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10 Healthy Snacks Under 200 Calories

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Consuming low-calorie snacks between meals is a matter of enhancing your nutrition knowledge and using a food scale.

We’re giving you 10 options in this article. Rest you can get creative, quantify your food and use a calorie-counting app to find the right combinations for you.

1. Nuts

Nuts are both calorie and nutrient-dense foods with about 600 calories per 100g, So, quantifying them is absolutely necessary to stay within your calorie limit.

25g of any nut such as cashew, almond, walnut, etc. will give about 160-170 calories. Rest calories can be filled with 10g raisin or 2 small dates.

2. Bread Peanut butter

One whole wheat bread slice is about 77 calories. Apply any 15g all-natural peanut butter giving about 100 calories and get 175 calories from this snack.

You can also apply 15g peanut butter on roti (95 cal) or a combination with 1 brown rice cake (35 cal) will work just as well.

3. Chai makhana

Chai makhana is a popular Indian snack combination. Makhana being low in calories will just give 87 calories per 25g. For tea, 125 ml of milk (70 cal) & a teaspoon of sweetener (30 cal) will help stay within 200 calorie limit.

You can replace makhana with the same amount of popcorn or 20g roasted chana.

4. Boiled egg

2 hard-boiled eggs give 77 cal per piece.

You can make a combo of 1 boiled egg (77 cal) & whole wheat bread (77 Cal) as well.

5. Peanut chat

For peanut chat, use 25g roasted peanuts (142 cal), 1 onion (28 cal), 1 tomato (20 cal), then some salt & spices for the mix. Done.

Another variation of this is -15g peanuts (85 cal), 15g puffed rice (50 cal), 1 onion (28 cal), 1 tomato (20 cal), then some salt & spices for the mix. Done.

6. Curd (Yogurt)

To increase the flow of healthy bacteria in your intestines, curd is one of the cheapest alternatives.

200g curd (124 cal) & 1 teaspoon sweetener (20-30 cal) is a great snack that will come in under 200 calories.

Some other variations of curd –

200g curd (124 cal) & 20g Raisin (62 cal)

200g curd (124 cal) & small apple (60 cal)

200g curd (124 cal), small mango (80 cal) and blend together to make a mango lassi.

7. Potato

Boil any medium size potato (about 100g) and get 100 cal.

And in case you don’t know, potatoes have the highest satiety index (SI – 323) – meaning they keep you full for much longer than other foods. (1)

Cut & combine it with 100g curd to get additional 62 cal and still stay less than 200 calories.

8. Fruit

Either 2 medium bananas, 2 medium apples, or 300-350g fruit chat, will all come under 200 calories.

9. Milk

This one’s easy. Just 250-300 ml (150-180 cal) of this filling drink is good enough to give you good amount of protein & several micronutrients – all under 200 calories.

10. Sprouts

Last up, sprouts. Moong is usually the easiest to make, so, soak 35 g moong (117 cal) for about 12 hours, then pack it nicely in a muslin cloth for another 12 hours.

That’s it. Your sprouts will be ready. Now, combine them with 1 onion, 1 tomato, salt, & spices to make sprout chat.

In conclusion, healthy snacking is about 2 things only – (1) choosing the right ingredient & (2) consuming in moderation.  

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