Bizarre (for me) request, snacking

[same_sky]

I need to eat more snacks. Does anyone have any good ideas on what kind of thing I can take with me to work to eat in mid-morning? The main requirements are that this snack not be hard to prepare or store, preferably not something too sweet, and ideally, not too junky. It doesn't have to be very large or filling.. potato chips will do the trick but I work on cutting OUT the chips, not adding more in. Actually, the smaller the better.

Since I've been taking metformin (which is for insulin resistance, in case you're unfamiliar with it), I have struggled with horrible bouts of queasiness. It seems to come and go.. will be worse for a week and then better for a while. It's usually at its worst in the mornings, hitting its peak by near lunchtime, and no, I'm not pregnant unless you're suggesting that I've been pregnant for six months without noticing. :) I've tried various things.. from cutting back on sugar to blaming it on my vitamins, but it's still persisted. This week, my hypothesis was that I should eat more often, so I had a mid-morning snack... and every day that I did that, the queasy stayed away.

So my current theory is that my blood sugar is a bit too low and I should have a snack in the mornings. The trouble is just that I have no idea what to eat because my usual method of snacking is to eat fewer, not more, and those that I do eat for snacks now and then are not things I want to introduce into my daily diet. So.. what kinds of healthy, yummy things do you people snack on? I've tried a few cereal bar type items, but they're a touch too sweet and a touch too.. processed for my liking. (Not that I am one of those anti-processed foods people, really. Just don't care for these too much.) Salty is also a bonus, as the salt seems to help quell the queasy. (I really don't want to talk about how much McDonald's I've been eating lately. Yuck. But when everything else makes you feel like puking, it's really hard to feel guilty about it, that's all I can say.) I've been rather upset about the queasy lately (and yes, I'll bring it up next time I go to the doctor) because it is now at the point where I can't remember what it's like to not be nauseous half the time, or worry over what will trigger it.

p.s. I really don't like yogurt, and most fruit I can think of classifies as either too sweet or too much effort to easily eat at work.

Also. If you ever think of cutting off a mole with fingernail clippers, uhh.. try to refrain.

p.s. Since it is often hard to see how you appear to others in a disconnected environment such as LJ, I have another question for my friends. Do I come across as the kind of person that doesn't care about my family?

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[geeklibrarian.livejournal.com]

My favorite snacks:

Homemade bran/flax muffins
Grapes with a small amount of cheese and a few (unsalted) roasted almonds.
Sliced apples and cheddar cheese
Bananas

I'll be baking a cubic buttload of muffins to get me through the week because I can NOT afford (health-wise) to start eating junky/sweet food on a regular basis...

I'll post/comment if I think of any more.

[geeklibrarian.livejournal.com]

P.S. Seems like the person who made that comment doesn't know you very well. Relationships with family members are a very personal thing. I, for example, do not spend nearly as much time with mine as you do with yours and there are very good reasons for that! :o)

And I can totally relate to the not having a enough real life time! Peter is devoted to his church and that pretty much eats up an entire day (for reasons I won't go into here). The other day is half taken up with his soccer games. Good thing he's been GREAT about doing things around here on week nights ;-)

[lizardek.livejournal.com]

The best snack thing I love is the party snack mix my dad used to make.

Dad's Scrambles
2 lbs salted nuts
1 (12 oz) pkg wheat chex cereal
1 (6.5 oz) pkg rice chex cereal
1 (10.5 oz) pkg oat chex cereal
1 (6.5 oz) can curly pretzels or bites
1 (5.25 oz) pkg pretzel sticks
2 cups salad oil
2 TB worcestershire sauce
1 tsp garlic salt
1 tsp salt

Place first 6 ingredients in a large pan. Combine rest of ingredients and pour over cereal mixture. Blend well. Cook in oven at 250F, stirring about every 15 minutes for a total of about 30-45 minutes. Cool, drain and store in airtight containers. YUM!

And no, you don't come across at all like the kind of person that doesn't care about your family.

[blue-eyed-girl.livejournal.com]

p.s. Since it is often hard to see how you appear to others in a disconnected environment such as LJ, I have another question for my friends. Do I come across as the kind of person that doesn't care about my family?

That's just silly. Really.

About the snacking, I'm a big fan of Risi-Frutti, but that doesn't help you at all. Otherwise, I guess I'm not much help. Carrots, maybe?

[gissa.livejournal.com]

I love grapes and lately mangoes but those are kind of messy unless you pre-cut them. I cut up avocado and cucumber and tomato slices too. Hot water is free out of the machine at our school, so I take bouillon just to drink something warm. I second the cheese suggestion if its real cheese and not the processed cheese food grossness. About the last question, absolutely not. I thought that the person in question took one entry out of context and misunderstood based on the way she read that entry.

