When you’re looking for low-calorie snacks, the odds are that you’ll hear lots of recommendations for raw veggies. Baby carrots and celery are great. They’re low cal, high fiber, and terrific for you. However, there are times – a lot of them – when you want something different.

The Perceived Limitations of Low-Calorie Snacks

Since the most obvious choices of low-calorie snacks are raw veggies or, as a twist, raw veggies and dip, it’s easy to think your options are limited. It’s also easy to believe that your options are quite plain. After all, when these are the top recommendations everywhere you look, it feels like that’s all there is.

Good news. It’s not. There are many delicious low-calorie snacks that are great for you and that taste delicious. Even better, you don’t need to have special ingredients imported in order to make them. The odds are you have many of these ingredients in your fridge (or at least on your shopping list).

Try These Unbelievable Low-Calorie Snacks

Ready to ask where these options have been all your life? These low-calorie snacks are just what your taste buds have been craving.

• An English muffin with lox – Choose whole grain and add an ounce of lox for only 160 calories but a heaping 15 grams of protein. This will help to keep you feeling full while giving you a healthy energy boost at the same time. It will definitely tide you over until your next meal.

• Kale chips – Don’t knock them until you’ve tried them. These crunchy treats can be spiced up or eaten plain. Add your favorite spices to give them the flavor and zing you want, even if it’s just a sprinkling of black pepper. You’ll get lots of vitamin A, C and K as well as fiber and calcium. Make them in a spritz of olive oil to get a hint of good fat into your snack, too, for only 80 calories per cup.

• Sliced cucumbers and cream cheese – Yes, all right, this is a veggies and dip idea, but if you choose whipped cream cheese, you can eat a full ounce of it with your cucumbers. The air in the whipped variety keeps the calories down to the point that a cup and a half of cucumber slices with the ounce of cream cheese will be only 100 calories. You’ll get lots of fiber, water and, cream cheese!

• Nut butter and chocolate – Mind blown yet? Three squares of dark chocolate and 2 teaspoons of unsalted natural peanut or almond butter is a shockingly perfect option among low-calorie snacks. At only 110 calories, you’ll even get 3 grams of protein out of this delicious treat.