Making high-protein snacks yourself: simple ideas for women over 40

Protein is everywhere right now.

Protein pudding. Protein bars. Protein bread.

But before you fill your shopping cart exclusively with products that say “high protein”, here's the good news:

High-protein snacks can be surprisingly simple.

Especially as we get older, maintaining muscle mass becomes more important. Protein and strength training are therefore two topics we should keep a particular eye on.

But that doesn't mean every meal has to become a mathematical optimisation project.

6 savoury ideas

Cottage cheese with tomatoes and herbs
Hummus with vegetables
Egg with wholegrain bread and vegetables
Edamame
Plain tofu with a dip
Yogurt herb dip with raw vegetables

6 sweet ideas

Skyr with berries
Plain yogurt with nuts
Cottage cheese with fruit and cinnamon
Chia yogurt pudding
Overnight oats with yogurt
Homemade breakfast or snack muffins

The snack check

When you put together a snack, you can ask yourself three simple questions:

1. Where is my protein source?

For example yogurt, skyr, cottage cheese, egg, legumes, tofu or nuts.

2. Where is my fibre?

For example vegetables, berries, fruit, oats, legumes, seeds or wholegrain products.

3. Do I actually like the taste?

This point is surprisingly often forgotten.

A nutrition strategy that is perfect in theory, but that you can't stand anymore after three days, won't do you much good.

The goal isn't perfection.

The goal is to find solutions that are so simple they work on a completely ordinary Tuesday too.

That's exactly where change comes from.