healthy snack ideas

i want to live

ants on a log! heee hee hee hee heee hee hee hee

cashew nuts

almond nuts

http://www.makeandtakes.com/wp-content/uploads/octopus-hot-dogs-013.jpg

walnut nuts

sorry.

Nuts are pretty tempting, too easy to splurge and ruin yur diet.

http://i.walmartimages.com/i/p/00/07/05/60/97/0007056097836_500X500.jpg

^^ always got one of these in the freezer
goes great with a Bloody Mary
I might secretly count Bloody Mary as 'healthy snack' too bcz it is mostly V8?

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i sprinkle this shit on everything snack-wise:
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you can mix it w/ popcorn (easy on the butter+salt)

but my favorite "healthy snack" is a rice cake w/ cottage cheese on top (the organic stuff is chunkier and less watery) and then sprinkle some DULSE FLAKES on top of that. basicaly fires my three big snack receptors: Salty, Crunchy, Dairy.

put some peanut butter on a piece of bread & wrap that shit around a peeled banana
that shit is called a 'banana boat'
Mr. ROgers taught me that shit

eat a boiled egg and put a fuckton of tasty hot sauce on every bite!

boiled eggs totally!!!!

but if you're going to have more than a few, skip the yolks on some

markers i urge you to read this thread as you begin your healthy snack quest:
list junk food dressed up for yuppies who are too smart for junk food

http://www.asianfoodgrocer.com/img/prods/miso-soup/1229429-nama-yuge-instant-miso-lg.jpg

Instant miso soup! Just boil some water and thank me!

homemade corn nuts

<3 <3 thanks so much guys, and gr8080 i will definitely check out that thread

http://images.meredith.com/dlv/images/2009/10/ss_10_apricots.jpg

pb and j on whole wheat. spring for "nicer" pb/j obv, with less sugar.

nori (japanese seaweed) is great, it's salty but haas like 0 zero calories

also dried squid is a pretty lean, high-protein snack that's only high in salt iirc

take fresh grapes, remove them from the stem, wash them, then put in a tupperware container and throw in the freezer for a few hours-- delicious, sweet, and frosty, just like ice cream but with loads of vitamins and fiber!

sounds good

take fresh grapes, put them in u mouth

works w/other fruit too

banana sliced into "coins" frozen for 15 minutes+ is an exact replica of banana ice cream imo. blend with a little cocoa powder or peanut butter and you're living the good life.

fruits are apparently bad for you. so are nuts. you can't win!

xpost ffm omg jinx I was just gonna post that

i'm not clear on how cold fruits = tastes like ice cream

pureed frozen banana sure as hell tastes like banana icecream

fruits are apparently bad for you. so are nuts. you can't win!

― Philip Nunez, Monday, July 16, 2012 4:08 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

naw forget weirdo low carb extremism

http://africaimports.com/mmAFRICAIMP2/Images/chewsticksB.JPG

take a thing from the fridge. eat it. if anyone complains, say it must have been someone else who ate it.

pureed frozen banana sure as hell tastes like banana icecream

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, July 16, 2012 1:11 PM (5 minutes ago

My brother is obsessed with his Yonanas machine, which operates on this principle.

I typically smother my banana in confectionery sugar

lol abbbottt I would buy that just because it's called "yonanas"

http://i.imgur.com/HX0cT.jpg

if u have one of these type juicers it does the pureed frozen banana thing real nice

I discovered banana trip because I slice into coins so that I don't have a full banana in every smoothie. Banana never *quite* hardens, just turns into this ice cream-like texture. If you blend it it's even creamier. Lovely.

jinx VG! we owe each other some beer. no banana flavouring though.

there was a delicious banana shake i tried to recreate using only bananas but it turned out the secret ingredient was icecream.

beer is my snack of choice

I just use a regular blender like a chump. Might write Lexnanas on it for kicks.

lol I am into that way more than Yonanas. I think if I wrote Abnanas on something it would just be confusing. "You misspelled bananas."

D'oh! But it's kind of adorable sounding anyway!

McCracknanas

omg mine could be Shananas :D

My brother's would be a Merrnanas, I should make him a custom label.

we used to have to watch this show called Telefrancais in French class - main character, pineapple, named Ananas (pineapple en Francais)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6a/Telefrancais.jpg

just wanted to share

fuck that horribl ecreature

fyi JUICE is nature's way of tricking us in to eating fiber so unless you're drinking something that has the whole fruit in it you need to slow your roll

the name "yonanas" seems to be a trick, too...

I actually used my juicer to make carrot juice th eother day then I felt very virougous

i bet it was delicious but you'd be better off just eating some carrots

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Frozen banana "ice cream" is delicious. You can add all kinds of stuff to it. I just make mine in the blender. It doesn't even really taste like bananas imo - more just like vanilla soft serve.

http://www.thekitchn.com/magic-one-ingredient-ice-cream-5-ways-peanut-butter-nutella-and-more-171618

why is the nbc logo backwards! what devilry is tis!!!!!!!!!!

i think people reverse the image to trick the evil mpaa robots into thinking it's not debbie downer but non-NBC-owned public domain character Dora Depressive played by Raquelle Dortch.

Also - I make by banana soft serve in a reg old blender and frozen grapes are the best.

feel bad for people making this in a reg old blender operating at a smoothness deficit

the frozen grapes thing is pretty great

is the slicing into coins the secret trick? they still end up kind of brownish pureed bananas. i'd really liken it more to banana pudding than ice cream.

with no carageenan!?

dude run that banana through a campion juicer or a yonanas and u will know what its all abt

i can't believe something called "yonanas" could shame the vitamix.

all this talk of juicers and methods seems to defeat the point of snacks, which is to shovel stuff absent-mindedly into one's mouth with no effort at all

just eat carrots and bananas and grapes as they are, it's fine

bananas won't freeze solid so you don't need to pre slice them into coins. just peel them and bag them whole in the freezer - make sure you get as much air out of the bag as possible. the longer you freeze them for the browner they'll go, try not to keep them for more than a week or so, i guess. i use a food processor, you gotta let it run for like 5 mins for ultimate ice cream simulacrum (my blender is a piece of shit, most cheap blenders you can only pulse in 10 sec bursts or the motors burn out).

frozen mango is real good blended in, as well.

ahaha ffm we watched telefrancais too!

'les ananas ne parlent pas!!"

