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Better than cookies but not as good as fruit

140 calories

4 (2 part) crackers
per serving

Snack Better

Apples with peanut butter, homemade chocolate chip cookies, homemade granola bars

under 200 calories, after exercise, afternoon snack, lose weight, kid friendly, late night, morning snack, packaged, sweet

Graham crackers can be pretty yummy. There are a ton of different brands but they all average out to be about the same for the calories. Compared to Oreos, where 3 cookies are 160 calories, you are doing pretty good with graham crackers. You get much more food for your calorie count.

Why don't I love graham crackers? Well, I think that if you ate an Apples or another whole food you would be doing much better. There are many ingredients in a graham cracker, and they are really just a lower calorie form of cookie.

The helpful thing about a graham cracker is you can make it more nutritious by spreading something like cream cheese, peanut butter, or almond butter on it. Then, you add some protein and you have a better chance of the snack actually satisfying your hunger.

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