You’re slobbing around the house, watching TV, playing video games, engaging in general slobbery. It is that crucial period between lunch and dinner but you’re as hungry as all hell. What do you eat?
That’s right folks, today I want to talk about snacks.
I love snacks. I love them. Back in the day I would snack on chocolate, chips, everything you care to mention. In fact, I think I have some fairly deeply ingrained bad habits when it comes to snacking. Now that I’m trying to be super healthy I’m in the process of trying to replace all my bad snacking habits with good ones.
But the truth is, I just end up completely overdoing everything.
My current obsession: raisins. I absolutely love these things. I just dip my hand into a massive bag of raisins, grab a fistful and pour them directly into my gob.
Another obsession: Chobani yoghurt. This is super high in protein, to the point where it’s basically a delicious tasting protein bar in terms of nutrition. I ruin this by pouring bucketloads of honey into it.
And speaking of honey, this is my worst habit yet. Sometimes I just keep a jar of honey at my desk and literally just eat the honey all day. I’m the worst.
What are some of the snacks you guys and girls like to feast on?
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126 responses to “Off Topic: Snacks”
I’m a complete sucker for a Mars bar or Milky Bar, though I’m trying to watch my intake so I mostly snack on jatz, plain straight from the box, which I also enjoy
+1 for plain Jatz, staple snack for me
Me too, and my 18 month old loves them. When we were at the supermarket, she filled her pram with 10 boxes of Jatz while I was looking at something else.
while im partial to Jatz i am in Melbourne and they have Savoys same box and biscuit shape but crunchier than jatz
Can’t stand Ritz or Savoys. It’s Jatz or go home!
ritz are too soft. savoys are almost identical to Jatz, same box, color and design. the biscuit is the same shape but the only difference i could notice is the the crunchyness and slightly saltier on the savoy side. either one i enjoy
Ritz master race here.
I like the crunch of the Jatz, they are also a little saltier. Also Ritz have betrayed me too many times by disintegrating upon contact with dips and cheeses
Hah yeah, they’re not great for dips I agree. I used to have ritz + tomato + cheese + salami + beer as late night snacks at uni. 🙂 good times.
I’m fat enough as it is. I can’t afford to have snacks laying around the place. I usually have pistachio nuts in my drawer at work, but I don’t snack on them – I eat them exclusively for morning tea and don’t touch them for the rest of the day.
Pods…. Especially during raids >.< I should just stop buying them.
Oh god, Mars pods, I cannot be trusted with those
The fuck’s a mars pod-
*Looks on wikipedia*
YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Didn’t know that Pods was an Australian only thing, they are amazeballs, and I don’t ever use that term
The day where I set up a snack exchange with TAYbies grows ever nearer.
I’ll trade pods for bags of peanut butter m&ms
I’ll trade for Oh Henry bars 🙂
I miss the bounty pods
What?! How did I miss those 🙁
I was like you Mark, chocolate and crisps back in the day but now trying to be healthy. It helps though that snacks in Australia aren’t a patch on what was available back home. Scampi Fries, Steak McCoys, Galaxy chocolate, Picnics that actually have raisins in them (Australian Picnics are an abomination), Monster Munch, Skips, Wispa Gold. I could go on. I won’t because I’m making myself hungry. Also when I was a teenager staying up late playing my Playstation, I’d go for a midnight ‘snack’ of a pizza, fish fingers, crispy pancakes (chicken & bacon) and chips. Use the pizza as a burrito and eat it all in one go. How I stayed skinny as a teenager I don’t know.
These days, cashew & walnuts are my current snack.
Picnics with frigging raisins in them? You are an unholy abomination in the eyes of the snack lord.
That is just plain wrong.
Aussie chocolate just isn’t right 😛 not in the way that American chocolate is just plain wrong, but there’s just something that’s a little bit off about it
I don’t like most British chocolate at all, I think it is all what you grew up on.
The only American chocolate I like is Oh Henry bars, they are frigging delicious, but my favourite stuff comes from Slovakia, they have this pistachio chocolate bar that is out of this world.
To be honest, I mostly only like dark chocolate these days, must be getting old.
Definitely down to childhood memories. I love pods though. And hobnobs haven’t been bastardised over here which is awesome. Best dunking biscuit in the World are hobnobs.
My sweet tooth has definitely decreased though in recent years. I’m now over the 30 milestone and find myself unable to pig out on sugar
Dark chocolate is best chocolate.
Lately I’ve been crazy about the store-baked cookies in Coles. Apparently its the same distributor as the dough for Subway cookies, and they taste just as good!
