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I prep veggies for the week for my husband and I, I find that carrots, bell peppers, cucumbers and grape tomatoes are a good mix (celery is too stringy for me). Sometimes I like to include lightly steamed string beans and zucchini in the summer time.

Whole fruit is awesome, I always have at least an apple and a banana in my food bag.

I like carrots, bell pepper, sugar snap peas and cucumber for veggie snacks. You can bring some hummus to dip in. I actually love roasted veggies even more then raw so often do a big batch on the weekends. They hold up well as leftovers. my favs roasted are: broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, Brussels sprouts, asparagus.

I love sliced apple with almond butter as a snack too.

I do baby carrots, celery, and stringless snap peas a lot. They're just the easiest and require the least prep for me. In the summer, i'll buy cherry tomatoes and lightly salt and pepper them. You can buy single servings of dip/hummus if you want something with them. I do this more in the winter when the produce isn't as tasty.

I also do a lot of hard boiled eggs. If you don't cook the crap out of them, they're perfect and creamy. I keep some salt at my desk, but I'd go without, too.

Celery sticks, carrot sticks, and bell pepper sticks hold up well in the fridge. For the pepper I try to eat it with in 2-3 days before the edge become soft. Make sure they are very dry before you put them in the fridge; I store mine with a paper towel folder in the baggie. For dip I use hummus, but store bought hummus is fattening. You can make a healthier version with canned chickpeas.

Sliced apples with a little peanut butter or shaved parmesean cheese is really good. When trying to be healthy I will skip a topping for every other slice.

I love to make a big batch of soup and then store it in single servings in the freezer. When I don't feel like cooking I just pop a soup in the microwave. There's a really good beat & lentil soup on the HB blog.

@lizzywiz: along the lines of soup I make turkey chili every Sunday - its a great quick grab when you are hungry!

PPs have already given great suggestions for fruits and veggies. I try to prep those in ziploc bags and also things like nuts or trail mix. For example if I buy a bag of almonds I measure out portions using a kitchen scale and put them in baggies in a basket in our pantry. This means when my husband (who often forgets to eat) is suddenly starving there is a healthy portion controlled snack available.

In addition to the suggestions above, I like having clementines on hand - delicious and easy to throw in a bag on your way out. For snacks, I love Skinnypop Popcorn. Trader Joe's has an air popped kind that is low in sodium too so it's super healthy but it gets stale quickly if you don't keep it completely packed in an airtight container. I've also read that using herbs to punch up flavor tricks your stomach into thinking it's eaten more so I've been getting the TJs Thai Chili Lime Almonds (they have similar level of sodium as their 50% reduced sodium regular almonds) and throwing in some TJs organic raisins (no added sugar - raisin is the only ingredient) to make an easy trail mix. Another favorite filling snack is a banana opened up (someone on HB posted about the "correct" way of doing this a long while back and it is so true!!) with some sunbutter or organic pb (only ingredient is peanuts and salt) spread inside and sealed back up. Can you tell I love talking about food?