[marketeer]

Small cups of low-fat yogurt or applesauce make a good mid-morning snack.

[geeklibrarian.livejournal.com]

That reminds me of another favorite: apple sauce, cottage cheese, blueberries (frozen or fresh) and cinnamon, all mixed together.

BTW, there are studies that appear to indicate that cinnamon does something to help stabilize blood sugar levels so have it! :)

[marketeer]

Oops. I saw you don't like yogurt, but I still recommend the applesauce. The unsweetened is not overwhelmingly sweet.

[jax-in-sweden.livejournal.com]

I am terribly sorry if you thought, I meant you don´t care about your family. That was not my view at all. I live so far away from my family and would probably do anything to have a four hour drive to visit them. I guess I am going through a stage of "really missing my family, blues" and when I read your journal it made me sad to read that the drive to them sounded so tiresome. Please do not think I was being nasty, I am not like that at all. I apologise again, and in future I will refrain from commenting on someones post who I don´t know.

[reebert.livejournal.com]

pretzels
pine nuts, other nuts too but those are my fave
crunchy soy beans
peanut butter crackers
slices of walnut bread, this takes preparation but you can bake it on the weekend

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

I was going to comment on your reply, actually, but then I thought perhaps I really did come across that way so I wanted to ask before I did so. I wasn't really concerned that I *don't* care about my family, but I think it's so hard to tell how you DO come across that I thought it might just seem that way from what I say about them, if you know what I mean. I didn't ask it to be mean, I was genuinely interested and kind of wanted to know if anyone else got that feeling before I replied to your comment. I really didn't take it all that personally, and I didn't expect you to read it before I got around to replying! :) So, no, I didn't really think you were trying to be nasty, I just wanted to know.

As it happens, I told M (aren't those Swedish husbands grand?) once after we got married that one of the things I was bothered by the most was that I didn't get to spend as much time with my family as I wanted to. He was totally in shock because he had never in his life met anyone of our age group who spent even close to as much time with their families as I do mine. Right now it's just that M and I get to spend almost no time together since he works--he works the equivalent of three weeks in a two week span--all the time, and we're trying to find a house, which we can't do in the evenings since he's at work, and in the rest of the free time we have, we keep going to family events on non-scheduled weekends so we don't have much time for anything else. :)

Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that my feelings weren't really hurt and I didn't mean to upset you if I did, and I'm not mad now, either. I was mainly just surprised because in my real life, people can't believe how often we're running back home to visit... that's why I thought I might come across differently here. :)

[carrieb.livejournal.com]

I like to keep a baggie of almonds or pecans or walnuts around for snacking. Also, I used to take a few slices of cheddar cheese and a couple of pieces of wasa to work with me. Sometimes I would take cream cheese with it instead of cheddar cheese.

And I was going to comment that you seem to care about your family more than anyone I know, but it seems like you have that situation resolved now. But look! I just did comment anyway.

[courtesy.livejournal.com]

You NEVER come across as someone who doesn't care about their family! On the contrary, completely opposite!

That mole comment was completely gross.

Snacks I have include: sunflower seeds, sesame seeds and the odd bit of dried fruit, rice cakes with peanut butter on them, cottage cheese in a tub, a small tin of salmon/tuna, carrot and celery sticks, bananas or a bowl of healthy cereal. Hope that helps :)

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

*grin* Kind of funny that you were the only one who even mentioned the remark about the mole. I didn't actually do it because I wanted to.. it was falling off already. :)

Hmm.. didn't you make fun of the peanut butter fixation once? :)

[courtesy.livejournal.com]

Yes, that might have been me :)

I can't believe you did that to your mole, that is gross!!!!!! :P

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[tarynfogle.livejournal.com]

I take chocolate and peanut butter chip rice cakes to work and snack on them. I also use carrots. Sometimes I take low fat wheat things and spinach and artichoke dip that I get at Sam's.

As for your family, I think you are always talking about them.. I think you care about them alot.

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[tarynfogle.livejournal.com]

umm wheat thins.. not things

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[same-sky.livejournal.com]

hehe. i got it. Oh, and sorry I left without saying goodbye.. I thought of it half a second after I pressed enter. :)

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[tarynfogle.livejournal.com]

Its ok, i do that often. Besides, ive not been too talkative lately, not sure why.. we need to visit more often like we used to.

[drottningen.livejournal.com]

i was gonna say trail mix (basically mix up some nuts and m&ms and raisins or something then put it in snack size baggies and grab one on your way to work.)