You have the munchies, but you're not hungry; what do you eat?

Cheezits, or apple and cheese if I’m in a healthy food place. Actually if I’m planning to snack for a long time I find it helps to mix salty and sweet, so I’ll have popcorn and raisinettes. Yum.

Tortilla chips and salsa.

It is. People who aren’t skinny eat for up to four reasons - hunger, habit, boredom and stress relief. One of the tricks to stopping the other 3 is to pay attention to which one is causing you to eat, rather than just giving in to it.

May I ask what you mean by “interesting pickles”? I mean, as per my OP, I like pickles. But I stick with really garlicky dill spears, and sweet gherkins. I certainly would be willing to try more ‘interesting’ ones, though!

I like pickled peppers, and Umeboshi, and Kimchee, and bread and butter… and icebox.
Sauerkraut, Green Tomatoes, Okra, and Beans.

Shit. Forgot olives and artichokes, baby onions… make asalad with a jar of all of the above… season with sugar, red wine vinegar, pepper, and copious amounts of garlic, add some tri-color screw pasta, atouch of EVOO.

Salt or anchovies, or a combination of both in that salad.

In any upscale, trendy, American Bar… all of these ingredients could be available. I think I will call it “Bartender’s Salad”. Every Bar Pickle thrown into the classic American Pasta Salad wit Iti.

Thanks for the clarification, devilsknew!

I remember when I was much, much younger, something that often appeared at parties at my aunt’s house was a medley of sweet pickled veggies; the medley contained cauliflower, pearl onions, red/yellow/green bell peppers. I can’t remember what else. I do remember that at the time, it was the only way I would eat most of those veggies (the only other way I had ever had them was my mother’s ‘boil until they are good and dead’ method, which sucks).

I can also remember (also at my aunt’s house; is there a theme here?), my friends and I gathering up all the change we could, and going down to the convenience store, which had a veritable feast of penny candy! There were usually four or five of us kids, and between us, we might have as much as forty cents! A fortune! One of the things we always bought for our ‘party’ (read: an excuse to sit on the porch and scarf down junk food) was a great big pickled onion. The onions were huge (or so my memory tells me), and dill pickled, and cost a nickle. We would peel off the layers and share it out that way. Balanced out the Twizzlers, chocolate babies, shoe buttons and Lemon Heads nicely, it did! :slight_smile:

Hmmmm. I have to go grocery shopping today. Maybe I’ll peruse the pickle aisle for stuff more interesting than my standard.

I get a box of those tiny skinny pretzel sticks and eat them one by one, each rolled into a slice of pepperoni. Or I’ll dip veggies in salsa.

Cup of tea.

Fruit or veggies. A satsuma, plum, pear, carrot, celery, tomatoes (with some cheddar cheese).

Sugar free popscicle…or something like that.

That’s bizarre. For me, they’re always the same. I physically can’t eat if I’m not hungry. I can try but I’ll only be able to eat a couple of bites.

I’m starting to realize why my BMI is so low. :slight_smile:

Yep, that’s probably why! :slight_smile:

Chips and salsa or nachos.

Babies. They’re small, so they don’t fill me up. Just toss 'em in the microwave.

And they’re tender enough for the bones to go down the garbage disposal! Though, frankly, I prefer braised to microwave. It’s slower, but yields a tastier meat!:smiley: