Entries tagged with 'snacks'
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In case you were wondering what you're ingesting when bite into a Slim Jim, Wired explains the meat stick's ingredients. It's a glorious combination of beef, mechanically separated chicken, corn and wheat proteins, one-sixth of your daily sodium needs, and so much more. Mmm!...
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"I have been feasting with impunity on fruits that are being grown responsibly 3,000 miles from my home." When you're a serious eater and a serious dieter you look for treats or snacks that you can eat with impunity at different times of the year. Yes, all you Michael Pollan and Alice Waters acolytes, I am talking about seasonal snacks that I can eat without worrying about my weight. Bananas have become a staple of my serious diet, but they are neither local nor seasonal unless you happen to live in a sub-tropical area. (I did have some killer baby bananas in Vieques, Puerto Rico, last December that tasted like they had been crossed with limes—banimas or limnanas, anyone?) Summer...
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Growing up, there were tons of cucumbers growing in my mom's garden during the summer, so we never really bought them at the supermarket. Given these fortuitous circumstances, I was always a bit confused about the difference between the ones growing in the backyard and the ones at the store. Whereas the store's specimens were smooth and shiny, the ones I brought to the kitchen sink were rough and a bit prickly. I was going to chalk them up as some sort of weird variety of Korean cucumbers, but I did some research and realized that I'd been eating the pickling variety of cucumbers this whole time. Every cuke and pickle I've ever eaten flashed before my eyes as...
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Photo from Lighthelper on Flickr Over in Talk, Serious Eats user Ruffles1 asked the community for their bring-from-home snack ideas. In mid-morning or mid-afternoon, I am STARVING! So, if I have not brought something with me to eat or drink, I will hit the vending machines wherever I am... [But] I try to have something with me, so I can stop the hunger. We've gotten some good suggestions so far for nibbles from home—sugar snap peas, crackers with sunflower butter, homemade flatbread with Laughing Cow cheese—but there have to be other creative ideas out there. What's your favorite work snack?...
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Many things are probably more thrilling than watching thousands of pounds of pork skins transform from flaccid pink squares to puffy deep fried snack. But you just can't look away—the conveyor belts and tubs full of pork pellets pull you into a vortex of meaty wonder. So, after the jump, watch this video from the History Channel's Modern Marvels and you might wanna pop open a bag of pork rinds afterward. Or never again....
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File this under "Because We Rarely Have Reason to Talk About Slim Jims": If you're wondering where your beloved beef jerky sticks are, there's a shortage due to a deadly explosion last month caused by a gas leak that destroyed the only Slim Jim plant in the country in Garner, North Carolina, and killed three employees. The company doesn't expect to meet full Slim Jim demand until fall. [via Best Week Ever] Update (7/13/09): Donations to the ConAgra Foods Garner Plant Fund are being accepted through United Way. BlueRidgeNow.com has a feature about the victims and their families. The factory will resume operations on July 27. ConAgra says there is no Slim Jim shortage....
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Photo from Boots In The OvenAnother triumph for the happy union of sweet and salty. Logan at Boots In The Oven recalls a favorite snack from childhood that he's never given up: canned frosting on crackers. "Yup, my favorite is cream cheese frosting with Premium brand saltines," he says. "Original flavor." Sweet and gooey on salty and crunchy... almost like Nutella on tortilla chips....
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©iStockphoto.com/thebroker A large "buttered" popcorn at the typical movie theater contains about 1,220 calories, San Francisco Chronicle restaurant critic Michael Bauer reminds us, quoting a decade-old survey: "You would have to swim 162 minutes to burn off that popcorn—longer than your average motion picture." Not exactly what I want to read before a weekend in which I plan on finally seeing Star Trek (the IMAX version was sold out last week). That reminds me, though, that it's cheaper and healthier to just sneak in a snack of my own. What snack(s) do you sneak in to the movies—and how?...
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Nutella and tortilla chips. Awesome apart. Better together. I still remember the day I first discovered the harmonious union of Nutella and tortilla chips—a dorm room invention if ever there was one. A friend and I were lying around in beanbag chairs at around three in the morning, staring down his nearly-full jar of Nutella. We had run out of the potato bread we’d been spreading it on. He didn’t have any other bread, or crackers, or cookies, or anything remotely carby to slather with Nutella. And though we could have just reached for two spoons, we weren’t quite at the straight-from-the-jar phase. That’s when it hit me. I rummaged through the cabinet and unearthed a half-full bag of...
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Photograph from katebornstein Your favorite cheese snack multiplied by your favorite nerdy wordy board game. Kellogg launched Cheez-It Scrabble Junior in January, and it's supposedly hitting shelves nationally. No clue why it refers to the munchkin version of the game, but it's still a good day to be a wordsmith with the munchies. [via Endless Simmer] Related Sudoku Pizza Do You Use Food-Related Words When You Scrabble? [Talk] Chocolate Scrabble...
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