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Beth

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Yes, always looking for new ideas:)

15 years ago

Katja

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What is a snack cupboard? Is it like a pie safe?

15 years ago

Mae

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I am envisioning a new forum tab: "Inside Angie's Snack Cupboard". Can't wait to hear what's in there! And, we want photos!

15 years ago

Donna

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I hoped someone would ask. Can't wait for Angie's response.

15 years ago

Angie

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*chuckle*

We have a double-doored cupboard in our kitchen devoted to snack food. Not quite a pie-safe, Katja. Well judgments aside, here is its usual contents:

o An assortment of Euro biscuits to have with tea. My Dad and brother are good to us! I like Asian biscuits too. All small and crunchy.
o An assortment of nuts – 4 to 5 kinds (almonds, peanuts, pistachio and cashews). Sunflower seeds too.
o An assortment of dried fruit – dates and apricots most of the time.
o 2 types of crisps – I like cheetos, and another flavor for Greg. Never more than 2 packets because otherwise we eat too many crisps. Banana chips too.
o Gum for Greg.
o An assortment of savoury crackers to have with cheese (we have lots of cheese in the fridge).
o An assortment of good chocolate – we prefer milk to dark.
o At the moment we have Saudi Arabian treats in there too – courtesy of my brother who works there frequently.
o Sour sweets or Canadian wine gums (Maynards is best).

There you go. Don’t be horrified

15 years ago

taylor

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we could shop each others snack cupboard!! Mine is a pantry ,and we have very similar snacks

15 years ago

Angie

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High five, Taylor! Come over to snack any time

You are all welcome to come over and snack anytime.

15 years ago

taylor

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I'll bring the savory crackers and cheese, assorted nuts and crunchy cookies

15 years ago

Lisa

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I'll bring some tea!

15 years ago

Sparky

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Yum! We have many of the same snacky things in our house too. The dried fruit, the nuts (sometimes macadamia nuts too, very decadent), the crackers (and always lots of cheese in the fridge), the biscuits (many from Latin American companies, similar Euro style) . . . the only difference is that DH has turned me on to very dark chocolates, so we have mostly those.

Now I'm hungry.

15 years ago

Debbie

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Oh this is so fun!

I love all the things you have in your cupboard so I will be right over! thanks for sharing this Angie!

15 years ago

Angie

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Lisa, after I met you and we talked "good tea", I totally trust your tea selection!

Thanks, Taylor! I hope there is a bit of French cheese in your assortment. Sorry I'm so cheeky

Sparky, I *wish* I could like dark chocolate because its so much better for you. Medicinal in fact. But alas, I find it too bitter.

I'll bake dense chocolate cake with cream cheese icing. If you were at the Seattle clothing swap - it's THAT cake.

15 years ago

Steffie

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Ohhh, banana chips, yum!! I love banana and plantain chips!

My most favorite snack in the whole world is a big bowl of cold, fresh green grapes. Oh my head. Natures candy, so sweet and yummy! I don't even care that they're carb-bombs, I eat them constantly. They keep me away from Ben and Jerry's!!

I'm enjoying reading about people's favorite snacks. I think it's a fun little window into your lives!

15 years ago

Angie

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I LOVE sweet grapes too, Steffie.

We also snack on all sorts of fruit, hummus, cherry tomatoes and edame.

15 years ago

RandomThoughts (Andrea)

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Seattle clothing swap? Where? When? My cupboard is sadly bare due to my DH being a little pig boy. If I could I'd keep dried fruits, crackers for cheese and some nice cookies in stock but alas! Crisps are very limited for the same reason as Angie - I'll over eat on them!

I'm a nibbler and my boya a major consumer (I forgive him, he works a very physical job) so snacks don't live long around here and I hardly get to have any, leading to my not tending to buy them. I do keep "snack cereal" on occasion. Snack cereal is my nice name for the less healthy variety of same. Sometimes I even get to eat it!

15 years ago

marianna

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YUM! I love to snack. Angie, your cupboard sounds delicious!

I have to say, I'm surprised that Angie eats Cheetos, though.

15 years ago

AJ

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What a fun thread! Yes, I was also surprised that Angie eats Cheetos. Angie, have you tried Cheetos Natural White Cheddar Cheese Puffs? So good! This is a staple in our cupboard. Also roasted and salted pistachios. I usually have half an apple and a handful of pistachios as my night time snack.

15 years ago

Ele

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You know, for some reason I'm not surprised about the Cheetos thing. It sounds adorably unexpected and fun, just like our Angie!

My "snack cupboard" (though I tend to think of it as my "baking cupboard") is very similar- crackers, nuts, seeds, chocolate. Lots of cheese in the fridge (cheese is my favourite food group) and usually something sweet and homebaked like cookies, brownies or cake, too.

