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    Nearly-Too-Good-to-Be-True 100-Calorie Snacks

    By | Shine Food – Fri, Apr 2, 2010 8:23 PM EDT

    Craving a midday snack but not the extra calories? Opt for one of these satisfying 100-calorie snacks and you'll be thrilled with your decision.

    Sweet Treats

    • 1 Whole Foods Market Two-Bite Brownie
    • 1 Healthy Choice Mocha Fudge Swirl Bar
    • 1 pouch Keebler Sandies Right Bites Shortbread Cookies
    • 1/2 cup Sharon's Lemon Sorbet with 1/4 cup blueberries
    • 1 Skinny Cow Fat Free Fudge Bar
    • 1 Nestlé Butterfinger Stixx
    • 12 chocolate or vanilla Miss Meringue Minis
    • 5 Nabisco Nilla Wafers
    • 3 Country Choice Certified Organic Ginger Snaps
    • 1 Deep Chocolate Vitamuffin Vitatop
    • 1 Blue Bunny FrozFruit Chunky Mango Cream Bar
    • 1 pouch O'Coco's Organic Chocolate Crisps

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    Fruits & Veggies

    • 2 cups raspberries
    • 1 cup mango chunks
    • 28 grapes
    • 1 cup blueberries
    • 1/2 medium cantaloupe
    • 15 strawberries dipped in 1/4 cup Cool Whip Lite
    • 1/2 small apple with 2 teaspoons peanut butter
    • 45 steamed edamame (green soybeans)
    • 2 tablespoons each of mashed avocado and chopped tomatoes stuffed in 1/2 mini pita
    • 1/2 red bell pepper dipped in 3 tablespoons hummus
    • Salad with 3 cups lettuce, 2 scallions, and 1 small tangerine drizzled with 2 tablespoons Newman's Own Low Fat Sesame Ginger Dressing

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    Dairy Delights

    • 1 Kraft Polly-O Superlong Twist-Ums string cheese stick
    • 1/2 cup low-fat cottage cheese with 5 strawberries
    • 1 Laughing Cow Light Creamy Garlic & Herb cheese wedge and 3 Triscuits
    • 1 Yoplait Light Smoothie
    • 6 ounces fat-free plain yogurt topped with 1/3 cup raspberries

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    Savory Bites

    • 20 roasted peanuts
    • 60 Pepperidge Farm Baby Goldfish Crackers
    • 1 Jolly Time Healthy Pop 100 Calorie Mini Bag popcorn
    • 12 Back to Nature Sesame Ginger Rice Thins
    • 40 Rold Gold Classic Style Pretzel Sticks
    • 12 Quaker Quakes Cheddar Cheese Rice Snacks
    • 20 Glenny's Low Fat Soy Crisps
    • 10 Guiltless Gourmet Baked Yellow Corn Chips with 1/4 cup salsa

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    Hearty Helpings

    • Campbell's Soup at Hand Blended Vegetable Medley
    • 1 Nature Valley Crunchy Granola Bar
    • 1 hard-boiled egg with 1 slice Melba toast
    • 4 slices Sara Lee Honey Ham with 2 teaspoons honey mustard, rolled in lettuce leaf
    • 1 slice Pepperidge Farm Raisin Cinnamon Swirl Bread with 1 tsp. light butter
    • 1/2 mini bagel with 1 ounce smoked salmon
    • 1 Nutri-Grain Low Fat Whole Wheat Waffle with 1 tbsp. Smucker's Squeeze
    What do you munch to satisfy cravings or mid-afternoon hunger pangs?

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