so i just ate some latkes from trader joes (because the new holiday book from lemony snicket had me CRAVING latkes) and HOLY MONKEYS they were amazing. so i wanted to bring up snacks and how awesome they are. what's your fave snack atm?
Ever since I don't have as much disposable income, I do snack a lot less. When I do spend money on extra food, I go for better (if more pricey) choices...if I'm going to spend my money on food I'd rather it be something good for me, like good strawberries or organic yogurt or fancy organic chips.
According to Michael Pollan, there is absolutely nothing wrong with snacks. In fact, they're better for you than three big meals. If you go more than five hours between meals, your blood sugar crashes. His point is that we "treat" instead of snack -- sweets, cookies, chips -- things that ought to be occasional, not regular.
A snack, to him, is fruit, or peanut butter on toast, or nuts, or some soup. Something with nutritional value.
It may be the recession, or it may be that I have less to do now that I'm only taking one class, but I find myself reaching for the Sabor de Soledad more often.
I snack less now that I work in a building that has FOUR bakeries on the ground floor with yummy cupcakes and cookies everywhere. I do not allow myself a snack because of the slippery slope that will ensue.
I have virtually stopped snacking since I started forcing myself to eat a bigger breakfast before 10am. I know, I know, people have been saying it for years, but it has been a real shock to me how I don't crave stuff all day if I have, like, a couple boiled eggs with toast AND some fruit and greek (full-fat!) yogurt.
Before this recent switch, I would maybe have one or the other, or some cereal, and then be reaching for the nuts/cheese/chocolate/chips/cupcake all day. Now? It's freaking me out a bit how much I don't even think about snacks.
I'm not crowing about this - just wanted to share.
@TheFormerJuneBronson: I'm amazed, frankly. I always thought of myself as the no-breakfast-type, because I felt I was never hungry in the morning; but it didn't take very long for that to change - couple of days of making myself eat, and now I wake up hungry. And now I feel dumb that it's taken me until the age of 41 to put that very sound nutritional advice into practice.
I used to go down the street for a candy bar or a slurpee around 4 p.m. for my mid afternoon sugar rush at work. That's definitely been cut out. Even at home, I buy less chips and things. Now, I tend to lean more towards things that can work as both a snack or part of a meal, like rice cakes, tortilla chips, peanuts, or vegetables.
@TheExperience: For a while now! Evidently it's confusing. I suppose I could change it, but the avatars are tiny on my screen, and I had enough trouble finding one that showed up well enough at that size as it was!
I had to quit most forms of pure sugar for non-financial reasons, sadly. But I'm sure it really wouldn't help anything if I were still eating them.
What is budgetary is my effort to reduce how much food we have in the house. Everybody has some kind of food hanging around--rice from the Clinton administration, "extra" dried pasta, cornmeal, dry milk, mysterious canned goods. I've been making a concerted effort to use up the dregs. I feel like our whole larder is just out of control. I don't know what we have anymore. I keep finding weird things around, like old popsicles that have gone to syrup.
@TheFormerJuneBronson: My mother-in-law looked at our frige and was like, "that's the saddest frige I've ever seen!" Meanwhile, hers is filled to the brim with cartons of expired eggs, rotting fruit, spoiled dairy, aging leftovers, brown lettuce...
I am horrified by wasted food. I buy a few days' worth of groceries, and we eat them before they go bad. If I throw something out, I can't help but to calculate the cost of the food and feel like a failure.
@Gumbina80: I don't like to throw things out either, and I'm very careful with perishables. It's the stuff that doesn't go bad--like rice--that gets backed up on me. My grandmother is the one who has glass dishes of God only knows what in the back of her fridge.
I don't snack how much my snacking patterns have snacked lately. I definitely snack it's difficult to snack healthier snacks on a snack, because they snack to be more snack.
I have switched to an inferior brand of caviar, and eat of the naked back of a Molly Maid rather than that of my manservant, Claude, who I had to let go.
@save jinger: I have started watching Less Thank Perfect reruns on Lifetime and Sherri Shepherd is hilarious in it. As is Zach Levi before he was Chuck!
@save jinger: You know, I'm actually eating fries at my desk right now, and after reading this I slowly slid the ketchup-covered napkin I was dipping into into the garbage.
The recession has not affected my violent blood sugar swings, therefore, it hasn't messed with my snacking habits. Give me a snack at 10 and 3:30 or I will cut a bitch.
The recession has not affected my snack habits at all. Although I have completely cut out all Frito-Lay products (fuck you, Baked Lays. And your idiotic marketing campaign too!) with the exception of occasionally (as in: three times this year, once because I forgot) buying myself about $1 worth of Cheetos at a gas station.
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so i just ate some latkes from trader joes (because the new holiday book from lemony snicket had me CRAVING latkes) and HOLY MONKEYS they were amazing. so i wanted to bring up snacks and how awesome they are. what's your fave snack atm?
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#groupthink
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A snack, to him, is fruit, or peanut butter on toast, or nuts, or some soup. Something with nutritional value.
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Before this recent switch, I would maybe have one or the other, or some cereal, and then be reaching for the nuts/cheese/chocolate/chips/cupcake all day. Now? It's freaking me out a bit how much I don't even think about snacks.
I'm not crowing about this - just wanted to share.
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I did not and it just weirded me out right then seeing these two posts on top of eachother.
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What is budgetary is my effort to reduce how much food we have in the house. Everybody has some kind of food hanging around--rice from the Clinton administration, "extra" dried pasta, cornmeal, dry milk, mysterious canned goods. I've been making a concerted effort to use up the dregs. I feel like our whole larder is just out of control. I don't know what we have anymore. I keep finding weird things around, like old popsicles that have gone to syrup.
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I am horrified by wasted food. I buy a few days' worth of groceries, and we eat them before they go bad. If I throw something out, I can't help but to calculate the cost of the food and feel like a failure.
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(You are so right, Sadie)
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@merv: Naturally, it's not like I'm homeless or something!
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I shared my puddin' with you! I gave you my Snack Pack!:
(Yes, that is Sherri Shepherd.)
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That brand + pudding = revolting mental picture.
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Thanks a lot.
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Am I just making it worse?
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God, I'd love a slice of pie right now.
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