5 Low Fodmap Snacks

One of the most frequent questions I get asked is about low Fodmap snacks. As you know, we have to eat five small meals a day including two snacks. And that’s where people get confused as to what they can eat that’s quick, nutritious and easy to grab. Gone are the days of snatching up a processed product from the supermarket, opening the packet  and munching down on the nutrition-low, chemical-high so-called food. We can’t do that any longer because the chemicals in processed foods increase the hyper-sensitivity of the gut. My latest video gives you five snack ideas for you to adopt or adapt to suit your needs.

5 Low Fodmap Snacks

Today I want to tell you about five different snack combinations that I often have. You, I’m sure, will be able to come up with some different ones.

• So perhaps one day I have a slice of cheese with some rice crackers and some baby carrots and snow peas. The cheese is the protein, the crackers are the carbohydrate and of course, the carrots and the snow peas are the vegetable component of a balanced meal. Notice how I have two different colored vegetables. In this case I’ve got the orange of the carrots and the green of the snow peas. The different colors give you different nutrients.
• Another snack that you could have would be a slice of low Fodmap bread that you’ve made yourself, that you know is low Fodmap without any additives, and you could spread some tahini on that and add some lettuce and a couple of slices of tomato. So again, the bread is the carbohydrate, the tahini is the protein and the lettuce and the tomato are the vegetable component and they are two different colors.
• The next snack you could have, and one that I often have, is leftover food from the night before. Perhaps just a slice of leftover chicken, some quinoa that’s leftover – I deliberately do this after dinner of course. I put some aside so that I know that I’ve got that the next day. And perhaps have that with some baby spinach and maybe a radish. Again two different colors for the vegetables and you’ve got the carbohydrate in the quinoa and the protein in the chicken.
• The next one could be again, rice crackers with some of my zucchini hummus which you can find the recipe for on my website. For the protein part I would have some cheese. The crackers are the carbohydrate, you’ve got the zucchini as the vegetable and the hummus.
• The last one is a pot of lactose-free yogurt. Make sure it’s fruit and sugar-free. Have that with a piece of permitted low Fodmap fruit and a cookie. But have the cookie only a few times a week. Three or four times a week perhaps, because it does have that added sugar and it’s preferable to get that from fruit. But if you go to my website you’ll find heaps of sweet recipes that are all low Fodmap. So have a cookie, which is your carbohydrate with your yogurt, which is your protein and your fruit, in this case, is substituting a vegetable.

So there are five different ideas for snacks and I mix that up a bit. But that should get you started. Thank you for watching and goodbye.

If you want a whole pile of snack recipes, then you can read about my Low Fodmap Snacks Cookbook HERE.

Or, if you are not much of a cook, then you can find some delicious low Fodmap snacks HERE.