Make ‘em or buy ‘em. Photo courtesy MannPacking.com.

When we’re out of the house, we buy cookies, muffins, pizza, candy—high-calorie empty carbs.

During periods of focus, we buy bags of baby carrots and throw them into our backpack along with a water bottle. But we recently discovered a more diverse alternative: Healthy Snacks On The Go™ from Mann Packing.

For people on the go, Mann’s, a pioneer in the fresh-cut vegetable business, offers a variety of fresh-cut vegetables with a light ranch dip: low in calories and rich in vitamins, minerals and fiber. The veggie assortments are washed, preservative free and ready to eat:

If you want healthy snacks, it’s cut up or pay up. If you don’t want to spend money on pre-packaged veggies, try this tip:

Set up a time every week—Sunday night, perhaps—to wash and cut your raw veggies for the week. Bag them and stack them in the fridge, ready to go. If the cut veggies start to dry before the end of the week, reserve a portion in containers filled with an inch or two of water, and bag them at midweek.