The reason your snacks are unsatisfying is that you need both carb and protein.
Carb starts your engine, protein keeps it going.
No carb, engine don’t start. No protein, engine dies out fast.
Easy carb add on:
Cookie
Fruit (canned or fresh)
Chips
Piece of bread
Popcorn
Crackers
Easy protein add on:
Nuts
Spoonful of nut butter
Cheese
Roasted chickpea snacks
Glass of milk (dairy or non dairy)
Small canned sausages or similar
Sugar in there.
I am pleased by people messaging me telling me that after adding a carb or protein to their snacks or meals they feel more satisfied all day. Yes, my plan is working. People are getting through their days with less hangry.
Fats are the big trigger of satiety! The human body really does need fat. I know that we have been sold "low fat" and "low carb" all the things, but we do need fats. Protein keeps you running, fat tells you, "Oh, I'm all full up, thank you!"
IMO, squeezy peanut butter tube is the magical substance rescue food if you are not allergic to nuts!
I am an insulin-dependent diabetic & I legit keep a squeezy tube of peanut butter on my nightstand and in my backpack (inside a reusable silicone bag so there's no chance it will explode all over the inside of my backpack). You can just open the tube and squeeze peanut butter directly into your mouth if you need to in an emergency, no need for utensils, etc. If my low-sugar alarm goes off in the middle of the night, I put a piece of candy in my mouth (or use my sugar-up-my-nose rescue thing if it's an Urgent Low Sugar alarm) and then I put peanut butter in my mouth. The candy will start to bring my blood sugar up FAST and the peanut butter will make sure that I don't just go into the stratosphere and crash back down again.
To give credit where it's due, I learned this trick from Leah Orleans/Stahr Power of Tiny Girl Big Show. She travels a lot, and squeezy peanut butter tubes can go in her carry-on through TSA.
You can get fancypants peanut butter if you want to, but a lot of the "made for travel, tiny portable things!" are like, $2+ an ounce, but the Jif Multipacks of the 13 oz tubes are like $.25 an ounce, and bc peanut butter doesn't go bad very quickly, you can buy that and shove it into a cupboard and just go through it over time.
When I say that this shit genuinely changed my life in terms of managing sugar crashes away from home, as a celiac diabetic, I am not one tiny bit joking.
Okay, end soapbox, bye.
P.S. OP I know that you hate peanut butter so obviously this advice is for other people ok bye again
