50+ Easy to Make Snacks Without Cooking

August 13, 2020

These easy to make snacks without cooking require just minutes of hands-on time to help tame your hanger between meals. I hope you love them as much as I do!

Download my FREE “Hack Your Snack” Guide for even more snack ideas and information!

Is snacking healthy? Should you eat snacks to have a healthy diet? What is a healthy snack? What’s a convenient snack I can take on the go?

These are some of the most common questions I receive, which is why I’m SO EXCITED to share my latest “Hack Your (Healthy) Snack” Guide!

This 16-page guide is PACKED with information all about how to hack your HEALTHY snack!

Why Easy to Make Snacks Without Cooking Are Important

As a registered dietitian I know that eating to feel your best is personal. But for most people, SNACKS are a vital part of the equation.

Most of my clients THRIVE once they add in the right snacks, at the right time… and that’s what my HYS Guide will show you how to do.

Snacks don’t have to be complicated. The role of snacks are to bridge your hunger between meals so you don’t enter your next meal over-hungry.

Speaking of hunger, one of my top snacking tips is to eat a snack when you feel hungry.

Please don’t delay quenching your hunger… even if it’s earlier than your “usual” snack time.

This is why it’s also essential to be prepared with healthy easy to make snacks without cooking! Keep non-perishable snacks on hand at all times in case of an emergency (I personally love dry roasted edamame).

This guide contains my TOP SNACKING TIPS so you can feel confident designing your own healthy snacks.

Another top snacking tip is to add nutrients to your diet with your snacks.

Think of snacks as a way to enhance your overall nutrition. When possible, add nutrient-rich foods, like veggies or fruit.

It may be easy to grab something from the vending machine – and that’s OK once in a while – but for the most part, try to enhance your nutrient intake when choosing the best snack for you.

Most Americans do not consume enough:

Vegetables
Fruit
High fiber carbohydrates

Can you add one of these under-consumed nutrients to snack time?

For more top snacking tips, download my free HACK YOUR SNACK GUIDE!

Before I share 50+ Easy to Make Snacks Without Cooking, let’s review what a healthy snack should entail…

Meet the C.A.N. Snacking Formula:

This is my go-to formula I teach my clients and NTP students to feel their best from their snack.

1. Pick Produce When Possible

Remember, we want to ADD nutrients to your diet at snack time, so adding veggies and/or fruit is a great way to do that.

As a bonus, you don’t have to cook most fruits and veggies, so it’s easy to add produce to your easy to make snacks without cooking!

2. Fill up with 4-5g FIBER

Fiber is one of the most filling nutrients, plus it helps promote good gut health, heart health, and even brain health.

Choose fiber-rich foods to boost your fullness, like:

veggies
fruit
beans
whole grains

3. Add PROTEIN and/or FAT

A balanced snack contains 2 out of the 3 major macronutrients: carbohydrates, protein, and fat.

For a full breakdown of high protein snack ingredients, healthy fat snack ingredients, and high fiber snack ingredients, download the Hack Your Snack Guide!

So without further ado, here are 50+ Easy to Make Snacks Without Cooking…

Greek yogurt or Skyr with fruit
Cottage Cheese bowl with fruit
Turkey slices and hummus rolled with lettuce leaves
Hummus with whole grain crackers and crudites
Organic jerky and an apple
Tuna/Salmon/Egg/Chicken Salad on cucumber slices with grapes
Avocado + crackers
Nut or seed trail mix
Whole grain toast and nut/seed butter with sliced peach
Bowl of high fiber cereal (like Puffins) with low fat milk
Chia pudding (chia seeds + milk mixed together)
Cubed tofu dipped in peanut sauce
Popcorn snack mix
Seaweed sheets and turkey slices
Prosciutto and melon
Veggie summer rolls
Salsa and bean-based tortilla chips
String cheese and fruit
No bake energy bites
Crispy chickpeas or dry roasted edamame