cheap/ healthy snacks

Meadows

ragz wrote: »

Top points for you Meadows! (I got 14 last week!) Sounds like you got it sorted I am in the process of breaking mine, have to be careful with fruit as I find it stimulates my sweet tooth, but hoping this will fade. I had got to the point where I was eating snacks in secret, constantly thinking about where the next sugar fix was coming from... not conciously but I was.
Sugar is more addictive than cocaine and triggers similar dopamine response to many drugs, reward seeking sends us to the sugary snacks time and again. Once the cycle is broken it is amazing how you can walk past cakes without a second glance.

Never been a cake fan much especially as an adult, more for savoury.

As a child we had the usually sweet things, pudding, desserts, bag of sugar and a stick of Rhubarb _pale_ etc., sugar (two or three I think) in coffee. As I got older I cut out/down on sweet things, now my coffee is black no sugar (have been without sugar since I was around 14 and without milk since early 20's).
What you don't have you don't miss.

Pink.

Hi dinglefoot,

As your thread has dropped down the board I've added it to our existing one on cheap, healthy snacks.

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Linda32

dinglefoot wrote: »

What other tasty things are there to snack on (not nuts), that are convinient to take to work/in the packet/quick to prepare?

I'm a big fan of cheese biscuits, no preparing you just eat them.
Along with a chunck of cheese as well.

Edited to add, I replied before I saw that your question had been moved to a thread about cheap/healthy snacks. I'm not sure if cheese and biscuits is either. But it appeals to me anyway.

toddchaney

Every time I go out, I make sure I carry something yummy and filling snack. I prepare burgers and tacos, with ready to use fillings by Classic Foods. Its quick and hassle free. I do not have spend on foods outside.

ajoyshah04

This is definitely a no-brainer. Fruits and vegetables are the healthiest snacks you can find – low in calorie and high nutrients and fiber. And there is a very very large variety that you can choose from in this category for example:

Fruits: Grapefruit, Berries like Blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, Watermelon, Banana
Vegetables: Carrot,Cucumbers, Bell Pepper, Peas, Beets, Sweet Potatoes

Tea-and-Cake_3

I am hoping for ideas for os snacks and treats. While I am really good with the food budget in terms of meals I fall down when it comes to sweet treats eg. biscuits, chocolate, cakes etc. Over a year we must spend literally hundreds on these things alone eek!

For those of you with a sweet tooth what do you make/keep in the house to satisfy that craving without spending too much?

cornishchick

I bake every week depending on what recipe catches my eye on this site, but for chocolate treats I go to Aldi good value tasty chocolate. Yum yum

lostinrates

I guess truly old style is to snack less, eating fewer things I between meals.


In reality a lot of our meals are snacky ( no children). Crudite is often a meal here, or popcorn, made from kernels and flavoured simply or more elaborately, but at home.

WantToBeSE

A huge hit (to make and to eat, according to my 2 children) are Millies cookies, hobnobs and chocolate biscuits.

Millies Cookies:
3oz marg
6oz sugar
vanilla essence
1 egg
6oz SR flour
pinch of salt
4oz choc chips.

Preheat oven to 180, mix everything together, put spoonfuls onto greased tray.
Book for 11 mins.

Hobnobs- the recipe is on the grocery challenge list.

Nigellas choc biscuits:

250g butter
150g sugar
40g cocoa powder
300g plain flour
half tsp Bicarb of soda
1tsp baking powder.

Preheat oven to 170
Cream butter and sugar, mix in the cocoa.
Add in flour, bicarb and baking powder.
Pinch off small balls of mixture, roll into balls and then squish into round flat discs.
Cook for 15 mins.

meritaten

When I was growing up - we didn't have 'snacks'. maybe a bag of sweeties once a week!
we had three meals a day. breakfast, dinner and supper. snacks were not encouraged as they 'spoiled your appetite'. if you complained you were 'starving' between meals you got offered
an apple
a slice of bread and butter
and if really lucky - a 'sugar sandwich'!
this was late fifties though!