Let's All Go To The Snack Bar

[cardero]

Let's All Go To The Snack Bar......
To see what we can find.

OK I admit it, I LOVE my snacks. Whether they be healthy or unhealthy, plain or peanut, cold or hot, sticky or sweet. And they are always coming out with new choices everyday! What kind of peckish finger food do RF members reach for to satisfy their snacking hunger?
What new products that are out there that RF members have tried and didn't like that they would not recommend?

Lately Rizza turned me onto to those Quaker flavored rice cakes. Their light, healthy, crunchy and tasty. I could eat two, no make that three bags without a problem. Some day I am going to try to pour milk over them.

 

[Prima]

I'm a snacker. I don't have meals, I have large snacks scheduled between smaller snacks!

The important thing to watch is health, because a lot of snack food are saturated with fat!

I've always been a big fan of trail mix. You can put anything in it that you want!

Peanut butter is one of the most filling foods. If you're hungry, you can eat two tablespoons of peanut butter and feel full. (I don't remember why that it) For that reason, and because I think it's delicious, I eat peanut-butter snacks a lot. Apples, celery, pb on toast...yum

There's a kind of pretzel made by Snyders that's also great! They're honey-wheat pretzel sticks. They're sweet, and have salt on the outside...they're crunchy and satisfying. And they're good for you!

I'm a fan of smoothies, too..they're so easy.

I have to admit that I love flavored rice cakes, too. I like cinnamon.

 

[Green Gaia]

Popcorn is my snack of choice... or tortilla chips and salsa... *yum*

 

[Prima]

My little brother has a great book about popcorn. It's so cool!

 

[cardero]

mrscarrdero and I bought these cream cheese filled pretzels (like you can purchase from the shopping malls) from a food home delivery system that you put in the toaster or conventional oven. They have sprinkled graham cracker crumbs on the top of them. It's interesting. The only recommendation that I make is that you cook or bake it a little longer for the knot (the thickest part) of the pretzel.

 

[Lightkeeper]

Peanuts and peanut butter.
Snack bars which are high in vitamins
Fruit
Dry Cheerios
Hot Chocolate

 

[cardero]

Another snack that I have brought back from my childhood is TASTYKAKE (TM). This is a snack cake company that resides in Pittsburgh and when I was younger they used to deliver to the state of New York (you can order than online or go down south to get them). My father used to enjoy these cakes and every time he would share a package with us he would go into this critique about how delicious they were. His favorite TASTYKAKES were the Butterscotch Krimpets. They would come in a package of two and they were light airy cakes with butterscotch icing put on the top. He taught us how to remove the plastic wrapping carefully without lifting the icing off the cake. Later I found out that Pennsylvanians would just rub the packaged cakes on their belly to heat the crème so it would not stick to the plastic when you removed the cakes.

Mrscarrdero has a friend down in Pennsylvania so when she goes she stocks up on a lot of TASTYKAKES so needless to say sometimes you can desire a break from certain snacks.

 

[Scuba Pete]

My favorite snack food is Strawberry Shortcake ala mode. YUM!!!

 

[Melody]

Popcorn and pickles....not together....at least not since my son was born.

 

[linwood]

Do they still make King Dons?
I`d love a King Don

 

[cardero]

Are you talking about the chocolate covered circle cakes with cream in the middle? I believe this is Hostess's take of Drake's Ring Ding.

 

[linwood]

Are you talking about the chocolate covered circle cakes with cream in the middle? I believe this is Hostess's take of Drake's Ring Ding.

YES!!YES!!!

Where can I get some?
I haven`t seen one in years.

 

[cardero]

I enjoyed those over Drake's Ring Dings (Ring Ding's chocolate covering tasted too oily), if I am not mistaken they may fall under the name of Hostess Ho-Ho's or am i thinking of Hostess's take on Drake's Yodels. I was also a huge Chocodile freak.

 

[Majikthise]

I have heard tell that if you place a block of iron next to a twinkie, when the iron has rusted away ,the twinkie will remain.

 

[cardero]

I have heard tell that if you place a block of iron next to a twinkie, when the iron has rusted away ,the twinkie will remain.

But I bet the block of iron tastes better.

 

[cardero]

Since the holiday is approaching I would like to take this moment to admit that it is very difficult for me to look at a chocolate rabbit (hollow or full) and not wonder how or why I enjoyed them as a kid.

 

[Lightkeeper]

Did you see the Easter greeting featuring two chocolate Easter
bunnies? One of the chocolate bunnies had his bottom bitten off. He is
telling the other chocolate bunny, "My butt hurts." The other chocolate
bunny, who has had his ears bitten off, "Says, 'What?!'"

 

[Unedited]

I have heard tell that if you place a block of iron next to a twinkie, when the iron has rusted away ,the twinkie will remain.

Contrary to popular belief (I love that phrase!) Twinkies only have a shelf live of twenty-five days, so be careful about eating them! Actually twenty-five days still seems pretty long, but that's only because they fool you into thinking they're packed with dairy products, when they really have relatively little.

http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/twinkies.htm

It apparently (according to the article) only takes 45 seconds for a Twinkie to explode in the microwave... Hmm I must get some and try!

 

[jewscout]

I got a big basket of goodies for purim from my Hebrew teacher mmmmm and all of it's from Israel!

my favorite snack....sunflower seeds...the kind still in the shell...mmmmm

 

[cardero]

I would take any seed or nut (preferrably already shelled). Peanuts I do mind working at. Pistachios are too mind-boggling, walnuts are messy. Sunflowers and pumpkin seeds are too small so I have to enjoy them without the shell. Speaking of seeds and nuts. I enjoy soy and corn nuts.