@ironcheftoni – if you like those, you might also like microwaved chicken skins. They get pork rind crispy … nobody around here eats the chicken skin but me so I nuke it all for myself.
If I have too many to eat, I freeze them in a baggie and mix them with a blender stick into homemade gravies/sauces.
@brasscupcakes i love fried chicken skins! There is a booth at the state fair that sells them I’m the only one in my group that will eat them though and they are so rich I have to bring a to go bag to take most of them home.
@ironcheftoni My neighbor gave me several packets of those. They were good, even though it was a little scary that they kept popping for a while.
I told her that she gave me too many and that she should keep them. Then the truth came out: her husband was cutting back on the alcohol consumption, and the pork rind bone is connected directly to the beer bone.
@craigthom@ironcheftoni
I’ve never heard of eating any kind of chicken skin other than what comes directly off the chicken right after it’s roasted. Like a booth at the fair that serves only chicken skin seems extremely wasteful, what do they do with the rest of the chicken?
…IMO, pork rinds are gross! And I even really tried to like them! Jus sayen.
¯\(ツ)/¯
@growyoungagain@ironcheftoni@yakkoTDI
Yes, good one! I’ve been buying different kinds of nuts from nuts.com for several years, they’re not TOO expensive. Well, maybe a little but definitely worth every penny! The butter toffee cashews are our favorite, along with the chocolate covered raisins, (sugar free version) and the make your own combo of trail mix are so darn addictive too! And the free shipping once you hit $59 makes everything a whole lot sweeter! The GOOD kind of sweet!
I even tried their dehydrated ice cream sandwiches, the kind that astronauts would have. Wouldn’t get them again but it was definitely neat to try. Their dried fruits are delicious!
Chocolate covered walnuts are worth mentioning too! … can you say heaven?
YUM!!
@PocketBrain@Star2236@tweezak Oh yeah, I think they’re delicious. Tweezak is incorrect in their assessment regarding enjoyment level. I will say that they are probably LESS sweet than regular stroop wafels, but definitely sweet enough. I also prefer it that way. Just to give a frame of reference on my desired level of sweetness, in general I find cakes and frostings too sweet and while good not as enjoyable as a cannoli. While still sweet, it’s not the overload of sugar in frostings. If this sounds appealing, I highly recommend buying them the next time they’re available. I bought mine from the other guys (woot), but if meh gets their crap together and gets some on this site, I’ll buy them here.
@ahacksaw I didn’t even know they had bags of them! I just made some on wax paper whenever I got the craving and threw it in the oven for a few minutes.
@mikey Yours are probably better, but check out Whisps (and yes, the cheddar ones are good too). Costco has them, and you can sometimes find them at grocery stores.
@ahacksaw@mikey@tinamarie1974
This is a great find for me, I’m going to have to start snacking on these! I’m really missing the port wine cheese and club crackers I gave up when I cut out the carbs!
@chienfou
Nope. Just pecans, briefly dipped in salt water, then roasted on an open baking sheet that remains in the oven on very low heat to finish dessicating the nuts after the roasting cycle. The time and temperature have to be closely controlled; the margin for perfect results is rather narrow.
@werehatrack
I have a roasted pecan recipe that calls for cayenne and rosemary that is AWESOME, and likewise has a small window of perfection… pecans can be pretty finicky.
@chienfou@Kyeh
Mine is simple, but will require fine-tuning for others because it relies on using my 60-year-old gas oven.
Prepare a regular cookie sheet by lining it with parchment or butcher paper (one layer). I use a shiny stainless sheet; if your sheet is dark, you may need to adjust the time down a bit. Dissolve two tablespoons of salt in two cups of water. Briefly dip one pound of pecans in the salt water, and spread them on the paper-covered cookie sheet, about two nuts deep. Place them in the cold oven, set the temp for 300F, and set the timer for 32 minutes. When the timer dings, turn the oven off and leave the nuts in it for four more hours, to dessicate in the small amount of heat from the pilot light.
Dried pumpkin seeds. Seriously healthy superfood, with a nice, nutty crunch. And if you add some pie spices, you have a “pumpkin spice” with real pumpkin and real spice. When I’m really tired and my body says: “I want carbs, NOW!” - I can eat a handful of dried raw pumpkin seeds with a cup of herbal tea, and I’m fine.
@GrandmaLyn@yakkoTDI
I put just about anything imaginable in my salads and I’m definitely not sad! I use a mixture of greens, baby spinach and romaine. I use hard boiled eggs, mandarin oranges, strawberries and/or blueberries, sunflower seeds, walnuts, feta cheese, dried cranberries, and tomatoes. I have to add chicken breast if my guy is going to have some, he has to have meat. My favorite dressings have way too much sugar, like apple vinaigrette so I use my second favorite, balsamic vinegar and oil.
TOTAL DELICIOUSNESS!
@Kidsandliz@werehatrack
Thanks but no thanks. I was just joking on the whole kero protein thing because bugs are supposed to be a great source of protein.
