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5 Healthy Summer Snacks You Can Make In Less Than 15 Minutes

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5 Healthy Summer Snacks You Can Make In Less Than 15 Minutes
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Unless you're vacationing in Aruba this summer, chances are you plan on spending your vacation lying in bed and watching Netflix until your eyes glaze over, and then sleeping. Silly things like "food" and "basic human needs" aren't really going to be priorities. However, no matter how good those Cheetos look like right now, after a couple of bags, your body's going to be dying for some form of nutrients.

If you lack the motivation to be a functional human being who can stay out of bed for longer than twenty minutes, but you also want to be alive and not starving, check out these five "healthy" snacks that take less than fifteen minutes to make!

1. Avocado toast, but the good kind

Avocado toast has been painted as the sustenance of white hipsters and vegans who wear dreads and support PETA, but with enough love and seasoning, this infamously bland brunch option will be delicious.

Roughly chop half of an avocado and half of a bell pepper into slices or cubes and place them in a bowl. Squeeze a lemon over the bowl to taste. Add salt and pepper, as well as other seasonings (such as paprika) to taste as well. Lightly toast your bread. Place your avocado-pepper mixture on top of your toast.

2. Smoothie bags

Cut up a whole bunch of bananas and strawberries (estimate half a banana per bag) and gather other smoothie-able fruits you like, such as blueberries, raspberries or mango. Place these in separate Ziploc bags, and freeze. The next time you feel like getting a smoothie, you can just throw one of these bags into your blender, add almond milk and any fresh ingredients, let the fruit thaw for ten minutes and then simply blend.

Something fun to do is to make your bags based on the smoothie color. For example, a yellow bag would include frozen mango, frozen banana and turmeric powder to taste. A purple bag would include frozen blueberries, frozen blackberries and fresh basil leaves.

An easy way to make these smoothies even healthier is to add fresh avocado and leafy greens. These are essentially tasteless, but will add a lot more nutrients.

3. Honey-glazed fropsicles

Storebought sugary popsicles or homemade popsicles made with sugary juice are pretty unhealthy, but in summer, popsicles aren't a want, they're a need. So, slice any fruit you want (although watermelon and mango would be best), and put them on wooden skewer sticks in the freezer for ten minutes. Lightly glaze with honey, and return them into the freezer for another five.

4. Faux PBJ's

Spread one slice of bread with peanut butter. Top with banana slices, peanuts and drizzled honey. Spread the other slice of bread with a thin layer of honey. Top with strawberry slices, brown sugar and cinnamon.

Personally, I prefer this as an open sandwich, so one can add more fruit to it. If the bread with the "jelly" (strawberries) is too sweet, skip the honey drizzled on the top or the brown sugar.

5. Pudding-cup pies

(This is only vegan if you make the pudding yourself beforehand with almond milk - soy milk won't set. Otherwise, the pudding cups you buy at the grocery store will do). Crush a Graham cracker into the bottom of a small bowl. If you like more crust, crush two. Mash one or two banana slices into the crushed crackers, mix until relatively uniform, and flatten to the bottom of the bowl. Add the pudding. Over the pudding, add strawberry and banana slices. Let this set in the fridge for a minute, and eat.


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