<3 I posted a picture on my FB yesterday and a stream of Canadians came out of the woodwork chuckling with glee. Another reminded me of 'Sol,' who I'd forgotten about.

tbh I find it easier to chop the banana into chunks at least before freezing -- it breaks down a little easier in the food processor and doesn't put as much stress on the motor.

i ate one of these motherfuckers today it was p dope

http://fortheloveofpeaches.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Lemondademelon1-252x300.jpg

some sort of honeydew varient

half is in the fridge

yeah but you can just break up the whole banana into chunks before throwing it in the blender - that was my point about the banana not freezing solid. plus whole banana = less surface area to brown. xps

honestly unless you have a yonanas you really shouldnt even be talking frozen banana technique

i dunno about banana not freezing solid. i'd put one in peel and all by mistake and it came out as a very hard-to-peel bludgeon. i think it would make a good murder mystery ("detective, the vic was bludgeoned to death, but there's no murder weapon!" the dishwasher just smiled to himself and ate his very mushy and damp banana. "well, I guess we'll never solve this case." "hold on a second," said Encyclopedia Brown. ENCYCLOPEDIA BROWN KNEW WHO THE KILLER WAS. DO YOU?)

that's the peel freezing solid - you gotta peel it first.

cant freeze w/the peel on bro

lol if lex can't even figure out how to use a DVD player I can just imagine him alone in a kitchen with a juicer

yeah hold up on the peel yo

I have never tried to freeze a peeled banana! Just1n3 dropping science on us! I don't know why I knew that coins did not freeze solid but my brain could not connect to a larger banana similarly not freezing solid :P

actually, maybe they do freeze solid if you have a properly working freezer - my freezer is overstocked and a piece of shit.

i heard fully packed freezers are more efficient than empty ones? internet is really no help in solving that mystery.

My freezer is fine and they don't freeze totally solid. Nunez doin' something wrong imo.

yeah phil you need to walk us through your process - something's amiss

Banans on ice wont solve global warmin yo

yo ...nanas?

the first time i did this i didn't peel them - total disaster. i had to thaw them (defeating the whole purpose of freezing) and the peel didn't come off properly.

Yonanas might help bro

Yonanas are the Magic Bullet, then?

My shitty blender doesn't even have a top and it does this just fine. Sure I have to stop it and start it a couple times but I get perfect fro yo consistency banana stuff every time. It's pretty much the easiest thing in the world.

I want to slurp on yonanas

"My shitty blender doesn't even have a top and it does this just fine"

imagining ENBB sitting on a blender/toilet

a never-clog toilet with a rotating blade does feel like a patentable idea...

x-post

YOU STOP THAT RIGHT NOW

YOU GOOBER

the plunger conspiracy may have othre ideas - incidentally too much o yonanas will make yoconstipated

"At last, a practice space opens up for Tetreault. Percussionists warm up on a glockenspiel for 10 minutes in one practice room, then move to the next for the xylophone. As they get ready, the auditioners are battling their nerves. The calmest eat bananas, which are supposedly full of natural beta blockers."

yonanas a cure for yonxiety?

baby carrots n hummus

yogurt with yonanas = yogoyonanas

x-post YES

Also cucumber slices with either hummus or salsa

Cucumber w/salsa

Celery with spicy hummus

I love toasted nori seaweed, especially the spicy variety:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51L92GqyLxL._SL500_SS500_.jpg

1 calorie per paper thin 1.5" by 3.5" sheet, around 80 or so per jar. Get minerals and sate your salt cravings at once. My local asian supermarket carries these for around $2.75.

all this talk of things that are like ice cream is crazy. ice cream is like ice cream. frozen grapes and bananas are like frozen grapes and bananas. they're not even as good as nice, fresh, unfrozen grapes and bananas.

x-post NO. NO CELERY EVER OR FOR ANY REASON. GROSS.

the pureed banana is actually a lot like soft serve, i too was skeptical, its p surprising

x-post - Dude, you're wrong. If someone gave me the forzen banana stuff and told me it was soft serve I would believe them. It's that similar/good.

ha x-post but ice craem otm. It's really uncanny. If you add stuff to it it's even more amazing.

Or if you want a dip for crudités, use a 2% or non-fat Greek yogurt infused with herbs or spices you like.

Nori is awesome

Yes to greek yogurt + spices.

cucumber/baba

yeah sorry but contenderizer you are wrong about the bananas. i hated bananas before i discovered this method.

once on Teletubbies these english kids put grapes on their ice cream sundae - what the hell? what do they teach these kids?

sliced tomatoes on ezekiel bread with lots of pepper, maybe some pesto or basil, smoked salt

we should all chip in and buy condendo a yonanas

f contenderizer he doesn't even believe! Get me one.

I forgot what this thraed was abotu and was wondring why people were talking about healthy snacks

oh erica i thought yr 'blender' did a perfectly good job

It does but it's a pain in the ass because it has no top and I need to hold things on top of it and this other thing sounds p slick.

haha

its a pain in the ass when you fall into the food processor/toilet becuase some one left the seat up

we should all chip in and buy condendo a yonanas

gonna freeze and puree bananas today, tbh.

am still skeptical tho. i think i am just a lot more ice cream sensitive than you all.

frankly i'm shocked that contenderizer would choose to pedantically point out that pureed frozen fruit could never taste exactly like ice cream

there's a vegan ice cream place that does a really good facsimile of ice cream... unless the secret ingredient is ice cream.

and you will pay each of us $10 when you are proven wrong, contenderizer

pureed banana IS as good as icecream, u will see

coconut milk ice cream is vegan and v good

is it coconut milk that's the secret? (goes off to patent yoconanas)

ya prob

Vegan ice cream is pretty simple, because the creamy mouthfeel is just whipped & emulsified saturated fat. Coconut oil is about as saturated as dairy fat (and probably similarly unhealthy) and works just fine.

http://www.veganbeautyreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/coconut_bliss1.jpg

there are a few diff brands making coconut-milk based ice-cream-like frozen desserts now

despite having no dairy or soy they are just/almost as sugary and fatty as real ice cream so not really "healthy"

xpost

i'm not all that sold on bananas being super-healthy either. like if you ate nothing but bananas i bet you'd get yonabetes.

most things you shouldnt eat nothing but

some friend of mine had a theory as to why the coconut fat was better than the dairy fat but w/e the sugar is the worst part even if its agave or whathaveyou

where is cutty when you need him

i heard carrots were like all sugar, too!

the sugar thats in fruits and vegetables is fine, stay away from refined sugar, is how its broken down to an extent

you need fiber w/ that sugar basically

its like sure chew on some coca leaves nbd, only smoke crack occasionally

lagoon: man of crude tastes

everything in moderation

im a simple man, on the weekend sure eat a chipwich maybe do a lol blow w/the fellas

Coconut milk is one of the most fatty, caloric things on the planet. I don't know about coconut-based ice cream, but when I cook with coconut milk I always use the low-fat version and it still adds mucho calories to a meal. It's delicious though.

coconut milk is of the gods. is super rich & fatty though. a friend of mine who was crazy about it once wanted to eat just the "cream", the solids that separate out if the can sits for a while. was delicious, but we both felt kind of sick after just a bite.

