I need an alternate to crisps

Kieran_Burns
Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
edited July 2009 in Commuting chat
Thanks to DDD, I starting thinking about what it was that I kept eating that was unhealthy. the solution was blatently obvious: my one food vice is crisps.

The thing is; I can drop a tube of pringles in a single sitting and Grab bags AIN'T for sharing - I also have a couple of packets a day at work. :oops:

Now I know I'm getting fitter, but the wobbly gut is still there... so can someone please suggest a serious alternative to crisps?

I like savoury snacks, but really want an alternative to get me out of the habit of munching on them during the day. I know you'll say fruit, but I have a savoury tooth, not a sweet one.

Any ideas gratefully received.
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  • Deadeye Duck
    Deadeye Duck Posts: 419
    sausage rolls? :wink:

    only thing I can think of is mixed nuts? I'm not very good with savory food as I have a vice for pastry. I blame my mother for making unbelievably good corned beef pie throughout my childhood :x
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    Oh, and I'm a vegetarian so please keep dead things with faces out of the equation ;)
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  • UndercoverElephant
    UndercoverElephant Posts: 5,796
    How about popcorn? If you get one of the air-blower things, you don't even need to use oil. Very tasty too. :D
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Nuts. Pust-a-shoo nuts, in particular.
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  • Rich158
    Rich158 Posts: 2,348
    +1 to nuts.

    I have the same problem as I do with crisps however, once the bag is open it needs to be eaten :shock:
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  • AyrshireBacon
    AyrshireBacon Posts: 173
    UndercoverElephant wrote:
    How about popcorn? If you get one of the air-blower things, you don't even need to use oil. Very tasty too. :D
    +1. My daughter has got one of the hot air machines and makes an easy snack. Plus added comedy value when the kernels fly all over the place. :)
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  • singlespeedexplosif
    singlespeedexplosif Posts: 1,564
    Chocolate Orange. They count as one of your 5-a-day.
  • R_T_A
    R_T_A Posts: 488
    Mixed nuts (unsalted) are good as they don't have the transfatty acids, but I used to scoff far too many.

    How about something like rice cakes?

    (Personally I think they're like chewing on flavoured bubble wrap, but the wife likes them. :shock: )
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  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    cjcp wrote:
    Nuts. Pust-a-shoo nuts, in particular.

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  • _Brun_
    _Brun_ Posts: 1,740
    I've never understood crisps. What's the point?
  • Paulie W
    Paulie W Posts: 1,492
    _Brun_ wrote:
    I've never understood crisps. What's the point?

    You sir are a wrong-un!
  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    Walkers Ready Salted.

    The King of crisps.

    You can have your ridges and wriggles, your Pringles and your Thai flavourings but at the end of the day the Red bag is your only man.
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  • PinkPedal
    PinkPedal Posts: 180
    The thing is; I can drop a tube of pringles in a single sitting and Grab bags AIN'T for sharing - I also have a couple of packets a day at work.

    This is me (but I also like dip with my crisps)! I blame the return of old style Monster Munch. I've given up crisps and chocolate for a month as I have no restraint and even friends are shocked by how many crisps I can eat in a sitting.

    Teh thing is with nuts that I eat loads of them and in the end I might as well have had a bag of crisps. Currently enjoying pitta breads with hoummous and sometimes olives as a replacement. Toasted pittas are better as they are sort of crisp-like but much more filling. Next idea (I've not tried it yet though) is peanut butter and/or banana on oatcakes. Lower GI and filling apparently.
  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    The answer is to stop snacking. You don't need to. If you can't bear the thought of going hours without eating, try the oft-recommended "6 small meals a day" concept, which is supposed to be better for weight loss anyway.

    Also, what do you drink during the day? If it's got sugar in, then that's something you need to aim to cut out/down.
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    _Brun_ wrote:
    I've never understood crisps. What's the point?

    :shock:

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  • Paulie W
    Paulie W Posts: 1,492
    Greg T wrote:
    Walkers Ready Salted.

    The King of crisps.

    You can have your ridges and wriggles, your Pringles and your Thai flavourings but at the end of the day the Red bag is your only man.

