Do you eat a bed-time snack? What is it?
Right now I'm having a bowl of leftover orzo with feta and zucchini. And a beer! I did just get back from soccer...
Usually I have cereal (Shreddies or Mini-Wheats) or yoghourt with fruit. For me a bed-time snack has to be eaten with a bowl and spoon. What do you eat? Or are you someone who doesn't eat after a certain hour?
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42 Comments:
Best bed-time snack is definately cereal. It has to be Total Raisin Bran (not Post, Total - it has the crunchiest flakes and the plumpest raisins). Sometimes I eat it dry, no milk. I will pinch the flakes between a raisin and - bliss. I will eyeball a piece of cold pizza at times, but save that for breakfast! I like breakfast food for dinner and dinner food for breakfast!
Michigander at 9:59PM on 06/05/08
I am one of those who does not eat late. I prefer an earlier dinner when we are dining out. I like my main meal earlier in the day when I am working. It is better for my system and at my age, it helps keep the tonnage off. I know, BORING, but look at it this way, I have left all the goodies to the snackers!
izatryt at 10:19PM on 06/05/08
It's all about toast with butter and a chamomile infusion in warm milk and honey. It makes me nice and sleepy, although these days it's more like "late evening snack" as to not conflict with sleeping meds. Tasty nonetheless.
jenilowrance at 11:22PM on 06/05/08
Definitely cereal. Multi Grain Cheerios most of the time, occasionally something else, if someone else bought cereal that week.
Or a Trader Joe's Middle Eastern Flatbread spread with olive oil, broiled, and spread with goat cheese. mmmm....:)
amanda0730 at 11:30PM on 06/05/08
No bedtime snacks for me. Weekends I try not to eat after 6:30 p.m.
During the week, I try not to eat after 7 p.m.
:-)
paris221966 at 1:09AM on 06/06/08
Sometimes I wake up during the night, grab a snack, then go back to bed. I've done this many times before. What's weird is that my cat has gotten into the same habit. At any given time, in the middle of the night, you can find both of us half asleep with our face buried in a bowl.
FastFoodCritic at 5:34AM on 06/06/08
Oh man, bedtime snacks are the best- but unfortunately they completely mess around with my digestion and talk about trouble going to sleep...and even nightmares! So I really try to avoid bedtime snacks, but if I do have then it's either something really rich like chocolate or ice-cream, or pasta carbs or bread with cheese! I crave sugar at late hours.
But overall I really do try to avoid bedtime snacks, just cant sleep properly after that!
MariannaF at 8:35AM on 06/06/08
I'm the girl who cooks a big meal, does the dishes, wraps the leftovers nicely in the fridge, and then at 11:30 devours them like a wolverine. And if there's no leftovers, it's ice cream...I'd like to say I have a little yogurt for a snack (which I have, on occasion,) but really, the fattier the better.
embolini9 at 9:00AM on 06/06/08
I usually have a warm cup of decaf tea with a bit of milk and stevia or honey around 7pm. Period. I am so jealous of all of you! LOL!
Brownie at 9:40AM on 06/06/08
Can't do the bedtime snacks - though you all make them sound so delicious!
CookiePie at 10:16AM on 06/06/08
I usually eat dinner so late that it effectively is a bedtime snack. Especially if it's sausage and mash, because my boyfriend has not once made the red onion gravy that it took less than five hours. But I'm not really into proper bedtime snacks. I went through a teenaged phase of eating bread with butter and chocolate before bed, but it was short lived.
caley at 10:44AM on 06/06/08
I used to make myself stop eating by 7pm, but these days I try to force myself to eat something before bed, so its usually saltines and hot herb tea with honey, depending on the queasy factor the saltines may be decorated with peanut butter and salt, butter, soy cheese or once even some leftover buttercreme icing, ok I know its unhealthy but it is fattening, and gaining can be as hard as losing, so sometimes I resort to empty calories.
huneybumper at 10:49AM on 06/06/08
Definitely a spoon and a bowl, but it's gotta be ice cream
mepm231 at 11:03AM on 06/06/08
last night I had a steak with foie gras sauce and mushrooms and half a bottle of rosé at midnight...
simon at 11:14AM on 06/06/08
I'm not a bedtime snack person either....although I have eaten dinner after 7pm, I usually try not to eat too late either.
mepolo at 11:20AM on 06/06/08
Something sweet, like some cookies or cake or ice cream or chocolate. It's hell, if I haven't baked or we've run out of ice cream or chocolate.
While it was cold, we were having herbal tea and cookies almost nightly.
Last night was strawberry shortcake at 12:30. The night before was Key Lime Pie while watching Top Chef at 11:00 (recorded it).
wookie at 11:37AM on 06/06/08
Microwave popcorn. In bed with a book. Last night though I didn't have my bedtime snack and woke up at 1am and ate half of a tongue sandwich on rye with mustard.
RichardCrystal at 11:59AM on 06/06/08
No bedtime snack, but I am a middle of the night eater on occasion. Usually just a small handful of raisins or whatever baked good happens to be on the counter, although I have been known to get cookies out of the freezer and scarf a couple down before stumbling back to bed.
Robin Bellinger at 12:03PM on 06/06/08
I'm a snacker! Last night I had a big spoonful of leftover pulled pork on a wheat Hawaiian roll and it was perfect. Most times it's cheese and crackers or a Kashi bar after my soccer games or the gym.