Every time I eat something with coconut milk in it, I'm full for minimum 6 hours

My favourite snack these days is avocado with soy sauce on it

Tho tbh I don't really believe in snacks

what abt only snacks

It's a belief that sometimes causes me problems... blood-sugar-related anger problems... so I try to remember to put some almonds in my purse or something.
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lunch is usually what some might consider a snack. Like half an avocado and some cheese/meat. It's a meal! Calorically/nutritionally.

Lunch is truly the most boring and utilitarian of meals imo so might as well make it a snack.

really though, snacks and non-sustainable resource extraction are the downfall of western civilization

if only we could snack on greenhouse gasses

snacks are life

Snacks are for little kids and bored people on airplanes

snacks are snacks all over the world

snacks are for fat people in offices and sad people late in the night

I would accept a a gin and tonic or a beer as a snack

"half an avocado and some cheese/meat. It's a meal!"

that's like something out of dickens if dickens went to UCSB for undergrad.

if i go into the kitchen on a whim and eat a handful of almonds or a bunch of grapes, it is a snack. i am in favor of snacks.

hi i am a fat person in an office

avocado/fruit/kale/eggs/pork shoulder is like 90% of my current diet

the other 10% is hummus and baby carrots

i eat corn flakes, sometimes

I also make protein shakes

plus a bonus 5% for beer and then like 15% other stuff

I also don't believe in baby carrots

get a real carrot, cut it up

what nation does snacks the best do you think?

i nominate Japan.

I would accept a a gin and tonic or a beer as a snack

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, July 17, 2012 4:01 PM (9 minutes ago)

^^^way to do

baby carrots taste like nothing! I think they are made out of the worst carrots and then soaked in preservative-laced water to boost colour + remove all flavour (citation needed)

otm japan = best snacks

get a real carrot, cut it up

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, July 17, 2012 7:10 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they cut it up for you and peeled it and soaked it in delicious in preservative-laced water, it is ready for hummus!

also: cute

cut it up and start again

haha when I told a friend of mine that I didn't believe in baby carrots he was mildly shocked and said "but they're so cute; they're babies!!"

I said "you are being lied to."

thats what the government wants u to think

snacks are for fat people in offices and sad people late in the night

That's not true, I don't like snacks.

They're regular carrots cut into bits and then beveled, which is also how human babies are made.

hahaaa

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They're regular carrots cut into bits and then beveled, which is also how human babies are made.

― Team Safeword (Abbbottt), Tuesday, July 17, 2012 7:19 PM (26 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^otm

do the makers of yonanas make a baby carrot extruder, too?

lolll abbott :)

every time i go to the supermarket i ~almost~ get suckered into buying those baby zucch and baby sunburst squash and baby cauli - they're so TINY AND CUTE!!! but they're like 5x the price of normal size veg

they had miniature corn at the co-op the other day, in tiny husks and everything!

baby carrots are awesome

so are snacks

I would pass out if I didn't have something in the afternoon. :(

this may qualify us for some kind of death camp apparently

stay tuned :)

In all honesty, I eat every 4 to 5 hours, so if I know I'm not eating dinner until 8 I will prob eat a snack at 4 or so but if I'm not eating until 6/7, I won't have a snack. And if I'm out and about, gah, that is why I need to remember to put almonds in my bag.

Seriously though I don't understand non-snackers. I eat lunch around 12:30 or 1 most days and by 4 I am starving. If I don't have something small then I'd have a headache by 5. Maybe I'm eating the wrong things or at the wrong times or something. idk.

do you guys wish that snacking wasn't allowed inside so you could take snack breaks the same way smokers get to take smoke breaks? you get to lean against the building with shades on bumming baby carrots from a coworker all saying you gotta quit someday.

baby carrots + hummus all the way, no brakes. i made some hummus and bought baby carrots the other day so i have some waiting for me right now! i know they are weird repurposed and overpackaged carrot bits, but still i love them. actual carrots are good too.

Okay maybe if baby carrots are your only option in the face of chips, then sure, but otherwise wtf

Totally bought baby carrots tonight. Don't be mad, Robyn. :/

http://pterodactylpants.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/baby-carrot2.jpg

Snacks are where I'm a nutrition nazi viking! I'm sorry :/

I feel though if you're eating every 4-5 hours then some of that constitutes snacking, no?

I also just got back from 5 days at my friends' organic vegetable farm

meals are either snacks or feasts, nothing in-between

If my lunch is at noon and is snack size and dinner is at 7:30 or later then there will be a 4:30 snack
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Carrots are really great, possibly underrated

carrots really taste better juiced, probably because of all that sugar that's released somehow.

usually I will forget to have a snack and be dying by 6:30 but will carry on without food for the snack window has closed
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always have a snack in my purse at all times
either lol larabar or almonds
it's not a good idea for me to feel like i am dying of hunger

don't get the snack hate itt

my desk drawer at work is full of larabars and almonds
I'd be chewing on the furniture mid afternoon if it wasn't for <3 snacks <3

my snack militancy and regulated times btwn meals/snacks is because if i freely snack, i will be in physical pain (nausea due to blood-sugar wackiness and/or digestive inflammation, which i can only describe as a painful tightness that only goes away with time (rather than with some other bodily function...), so pain is kind of a motivator there.
so keep having fun with all your snacking, you pain-free lucky bastards.

I'm like E, I get headaches if I don't. :(

I have sensitive teeth and a love of carrots so I use my mandoline to slice em into coins
Then I can trick myself into thinking they're chocolate coins

that's some impressive trickery

whats a larabar?

basically a datebar - diff flavors to trick you into thinking they're not made from dates but in the end they all just taste like datebars

but tasty anyway so yay

http://i.imgur.com/Sua1E.jpg

otm

Post that to every ilx thread I guess

gr80 didn't you revive this thread? pshaw

gr80 goes all sally struthers on a snack thread

we can't all be benedictine monks

I'm hungry

otm

its weird how humans evolved to get headaches and cranky if they didnt eat exactly on time everyday

they were probably cranky before but never go to talk about it on the internet

frozen grapes are really good, thx grdawg

they're like little round popsicles

ugh i tried this for the first time recently and they were SO GROSS - the texture was mushy and just ugh

maybe u did not freeze them for long enough

I think they were in for a couple days?

maybe u dont like them

Today I start, prunes

frozen prunes?

I love prunes.

M-O-O-N that spells prunes.

I had no idea, until recently, that prunes were dried plums. Not sure how you get juice out of a dried fruit but w/e.

choose

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3046/2571324873_a3269c6ab2.jpg

http://i00.i.aliimg.com/photo/266045314/Fruit_dehydrator.jpg

option A seems fraught with danger

I don't eat enough dried fruit/jerky to buy a dehydrator.

