Salty Snacks - A Serious Topic for a Serious Era

[schild]

I hate nuts.

Here, I'll quote that preempatively so you can just copy and paste and make a balls joke.

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[quote="schild"]I hate nuts.[/quote]

Anyway, I hate nuts and love Beef Jerky. Beef Jerky costs like $25-$35 a lb for good quality shit.

What other salty snacks exist that won't kill you. Potato Chips (along with Fried Chicken) are basically my favorite foods ever, so I'd really love an alternative that won't stop my heart and make me bleed rectally if consumed in bulk.

[Trippy]

Rice crackers?

[Nebu]

Common training foods when you crave something salty.

1. Saltines with.... (fill in the blank) in moderation
2. cheese sticks (50 - 100 cal each)
3. edamame with sea salt
4. olives
5. pickles
6. miso soup
7. pumpkin or sunflower seeds
8. sprinkle feta on watermelon or something
9. fresh tomato and sea salt
10. fresh cucumber and sea salt

Helpful?

Bouillon cubes are almost pure salt.  Sometimes some broth can help. 

[schild]

Rice crackers?

Ugh, no.

Common training foods when you crave something salty.

1. Saltines with.... (fill in the blank) in moderation
2. cheese sticks (50 - 100 cal each)
3. edamame with sea salt
4. olives
5. pickles
6. miso soup
7. pumpkin or sunflower seeds
8. sprinkle feta on watermelon or something
9. fresh tomato and sea salt
10. fresh cucumber and sea salt

Helpful?

Bouillon cubes are almost pure salt.  Sometimes some broth can help. 

Mmmmm, it is tomato season. I should've said I hate seeds of all varieties also. Just, the texture of all that shit throws me off. Edamame is probably a good choice.

I wish fucking Habanero Kale Chips weren't $1,000 a fucking oz.

[Ruvaldt]

I usually eat dry-roasted chickpeas as a salty snack.

I used to buy them from a local Indian grocery, but then I learned how to make my own and just did that.  I have five go-to recipes that I cycle through and they're all easy to make.  In addition to being tasty they're pretty good for you.  They're a little high in calories if you eat a lot at a time, but nothing as bad as chips, and they're high in protein so they satiate you for a while.  They're cheap too.  I can get a pound of dry chickpeas for under $2 at a local grocery if I buy around ten pounds at once.

[Nebu]

Another trick I used when cutting was to eat frozen peas with salt while they were still crunchy.  Good texture and low cal.

Have you considered making your own jerky?  It's fun and not terribly expensive.  I made a lot of jerky when I was guiding in canada.  Good for long hiking trips.

[Ruvaldt]

Good point.  You can easily make your own jerky.

My South African boss makes his own biltong, which is a fantastic thick cut cured meat.  He makes it without any equipment, it just takes a few days to dry and cure.

[naum]

Pretzels
Pickles
Cheese & Crackers

[K9]

Edamame is so good

[Threash]

Do you hate pistacchios too? that's my go-to salty snack.  Apparently the fact that they take effort means your fat ass won't eat as many.

[schild]

IT'S A NUT

[schild]

I usually eat dry-roasted chickpeas as a salty snack.

I used to buy them from a local Indian grocery, but then I learned how to make my own and just did that.  I have five go-to recipes that I cycle through and they're all easy to make.  In addition to being tasty they're pretty good for you.  They're a little high in calories if you eat a lot at a time, but nothing as bad as chips, and they're high in protein so they satiate you for a while.  They're cheap too.  I can get a pound of dry chickpeas for under $2 at a local grocery if I buy around ten pounds at once.

This interests me. Going to indian grocery store tomorrow.

[TheWalrus]

Make your own onion rings? Beer batter ain't hard to make, and holy moly are they good.

[IainC]

Mange-tout rolled in coarse salt.
Proper sharp cheddar, cubed and eaten warm.
Baked corn kernels.
Marmite on toast.

[schild]

Make your own onion rings? Beer batter ain't hard to make, and holy moly are they good.

I like this because it'll kill me.

I'm not doing that.

Mange-tout rolled in coarse salt.
Proper sharp cheddar, cubed and eaten warm.
Baked corn kernels.
Marmite on toast.

You foreigners are cute. Only one of those things is food.

[Viin]

Peanut M&Ms. Oh wait, you don't like nuts.

[Signe]

Popcorn with a little hot paprika.  And/or dry garlic (or garlic salt if you're making unsalted popcorn).  Also, I never liked any sort of snack with peanut butter in it but Trader Joe's are awesome.  You know you can get that seasoning for the Chex roasted mix in a package now, too.  You could leave out nuts and and just use stuff you like.  It's good on popcorn, too.  Crispy seaweed snacks are really nice even though it sounds nasty.  Don't put your Marmite on toast.  Just buy a bag of Twiglets.  And drink it with Irn Bru so you get the full force of horrible taste and 12 ounces of poisonous ingredients that that will leave your mouth tasting chemically clean. 

