These 10 Healthy Make-Ahead Snacks are going to be game-changers in your kitchen! Prep your fridge with these easy snack ideas with fruits and vegetables. 

 

Having healthy, simple, easy-to-grab snacks on hand in your fridge is a lifesaver when it comes to healthy eating, feeding a family, and getting some more whole foods into your diet. Make 10 or 1 or 1 of 10. No matter which you choose you’ll have a fridge full of healthy snacks all week long!

While you’re in prep mode, make a few Salad in a Jar recipes and a Veggie Box to make lunch a bit easier all week long. It’s also a good idea to have some Frozen Smoothie Bags in your freezer, too. 

Why You’ll Love These Recipes

• These make-ahead snacks are simple and easy. 
• You likely have most of the ingredients on-hand. 
• All the snacks are naturally gluten-free. 
• Many of the snacks are dairy-free or vegan. 

Recipe Ingredients

• Vegetables: Such as cauliflower, broccoli, celery, bell peppers, cucumbers, and carrots. 
• Fruit: Apples, mangos, pomegranate seeds, grapes, mandarin oranges.
• Peanut butter: Or your preferred nut butter.
• Date Balls or Oatmeal Energy Bites
• Cottage cheese
• Hummus
• Cheese: A block of cheese (such as cheddar or mozzarella) is best so you can cut it into cubes. 
• Nuts and seeds
• Granola
• Dark chocolate

See the recipe card below for full information on ingredients and quantities.

How to Make 10 Healthy Make-Ahead Snacks

1. Cauliflower and Broccoli + Greek Yogurt Ranch Dip

• Wash and cut up your cauliflower and broccoli into small florets.
• Fill the Mason jar about 2/3 of the way full with your vegetables.
• Add some Greek yogurt ranch dip to the fruit cup (great time to measure and use portion control if you are prepping for weight loss), add the ranch dip in a cup to the Mason jar, screw on a lid.
• Place in the fridge for up to 5 days.

2. Cottage Cheese + Fruit

• Measure out a serving of cottage cheese and add it to the Mason jar.
• Fill the divider cup with the fruit of your choice (mango, pineapple, mandarin oranges, berries, and even cherry tomatoes are all good).
• Add the fruit in a cup to the Mason jar, screw on a lid, and place in the fridge for up to 3 days.
• When you are ready to eat, add the fruit to the cottage cheese and enjoy.

3. Greek Yogurt and Berries/Pomegranate + Granola

• Place a serving of Greek yogurt in the Mason jar and top with your choices of berries (fresh or frozen) and/or pomegranate seeds (arils).
• Add some granola to the divider cup (this is my favorite healthy homemade granola recipe).
• Place the granola-filled cup in the Mason jar, screw on a lid, and place in the fridge for up to 3 days.
• When you are ready to eat, add the granola to the yogurt and enjoy.

4. Apple Slices + Cheese Cubes

• Prep the apples by slicing/coring them and dipping them in a little bit of lemon juice, orange juice, or Fruit Fresh (it’s ascorbic acid) to prevent them from turning brown.
• Place apples in the bottom of the Mason jar.
• Fill a divider cup with a serving of cheese cubes.
• Place the cheese cube filled cup in the Mason jar, screw on the lid, and place in the fridge for up to 5 days.

5. Cucumber + Date Balls or Oatmeal Energy Bites

• Prep your cucumber by washing it and slicing it into rounds or spears.
• Place the cucumber in the bottom of the Mason jar and fill the divider cup with one or two date balls or oatmeal energy bites.
• Place the “bite”-filled cup in the Mason jar, screw on the lid, and place in the fridge for up to 3 days.
• Cucumbers, especially cut ones, don’t last as long as other more firm vegetables. Plan to eat these first.

6. Celery + Peanut Butter

• Prep your celery by washing, trimming, and cutting it into sticks. Cut the sticks short (about 2.5 inches long) so that they fit in the Mason jar and you still have room to add your divider cup of peanut butter.
• Place the celery in the bottom of the Mason jar and fill a fruit cup with a serving of peanut butter.
• Place the peanut butter filled cup in the Mason jar, screw on the lid, and place in the fridge for up to a week. Celery lasts a really long time like this!

7. Grapes + Roasted Chickpeas

• Prep the grapes by washing them and taking the grapes off of the stem.
• Fill a Mason jar 2/3 of the way full with grapes.
• Fill a divider cup with roasted chickpeas.
• Place the roasted chickpea filled cup in the Mason jar and screw on a lid.
• Store in the fridge for up to 5 days.

8. Mandarin Orange + Pistachios

• Peel and segment a mandarin orange (or other small citrus fruit) and put the pieces in the Mason jar. If it is small enough, pop the whole fruit into the bottom of the jar.
• Fill a fruit cup with a serving of pistachios.
• Place the pistachio-filled cup in the Mason jar and screw on a lid.
• Store in the fridge for up to 5 days.

9. Apple Slices + Dark Chocolate and Nuts

• Prep the apples by slicing/coring them and dipping them in a little bit of lemon juice, orange juice, or Fruit Fresh (it’s ascorbic acid) to prevent them from turning brown.
• Place apples in the bottom of the Mason jar.
• Fill a divider cup with a serving of nuts and dark chocolate.
• Place the nut and chocolate filled cup in the Mason jar and screw on the lid.
• Store in the fridge for up to 5 days.

10. Bell Peppers and Carrots + Hummus

• Prep bell peppers and carrots by washing and slicing.
• Fill the Mason jar 2/3 of the way full.
• Place a serving of hummus in the divider cup (you can use homemade hummus is or store-bought).
• Put the hummus-filled cup in the Mason jar and screw on a lid.
• Store in the fridge for up to 5 days. If you do only carrots and not bell peppers, you can keep it in the fridge for a week.
• Carrots that you peel and cut on your own last much longer than “baby carrots,” just FYI. I’m not sure what they do to baby carrots, but they seem to get slimy or soft much faster than a big carrot you prep yourself. If you are using baby carrots I’d eat within 3 days.

Recipe FAQs

Expert Tips

• Be sure to use wide mouth pint-size Mason jars because the little divider cups won’t fit in a regular mouth jar. 
• You can use these Mason jar divider cups or reuse the little cup from single-servings of applesauce – both will fit in Mason jars with wide mouths. 
• Plastic screw-on lids for your Mason jars are a total bonus and I highly recommend them. They are also freezer safe. 

More Healthy Snack Recipes to Consider

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Protein Shakes

Snacks

Breakfast Bars

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Chia Seed Pudding 

From Scratch Recipes

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