Besides, making THAT much dried fruit would tempt me to eat that much dried fruit which = bathroom sadness

frozen grapes should not have mushy texture. they are more like artillery shells.

on frozen bananas front:
frozen bananas with skins -- deadly weapon
frozen bananas without skins -- bruising weapon
i fooled two people with banana-based ice cream but one person went "this is just bananas!"

"this is just bananas" was my experience.

it IS just bananas

"this is just baby food" was my reaction

:D was/is my reaction

rather "this is just bananas and tastes nothing like soft serve ice cream"

i think the trick is putting in nutella or something.

also calling it frozen banana puree

there's always money in the frozen banana puree stand

rather "this is just bananas and tastes nothing like soft serve ice cream"

― fit and working again, Friday, August 24, 2012 1:12 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

u did it wrong

inferior bananas imo

or tastebuds are defective

harissa on multiseed bread yum.
Not come across this moroccan delicacy before i don't think but it is really tasty though this version's supposedly a lot less hot than what you'd get in North Africa. mainly peppers and garlic in olive oil apparently. yummy anyway.

xp possibly on all three counts

rather "this is just bananas and tastes nothing like soft serve ice cream"

― fit and working again, Friday, August 24, 2012 1:12 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

u did it wrong

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Friday, August 24, 2012 1:23 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

likely

need a yonanas

i just can't get over the concept of needing a recipe for pureed frozen bananas and then calling that recipe "banana soft serve"

it's PUREED BANANAS

i'm available

fuck that horribl ecreature

― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Monday, July 16, 2012 4:55 PM (1 month ago)

i love this post!

- the bananas have to be really really ripe before freezing
- you don't blend till it's just pureed, you blend for like 5 mins

a few notes:

- as someone who used to live next to a weird health food store that made its own banana soft serve, i can assure you that it can be done, and very very very well.

- the tomatoes around here are so good that when i need a snack in a pinch, i cut some slices, drizzle a little olive oil on top, spring a teeeny bit of salt, and voila! fresh!!

i tried frozen grapes, i prefer unfrozen grapes. maybe will use the remaining froze grapes 2 throw @ ppl tho so, good advice

my new jam is dried dates!! like the kind you can buy in the bulk section for hella cheap.

as veg mentioned upthread, larabars are dried date bars, several dope flavs, each is like 200 cals iirc so there'ev def been times ill eat like 2 & coffee instead of breakfast

yeah lärabars are rad. pretty awesome when you can pick up a packaged snack at a convenience store and the only ingredients are "dates, cherries, almonds"

blueberry larabars are my fave, and the lemon ones are p good too.

top 3 -
lemon
cashew cookie
cookie dough

I liked the peanut butter for a while but then I decided I was sick of it

the chocolate ones are not good, most of them taste like dirt

my fav larabar is ginger snap

ooh I've not tried that one

theres a "seasonal" orange float thats p good

Lately I've been taking half a small Hass avocado, slicing it in half lengthwise, adding a little salt and lemon juice and serving on one of these:
http://drkracker.com/our-products/crispbreads/klassic-3-seed/

Also works well with a sliced tomato.

If a person can't think up a healthy snack in late August or early September based upon seasonal fruits or vegetables, then they do not understand the practise or theory of healthy snacks. This time of year is fresh food fruit and vegetable paradise (at least in the Northern Hemisphere).

The cookie dough larabars are amazing! I like those and the cherry pie. I'm going to have to try the other recommended ones now.

guys

http://i.imgur.com/s0pr1.jpg

Well. What are u waiting for?

must do as bananas command

idk tho maybe i should scan that qr code get some further infos

oh btw buying a yonanas this week

will report back

daaaamn

qr code = yonanas FB page y/n

im guessing yonanas.com but i supose i could check, ive never scanned a qr code before, i dont think anyone has

do it do it

when i scan it the bananas turn into yonanas possibly

download yonanas soft serve str8 to ur mouth

ok im sry to report that i failed to scan, i tried like 3 diff apps and nothing happened, i dont think qr codes are a real thing, they just look cool

sometimes living in the future is a crock

yo(nan)lo

YOYO

#YOLANAS

erica is a liar btw: i tried a cookie dough lärabar and it was an abomination

my friend found a paw paw on the prairie this week - can you imagine?

pb choc is the best flavour, least date-y tasting

choclate paw paw?

erica is a liar btw: i tried a cookie dough lärabar and it was an abomination

― RAP GAME MARiSSA MARCHANT (gr8080), Monday, September 10, 2012 2:05 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wtf are you even talking about? they're delicious!

pb choc is the best flavour, least date-y tasting

― just1n3, Monday, September 10, 2012 8:29 AM (22 minutes ago)

also an abomination. its a DATE BAR the whole point is for it to taste like dates smdh

LEAST date-y

Bought a Yonanas last night. Making banana, cherry, dark chocolate yonanas this evening. Will update.

:D

yo

nanas

gimme a yo

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6202/6075287490_c8809f0352.jpg

mostly plants, imo

"all dressed"

weirdo canadians imo

you shoudl read what they said to me

This is the Thread Where You Post Angry Letters You Wrote to Various Companies

It's a little bit of everything! Mostly tastes like BBQ.

the bbg logo on the front looks liek hell clam with fire coming out

yonana / what's my name

this snack is yonanas

Feck you nanas!

whatchoo say about mynana?

these grapes i just bought are some of the premiere grapes on earth

jealous

currently into minneola tangelos

i mean they're oranges but more orange

http://i.imgur.com/XJG5k.png

idk that ive ever had one of them

oh nm just looked at a picture of one

also known as the boobfruit

lol

I was gonna say 'tittyfruit' but that would be so crass

uncouth

i love tangelos. i used to eat more larabars but i think they have so much calories but maybe just some kinds. cookie dough is one of the best ones! also jocolat.

They're high cal because they're full of sugary dates and fatty nuts but they're energy bars so still healthy

Didn't get around to using it until just now. This thing is a game changer imo. SO GOOD!

I often go to have a banana and as I am eating it think "why am I doing this, I dont like bananas at all" - I guess i feel like they are goign to go bad if someone no eat them

About to make pumpkin pie yonanas, yo.

punanas

how did the other ones turn out, the dark chocolate and whatnot?

delicious! Did I not post afterwards? It was seriously good. Just nanas, frozen cherries and a piece of 70% dark choc. Tasted similar to cherry garcia imo.

oh yum

How does the machine improve upon a regular blender?

am i the only one who's had

THAT SHIT IS YONANAS!

