New Age Snack Guide
free letter bc everyone needs a little snack
We’re going to get right to the point here. No long intro needed on this subject. Snacks are snacks, and I don’t need to tell you why you should care. I cover packaged snacks and cobbled-together-from-anything-in-the-fridge snacks (“real food”). This second category includes anything delicious and easy that is smaller than a meal. Of course this area is vast, but I’ll try to cover the classics.
This guide does not cover treats. Treats need their own post. You understand.
What is “new age”? Apparently, I have no idea. I took (take) it to mean modern, current, healthier than Hot Cheetos? My Google search provided:
This guide isn’t interested in spirituality, mysticism, or holism. It isn’t NOT interested in environmentalism, but that clearly isn’t the focus. I just think “new age” sounds fun, and also healthier in a chic, sophisticated way. I hope nobody is confused! I was comforted by a second search:
Thx, let’s get into it.
KEY:
snacks I can’t live without = ⭐️
no seed oils = 🫒
low carb = 🥩
sugar-free = 🎀
If you follow an anti-inflammatory diet, it’s best to avoid highly processed seed oils and instead opt for snacks with beef tallow or olive, coconut, or avocado oil. Of course, the healthiest snacks are ones not found in a package at all. Single ingredient foods (apple, cheese, nuts, etc.). The less ingredients the better.
Most of these reccs plus more can also be found in my Amazon collections: Snacks, Clean Treats, Protein, Sugar Detox, Core Grocery List, and Pantry Essentials. Find my whole storefront here.
PACKAGED SNACKS
CHIPS:
Potato Chips:
Jackson’s Honest Sweet Potato Chips with coconut oil or Avocado Oil 🫒⭐️🎀
Tortilla Chips:
MASA Corn Tortilla Chips 🫒🎀 (Original, Lime and Cobanero) — made with the healthiest oil on the market, beef tallow, and less greasy than avocado oil
Mi Nina “Pico de Gallo” Tortilla Chips - healthier doritos
Food Should Taste Good Sweet Potato Tortilla Chips ⭐️ - so. good. no dip needed
Siete Maiz Totopos Corn Tortilla Chips 🫒🎀 - better than their grain-free, a bit breakable
Chips Made From Other Stuff:
Barnana Plantain Chips, Himalayan Salt 🫒⭐️🎀 - the best of the best
Wilde Protein Chips, Himalayan Salt ⭐️🎀🥩 - delightfully salty low-carb chips made from chicken (?!) that were shockingly a crowd-pleaser at a recent cocktail party. haven’t tried other flavors yet
Siete Grain-Free Tortilla Chips 🫒🎀 - these are clean but don’t quite level up to tortilla chip status; prefer plantain chips
CRACKERS:
Classics:
Real Phat Foods Almond Flour Crackers, and Cheddar 🫒⭐️🎀🥩 - keto and actually amazing, + like cheezits
Simple Mills Almond Flour Crackers, Sea Salt ⭐️🎀 - all-around workhouse
Simple Mills Almond Flour Crackers, Cheddar ⭐️🎀 - cheezits
Edward & Sons Brown Rice Snaps, Tamari Sesame or Unsalted 🫒🎀
Seedy:
Top Seedz 6-Seed Crackers 🫒⭐️🎀🥩 — the best & nut-free
Ella’s Flats, Sesame or Everything 🫒🎀🥩
Flackers, Cinnamon & Current 🫒🎀🥩 - very good, a little sweet. akin to raincoat crisps
OTHER SALTY SNACKS:
Quinn Peanut Butter-Filled Pretzel Nuggets, or Almond Butter ⭐️ - pretty annoyed that this brand added cane sugar to all their products but these are crack
Lesser Evil Himalayan Salt Popcorn with Coconut Oil 🫒🎀
BIENA Chickpea Snacks, Himalayan Salt 🎀 - also awesome as croutons or in trail mix. not seed oil-free
NUTS:
This is only really sort of “packaged”, but it belongs here because specific brands reign king.
