[Closed] WFH - Snack of Choice

I'm now addicted to these

Organic quinoa.

And Maoam Pinballs.

Stroopwafels

What ever snack bars I can get my hands on before my son hoovers them all up.

I'm dreading the day he starts drinking beer!

Walking downstairs is dangerous (I work in the loft). Three kids and a wife, all at home, lots of food knocking about...

Range of things, but trying to be vaguely healthy, I often find myself grabbing a (very large) handful of two of granola. Find it quite moreish and sometimes better as a snack than as a brekkie

Stroopwafels

Good choice. Essential to have a cup of tea though, it is a scientifically proven fact that you cannot eat a stroopwafel without a cup of tea in the other hand (same for custard creams)

Biscoff biscuits spread with Whole Earth crunchy Peanut butter.

There's a reason I am not naturally a thin person!

Bourbon.

homemade flapjacks - use dates and agave syrup instead of sugar

Espresso and Jaffa Cakes.

Toast. Got into the habit of a couple of slices mid-morning, then another couple mid-afternoon. As well as 3 full meals of course.

Try to avoid snacking as my brain doesn't seem to have an "off" switch with these things, so I tend to find myself starting e.g. a sharing-size bag of crisps intending to have a handful, and then eating the lot. Usually then followed up by something vaguely virtuous such as an apple, to somehow absolve the sin of gluttony.

A lot of coffee to get through home schooling as wine/beer in the morning is frowned upon.

Snacking on biltong and fruit during the day as well.

Avoiding 2nd breakfast is tough. Coffee machines took a hammering, as has the toaster.

Absolutely everything and anything in sight. Must stop

Fruit or peanut butter on rice cakes. Occassionally a mid-afternoon kit-kat or slice of cake with a cup of tea.

Coffee

Beef Jerky

Fruit

Greek yogurt

Anything I can find in the treat box

Sweets that have been put away and subsequently forgotten about by the kids...

Also before Christmas I got through 2kg (yes you read that right) of Reese's Peanut Butter cups in about 6 weeks.

So...a mixed bag...

Literally just come upstairs from a kitchen sortie. Have a lunchtime of meetings sadly.

Aeropress coffee, about half a dozen (full size) cheddars, and a bag of onion rings and lentil curls (one of each) as a snack while I'm zooming

Ideally I get by on apples, mixed nuts and raisins, King’s Black Bean Vegan Jerky, and Itsu seaweed snacks.

And for the most least part, yes. And very nice too. But wheat-delivery options are too readily-available. Sandwiches, biscuits and toast are probably killing me.

I love the danger aspect of never knowing when you will bite on that viscous one

Like that moment when chewing your earthwork jerky and it instantly returns to slimy wormflesh?

All amateurs...
Dried Mango is officially the future.

Tesco Chocolate & Salted Caramel rice cakes. 98 cal per cake. Not so good when you eat 3 in a sitting...

I also have a big bag of 100% sugar-free oldskool sweets ie chocolate eclairs, Everton mints, rhubarb and custard, rum and raisin toffee.

Some are really nice and keep my mind off heading to the bread-bin. But ‘isomalt’ seems to be secret code for a giant ****ing laxative 😬

Now limited to two sweets a day. It’s like how I imagine being an astronaut on a really rubbish year-long galactic mission.

Biscoff biscuits spread with Whole Earth crunchy Peanut butter.

Biscuits are unnecessary. All you need is a spoon. Or, if the jar is full, you can just lick it like and icecream.

Also, string cheese.

Broiled woodcock (on the radiator)

Really trying to resist snacking while WFH as it's a slippery slope combined with the lack of activity.
I don't have breakfast until 10am - 2 slices of seeded toast, one with butter one with peanut butter. Then something for lunch around 1pm. Then it's resisting the afternoon snack options where it gets difficult. So much food around the house with three children and wife also at home. My mouth is watering now at the prospect of sweet treats and a coffee this afternoon. Damn you OP.

It was everything I could lay my fat little fingers on until I spotted the scales starting to sweat as I approached. Now being really strict with myself. One protein bar a day and cut up apple off the knife and banana.

I’m so fat at the moment I’m trying to avoid snacking but I am making space for an Aldi Tru bar in cherry bakewell flavour. They’re blooming lovely. The chocolate orange ones are nice too and I’m assuming they’re helping me shit too which is nice.

I can't stop eating them.

I also now buy my crisps in boxes...

The number of packets of crisps I've eaten since the start of lockdown might now be hitting 7 figures

I upset the wife by calling watsits Trumps toes ........ she hasn't forgiven me yet

^
🤣 Brilliant

And flaming cheetoes are probably out...

+1 for the stroopwafel. Annoyingly my favourite tea mug is just larger than the wafel so it can't be balanced on top to melt the caramel.

This morning on the shop noticed Pringles Kickin' Sour Cream flavour rated as medium spice, they didnt make it past 11, very nice, as moreish as the original flavour with a slight kick at the end

Trying to be really really good and hit my weight target for the first time in 20 years so, assuming I have done the exercise to permit it, one snack sized Snickers or 2 finger KitKat and maybe a handful of nuts or a bag of crisps.

