My NUT doesn't want me snacking on nuts or cheese and beef jerkey is expensive. Anyone have snack ideas that won't kill my sodium for the day?

Hummus with baby carrots for dipping is a favorite of mine. I also snack on Atkins bars (cookies and cream, and mudslide give me a great low-carb, high-protein chocolate fix), or Quest bars (another low-carb, high-protein bar). Half of one of those tides me over, and helps ensure I get enough protein very day.

Oh...and dry roasted soy nuts are another good option. Crunchy, and lower in fat than peanuts.

I'm surprised your NUT doesn't want you to eat cheese. My favorite snack is light string cheese - its lowfat and carries a punch in the protein department. Seems like each NUT is different as is each Surgeon.

I like the soy nuts but my NUT does not want me eating any kind of nuts - yet. I go to the doctor's office tomorrow and hopefully Both Doctor & NUT will be on the same page about eating nuts. I miss planter's (cashews & almonds).

The soy nuts have 14g of Protein in a 14 cup - that terrific.

wish i could help, low fat string cheese and celery with a little bit of peanut butter are my favorites, that and i made a trail mix to keep in my car incase i am ever without food, and that has peanuts, almonds and cheerios (not honey nut) premeasured with calories wrote on the bag.

Golden roasted chick peas. Yum.

Biltong.

pumpkin and sunflower seeds.

Miso Soup.

Soy latte.

Small tin of tuna.

I also have cheese, nuts and nut butters. What is your NUTs reason for not having these?

The fat content. I had a band and never worried about my fat intake for the day. Now all of a sudden since I got revised to the sleeve I have to track my fat (wasn't losing any weight at all the first couple months after revision surgery). Basically, when my NUT looked at my food log from my fitness pal she noted that I was having peanut butter or cheese every day and called them basically solidified fat and said I needed to drop them. I LOVE cheese and nuts so I still have htem in moderation (like a slice of cheese in my wraps for lunch) but miss just snacking on them. Then I stopped losing again and discovered that my sodium was over 3000mg a day with the food I was making to bring to work so now I have to watch that too. My snack options have just dwindled to where I have NO CLUE what to eat. No matter what my surgeon/NUT say I can't eat just 3 meals with no snacks, I get hungry.

She wanted me to stop relying on bars as well, though I love the adkins advantage ones. Is there a recipe for the roasted chickpeas? That sounds yummy.

Try Laughing Cow cheese wedges. Low calorie and low fat and gives a satisfaction to that cheese need without the fat or calories. I am struggling with the sodium also. My nut suggeted going to the deli and buying low sodium deli meat. It is way low in calories (about 50 for 6 thin slices) and it satisfies protein and low cal options.

The fat content. I had a band and never worried about my fat intake for the day. Now all of a sudden since I got revised to the sleeve I have to track my fat (wasn't losing any weight at all the first couple months after revision surgery). Basically' date=' when my NUT looked at my food log from my fitness pal she noted that I was having Peanut Butter or cheese every day and called them basically solidified fat and said I needed to drop them. I LOVE cheese and nuts so I still have htem in moderation (like a slice of cheese in my wraps for lunch) but miss just snacking on them. Then I stopped losing again and discovered that my sodium was over 3000mg a day with the food I was making to bring to work so now I have to watch that too. My snack options have just dwindled to where I have NO CLUE what to eat. No matter what my surgeon/NUT say I can't eat just 3 meals with no Snacks, I get hungry.[/quote']

Your NUT sounds out of touch. The monounsaturated fatty acids in nuts are incredibly good for us in small doses. They are liver cleansing and actually contribute to burning stored fat. My weight loss stalls when I remove these fats (nuts, seeds, avocado, olives and olive oils, oily fish). The cheese I get, it is solid fat. Tasty solid saturated fat. Tasty saturated fat, but fat none the less. I eat in small doses, low fat and enhance flavour with Parmesan.

My NUT doesn't want me snacking on nuts or cheese and beef jerkey is expensive. Anyone have snack ideas that won't kill my sodium for the day?

Those are main parts of my daily intake. I would never get half of my Protein in without those things listed