Tis the season to snack. What is/are your favorite snacks for you or company?

[debm55]

I like making the spinach dip. Served it in round bread with a hollow of bread cut out. You can use the bread for dipping. No double dipping. If it's just me, I like tostados with salsa or guacamole. What about you?

[Skittles]

1. there is a SEASON for snacking?

who knew?

[debm55]

4. True, but people seem to snack more around the holidays.

[Skittles]

7. ok someone DID give me a giant bag of gingerbread cookies

I am polishing them off now!

[debm55]

12. Skittles, I like the Pepperbridge Farm holiday sugar cookies. Try to limit myself. Yay sure, I do.

[Skittles]

20. mmmm

I do have peppermint cocoa...and I am NOT capable of limiting....

[orleans]

40. peppermint cocoa sounds fun

i have peppermint marshmallows i can toss into the regular cocoa.
the p. marshmallows are a bit ... meh

[Skittles]

41. I saw a tip from a DUer

to put a candy cane in with the cocoa - YUMMY

[electric_blue68]

2. Oh, my mom used to make the Spinach dip! Loved it. I like Onion dip w crackers & veggies.

A cheese board w crackers.

[debm55]

8. electric, I like the veggie tray with blue cheese dressing. Do you use apples on your cheese board.

I love cheddar cheese, apple slices and crackers.

[electric_blue68]

33. I haven't, but a good idea. 👍 And I love blue cheese dressing. 😄

[cloudbase]

3. Popcorn.

If I'm feeling ambitious, I'll slice up some pepperoni and cheese and have that with some crackers.

[debm55]

11. Microwaved? Crackers with cheese and pepperoni sounds good too. Do you have a special

cheese you use, cloudbase?

[cloudbase]

22. Yes, microwaved.

No popper to take up space on the counter or in the cabinets.

For cheese, I use whatever we happen to have, but prefer a sharp cheddar if given a choice.
A nice blue goes well with sardines, another low-effort snack. Healthy, too.

[yellowdogintexas]

24. get a collapsing silicone popper. It is awesome

and you don't get all the chemicals in the pre packaged microwave stuff

on Amazon; several different brands. https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07HFG3YFP?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1

Mine collapses to about 2 inches in height; you can fit it in a drawer.

It uses regular old popcorn and cooks in 2 minutes .

I have given a bunch of these as gifts

[cloudbase]

25. Thanks for the info. I'll check it out. n/t

[yellowdogintexas]

27. I think you will love it. PSA: don't fill it with water

unless it is in the sink.
It will collapse and make a royal mess. Been there, did not like it!

I sent one to my niece that was UTennessee Big Orange; her husband got his MA at UT. It was a hit

[niyad]

5. Pate, cheese, and sparkling wine. Or salmon spread on lightly toasted baguette

rounds.

[debm55]

14. Niyad, sounds wounderful and elegant.

[niyad]

21. It is very tasty!

[bahboo]

6. simple...potato chips and white wine....perfect...

[debm55]

9. No dip? Tried horseradish and bacon dip with my chips. Blah. Went back to French onion and it has to

ripple chips---holds the dip better.

[RainCaster]

10. Chex mix

[debm55]

16. Rain, do you make your own? Had a recipe where you mixed it with the dry ranch dressing mix. It was

tasty.

[RainCaster]

19. Of course! Using the original recipe with worchestershire sauce

and mixed nuts & small pretzels.
Later note: I finally looked at the current "Original Chex Party Mix" site, and they use a microwave. I use the oven on a low temp 250F bake.

[Polly Hennessey]

13. My new favorite snack is Tostitos Organic

Blue Corn Chips and Paul Newman’s Organic Medium Chunky Salsa. Please take note of the word organic. That indicates healthy. 😊

[debm55]

18. Aren't all snacks healthy? I used to tell my husband that carrot cake

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was healthy--carrots-veggies, cake-bread, icing-dairy,

[TigressDem]

15. Healthy Choice Fudge Bars

Not as a Holiday Snack, though.

I was sick this holiday.

Got turkey and ham. Had shrimp.

Hubby and I basically make up an appetizer, add a salad and that's dinner.

But gotta have our fudgie too. 100 calories.

[debm55]

17. Sorry TigressDem, hope you are feeling better soon. I'm getting sick of the ham though. Tell me,

what is your favorite fudge?

[TigressDem]

31. Yes. Fudge IS the bomb.

Anything from Wisconsin.
Don't know why, they make awesome fudge.
Whether it's dark or white chocolate, it just MELTS on the tongue.

Had some good fudge at Wall Drug, South Dakota.

REAL fudge has to be on a vacation, so Hubby and I can keep our daily calories in same range.

So we bought a very small ham and small smoked turkey breast.
Will be freezing the remainders tomorrow in serving sizes to add to salads, casseroles or soups.

Waiting for my acorn and butternut squashes to ripen up enough to cook them.
Another type of treat.

