Instead of chips and Co. in front of the TV vegetables and fruits as an evening snack

Stay away from chips and co .: vegetables and fruits as snacks in the evening
For many people, small snacks are part of a cozy TV evening or a social round with friends. Strong sugar and fatty snacks are particularly popular here. But there are also healthier alternatives. These should ideally be prepared before the arrival of the acquaintances or the beginning of the film.

If you can not stop snacking
If you started snacking in the evening in front of the TV, it will be extremely difficult to stop. The cravings for sweets or hearty things seems hardly to satisfy. A method that is recommended by experts to stop the cravings for chips and Co., is to take only small portions on the sofa, otherwise the so-called "potato chips effect" (if you eat a handful, you eat the whole pack) threatens. Or one can directly prevent and prepare healthier alternatives, as Silke Schwartau, food expert at the consumer center Hamburg, recommends in a message from the news agency dpa.

If you like to have snacks on the TV evening, you should make better use of fruits and vegetables. These are healthier than traditional snacks such as chips and Co. (Image: Matthias Stolt / fotolia.com)

Healthy within reach
If, for example, you have an appetite for hearty things like chips, gherkins or gherkins can be an alternative. Vegetable pieces such as pepper pieces, carrot sticks or cocktail tomatoes are also available here. For those who prefer to snoop, they may choose cottage cheese with berries, fruit salad with quark, or a fruit smoothie. It is very important that the healthy is within reach and that the procurement of chocolate, chips and Co. would be costly.

Make small snacks yourself
These snacks often contain a mix of sugar, fat, and white flour and lots of calories - but they're no longer full. Quite the contrary: "If there are flavor enhancers or flavorings on the list of ingredients, these ingredients can also lead to overeating," explains Schwartau in the agency message. "Because they develop an intense taste on the tongue, and if this flies again, the body desperately wants more of it." Snacks, which usually do without additives such as flavor enhancers, are vegetable chips. These are regarded as a fiber-rich alternative to potato chips and can be easily produced by yourself. (Ad)