Description:

Okay, I'm not sure I'd eat...

Time:

5 min (5 min to prepare, 0 min to cook)

Meal type:

Snack

Ingredients:

2 each bananas, peeled
2 tablespoon Peanut Butter (or...
2 tablespoon Jelly (or however...
2 small tortillas

Directions:

On tortilla, spread peanut butter. Spread jelly on top of peanut butter. Roll banana in tortilla starting at one end of the tortilla. Cut in half. Serve.

Description:

Whip up this easy appetizer...

Time:

5 min (5 min to prepare, 0 min to cook)

Meal type:

Snack

Notes:

Nutritional...

Ingredients:

1 can (about 8 ounces)...
1 can (about 8 ounces)...
1 tablespoon dried oregano
2 teaspoon dried crushed chiles
2 tablespoon 1extra-virgin...

Directions:

Preparation:
Carefully pierce each olive several times with the tip of a small knife. Combine the black and green olives with the oregano, chiles, and olive oil, and mix well. Cover and refrigerate for at least two hours for the flavors to blend. Serve chilled. They will keep in the refrigerator for about two weeks.

Description:

Frozen pops don’t have to...

Time:

6 min (3 min to prepare, 3 min to cook)

Meal type:

Snack

Notes:

Freeze 3 hours

Ingredients:

1 can 15 oz can pear...
12 ounces (1-1/2 cups) 2%...
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract...
1 package (3-1/2 oz. box)...

Directions:

Combine all ingredients in a blender and blend on medium-high for 1 minute. Pour into 3 ounce Popsicle® molds or 3 ounce paper cups with Popsicle® sticks inserted. Cover and freeze until solid, at least 3 hours. Freeze for up to 1 week.

Nutritional Information Per Serving: Calories 80; Total fat 1g; Saturated fat 0.5g; Cholesterol 5mg; Sodium 160mg; Total carbohydrate 16g; Fiber 1g; Protein 2g; Vitamin A 2%DV*; Vitamin C 2%DV; Calcium 4%DV; Iron 2%DV

*Daily Val...

Description:

If your idea of nachos is...

Time:

9 min (5 min to prepare, 4 min to cook)

Meal type:

Snack

Notes:

Nutritional...

Ingredients:

5 OZ (about 4 dozen...
1 can (9.75 oz) white...
1 cup drained and...
1 cup drained canned...
3 OZ pepper jack...

Directions:

Arrange chips on a large, microwave-safe platter.

Break the chicken in pieces and scatter over the chips. Scatter the beans over the chicken and the tomatoes over the beans. Top with an even layer of cheese and microwave at full-power until the cheese is melted, about 3 to 4 minutes.

Description:

Forget about preparing...

Time:

10 min (10 min to prepare, 0 min to cook)

Meal type:

Snack

Ingredients:

1 can (16 ounces)...
1 can (8 ounces) sliced...
1 can 8 ounces)...
1 can (8 ounces)...
2 cups fresh...
2 pieces mint (binches),...

Directions:

Thread one of each type of the fruit onto an 8-inch bamboo skewer, or make mini-kebabs by threading 2 or 3 pieces of fruit on sturdy wooden toothpicks. Refrigerate, covered until ready to serve, for up to 4 hours. Serve the fruit kebabs on a platter, lined with mint, and with dips, nuts, and coconut, if desired

*Dips/Garnishes:
1) Make a dipping sauce by whisking 1 cup (8 ounces) strawberry whipped cream cheese with ¼ cup reserved peach or apricot syrup or juice. Refr...

Description:

Spread on crackers or pita...

Time:

10 min (10 min to prepare, 0 min to cook)

Meal type:

Snack

Ingredients:

1 package (3 ounces) cream...
1/2 cup sour cream
1 tablespoon sherry
1 can (5 ounces) chunk...
2 tablespoon water chestnuts,...
2 tablespoon onion, minced
1/2 teaspoon dried dillweed
1/4 cup bacon bits or pieces
3 tablespoon pecans, finely...

Directions:

Beat the cream cheese until light and fluffy. Add the sour cream and sherry; beat until smooth. Stir in the ham, water chestnuts, onion, and dillweed. Cover and refrigerate for at least 1 hour. Stir in the bacon and pecans just before serving. Serve on crackers or with vegetables for dipping.

Description:

For an easy snack, dip it!...

Time:

10 min (5 min to prepare, 5 min to cook)

Meal type:

Snack

Notes:

Nutritional...

Ingredients:

1 can (15 ounces) chili
1/4 cup low-fat cream cheese
1 package (16 ounces)...

Directions:

Optional toppings:
Sharp Cheddar cheese, shredded
Green chili peppers rinsed, seeded and chopped
Black olives
Sour cream
Guacamole

Combine the chili and cream cheese in a microwaveable bowl, cover with a vented lid and cook on high power for 3 minutes. Stir the cheese into the chili until thoroughly blended. Cook for an additional 1 minute, if needed.

Serve with the tortilla chips and if desired, an assortment of your favorite t...

