Early Evening Snacks?

My diet tends to fall apart around 6 or so every day. It is just about impossible for me to have dinner ready around then since I have to wash, change, feed, and get DS ready for bed. Plus, DH doesn't get home until around 8 most days, and I like to eat with him.

So I wind up eating too much for my snack at 6, because I am usually starving following my noonish lunch.

Does anyone else run into this issue? What do you eat to tide yourself over, any suggestions?

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here's some snacks I eat:

handful of almonds and half a banana

choc rice cake w/ natural peanut butter on it

baby carrots w/ hummus

handful of grapes and one string cheese

toasted chick peas w/ some salt and pepper

fruit - plums, apples, etc.

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If I eat at 12ish, I have to eat something at 4 or I'll get dizzy. I am transitioning to a Vegetarian diet, so lately I have been eating these and I LOVE them!! Sooooo good for you - you can just pop in the microwave. If I eat them for dinner I have 2, but for a snack just one:

Morningstar Farms® Ginger & Teriyaki Veggie Cakes - only 110 calories



Ingredients:
COOKED STICKY RICE (RICE, WATER), CARROTS, EDAMAME (SOYBEANS), WATER, WATER CHESTNUTS (WATER CHESTNUTS, WATER, CITRIC ACID), SWEET RED PEPPERS, BOK CHOY, SOY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, WHEAT PROTEIN, CONTAINS TWO PERCENT OR LESS OF CORN OIL, FRUCTOSE, GARLIC, SALT, YEAST EXTRACT, SOY SAUCE (SOYBEANS, WHEAT, SALT), MALTODEXTRIN, BROWN SUGAR, L-LYSINE MONOHYDROCHLORIDE, METHYLCELLULOSE, ONION, MOLASSES, SUGAR, SPICES, DISODIUM INOSINATE, DISODIUM GUANYLATE, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, NATURAL FLAVOR FROM NON-MEAT SOURCES, NIACINAMIDE, LACTIC ACID, CITRIC ACID, XANTHAN GUM, CARRAGEENAN, IRON (FERROUS SULFATE), NONFAT DRY MILK, EGG WHITES, THIAMIN MONONITRATE (VITAMIN B1), PYRIDOXINE HYDROCHLORIDE (VITAMIN B6), RIBOFLAVIN (VITAMIN B2), TURMERIC FOR COLOR, VITAMIN B12

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Those veggie cakes look yummmmmmm

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Those look amazing!

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Thanks! I'll have to look for these. Quick and easy is important, and it's why I go off course at this time of day. Chips are quick and easy too.

I always forget about certain things too--like string cheese. And peanut butter.

Thanks for the ideas!

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Hummus
veggies
nuts
laughing cow cheese
yogurt
soup

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I can totally identify. I'm starving at that time too. I eat:

94% fat free popcorn
I Love toasted chick peas with seasoned salt or garlic salt
Apple with cinnamon and splenda (microwave it for a like 15-30 seconds)
or Apple with peanut butter.
or String cheese

Message edited 8/21/2008 2:33:44 PM.

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I love hummus to snack on (with celery, pita, carrots, pretzels)

if I'm looking for something sweet I love sugar free ice pops and fudgcicles.

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I think it would help for you to have a snack between your noon lunch and your 6pm snack. That way you aren't craving so bad by the time 6pm rolls around and you can get by with a lighter snack. I'd have something light at 3pm, like a piece of fruit, veggies with hummus, yogurt, cheese with crackers, etc, and then something similar at 6pm.

If I'm craving at 6pm I try to get something with fiber that will fill me up - an apple, fiber crackers with laughing cow cheese, etc.

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I'm a big fan of TJ's light string cheese! I also pick on almonds (unsalted) or even have an apple. You can always have sugar free/fat free jello or pudding, or a sugar free frozen fruit pop.