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17 Healthy Snacks For Your Desk

April 30, 2015

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Healthy Snacks

Healthy snacking isn’t all about calorie counting. I’m talking about snacks that actually curb those afternoon cravings, and are packed with ingredients that are good for you. Skip the doughnut holes, gummy bears, and cupcakes. You’ll want to try these crunchy pea snacks, bacon jerky bites, and a nut butter that I get up in the middle of the night for!

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17 Healthy Snacks For Your Desk

Blue Diamond Dark Chocolate Almonds

Sea Salt & Dark Chocolate Almonds

Blue Diamond’s Sea Salt & Dark Chocolate Almonds are the perfect desk snack and on-the-go snack! I also like keeping them in my yoga bag to snack on before and after workouts.

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Nature Box

NatureBox

Healthy, yummy snacks that are nutritionist approved. NatureBox promises no hydrogenated oils, added sulfites. artificial colors, sweeteners, and flavors. All snacks are less than 200 calories per 30g servings with high-quality, nutritious ingredients and thoughtful sourcing. For every box they deliver, they donate one meal to help feed the hungry!

Snapea Crisps

Snapea Crisps – Harvest Snaps

Snapea Crisps are made with all-natural peas – 70%* to be exact – while the Lentil Snaps come packed with 65% authentic lentils and their powerful combination of nutrients. Each handful fuels your body with Vitamin B, calcium, iron, folate, potatssium and dietary fiber. These snappy little snacks are baked with less fat and sodium, non-GMO, and they’re gluten-free!

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All Good Provisions

Allgood Provisions

Allgood Provisions is an original brand of certified organic, nutritious, and sustainable snack foods. Allgood offers a variety of nuts, fruits, and trail mixes that are healthy options for snacking, cooking, or baking. Inside each Earth-friendly pouch you’ll find a delicious snack that is nutritious, certified organic, vegan, and non-GMO. Proud members of the 1% for the Planet foundation, funds are donated to the preservation and restoration of the natural environment with every sale.

Dang Coconut Chips

Dang Coconut Chips

Made from the nutrient-packed copra, or meat of the coconut, our toasted coconut chips are a delicious snack that provides loads of energy. The meat is sliced out of mature coconuts then gently toasted until golden brown with a dash of sugar and salt. The toasting process brings out the natural sweetness of the coconut meat and turns it from white to golden brown.

Dang coconut chips are vegan, gluten-free, non-GMO, no cholesterol, a good source of fiber, and high in lauric acid.

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Epic Bars

EPIC Bars

These 100% grass fed animal based protein bar are designed as nature intended. Paleo friendly, gluten free, and low in sugar. All epic bars are gluten-free, soy free, dairy free, low glycemic with no added nitrates or nitraites. All epic animals are vegetarian fed, humanely treated, hormone-free, and antibiotic-free. EPIC beef and bison are both 100% grass-fed and organic. As a result, the bars are loaded with up to 5x higher levels of omega-3 fatty acids.

EPIC is committed to redefining what constitutes a “healthy snack” by sourcing meat from the finest purveyors possible.

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Mamma Chia

Mamma Chia

Organic chia seeds with organic fruit juices, lightly sweeten with organic agave nectar in a portable squeeze package! Those tiny seeds are packed with essential Omega-3s, antioxidants, dietary fibers, protein, magnesium, and calcium!

All Mamma Chia foods and beverages are USDA Organic Certified and Non-GMO Verified.

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Fruttata Fruit Crisps

Fruttata Crisps

All natural, healthy freeze-dried fruit snacks made from the best apples and pineapples available in the best fruit growing regions in the world. A highly sophisticated freeze drying process removes 97% of the water from the fruit leaving behind only a delicious crispy taste of fruit that’s perfect for snacking. Only 39 calories per bag!

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Bearded Brothers

Bearded Brothers Energy Bars

Bearded Brothers makes certified organic, raw, vegan, paleo, gluten-free, soy-free, non-gmo, energy bars crafted in hot and sunny Austin, Texas! They’ve partnered with 1% for the Planet, pledging to donate 1% of their annual sales to support non-profit organizations focused on sustainability.

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Brownie Brittle

Brownie Brittle

Sheila G. Mains’ Brownie Brittle takes the best part of the brownie, the cooled brittle batter off the sides of brownie pans, and satisfies your sweet tooth in a snap with this low calorie, low fat not-so-guilty luxury. The toffee crunch is my favorite!

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KIND Bars

KIND Bars

Who hasn’t heard of KIND bars before?! I always have a couple of these stashed in my purse and workout bag. KIND snacks are made from all-natural whole nuts, fruits, and whole grains. I’ve been obsessed with the dark chocolate nuts and sea salt bars.

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Crispy Green Fruit

Crispy Green Healthy Fruit Snacks

Freeze-dried real fruit slices with only 55 calories or less per bag. The products are free of common dietary allergens – nut nuts, gluten or dairy. Crispy Green snacks are certified kosher and non-GMO project verified.

Crispy Green is a community partner for the USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion Nutrition Communications Network, and a sponsor of the Fruit & Veggies More Matters program.

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5 Easy Cracker Toppings

Blue Diamond Almond Nut Thins

When the midday munchies roll on, skip the potato chips or candy bar and reach for Nut Thins! Gluten-free and have 3 grams of protein per serving. Check out these 5 easy cracker topping ideas.

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Project 7 Gum

Project 7

Project 7 is a socially conscious gum and mint brand dedicated to bringing great flavor back into your day while at the same time giving back to 7 areas of need: hunger, homelessness, the environment, health, clean water, peace and education. They partner with non profits making impacts both here in America and abroad. Fun flavors include birthday cake, caramel apple, lemonade and mint julep! Project 7 is sugar-free, low-calorie, and made in the USA. The mint flavors are all natural.

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MaraNatha Almond Butter

MaraNatha

I ate the entire jar of MaraNatha’s almond butter in one week. And I don’t even like nut butters or toast. But I’ve been obsessed with the organic toast from Whole Foods with the MaraNatha’s almond butter for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Heck, I’ve even gotten up in the middle of the night to eat a spoonful or two of the almond butter. It’s that good.

MaraNatha is one of America’s largest producers of high-quality natural and organic nut butters with no trans fats, hydrogenated oils or preservatives.

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Crispy Broccoli Snacks

Crispy Crunchy Broccoli Florets

Using a common Southeast Asian method, these veggies are “vacuum fried” in palm oil. This produces a snack with a reduced fat content and no residual grease — to keep snacking fingers clean and happy. Perfect in place of croutons or for dipping, but I like them straight from the bag.

From Trader Joe’s

Pretzel Crisps

Pretzel Crisps

Pretzel Crisps is a modern twist on an old favorite snack. All the flavor & crunch of a regular pretzel, but lighter, crispier, more versatile, and easily addicting! Loving the sriracha & lime, buffalo wing, and everything flavors.

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WRITTEN BY:

Jane Ko is the Austin blogger behind A Taste of Koko, Austin's top food and travel blog featuring the hottest restaurants and weekend getaways. Jane has been a speaker at South by Southwest (SXSW), Texas Conference for Women, BlogHer, and more on entrepreneurship and social media. She lives in Austin Texas with her dog and cat.

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