Ok slowtwitch, help me spank this Doritos addiction.
What do you folks use for those in between meal cravings? I’m in need of some healthy, reasonably fast alternatives to my problem. I generally eat very well but I’ll be damned if I can look at a bag of chips and not have a serious inner battle of will power going on. A buddy of mine suggested making kale chips, which I did try, and were actually quite delicious!
Have you thought of fruit? I know it’s pretty old school and doesn’t have the ST cred of such things as high protein camel semen dipped creatine biscuits (cookies) but it’s pretty convenient and has a fair bit of peer reviewed evidence (plus a lot more anecdotal) backing it up.
I like baby carrots, but I can’t just eat carrots for more than a week (I’ve tried; it always ends with a bag of Kettle chips, and not the little one).
Almonds and an apple. Also, I love mixing cottage cheese with klamata olives, or pickled jalapeños.
I do eat my share of fruit and veg during the day and as part of meals, but for that after work, post work out time period before or after dinner they usually don’t hit the spot for me (unless it’s summer when the options include giant ripe peaches, nectarines etc). I get my produce from a smaller market and try to stick to in season items… I get so f#%$ing sick of apples by November!
dried guava and apricots!!!
Nuts / trail mix. Make your own from your local bulk foods store.
As an aside - Are honey roasted peanuts healthy?
Pretty much every week I bake two dozen muffins. I have a number of recipes that I rotate: carrot-date, zucchini-cocoa, applesauce spice etc. Slap on some PB and it’s a perfect snack, nutritionally equivalent to many energy bars. I eat two pretty much every day. Also great to bring along on rides.
Nuttella
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I mix equal parts of raw sunflower seed, roasted-salted sun flower seeds, and flax seeds. I eat about 1/4 cup at night after dinner. Salty, easy, filling,and full of good fats
Halloween candy. There’s still plenty of tootsie rools, dum dums, and sweet tarts left at this point. All the good healthy chocolate is gone by now.
Nuts, nuts, and more nuts. Yogurt is a good filler too. During the week I control cravings with a very regimented eating schedule - bowl of cereal around 530, banana at 830, lunch at 1130 (sandwich and pretzels), fruit at 130 (typically apple or banana), banana at 3, a couple of chocolate covered almonds when I get home from work before a workout, dinner at 6-7. Graze like a cow and you won’t get those peaks and valleys in your intake.
Would you share your recipes?
These are a little better than chips and the goldfish is riding a bike (albeit without an aero helmet). Just salty enough to keep me off chips.
pretzels
I was told by my Mom, who probably heard it from Regis or his chick sidekick, that pretzels have more calories/pound than cheesecake. That sort of messed me up for pretzels.
Its all about the nuts and dried fruit for me, or a cliff bar. I get pretty sick of cliff bars though. Sometimes it seems like it takes an interminable amount of time to actually swallow them!
Baby carrots are good although they are pretty samey. You could try getting some hummus to give them a bit more flavour. The hummus isn’t bad if you buy the right kinds.
Sometimes I have a protein shake with a vitamin C powder in it. I try to trick myself mentally that it’s something I like
GREAT call! I love muffins, especially of the carrot/zucchini variety. Will definitely try this.
i second the nutella…anything with that spread generously over it is good.
also, i enjoy sliced apples with some peanut butter…good late night snack.
Pistachios and clementines. I’m addicted to them
These are a little better than chips and the goldfish is riding a bike (albeit without an aero helmet). Just salty enough to keep me off chips.
The fish look pretty aero themselves though…
I control cravings with a big glass of milk