiber content also means they may help you feel full 56 , 57 , 58 , Whole grains can also promote the growth of beneficial bacteria such as Bifidobacteria , Lactobacilli and Bacteroidetes in your gut.

Interestingly, their filling properties cannot be explained by their fiber content alone. It has been suggested that their influence on gut bacteria may also contribute to this effect Overall, making sure you are eating enough and including foods like whole grains in your diet will help keep you full and may help prevent sugar cravings.

While eating vegetables may not be satisfying when you are experiencing an acute sugar craving, including them in your diet regularly could be helpful. Vegetables are high in fiber and low in calories. They also contain lots of beneficial nutrients and plant compounds 4. Eating more vegetables is probably one of the best things you can do for your health and could lower your risk of diseases like heart disease and cancer Adding vegetables is also a great way to bulk up your meals, helping you feel more satisfied throughout the day Summary Adding more vegetables to your meals could help fill you up and prevent you from getting sugar cravings due to hunger.

If you need something sweet, swap some of your sugar-filled treats out for some of the healthier options in this list. Additionally, you can try these 11 ways to stop food and sugar cravings , which take a look at your diet and lifestyle as a whole.

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Grab some popcorn. Add some cinnamon and almond butter to air-popped popcorn for the perfect balance of salty and sweet. Some research suggests the spice might help reduce blood glucose levels, which can also help ward off cravings, and almond butter brings healthy fat that makes popcorn taste extra decadent.

Try popcorn with cinnamon or almond butter when you crave salty and sweet foods. Some experts believe our bodies may occasionally confuse thirst with hunger, which is why it can be so difficult to tell exactly what food item will satisfy the craving.

As it turns out, when your body needs water, it doesn't particularly care if you get it from an actual glass of H2O or your favorite pint of Ben and Jerry's.

Your best bet is to drink a quick glass of water when cravings strike and then wait 15 minutes to see if you're still craving something to eat. Sometimes, cravings come out of the blue, and the first options that come to your mind aren't necessarily the healthiest.

Fortunately, there are healthy ways to satisfy your cravings—sweet, salty, or otherwise—and provide yourself with nutrients in the process. Wurtman J, Wurtman R. The Trajectory from Mood to Obesity.

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Nuffer W, Tall Bull S, Bakhach H, Nuffer M. Sweetly Improving Sugars? Whether they are in-office or fully remote, your employees can enjoy these snack boxes any time of the day. Eat instead of: Holiday sweets that will inevitably end up in the office kitchen. Try the Holiday Snack Box 2.

HighKey Keto Mini Chocolate Chip Cookies. Perfect for ketogenic dieters or anyone who might be craving a chocolate chip cookie without any of the sugary guilt. Low in net carbs and sugar, these healthy treats are made with natural ingredients like almond flour, coconut oil, and collagen.

A favorite of employees looking through the office snack station. Key nutrients: Hydrolyzed Collagen that is great for skin, muscle, and joint health. These blueberry muffins are a healthier alternative to your favorite breakfast baked goods. Key nutrients: A full cup of Greek yogurt not only makes these muffins moist and light, it also offers an excellent source of calcium, potassium, and key vitamins.

We know that it can be tough to satisfy your cravings while starting or maintaining a keto diet. That is why our friends at Etsy offer a vegan keto snack box filled with 21 low-carb delicious vegan options. to deliver the goods. While these snacks will lean towards the healthy side, they do make a point to get some sweetness in there to avoid any candy-bar cravings.

Key benefit: The snacks that come in each Vegan Keto snack box are filled with nutrient-dense vegan snacks containing 5 grams net carbs or less. The mix of half and half sweet and salty snacks is perfect for every craving. This refreshing sweet snack is creamy, citrusy, and packed full of nutrients — including vitamin C, calcium, and protein.

Made from just three ingredients, including delicious Tangerine Dream joint oil , this snack makes a satisfying dessert or a nutritious mid-morning snack. You can even up the sweetness with a drizzle of honey. Alternative super food suggestion: Gold Chocolate — Tastes just like a hot chocolate when mixed with your favorite hot nut milk or oat milk.

This particular bowl from Say Grace will delight your sweet tooth with acai berry puree, dark chocolate chips, shaved coconut, and MCT Oil derived from pure coconut oil for the final touch to bring these tropical flavors together.

Whip up this bowl any time you need a pick-me-up. Key nutrients : Antioxidants from the acai berries and MCT from coconut oil. Alternative super food suggestion: Red Juice — Sweet superfruit punch flavor with a hint of tartness. Acai Berry flavor similar to a berry kool aid.

Sixty fruits and plants, which contribute to an insanely robust nutritional profile, pack these bite-sized treats full of flavor. From Chocolate Coconut Cashew and Chocolate Cookie Dough to Chocolate Peanut Butter, your tastebuds will confuse this health snack for a dessert, while your muscles will thank you for giving them a clean fuel to rebuild.

Key nutrients: Protein, fiber, antioxidants, and alkaloids from a wide range of herbs, fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, and mushrooms. Via Sprouted Kitchen: Almond Truffle Dates.