[schild]

I like crispy seaweed snacks and totally forgot about them.

[Trippy]

I usually eat dry-roasted chickpeas as a salty snack.

I used to buy them from a local Indian grocery, but then I learned how to make my own and just did that.  I have five go-to recipes that I cycle through and they're all easy to make.  In addition to being tasty they're pretty good for you.  They're a little high in calories if you eat a lot at a time, but nothing as bad as chips, and they're high in protein so they satiate you for a while.  They're cheap too.  I can get a pound of dry chickpeas for under $2 at a local grocery if I buy around ten pounds at once.

This interests me. Going to indian grocery store tomorrow.

Or you can go to Whole Foods and buy these:

http://www.saffronroadfood.com/our-products/crunchy-chickpeas/

[lamaros]

A few of these things, as people have said, you can make yourself. Chickpeas are good. You can find them sold about the place but making your own is always far cheaper. Some means can get the same treatment but I find I get sick of them much faster than I do chickpeas.

Also I love rice chips (not crackers).

[Signe]

I usually eat dry-roasted chickpeas as a salty snack.

I used to buy them from a local Indian grocery, but then I learned how to make my own and just did that.  I have five go-to recipes that I cycle through and they're all easy to make.  In addition to being tasty they're pretty good for you.  They're a little high in calories if you eat a lot at a time, but nothing as bad as chips, and they're high in protein so they satiate you for a while.  They're cheap too.  I can get a pound of dry chickpeas for under $2 at a local grocery if I buy around ten pounds at once.

This interests me. Going to indian grocery store tomorrow.

Or you can go to Whole Foods and buy these:

http://www.saffronroadfood.com/our-products/crunchy-chickpeas/

The wasabi ones are bausome.

[Lantyssa]

Wasabi peas.

I'm considering building a little smoker and trying to reproduce jerky like you get at Oakridge Smokehouse or Buckees.  I go through a bag a day, so I feel you on the cost.  If I could make the really good stuff myself though, I'd pay the cost of the meat.

[Shannow]

Salty plums!

[schild]

Wasabi peas.

I'm considering building a little smoker and trying to reproduce jerky like you get at Oakridge Smokehouse or Buckees.  I go through a bag a day, so I feel you on the cost.  If I could make the really good stuff myself though, I'd pay the cost of the meat.

Buckees jerky is exactly what got me back on the salty snack shit. Goddamn, it's the best stuff on Earth.

[Merusk]

I can't imagine a world without peanuts, pecans and walnuts.

Popcorn's my go-to salt/ starch snack if there's no nuts in the house.  Though I'll second wasabi peas after some of the guys at the office had them. You just have to watch for the ones real wasabi addicts eat. Goddamn felt like my mouth was going to melt.

[Viin]

Actually, I did think of a helpful suggestion:

Roasted / Salted Plantains

[Evildrider]

I'd just go to Target/Walmart and get a food dehydrator and make your own jerky.

[ezrast]

Tortilla chips are not as bad as potato and you can load them up with salsa, which is mostly veggies.

[rk47]

I have this problem too.



I'm trying to stop.

[schild]

i love you

[Ard]

I... I don't even know what that is, and yet somehow I think that makes me a better person.

[schild]

Frito Lay Nacho Cheese w/ a Deep Friend Drumstick posing as a buffalo wing getting dipped into it. Basically, heaven.

[rk47]

Frito Lay Nacho Cheese w/ a Deep Friend Drumstick posing as a buffalo wing getting dipped into it. Basically, heaven.

100% correct. I picked it up last week while shopping for snacks.
That jar is liquid sin. I took two bag of chips home with it.
It was very fucked up.
I put it on everywhere, on chips, toasts, nuggets, the final test was ordering 10 pc KFC and just dipping on it whole Sunday.
The jar was devoid of cheese and full of guilt by the end of it.

I don't wanna buy it ever again.

[schild]

Yea, Frito Lay Nacho Cheese was not something I had before I met my wife. She bought it once for a thing, it's like eating love in a glass jar with an unnatural color.

[schild]

In other news:

1. Which Wasabi Peas are the best here: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=wasabi%20peas&sprefix=wasabi+%2Caps&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Awasabi%20peas

2. Which Chickpeas are the best here: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_11?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=roasted%20chickpeas&sprefix=roasted+chi%2Caps%2C219&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Aroasted%20chickpeas

3. Which Seasoned Seaweed is the best here: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_11?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=seasoned+seaweed&sprefix=seasoned+se%2Caps%2C184&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Aseasoned+seaweed