Best Light Snack Recipes - Spa Index Guide to Spas

Easy Date Cocoa Energy Bars

Make your own Energy Bars naturally sweetened by dates and loaded with almonds for extended energy. This snack is sure to satisfy when hunger strikes.

Thai Candied Pumpkin Seeds – Hilton Head Health

Pumpkin Seeds with a sweet, spicy and salty glaze, baked crunchy, make an addictive treat, a nice topping to frozen yogurt, and an outstanding salad topper.

Roasted Garlic Hummus – Skyterra Recipe

Hummus is rich in healthy fats, fiber, potassium, small amounts of iron and heart healthy benefits from the garlic.

Sweet Potato Toast – Ranch Malibu

Sliced and roasted sweet potatoes stand in for bread for the simple snacks of “veggie toast”. Enjoy for any meal!

Sweet and Spicy Turkey Meatballs – Hilton Head Health

Sweet and Spicy Turkey Meatballs with Apricot Sauce are delicious as a light lunch with a salad, spa party snacks, or for a special reception.

Coconut Pretzel Granola Bars – Hilton Head Health

Hilton Head Health recommends these Coconut Pretzel Granola Bar as a great mid-afternoon snack or breakfast. Easy to make at home.

Pritikin Lemon Cucumber Dill Yogurt Sauce

Pritikin’s Lemon Cucumber Dill Yogurt Sauce makes great use of Greek Yogurt, is delicious with raw vegetables, as a dip, or over seafood.

Pho Chicken Lettuce Wraps

Pho Chicken Lettuce Wraps are is sure to be a fun and festive dish for the whole family to enjoy, or, use small leaves and make appetizer wraps for your spa party.

Pritikin Low Calorie Baked Crab Cakes Recipe

Baked Crab Cakes a la Pritikin are a delectable combination of crab, veggies, garlic, egg whites, and salt-free Old Bay Seasoning — and only 50 calories for the appetizer sized cakes. Delicious and healthy!

Stuffed Skinny Potato Skins

The potato side dish you’ve been waiting for! This updated version of an old time favorite is just as good but is much lower in carbohydrates . Serve as a meal with a side salad or make as an appetizer.

Pritikin Crispy Potato Skins

One crispy (or rather, greasy) potato skin at a restaurant is often 400 calories and more (and who stops at just one?) These yummy Pritikin Crispy Potato Skins are only about 120 calories – for 4 skins!

Spa Party Cucumber Sandwiches

This bread-free take on the traditional cucumber sandwich, so popular at a tea party service, is a perfect warm weather appetizer.

Smoked Seafood Spring Rolls

These delicious spring rolls contain omega-3 essential fatty acids, are a pleasure to eat and simple to make. Perfect for lunch or spa party appetizers.

Baked Sweet Potato Chips – Skyterra Recipe

Sometimes you just want and need that crunchy, salty, savory mouth feel — you want chips! This is a nutritious option.

Pritikin Tropical Salsa

This Tropical Salsa recipe has Spice, Sweet and Heat but nothing bad for you – no salt, no added sugar, no waist-expanding oil or other fats.

Golden Door Spa Guacamole

This usually high fat appetizer reduces calories by using only a few avocados, but adding the characteristic bright green color with the addition of fresh peas. No flavor is sacrificed, but a few calories are!

Spa Party Mini Asparagus Frittatas

Invite this easy-to-make egg dish to your next spa party, reception, brunch or potluck. These Mini Asparagus Frittatas can be made in advance and frozen or refrigerated until you’re ready to serve them, and at less than 100 calories each, they both taste good and feel good.

Pritikin Edamame Broccoli Dip – 45 Calories

This colorful Edamame Broccoli Dip is excellent with vegetable sticks, such as carrots, celery, and jicama, or with low-sodium, baked chips. 45 calories per serving.

Canyon Ranch Pumpkin Crunch

From Canyon Ranch Health Spa comes this very fast Pumpkin Crunch recipe. Use it as a breakfast cereal, or eat out of hand or top your yogurt with it. We like to keep a baggie in the car on long road trips — it’s an excellent trail mix.

Cinnamon Banana Chips

Steer clear of purchased banana chips which are usually coated in sugar (for a fruit already sweet on its own!) and preservatives. Instead, try this simple recipe for Cinnamon Banana Chips. They are great way to satisfy sweet and crunchy cravings at the same time.

Peanut Butter Ricotta Spread

Peanuts and Peanut Butter are strongly flavored foods so a little goes a long way in flavoring this spread, which makes use of low fat or fat free ricotta cheese as another protein source. Together, they make a fluffy peanut spread which is terrific on rice cakes or used as a dip for celery sticks and apple slices — and it’s popular with children and teens.

Healthy Chef Skinny Dips

The Healthy Chef, Teresa Cutter, one of Australia’s leading authorities on healthy cooking, has some great Skinny Dips for spa parties and holiday meals.

Low Fat High Protein Cucumber Spread

This tasty, tangy cucumber spread is wonderful with fresh vegetables or between very thinly sliced bread for tea sandwiches.

Grilled Portobello Mushroom Sliders

For those of you looking for a veggie burger in place of traditional beef sliders, try this Grilled Portobello Mushroom Sliders recipe courtesy of PureRejuv Wellness Center, a health retreat in the Poconos.

Pritikin Seafood Ceviche

This is a perfect Cinco de Mayo recipe — when it’s customary to serve your favorite Latin American dishes.

Turkey Meatballs Al Forno

This recipe for Turkey Meatballs Al Forno is a perfect cold weather comfort food dish. Courtesy of California Health & Longevity Institute® near Los Angeles, the Institute offers a holistic approach to healthy living that unites renowned experts in the fields of Medicine, Nutrition, Fitness, Life Balance and Spa.

Ananda Spa Seeded Granola Bars

These guest favorite Granola Bars are courtesy of Ananda Spa in the Himalayas. The executive Chef, Narenda Sharma, carefully creates recipes for guests which feature wholesome ingredients, like oats, coconut flour and seeds.

Stuffed Mushrooms with Feta Cheese

These popular Stuffed Mushrooms are intended as a single-serving treat, but if you increase the ingredients, they can be perfect for your holiday table.

Pritikin Roasted Pumpkin Wedges

This healthy recipe for Pritikin Pumpkin Wedges is vegetable-rich, only takes 3 ingredients, and can be a tasty vegetable and dessert, all in one. Plus, pumpkins are a bonafide super-food, so it’s a triple duty recipe — easy, delicious and nutritious.

Asparagus Ricotta Bruschetta

This colorful Asparagus Ricotta Bruschetta appetizer is full of color and has a flavor terrific for brunch, spa party, or light lunch. It can made with soft ricotta cheese, or consider a fat-free herby substitute, like Laughing Cow or Boursin.

No Mayo Deviled Eggs

This is a simple Mayonnaise Free Deviled Egg recipe from The UltraMetabolism Cookbook 200 Delicious Recipes That Will Turn on Your Fat-Burning DNA. Dr. Mark Hyman, The UltraWellness Center. A perfect little treat, good protein, good fat, and very satisfying.

Miraval Caprese Flatbread

You can streamline this recipe by skipping the fresh dough and instead splitting open pita bread rounds at the seam, separating each into an entire round of 1 layer. These bake up very crisp. We’ve also used 1 sheet of lavash, which also gets very crisp.