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?

undead fruit.

digifox — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 16:21:03 -0800

How do I work with freeze-dried foods? I like the idea of having astronaut berries around if I all of a sudden need to bake up some delicious snacky treat when all the stores all closed, but what do I do with them? Do I rehydrate them, and then bake? Throw them in dry? How do I know how much to put in? Could I make delicious smoothies with rehydrated fruits? Would I be better off with plain old frozen fruit entirely?

Basically, I don't know anything about freeze-dried food, except that it exists. Teach me.

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Healthy chips and dip?

undead fruit.