Angie, can I ask what kinds of good milk chocolate you and Greg like? I prefer dark but the bf likes milk better. I don't really have a taste for it so I never know what kinds to pick up for him.

15 years ago

Louise

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When BF and I lived together briefly he was a snack monster too and would munch all the snacks in sight within a couple of days. I discovered the kickboard in the kitchen under the oven was removable, so without him knowing I bought and stashed snacks under there then bought them out a few at a time and claimed I picked them up at the shop. Alas the dog sussed me out and one day BF caught him scrabbling away under the oven, he realised the kickboard was removable and my hiding place was found!!!! x

15 years ago

Theresa

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LOL Louise that's so funny!

I've loved reading this thread!

I'm a bit of a snack fiend, to the point that if I have too many in the house, I eat nothing but snacks, and rarely a proper meal... so I limit my snacks to the few days after I do my fortnightly grocery shop!! I have started receiving fortnightly organic fruit & veg deliveries though, so have been munching on more fruit lately which is a good thing for me - the queen of sweet snacks LOL

I LOVE any sort of biscuit (cookies to some of you), and I usually bake a Gluten Free Choc Brownie - but it disappears in a day, and for savoury snacks I love Shapes Chicken Crimpee's - I don't know if these are international though so I may be the only one loving these LOL

Angie you would be so proud of me though - today I cleaned ALL my kitchen cupboards (and did a thorough edit at the same time), and I have set my little Tea Cupboard up so all my lovely teas are now much easier to access and I can branch out from my good old plain black tea! I found my little loose tea infuser so can't wait to stock up on my fave loose tea's asap!

15 years ago

Jen

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I officially have snack cupboard envy. My snack cupboard has mostly kids snacks. Fruit snacks, graham crackers, goldfish, etc. We eat cheetos too Angie, my girls call them cheesey chips. I need to get a tea biscuit assortment for the long dark tea time of the soul. Otherwise known as the hour when all kids everywhere melt into puddles of incoherent goo. Or is that just my kids? Anyways, its much easier to take with a great cup of tea and a bikkit.

Edited to add : TEA! We have a dedicated coffee and tea bar, and i have a drawer just for all our different types of tea. We call it the coffee bar, but mostly tea is made there. Hubs drinks coffee only on the weekends. But usually we have a nightly cup of tea. He likes Earl Grey, I like anything but. Its the bergamot. I just never have gotten around to liking it. I should try harder. But we have a cupboard under the bar for tea brewing accessories - loose leaf and bagged.

15 years ago

Barbara

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Wonderful assortment, Angie! I would have to banish the Cheetos, though. I have absolutely NO willpower when Cheetos are in my snack zone!

Angie, have you tried Dove Dark Chocolate bite-size? They are not too bitter. And full of antioxidants!

What is your favorite milk chocolate? I love Ritter Sport Alpen Milch from Germany.

15 years ago

julijuli

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My snack cabinet is continually emptied because I have two hungry teenage boys!!! Everyone's snacks sound so yummy.

15 years ago

Scarlet

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This thread is stoking my longing for WheatThins. I love Goldfish too, but eating them makes me feel guilty. Also Cheezits, yum. And ChexMix. I am so healthy.

Germany is a cracker-poor nation. I was very excited when a grocery store here started selling Carr's Water Crackers. At least they make up for it with the cheese selection.

Angie, I would be so disappointed if your snack cupboard didn't include something like Cheetos.

Louise, that is so funny! But didn't things melt under the oven? I have a snack-vacuuming sweetie myself.

15 years ago

Louise

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Scarlet they never did melt, though that could have been because I'm not much of a cook and rarely used the oven!!!! x

15 years ago

Barbara

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LOL julijuli! When hungry boys are around, especially teens, anything edible is in danger of being gone. Fast.

My son is 25 and whenever he's home, he heads straight for the fridge. Mom's leftovers are fair game!

15 years ago

Steffie

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Today I went to Trader Joe's and got a little box of dark (72%) chocolate covered almonds. They are yum, yum, yummy! I was thinking about everyone's snack cupboards the whole time. You ladies follow me everywhere I go!

15 years ago

RoseandJoan

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Oh, this is a fun thread to read, Ben has a severe peanut allergy so I have not ate a nut in over eleven years. All the talk of pistachios and macadamias is making my tummy rumble. I love to eat fruit, dark chocolate ginger biscuits and caramel shortbread yummmm.

15 years ago

Anonymous

Ah....snacks! As the mom of 2 kids, snacks are an important part of our kitchen. Snacks is actually a budget line-item! Most of our snacks come from Trader Joes and Costco (yay! bulk snacks!) We always have cashews and almonds, fruit and a massive assortment of chip-like things in rotation. I keep it switched up so that there is lots of variety. Every now and then, I will sneak in some cookies and it causes massive excitement! You just never know what you will find when you peek into my snack cupboard.

15 years ago

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