Yes, you can be healthy and still eat truffles. Featuring almond butter, vanilla, and Medjool dates, this recipe from Sprouted Kitchen makes it easy to balance sweet snacking and your health. Organic Dark Chocolate Date Truffles Fruit Bites. Transform dates and nuts into some raw, real-food cookies you could guiltlessly eat for breakfast.

These incredible cookies have a creamy layer of almond-milk cream cheese and maple syrup that sends your inner sugar-monster on a pleasure trip. Get the recipe from the Chalkboard.

When you have a healthy sweet treat this easy to make up your sleeve, you have no excuse for eating fudge filled with refined sugar. You might even want to keep your fridge stocked with this fudge in case of emergency. For the gym lovers out there, the Powerfood Protein Shake is a mouthwatering pre or post-workout treat.

Blend bananas, Fatbutter, cinnamon, dates, clove, Powerfood Active , and honey together and find yourself in that sweet spot between tasty perfection and ultra-nutrition. Key nutrients : Potassium from bananas, keto-friendly fats from Fatbutter, Omega-3s and Omega-6s from hemp, cocoa, and maca.

BarkTHINS turns rich chocolate into an anytime, good-for-you snack. The Dark Chocolate Pumpkin Seed flavor wraps protein-rich pumpkin seeds in a layer of dark chocolate made from the best fair-trade ingredients available. One serving has calories and 7 grams of protein. Via Cotter Crunch: Easy 3 Step Paleo Baklava Bars.

Baklava gets a healthy foodie makeover in these simple bars from Cotter Crunch. Featuring nuts and almond meal instead of the usual buttery phyllo dough, these baklava bars are downright tasty and wholesome.

Via Our Four Forks: Homemade Chocolate. Grab cupcake liners, a cupcake tin, and a few simple ingredients, and you can make your own chocolate. Get started with instructions from Our Four Forks. Once you master the basic recipe, you can get creative by adding in your own fillings, including cashews, berries, toasted sesame seeds, dried edamame, bananas…and anything else you can think of.

Pitted dates, dark chocolate, and pecan halves deliver all the flavor of your favorite cluster candies without all the fake stuff. Make your own healthy candy with help from Nutrition in the Kitchen.

This recipe is super simple, and you can pick up all the ingredients you need in any store that sells tempting candy. Via Nom Nom Paleo: Panna Cotta with Strawberry Balsamic Compote. Rich, non-dairy panna cotta Italian for cooked cream and balsamic strawberry compote meld to form one healthy sweet snack from Nom Nom Paleo.

This better-for-you panna cotta tastes like it came straight off the menu of your favorite Italian restaurant. Capture all the sweet indulgence of poached pears and cream sauce by eating fresh pears with honey and Greek yogurt.

These premium marshmallows were made for snacking. Eat them right out of the bag without even a hint of guilt. Smashmallow uses only the best ingredients, including organic sugar, tapioca syrup, and fruit and vegetable juices.

One serving of the Cinnamon Churro flavor has only 80 calories. Get Your Free Healthy Snack Recipes Downloadable Flat Tummy Superfood Burcha A classic raw food recipe, a burcha is kind of like a superfood parfait. This particular recipe from Feel the Lean will fuel you like no sugary dessert ever could.

It will make you start your day full of energy and with no chocolate cravings. The protein powder should be low in sugars and saturated fat, as well as contain no artificial ingredients. For those ones, who would still like to stick to chocolate alternatives, there are also homemade protein shakes with a chocolate flavor.

About 15 — 20 g of protein for women and 30g of protein for men, this healthy chocolate alternative can be a great option especially post-exercise as it will boost the rehydration and recovery process.

There are also lots of findings which support that the use of low — fat chocolate milk within half an hour after exercise can benefit the recovery process and replace the electrolytes lost during exercise. This is a traditional Greek dessert — the walnuts and honey are given to the bridal couple during the wedding ceremony as it is considered a symbol for wellness and fertility.

What you need is 10 pieces of almonds and 10 pieces of walnuts — provide about 6 grams of protein — topping up with a teaspoon of honey. Both almonds and walnuts are known to have high levels of vitamin E, which can help protect the cells from free radical damage.

Except of the protein bars you can find in the market, which sometimes contain too many artificial ingredients, sugars and sweeteners, you can try to make your own ones. A great combination is to mix up nut butter with a few raisins or dried apricots, flaxseeds, almond milk and whey or rice protein.

The bar will be very high in protein, low in carbs and will be a great snack idea pre and post-workout. Smoothies can be made with a variety of fruits — try not to use more than three different ones per shake as it will increase the sugar amount.

Berries and pineapples give a great taste too. Mix up either low-fat natural Greek yogurt or a nut butter, flaxseeds, some natural orange juice or oat, coconut and almond milk and check which flavor you prefer! Fruit omelets are a great breakfast and lunch idea and are even better for the ones who like both sweet and salty foods.

Just make your usual omelet with a couple of eggs and add a combination of berries and a teaspoon of natural organic honey on the side. Usually cookies are just empty calories and they should be avoided especially when you aim for weight loss. When you add this protein powder and cocoa instead of chocolate though, it makes a big difference.

