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Pack me a lunch for the urban jungle.

desjardins — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:21:37 -0800

What foods can I take with me to an all-day seminar? I have no access to a microwave or refrigerator. They have to comfortably fit in a backpack. I'm going to a 3 day seminar that runs from 10 am to approximately midnight. We get one break to go eat at a restaurant. Aside from that, we're supposed to bring our own food. There is a convenience store nearby, but I don't want to eat candy and chips for 3 days. I already have trail mix but I get really bored of that after the first day. I am not vegetarian nor am I allergic to anything. I don't like raisins or dried apricots. Exotic is fine, but spicy is not. Seriously, no spicy stuff. I'm not concerned at all with my weight, so calorie count is unimportant.

Note that I will not be able to refrigerate anything between 8:30 am (when I leave the house) until I get home each night. I cannot run home to get anything. We have intermittent, unpredictable breaks throughout the day.

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?

Identifying slang

crush-onastick — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 09:54:29 -0800

Identify that slang! "Gribnodes" used to refer to snackfoods, particularly snackfoods that one serves in small bowls at a party, like nuts or chexmix. My father (who was raised in a mostly Polish household, in a mostly eastern-european-language-speaking neighborhood with some Italian speakers thrown in and spent most of his adult life as an officer in the U.S. Air Force) uses it. He can't identify where it comes from and I am, obviously, guessing at the spelling. I've had no luck in slang dictionaries or search engines or asking around. There's always the possibility that it's not an actualy slang term, per se, but just my father's word, possibly from misunderstanding a Polish word or phrase. Suggestions?