Time:

10 min (10 min to prepare, 0 min to cook)

Meal type:

Snack

Ingredients:

1/2 cup peanut butter
2 tablespoons honey
4 ounces chocolate protein...
3 tablespoons water
1 cup oatmeal
10  chopped almonds

Directions:

Mix ingredients together and shape into a 6 x 4 inch rectangle and cut into 1 1/2 inch-wide bars. Chill in refrigerator for 1 hour or more.

Description:

This one sounded odd to me,...

Time:

15 min (5 min to prepare, 10 min to cook)

Meal type:

Snack

Ethnicity:

American

Ingredients:

1 can mexican spiced...
1 can black beans
1 each Sweet Potato

Directions:

* Top the baked sweet potato with the chile mix,
* then add a dollop of vegan sour cream type topping.

Time:

15 min (10 min to prepare, 5 min to cook)

Meal type:

Snack

Ethnicity:

American

Ingredients:

1 each 1 small bottle...
1 each diet or regular coke
1 each ice

Directions:

* Put some ice in glass.
* Add orange juice, top up with coke and stir.
* Looks like mud, tastes delicious.

Time:

15 min (5 min to prepare, 10 min to cook)

Meal type:

Snack

Ethnicity:

Eastern European

Ingredients:

1 each K potatoes
150 each g green pepers
150 each g onion
1 each rice milk
1 each olive oil
1 each salt

Directions:

*Peel and cut the potatoes and cook them until they´re soft enough.
By the time, fry the peppers and the onion cut in half centimeter squares (aprox).
*When the potatoes are cooked, smash them, mix with the peppers and the onion and pour rice milk just to make a dense mass.
*Pour a tablespoon of oil on a frying pan and when it´s hot put the mass on it and give omelet form to it.
*After a minute or two, turn it with a dish, pour another tablespoon of oil on t...

Time:

15 min (10 min to prepare, 5 min to cook)

Meal type:

Snack

Ethnicity:

American

Ingredients:

1 each Carrots, peeled...
1 each Habanero peppers
1 each Vinegar
1 each White sugar

Directions:

* Put a couple habanero peppers in the bottom of a bowl, jar or other container.
* Fill the container with vinegar, and mix in some sugar.
* Place carrot sticks in container, and let sit for a few days.
* When serving, remove the habanero peppers, so that no fool tries to eat the pepper!

Time:

15 min (5 min to prepare, 10 min to cook)

Meal type:

Snack

Ingredients:

4 each potatoes,...

Directions:

Chop potatoes (leave skin )
Par boil potatoes- just until you can see skin slightly peeling back
Drain
Place on an oven baking tray
Sprinkle with fresh rosemary(and a little salt if desired)
Drizzle oil over
Toss gently to cover potatoes with oil
Bake in a fairly hot oven until crispy

You might like to add whole cloves of garlic.

You also might consider baking whole mushrooms which are particularly delicious.
...

Time:

15 min (10 min to prepare, 5 min to cook)

Meal type:

Snack

Ethnicity:

Eastern European

Ingredients:

1 cup nutritional yeast...
0.5 cup raw almonds --...
0.5 teaspoon salt

Directions:

To blanch almonds, place them in enough water to completely cover.
Bring to a boil and simmer for 1-2 minutes.
Drain and allow to cool, or rinse under cold tap water for rapid cooling.
Pinch skins between thumb and forefinger at the base of each almond.
Skins will slip off readily.

Place all the ingredients in a food processor, and process for several minutes until the almonds are very finely ground.
Store in a tightly sealed container in the ...

Description:

For those of you not...

Time:

15 min (15 min to prepare, 0 min to cook)

Meal type:

Snack

Ingredients:

1 large bunch curly green...
1 cup raw cashews...
2 tablespoons filtered water as...
3 tablespoons freshly squeezed...
1/4 cup nutritional yeast...
1  whole bulb of...
1 teaspoon Celtic sea salt
1 tablespoon agave nectar...
4 teaspoons granulated garlic

Directions:

Rip the kale from off the stalks (discard the stalks), wash and place in a colander to drain. You want a little bit of water left on the kale.

Transfer to a large bowl.

Place all the ingredients except the granulated garlic in a food processor until smooth, thick and creamy. You want something like the consistency of hummus. You might need to add a little bit more water.

Take small handfuls of the cashew cheese and massage into the kale. I use kitc...

Time:

17 min (10 min to prepare, 7 min to cook)

Meal type:

Snack

Ingredients:

1 can refried beans
1 large bag tortilla chips
1 medium onion, chopped
1 cup shredded pepper...
1 small jalepeno, sliced...
1 can chili
1 cup shredded cheddar
1 cup sour cream
1 cup green onion, chopped
1 medium tomato, diced

Directions:

Have all the prepped ingredients easily accessible to assemble nachos.

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

In a small saucepan over low heat, cook refried beans until they are loose enough to spoon onto nachos. On a large ovenproof platter, spread out a layer of tortilla chips and quickly put a teaspoon of hot refried beans on each chip. Working quickly, sprinkle with some onions, jack cheese, and jalapeno slices. Spoon on chili and top that with Cheddar. Repeat t...

