Healthy Snacks for Pregnancy Nutrition
What are some good, healthy snacks I can munch on while pregnant?
Eating small, healthy snacks throughout the day is a great way to minimize morning sickness and heartburn, manage your weight gain, and ensure that you get all of the vitamins and minerals that you need for optimum pregnancy nutrition. That said, it's a great idea to have a go-to list of snacks that are healthy, nutritious, and available.
Here are a few ideas:
Here are a few ideas:
- Fruit: You can either snack on whole fruits like apples and oranges, or store cut fruit like grapes, pears, bananas, melon and berries in your fridge to grab and go.
- Crackers and cheese or peanut butter
- Pears with cheese slices
- Apples with peanut butter
- Half a sandwich
- Milk and graham crackers
- Pudding (especially made with milk, for extra calcium)
- A handful of nuts
- Dry cereal (like Cheerios or Rice Chex)
- Yogurt
- Cottage cheese with chopped fruit or vegetables
- Breakfast bars (those with more fiber and less added sugar)
- Hummus and pita bread, or pita chips
Answered by
Monica Meadows, Ph.D., R.D., L.D.
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