One Christmas Eve I had dinner with a friend and her family. They served Stir Fry with peanuts.
I'd like to do that some time.

[yellowdogintexas]

23. my absolute weakness is cheese and crackers

Also it only takes about 30 seconds of thinking about it for me to whip up popcorn. I love my silicone popper!!!

I need to get back to my carrots, celery, apples as snacks

[debm55]

28. Hey Yellowdog, the holidays come once a year, right?

[yellowdogintexas]

52. cheese and cracker consumption is not limited to

the holidays

[debm55]

55. True, true

[trof]

26. I still like the very first "dip".

Lipton's Onion Soup Mix dip:

1 (8 ounce) envelope Lipton Onion Soup Mix (not sure if 8 oz is correct, but it's one envelope)
1 (16 ounce) container sour cream
DIRECTIONS
In medium bowl, blend all ingredients, chill if desired.
Serve with your favorite dippers!

[debm55]

29. trof, I remember that. It was so good. Used to get a spoon and just eat the dip without any dippers.

[trof]

30. Best with Ripples.

Ripples have ridges.

[debm55]

37. trof, you know that is so right. Ridged potato chips are best with dip. Plain chips crack if you are

like me and glob it on. then you have to get a spoon and try to get the other half of the plain chip out. or not.

[intrepidity]

42. I would mix in one envelope of green onion dip mix

And use only about half of the french onion (mostly the dried onion half).

I could never decide between french onion and green onion, so my final compromise was to always mix them. You get the sweetness of the green onion mix plus the chunkiness of the dried onions from the french onion mix.

To this day, that is still my method.

[trof]

43. Thanks, I'll try it.

[Kali]

46. that really IS good isn't it?

and another old style appetizer (not as old as onion dip but past prime) I just love...fried zucchini and ranch dip.

[TigressDem]

32. For the Grandkids...

I bought them chocolate spoons for Christmas.

To make it work, I bought each kid their own cocoa mug and hot cocoa mix with marshmallows.

So no fighting over it. Each has their own.

[debm55]

35. Tigress, that sounds delicious. And you solved the age old sibling rivalry problem too!

[cachukis]

34. Unpasteurized camembert, room temperature, with

French baguette. Wine, white.
Butter sauted pecan halves, lightly salted to accent.

[debm55]

36. cachukis, that sounds great. Do you add sugar to the pecans?

[cachukis]

38. Just butter getting them warm, flipping and adding salt.

Suppose you could sprinkle sugar.
Learned it in Columbus, GA in the 80's. Doing it ever since.

[pansypoo53219]

39. organic white popcorn popped fresh in corn oil.

[debm55]

50. pansy, sounds good. Haven't used the corn oil.

Thank you

[Phentex]

44. for the holidays, Dill Oyster Crackers...

they are so good! I can't make them year round or I'd die of salt intake/happiness.

[debm55]

48. phentex, oh I remember them. My aunt used to make different batches-some with dry ranch, some with

Italian and I think the third type was with Season All or something of that order. They are so good.
Happy snacking!

[Ohio Joe]

45. Onion soup mix in sour cream...

And nacho cheese dorito's to dip in it

[Kali]

47. popcorn is probably my favorite

I do regular kind in a brown paper bag in the microwave then use a lot of real butter, foamed but not quite browned.

[debm55]

49. Kali, do you have a time for it to pop? Even my store bought ones get black in the microwave.

Thank you.

[yellowdogintexas]

53. get a silicone popper. 2 minutes in the microwave

perfect every time.

Amazon for around 12 - 15 dollars.
https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07HFG3YFP?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1

[debm55]

54. Thanks, yellowdog. I'll look it up on Amazon.

Sounds easy.

[Kali]

58. depends

microwave strength, humidity, age of kernals etc. start with 80-90 seconds for a regular lunchbag with a 1/4 cup of kernels. fold over top a couple times. some people use tape, I haven't ever tried that and I do have bags tip over and come open sometimes. not a problem when the oven is clean but most of the time...yuck. LOL

listen like the commercial instructions say...stop when the popping gets sparse - right after the main big burst of popping. it does take a little practice, but regular popcorn is cheap, you can afford more mistakes this way.

I found some slightly larger bags and I can do 1/3 cup for 1 min 50 sec, comes out just about right. makes a nice bowlful, use about 2 TBSP butter, just foamed and a light sprinkle of salt. so good.

[debm55]

59. Thank you Kali.

[a kennedy]

51. Addicted to peanut butter M & M's with cashews.

[debm55]

57. Oh that sounds good. My husband gets upset when he buys a can of mixed nuts and all the cashews are

missing. I wonder who did that.

[Elessar Zappa]

56. Club crackers with cheese whiz!

I’m easy to please lol.

[debm55]

60. Yes, I like club crackers with a cream cheese based spread. Cheese whiz might have a higher salt

content so don't use too much and even Philadelphia cream spreads come in different flavors. You might like one of these. But to each their own and enjoy yourself during the holidays. I think the club crackers might come in low sodium also.