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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.

Back to School Snacks 🚌

  • A pink and yellow fruit roll up twisted with other fruit roll ups on parchment paper beside it.
    How to Make Fruit Roll Ups
  • Pizza bun all rolled up and beside others on a cooling rack.
    Pizza Scrolls
  • A small hand grabbing a cookie with colorful candies on the cookie.
    Monster Cookies without Peanut Butter
  • Soft and chewy chocolate chip cookies on a pink background.
    Honey Chocolate Chip Cookies
  • 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 banana protein muffins with chocolate chips sitting on a cooling rack beside a plate of chocolate chip muffins.
    Protein Banana Muffins with Oats
  • A chunk of granola with oats and hemp hearts.
    Hemp Granola
  • A brown muffins with green flecks on a cutting board.
    Healthy Zucchini Muffins with Yogurt
  • 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.

  • A loaf of lemon blueberry bread with blueberries and lemon beside it.
    Lemon Blueberry Loaf (Healthy)
  • A hand dipping into orange colored protein dip with pitas and carrots beside the bowl.
    High-Protein Dip (Dairy Free)
  • Chocolate easter eggs with a bite taken of of one showing an orange middle, in a straw easter basket.
    Healthy Easter Eggs
  • A banana on a cooling rack with vegan oatmeal chocolate chip cookies.
    Banana Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
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, egg bites, and these chewy oat banana protein bars!

  • Puffed quinoa chocolate squares stacked with green chopped pistachios on top.
    Puffed Quinoa Bars
  • Brown rough crispy homemade cracker pieces.
    High-Protein Crackers
  • A brown energy balls sitting in a small bowl filled with hemp hearts.
    Protein Balls without Protein Powder
  • Chocolate covered ice cream bars dipped in nuts.
    Chocolate Covered Ice Cream Bars (Healthy Dairy-Free Recipe)
See more Healthy High Protein Snack Recipes →

Healthy Muffins

Looking for a wholesome muffin recipe? You will find delicious whole wheat muffins, my family's favorite fruit muffins, pineapple oatmeal muffins, and some sweetened with less sugar, or honey too.

  • 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
  • A close up of a quinoa egg bite with a orange banana pepper on top with kale around it.
    High Protein Quinoa Eggs Muffins
  • A light orange muffins with red cranberries poking through on a little plate with orange slices behind it.
    Fresh Cranberry Orange Muffins (Gluten-Free)
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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Ebook cover photo of energy balls and lemon slices.

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 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
  • Harsh light on a light green blended matcha smoothie.
    Matcha Banana Smoothie
See more Banana 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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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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Back to School Snacks

  • Toddler poking a finger at a brown glazed apple bundt cake.
    Apple Snack Cake
  • A gluten free brownie made with dates and cocoa powder with chocolate chips on top.
    Date Brownie (No Flour + Date-Sweetened)
  • Fresh baked homemade whole wheat cookies with still melted chocolate chips in harsh lighting.
    Perfect Whole-Wheat Chocolate Chip Cookies
  • A pile of cookies with melted chocolate chips on top with hemp hearts.
    Hemp Cookies

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
  • 2 white banana smoothies on the counter, one with hemp hearts and almond butter on top.
    BEST Banana Smoothie (without yogurt)
  • Pieces of long shredded coconut coming out of a jar.
    Coconut: What to know about Shredded, Desiccated, and Flaked

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