Time:

20 min (5 min to prepare, 15 min to cook)

Meal type:

Snack

Ethnicity:

American

Ingredients:

1 each salt & pepper
1 each avocado
1 each plantain

Directions:

* Warm 1-2 cm of your prefered oil (soy bean or olive recomended) in a small pan over medium heat
* Peel & cut plantain into 12-15 round slices.
* Cook slices on both sides until golden brown. Don't overcrowd. In a small pan, 1 plantain cooks in 3 batches.
* Slice avocado in half from top to bottom around the pit. Remove pit. Now, cutting through the meat of the friut only (not the skin), make 7-8 lengthwise slices in each half. Do the same widthwise & you w...

Time:

20 min (5 min to prepare, 15 min to cook)

Meal type:

Snack

Ethnicity:

Eastern European

Ingredients:

1 each 3/4 cup cooked...
1 each 1/4 cup tahini
1 each 1/4 cup finely...
1 each Flour
1 each Oil for cooking

Directions:

* Mash the chick peas, tahini and onion together and form into one inch balls.
* Dredge these in flour and deep fry at 350 degrees.
* They can also be made into patties and sauteed if desired, a patty makes a good pita bread filling.

Time:

20 min (10 min to prepare, 10 min to cook)

Meal type:

Snack

Ingredients:

1 each Fresh tomato
1 each Fresh onion, Salt...

Directions:

Place all ingredients on rice cracker, and you've just made the healthiest snack on the planet.

Time:

20 min (10 min to prepare, 10 min to cook)

Meal type:

Snack

Ingredients:

1 package extra firm tofu
0.25 cup Soy sauce
0.5 cup nutritional yeast
0.125 each to 1/4 cup...

Directions:

Cut tofo into thin strips - 1/8" put soya sauce in a bowl, put the yeast in a bowl,
coat a frying pan with veg. oil, turn on burner to medium heat, dip strips into soy sauce then in the yeast.
Fry in pan (6 at a time) until firm and brown, turn every few minutes.

Time:

20 min (10 min to prepare, 10 min to cook)

Meal type:

Snack

Ingredients:

0.25 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon basil or cilantro
1 tablespoon nutritional yeast...
1 tablespoon soy sauce (or...
1 each lb. tofu,...
0.5 cup onion, chopped
1 tablespoon oil
0.25 teaspoon black pepper

Directions:

Saute onions in the oil until tender, then add the remaining ingredients.

cook until tofu starts to brown or until hot.
serve with toast or other grain.

I add a pinch or two of tumeric for color.
it makes it look a little more like eggs.

Time:

20 min (10 min to prepare, 10 min to cook)

Meal type:

Snack

Ingredients:

1 each Bowl Rice...
1 tsp of oil, Freshly...

Directions:

Just mix everything and we have a gorgeous evening time snack

Time:

20 min (15 min to prepare, 5 min to cook)

Meal type:

Snack

Ingredients:

5 cup cooked mashed...
1 cup whole wheat flour
0.5 teaspoon pepper
1 tablespoon granulated garlic
2 teaspoon oregano
1 teaspoon basil
1 each finely chopped...
1 each finely chopped...
0.25 cup Soy sauce

Directions:

Mix all ingredients well.
Mixture should be stiff and make firm balls, which you make into burgers.
Fry on a griddle or skillet.
Freeze leftovers and microwave for 60 second when ready to use.

I add 1 cup TVP (texturized vegetable protein) for texture, and especially if the pepper and onion contribute too much moisture.
If you have "Kitchen Bouquet" add 1 Tablespoon for flavor and color.

Time:

20 min (10 min to prepare, 10 min to cook)

Meal type:

Snack

Ethnicity:

American

Ingredients:

0.5 teaspoons cinnamon -- divided
3 cups rice
0.5 quarts hot, not boiling,...
0.5 cup sugar
2 cups rice milk

Directions:

In large bowl, pour hot water over rice and 2 teaspoon cinnamon.
Soak 24 hours, covered.

Drain liquid from rice, reserving liquid.
In food processor or blender, process rice in two batches with bout 1 cup of soaking liquid per batch until nearly smooth.
Return rice to remaining soaking liquid.
Strain mixture through several layers of cheesecloth or coffee filters.
(This could take as long as an hour.)

Add sugar, rice milk and re...

Time:

20 min (10 min to prepare, 10 min to cook)

Meal type:

Snack

Ethnicity:

American

Ingredients:

1 each garlic (fresh or...

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Slice bagels with a food slicer 1/8 - 1/4 inch thick
(if you work in a restaraunt, or have friends who do, it's really GREAT to have them slice a bagful for you.)

Stack the slices and cut into quarters.
Place in a single layer on baking sheets.
Rub with cut garlic or lightly sprinkle with garlic powder or other seasonings.
(Paprika adds mainly color, very subtle flavor.)

Place in oven an...