Snack Time

It’s hard not to snack at holiday time, but this week Martha Rose Shulman offers some healthful — and economical — alternatives to assuage the guilt.

This week’s recipes come in response to requests from readers for ideas for snacks to have around the house during the end-of-the-year holidays: something to replace the candy bowls and cookies that are usually there and easy to nosh on. Commercial snacks that are healthy (or healthier – read the labels closely) are available including vegetable chips and pita crisps, seaweed snacks, nuts, dried fruit and trail mix. But some of these have a lot of salt and they can be pricey.

Here are five new ideas for holiday noshing.