Note that similar looking cookies from Woolworths are nothing like them. Woolworths uses sugar as one of the main ingredients, but Coles uses butter (which tastes way better).
+1 for Coles cookies. Those sticky date ones are amazing!
They used to be good until they decided to replace oat and raisin with muesli. WTH, why change the best one they had
THERE WERE OAT ONES? Man, give me gooey anzac biscuits any day of the week!
Yep, the oat and raisin was amazing. If you got the nice soft ones, mmmmm so good
The caramel pretzel cookies are pretty amazing
These and the peanut ones are my current favourites. 🙂
I used to be a baker at Coles and the cookies are at their best when warm and gooey. Macadamia are my favorite and used to be a staple of my diet back in the day.
Not usually warm by the time I get to them, but definitely soft and delicious! Since you were a baker there can you confirm if it is the same dough as Subway?
+1 for Stem ginger. A box lasts a couple of hours between the two of us.
Was in Coles today and bought some of these based on this thread haha only had choc chip ones but fresh from the oven, amazing
Glad to help!
Nacho Cheese Doritos and Coke Zero during the day.
Beer for night gaming.
Oh god Serrels, I thought I was bad.
With 4 kids around there are always too many snacks on hand that I shouldn’t be eating. I too have the problem of over indulging in whatever the flavour of the day is.
I try to make my main snacks be fruit. We keep tons of fruit in the house, bananas, oranges, apples, pears, mandarins, kiwi as well as carrots if I am feeling fat. Mangoes and peaches and nectarines when they get cheap. Rockmelon and Watermelon.
I swear half my wage is spent on fruit, on bad days I would eat 5 oranges, a few apples, a couple of bananas and a pear or two. My acid load can’t be good for my teeth.
Lately we have been buying and cooking up Woolie’s chicken sticks/kebabs and having those in the fridge to snack on, as they are more filling.
If fruit isn’t in the house, then it is grainwave chips (just as bad for you as potato chips), wafer biscuits, Sooper Dooper Ice blocks, valia french vanilla yoghurt, cashew nuts, any chocolate I can find, jatz and cheese (and gherkins if there are any), so pretty bad stuff really, and it goes straight to my gut 🙁
Great idea with the skewers, the protein is definitely more filling! I should try this, I normally eat any chocolate in sight lol.
Yeah, it has worked wonders, keep a plate of them in the fridge, and instead of pigging into chips and biscuits, have a chicken skewer. I cook them in the old George, and they are then low fat and delicious. Helps keep the gut at bay.
Generally, chips or similar. I love getting some guac and salsa and having poor man nachos, or just cheese and crackers. God I love cheese.
When I’m sick I seem to gain a ravenous hunger for Peanut M&Ms (the others will do, but Peanut’s my jam).
High five for guac. I love making and eating homemade dips and my dad can make a mean aioli. It’s so gloriously tasty but it’s ridiculously unhealthy at the same.
Arnott’s Monte biscuits; they’re the adult Chocolate Teddy Bear biscuit, but they’re better.
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On sunny weekends though, it’s all about the Affogato. Sounds fancy, but its just a shot of coffee over a large (LARGE) scoop of vanilla ice-cream in a tiny glass tumbler. Eat with a teaspoon 😉
Oh crap.. Montes… Many a time I have had to sneak out to the shops to buy a replacement packet as I ate the entire frigging thing while the kids were asleep.
They taste best straight out of the freezer in summer.
I always thought an affogato had a shot of liqueur with it too. Seems lacking to have it without.
But then I generally prefer to have my coffee with a shot of liqueur anyway, so it would probably seem that way regardless 😛
Vanilla is good, hazelnut gelato is even better!
Bounty.
My favourites would be Chilli beef jerky, Atomic fireballs, Kettle chilli chips
I’ll smash a bag of cheese Twisties without breaking a sweat. I’m fairly obsessed with walnuts and I’ll chase down a serial killer to grab the half-eaten Snickers I thought I saw sticking out of his back pocket.
Add Ritz, cheddar and cabanossi to his pocket and society may well be down one more degenerate.
…that wasn’t a snickers man, and that wasn’t his pocket.
I usually find that sort of thing out the hard way.
Cheetos. I have a real weakness for Cheetos.
Good thing these are not usually in the house, so if I need a fix I’d actually need to go down to the shop to buy them. And I’m usually too lazy to do that 😛
I try not to snack whilst gaming cos of the crud that then ends up on the controller, but if I were to go for a chip/crisp Burger Rings are prob my go to, black forest chocolate is another favourite but like you I am trying to cut all that out anyway, almonds, protien shake, punnet of shaved ham?