Y.O.N.A.N.A.S!

stuck in their head since it was mentioned on this thread?

nope

that yo nan
that yo nan
that yo nan

yonana / what's my name

― flopson, Friday, September 14, 2012 3:56 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark

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:D

i just bought three bunches of frozen bananas w/the intention of freezing two of them but then i left two of them at the supermarket :(

you can buy bananas already frozen?

barbarous

plain old homemade brown bag popcorn is my new favorite thing

ilx plz inspire me with interesting topping suggestions that aren't like, butter/ranch powder/taco seasoning

has anyone put hot sauce on their popcorn? is it any good?

yes
try a light mist of olive oil and spicy paprika for satisfying spicy popcorn that doesn't make your hands gross

ooh that sounds good

nutritional yeast and salt! though it will leave your hands gros and get all over the place.

I had been trying nutritional yeast the last couple of days and getting mad bc it didnt' seem to work?...then realized that I was missing key ingedient of oil for it to stick

cf: "vegemite grrl's home for the absent minded" thread :)

feel compelled to post "beef" as a suggestion on this (and every) thread
#toomuchtimeonilx

great OP

quality first response too

Carrots and peanut butter and apples are my fave snacks at the moment. Last night I used a juicer for the first time and made a concoction with carrot and kale juice and it was SO GOOD.

vegemite i put this stuff on everything including popcorn

http://www.amazon.com/Dulse-Flakes-Certified-Vegetables-COhsawast/dp/B0019JRLBC

ever since you said about the rice cakes with cottage cheese I've been looking for dulse flakes! there's a health food store by my office, I may have to hit them up

...

or just get them off amazon like in the link haha, duh me

Munching on some broccoli florets with the best hummus which is unfortunately called "eat well enjoy life".

whoa

It's really good though. I recommend.

second only to "food should taste good" or whatever that shit they sell at whole foods is called
i always wonder why shopping there makes me feel gross and that kind of brand name is part of it.

BUT i bet it tastes good!

not hating on the taste, just the name
like any foundation that has the word "flawless" in it

Hah yeah it does. I am a fan of FSTG chips but the name is annoying, yes. Wait, didn't you have a thread about those?!

we got some raw hummus last weekend bc mr veg wanted to try it
he was v displeased

i'm not a huge hummus person, except for TJ's mediterranean hummus which I love. a lot of them have too much lemon juice, i think, they aren't smooth tasting.

oh god i love hummus so much

i'm into balsamic vinegar on my popcorn these days

I'm very picky about hummus, if it doesn't have enough tahini and garlic I can't eat it.

whoa

balsamic popcorn sounds goood

it's like salt-and-vinegar popcorn

oh god

yeah I need to try that

btw I brought my oil misto to work so I can make nutritional yeast stick to my popcorn: kind of excited tbh

I think I took over another thread bitching about it, that I know :-/

I ate Chinese crunchy radish yesterday. Amazing! Like roast dinner with Chinese five spice. 37p a bag.

When I make hummus it's raw (I use canned beans, heathen that I am), what's the distinction?

canned beans forever

Yeah! I rarely know the day before if I want a bean dish.

canned beans are best for hummus imo unless you are some kind of full time hummus manufacturer

Canned beans are cooked

I accidentally made raw hummus once - I somehow thought I only had to soak the chickpeas, not cook them.

It tasted horrendous.

yeah there is a world of difference between canned/cooked chickpeas vs raw chickpeas. they're reaaaaaally bland. and they have a diff texture too. it wasn't good. though admittedly the raw hummus we got had no other flavors even attempting to try to make it taste good

for the money they charge for it, you think they'd at least taste it before shilling it to the rest of us

Hahhh, I am schooled. I guess I've never seen a raw chickpea! I've lived a very whitebread life, what can I say?

http://nocmoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/aladdin.jpg

<3

I went up to north GA last weekend and bought half a peck of Granny Smith apples and HOLY GOD are they delicious. Fruit is nature's candy!

very good popcorn topping: old bay seasoning

interesting!

VG which one of us is Aladdin?

me, because I want the pet monkey

if that's okay with u

It's not ok with me - I want the pet monkey. :(

Actually, never mind. I already pretty much have a pet monkey. You can have that one, it's OK.

you can have the pet monkey, I'll just have those cool pants

I'm just in this for that midriff! Perfect.

your hair has grown so much!

It's the chickpeas!

update: turns out I'm not huge on nutritional yeast. it has a weird flavor I'm not into

onto balsamic vinegar, and possibly vegemite :D

chili powder & cinnamon on popcorn = yum

Oh that sounds good.

Best yonanas so far might be just with walnuts and maple syrup drizzled on.

nutella + fronanas tasted fine but again did not mask the banana taste, not that bananas + nutella isn't a bad combo, but i want to trick someone.

also anything + nutella is probably not a very healthy snack idea.

which is a shame because its' soooooooooo delicious

maybe invent a nutella substitute that has the texture of nutella but kinda really tastes like bananas?

cherry pie larabars are yum

today i learned that banana bread larabars are D:
so gross

oh and I learned about eating radishes today and I love them

radish pro-tip: raw french breakfast radishes dipped in soft butter and salt. Or thin-sliced radishes on buttered toast. With salt.

salt on anything is my fav healthy snack

smoked salt on radishes: oh tis the bomb

radishes on toast? mind blown & open to exciting taste sensation!

Well OK see the way I like it is for the toast to cool enough that the butter doesn't melt, it is just soft and supports the thinly sliced radishes so they don't fall into your lap as you nom

oh I wouldn't like it that way, I don't really like eating unmelted/softened butter, it makes me queasy

This is my favourite way to eat Marmite - a think layer on a slick of not-melted butter on cooled-down toast.

has to be melted butter for me with vegemite

i used to like making 'worms' as a kid on salada crackers with vegemite and softened butter, squeezing til it poked out of the holes.

but now? nope. I don't even have butter on rolls at a restaurant unless the roll is warm enough to melt the butter.

salt on anything is my fav healthy snack

― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Monday, 10 December 2012 22:22 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nutritional truth bomb

otm

This is my favourite way to eat Marmite - a think layer on a slick of not-melted butter on cooled-down toast.

― ljubljana, Tuesday, December 11, 2012 12:56 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

+1, subbing vegemite for marmite

finally making progress on this shit. many months ago, sometime last year, i stopped going to 7-eleven. that means slurpees are out. sometime last month i mostly gave up sugary stuff. i also gave up soda, and i've only had a small bit of it since i did that. once. there's still room for improvement but it's much better than it was when i started this thread

what are yr favorite healthy snacks atm?

markers i am proud of you

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what are yr favorite healthy snacks atm?

