Best Light Snack Recipes

Best Snack Recipes
Easy Date Cocoa Energy Bars

Easy Date Cocoa Energy Bars

Make your own Energy Bars naturally sweetened by dates and loaded with almonds for extended energy. This snack is sure to satisfy when hunger strikes.
Pho Chicken Lettuce Wraps

Pho Chicken Lettuce Wraps

Pho Chicken Lettuce Wraps are is sure to be a fun and festive dish for the whole family to enjoy, or, use small leaves and make appetizer wraps for your spa party.
Pritikin Low Calorie Baked Crab Cakes Recipe

Pritikin Low Calorie Baked Crab Cakes Recipe

Baked Crab Cakes a la Pritikin are a delectable combination of crab, veggies, garlic, egg whites, and salt-free Old Bay Seasoning — and only 50 calories for the appetizer sized cakes. Delicious and healthy!
Stuffed Skinny Potato Skins

Stuffed Skinny Potato Skins

The potato side dish you’ve been waiting for! This updated version of an old time favorite is just as good but is much lower in carbohydrates . Serve as a meal with a side salad or make as an appetizer.
Pritikin Crispy Potato Skins

Pritikin Crispy Potato Skins

One crispy (or rather, greasy) potato skin at a restaurant is often 400 calories and more (and who stops at just one?) These yummy Pritikin Crispy Potato Skins are only about 120 calories – for 4 skins!
Spa Party Cucumber Sandwiches

Spa Party Cucumber Sandwiches

This bread-free take on the traditional cucumber sandwich, so popular at a tea party service, is a perfect warm weather appetizer.
Smoked Seafood Spring Rolls

Smoked Seafood Spring Rolls

These delicious spring rolls contain omega-3 essential fatty acids, are a pleasure to eat and simple to make. Perfect for lunch or spa party appetizers.
Pritikin Tropical Salsa

Pritikin Tropical Salsa

This Tropical Salsa recipe has Spice, Sweet and Heat but nothing bad for you – no salt, no added sugar, no waist-expanding oil or other fats.
Golden Door Spa Guacamole

Golden Door Spa Guacamole

This usually high fat appetizer reduces calories by using only a few avocados, but adding the characteristic bright green color with the addition of fresh peas. No flavor is sacrificed, but a few calories are!
Spa Party Mini Asparagus Frittatas

Spa Party Mini Asparagus Frittatas

Invite this easy-to-make egg dish to your next spa party, reception, brunch or potluck.  These Mini Asparagus Frittatas can be made in advance and frozen or refrigerated until you’re ready to serve them, and at less than 100 calories each, they both taste good and feel good.
Canyon Ranch Pumpkin Crunch

Canyon Ranch Pumpkin Crunch

From Canyon Ranch Health Spa comes this very fast Pumpkin Crunch recipe. Use it as a breakfast cereal, or eat out of hand or top your yogurt with it. We like to keep a baggie in the car on long road trips — it’s an excellent trail mix.
Cinnamon Banana Chips

Cinnamon Banana Chips

Steer clear of purchased banana chips which are usually coated in sugar (for a fruit already sweet on its own!) and preservatives. Instead, try this simple recipe for Cinnamon Banana Chips. They are great way to satisfy sweet and crunchy cravings at the same time.
Peanut Butter Ricotta Spread

Peanut Butter Ricotta Spread

Peanuts and Peanut Butter are strongly flavored foods so a little goes a long way in flavoring this spread, which makes use of low fat or fat free ricotta cheese as another protein source. Together, they make a fluffy peanut spread which is terrific on rice cakes or used as a dip for celery sticks and apple slices — and it’s popular with children and teens.
Healthy Chef Skinny Dips

Healthy Chef Skinny Dips

The Healthy Chef, Teresa Cutter, one of Australia’s leading authorities on healthy cooking, has some great Skinny Dips for spa parties and holiday meals.
Grilled Portobello Mushroom Sliders

Grilled Portobello Mushroom Sliders

For those of you looking for a veggie burger in place of traditional beef sliders, try this Grilled Portobello Mushroom Sliders recipe courtesy of PureRejuv Wellness Center, a health retreat in the Poconos.
Pritikin Seafood Ceviche

Pritikin Seafood Ceviche

 This is a perfect Cinco de Mayo recipe — when it’s customary to serve your favorite Latin American dishes.
Turkey Meatballs Al Forno

