I usually eat a pretty consistent diet, with a little variation from time to time: toast and butter in the morning with a couple of poached eggs, dinner when I get home from work is usually a NuWave-cooked chicken quarter seasoned with either teriyaki or a dry rub with a side of microwave-steamed vegetables.
When I’m at work, I usually have some small lunch item but I also tend to snack a lot throughout the shift. Usually potato chips of some sort are the go-to, but lately I’ve been wanted to mix that up more, so I’ve been trying some more…unusual options. One that I’ve found delightfully surprising is marinated grilled artichoke hearts, heated up in the microwave for a minute or two, eaten as-is from the jar, no condiment, no dip, no extra seasoning. I feel like it’s a step up nutritionally from potato chips, too.
Anyone have a favorite offbeat snack they’d recommend? Preferrably something that can be eaten cold or heated up in a microwave, as my cooking options are severely limited at the office…
Well, I’m a guy, so I better NOT be pregnant! Cardamom seeds sound interesting, though; sounds like they might have some interesting health benefits, as well. I’ll check them out!
Do you not eat fruit? That’s my go-to snack, and it comes in dozens of different seasonal varieties – I’m apple and orange happy at the moment. I also love dried fruit – dried cantaloupe is unusual and delicious, or have some dates.
Or are you only looking for something savory? What about nuts - they’re high in nutrients. Cheeses are good too.
One weird snack to try is cold cereal – plenty of choices all along the sweetness scale, and it’s got great crunch.
Croutons. I like to get a bag of toast-cube soup’n’salad toppers, and just eat them right out of the bag. Crunchy as hell, a couple of flavor options … but man, anyone who sees gets this weird look on their face.
Similarly, French’s fried onions, straight outta the can.
Dried fruit is my fave. Right this minute I am on dried cranberries ( kinda raisin like with a pucker quality) In the past I have eaten trail mixes of all kinds. Guiltily, I like poptarts for snacks.
There is a new sorta breakfast cookie, I havn’t tried them yet.
I LOVE croutons, but due to dental issues, can’t eat them at present. Fortunately, uncooked prepackaged stuffing is easier to eat, has lots of variety and is also less noisy in an office environment.
It requires a little prep but once and a while I like to get all fancy and wrap figs or dates in cream cheese and prosciutto. They keep well in the fridge and really don’t take long to make if you use pitted dates or dried figs.
Forgot this one!! My late husband actually showed me that snack. I knew he was big on homemade-from-scratch so I had wondered at the can of StoveTop in his apt.
He also taught me to keep gummy bears in the freezer so they get extra hard and chewy. Anyone else here do that?
I don’t do the prosciutto, but I bought a package of pitted dates last week, and I’ve been having them with cream cheese – just run a knife down the middle, split and pop in some cream cheese.
I have some dental issues, as well[sup]*[/sup], which prevents me from enjoying my favorite go-to snack, beef jerky.
[Sup]*When I was a child, my mother caught my finger in one of those heavy apartment doors, ripping the fingertip off. I was sick at the time, and the anesthesia and the fever I was running caused my permanent teeth to come in with no enamel on them. As a result, I have several broken teeth, and the rest are living on borrowed time, no matter how much I brush and floss. At only 45, I don’t want to have them pulled for dentures. And can’t afford to have crowns or implants. So I go around looking like a method addict[/sup]