@Kyeh@werehatrack Oh trust me I haven’t tried them. It is my kid who knew the recipe. I asked her if that was what she wanted that for dinner, thinking how would I tell PetSmart I want your biggest, juiciest tarantula and no spider food when she said, “No mom spider no good. In this country we have chicken”.
@Kyeh@Lynnerizer@werehatrack My cousin tried ants in some country where they eat them. She said they weren’t as bad as you thought they might be - as long as you didn’t think of them as ants.
Hard boiled cheese jerky sand is the best.
@yakkoTDI … with quinoa.
(rhymes with “Samoa”)
@yakkoTDI Quinoa is not low carb. It’s just gross.
@PocketBrain @yakkoTDI there’s already sand in there. Why do you want more?
I know pork rinds are, but they make me want to gag.
@katbyter in my opinion, if they want to make you gag, they aren’t the best. Just an opinion.
Sadness
Do not exist
A cucumber.
Pork rinds, especially the ones you cook yourself in the microwave. They come in packages like microwave popcorn.
https://shop.oberto.com/original-microwave-pork-rinds/p/obo-504428&c=oberto@snacks
@ironcheftoni – if you like those, you might also like microwaved chicken skins. They get pork rind crispy … nobody around here eats the chicken skin but me so I nuke it all for myself.
If I have too many to eat, I freeze them in a baggie and mix them with a blender stick into homemade gravies/sauces.
@brasscupcakes i love fried chicken skins! There is a booth at the state fair that sells them I’m the only one in my group that will eat them though and they are so rich I have to bring a to go bag to take most of them home.
@ironcheftoni My neighbor gave me several packets of those. They were good, even though it was a little scary that they kept popping for a while.
I told her that she gave me too many and that she should keep them. Then the truth came out: her husband was cutting back on the alcohol consumption, and the pork rind bone is connected directly to the beer bone.
@craigthom @ironcheftoni
I’ve never heard of eating any kind of chicken skin other than what comes directly off the chicken right after it’s roasted. Like a booth at the fair that serves only chicken skin seems extremely wasteful, what do they do with the rest of the chicken?
…IMO, pork rinds are gross!
And I even really tried to like them! Jus sayen.
¯\(ツ)/¯
Unsweetened Almond Butter, Cashews, Walnuts and Avocados. All are very tasty and expensive.
@growyoungagain Bleah to the avocado but Aldi Dill Pickle cashews are da bomb!
@growyoungagain Walnuts are pure evil. They are so bitter.
@yakkoTDI any nuts are pure evil once they turn rancid. I think it’s English Walnuts that I’ve ate.
@ironcheftoni I’ve never been a pickle eater and I’ve been to some great deli’s. I was a Chicago native.
@growyoungagain @ironcheftoni @yakkoTDI
Yes, good one! I’ve been buying different kinds of nuts from nuts.com for several years, they’re not TOO expensive. Well, maybe a little but definitely worth every penny! The butter toffee cashews are our favorite, along with the chocolate covered raisins, (sugar free version) and the make your own combo of trail mix are so darn addictive too! And the free shipping once you hit $59 makes everything a whole lot sweeter! The GOOD kind of sweet!
I even tried their dehydrated ice cream sandwiches, the kind that astronauts would have. Wouldn’t get them again but it was definitely neat to try. Their dried fruits are delicious!
Chocolate covered walnuts are worth mentioning too! … can you say heaven?
YUM!!
@Lynnerizer that really is a great site. So many wonderful things to choose from.
@growyoungagain
Yes, totally addictive! What’s your favorite thing of theirs?
Stroopwafels?
@tweezak Nooooooo. So. Many. Carbs.
Also, sooooo gooood.
@PocketBrain @tweezak Not the ones I got from Meh a little while ago. The ones with high fiber are actually relatively healthy. Go fig.
@PocketBrain @tweezak @zinimusprime
I wanna see this.
@PocketBrain @Star2236 @tweezak
@PocketBrain @Star2236 @tweezak
@PocketBrain @Star2236 @zinimusprime About 1/4 the sugar and about 1/10 the enjoyment.
@PocketBrain @tweezak @zinimusprime
No shit. Do they still taste good?
@PocketBrain @Star2236 @tweezak Oh yeah, I think they’re delicious. Tweezak is incorrect in their assessment regarding enjoyment level. I will say that they are probably LESS sweet than regular stroop wafels, but definitely sweet enough. I also prefer it that way. Just to give a frame of reference on my desired level of sweetness, in general I find cakes and frostings too sweet and while good not as enjoyable as a cannoli. While still sweet, it’s not the overload of sugar in frostings. If this sounds appealing, I highly recommend buying them the next time they’re available. I bought mine from the other guys (woot), but if meh gets their crap together and gets some on this site, I’ll buy them here.
Parmesan crisps
@mikey Yes! They taste great, and they’re rich enough that you end up not eating a ton of them. A bag lasts me a long time.
@ahacksaw I didn’t even know they had bags of them! I just made some on wax paper whenever I got the craving and threw it in the oven for a few minutes.
@ahacksaw @mikey Cheddar ones are really good too!
