Desk Snacks
While tapping away at your computer and you look at the clock.... 2 hrs before lunch or 2 hrs after..and your stomach needs a wee snack! What are your favourite destop nibbles?
My favourites are Roasted Soya beans, homemade granola bars made with oats, lots of dried fruit and golden syrup, or dried fruit slices like apple or peaches.
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Low sodium V8 is my first go-to.
When I'm being unhealthy, I reach for M&Ms, sour cream & onion chips, Snyders of Hanover's buttermilk ranch (or garlic bread) pretzel pieces, or Hapi wasabi peas.
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True confession: MUNCHOS POTATO CRISPS. And I have been known to search the vending machines floor by floor till I hit the jackpot and find the magical orange bag!
http://www.taquitos.net/snacks.php?sn...Of course, they go great with a Coke, but I try to drink that very sparingly.
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I'm with Peg; for me it has to be satisfying, but not something that i'll overdo it on. My desk staples typically include:
-wasabi peas (always have a ginormous bag on hand)
-kashi granola barsfor regulars (as I usually eat my breakfast at work)
-protein drink mix
-granola for the morning yogurt mix-in (i also have a container of maple flax crunchies for similar purchase)I also have occasionally; sunflower seeds or dried fruit.
I stopped keeping things in the fridge because I work with anal fridge-keepers who tended to throw out the "weird" looking stuff, or things I had frozen past their dates (like yogurt or soy products).
Thankfully i'm not overly tempted to snack at work, because most people bring in sweets, and i'm not particularly tempted by those.
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re: Missy2U
Have you tried the new Oreo Stix? They are soooooooooo cute, I just picked up a box. They're like Oreo pirouette cookies.
I bought two big bags of snacky stuff to portion in my own little baggies and bring to work:
Smartfood, as mentioned previously, and Harvest Cheddar Sun Chips. They're yummy!
http://www.sunchips.com/flavor_harves...
No, excuse me, according to their website, H C Sun Chips are "the big cheese of snack foods!"
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These days I keep a stash of Jordans cereal bars (oats n honey), Apple flavoured rice cakes, salted cashews, chilli flavoured oat cakes and strawberry soy milk
Always looking for something new to try. Wonder if I can find PB crackers in Scotland, does not seem to have lots of PB snacks in the supermarkets. -
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I don't have a desk anymore (laid off-stupid economy) but I would always take with me a Nature Valley granola bar (Roasted Almond, usually) for breakfast @ work.
For snacks, I like something that mixes protein in for satiety. A couple of Trader Joe's PB-filled pretzels, apples with PB, etc.
For a treat, I really like Corn Nuts (Chile Picante!) or a little bowl of wonton soup from the Chinese restaurant down the street. If I wanted something sweet I might get a fresh Rice Krispie treat from the local bakery. Now, though, I have enough time to make my own!
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For me it has to be something relatively un-tempting yet satisfying. My current fave is sesame Ryvita - lots of flavour, filling, yet not something I'd munch my way through a boxful.
I tried rice-crackers, but my colleagues found them too tempting and after a day out of the office I found half of them had gone (food is deemed public property where I work). -
Before the allergies, I would enjoy...
0% Total w/ Hi-Lo Protein cereal from TJ's
Rice cakes w/ Apple Butter or Apricot Jam
Prepackaged boxes of Sesame Seaweed from Whole Foods
Trail Mix - toasted soy beans, mini choc or carbo chips, chopped nuts, etc.
The Egg White Salad from TJ's with some Ak-Mok crackers
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I like eating breakfast after I get to work, and I don't like eating a big lunch, so my snack drawer at work is always well stocked. My current stash includes a variety of salty snack 100 calorie packs (yes, I can eat just one a day), Special K bars (I like the new chocolate pretzel ones especially), PB cheese cracker packs (Keebler are the best), Dove individually wrapped dark chocolates (never more than 2 a day), sour gummy stars, sweet spicy Cajun snack mix, Kashi cereal cups (with milk I bring from home). My new fave are the Ritz Crackerfuls. Oh and the Slimfast Optima peanut butter crunch bars - they taste exactly like a butterfinger candy bar.
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Organic Food Bar. I'm out and about a lot and some days don't get around to lunch until 2 pm. I also usually throw one in my lunch bag on days when I go to a training or conference (straining my brain more than usual makes me hungry), particularly if they are likely to have pastries since I'm GF and vegan.
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I usually have a granola bar or trail mix, celery with PB, an apple, a 3 Muskateer bar, or whatever treat is at the office. (I'm a worker at a County Welfare Agency with lots of women, so each department has some goodie each day of the week) But I am Somersizing right now, so for my mid-morning snack I had an apple because you have to eat fruit on an empty stomach and I just had a little SOYJOY bar for my after lunch snack. But what I WANTED was one of the donuts down in my coworkers office...
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Cheez-its. But it doesn't matter whether I keep a small bag or a big box in the drawer, it's gone in a day or two either way.
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re: beachmouse
Me too. I don't even buy them anymore because of my lack of self-contol. I actually count out serving sizes for crackers when packing my lunch, but with the white chedder or chedder jack....I just won't stop until I'm covered in cheesy powder and hear my boss coming. I know...it's sad.
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It's about 2 hours before lunch now and I'm having a chai tea and some oatmeal with berries mixed in. Yum! Around 3 this afternoon, because it's Friday, the office has "Treat Day" which could be anything from mini-doughnuts to ice cream sandwiches to cannoli. Any other day, I'd have a granola bar or fruit and yogurt or a trail mix cookie.
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Hm...Pretzels (especially the minis without salt--too much salt is detrimental to long-term snacking, lol), definitely all sorts of fruit, Kashi TLC bars...popcorn (especially kettle corn)...the list goes on and on!
Takat
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re: BiscuitBoy
My first thought was "you know, Lyle's" but that doesn't explain it. Here's how wiki describes golden syrup: Golden syrup is a pale treacle. It is a thick, amber-colored form of inverted sugar syrup, made in the process of refining sugar cane juice into sugar, or by treatment of a sugar solution with acid. It is used in a variety of baking recipes and desserts. It has an appearance similar to honey, and is often used as a substitute for people who do not eat honey. It can also be used as a substitute for corn syrup.
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re: maplesugar
I wonder if agave nectar is similar (to golden syrup).
I'm glad to see this thread as I'd like some new desk snack options. Right now, I have a box of cinnamon honey grahams...and when that doesn't fit the need, I head for the vending machine for a bag of Smartfood. I really ought to get the snack-size packs of it at the store and bring my own.
Thank god for Fridays--someone in the aisle next to me brought in still-warm bagels yesterday and I enjoyed a rosemary one with cream cheese. Yum!
I keep saying I need to bring in my own fruit and veggies for snacking. I would like to make some hummus and bring it in with some of the tasty rosemary crostini I bought at Whole Foods.
Edit: I like to drop the broken crostini into N.E. clam chowder at home. Waaaaaaay better than crackers!
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re: BiscuitBoy
Its a sweet sticky syrup that can be used in place of honey. Has a flavor that I believe is richer than honey. I use it to make a lovely rich caramel sauce.
http://www.lylesgoldensyrup.com/Lyles...
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