Slimming snack recipes?

Question

I am having a get together with my female friends and want to make some little snacks to go with our wine that are not stodgy and fattening. The other people usually put out a large plate of cheeses and biscuits when they have it but it does nothing for the figure. Any ideas please, something you can eat with your fingers. Thanks

I was thinking of some more interesting recipes as I dont want to just have crackers and raw veggies

Answer 1

Use low-fat or fat-free cheeses with salt-free wheat crackers. Also, add grapes and nuts to your plate, so you do not get full on the cheese, plus they go superbly with wine.

Answer 2

Cheese and biscuits are OK if you use half fat cheese and instead of cream cracker type of biscuits use oat cakes. Nairn oatcakes from Tesco's are the best as they are large packets for less than a pound. Their half fat mature cheese is also very good although at first taste the texture is a little different.
Also you can use the same biscuits with cottage cheese on top. To help it along put a small peace of dried apricot or prune on the top.
The oat biscuits are less fattening than all of the others and are also filling so you should not eat as many.
Hope these suggestions are to your liking.
The alcohol in the wine is also very very fattening so limit yourself to 2 only of 175ml glasses.
Some believe that dry white wine is not fattening, it is due to the alcohol.

Answer 3

When I was doing Weight Watchers, I used to make a dip with a tin of salmon and some Quark (its a creamy cheese thing sold in the cheeses section of most supermarkets). You mix the 2 together (Drain fish first) and then add some pepper and lemon juice to taste. Everyone loved it.
Serve with various vegetable crudities - raw cauliflower, red pepper strips, mange tout, celery etc.

Also instead of crisps for dips, take some large pitta breads, cut into slices and bake in the oven for 5-10 mins until hard, these go nicely with dips.

You can do desert dip with fruit, yogurt etc, or if you want to be a bit naughty some melted chocolate (e.g. dip strawberries and wait for choc to go hard) works with white and ordinary choc.

Enjoy your evening!

Answer 4

Choose your biscuits carefully, plain biscuits are good with wine just check the calories. You need something from the bread line to stabilise (settle) the stomach.

Answer 5

Celery stuffed with tofu cream cheese and topped with maple candied pecans.Plain walnuts work well too. Stuffed mushroom caps with a lemon,bread crumb/herb mixture.Sliced apples that can be dipped in a carmel sauce or low fat, creamy, fruit flavored yogurt.

Answer 6

Lean ham is only about 2% fat, and less than 100 calories per 100g, so maybe some of that on low-fat crispbreads would be nice.

Answer 7

Hummus

Answer 8

Pizza

Answer 9

Sandwiches with lots of cabbage in low fat margirine and cooked eggs white with low salt and pepper

Answer 10

Raw peas, fruit, pretzel sticks (thin), semi-sweet chocolate chunks and small green Peppers.