Good point, I spilt a bit of a chocolate flake on there during the raid on Saturday so I think I’ll stop doing that now.
I remember back in the day when games were still couch coop and a mate would have his hand buried in a bag of cheese balls or something and it’d be his turn, next time you got the controller back was like it was dipped in grease.
That’s just bad etiquette.
I always make sure to use the minimal amount of skin surface area to pick up a snack, and then wipe all traces of grease onto my pants leg before picking up the controller again.
Are we talking Winnie to Pooh style here?
I sometimes snack on flavored soft liquorice eg., apple, raspberry, strawberry.
It was just a smackerel!
If Serrels is talking about eating honey straight out of the jar then he and I share a shameful affliction though my poison is molasses – either blackstrap (if I can get it) or even just the regular stuff.
It is also the only topping (aside from a little double cream) that should ever go on porridge 😛
My appetite is never satiated so if I get into bad habits I can polish off entire bags of anything.
But when I am trying to be healthy and lose weight; at work I tend to eat Ryvita with tuna and cottage cheese. Heaps of protein and good carbs. Keeps you going a while. Or I’ll have a protein smoothie with frozen mixed berries and stuff like that. Also honey is fine if you don’t over do it. Eating a jar, is overdoing it 🙂
Yeeep, the only way I can keep control of my snacking when dieting is if the stuff simply isn’t in the house. D:
Yeah same with me. Also if I do treat myself I have a really bad habit of being all “Oh now it’ll be in the house, unless I eat it ALL now…”
Idiot
LOL. “Starting my diet tomorrow, better make sure there are no snacks”. *eats all of them now*
I’m the same, have good self control when shopping, but none at home.
I’m addicted to the dried mango from Daiso…
Oh shit yes.
The Kinder Bueno has always been a go-to when it comes to chocolate; ever since they changed the recipe for Hershey’s Cookies & Cream, it’s never been the same. Hedgehogs, little hazelnut-creme filled hedgehog-shaped chocolates have always been a favourite as mine as well. I suppose I just like hazelnut. Or everything made by Kinder; their milk-filled little bars, Nutella, Ferrero Rocher. Good stuff. Can’t go wrong with Reeses as well.
For potato chips I’ve always been partial to Miss Vickies, although they are a tad expensive- but Jalapeno, Lime & Black Pepper, Sweet Chili & Sour Cream.
For lollies, well, I’m not especially picky, I’ll just go to the nearest dollar store and pick up a bag of whatever sour, gummy-like confectionary comes my way.
As for actually healthy stuff, pistachios are delicious stuff, and half an avocado with salt & pepper and a bit of lemon juice squeezed on top serve as perfect healthy snack. Plain ol’ Yogurt also agrees with me quite well.
Goodness, I can go on and on about this.
Kinder Buenos are great. Then the white Kinder Bueno came out and I was in heaven. They spill crumbs like they’re going out of style though
.. what.
*brings up wikipedia again*
AHHHHH YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
BBq shapes and a bag of popcorn is my go to snack of choice. My youngest son has picked up the popcorn habit from me now… Must say it is cute and sad seeing he and i both slobbing on the couch with a massive bowl of popcorn between us.
For a while I was on those… Oishi thing? Or something like that. I forget what they’re called. Peanut cracker things, they come from Costco I think. There were also those mustard pretzel things. And sometimes just regular pretzels
But yeah, along with staving off my swearing last month I also forced myself into cutting back on snacking. I never really used to snack, I’d pretty much just get by on meals. But that was when I had a sleep cycle that had me getting up in the middle of the day, so there wasn’t much time between breakfast, lunch and dinner. Now with this whole job thing it’s gotten a lot harder.
My current “snack” is to take a swig from my bottle of cordial. Because I can’t stand plain water. But still trying to be vaguely conscious of excessive sugar intake, so I try to make it fairly weak. Enough to flavour without being particularly sweet.
*counts down the minutes til lunch*
I am addicted to coke zero, if im gaming or watching tv i usually have a cup of coke zero too. I also want to emphasize CUP. Glasses that have the capacity of 200mL are stupid. Even for water. Just as soon as you get the glass its finished. Whats the point???
I can’t get through a can of Coke Zero. It tastes fine, but it does something weird to me, like my stomach is made of mentos or something. Three mouthfulls in and I am completely full. Can’t swallow any more of it. It is really weird.
SO MANY BUBBLES
I don’t snack too much actually, I keep some ‘Activated Almonds’ (nuts with water on them for the uninitiated) in the drawer at work for after lunch snack.
Then it hits midnight.