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl)

i'm afraid i've mostly just cut out sugars. i'm still not eating great

markers i am proud of you

― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080)

only took way too many years

― buzza

my favorite highway (after the ks)

ha, yeah. I cut out most sugars about two months ago, but then found myself stumbling downstairs in the middle of the night to inhale half a bag of goldfish crackers or something.

fuck dudes i relapsed hard on some cheez-its recently, not a pretty scene

I'm sure every scene you're in is pretty, dude.

this is a good thing though b/c i was really seeing the negative effects of the shit i was consuming, especially the soda

Soda is the worst thing on the planet

my new favs are zing bars - the choc/pb, hazelnut/choc, choc/cashew/coconut, are all really good and of all the protein/energy bars i've tried, they're the most candy bar-tasting (extremely important to me) while still containing nutritious ingredients.

I need to give up soda. I'm a caffeine junkie who doesn't like coffee so it's going to be hard.

I need to give up soda. The good news is I'm making some progress with coffee enjoyment. In the form of lattes.

i bought a cup of coffee yesterday from an italian place and it struck me that i probably shouldn't ask for 'a latte' given that it just means milk to an italian and in italy itself you would get exactly that

I just snacked on some peaches and avocados w/lime juice, hot sauce & olive oil. Recommended.

ok that sounds dope as hell.

Except avocados scare me. I still can't strike a balance between, "oh, I've got to let these ripen up" and "fuck, I have a rotten avocado."

avocados are amazing. i just eat them with a spoon with nothing added.

even the skimmingest readers of ilx food posts would not have expected anything more elaborate.

Yeah, a not-perfect avocado is an abomination. But the preparation I mentioned is forgiving of slightly over-and under-ripies.

nice, I'll try it out.

still mostly off the sugar

http://i.imgur.com/yTI3Baa.jpg

ugh. I've been sneaking it here and there, but my intake is way, way down. I stopped drinking a couple weeks ago and I think that I had been compensating for "quitting sugar" over the last few months by steadily increasing my sugar consumption via alcohol.

i've been having some sugar lately and i am going to try this weekend to stop

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'Healthy' is a bit of a tricky word.

I try to maintain a pretty even glycemic index level and only let around 20ish% of my daily caloric intake consist of (good) fats. So most of my diet is made up of (good) carbs (and only eat starchy carbs when I'm lifting or running) and protein. I recently lowered my protein intake, so roughly I'm at a daily intake of 50-60% carbs, 20-30% protein, 20% fats. I used to have 'off days' when I can eat whatever, but I stopped that about a year ago, I think. Now I just cheat on around two meals a week, but still, not by much. I never eat fast food or processed foods. I never eat chocolate/candies, pop, processed/bottled fruit juices, etc.

Most of my sugar intake comes from fruits (not counting the carbs that spike my glycemic index levels, as this is more recovery from lifting/running). I eat about 8 pieces of fruits and two multivitamin gummies every day. It can take you much more to get the same amount of sugar intake if you eat a fruit than if you eat a chocolate bar or something.

My fruits (some are starchy/high in sugar but, as all things in diets, it is due to my active lifestyle, meaning this doesn't mean it translates well to another person):

2 bananas
4 oranges
2 apples
1 pear

Sometimes I'll have blueberries and/or raspberries and/or blackberries.

I snack on them during the day, but the starchy (banana, e.g.,) I eat in the morning and one at night (usually after exercising). I also have about 15 raw almonds -- pretty high in fat and calories (if you're calorie counting, which you shouldn't be really). Baby carrots are good to snack on, as well. Any nut is good to snack on but remember they are high in calories and (good) fat, so don't overindulge. I counter this overindulging by having them with fruits, because that will 'deceive' my body into thinking I'm full faster.

Yogurts are healthy snacks, as well (unless you're lactose-intolerant!), just check the nutrition facts label.

That's all that comes to mind at the moment.

googled sugar content in apples and apparently, because of modern production techniques, there's more sugar in apples than there used to be, and eating too many can actually damage your teeth. anyone know how accurate that is?

i eat pear slices with havarti cheese sometimes.

I should have said, I eat green apples. There is a difference (sugar content).

I've heard citric stuff like oranges also damages your enamel. My dentists have never mentioned anything, and the only people I've heard being worried about it or being criticised for it are fruitarians. This is purely anecdotal, anyway, so you're better off waiting for someone who is knowledgeable on the subject or doing some research.

Apples are recommended for those with high cholesterol. Do green apples and red apples have the same amount of pectin, the ingredient that is useful in keeping cholesterol in check?

I found 2 online sites saying green apples were better than red if one has cholesterol issues; and one that said red was better.

You need to consult with a specialist or nutritionist.

But Googling yields this: http://www.wildflowers-and-weeds.com/The_Forager/pectin.htm

"Ripe apples contain less pectin, but the level varies greatly from one tree to the next; some varieties are suitable when ripe, while some have virtually no pectin by that time. Over-ripe apples are the worst."

Maybe inquire about taking pectin supplement the next time you're at your doctor's?

I am a bit paranoid about sugar and my diet in general at the moment. I don't have sugar in my tea anymore (in fact I hardly drink tea at all now), and I've replaced chocolate and crisps at lunch with a banana/apple. I'm eating more pasta, eggs, salad and vegetables at lunch now too.

Chris, don't be too paranoid. I mean, if you have a family history of things like diabetes, etc., for sure, go see a doctor -- that's #1. Doctors keep track of and monitor your health history for a reason. Getting those stats/numbers helps them give you better advice.

Also, know that sugar is in almost every man-made food. So, yes, always check the sugar content. Check out a fruit chart that shows them from highest sugar content to least. Any berries are perfect (have less sugar) -- the more starchy/'carby' stuff has more sugar (banana, pineapple, etc.).

My approach is this: buy non-fruit/non-sweet things with the least amount of sugar. That way I can micromanage and get a more real number of how much sugar I consume (it is still hard). You'll find a few of those low-fat products have more sugar than the regular ones. Always check the label.

For me, it is a little trickier because weightlifting reduces glucose levels (sugar as energy), so I know I need to recover quickly. And things like pasta will spike my sugar levels and that happens to be okay for me after strenuous activity. But it's funny because you wouldn't think pasta would get your 'sugar' levels up.

It was a pain at first to know and monitor your foods, intake, and your body, but once you get the hang of it, it gets easier.

And yah, lay off the crisps! Careful with sodium, too!

Do you like to play any sport?

Thanks for all the advice! I'm going to be getting braces soon (finally!), so it's made me make a real effort to finally try to cut out as much unnecessary sugar as possible and to just eat healthier, both for my health in general and for my teeth.

I used to play football every week, but I haven't for a while now. I have started going out for walks again though, and I'm going to make more of an effort to get out of the house and exercise.

Thanks again!

