Breakfast cereal
My wife and I both agree that it’s a dessert, not a food XD
What ones you like?
I’m a sucker for fruity pebbles (I actually prefer the malt-o-meal bag version)
None. If it’s here, I’m eating it. I sometimes bring some home on grocery day but it’s always gone that day.
Usually, pototo chips, chocolate covered pretzels, gummies, chocolate cover gummies.
Nuts. Many kinds of nuts - peanuts, hazelnuts, almonds, cashews… Various mixes, sometimes with dried fruits, then there’s the spiced and coated varieties
None. If I crave for something crunchy I eat carrots or nuts. If I want to eat sweets I make my own brownies, marzipan or chocolate chip cookies. And if I really want to each chips/crisps I make my own batch.
When you say you make your own marzipan, do you start from almonds? That seems like so much work- is it significantly cheaper or better than store bought marzipan or do you just prefer to be self sufficient?
When I have time I do it from scratch but usually I end up using almond flour.
Does it taste better? Almond flour is over three times the price of marzipan here, so it looks like it would be more expensive to make it myself, but I love marzipan and am down to pay more and put some work in for better marzipan.
I could also just see the prices being different elsewhere, though, given that I’m in Germany and marzipan is a much more common ingredient than almond flour here.
It’s difficult to tell if it tastes better. Some store bought were better other worse. But the best thing about making it is that you can make the way you like it.
Mega chad behaviour 😎
My store is out of them but right now it’s wafer rolls. They come in orange, vanilla and strawberry flavors. All of them are damn good and I end up eating the whole jar once I start eating a few of them.
Unsalted cashew nuts and french fries. The nuts I eat as is and usually run out by the end of the week. French fries I toss into the air fryier when ever I don’t feel like cooking.
Breakfast bars. They’re not just for breakfast!
I’m also partial to chips & salsa.
I love chips and salsa - issue being that I’ll house a party sized bag of tortilla chips and a big ol container of salsa in like 2-3 sittings, which I guess is fine… But it feels like that many corn chips ain’t healthy. Main concern is my salt intake.
Frozen mango pieces. I love eating those whenever I’m in the mood for something to snack.
Not sure if it counts as junk food, but it’s something I always try to keep at home. Though lately they’ve been sold out at the supermarket. So I’m forced to fall back on my 2nd choice, frozen raspberries.
frozen raspberries
Haha those should be first choice. Basically the polar opposite in terms of flavor profile
Oh I love raspberries as well, it’s just that mangoes are more chewy when frozen.
Raspberries tend to be very hard and not as nice to bite down on when they’re straight from the freezer. But the flavor is great, no argument here :)
A shitload of my favorite brand of protein bars, tastes just close enough to a chocolate bar that I dont feel cheated.
Also the fitness branded protein ice creams. 360 calories and I get to fuck up a whole pint watching TV?
And both of them help me hit my protein targets for the day.
Are there savory protein bars available?
Most savory protein options are like some sort of jerky.
Girardhelli brownie mix. Not claiming it’s the best ever but it’s 100x better than the Betty Crocker or Duncan Hines crap. But there’s also the barrier of 5-10 mins prep and 25+ mins baking so it’s not instant gratification y’know?
Once you bake a pan though it’s pretty great for the next day or two. Assuming you’re not too concerned with your waistline.
Edit: Oh and a box is like $3 at Big Lots. But you do have to supply an egg and cooking oil.
Plus you can get a Costco sized box!
Realistically this is also a healthy choice because it requires effort, so time to reconsider
ricey crackers, they have chocolate and rice. everything one needs, besides some water…
Oh no now I need some 😛. Had totally forgotten they existed 🤤
anything that comes in little pieces, like toffeefe or manner.
I’m on a diet but a huge sweettooth. This helps me grab one of them as a dessert after a healthy meal.
Reese’s Pieces.
The only one we keep stocked is milk. We make all kinds of desserts at home, like ice creams, cakes, pies, and pastries, but they never stay around for long.
I miss trader Joe’s dried chili mango and candied hibiscus, their entire dried fruit section really.
candied hibiscus? like the flower is candied?
Hibiscus flowers are full of vitamin c, and taste like cranberries!
I had no idea. that sounds delicious.
the flower petals are so thin, how thick is the candy coating?
It’s actually made with the calyx rather than the petals, same as with hibiscus tea.
are you sure? a lot of the ones I looked up look like they dehydrate the petals. the recipes call for the flower rather than the calyx.
Yup, those are calices, it’s the bottom part of the flower, that holds the petals together.
I thought the calyx was the green part that holds the flower by its base.
like this?
and the flavor they’re talking about sounds like hibiscus petals, which are supposed to be citrusy.
Typically i see them served in syrup and not coated in candy, and somehow they are so much thicker a petal than you imagine. I assume theyre using a specific type of hibiscus and not just the kind everyone grows for yard decor. More of a yucca flower texture honestly.
They may have actual candied ones to i didn’t even bother looking it up yet, of course.
These are what i normally see https://www.wildhibiscus.com/collections/retail/products/wild-hibiscus-flowers-in-syrup
that is fascinating, thank you for sharing it.
I actually grew up with hibiscus around my house my whole childhood but never knew you could eat them.
which is nuts, because I feel like I try to eat everything else in my yard as a kid.
those look pretty good.
Use theme like tea leaves and you get a tasty drink
also logging this in my brain. thanks