Tara Tot at 12:34PM on 06/06/08
my husband and i have some fruit every evening a couple of hours after dinner, but never anything heavy.
mrsbao at 12:45PM on 06/06/08
Sometimes I eat a couple of saltines or apple slices and cheese. Yummy, salty, delicious, and light enough as to not make me sick during the night.
sixsonnets at 12:49PM on 06/06/08
i try not to eat that late, it makes me feel yucky when i wake up. i had an ex-bf that always insisted on eating a heavy dinner at 8 before we really got serious. buuut that's another story
if i'm too hungry to sleep, i go for cereal, or a rice cake covered in pb, mmmm
machellebelle at 1:13PM on 06/06/08
My bf LOVES to snack in the evening. I try to avoid eating after 8; but his snacks are so tempting!
He also makes/bakes desserts AFTER we've shaken off the dinner-full's--what a horrible influence!! I agree that it makes me feel sluggish in the morning.
If I had a choice I'd just like some herbal tea and some cheerios.
hungrychristel at 1:43PM on 06/06/08
I don't usually have bedtime snacks, but if I do, lately I have been on a graham cracker kick. That might be due to the fact that I am working on perfecting another cake recipe and for that I need lots of graham crackers, and I tend to have a few "extra" laying around, tempting me.
Traveller at 2:28PM on 06/06/08
I'm a cereal girl. My parents got me going on this; if my brother or I were hungry before bed it was cereal, a piece of toast or nothing. I also love Shreddies, or Life, or Bran Flakes (the ones with William Shatner on the box). Yum.
blush at 3:00PM on 06/06/08
If I can't sleep and it's really late I am compelled to have either a bowl of cereal (frosted mini wheats) or a fresh apple- sliced and spread with chunky peanut butter. Yeah, I am a freak. lol
sbelle at 3:58PM on 06/06/08
Like a couple others, I go for a small bowl of cereal before bed. I think it makes me feel like a kid again.
HumbleRecipes at 4:17PM on 06/06/08
Ice cream, please! Or in the summer when we have it, a lovely slice of frozen lemonade pie.
whoizzit at 4:50PM on 06/06/08
any and everything i can get my hands on, there is no restriction =D
Stankind at 4:50PM on 06/06/08
I don't like to eat heavy meals late in the evening, but if I'm up late watching a movie and get the munchies I usually go for my favorite... popcorn! Acutally I could eat popcorn 24/7 if I was able to.
Southern_bella at 5:08PM on 06/06/08
Yea, unfortunately I do eat late a lot. I'm trying not to as much lately but I hate going to bed hungry. So usually I'll eat a late dessert (ice cream) or snack on whatever is on the counter...chocolate covered raisins or pretzels....hmm...
Chew on That at 5:59PM on 06/06/08
Lately for some reason it anything and everything, especially ice cream, candy, doritos, pistachios, cookies, no rhyme or reason really, just really yummy and really fattening............if I get up in the middle of the night (which is a lot) I HAVE to have oreos and milk, I've been doing that almost my whole life and I don't know why...
stephie at 9:15PM on 06/06/08
I used to be able to eat and eat without gaining . . . .at my age I shouldn't do that anymore, but I also can't quit my bedtime snack routine. Give me anything chocolate, or ice cream, or that big box of frozen cream puffs that I bought for a baby shower and forgot to thaw for serving. (yeah, sure!). Um, lately, in an effort to cut out the full fat noshing, I have been buying frozen fruit bars and lemon sorbet. Makes me feel less full, and less guilty.
wendymc at 9:18PM on 06/06/08
I love a good, cold pasta salad. Cold olive oil and feta cheese is like my weakness.
A huge cup of coffee before bed (I am impervious to caffeine, I swear.) and a piece (or three) of biscotti is nice too.
As a kid I always had frozen juice (we made our own popsicles) or Grandma's hot chocolate (a chocolate bar melted, with cream added and cinnamon.)
sweethunibabi at 10:33PM on 06/06/08
whoizzit , lemonade pie! please post the recipe!
i have to have a snack before i go to bed if i have gone to the gym that day and eaten my usual dinner of salad and vegetables. most nights it's a bowl of granola. in fact i think i need one right now.
cybercita at 11:23PM on 06/06/08
Whatever fruit I bought but didn't finish off earlier. However, tonight, it was half a doughnut, since my husband saw the "Happy National Doughnut Day" banner on the SE home page. He said we had to celebrate his favorite holiday.
beth1 at 12:17AM on 06/07/08
Hands down, a BIG mug full of ice cream!
MeMeg at 1:01AM on 06/07/08
I just downed a half-bottle of wine. Check with me tomorrow to see if I'm sorry. :-)
Sometimes I'll crave things in the late evening and other times I'm not interested at all. I suppose the most usual would be some sort of fruit or a scoop of ice cream.
If I've had a dessert after dinner I'm much less likely to want a snack later at night.
dbcurrie at 1:37AM on 06/07/08
Any type of left-over. Any baked item I have.
smile at 10:04PM on 06/07/08
I never fall asleep early (that is, if I am asleep by 3 am, it's a good night for me), so if I eat at 7 pm (which is when we usually have supper), I may get really hungry by midnight - 1 am. I usually have some cheese and fruit or olives, maybe a glass of wine. If I happen to have some pistachio ice cream in the freezer, it's good too. It does vary though between sweet and savoury, and there's no telling which one I may crave on any particular night:-) Sometimes I may have weird cravings (Cluck-U wings, for example-:)), but most nights, the cheese and fruit/olive plate works for me.
brooke29 at 11:50PM on 06/07/08
Peanut Butter on toast (wheat or rye)
eatorama at 12:05AM on 06/08/08
It depends on the day. If it's a salty-craving day, I reach for some dill pickles. If it's a sweet-craving day, there's nothing better than chocolate milk, eaten with a spoon rather than drank straight out of the glass. Brings back all kinds of nostalgic memories.
hmlicata at 12:23AM on 06/11/08