Are peanuts considered healthy?

Sometimes for a late night snack I’ll do a tube of silken tofu with soy sauce and chili oil. Very few calories, a few grams of protein, and it feels kind of nice and refreshing out of the fridge. Basically works with any seasoning too

Just handy slices of raw vegetables like carrots tomatoes or pepper with a bit of spice.

some type of bean salad with a bunch of veggies, tomatoes and a vinegar dressing, maybe some cheese? make a giant bowl that lasts a week and gets better each day. just leave it in the fridge and grab a small bowl as a snack when you’re hungry. also works great as a quick meal/side

A Fuji or honey crisp apple. Juicy, sweet, tasty, filling, a bit messy. The perfect snack.

A can of tuna mixed with sweet relish, mayo, salt, pepper, and a few minimally salted crackers.

Red seedless grapes.

Imitation crab meat with cocktail sauce on the side. Maybe cheddar slices or olives on the side.

I consider these healthyish at the moment.

Peanuts are apparently healthy, just not the salt that comes with them. I also really like peanut butter.

I used to straight up eat flaxseed with a spoon, and I felt better, until it made me sick.

Popcorn, minimally salted

Bananas.

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I like popcorn. I can make a bunch with like 2 tbsp of oil and 1 tsp of finely ground salt. Look up “popcorn” by Bryan David Gilbert. I don’t usually use the lao gan ma, but it’s nice if you want to. Also I prefer a flat-bottom pot to the wok.

Fizzy water. When you feel like a snack, drink some carbonated water. I found a lot of time I wanted water and flavor more than the food.

And high fiber/bran stuff fills you up. Get stuff made of whole grains like popcorn, whole wheat (or real corn) tortillas, fruits with peels on, and the like.

Blueberries freeze really well, spread em on a baking sheet so they stay separate before you bag them. Muffins are pretty easy to bake at home and with a little practice you can make a whole wheat muffin with sunflower seeds fucking tasty.

The pain in the ass is that healthy ingredients go bad much faster. Whole wheat flour goes stale in a hurry compared to AP flour.

One thing that worked for me was fasting. It is far easier for me to skip a meal than to eat in moderation. I figure I want to eat a 2000 calorie meal every time i sit down, maybe that’s a sign I should only do it once a day, very much ymmv on that one, but I lost 50# in a year just … eating until I was full, but only once a day.

As a nice side bonus, your bathroom schedule also becomes very predictable, which is handy for scheduling,

This is probably my #1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crispbread Either plain or with low calorie butter

Good suggestions for snacks but I think a lot of people missed the “when I want to shove something in my face as a force of habit.” You really want to get the lowest calorie thing possible, ideal would be lettuce and celery since those are basically nothing but still give you something to eat. Next would probably be apple slices, berries have surprisingly low sugar, egg white is basically pure protein but a full egg is fine too. Sprouts can be good if you grow them right. I sometimes just slowly eat a spoonful of peanut butter over like an hour but…

I would also recommend having random drinks you can go between, like tea soymilk coffee, even diet soda. Just avoid anything with sugar or fat. Things like nuts are healthy but not a great constant snack food because they do have a lot of fat, so that should be an intentional thing rather than something to reach for.

Nuts, fruit, steamed veggies (with or without seasoning), popcorn, GOOD beef jerky, yogurt.
Highly recommend you read Ultra-Processed People. I found that learning about what’s in the normal unhealthy snacks sort of makes you not want to eat them at all, which will make eating healthy snacks so much easier. Just my experience though.

Yoghurt (plain is ideal but I like a little bit of vanilla), nuts, rice cakes, homemade dried fruit oat bars, apples, and homemade protein bars.