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Wholesome Snacks Made Simple

Easy, high-protein recipes with what's already in your cupboard.
At Beside the Mountain, I get it. That's why I'm sharing our favorite high-protein snack recipes - wholesome, satisfying, real ingredients, no weird stuff - and no hours in the kitchen (or mile-long grocery lists) required.

Healthy Fall Snacks

  • Light brown energy bites with flecks of oats and dark chocolate chips with pumpkin seed on top and cinnamon sticks beside it.
    Pumpkin Oatmeal Balls
  • Cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cloves, allspice in a pottery bowl.
    Pumpkin Spice Mix Ratio
  • Light brown oatmeal apple cookies on a parchment paper on a plate with an apple beside it.
    Apple Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
  • A pottery bowl with granola in it that contains pumpkin seeds and oats.
    Granola with pumpkin seeds and flax
See more Healthy Fall Snacks →
  • Refined Sugar-Free
  • High Power Blender
  • No Bake
  • Cookies
  • Healthy Nut Free Snacks
  • Homemade Savory Snacks
  • Dairy Free Snack Recipes
  • Gluten Free Homemade Snacks

Nut-Free Snack Recipes

These snack recipes are easy to make if you have a nut allergy, or if you go to a school that requires peanut-free or nut-free food.

  • Pizza bun all rolled up and beside others on a cooling rack.
    Pizza Scrolls
  • A loaf of lemon blueberry bread with blueberries and lemon beside it.
    Lemon Blueberry Loaf (Healthy)
  • A small hand grabbing a cookie with colorful candies on the cookie.
    Monster Cookies without Peanut Butter
  • A hand dipping into orange colored protein dip with pitas and carrots beside the bowl.
    High-Protein Dip (Dairy Free)
See more Healthy Nut Free Snacks →

Protein Snacks

These are snacks with 5 grams of protein or (usually) more per serving. I would start with these yummy no-bake cookie dough bars, healthy egg bite recipe, and these chewy oat banana protein bars!

  • A peach smoothie in a glass cup with yogurt streaks on the inside and peaches all around it.
    Frozen Peach Smoothie
  • Puffed quinoa chocolate squares stacked with green chopped pistachios on top.
    Puffed Quinoa Bars
  • Brown carrot protein bar with a bite out of it drizzled with white cream cheese glaze all cut into rectangles.
    Carrot Cake Protein Bars
  • Brown rough crispy homemade cracker pieces.
    High-Protein Crackers
See more Healthy High Protein Snack Recipes →
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Danika Vanderpyl, C.H.N

I create snack recipes with healthy ingredients that are mostly already in your kitchen. I'm certified in Holistic Nutrition and I care about giving my kids real food. Let me share my nutrient-dense easy snacks with you.

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Healthy Muffins

Looking for a wholesome muffin recipe? You will find delicious whole wheat muffins, my family's favorite fruit muffins, pineapple oatmeal muffins, as well as some muffins without milk, or muffins sweetened with honey too.

  • Brown banana protein muffins with chocolate chips sitting on a cooling rack beside a plate of chocolate chip muffins.
    Protein Banana Muffins with Oats
  • A brown muffins with green flecks on a cutting board.
    Healthy Zucchini Muffins with Yogurt
  • A basket with a tea towel with muffins that have chocolate chips on top/
    Chocolate Chip Protein Muffins
  • A close up of a morning glory muffin with toasted coconut on top.
    Morning Glory Muffins with Pineapple
See more Muffins →

ECookbooks

Created by Danika Vanderpyl from tried-and-true food prepping systems and recipes, download your ebook now!

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Banana Recipes

We often have bananas with brown spots slowly becoming overripe in our fruit bowl. These are my family's favourite recipes with bananas.

  • A banana on a cooling rack with vegan oatmeal chocolate chip cookies.
    Banana Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
  • A bite out of a chocolate energy balls with specs of ground oatmeal and a flecks of dried rose.
    Banana Chocolate Balls
  • A brown moist bar with pieces of oats and chocolate chips visible stacked on two other bars with a bite out of the top protein bar.
    Banana Oat Protein Bars
  • A big round cookie on a pottery plate.
    Banana Breakfast Cookies
See more Banana Recipes →

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Hey hey! I'm Danika.

I'm certified in holistic nutrition, and I create snack recipes! Because unprocessed, wholesome, nutrient-dense snacks are hard to find, but I want everyone to know they are easy to make!

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Healthy Fall Snacks

  • Light brown energy bites with flecks of oats and dark chocolate chips with pumpkin seed on top and cinnamon sticks beside it.
    Pumpkin Oatmeal Balls
  • Cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cloves, allspice in a pottery bowl.
    Pumpkin Spice Mix Ratio
  • Light brown oatmeal apple cookies on a parchment paper on a plate with an apple beside it.
    Apple Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
  • A pottery bowl with granola in it that contains pumpkin seeds and oats.
    Granola with pumpkin seeds and flax

Popular Recipes

  • Muffins with big blueberries in them sitting on a cooling rack.
    Best Blueberry Muffins (Recipe without Milk)
  • Big chewy medjool dates in a pottery bowl.
    Dates: Pitted vs Unpitted and Why Medjool is the Best
  • A close up of the side of a strawberry muffins.
    Strawberry Muffins with Frozen Strawberries
  • Chocolate Carrot Muffins

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