 Following snacks get our hearts pumping, figuratively and literally. They are delicious alternatives to the pack of chips or candy bar.
- Fresh vegetables are low in calories and contain many antioxidants. Many vegetables have no fat and are loaded with plenty of fiber to satiate you. Fiber also can lower the level of cholesterol.
- Fruit spitted on a stick with a little dark chocolate for dipping. Fruit are loaded with a variety of antioxidants that prevent you from heart disease and cancer. Dark chocolate contains a high concentration of flavinols, a type of antioxidant, that prevent you from heart disease.
- Half of a cantaloupe filled with fat free cottage cheese, some berries and a dash of cinnamon. The cantaloupe and berries contain antioxidants, and the fat-free cottage cheese doesn’t have the saturated fat.
- Fat-free yogurt with fruit and a modicum of nuts. Get one more serving of dairy without saturated fat as well as antioxidants from fruit and unsaturated fat from the nuts.
- Tofu and berries plus a dash of pomegranate juice or grape juice. Tofu is a great source of protein that doesn’t contain saturated fat. Berries, pomegranate juice and grape juice are loaded with a high concentration of antioxidants.
- Homemade soup. Begin with a vegetable base. You can use a frozen vegetable, but you have to make sure its low in sodium. Vegetables are the sources of antioxidants and fiber. Mix in a couple of cups of beans. Flavour with fresh herbs. If you want to make your soup creamy without heart-clogging fat, you can use low fat soy milk or evaporated skim milk.
- Pureed prunes — sneak them into your brownies. It makes very chocolaty brownies. Pureed fruit make the chocolate taste chocolatier. Besides, you have added in something that contains less oil or less butter and you have added antioxidants because of the pureed fruit. Additionally, fruit has fiber to lower your cholesterol.
- Tofu or soy milk. It can provide your heart with additional protein
- Use applesauce or apple butter in place of oil for muffins. Apple butter is one of best ingredients you can add to moisture and pleasant fruit flavor that won't neutralize your other ingredients.
- Sprinkle nuts and small chunks of fruit on top of muffins. If you replace oil for the applesauce, you will make a muffin low in fat, chock-full of antioxidants from fruit, fiber from nuts, and heart-healthy protein from the nuts.
- Meatloaf. Use tofu and chopped white chicken meat instead of red meat. This will supply your organism with extra protein.
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