I need an alternate to crisps
Kieran_Burns
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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.
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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2009 Specialized Tricross Sport
2011 Trek Madone 4.5
2012 Felt F65X
Proud CX Pervert and quiet roadie. 12 mile commuter
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sausage rolls?
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 :x0 -
Oh, and I'm a vegetarian so please keep dead things with faces out of the equationChunky Cyclists need your love too! :-)
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Nuts. Pust-a-shoo nuts, in particular.FCN 2-4.
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+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:pain is temporary, the glory of beating your mates to the top of the hill lasts forever.....................
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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.time flies like an arrow
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Chocolate Orange. They count as one of your 5-a-day.0
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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?
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I've never understood crisps. What's the point?0
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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.Fixed gear for wet weather / hairy roadie for posing in the sun.
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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.0 -
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.0 -
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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!0 -
_Brun_ wrote:I've never understood crisps. What's the point?
I'm with you on this, they just make me more hungryPurveyor of sonic doom
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_Brun_ wrote:I've never understood crisps. What's the point?0
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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.
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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.Fixed gear for wet weather / hairy roadie for posing in the sun.
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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.0 -
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!0 -
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!0 -
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!
I prefer Bran Flakes.
No milk, handful of sultanas. Thanks.0 -
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 cakesSaracen Tenet 3 - 2015 - Dead - Replaced with a Hack Frame
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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.
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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...Food Chain number = 4
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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 :xSaracen Tenet 3 - 2015 - Dead - Replaced with a Hack Frame
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