# Nighttime munchies **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 5, 2009, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nighttime-munchies/479951 "2009-01-05T16:24:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Atomicflea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/58956e/32.png) [@Atomicflea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomicflea)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nighttime-munchies/479951/21 "2009-01-07T20:32:10Z")
In the summer, I crave lemon italian ice before bed. In winter, 5 no-salt soda crackers do the trick for 65 calories. Doughy, crunchy, yummy. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nighttime-munchies/479951/22 "2009-01-07T20:44:15Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > A similar idea would be to ‘ration’ your eating throughout the day so that your night-time snacking is just fulfilling the last bit of your recommended daily calorie intake. That’s what I do. I’m limiting what kinds of food I can have, but I eat when I am hungry (probably five times a day, maybe two full platefuls of food (“meals”) plus a few small plates/snacks). Since I am hungry when I get home around 6, I eat right away, knowing that even though it’s a reasonable plateful and I won’t get really full, I will have a snack later in the evening. I go with sugarfree/fatfree pudding, sometimes with coconut or nuts mixed in handful of nuts Fiber One bar bowl of cereal (not sugared–puffed grains or shredded wheat), with lowfat milk and maybe sliced banana as mentioned, oatmeal or cream of wheat in the winter It keeps me from getting superhungry and obsessed with food, and keeps sugar leveler, but doesn’t make me stuffed for when I go to bed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nighttime-munchies/479951.md?page=1)