Turkey Meatballs Al Forno

This recipe for Turkey Meatballs Al Forno is a perfect cold weather comfort food dish. Courtesy of California Health & Longevity Institute® near Los Angeles, the Institute offers a holistic approach to healthy living that unites renowned experts in the fields of Medicine, Nutrition, Fitness, Life Balance and Spa.
Ananda Spa Seeded Granola Bars

Ananda Spa Seeded Granola Bars

These guest favorite Granola Bars are courtesy of Ananda Spa in the Himalayas. The executive Chef, Narenda Sharma, carefully creates recipes for guests which feature wholesome ingredients, like oats, coconut flour and seeds.
Stuffed Mushrooms with Feta Cheese

Stuffed Mushrooms with Feta Cheese

These popular Stuffed Mushrooms are intended as a single-serving treat, but if you increase the ingredients, they can be perfect for your holiday table.
Pritikin Roasted Pumpkin Wedges

Pritikin Roasted Pumpkin Wedges

This healthy recipe for Pritikin Pumpkin Wedges is vegetable-rich, only takes 3 ingredients, and can be a tasty vegetable and dessert, all in one. Plus, pumpkins are a bonafide super-food, so it’s a triple duty recipe — easy, delicious and nutritious.
Asparagus Ricotta Bruschetta

Asparagus Ricotta Bruschetta

This colorful Asparagus Ricotta Bruschetta appetizer is full of color and has a flavor terrific for brunch, spa party, or light lunch. It can made with soft ricotta cheese, or consider a fat-free herby substitute, like Laughing Cow or Boursin.
No Mayo Deviled Eggs

No Mayo Deviled Eggs

This is a simple Mayonnaise Free Deviled Egg recipe from The UltraMetabolism Cookbook 200 Delicious Recipes That Will Turn on Your Fat-Burning DNA. Dr. Mark Hyman, The UltraWellness Center.   A perfect little treat, good protein, good fat, and very satisfying.
Miraval Caprese Flatbread

Miraval Caprese Flatbread

You can streamline this recipe by skipping the fresh dough and instead splitting open pita bread rounds at the seam, separating each into an entire round of 1 layer. These bake up very crisp. We’ve also used 1 sheet of lavash, which also gets very crisp.
Pritikin Lighter Hummus Dip Recipe

Pritikin Lighter Hummus Dip Recipe

This lighter but full-flavored version of hummus, a traditional Mediterranean dip, is a great source of of heart healthy mono-unsaturated fat and lean protein.
Low Fat Low Carb Zucchini Fries

Low Fat Low Carb Zucchini Fries

Serve this delicious, low-carb and low-fat version of “Fried Zucchini” with your favorite burger or sandwich. Here, it is served with lite Sour Cream. This will surely become a family favorite in your home just as it is in ours.
Biggest Loser Southwest Chicken Pile Ups

Biggest Loser Southwest Chicken Pile Ups

This is a fun lunch or entree for one. A toasted whole wheat pita takes the place of a flour tortilla, and it is topped with spicy hummus, shredded chicken, chopped veggies and dab of guacamole or fat free sour cream.
Crostini with Lima Bean and Pecorino Puree

Crostini with Lima Bean and Pecorino Puree

This recipe for Crostini with Lima Bean and Pecorino Puree is courtesy of Cowgirl Chef Paula Disbrowe. We love the green vibrant color, crunchy toast, and find it a nice change from pesto.
Red Mountain Spa Chicken Hummus

Red Mountain Spa Chicken Hummus

Red Mountain Spa serves this Chicken Hummus as a starter with fresh vegetables for dipping. We enjoyed it stuffed into a tomato half and a bell pepper half, as a “take away salad.”
Avocado Aioli

Avocado Aioli

This creamy, garlicky Avocado Aioli is a topping for a delicious Grilled Prawn Salad, but is a wonderful dip for appetizers, salad dressing, or, as a topping for some of our light taco recipes, and even as a spread on sandwiches. Try it on a BLAT!
Roasted Garbanzo Beans

Roasted Garbanzo Beans

Roasted Garbanzo Beans are easy to make and really tasty. This version is from Canyon Ranch Spa and is a popular substitute for high-fat nuts at parties and a nutritious solution for both brown bag lunches and after-school snack

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