Best Snacks — 100 Calories or Less

By Delia A. Hammock, M.S., R.D., Good Housekeeping Research Institute
On a diet but don't want to deprive yourself of a treat here and there? Try these tasty nibbles — all 100 calories or less.

Sweet Treats
* 1 Whole Foods Market Two-Bite Brownie
* 1 Healthy Choice Mocha Fudge Swirl Bar
* 1 pouch Keebler Sandies Right Bites Shortbread Cookies
* 1/2 cup Sharon's Lemon Sorbet with 1/4 cup blueberries
* 1 Skinny Cow Fat Free Fudge Bar
* 1 Nestlé Butterfinger Stixx
* 12 chocolate or vanilla Miss Meringue Minis
* 5 Nabisco Nilla Wafers
* 3 Country Choice Certified Organic Ginger Snaps
* 1 Deep Chocolate Vitamuffin Vitatop
* 1 Blue Bunny FrozFruit Chunky Mango Cream Bar
* 1 pouch O'coco's Organic Chocolate Chrisps

Fruits & Veggies
* 2 cups raspberries
* 1 cup mango chunks
* 28 grapes
* 1 cup blueberries
* 1/2 medium cantaloupe
* 15 strawberries dipped in 1/4 cup Cool Whip Lite
* 1/2 small apple with 2 teaspoons peanut butter
* 45 steamed edamame (green soybeans)
* 2 tablespoons each of mashed avocado and chopped tomatoes stuffed in 1/2 mini pita
* 1/2 red bell pepper dipped in 3 tablespoons hummus
* Salad with 3 cups lettuce 2 scallions and 1 small tangerine drizzled with 2 tablespoons Newman's Own Low Fat Sesame Ginger Dressing

Dairy Delights
* 1 Kraft Polly-O Superlong Twist-Ums string cheese stick
* 1/2 cup low-fat cottage cheese with 5 strawberries
* 1 Laughing Cow Light Creamy Garlic & Herb cheese wedge and 3 Triscuits
* 1 Yoplait Light Smoothie
* 6 ounces fat-free plain yogurt topped with 1/3 cup raspberries

Savory Bites
* 20 roasted peanuts
* 60 Pepperidge Farm Baby Goldfish Crackers
* 1 Jolly Time Healthy Pop 100 Calorie Mini Bag popcorn
* 12 Back to Nature Sesame Ginger Rice Thins
* 40 Rold Gold Classic Style Pretzel Sticks
* 12 Quaker Quakes Cheddar Cheese Rice Snacks
* 20 Glenny's Low Fat Soy Crisps
* 10 Guiltless Gourmet Baked Yellow Corn Chips with 1/4 cup salsa

Hearty Helpings
* Campbell's Soup at Hand Blended Vegetable Medley
* 1 Nature Valley Crunchy Granola Bar
* 1 hard-boiled egg with 1 slice Melba toast
* 4 slices Sara Lee Honey Ham with 2 teaspoons honey mustard, rolled in lettuce leaf
* 1 slice Pepperidge Farm Raisin Cinnamon Swirl Bread with 1 tsp. light butter
* 1/2 mini bagel with 1 ounce smoked salmon
* 1 Nutri-Grain Low Fat Whole Wheat Waffle with 1 tbsp. Smucker's Squeeze