I wake up in a glucose depleted rage and eat anything I can find; chocolate, half a liter of milk, steak, biscuits, I am trying out today some trail mix type biscuit and another piece of fruit for a snack this arvo.
Corn chips, any brand.
The picture of the Snickers bar lured me it….
Other than that, Peanut MnMs and Whitakers Peanut Slab or Almonds
As much chilli garlic biltong as I can jam in my mouth.
Cobs sweet and salty popcorn. Actual cheese. Carrots. Salt & vinegar chips. Fizzy cola bottles.
I discovered the true joy of pineapple flavoured M&Ms the other day. They are freakin dangerous!
Otherwise, my favourite snack of all time is McVities Hobnobs. Mmmm, kinda hard to get in Oz but sooo worth it. Now I need to go track some down…
Where did you find pineapple M&M’s? I’m super curious about how those would taste now
I have seen them at Woolies, I can’t remember if they are at Coles though!
I thought they were a Coles only thing. Haven’t seen them anywhere else.
I think you might be right!
Can confirm these are stocked at Coles @tofu
well alrighty then, guess I’m stopping off at coles on the way home
I apologize in advance if I have enabled a bad addiction! 😛
I’ll be sure to curse your name with my pineapple scented last breath as I choke on them
No no no!
Why would you tell me about this?
Chicken crimpy shapes, sour cream and onion pringles, pineapple lumps and honey flavoured greek yoghurt are all at the top of my list. But for the most part I forget to eat all day and then polish of a tub of ice cream or whatever is closest … super bad habit that I’m trying to fix, but it’s hard
Chicken Crimpy Shapes are all kinds of win!
I used to fall back on strawberry shortcakes or jam drops, then moved to punnets of strawberries, raspberries or blueberries in an effort to be more healthy, then stopped altogether when I noticed my wallet kept emptying (berries are stupidly expensive). Now I normally opt for a cup of tea, and wait until dinner.
Oooh snacks. God I love food. Dried apricots (not those bollocks fat sugary Turkish ones, ugh), air-popped popcorn, camembert on crusty bread, whole-grain corn chips and fresh homemade pico de gallo, a firm peach cut into chunks, strawberries lightly dusted with icing sugar… mmm.
I used to just eat candy, or a bag of potato chips, and I still love these, but I like making more of an effort if I’m going to snack, so I don’t feel sick from stuffing myself later on.
Sounds like you’ve got an acquired taste in snacks, which is probably a good thing as it’s harder to get a hold of the stuff you like (except the peach and strawbs!) than a dirty snickers bar.
Come on Snickers baby, I didn’t mean it baby I’m sorry!In no particular order, the worlds best snacks are:
Woolworths Select shortbread creams
Adriano Zumbo raspberry white choc tim tams (I may have 6 packets of these right now)
Sour cream and chives grain waves (the other ones are gross btw)
Coles bakery triple choc cookies
Coles bakery raspberry and white chocolate muffins
Cadbury old gold 70% chocolate
Milo cereal
Fuji apples (for health!)
I think I got them all!
Plus one for milo cereal!
Can’t eat white chocolate though. Is it even chocolate?
I’m not really a snacking person and don’t tend to eat that many meals. If I do end up getting hungry between meals I usually just grab whatever’s available.
Oh god, give me a crate of Snickers and I’ll do anything you ask.
I normally buy something on the way home, today it’s a box of raspberry yoghurt muesli bars and a 1.25L bottle of coke. I am gaining weight far faster than I’d like
If someone puts any form of pesto or soft cheese in front of me that shit is toast.
…and if it should happen to be both simultaneously, space/time will fracture due to the insane eating speeds I’ll be achieving.
What happens if they put toast in front of you?
Paradox. Reality implosion. Cats n dogs living together etc etc
Fruit cake and a cup of tea is my go to snack.
I try to stay mostly healthy where I can, always some fruit about even at the office if I remember to bring it in. I’ve been buying nuts recently and just having a few of them when I’m looking for something to eat.
Otherwise I generally have a packet of gingernut biscuits that I have with tea, which I try to keep to one packet a week.
Don’t mind Fruchocs
lets see…….
salt and vinegar smiths…..
uncooked indomie noodles with flavour added…..
junior mints……
milky bar……
jaffa cakes and jaffas….
oh and sioux city root beer to wash it all down!!!
yes, im a fat bastard lol
EDIT: and pizza combos when i can find em at the american grocery store
Whomever was the bright spark to remove jaffas from cinema candy bars has a special spot in Hell reserved for them. >:(
meh just buy a pack from down stairs and carry it in your pocket if you get asked about them ask if they sell them if they say no then ask them then whats the problem if they say yes say sorry you thought they didn’t. went to a movie marathon still ran down stairs to woolworths to buy and apple and water
SNICKERS
I totally forgot to mention wasabi coated peanuts!
