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Healthy chips and dip?

XMLicious — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:24:31 -0800

Healthy chips and dip? Lo, long have I quested thro' the dales and deep, like Bilbo for the One Ring, seeking chips that art not crap for my diet. (That would be “crisps” for you heathen Brits. And yes, I know Tolkien was British.)

Recently I happened upon Snyder's of Hanover sunflower and corn chips. They have a very nice texture but the flavor is meh.

In dip news, I like Middle Eastern food in general. I like حُمُّص بالطحين but besides putting it in falafel I've never found much else to use it with, much less dip in it.

But… Whoso putteth these chips in this dip, shall be the King of the Britons! There's a snacktacular gestalt between these two things, creating a Nietzschean Über-Snack, that I find delicious. And looking at the nutrition facts the combination doesn't look too bad health-wise: no trans fat, not too much fat overall, average carbs and below average sodium for a snack food. Definitely better than potato chips and onion dip, in any case.

So I ask you, me droogy droogs, what sort of healthy chips / crisps do you know of that I could put in my hummus, or healthy dip that I could dip my Hanoverian sunflower chips in, or other healthy combination of chips and dip?

How do I heal an obscure something in my neck?

creasy boy — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:09:46 -0800

My sternocleidomastoid hurts -- do I need ice or heat? It's weird. I hurt my sternocleidomastoid working out. On Monday I was doing weighted dips and at the end of the last set I felt a sort of strain on the right side of my neck. I didn't think much of it. The next day I noticed a slight twinge of something in my neck once or twice but it was not noteworthy. On Wednesday I tried doing regular dips without weight and immediately noticed a pain on that side like something was being overstrained. Later that night I felt some slight twinges in my neck. After poking around with my fingers I found that a string of tissue running from the base of my neck to behind my ear was bulging more on the right than on the left. It's not visible, but I can feel it. It felt like a tendon so I figured it was inflamed and used iboprofene cream. Today (Thursday) I still could feel slight twinges occasionally; I looked up neck anatomy and it seems to be a muscle, the sternocleidomastoid. I can swivel my neck in both directions perfectly fine but when I swivel to the right it feels a little tighter. I also experimented just now with pushups and it seems to feel a little tighter doing that too. It's not a big problem, and I'll avoid doing dips for a few weeks, but in the meantime what do I do: ice? Should I ice my neck? Ibuprofene? Or should I be using heat, like Icy Hot? Also I'm curious: what do dips have to do with this muscle? It was never my intention to work out the side of my neck.

Favourite dip recipes?

misteraitch — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 01:12:04 -0800

DipFilter! What are your favourite dip-recipes? And what do you dip with? I regularly make houmous & muhammara and dip with bread, and occasionally make raita & chutnety and dip with puppadoms, etc. What else can you recommend?