Snacking after hours is often a habit that leads to overdoing the daily calories, even when trying to eat less at the table. And they are problematic above all because without realizing it, we often end up eating too many of them. Let’s think of the classic biscuits, where one leads to another. To the chips.

At the same time, stress, boredom and frustration or even the need to make sacrifices at lunch and dinner to waste time create the perfect ground for opening the refrigerator one too many times, with the result that our efforts to lose weight vanish in the face of peckishness that manifests itself in the middle of the morning, in the afternoon or worse before going to bed.
How to defend yourself?

Unfortunately, resisting can be a double-edged sword: excessive food control paradoxically leads to giving in more easily, often ending up eating three times more than our intentions. The consequence is that we feel guilty and think we are unable to keep ourselves at the table.

In this article, we see 13 light snacks that have only 30 calories per serving . We can do one or two a day without compromising the line. Obviously, fruits and vegetables are excluded from the list. It is perfectly useless to tell you that you can eat a cucumber or a stick of celery or a wedge of apple: these are things you already know.
And I’d like to give you some alternatives that you may not have thought of. Click on the links to see the products.

13 light snacks that have only 30 calories.

Let’s start with 6 light salty snacks

They can be a small aperitif or make up for our craving for breadsticks and chips.

1. Pickled cucumbers. Cucumbers with vinegar do not exceed 20-25 calories per 100 grams, they are crunchy and this makes them ideal for counteracting nervous hunger before lunch and dinner.
   You can get to eat nearly half a jar, which typically has 200 or 300 grams. You can find them in the supermarket.
2. Hosts clippings : yes, exactly. Maybe you don’t know that there are wafer cuttings on the market, which being very light in weight, you can eat in doses of 8-10 grams. The hosts contain only flour and water and often the large or round formats are used as a base for biscuits in pastry. These  wafers cutouts for example are toasted and therefore crunchy and will make you want to get rid of chips.
3. Dried vegetable snacks : on the market there are bags of crunchy vegetables as they are dried. It is rich in mineral salts and each packet does not exceed 30 calories if you choose these from Vivoo. Vivoo Pura Verdura – Crunchy Zucchini Chips, Pack of 6 x 8 g
4. Caper flowers .
   In Sicilian they are called “cucunci” and represent the flowers of the caper, which resemble large capers and are often in packages in vinegar. Calories are around 25 per 100 grams. Sicilia Bedda – Cucunci Sicilian Caper Flower in Brine – ITALIAN product.
5. Marinated Garlic.
   Often the marinated garlic is preserved in oil, and used as an aperitif. The sweet and sour preservation mitigates the flavor of garlic, making it very tasty, also because it is often deprived of the more aromatic and strong internal part. However, it is difficult to find it without oil, but there is an exception. If you don’t find it in stores, marinated garlic can be found here . It has many properties and you can eat up to 4-5 cloves.
6. Protein cakes: these are also found in supermarkets and motorway restaurants and are produced by Nattura. Each mini biscuit has 6 calories, so we can eat 5 without feeling guilty.

Let’s now see 2 snacks that aren’t too sweet

1. Carob: Carobs are typical of the South and are collected only in certain periods of the year. They are rich in nutritional properties, promote intestinal regularity and being leathery and woody, they satiate for a long time. They are not too sweet. Each carob weighs about 30 grams, so half carob has 30 calories and will keep our teeth engaged for 5 minutes.
   You can find them here. NATURE OF THE EAST – ITALIAN dried carobs
2. Licorice sprigs: Not to be confused with sticks or wheels, which are processed products, licorice sprigs or sticks do not exceed 20 calories. They should be chewed and kept in the mouth to suck out the flavor. For those suffering from low blood pressure they are perfect, to be avoided in case of high blood pressure and in those who take anticoagulants.
   FRISAFRAN – BIO Licorice sticks – 100Gr.

And finally 5 sweet light snacks that do not exceed 30 calories

1. 1. Light fruit mousse : light fruit mousses are small Bavarians that are obtained by mixing the powder mixture with water and then whipping everything with a whisk. Then keep them in the fridge. Easy to prepare, sweetened with sweeteners, they have no more than 30 calories per serving. Here: Royal, Jelly Mousse, Strawberry Flavor, 30 kcal per Serving.
   2. Light jellies: we are talking about spoon jelly, which in the light version is produced by many brands, including Jelloo and Royal here: Jello-O Gelatina .
      There are many different flavors, the less caloric ones are fruit and have 10 calories per serving.
      Then there are the pistachio ones, for a real spoon dessert of only 30 calories per serving, here .
      And those ready to eat, from Hartley’s with fruit, with only 10 calories, just like the preparations. Here.
   3. Sugar-free lollipops . The lollipops also exist in the sugar-free version, and were the protagonists of the ” Lollipop diet “, the diet with sugar-free lollipops snacks to stave off the desire for sweet. Find them here. 3 x Free From Fellows Sugar Free Lollipops Sweets 60g
   4. Trays of light jam : each mini-portion of light jam provides about 2o calories. They are found here and in some supermarkets. Hero Light Strawberry Jam, Light Jam, Without Preservatives and Dyes, Pack of 4 x25 g, 100 g.
   5. Glucomannan pancakes.
      Clean Foods produces them. You need to mix the preparation with water and cook the pancakes, which each provide only 21 calories. Here.