Karma Nuts Lime Twist Cashews 🫒⭐️🎀🥩 — insane
Wonderful Pistachios, Salt & Vinegar 🎀🥩 - usually an airport delicacy
Santa Barbara Pistachios, Garlic Onion & Chile Lemon 🫒🎀🥩 - sold at WF in California
Fiery Mango Trail Mix 🫒🎀 - the iconic Mango Goji Fire was discontinued and this is another version
SAVORY:
Paleo, low-carb, clean breads: Base Culture, AWG Bakery and Plantiful Kitchen ⭐️🫒🎀🥩 - AWG and Plantiful are top tier, and Base Culture absolutely does the trick when the craving hits for something with bread
Birch Benders Paleo Toaster Waffles 🎀 - good with nut butter, banana slices, flaky salt, sprinkle of hemp/flax/sesame seeds
+ PROTEIN:
Jerky or Meat Snacks 🫒🎀🥩 — EPIC Sriracha Chicken (bites, bars), Wagyu Beef Bar + Venison, CHOMPS sticks, The New Primal sticks (beef + turkey), Paleovalley sticks, AYOBA Biltong, and Kalahari Biltong (original, garlic).
Applegate Chicken and Apple Breakfast Sausages ⭐️🫒🥩 — can cook from frozen at any time
Applegate Organic Turkey Slices 🫒🎀🥩 — combos below, deli meat must be organic
BTR Nation Superfood Protein Bars 🫒🎀🥩 — best cleanest bar
Bulletproof Protein Bars (Lemon Cookie, Vanilla Shortbread) 🎀🥩
Cup of bone broth (Bonafide or Kettle & Fire) heated on the stove. Sometimes I add chopped garlic, ginger, or a little Yellowbird Date Sriracha hot sauce. 🫒🎀🥩
Perfect Bar (love Peanut Butter) 🫒 - watch for carbs/sugar/calories. these are meal replacement or dessert, unless you have the snack/kids size.
SWEET-ISH:
Organic Unsweetened Dried Mango 🎀
Nature’s Path Grain-Free Maple Almond Granola 🫒⭐️🥩 - appreciate that it’s 1/2 cup serving instead of 1/4 cup
Purely Elizabeth Ancient Grain Original Granola, and Grain-Free: Vanilla Almond Butter, Coconut Cashew, and Cinnamon Peanut Butter (variety pack) 🫒🥩
Magic Spoon Cereals (Cinnamon Bun, Peanut Butter) 🎀🥩 - quite processed but very good on occasion when the nostalgic craving hits but you want to avoid the carbs
Catalina Crunch Cinnamon Toast Keto Cereal 🎀🥩 - same as above
Lara Bar, any flavor 🫒🎀
Simple Mills Sweet Thins, Honey Cinnamon and Mint Chocolate 🫒
Real Phat Foods Sweet Cinnamon Crunch Crackers - paleo/keto 🫒⭐️
Lily’s Dark Chocolate Covered Almonds ⭐️🎀🥩
recommended pairing in a bowl with Lesser Evil Himalayan Salt Popcorn
🎀 other low or no-sugar sweets/chocolate → Lily’s (Dark Chocolate Caramels and Candies, and Milk Chocolate Caramels, Peanuts and Almonds) GoodSAM (Peanut Butter Cups and Dark Chocolate Almonds), and Hu Kitchen (Chocolate-Covered Cashew Hunks)
For ALL my favorites organized in one place, see my Amazon collections: Snacks, Protein, and Clean Treats.
REAL FOOD SNACKS:
Individual foods that are perfect on their own, plus some VERY key combos or additions.
