I need food suggestions

[yesthattom]

Before I left for my 2-week trip, I got rid of nearly all the food in my house (technically: my shelves on the pantry, since I share a house with 2 others). Anyway, it's now 2am and I have nothing to eat. Ugh. I'm curious what people suggestion for me to purchase for non-meal snacking.

Suggestions?

Comments

[geminigirl]

One of my favorite very filling, but pretty low fat snacks is unsalted mini-pretzles with spicy mustard. I'm sure if you liked salted pretzles it would be fine with them too. It's a bit carb heavy, if you're not into that, but it's good.

But I'm a fruit/veg eater for snacks anyway.

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

(tortilla) chips and hummus. Stays good a long time, too, which is important for these
post-travel situations. :)

I usually keep a bunch of Luna bars around, too, and sometimes the Nature Valley granola bars--they are much less candy-bar-ish than many so-called "granola bars".

Mmmm. Lunchtime.

I love food

[kjc.livejournal.com]

Hey Tom... Non-meal snacks kinda depend on your tastes and motivations, eh?

For non-evil type snacks, I like fresh fruit (eaten or in a smoothy) and raw veggies (baby carrots & celery, mostly, but you can also go for broccoli, cauliflower, bell peppers, whatever). Klutz Press makes a really cute little smoothy book with the simplest, best tasting smoothies I've found but there are 2 or 3 good books out there.

If you want to mix good & bad, try veggies and dips (make your own dip or buy pre-made, although the pre-made's gonna have more calories). Or fill your celery with cream cheese, peanut butter, etc. When I was a kid (and could still eat peanut butter) I loved it on bananas and apples. Honey on apples is a messy but yummy way to eat 'em (pour a little honey in a bowl and dip the fruit in).

I also like dried fruit and trail mix kinda things. If there's a Trader Joe's near you, they have a fabulous range of dried stuff and pre-made mixes.

Crackers and cheese kick righteous ass (if you like cheese) - we're lucky around here, we've got places like the Wine and Cheese Cask and also Bread & Circus (now Whole Foods Market, I think) both of which stock really high quality cheese and lotsa locally made artisan cheeses. With cheese, a good cracker is CRITICAL to the success of your snack operation - I like Stoned Wheat Crackers, and not just for the name! Water crackers are good if you want to show off the flavor of the cheese.

For weird variation, I also like pickles - but not just pickled cucumbers. You can also get pickled baby corn and pickled peppers and lots of other things. I just made my first batch of pickles last night! I pickled a pint of cherry tomatoes. (I've gone domestic. It's weird.)

For unhealthy snacks, I love Terra Chips' Salt & Pepper Potato Chips. They're wonderfully EVIL! For extra BONUS evil, I eat them with goat cheese. Also Cashew-lovers' Poppycock popcorn in caramel with nuts is awfully bad for you. NEVER, EVER (I repeat EVER) eat it or you won't be able to stop.

The trick I've found with eating healthy snacks is to prep them in advance. Wash the fruit soon after you buy it so you can just grab it. If you have a quiet Sunday night or Monday night, cut up a bunch of veggies and bag 'em for the week. Baby carrots are great because they're a little sweet & need no preparation. I'll put together 4 or 5 small ziplog bags of them so I can grab one in the morning & take it to work. Also, picking a smoothy recipe in advance, and making sure you have the right juice helps. (Another trick - buy fruit for a specific smoothy recipe & then challenge yourself to use it before it rots!).

Can you tell I've been learning to cook (for real, on a daily or near-daily basis) since I left the Ranch? From recipes to start, but I've been trying to learn enough to wean myself off recipes and create my own stuff. Also trying to figure out how to keep myself from eating junk all the time.

Anyway, I'll shut up now. -kjc

[lothie.livejournal.com]

Strawberry frosted poptarts.

[moose]

Oatmeal.
Yum.

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

Fave snacks...

Snapeas (dried string beans)
Crackers and spray-can cheese
Air-popping corn, with salt, dill weed, paprika, margarine to sprinkle on
A can of hearty soup
Melba toast with sesame seeds
Rice cakes
Lindt chocolates