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denise
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Snacks
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Feb 5 18:34 UTC 2007 |
Apparently, the grocery stores were extra-busy this past weekend, due to
people buying food/snacks for the Superbowl. So I'm curious as to what are
some of your favorite snack items?
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denise
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response 1 of 62:
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Feb 5 18:37 UTC 2007 |
This may be a frivolous item but still, so many Americans do snack between
meals or in the evening while watching tv, doing stuff with friends, or
hanging out online.
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tod
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response 2 of 62:
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Feb 5 18:47 UTC 2007 |
My typical snacks in a workday are apples, pears, or peanuts. I also enjoy
a few bottles of 710ml water throughout the day.
For the superbowl, I grilled some carne asada and chicken breasts then cut
them up with scissors into bowls. I also chopped up some roma tomatoes and
mixed that with coriander, pepper, salt, and garlic then split that and put
made one hot with chopped salerno pepper and tobasco. I grated some cheddar
and heated up some veggie no-fat refried beans, too. Put out some sour cream.
Heated tortillas in a tortillas dish with a lil water in the microwave.
Everybody enjoyed it and got fat.
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denise
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response 3 of 62:
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Feb 5 19:04 UTC 2007 |
Tod, what's carne asada? I *think* carne is something with a bit of spiceness,
but I don't know what the asada is.
I wasn't too hungry for most of the day yesterday so I hadn't eaten anything
since about 2pm. In the 2nd half of the game, I did get a bit hungry but not
enough for a meal--so I just made up one of those mini-bags of popcorn.
Popcorn has been one of my longtime favorite snacks [since I was a kid]. Back
in my late teens, someone gave me a popcorn cookbook that I still have.
Another somewhat frequent snack are pretzels. I do like potato chips [the
plain ones are best], tortilla chips, and fritos but I rarely buy those
because I know they'll get eaten! So if/when I do get some, I buy the smaller
bags. Nachos are good, too [sometimes I use fritos as the base instead of the
tortilla chips]. I won't bother listing the sweets, other than ice cream
being the favorite. When I'm out somewhere, like with friends, I usually get
an appetizer [and split it if I can] or I just get a side dish from the menu.
To drink, these days I drink mostly water though occasionally I'll have tea,
milk, or once in awhile, a pop.
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rcurl
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response 4 of 62:
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Feb 5 19:25 UTC 2007 |
Carne is meat.
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richard
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response 5 of 62:
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Feb 5 19:36 UTC 2007 |
I am partial to Chex party mix, only I make my own, no prepackaged
stuff. Buy some wheat and corn chex boxes, mix in mini pretzels,
peanuts, cashews, cheetos, cheeze-its, potato chips, whatever else is
handy. Add red pepper, shake and serve :)
I also like fondue, although I no longer have a working electric fondue
maker :(
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slynne
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response 6 of 62:
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Feb 5 19:44 UTC 2007 |
I like fritos and sometimes wonder why the frito-lay company doesnt
market them as being "natural" since the ingredients are so simple (I
think the ingredients are corn, corn oil, and salt. )
One time when I was in California around a bunch of hippy mothers (my
friends mothers play group in fact), I was eating some fritos and
offered some to the kids. One of the kids mothers gave me this whole
lecture about how she doesnt give her kid "junk food" like fritos. Then
she went into the car to get the organic corn chips for the kids. I was
just going to let it go, of course, because who wants to make snippy
comments about Fritos of all things? But then she looked at me and said
in a loud snearing voice, "I dont eat anything I cant pronounce"
I looked at the bag and said "corn, oil, salt" Then the other mothers
didnt believe me and had to have a look and they were all surprised and
one said she felt a little foolish paying more than twice as much for
the other brand from Whole Foods. I quietly filed the incident away in
my "Left wing millionare hippies - out of touch with reality" story
file in my brain.
Anyways, the really obnoxious thing is that I like the more expensive
brand much better because they use less salt and less oil. The only
reason I even had fritos was because we stopped at a gas station and I
was *really* hungry so there werent a lot of choices. I mean I like
fritos ok but generally think they use too much oil and salt so the
chips are kind of heavy and they make a person very thirsty because of
all the salt. And trust me, I LOVE salt so if I think something is too
salty, it is very salty.
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keesan
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response 7 of 62:
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Feb 5 19:46 UTC 2007 |
Kroger currently has 1.3 lb organic non-GMO yellow or blue (or beet-red) corn
chips, very low salt, for $3.50. Very tasty too. We had a bag for supper
to celebrate having a new neighbor on Saturday.
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tod
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response 8 of 62:
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Feb 5 19:54 UTC 2007 |
re #3
Tod, what's carne asada? I *think* carne is something with a bit of
spiciness but I don't know what the asada is.
