The "crunch" factor

Prior to my surgery almost 10 months ago, I was a "stress" eater, and the biggest stress relief food was anything that had a "crunch" to the eating process. Occasionally, that old demon re-appears. If any of you guys suffered from a similar fate, have you found anything, post-surgery, that is healthy, acceptable, and still provides that "crunch?" Thanks, any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Recently I've been cutting up a slice of cheddar cheese, placing it on parchment on a baking sheet, and baking it at 350 for about 10 minutes. Delicious cheese crisps that I can almost believe are cheezits!

That sounds great! Thank you.

Also a cruncher!

I do lots of seeds and nuts, and also the cheese crisps, but I do haystacks of shredded cheese and pepperoni too. 

I add chia seeds to yogurt for the tiny crunch and health benefits. 

Apple slices really do the trick for me.  Honey Crisp or Fiji are also sweet, while crunchy. 

I get my crunch from raw veggies and nuts. 

Roasted wasabi-coated edamame.  Cheese chips.  Pork rinds.

I also have a stash of dry roasted edamame and BBQ pork rinds.  Just tonight, though, I happened upon Quest Protein Chips at The Vitamin Shoppe. one bag is 120 calories and 21 g protein, 5 carbs, 2 g fat, 230 mg Na+.  They are much liked baked potato chips with whey protein, no soy.  One bag is a pretty big serving, I would probably eat 1/2 a bag for a snack.  I tried the barbeque.  Tasted and crunched much like regular baked chips.  I was attracted to the protein/carb ratio.  KP

Dill pickles.   Love the salt and the crunch.

pork rinds, kays naturals - I like the crispy parmesan chips ( they taste like sunchips to me), just the cheese mini snack rounds, skinny crisps , I've seen some posters say they liked roasted chickpeas, but I can't ever get them crunchy.