Reading this thread makes me want to hit the fucking gear again. you can stick those fucking bananas where the sun don't shine.

i've been having some sugar lately and i am going to try this weekend to stop

― markers, Friday, April 26, 2013 12:35 PM

pulled it off. well, not that weekend, but eventually.

clean for over a week

one of the next things i want to focus on is lessening the amount of other bad shit in my system.

there's sugar in beer / I will never be free
but awesome for you boyo

thank you!

markers you are kind of inspiring me right now. I'm not concerned about cutting out sugar per se but I drink way too much Coke, simply because it provides a lot of my calories. (A friend of mine once surreptitiously wrote down everything I ate during a day, figured out how many calories it was, and pointed out that I probably wasn't meeting my basal metabolic rate. That was three years ago.) So I need better habits! What have you been eating?

oh lord, i'm not sure any of this will be helpful to you, but let's see. for dinner, i eat whatever's for dinner, which changes day by day. besides that, things are kind of up in the air. snacks, still. at some point i'd like to be on a more strict sort of deal with those, but for now i just eat what i want. tonight i had five soft pretzels. and regular pretzels. the one meal i've started to wrap my head around is breakfast, even though i don't always eat it as early as i should. the kinds of foods i'm talking about though are, like, milk, yogurt, a vitamin, cheerios, orange juice. idk, i'm not describing what's going on now properly, so maybe disregard this whole post. my basic approach right now, though, is going to be getting to the point we're i'm eating three regular, good meals a day. that's a definite. beyond that, maybe a small amount of snacks, "healthy" and otherwise. we'll see. it's worth doing though. i don't know what kind of effect sugar has on other people here, but it wasn't helping me out really, and now that it's gone it's not really that hard to stay off it.

that's gotta be the longest post i've dumped here in a while

somehow between some period of time during the past four years i managed to lose like twenty pounds

I was underweight until recently if anything. Getting onto actually eating three regular meals in a day is probably what I should aim for. I just need to get systematic about it. Like with everything else.

Do you like nuts, silby? Keeping a bag of mixed nuts/coconut flakes/dried fruits/seeds around is a good calorie-heavy snack.

raisins y'all

i had been eating ak-mak crackers for a while, and thought I'd switch up my game to ryvitas because of nostalgia (that's what I ate as a kid)

ugggh

ryvitas suck wtf

i love ok mak crackers!

yeah they are really good

I like those dense,cardboardy Swedish crackers. Mostly because of the pleasing white paper they are wrapped in.

wasa! They are pretty hard to take after about one.

Steamed broccoli with lemon juice is a pretty solid snack. Less healthy, but more yum with avocado, olive oil & crisped capers.

oh yeah Wasa are good too. ryvita definitely bottom of the sand-cracker ladder

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I have this in my desk at work. I used to think that almonds were horribly bland, but I'm getting into them. They're just kinda subtle, but they're filling.

I tried soaking almonds

they were tasty when I ate the first handful. but when you take them out of soaking and keep them in the fridge over the next day or so they start shedding their skins when you eat them and the whole enterprise just gets kind of annoying
I tried freezing them to some success, but honestly I think you just have to soak what you're going to eat/use the next day which, I mean cmon I like almonds but I ain't giving them that level of attention

so I'm back to raw, and they're fine

the only cracker you need

http://portcitysmokehouse.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/390x260/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/c/r/crackers.jpg

i eat the entire packet in one sitting everytime i buy those

so good

^i can say this about all crackers

http://www.abetterbagofgroceries.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Saltines.jpg

so the sugar is pretty much gone for the most part, now i'm considering attacking more parts of my diet. gonna get rid of most snacks i think

My tip: get a bag of Dove for the inspirational quotes under the wrapper and throw out the chocolate.

i ate ice cream for dinner and now eating apple for breakfast, but suspect the apple might be worse for me.

not sure if these are legit ~healthy~ but i'm hooked on them

http://i.imgur.com/xvLEWUE.jpg

those are some real gone snacks

Yes, those are good crackers. For the saline crunch factor, I am pretty into homemade kale chips.

i ate a hardboiled egg today which was an unusual choice for me. i loved it. i think i am going to start eating them now every day.

What to do with flax seeds? I bought a giant bag of them on impulse because I know they have omega-3s, and I am getting pretty tired of eating canned sardines. But I'm not sure what to actually do with them.

grind them up in a coffee grinder, sprinkle liberally on virtually anything

clean the coffee grinder first

good on salads

iirc you're not supposed to heat flax seeds at all? maybe that was just flax oil.

i put ground flax seed in smoothies, oatmeal, sometimes even cookies because hey why not

i guess if you're not supposed to heat them they become pointless in cookies but maybe they provide some fiber or something

i put a handful in my smoothies in the morning, makes me feel selfrighteous and healthy

i used to pre-grind as I needed them, but I got lazy and my blender still grinds them up pretty well so yay

i think they "work" better if they're freshly ground anyway so hey

i got a masticating juicer recently, i'm guessing that'll do flax seeds? been experimenting with my juices, it's exciting to live this way.

you can make frickin flax seed OIL with that thing if you want to.

its power is immense. i do wonder tho, is all the solid waste it creates just devoid of nutrients? like are you getting all the good stuff from whatever you put through it?

How can I can put weight on healthily? I've always been naturally skinny. I'm fed up of people telling me I need to eat more. Not sure how much longer I can bite my tongue and resist the urge to yell "I eat loads so stfu!" I have a balanced diet, I eat 3 meals a day, I try to snack on healthy foods. Even if I'm a pig and snack on chocolate, cakes and biscuits for the odd weekend here and there, I still don't put any weight on. I just want to bulk a bit. Any ideas?

*bulk up

Sorry, not saying everyone who snacks on 'junk food' is a pig, it's just what I call myself when I do because it's what I feel like. Urgh I'm not good at talking about diets, sorry.

sumo dudes eat a chanko broth to make weight -- if it's not healthy maybe it is at least delicious.

for the record i still eat a lot of unhealthy snacks

Are they at least delicious?

i recommend ruffles chips tbh

kettle chips or gtfo

easy way to bulk up: drink lots of full fat milk.

Chris the tried and true method is:

1 - eat loads of fucking food, every day. like 5 full meals a day.
2 - lift heavy weights, 3 times a week, increasing the weight every week.

I tried this for like 2 months and realized I didn't have the willpower to stuff myself that much. It can get sort of gross imo, trying to eat 6000 calories a day when you weigh a buck fifty. really unpleasant. but some people can totally do it.

How can I can put weight on healthily? I've always been naturally skinny. I'm fed up of people telling me I need to eat more. Not sure how much longer I can bite my tongue and resist the urge to yell "I eat loads so stfu!" I have a balanced diet, I eat 3 meals a day, I try to snack on healthy foods. Even if I'm a pig and snack on chocolate, cakes and biscuits for the odd weekend here and there, I still don't put any weight on. I just want to bulk a bit. Any ideas?