Carne Asada=BBQ steak(usually thin cuts of skirt steak)
I used thin cuts of sirloin tip beef for ours then after it was cooked I cut
it into strips with scissors.
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rcurl
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response 9 of 62:
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Feb 5 20:25 UTC 2007 |
I usually have an afternoon snack of chips and salsa. A problem is that I
want low-fat, baked, chips. For a while there were Tostito baked chips
with 1 gm fat/oz. These disappeared so I'm using Meijer baked torilla
chips with 2 gm fat/oz. If anyone knows of baked chips with 1 gm fat/oz,
I'd appreciate knowing of them.
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tod
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response 10 of 62:
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Feb 5 20:48 UTC 2007 |
re #9
I don't have a quick answer on that but I can recommend alternatives: rice
cakes, unsalted lowfat saltine crackers, thick cucumber slices, and celery
sticks.
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keesan
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response 11 of 62:
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Feb 5 21:59 UTC 2007 |
Rane, you can buy raw frozen corn tortillas and bake them briefly in a toaster
oven. (don't overdo it or they will catch on fire, which happened to Jim).
Or buy the masa harina and make your own tortillas. Or pick your own corn
and scrape it off the cob when it is dry (flour corn not sweet corn) then soak
it overnight in a lye solution (to nixtamalize it and increase vitamin
content) and then boil it an hour and rinse it repeatedly and grind it on a
metate and cook on a griddle. This latter method produces very sweet tasting
tortillas but is rather time consuming. You can also grow the corn. We have
seed for Mexican green cord (dent variety). Corn contains oil.
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rcurl
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response 12 of 62:
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Feb 5 22:21 UTC 2007 |
(Thanks folks...but all I really seek is just lower fat chips. Also, the
ground is currently too hard for planting corn.)
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keesan
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response 13 of 62:
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Feb 5 22:23 UTC 2007 |
It is very very easy to stick a couple of raw corn tortillas in a medium oven
and bake them for a few minutes without adding oil or salt. If you want
smaller pieces use a scissors to cut them up first into triangles (or if you
can find square tortillas cut them into squares).
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edina
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response 14 of 62:
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Feb 5 22:24 UTC 2007 |
I second the first part of what Sindi said. As in the first
sentence in 11.
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rcurl
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response 15 of 62:
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Feb 5 22:36 UTC 2007 |
I'm not sure I would gain much. Tortillas have about 0.8 gm fat/oz, but are
ca 50% water, so drying them will make tht 1.6 gm fat/oz. In fact, that be
why the Meijer tortilla chips are 2 gm fat/oz.
(Data from http://www.recipezaar.com/library/getentry.zsp?id=657)
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keesan
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response 16 of 62:
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Feb 6 00:01 UTC 2007 |
So are you looking for tortilla chips made from defatted corn? If so, why?
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denise
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response 17 of 62:
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Feb 6 00:59 UTC 2007 |
[This is now item 236 in the cooking/food conference as well as item 107 Agora
conference-winter addition, 2007.]
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denise
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response 18 of 62:
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Feb 6 01:03 UTC 2007 |
When I'm in the mood for an easy 'good-for-you' snack, I like easy things like
grapes, or strawberries when I want something a bit on the sweeter side or
some easy veggies with ranch dressing as a dip. [baby carrots, grape tomatoes,
celery, green/red/or-yellow peppers are all good.
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slynne
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response 19 of 62:
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Feb 6 01:57 UTC 2007 |
I like celery with peanut butter. I also like toast as a snack. And
cheese and crackers. Sometimes I skip dinner and just have a snack
instead but then perhaps, it isnt a snack and is actually my dinner!
One time a friend of mine was talking to me about her husband. She said
that before they got married, he would sometimes come home and have
cheese and crackers FOR DINNER! Imagine *that*? I just had to laugh
because it seems like a perfectly good dinner to me especially if one
adds some fruit or a veggie to it.
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gelinas
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response 20 of 62:
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Feb 6 02:23 UTC 2007 |
I miss the baked Tostito chips, too. I've seen some with a "touch of lime,"
but I want them plain.
Since I try (not always successfully) to limit my fat intake, I generally
avoid chips. Cheese and crackers are my preferred between-meal (or instead-of
meal) nosh.
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bru
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response 21 of 62:
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Feb 6 02:45 UTC 2007 |
better scrub those crackers off your list.
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rcurl
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response 22 of 62:
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Feb 6 03:21 UTC 2007 |
Re #16: as I wrote, I am looking for baked "unflavored" chips with 1 gm
fat/oz, or less.
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mcnally
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response 23 of 62:
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Feb 6 04:14 UTC 2007 |
re #20, 21: the cheese, too, for that matter. :-(
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gelinas
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response 24 of 62:
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Feb 6 04:17 UTC 2007 |
As I said, "not always successfully." :(
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