Other than that fresh fruit only and snacks are banned.

fizzy cola laces. liquourice flyers (ltd edition sours flyers atm) mini cheddars with primulea and Ass Kickin’ super sour cream Pringles

I will miss these after our imminent move back North

https://www.travelaboutbritain.com/recipes/wiltshire_lardy_cake.php

This morning on the shop noticed Pringles Kickin’ Sour Cream flavour rated as medium spice, they didnt make it past 11, very nice, as moreish as the original flavour with a slight kick at the end

i love a pipe of pringles but holy shit these are the latest greatest thing of all time!!

i called at tesco to pick up some bits for my mum the other day and bought myself a tube - they didnt survive the rest of the journey to her house! then on the way home i had to stop again and stock up with another 5 tubes!!! mrs went shopping this week and they've sold out!

Spicy monster munch!

Because my taste buds are still 12 apparently.

Also, ALL the biscuits.

Crisps during working hours? You heathens.

I've mainly been polishing off the Xmas choccies this month.

Stroopwafels

We do have a few tins of these, they go very nice candyflipped with a chunk of 70% chocolate.

For me it's cake.

Luckily my wife loves baking as does my next-door neighbour. And my father in law who lives round the corner has just discovered baking. All three of them seem to be watching their weight and I hate seeing good food go to waste

I have carrot cake, a tray bake and some delicious twisty biscuit things to get through. It's a tough life.

IHN Nevermind your lardy cake deficit, you are coming back to chorley cake land
Try +butter and cheese!

Dried Mango is officially the future.

All fine as long as you don't have to shut the door to the home office without a gas mask. Also tricky on long zoom calls when you need your 23rd dump of the morning.

Biscoff biscuits spread with Whole Earth crunchy Peanut butter.

Have you tried the Biscoff biscuit spread? This is crack in spreadable biscuit form!

I discovered Hodmedods snacks when in lockdown last year as I was looking for a slightly healthier snack than nuts/crisps - roasted broad beans/peas in a range of flavors. Chilli & Lime or the smoked paprika are my favourites.
https://hodmedods.co.uk/collections/roasted-and-canned-pulses?sort_by=best-selling

we bought some of that Biscoff biscuit pread but struggled to find uses for it.

then we started spreading it on Biscoff biscuits!!

Ah so there’s another use for it aside from eating it from the jar with a tablespoon

Absolutely everything and anything in sight. Must stop

Yeah, this.

Special mention to Sensations mini poppadom things, and Giant Wotsits.

And fig rolls. Started buying them as a healthier biscuit. Not when you eat a packet a day.

My Chub Club 21 results speak for themselves

you are coming back to chorley cake land

the dry, unappetising, and forgettable poorer relation  of the delicious Eccles cake. I suppose that’s the reason for the butter and cheese? One for moisture, the other for flavour? 😂

Though the price of Eccles cakes seems to have risen a lot over the past couple of years.

Giant Wotsits

almost irresistible. So big. So cheesy. So delicious.

M&S All Butter Pistachio and Almond Cookies.

I am surviving January by throwing money at expensive biscuits.

Have you tried the Biscoff biscuit spread?

I can't bring myself to buy it as I know it will just end in a new addiction. It's a biscuit flavoured spread, a sticky sugar syrup not even masquerading as anything better for you!

I do like to add the biscuit to the Peanut butter to up the sugar content of the no added sugar peanut butter.

All M&S cookies are subject to a very short life span with me around!

Last night's Chinese/curry/pizza.

I've got a sweet tooth and love crisps but have found that dried mango is surprisingly satisfying. The texture is quite a lot like beef jerky, the only issue is that it seems to taste surprisingly different between brands and even same brands between packets. When it's good it's really good but it can be decidedly average. I'm on a constant hunt for the perfect pack.

https://twitter.com/aGirlCalledChar/status/1365932190450606081

Ginger oat cakes with Philadelphia topped with lemon curd. Instant bite sized cheese cake.

You wouldn't have time to snack if you had proper jobs.

I'm baking quite bit so last weeks "snacks" were Delia rich fruit scones, the week before was my first ever chocolate brownies, "they're too sweet, I don't like chocolate that much!"- as he eats 2 a day until they're gone.
Week before that was chocolate and stout soda bread ......

His bought snacks seem to be Hot Bombay Mix

Mini Cheddars, jalapeño and cheese flavour, truly a gift from god in these dark days.

Have been hitting the salty breadsticks (the really thin ones that break easily) recently. They seem to help food cravings at the 3:30 t 4pm period. If I need sugar, then I have the Kex Choklad as my secret weapon. Light, lots of "energy"

As it is now approaching Easter (OK so the supermarket started pushing them at me straight after Christmas) hot cross buns have become my snack nemesis. Toasted or not, with butter obvs.
Might have to hide the scales until well after April is done.

Mini Cheddars, jalapeño and cheese flavour, truly a gift from god in these dark days.

I feel my evening exercise may involve a walk to the supermarket on the hunt for these.

Hot cross buns are a staple food at this time of year rather than a snack. With cheese if it's a mealtime, straight out the packet any other time.....