Guilt-Free Snacks for Your Desk
Even if you make an effort to eat a healthy breakfast and lunch, the daytime snacking you do at your desk can sabotage your effort to stay healthy. If you’re strapped for time, you may instinctively go for something quick like the vending machine or leftover stale donuts.
When I taught, I made an effort to keep healthy snacks in my desk and always pack my lunch. On days that I was short on time or low on groceries, I found myself wandering the halls on break sniffing out the nearest junkie treat. Our wonderful cafeteria manager who took great care of the staff would always make coffee and cookies after lunch. They lured me in if I didn’t have something healthy close by.
It’s so much easier to say no thanks to sugary treats or office takeout runs if you have the right tools at your side. I put together this list of my favorite snacks to keep at my desk to help push me through the afternoon on busy days.
Edamame
Popcorn with almonds
Fruit and cheese
Non-fat Greek yogurt with chia seeds and berries
Celery with almond butter
Bell peppers and hummus
Cottage cheese and melon
Sliced turkey and crackers
Bananas with peanut butter
String cheese with apples
Apples with PB dip
Tuna with sliced tomato and cucumber
Grape tomatoes with tzatziki dip
Fruit salad with apples, oranges, grapes, and sunflower seeds
Beef jerky
Unsweetened apple sauce
Rice cakes with cashew butter and jam
Oatmeal with walnuts
Guacamole and homemade veggie chips
Next time you head to the store, add some of these high energy, low calorie snack ideas to your list. At the beginning of your workweek, bring enough for each day so that you avoid getting through your afternoon slump but heading for those sugary, high calorie snacks found around the office.
What do you keep at your desk to give you a boost of energy midday? Share below!
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A graduate from Florida Gulf Coast University, I melded my love of writing with a passion for fitness and health to create Mother Fitness. This site is filled with candor and insight as I trek through the fields of exercise, nutrition, and parenting-- trying to make sense of it all and make it all work together.
This is my snack list – I also make applesauce and stew the apples with dates – it’s delicious.
I’m usualy in my car or in my office and that’s both big temptation areas – just pull into xyz and grab a snack – or graze in the kitchen – I pack a bag of food every day, it looks like I’m running away from home – but it has helped me so much.
Hot tea helps too, there are times when I’m not really hungry hungry just peckish, those are my hot tea times.
Yes, great ideas! Hot tea is another great go-to snack. Sometimes I will put unsweetened cocoa powder in my coffee, too. It’s strangely satisfying.
Oh, and homemade applesauce is the best! I haven’t tried it with dates. Must do!
Thanks for this list, Kellie! Would you mind updating the link to the PB Dip? It’s currently linked to the no-mayo deviled eggs (which also sound delicious).
Ha! That’s funny. Will do. I must have mixed the links up. Thanks for the note.
I have some guilt-free snacks in my office drawer, nuts and almonds are my favorite snack buddies
Thanks for the lists! Can’t wait to try that one! Sounds healthy and delicious!
Great list! I also like graham crackers with just a little bit of peanut butter to keep me going. I will have to try out some of these though!
This is a great snack list for people who live busy lives. The snacks that I would like to add to my desk would include the celery with almond butter, popcorn with almonds, sliced turkey and crackers. Instead of reaching for the unhealthy kind, we should be consuming snacks that are good for us.
This will sound really boring but I’m fairly much addicted to roasted pumpkin seeds. They are so much like nuts – but apparently better for you and they taste delicious. But thanks for the list – I’m going to use it.