Where can I find healthy snacks?

You want to live healthier and give your body good nutrients to fly through your day energetically and briskly, but you’re not quite sure where to look? Finding healthy snacks is not as difficult as you might think; it just requires some alertness and common sense.

In your own kitchen

The simplest and most obvious place to find healthy snacks is in your own kitchen. You can easily choose a yogurt with chia seeds or a piece of fruit. If you have more time, you can start making your own healthy, pure snacks. Thanks to countless recipe ideas from, for example, Sandra Bekkari, Pascale Naessens, Claudia Van Avermaet, Madam Bakster, …!

And you can easily find the ingredients for these in your usual supermarket.

But let’s be honest, you don’t always have the time (or the desire) to get started yourself. Sometimes you’re on the go but still want to take a healthy break and avoid junk food. Time to go on a search!

Supermarkets

In supermarkets, you can find more and more healthy options, and we can only applaud that. Think, for example, of Bear fruit rolls that you can easily get everywhere.

There is still some work to be done because you can’t yet find healthy snacks at the checkout where supermarkets want to tempt you into impulse buys.

Also, in the cookie or candy aisle, you can feel overwhelmed by the large (often still unhealthy) selection at eye and grab level. Sometimes it’s hard to see the healthy forest for the trees. But health is becoming an increasingly important criterion for supermarkets, so things are definitely moving in the right direction.

Also, some of the ‘healthy’ bars you find in the healthy section are not always as healthy as they seem. Always check the ingredient list for hidden additives and added sugars. You can use official labels like ‘no added sugar’, ‘no palm oil’, ‘high in fibre’, ‘high in protein’ as extra guidance in your search for a healthy snack, but don’t follow them blindly either.

Health food stores

The time when you could only find healthy options in health food stores is fortunately behind us. But the selection in health food stores remains large, of course. So definitely take a curious look in your local health food store and enjoy the wide range.

Specialized websites

Of course, there are also online solutions to find healthy snacks. These websites do the thinking and selecting for you, so you can enjoy your healthy break worry-free. For example, JustBite delivers healthy boxes full of tasty and balanced snacks at the office, for a delicious healthy break!

On the go

You might not immediately associate a gas station with healthy snacks, but if you can pass the impulse buy section, you can increasingly find healthy options on the go. Go for a piece of fruit, unprocessed nuts, a rice cake, ...

Conclusion

The range of healthy food and snacks is becoming more and more mainstream and that’s good news! You can find a nice selection of healthy options in your usual supermarket.

It remains important to critically look at the ingredient list even for options that seem healthy at first glance. Is it a long list with many incomprehensible names? Is sugar (in its various forms) listed first? Then it’s better to choose another option, no matter what the claims on the packaging or in the store want you to believe.

We have already done the work for you and applied our strict selection process to the snacks we offer in our snack boxes.