1. If you like, include individually wrapped, reduced-fat string cheese for calcium or substitute fruit juice for the dried fruit.

2. Try yogurt with a peach, low fat string cheese with an apple, or cottage cheese and grapes.

3. Also, light string cheese is a GREAT little snack, with only around 50-60 calories and 2.5g fat a pop. Not bad for hard cheese, people.

4. An ounce of nuts or two sticks of string cheese weigh in at about 170 calories.

5. Cut-up vegetables, low-fat string cheese sticks, or a handful of unsalted nuts to help you avoid stopping for sweet or fatty snacks.

6. People are eating more frozen pizzas, he said, or adding string cheese to the lunches they're increasingly packing at home.

7. In the rush of morning, munch them along with low - fat string cheese.