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It’s undeniable that employees who work in their office room tend to spend more time at the front office desk and monitor of computer. Even they can take long hours on their office chair in order to finish their project or task on time. Therefore, there are a lot of employees who put snacks or food on their desk for just snacking or replenish their lost energy or in order to save more money by bringing snacks from home.
But be careful, wrong choice of snacks can lead the climb-down of your productivity or can disturb your diet program (result obesity problem). Therefore, it is much more recommended to choose and bring healthy snacks to work. -- Read also top nutritious foods!
The following are 4 smart ideas about healthy snacks that you can choose and bring to work without needing to sacrifice your health.
Vegetables and Hummus
Looking for delicious snack but also can promote good health for your body? Vegetables and hummus are some of the best choices. All you need is a cup of chopped vegetables (such as celery, broccoli, tomatoes or carrots) and some hummus. You can also use beans & a little lemon juice for hummus, and choose olive oil if you need to use oil.
Oatmeal
Oatmeal is more popular for breakfast, but it also can be used for one of the best alternative choices for healthy snacks on your office desk. Oatmeal is a high fiber food so thus will be helpful to make you feel full for longer periods.
Choosing oatmeal for one of your healthy snacks also will be useful to lower the risk of heart disease because it can reduce bad cholesterol. Oatmeal is also a high minerals and vitamins food. In order to eliminate the bland taste of oatmeal, you can add raisin or honey.
Dried fruit
There are many choices for healthy snacks of dried fruits, such as prunes, date, raisins, or almonds! But make sure you avoid overeating, because nuts also have a high amount of calories. Dried fruit snacks are also welcome for the health of your heart. Furthermore, this is also welcome option for a high resource of more essential nutrients, energy, and iron to keep well the performance of metabolism of your body.
If you don’t like a dried fruit snack, you can try with your favorite fruit! You can choose banana, apple, red wine, or oranges! As well we know, most of fruits have 80% of water that will be helpful to keep you body far away from dehydration. And we all agree that fruits are relatively safer to be consumed every day or even in large quantities, because fruits have useful antioxidants for our body and free of bad cholesterol.
Healthy cracker (granola bars)
Granola bars are usually made from a combination of wheat, honey and nuts. Therefore, this snack is low sugar, high in fiber and valuable protein that will be so useful enough to keep fit your body throughout the day.
