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"When it comes to eating, my biggest downfall is that I love to snack&amp;amp;#8212;in fact, I even keep munchies at my work desk for any midday pick-me-up needs. But rather than deny myself my snack time, I&amp;#x27;ve been making an effort to make sure they&amp;#x27;re all healthy choices. I asked expert Keri Glassman, founder of Nutritious Life and author of The New You and Improved Diet, to weigh in on some healthy, work-friendly snack ideas. Here&amp;#x27;s what she recommends: What do recommend for somebody who&amp;#x27;s on-the-go and needs an easy snack? Keri: I love popcorn that is whole grain&amp;amp;#8212;it has fiber, and you can eat a good amount of it. You may need to add something for flavor like sprinkling Parmesan cheese on it, but movie-theater popcorn is not the way you want to go. I actually love Fit by Popcorn, Indiana because they have all different flavors. Another favorite to-go snack that I love are individual peanut butter or almond butter packets. You can always keep something like Justin&amp;amp;#8217;s Nut Butter or Barney Butter in your desk drawer and eat these spreads with fruit or whole-grain crackers, such as Finn Crisps, or mix it into a plain Greek yogurt to make an almond-butter yogurt. It creates a sweeter, heavier afternoon snack. You can also add nut butter to cottage cheese to make a high-protein healthy snack for either pre- or post-workout. What&amp;#x27;s a good snack to always have on hand? Keri: Greek yogurt is just an easy thing to keep around and is a good starting base that you can add to. The already-flavored yogurts have more sugars. You can keep the yogurt plain or add the peanut butter, but if you want it crunchy you can add chopped walnuts, flaxseeds, chia seeds, nut seeds, pumpkin seeds, or fresh berries to add more substance. You can even keep spices at your desk such as cinnamon or cardamom to spice things up a little bit. If you go to lunch and have a salad, save the cucumbers and throw them in the yogurt. Even a fiber cracker as a base is a good snack: You can spread peanut butter or cottage cheese on it or even sprinkle chives or black pepper on it. That will make it a more savory. Yum! Will you be making any of these snacks? P.S. If you want more snack suggestions, check out our Springpad notebook! You can even load it onto your mobile phone for an easy-to-use shopping list: View the Healthy, Easy Snack Ideas notebook on Springpad"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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