Healthy Snack ideas

Am trying to have a good week eating wise - ie not so much chocolate!!!!
Has anyone got any great ideas for things to eat in between meals that are filling and nutritious to help inspire me!
Also, does anyone know if there is a direct link between babies size and how much food the mother eats while pregnant, or is it more genetic?

Edited by katie1

from what i have read, the food you eat BEFORE you concieve is more important than the food you eat DURING pregnancy - because if you are dieting before, you are concieving your child to think that it will be coming into a world of no food - so its metabolism will be slower, and will be more prone to adult obesity and diabetes. Scary huh!
As long as you eat reasonably healthy, to allow baby to get all the nutrients it needs to grow, without draining you of all your stores, i think you can relax about the choc. it is only an issue to watch what you eat if you want to lose weight after baby is born.

on the chocolate note, it is a vegetable ( and we are supposed to eat our veges) and research has found that if a woman eats choc in pregnancy, her baby will be more laid back when born! how bout that!!!!
i read that in a magazine, and ripped it out and took it home to show dh as i knew he wouldnt believe me otherwise :)

I had to watch what I was eating with gestational diabetes (or should I say basically stop eating it felt like)
try cutting up some carrot sticks, enough for the day and leave them in your fridge, also if you think they are boring then have some hummus or low fat dip handy.
Crackers are always good, dried apricots or peaches (high is sugar though so in moderation) you can get little snack packets of peanuts or raisins and peanuts, a box of 8 for about $3 from the supermarket. Cut up watermelon or pineapple. Le snaks, little bags of popcorn. Hmm cant think of anything else at the moment though. I found the key is to have things prepared in the morning so I could just grab something quickly.

hmmm I cheat a little by having the chocolate covered muesli bars - taht way I feel like I have had chocolate but its not too much sugar (except ofcourse when you eat a whole box of six in one day as I did a few weeks ago - oh the shame!!! ..but they were soooo goooodddd...)

I have eaten lots of bad stuff in the last few days and am trying to get back into the healthy eating now... I am the junk food queen so I am trying to be sensible!

A question about peanuts though, I have always believed they are healthy, I think all nuts are healthy (esp the choc covered almonds nuts thats another story LOL!) ANYWAY the lady who takes our ante natal said under no circumstances should we be eating peanuts when we are pg cos they will give the baby allergies... I usually eat loads of nuts and peanut butter most mornings on toast etc so I was a bit upset when I found that out (only about a week ago!) and hubby was worried too... when we went home we talked about it and decided that since neither of us had heard that they were dangerous before they couldnt be that bad, but even so I notice hubby watchin what I put on my toast the past week or so and I cant bring myself to have my favourite peanut butter just in case...
SOOOOO my point is (I am really rambling today, baby brain) ARE PEANUTS REALLY THAT DANGEROUS!?!?!? The way the midwife at ante natal talked about them you would think they were worse than cold precooked roast chickens from foodtown topped with 3 day old shellfish on a buffet table!!!!

Edited by mrs frantic

Yeah I have heard the same thing, that u should avoid peanuts during pregnancy and brastfeeding if u have a family history of asthma or allergies.
As my Mum was told to eat lots of peanuts ( cant remember the reason) when she was pregnant with me,..and I have had allergies and asthma my whole life, I am avoiding anything with peanuts ( boo hoo I miss peanut M&M's!!). Dunno about other nuts, its only peanuts that I have heard linked to allergies, but I only have the occasional other type of nut anyway! And who knows if Mum eating peanuts during pregnancy has anything to do with my getting allergies/asthma? Im not allergic to peanuts, or any other food.
Im sure if u dont have a known problem,..then like most other things,..moderation is probably sensible!

I found that muesli bars, fresh fruit, and those little pots of yoghurt were good during pregnancy and still have them quite often. I know it's hard though, I have to put a lot more thought into remembering to eat now, or at least making sure I'm having something nutritious !

Fruit, yoghurt, cheese and crackers...all winners with me. Oh and crumpets as well (not heavy on the butter otherwise it ruins the whole 99% fat free thing!)

I've also heard that peanuts are meant to be avoided if there is that family history of asthma and/or allergies (oops! ) that said I've eaten them.

Our ante-natal instructor told us that we should have NO nuts at all!!!!

oops! I have asthma (quite badly, use my ventolin every day!) and allergies, and my whole family has those...
ahhh well, think I will avoid them from now on (damn - wish I had know this earlier on!!)....

mrs frantic..i avoided nuts while preggy with jack and he still got asthma
this time around, dammit if i want peanut butter i'm having it just in moderation, that's all

Hi all, I've had to watch my sugar intake this time around as I don't feel extra hungry but I'm a lightweight... so I fill up on the sugar stuff and then crash after it wears off! So my morning and afternoon teas have actually been things like potato salad or macaroni cheese cause I have been instructed to pile up the carbs!

I have definitely found though that if the food is not already prepared for when I need it, I don't stick with it, so that's a big thing...

And for snacks I enjoy carrot sticks with dip or cheese and pineapple - a lot of people haven't heard of that: you just chop the cheese the same size as the pineapple and put them together with toothpicks.... OR just grab a fork