Snack ideas: Part 1

I'm sure a lot of people with eating disorders are with me when I say this one: it's so hard to physically eat that much food! (Never mind what your head is telling you as well!) When you're on a meal plan and have to eat 5 or 6 times a day (that's 3 meals with 2/3 snacks), you constantly feel full and bloated and it's horrible!

It's also really hard to cope in your head, and personally I find that healthy eating makes me feel that tiny bit better and that tiny bit less guilty.

So today I thought I'd post some snack ideas that are healthy and aren't too filling, but are (hopefully) nutritional and also big enough to count as part of your meal plan :)

1) Yogurt w/ crushed pecan nuts (or other nuts of your choice)

This is simple and easy to do- you don't really have to faff around. Just grab a yogurt of your choice (try really hard to eat full fat yogurt, even if your head is telling you not to, it really is better for you) and crush some pecan nuts into it and mix it in. Keep doing that until it's very lumpy and you have at least 1 to 2 tbsp of nuts in there. Then enjoy! You can do this with plain vanilla yogurt, or you can even use fruit yogurt- mine is an apricot petit filious big pot!

Try to have at least 125ml of yogurt- but have as much as you can manage <3
This also tastes really good with chopped up banana, strawberries and/or blueberries, so get creative and have a try! (You might need to use a bowl if you're adding more though ;)

2) Peanut butter banana bites

This is another quick and easy thing to do, yet it's so delicious and looks great! Just chop up a banana, and put a fairly generous dollop of peanut butter (or Nutella /other spread of your choice!) on top of one slice of banana, then put another slice of banana on top and hey presto!- you've got yourself a yummy and nutritious snack!
You could also finish off the snack by adding blueberries or slices of strawberries around the edge, which works great if you have to have a little bit of a bigger snack (depending on your meal plan, or how much you want to challenge yourself!)

3) Yogurt, passion fruit and almonds medley

All you need for this delicious snack is a passion fruit, 15g flaked almonds and 125ml of yogurt of your choice! (or however much yogurt your dietitian/key-worker recommends)  Just put your yogurt in a bowl, scoop out your passion fruit and add it on top of your yogurt, then sprinkle the almonds on top, and you're done! Now mix it all together for a yummy and nutritional snack!

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Sorry, I seem to have gone on quite a fruit, nut and yogurt theme here! ;)
I hope this blog post is helpful and gives you a few ideas for snacks- I know I often get stuck for ideas but get bored of eating the same things over and over!

I am hoping to continue this as a series of snack idea posts, so please send in your snack ideas and photos! You can do so by uploading a photo on your Instagram, and tagging #recoverysnackideas or you can also email the photo to me! Contact details below :)

Email: myjourneywithrecovery@gmail.com
Instagram: #recoverysnackideas

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Thank you very much to @missssrachel (on IG) for the peanut butter banana bites snack idea and photo, and also thank you very much to @healthy_recovery (on IG) for the yogurt, passion fruit and almonds medley snack idea and photo! All credit goes to you two, thank you so much for allowing me to use them!

Hannah xox