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Lets have a thread about simple snacks you enjoy.
Something other than "I like cheeetos" please

I will start with a couple favorite of mine

1. A good olive oil, a good balsamic vinegar, salt, pepper in a small bowl and some sour dough bread for dipping

2. Prosciutto di Parma, Parmigiano Reggiano and some good bread

What simple snacks do you enjoy that might be ethnic or out of the ordinary?

I like to make a charcuterie board for evening snacking:

Brie cheese (or other snacking cheese)
Crackers
Salami slices
Stuffed olives
Berries/Fruits
Garlic brined mushrooms
Pickle spears
Snacking cherry tomatoes

Or

Diced carrots and celery with dressing of choice to dip in.

Or

Sliced tomatoes with red wine vinegar / salt / pepper

Or sliced apples


I like to switch it up.

It's way healthier than chips / salty snacks.

I love it.

"Garlic brined mushrooms" never heard of them, got to try them. This is why I made the post,
to discover new things, thanks

Try yourself some tripple cream cheese.

Would that not be trippple?

Can I come over for snacks? That sounds more like a lunch/dinner option at my house. For a quick snack I like to roll some salami inside a slice of swiss cheese. Or, not so fancy, an apple. I don't get fancy and slice it up I just eat it the old fashioned way.

I am not big on the chips and such, but I do like cheddar popcorn from time to time.

Lets see ones that I enjoy

Chips
Ice cream
Reese cups
Hershey bars


Ones that I eat instead of the ones I enjoy

Lightly salted cashews
unsalted peanuts
strawberries
raspberries
blackberries
protein drinks

Cheezits and peanut butter

Pretzel rods and horsey sauce / brown mustard / both

Little Debbie Oatmeal Cremes

Salted pistachios, cashews, pecans, or peanuts

Slim Jims / beef sticks

Lays potato chips and sour cream

Crunchy Cheetos

Pecan Sandies (shortbread cookies) and Cool Whip or Pillsbury cake frosting

I'm trying to eat healthy, and I make my own hummus for snacking. It's good right out of the processor, and sometimes I'll flavor it up with dill, a little buffalo sauce or whatever strikes my fancy. I try to keep a nice supply of fresh veggies in the fridge..... celery, cukes, peppers, radishes, carrots, etc. I'll slice up a bowl full with a big tablespoon of the hummus.

Nachos and dips is a huge one for me

Soft pretzel bites in the air fryer have been a go to lately, spicy brown mustard

Got another one my wife likes to make.

Slice a baguette spread cottage cheese on top then add about 3 drops of truffle oil and a sprinkle of salt.

( truffle oil is over powering have to use it sparingly )

Man that stuff is addictive.

I make these all the time. A nice "treat" loaded with protein. It's not like they're low-cal, but they're not loaded with garbage. We keep them in the freezer (it's best to freeze them anyway so they "set up" and are firm). We pull four or six at a time and my wife eats one every day. Probably about a two week shelf life sitting out regardless of what the recipe's author says.

I add a couple scoops of protein powder to each batch. I also toast the coconut first and scrap the chia. I also grind the oats a bit in a simple drink blender. I don't refrigerate before rolling into balls, just compress tightly and roll. I roll each one at about 30 grams so the recipe yields about 16-18 for me. Good stuff with inexpensive, easy to find ingredients!


NO BAKE ENERGY BITES
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prep time: 20 MINS cook time: 0 MINS total time: 20 MINS yield: 20-25 ENERGY BITES

DESCRIPTION
This No-Bake Energy Bites recipe is easy to make, full of feel-good ingredients, and irresistibly delicious!

INGREDIENTS

1 cup old-fashioned oats
2/3 cup toasted shredded coconut (sweetened or unsweetened)
1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
1/2 cup ground flaxseed
1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips (or vegan chocolate chips)
1/3 cup honey
1 tablespoon chia seeds (optional)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

INSTRUCTIONS
Stir everything together. Stir all ingredients together in a large mixing bowl until thoroughly combined.
Chill. Cover the mixing bowl and chill in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours, or until the mixture is chilled. (This will help the mixture stick together more easily.)
Roll into balls. Roll into mixture into 1-inch balls.
Serve. Then enjoy immediately! Or refrigerate in a sealed container for up to 1 week, or freeze for up to 3 months.

https://www.gimmesomeoven.com/no-bake-energy-bites/

They come in a jar. In my grocery store they are where the canned mushrooms are. They are super delicious. Yum.

Try the cottage cheese truffle thing above , its great

It sounds delicious! In your grocery store, where do you find truffle oil? Is it near the spices? Do you toast the baguette?

I love cottage cheese. I usually eat it mixed with some fruit cocktail.

So this is funny... I buy truffle oil at TJ Max Get it cheap. Its good.

and no toasting baguette.

I guess I have an issue with the definition of the word Snacks, anything that involves more than 4 steps, or the word dipping is much too complex and time consuming for me to think of it as a snack.

Then a later post, I read about the Tomato thing, and the balsamic, and I think, Oh my Gosh! did Gordon Ramsay come over,
in my opinion: Simple Snacks, are things you can just get, things you can just grab,
unless the word midnight preceeds the word snack,

Some of these ideas are so complex they might as well be a meal, Setting a refrigerator, and rolling up dough, what is this Thanksgiving?