Any fruit:
alone or with a sprinkle of pink salt, a bit of yogurt, chopped nuts
faves—apples, pears, clementines/sumos, berries, stone fruit, pineapple, pomegranate seeds, kiwi, mango
Apples (Fuji or Honeycrisp):
sliced with Drunken Goat cheese, or extremely sharp cheddar ⭐️
as a replacement for crackers with any cheese
with nut butter + flaky salt
Bananas:
dusted with pink salt
drizzled with Seed + Mill tahini, or other unsweetened nut butter, and pink salt ⭐️
sprinkled with hemp/sesame/pumpkin seeds, and/or chopped Wonderful lightly salted pistachios, and pink salt ⭐️
with a dollop of yogurt (Siggi’s nonfat plain greek, dairy-free Cocojune Original or Vanilla/Strawberry Unsweetened OR Culina plain)
all the above
Berries:
deconstructed smoothie bowl—frozen organic wild blueberries + unsweetened nut milk (tache pistachio in unsweetened original/vanilla, MALK, or califia almond), a pinch pink salt, + optional add-ins: other fresh fruit, unsweetened shredded coconut, chopped almonds, yogurt (see above), goji berries, couple drops organic liquid stevia ⭐️
heavy metal detox smoothie, option to add my favorite collagen
frozen (organic strawberries), blended with nut milk (see above, & not too much), pinch pink salt, couple drops stevia, optional: frozen mango or banana instead of stevia to up the sweetness. good healthy dessert too ⭐️
Avocado:
halved, crosshatched, and sprinkled with pink salt + pepper for easy spoon-scooping
add Yellowbird Date Sriracha, or hot sauce of choice
add everything bagel or za’atar seasoning
add to a bowl, lightly mash, season and scoop up with seedy crackers or carrot halves, or spread on turkey slices ⭐️
cube and add to a bowl with sauteed Applegate Chicken Breakfast Sausages (or dinner) + hot sauce
Homemade Guacamole (Avocados, Cilantro, Lime, Red Onion, Salt, Pepper) ⭐️
with baby carrots, halved lengthwise
with seedy crackers (Top SEEDZ 6 Seed or Ella’s Flats Sesame)
with Barnana Plantain Chips (my fave), or any of the packaged chips
Hard-boiled or Jammy Eggs
sprinkled with pink salt and pepper
dotted with Yellowbird Date Sriracha hot sauce and/or chili flakes
dusted with chopped herbs like dill, chives, cilantro, italian parsley, scallions, etc.
made into egg salad (no icks plz)
Majestic Sprouted Hummus (Original or Cilantro Jalapeno): ⭐️
with baby carrots, sliced lengthwise
on Applegate Organic Turkey Slices
with seedy crackers
Applegate Organic Turkey Slices - regular deli meat has bad shit in it + is heavily processed ⭐️
as a taco for half an avocado, cubed
with organic slices of cheese
dipped in Majestic Hummus
wrapped up into romaine leaf, for sandwich-esque experience
dipped/dotted with Yellowbird Date Sriracha, Maille dijon mustard, or both
any/all of the above
Mango Salsa—store bought (or homemade)
from the premade section, not jarred
with seedy crackers, or any above chips
Simple Mills Sea Salt Crackers
with the best cheese I’ve ever had, “il Nocciolo” from Caseificio dell’Alta Langa, + fresh honeycomb ⭐️
with Vermont Creamery Honey Chevre, or any goat loggg
with nut butter
with literally anything, and the below:
Homemade Chicken Salad (Reg or Curry), or Egg/Tuna/Salmon Salad, + Crackers ⭐️
must use avocado oil mayo, such as Chosen Foods or Primal Kitchen
I like my chicken salad with lemon, dijon, lots of herbs, chopped celery, red onion, lots of salt and pepper
if doing curry, go big with the curry powder, and sometimes I add a dab of honey or maple syrup
the fish should be wild-caught + salmon sockeye
crackers I like are seedy, or simple mills, but any will work even sturdy chips
Medjool Dates — btw, juiciest if purchased whole and pitted yourself
sprinkled with pink salt
filled with nut butter or Seed + Mill Tahini + pink salt ⭐️
Make-Your-Own Trail Mix
Nuts — 365 Organic Dry Roasted Salted Almonds, 365 Organic Dry Roasted Salted Cashews, Wonderful Lightly Salted Pistachios, Dry Roasted Salted Macadamias
Dried Fruit — apple-sweetened Patience Fruit & Co Dried Wild Blueberries and Cranberries, or 100% UNSWEETENED Cranberries, Cherries, Turkish Apricots, Goji Berries, Golden Berries, Mulberries, Unsweetened Dried Mango, Raisins
Low/No-Sugar Chocolate 🎀 — GoodSAM Chocolate Chips or chocolate almonds, Lily’s Dark Chocolate Chips (+ other chocolates including chocolate almonds), Hu Kitchen Date-Sweetened Chocolate Chips, Dark Chocolate-Covered Sour Goldenberries, or Cashew Chocolate Hunks
…and of course all my favorite snackable recipes!
Perfect Guacamole ⭐️🎀🥩
Jammy Eggs 🎀🥩
Halloumi ⭐️🎀🥩
anything can be a snack if you try hard enough