I usually make do with a few small mammals in between meals. Winged insects sometimes, when they’re available (especially prominent in summer months). If I’m feeling a little devilish I may partake in the first of the spring born Caribou.
I can’t believe no one mentioned the Tim Tam slam! Although I don’t eat them anymore. The joys of getting older and wiser.
I started snacking more regularly about a year ago when I was trying to lose weight (smaller meals, more often = higher metabolism… or so they say…) so lately my snacks consist of a trail mix type thing with raw cashews, almonds, walnuts, goji berries, mulberries etc (though I normally limit it to about 50g seeing as I’m still trying to lose the last few kgs)
I’m going to make myself sound really old fashion here. But for snacks I can’t go past bread. I love toast & butter, fruit loaf & butter especially the thickly cut Cafe style. I’m also a massive coffee snob so because I make my own espresso I love the relaxing nature of making it & then drinking it, so I’ve been known to snack on coffee, also I love plain milk arroot biscuits with butter on them. So yummy I tried coles brand but they just aren’t the same so back to arnots and finally for a health snack I love microwaved frozen berries. That shit be delicious & fucking expensive it’s turned into a $30 a week habit
Tried baking? It’s not hard and a home-baked loaf is just soooooo tasty fresh from the oven.
i used to love crunchie rocks, until they mysteriously disappeared from all the shelves. now i’ll mostly go pork crackles and the marvelous creations, crunchie and jelly bits. mmm mmm =].
Baskins coconut and rocky road ice cream, any chocolate with almonds or peanuts, red rocks chips and coke zero. Not all at the same time….it varies.
Cheese and Bacon Shapes, Mamee Monster Cheese Rice Sticks and Pepsi Max.
Beer if I’m feeling adventurous.
At work I snack on dried cranberries and nuts.
Currently at home I’m using desiccated plums covered in asam powder as a after dinner snack. Asam is a Malaysian thing – basically sweet, sour and salty tamarind powder.
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In the recent past I imported and went through Marks & Spencers Double Choc Chip Cookies at an alarming rate. Who can eat 2? Minimum serving is a sleeve!
http://www.britstore.co.uk/Marks-and-Spencer-Food-Marks-and-Spencer-Biscuits–Marks-and-Spencer-Cookies/c1_14_679/p25841/Marks-and-Spencer-Double-Chocolate-Chip-Cookies-200g./product_info.html
Any sort of Oat bar or fruit filling bar. Yay for children’s snacks!
Just sort of … anything. I try to avoid it but eventually a hankering will overcome will power and i’ll eat a bag or Doritos or Skittles or a pile of Icecream or something equally as terrible. Also beer… delicious beer.
That usually results in my over doing it cardio wise the following week and collapsing into a barely functional heap by about Wednesday.
What are these snacks you people speak of? Haha OK I know of these snacks, but personally have never developed a snacking habit.
The bane of my existence would be Ice Magic with ice cream, Mr Donut Donuts, Maxibons and peanut butter Tim Tams. I only buy naughty food for our Friday night d&d sessions so during the remainder of the week I’m usually snacking on seaweed rice crackers with low fat cottage cheese as a dip.
just made chocolate brownies so simple, OK so we need a 20cm square baking pan, processor, a pot of water a glass bowl and a spoon also 10 tablespoons (145 g) unsalted butter, 1 1/4 cups (250 g) granulated sugar, 3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons (65 g) unsweetened cocoa powder (natural or Dutch-process), 1/4 rounded teaspoon Kosher salt, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, 2 large eggs, 1/2 cup (70 g) all-purpose flour (we use Gold Medal unbleached all-purpose flour)
1.set oven to 165 deg C in the processor mix the butter, sugar and coco powder till smooth
2.put the mixture in a glass bowl over a pot of boiling water and mix stir until smooth and shiny
3.let cool a little then dump back into the processor mix in the vanilla essence and eggs and then the flour
4.pour into the lined baking pan and bake for 20-25mins
5. allow to cool and place onto a cooling rank and cool further or just pull bits off and eat it warm
adapted from here http://www.inspiredtaste.net/24412/cocoa-brownies-recipe/
Mark – I dont know if it’s been said…but beef jerky is an absolute staple. It’s not amazing for you but at the same time it isn’t terrible. Tastes amazing.
I never remember to buy any snack food, so I usually wind up eating handfuls of green beans or carrot sticks.
I’m chewing on a carrot right now, as it turns out.