In my ideas, of simple snacks, anything that involves diligent listening until the microwave popcorn pops are more than 1 second apart,
anything with more steps than, open the bag put in microwave right side up, anything with more than 4 steps, is beyond a simple snack.

( I like butter, and peanut butter spread across crackers, but other things also, like jelly types, cheese types, but then, all snacks are rare, one rarely would eat crackers in the first place, or snacks, coincidently, potato chips, Ice cream, and Frosting/icing, are some of the worst things, to expand your waist line with empty calories I think.)

PM&M - Peanut Butter & orange Marmalade sandwiches (low glycemic index, even!)
Apples & pears.
Dried mango slices.
A bowl of greek yogurt w/ granola & fruit and some real maple syrup drizzled on it

I'm a junkie for White Cheddar Cheeze-Its.

You're the only other one I know that eats PB and Orange Marmalade. My absolute favorite lol!

I have to keep White Cheddar Cheeze-Its and regular in stock... I switch back and forth.

Celery or Broccoli, cauliflower dipped in Okios triple 0 Greek Yogurt.

Celery or apple pear dipped in all natural peanut butter with cinnamon or garlic powder , hemp seeds or flax seed meal.

Almonds, Walnuts, Pumpkin and Sunflower seeds.

Clementines,Grapefruit Bananas Blueberries Raspberries Blackberries

Thomas English Muffins light multi grain muffins with Balsamic Vinegar (no caramel coloring added) and Olive Oil.

Avocado with a hot sauce

Hard boiled egg topped with a Cleveland brand Sauerkraut

I'm a sucker for:

Pink Lady apples

Florida Grapefruit

Plums

I hope I don't end up at your house for a game. Just kidding. I like hummus, but I am not going to make it. There is a Portuguese restaurant in town that makes a good hummus served with some toast points.

Good stuff.

I'm shocked that nobody around here likes snacking on mountain oysters.

My grandmother used to give us kids orange marmalade all the time. It was special because it was the only time we ever got it and as a kid I was fascinated by the fact that it was made with actual orange peels in it and I loved that.... then, I never had it again for probably close to forty years and I just rediscovered it a bit more than a year ago when I moved and found it on the shelf at my new Aldi. I've been perma-hooked since.

I've been on a hummus kick lately (making it with canned chickpeas and other stuff in the food processor). It's so easy to make, and already tastes better than the store-bought stuff. I'm experimenting now, but when I get some interesting/good tasting ingredient list, I'll start using fresher ingredients (non-canned chickpeas) and post it up here.

I've not found that starting with dry chickpeas enhances the final product, it just adds work.

I usually put a large dash of cayenne in mine.

I'm a huge orange marmalade fan! Well I'm not huge, but you get it. I still don't eat it that often because I do limit my sugar intake but it's a great treat.

I mean seriously, how good can a chickpea possible get? You start next to flavorless and add flavors.

As far as sugar goes, marmalade is a low glycemic index food. WAAAAY better than your standard jam/jelly. This means that eating it won't spike your insulin, so eating marmalade is really just a matter of the calories you're taking in. It doesn't have the negatives associated with most "sugar" foods. The citrus in it counteracts the standard insulin response that sugar causes; that's why Lemon Curd is even better than marmalade as far as glycemic index issues go.

So, don't go crazy with it, but you can allow yourself to enjoy it more often without worry or guilt. You can safely eat it without worrying that the body will auto-convert to fat. By virtue of it being Low GI, the body will use the sugars to resupply your muscles and cells with glycogen, instead.

Not saying you are wrong.

I don't know if fresh from the plant chickpeas would be better.

I'd venture a guess that the tahini has more impact on the overall outcome than the chickpea. The chickpeas get smashed and pureed.... and texture changes from freezing, drying, etc are probably completely lost in the process.

As a general rule, stuff tastes better fresh. Maybe this is an exception.

Use the tahini that has the roasted sesame seeds. White can orange letters. I don't remember the brand name.

I've been experimenting also. My favorite additives are the fresh dill, a little buffalo wing sauce and spicy brown mustard. I just found a recipe where the author swears by boiling the canned chickpeas before hitting the processor to give it a much creamier texture.

Bagel with cream cheese and a glass of grape juice.

10 unsalted almonds, 10 unsalted walnuts, and 5 unsalted cashews. If you ask why this number specific, well I used to buy the small bags of nuts and after counting them that was the number closest to what is sold in the stores

True, but as I said, you are starting with a flavor of 1 on a scale of 10. I think you are safe to use canned. Goya has a good product.


Remember, I have already said I like hummus, but the real flavor comes from the added ingredients.
I like chick peas in a salad, but again it really isn't for flavor. I guess it is more for a difference in texture.

That makes some sense.

Whole Kalamata olives are really good too. They are very meaty. But also very salty, so I only eat a couple here and there..

Can we pimp a food store here

https://www.muncanfoodcorp.com/

This is my candy store. The double smoked bacon is a favorite. Everything they make is great.