― Chris, Sunday, August 11, 2013 11:12 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

love yourself the way you are, you're fine

^ winner

the right to be thin?

it would be awe-inspiring to see a skinny sumo champ one day.

this prob doesn't belong in here, but whatever: cheerios or raisin bran. which one would y'all say is healthier?

i'm about halfway through a bag of baby carrots right now

they'll be gone within a half hour

whoa, looking at the nutrition labels, Kellogg's raisin bran has a SHIT TON more sugar than cheerios. Also more sodium, more fiber & less fat. I love bran flakes, so I'm always on the lookout for generic sugar-free varieties.

I can do without the raisin aspect.

cheerios smell really weird tho

hahaha. emilys., thanks for that. i didn't even think abt the sugar thing

raisin bran is one of the most sugar laden cereals out there

cheerios are delicious

but you agree that they smell weird, right?

They smell like malted barley, toasted wheat, dust, and vomited-in taxi

lol

i just looked at the box of cheerios i have and the box of raisin bran and the raisin bran definitely has more sugar and sodium per cup than the cheerios so good looking out emilys.

But flavor-wise raisin bran > honey-nut cheerios > cheerios

cheerios are the smell of toddlers

it's one of the weirdest food smells I've encountered

When I started being more conscious of my eating habits and tried to eat as healthy as I could, I stopped eating cereal altogether because I couldn't find one with enough low sugar. This was over 8 years ago. So, cereal was a 'treat' to be eaten every once in a while.

One day looking through the cereal aisle I found Nature's Path. They're a company from British Columbia. I looked them up now and it looks like they've expanded a lot.

I'm sure there are cereals comparable to some of the ones that Nature Path offers, but I don't get anything else.

Here is the one I get: http://ca-en.naturespath.com/product/multigrain-oatbran-cereal

Food labels will usually have the answers to your health questions, though (e.g., Which one is better, health-wise? Which one has less sugar, etc.?)

Remember that if you get oatbran or multigrain, don't eat whole lot, especially if you already eat lots of fibre, otherwise you'll be running to the washroom a lot! :)

dude you can buy muesli base and chop some fruit into it, that'll be healthier than yr multigrain cereal shiz

My stomach is too sensitive to muesli. Plus, muesli tastes completely different.

Not to mention that it requires one to chew like a horse.

supertasters.

I could really go for a heaping, soggy mouthwad of bran flakes right now. I'm usually more into eggs & beans in the morning, though.

you had me at heaping soggy mouthwad

gonna push myself down this path again

pomegranate seeds

the powder on some brands of chewing gum.

i've mostly pulled this off

for like three days or something like that

I'm in this world now

hello akmak crackers and apple slices, rice cakes and cottage cheese

Rice cakes are kind of gross, to be fair. Unless you mean mochi or tteok; in which case, eat up!

But for snacking, I'd much rather eat baby carrots or blueberries (people put it in cottage cheese, which I actually don't like either).

There's always watermelon with feta, as well!

carrots too. radishes as well. A rice cake with cottage cheese + lemon pepper is good eating imo.

Oh, nevermind, then. I thought you were expressing your displeasure at eating rice cakes.

http://i.imgur.com/eof42yT.jpg

There's a healthy one for you! Eh? Eh?

What is it?

The only thing I recognise is the pickle on top.

that is a huge-ass snack

Haha. fields is bulking.

putting grapes in the freezer for a little bit is nice

Fruit seems to begin rotting in my current fridge way faster than it should, and I'm sure it's cold enough in there.

I've been tempted to get this to extend fruit life in the crisper.

sup markers big fan of froz grapes over here, red green it dont matter

x-post-- that does look tempting. Someone says its cheaper at Bed, bath & Beyond

sup markers big fan of froz grapes over here, red green it dont matter

― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080)

yeah it's good! i was thinking of trying that out with these mini orange/clementine/whatever the fuck they are things we have.

i've actually done a not terrible job of cutting out shit like bugles and pringles. i don't eat either of those things anymore. but if i make a few more tweaks over the next week or so my diet should be very good. much better than it was during the dark days.

i mostly drink seltzer, some orange juice, and regular water. no more sugary anything when it comes to drinks. no more candy. no desserts. no donuts. muffins! bagels! i've had two power bars in the past 24 hours. but it's much better.

maybe i should go back and re-read some of the nutrition nazi threads in an attempt to next level things. i want to be super healthy. the fact that i actually have a good sleep schedule now is huge too though.

All about the olives lately.

my new healthy snack is baby dill pickles

i had some french fries today. not good.

at this gym i used to go to there was this very very fit girl who would hang out at the gym for hours and hours, on more than one occasion i saw her kind of lackadaisically pedaling a stationary bike while texting people on her phone and eating from a small bag of crinkle-cut fries sold at the grill in the building next door

wow ok let's go ppl

i have a power bar, seltzer, and chips

most of that doesn't qualify

pretty good that i still don't have my act together here.

let's try again in 2018

Been eating mixed nuts and sunflower seeds as snack food recently. Also drinking lots of lemon water.

lemon water is good. helps a guy quit smoking too.

put some almond butter on a banana it's great

i believe i have the latter

the former i most certainly do not but whole foods isn't far away

i had a lot of sushi tonight

We have been eating so many bean salads - oil, chopped fresh veggies, curry, s&p - so fresh and crisp and good for snacking.

i decided to mix some almond butter into my greek yogurt today

regrets, I've had a few :(

it wasn't bad it was just...weird

do you like it on other things? i've never had it

i am a peanut butter fan

what kind of peanut butter though?

oh I love almond butter generally

I probably eat it more than peanut butter (which I also love)

I have it on toast, on ricecakes, and if I ever get a batch of apples that aren't quite tart enough for my liking, I dip em in almond butter so that I will finish eating them :)

i prefer natural peanut butter and almond butter mostly - ie just nuts, no salt or anything.

but if it's pbj time, then I need jif or something salty because unsalted peanut butter isn't right for pbj

pickles! Esp. fermented/uncooked ones made by bearded hipsters.

pickles 4eva

for some reason i can't stand pickles as an ingredient in meals, on sandwiches etc but all by themselves they are one of my favorite snacks

otm

claussen kosher dill ones

pickles rule

sour garlic dills rule the school.

my favorite peanut butter find has been pb2 -- a powdered peanut butter with only one gram of fat per serving. it's good to mix into greek yogurt.

Powdered peanut butter?

*rolls up a 20 dollar bill with a glint in his eye*

Tuna (in water). Sardines too. My cat had it right all along tuna is the shit

...and pickles!

Tomato soup w kale, carrots, red potato, and some lemon.

wonderballs
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