Healthy Eating

Snacking

Eating small meals and snacks regularly throughout the day helps maintain steady blood glucose levels, which can help sustain energy levels, prevent fatigue and improve concentration. Snacking between meals can also help manage your hunger and prevent over-eating at your main meals of the day, which can help you maintain a healthy weight - as long as you know which snacks to choose!

The best snack foods are ones that help you meet your daily nutritional needs, providing carbohydrate for energy, protein for growth and important healthy fats, vitamins, minerals and fibre.

Here are a few suggestions for healthy daily snacking options:

• Wholegrain bread and crackers
• fresh fruit
• fruit scones or fruit loaf
• low fat milk drinks, smoothies, yoghurt or custard
• chopped vegetable sticks and healthy dips
• vegetable soups
• toasted Turkish bread
• nuts and dried fruit

Variety is the key when it comes to healthy snacking, so the occasional indulgence as part of a healthy balanced eating plan is fine as well. But remember that because snacks can make up a significant part of your daily food intake, you should aim for healthy snacks most of the time!

Muffin Break has your snacking options covered whatever your mood, with a variety of light and indulgent muffins, scones, nutritious fruit loaves and breads, sweets, savouries, sandwiches, wraps, soups and drinks to choose from.