For real, though, who is actually going to stop after eating just a few? Instead, cut your calorie, fat and cholesterol count, and take advantage of the health benefits of fruit and yogurt. Most fruit contains a ton of fiber, and yogurt, besides being a much better choice of dairy product than ice cream, provides probiotics , which aid in digestion and support your immune system.

Potato salad is arguably one of the best picnic staples there is, but unfortunately, this creamy, mushy dish tends to have more fat and carbs than anything else. Never fear — a delish homemade egg salad will do the trick.

Boil two eggs for 15 minutes, peel them and then mash with a fork. As a substitute for mayo, which adds unnecessary fat, sodium and cholesterol, add mashed-up avocado.

Spread the salad between two slices of whole grain bread. Warning: once you make egg salad this way, you may never use mayonnaise again. Avocado egg salad is just too darn good. Yeah, that hot chocolate you get from Starbucks?

It contains calories and 43 grams of sugar. Um, no thank you. Chocolate milk is one of the most underrated healthy beverages. Its protein and other nutrients help repair muscle tissue. Drink chocolate milk right out of the box, no shame at all.

Chocolate milk boxes are one of my favorite snacks. I have no idea how this works, but it does. But a burrito from Chipotle can be over 1, calories. So forget your Chipotle run and make your own loaded quesadilla from the comfort of your kitchen.

In particular, the orange color indicates the presence of beta-carotene , the same powerful antioxidant that gives carrots their hue. This is just one of the many nutrients that sweet potatoes contain in high quantities. Cut a sweet potato into slices or wedges, and sprinkle with salt, pepper and olive oil to taste.

These babies are hella healthier and hella more satisfying than the drunchie we all know and love as life-saving as that drunchie may be. Basically, you mix cooked quinoa with cheese and various spices and scoop the mixture into muffin tins. Bake, top with more cheese and dip in marinara sauce.

Sorry not sorry for the quinoa obsession. Get the full recipe here. Have you ever noticed that drinking lemonade makes you thirstier than you were before? For an equally refreshing and fruity beverage, grab your blender and drink a watermelon instead.

Blend watermelon cubes and ice cubes together, lie out under the sun and sip away. Make it and eat it with zero guilt. Experiment with all the different apple varieties out there until you find your favorite caramel-and-apple pairing and sprinkle on a little Pink Himalayan Salt to top off this sweet and savory snack.

Eat instead of : Caramel apples. Via My New Roots: Secret Ingredient Frozen Hot Chocolate. Turn your favorite comforting beverage into a healthy frozen sweet snack. Brace yourself; this recipe from My New Roots uses cauliflower and Cinnamon Swirl Emulsified MCT Oil to achieve an amazingly creamy texture.

Key nutrients : Vitamin C from the cauliflower, pure coconut-sourced MCT oil. Coconut and dried pineapple feature in these quick-prep treats from Hemsley Hemsley.

We all know peas and ricotta make a crazy-good combination when served over pasta. Are you ready to try putting peas and ricotta into your cupcakes? This recipe from the Cupcake Project makes a delightfully green cupcake filled with the nutrients of peas.

Just blend some avocados with a few sweet ingredients, top it with crunchies, and snack. Classic porridge makes an amazing snack when you want something sweet that also has substance.

This recipe from Be Smart, Eat Smart calls for quinoa, raspberries, and maca powder. Via Kale Me Maybe: Layered Mocha and Vanilla Chia Seed Pudding.

Chia pudding is something every healthy snacker with a sweet tooth should know about. This layered recipe from Kale Me Maybe will spice up your chia pudding game.

Key nutrients : Iron from the chia seeds, amino acids and essential fatty acids from maca. Unlike many other healthy sweet snacks for weight loss, this one will actually fill you up. Get the recipe here. Be sure to get their cookie recipe and reward your taste buds with this delicious treat!

Healthy sweet snacks like these pistachio cookies are both filling and a nice source of protein. Easy to toss together in seconds, this parfait should definitely make your list of go-to low calorie sweet snacks. Are you craving a brownie?

Mint chocolate chip ice cream? Vanilla with almonds in it? Well, oh, oh, Oatmega is here for the win! With 14 grams of protein, these all-natural, non-GMO, gluten-free bars are a snack that makes you feel just as good about eating them as they taste.

Oatmega Protein Bars come in a brownie, mint chocolate chip, vanilla almond, and chocolate peanut butter flavors, all of which contain mg of Omega-3s per serving for brain-boosting benefits. But, wait! Before you dive into our list, did you know you could also foster these healthy snack habits with your team at work?

Caroo makes it easy to do just that with snack boxes your team will devour without all the guilt! Interested in a content partnership? Get Started. SnackNation is a healthy office snack delivery service that makes healthy snacking fun, life more productive, and workplaces awesome.

We provide a monthly, curated selection of healthy snacks from the hottest, most innovative natural food brands in the industry, giving our members a hassle-free experience and delivering joy to their offices. This pumpkin bread uses your favorite autumnal gourd, plus maple syrup.

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