Crackers, Crisps, Chips, and Pretzels

Written By Madison Whiteneck

If you need to satisfy your salty/crispy craving, here are a few ideas. I would highly recommend pairing this with either a dip, meat, or cheese to increase your satiety.

 

  • Carr’s table water crackers, 4 crackers.  60 calories, 10 gm net carb

  • Triscuit original, 5 crackers.   100 calories, 14 gm net carb

  • Townhouse crackers, 8 crackers.   150 calories, 15 gm net carb

  • Trader Joe’s Corn, Pea, Bean & Quinoa Crisps, 24 chips. 120 calories, 15 gm net carb

  • Trader Joe’s crispy crunchy okra, ½ bag. 110 calories, 4 gm net carb

  • Trader Joe’s salted peanut butter-filled pretzels, 11 pieces. 150 calories, 12 gm net carb

  • Snyder’s Sourdough Nibblers (pretzels), 16 each. 120 calories, 25gm net carb. Pretzels are a fairly healthy snack, but are tough to integrate into a low carb diet.

  • Santitas white corn tortilla chips, 1 oz (9 chips). 140 calories, 17gm carb. Avoid chips as much as possible. They are high in carbohydrate, have little nutritional value, are very easy to overeat, and are not terribly filling for the calories.

Dips

Crispbread with ricotta, honey, and apples

Sweet snacks and desserts

I strongly recommend you pay close attention to carbohydrates. Ignore the phrase “sugar free” (which is a meaningless and often purposefully misleading statement)– READ THE LABEL to see how many grams of carbohydrate it has. 

limit sweet snacks to 15gm carbohydrate portions

limit desserts to 30gm carbohydrate portions. 

Madison Whiteneck
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