Together with desserts, snacks are some of the toughest foods to replace when we decide to make the move to real foods. It’s not that real foods snacks are difficult to make, but that our conception of “snacks” is often wrapped up in “junk food.” So here’s a selection of real foods snacks you can make — or buy.

Real Food Snacks to Make

• Smokehouse Popcorn (my recipe) & roundup of additional popcorn recipes
• Easy Lemon Yogurt
• Sausage-Cheese Balls (These also make a great make-ahead breakfast, or finger food for a buffet.)
• Smoothie Popsicles
• Roundup of Gluten-Free “SuperBowl Snacks” 
• Healthy Snacks to Go ebook by Katie Kimball (See my review here.)

Real Food Snacks to Buy

Sometimes you don’t have the time to make your own snacks — or you need something with better “keeping power” than homemade. In that case, you might try some of these healthier-than-usual storebought options.

• Crunchy Snacks Roundup – Read my review of four different brands of healthy crackers, pretzels, etc. (Most of these are also gluten-free.)
• Freeze-Dried Fruit
• jerky or meat sticks (I like Snack Mates from The New Primal.) 
• Kate’s Real Food bars
• KIND bars
• nuts or trail mix
• Trail Truffles