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Ms Meghan
10/29/09

#snacks #groupthink

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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Ms Meghan
10/29/09

@Ms Meghan: mine are: bananas, 100 calorie bags of popcorn (the one 100 calorie thingy worth picking up imo), and now, dangerously, latkes.

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xgurl3eb
10/30/09

@Ms Meghan: i've never heard anyone use the term holy monkeys other than my sister, immediately hearted for that!

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Ms Meghan
10/30/09

@xgurl3eb: aw thanks! I started saying it because I needed something work appropriate to say when I got all excited. :D

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Mafalda para Presidente
06/30/09

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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.
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brendastarlet is on it
06/30/09

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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.
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kithkin
06/30/09

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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.
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sportz.star
06/30/09

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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.
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Diziet_Sma
06/30/09

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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.
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TheFormerJuneBronson
06/30/09

@Diziet_Sma: I've found this to be true also. Breakfast is key!
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Diziet_Sma
06/30/09

@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.
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TheExperience
06/30/09

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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.
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Zombie Ms. Skittles
06/30/09

@TheExperience: @TheFormerJuneBronson: Did either of you realize you have the same avatar?

I did not and it just weirded me out right then seeing these two posts on top of eachother.
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Diziet_Sma
06/30/09

@Zombie MissSkittles is not your kind of lady: @TheFormerJuneBronson: @TheExperience: Wow. I didn't even notice the posts were by different people - I saw them both as TheFormerJuneBronson.
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TheFormerJuneBronson
06/30/09

@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!
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TheFormerJuneBronson
06/30/09

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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.
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Diziet_Sma
06/30/09

@TheFormerJuneBronson: You have a doppelganger! See below.
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Gumbina80
06/30/09

@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.
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TheFormerJuneBronson
06/30/09

@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.
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Dodgergirl
06/30/09

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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.

(You are so right, Sadie)
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Uncommon Whore
06/30/09

@Dodgergirl: Snacks is seriously one of my favorite words. I like making the "a" really nasally when I say it.
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hatepaperdoll
06/30/09

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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.
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Mary McCarthyite
06/30/09

@hatepaperdoll: And you drink Asti now instead of Dom, I imagine?
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merv
06/30/09

@hatepaperdoll: please tell me you've kept the Norwegian salmon.
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hatepaperdoll
06/30/09

@Mary McCarthyite: I do, but I funnel it into a Dom bottle, shhh!

@merv: Naturally, it's not like I'm homeless or something!
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save jinger
06/30/09

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But how are Snack Packs doing?

I shared my puddin' with you! I gave you my Snack Pack!:

(Yes, that is Sherri Shepherd.)
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PrarieMuffin
06/30/09

@save jinger: Wait--Hunts make pudding snacks? I thought they were in the catsup business (not to be confused with the ketchup industry).

That brand + pudding = revolting mental picture.
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sassyredhead
06/30/09

@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!
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sassyredhead
06/30/09

@sassyredhead: Less THAN Perfect...I am a crap typist.
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save jinger
06/30/09

@PrarieMuffin: What is ketchup if not tomato-flavored pudding?
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PrarieMuffin
06/30/09

@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.

Thanks a lot.
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save jinger
06/30/09

@PrarieMuffin: Aww, I'm sorry. Better than dipping them in chocolate pudding, right?

Am I just making it worse?
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merv
06/30/09

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Do clothing sizes change during a recession? I bet that has something to do with this.
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Zombie Ms. Skittles
06/30/09

@merv: Probably. I mean, did you know that they were different in the 50's?!
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Mary McCarthyite
06/30/09

@Zombie MissSkittles is not your kind of lady: Do you think Marilyn Monroe was a snacker?
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merv
06/30/09

@Mary McCarthyite: On champagne. That's how she got to be a size 82%.
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Mary McCarthyite
06/30/09

@merv: So in today's sizes, that would be about a 33.33333 (repeating), right?
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merv
06/30/09

@Mary McCarthyite: that was the 80s. now it's more like 3.14159265...
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Mary McCarthyite
06/30/09

@merv: You mean, she is size PIE!!!!!

God, I'd love a slice of pie right now.
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marshmallory
06/30/09

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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.
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Mary McCarthyite
06/30/09

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Snack is my favorite meal of the day.
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Zombie Ms. Skittles
06/30/09

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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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hatepaperdoll
06/30/09

@Zombie MissSkittles is not your kind of lady: Those "Woman's World" ads make me so angry! I yelled out loud at a People magazine in my dentist's office the other day.
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