Abstract: A low calorie snack food, especially a nutritious hand held snack food, with good organoleptic properties. Preferably, the snack food of the invention does not present an overall sweet impression. In one embodiment, the snack food comprises I) an outer shell, especially a shell comprising one or more cereal ingredients, and II) an inner creamy filling including no more than 25 wt. % sugar solids by weight of said filling, no more than 5 wt. % water, at least 20 wt. % lipid, said lipid comprising no more than 20 wt. %, on the total lipid content, of digestible saturated and trans fatty acid moieties, and at least 2 wt. % of a fibrous filling agent. Preferably the filling agent is dextrin. The filling preferably comprises from 30 to 45 wt. % lipid. The lipid of the filling preferably includes no greater than 10 wt. % (on total lipid) of trans- and saturated triglycerides.