    One grab bag of those though and that's a third of your daily calories!
  • agv457
    agv457 Posts: 32
    http://eatnakd.com/About-Nakd/Our-Produ ... -Bars.html

    These are great - esp. the banana bars. I know you said no to fruit but these raw food bars are worth try. Filling, healthy and not too sweet!
  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    _Brun_ wrote:
    I've never understood crisps. What's the point?

    I'm with you on this, they just make me more hungry
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  • Cafewanda
    Cafewanda Posts: 2,788
    Greg T wrote:
    Walkers Ready Salted.

    The King of crisps.

    You can have your ridges and wriggles, your Pringles and your Thai flavourings but at the end of the day the Red bag is your only man.

    +1
  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    _Brun_ wrote:
    I've never understood crisps. What's the point?
    They are a useful solid support for salt and flavourings.
  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    Thanks to DDD, I starting thinking about what it was that I kept eating that was unhealthy. the solution was blatently obvious: my one food vice is crisps.

    The thing is; I can drop a tube of pringles in a single sitting and Grab bags AIN'T for sharing - I also have a couple of packets a day at work. :oops:

    Now I know I'm getting fitter, but the wobbly gut is still there... so can someone please suggest a serious alternative to crisps?

    I like savoury snacks, but really want an alternative to get me out of the habit of munching on them during the day. I know you'll say fruit, but I have a savoury tooth, not a sweet one.

    Any ideas gratefully received.

    Try All-Bran.

    Without milk.
  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    Always Tyred wrote:
    Try All-Bran.

    Without milk.

    If you run out of Andrex you can always try an angle grinder with a wire brush attachment.
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  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    Greg T wrote:
    Always Tyred wrote:
    Try All-Bran.

    Without milk.

    If you run out of Andrex you can always try an angle grinder with a wire brush attachment.
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Daaaaahlings, it's clearly pronounced Pissed-ARCH-eee-oh...

    And having had the same vice myself, I can suggest salt and vinegar flavour rice cakes, tesco own brand are the best, followed closely by snack-a-jacks big ones (not the ones in crisp packets).

    They're more substantial than crisps too, so deal with that 'peckish' feeling that's usually entirely psychological anyway!
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  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Daaaaahlings, it's clearly pronounced Pissed-ARCH-eee-oh...

    And having had the same vice myself, I can suggest salt and vinegar flavour rice cakes, tesco own brand are the best, followed closely by snack-a-jacks big ones (not the ones in crisp packets).

    They're more substantial than crisps too, so deal with that 'peckish' feeling that's usually entirely psychological anyway!
    You'll definitely be needing All Bran.
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Always Tyred wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Daaaaahlings, it's clearly pronounced Pissed-ARCH-eee-oh...

    And having had the same vice myself, I can suggest salt and vinegar flavour rice cakes, tesco own brand are the best, followed closely by snack-a-jacks big ones (not the ones in crisp packets).

    They're more substantial than crisps too, so deal with that 'peckish' feeling that's usually entirely psychological anyway!
    You'll definitely be needing All Bran.

    I prefer Bran Flakes.

    No milk, handful of sultanas. Thanks.
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  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,440
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Daaaaahlings, it's clearly pronounced Pissed-ARCH-eee-oh...

    And having had the same vice myself, I can suggest salt and vinegar flavour rice cakes, tesco own brand are the best, followed closely by snack-a-jacks big ones (not the ones in crisp packets).

    They're more substantial than crisps too, so deal with that 'peckish' feeling that's usually entirely psychological anyway!

    Mmm the salt and vinegar tesco ones are amazing, sadly I'm banned from eating them at work because they honk, at my old office everyone was addicted so it was ok, we used to call them fart cakes :D
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  • LDN-Flyer
    LDN-Flyer Posts: 97
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    Oh, and I'm a vegetarian so please keep dead things with faces out of the equation ;)

    What about dead things without faces. michael_jackson_plastic_surgery.jpg


    ewww that pic is not nice
  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    My God.

    I've never wanted a packet of crips more in my entire life than right now.

    I may have to gnaw on my fist.

    Rice cakes and chewing gum... not at the same time...
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  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,440
    How about Walkers baked? only 98 cals or summat.

    I have a bag of wotsits everyday, apart from today when I forgot them and someone then goes and starts a thread about crisps :x
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