Healthy, Low-Carb Cucumber Snacks — For Work and Home

This snack would be perfect to pair with a glass of wine after work. The sun-dried tomatoes and cheese give it a fancy feel which would be great as a snack at work, or for an easy appetizer for a dinner party. This is also one of the easiest of the low-carb cucumber snacks to prepare! If you're not a fan of sun-dried tomatoes, a small cherry tomato cut in half would taste just as good.

Ingredients: Cucumber slices, prosciutto, your favorite cheese (cheddar-gruyere pictured here)

The prosciutto & cucumber combo is delicious! If you're not a fan of prosciutto, then you can sub it for any meat like salami for a low carb take on a sandwich. For this snack, I rolled the prosciutto and placed it in-between two slices of cucumber and used the cheese as a garnish. If you're feeling extra fancy, you could stick a toothpick through to keep it together like a deli sandwich and add dijon mustard. 

This one might be my favorite! I love guac and chips, but this is a much healthier version of that. To make these, I shaved the cucumber and cut them in half. Aftewards, I hollowed out the middle of the cucumbers to make a little boat, then added the guac and capers inside! You can use an organic premade guac or just mash some avocado with cilantro! The capers give it a nice punch of salt which makes these little guys seriously addicting. 

Ingredients: Cucumbers, cajun pepper, canned tuna, crackers

If you feel like adding a little protein to your cucumber snack, then this is the recipe for you. For this, I added a little dollop of tuna (chicken salad would taste great, too!) on top of a whole grain cracker, added a slice of cucumber, then topped it off with a dash of cajun pepper for some spice! YUM! 

Last but not least, the oh so classic cucumber and hummus combination! Just a little scoop of hummus on top of a slice of cucumber, topped off with some of the Everything Bagel seasoning from Trader Joe’s (an office favorite) is SO refreshing and yummy. For this, I used just classic hummus, but any other flavor of hummus would taste just as good!