@mikey Yours are probably better, but check out Whisps (and yes, the cheddar ones are good too). Costco has them, and you can sometimes find them at grocery stores.
@ahacksaw @mikey i like to dip mine in homemade guac.
@ahacksaw @mikey @tinamarie1974
This is a great find for me, I’m going to have to start snacking on these! I’m really missing the port wine cheese and club crackers I gave up when I cut out the carbs!
HiLo Life Nacho Flavored Tortilla Style chips.
I get the big bags at Costco (when they’re in stock). Worth every penny.
Hard boiled eggs, beef Jerky almost always has sugar.
Bacon, with bacon on the side. Or a bacon, bacon and bacon sandwich. (Three layers of bacon.)
@werehatrack I second this motion!
@werehatrack Try bacon-wrapped bacon.
@PocketBrain It’s hard to get the inner bacon crisp there.
My home-roast pecans. (I could tell you how I make them, but…)
@werehatrack
is rosemary involved?
@chienfou
Nope. Just pecans, briefly dipped in salt water, then roasted on an open baking sheet that remains in the oven on very low heat to finish dessicating the nuts after the roasting cycle. The time and temperature have to be closely controlled; the margin for perfect results is rather narrow.
@werehatrack
I have a roasted pecan recipe that calls for cayenne and rosemary that is AWESOME, and likewise has a small window of perfection… pecans can be pretty finicky.
POPSOCKETS! SPA KITS! POLLY POCKETS! AWESOME!
@werehatrack
@chienfou - Would you be willing to share your recipe?
@Kyeh @werehatrack
I’ll look it up and post it in the next day or so. I’m at work currently (working a double in ER today so: in at 0645 out at 2315)
@chienfou @werehatrack Thanks; oof, that sounds brutal.
@chienfou @Kyeh
Mine is simple, but will require fine-tuning for others because it relies on using my 60-year-old gas oven.
Prepare a regular cookie sheet by lining it with parchment or butcher paper (one layer). I use a shiny stainless sheet; if your sheet is dark, you may need to adjust the time down a bit. Dissolve two tablespoons of salt in two cups of water. Briefly dip one pound of pecans in the salt water, and spread them on the paper-covered cookie sheet, about two nuts deep. Place them in the cold oven, set the temp for 300F, and set the timer for 32 minutes. When the timer dings, turn the oven off and leave the nuts in it for four more hours, to dessicate in the small amount of heat from the pilot light.
@chienfou @werehatrack Thanks!
@Kyeh @werehatrack
Better late than never…
SPICED PECANS
Ingredients:
4 cups pecan halves
1½ tsp salt
½ tsp fresh ground black pepper
½ tsp cayenne pepper
1 heaping tablespoon dark brown sugar
I heaping tablespoon finely chopped fresh rosemary
1 tablespoon melted butter
2 tablespoons olive oil
Cooking directions:
1 Preheat oven to 350°F. Place the pecans on a baking sheet and bake for 15 minutes.
2 Remove from the oven. Season the pecans with the other ingredients and toss together until thoroughly coated.
3 Spread evenly on baking sheet.
4 Return pecans to oven for another 2-3 minutes, until toasted and fragrant, but do NOT overcook them
5 Cool and store in airtight container.
@chienfou @werehatrack
Thank you!
Someone brought some to a party once and I’ve always wanted to make them!
@Kyeh @werehatrack
YW! I love these and make them often
Dried pumpkin seeds. Seriously healthy superfood, with a nice, nutty crunch. And if you add some pie spices, you have a “pumpkin spice” with real pumpkin and real spice. When I’m really tired and my body says: “I want carbs, NOW!” - I can eat a handful of dried raw pumpkin seeds with a cup of herbal tea, and I’m fine.
Carboard.
@mehcuda67 But isn’t “carboard” made from carbs?
@rockblossom Ah, it’s Low Carboard.
Thick Cut Black Pepper Crusted Bacon baked not pan fried
/giphy eat your salad and be sad
@GrandmaLyn I put cheese on my salad and that makes me happy.
@GrandmaLyn @yakkoTDI
I put just about anything imaginable in my salads and I’m definitely not sad! I use a mixture of greens, baby spinach and romaine. I use hard boiled eggs, mandarin oranges, strawberries and/or blueberries, sunflower seeds, walnuts, feta cheese, dried cranberries, and tomatoes. I have to add chicken breast if my guy is going to have some, he has to have meat. My favorite dressings have way too much sugar, like apple vinaigrette so I use my second favorite, balsamic vinegar and oil.
TOTAL DELICIOUSNESS!
https://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/calories/beach-sand-259516253 I looked it up and it looks like we’re good on sand.
Personally, when I had success with the low carb diet, I’d just have cold cuts constantly.
@er1c Sand : short on protein and fiber and a bit high in sodium, but nice calcium levels!
@er1c @rockblossom
Unless it’s silica sand.
Green olives
Bugs.
@Kyeh
Mudbugs are real popular in these parts.
@werehatrack I think I’d prefer those to grubs and crickets and such!
@Kyeh @werehatrack I can tell you how to cook spiders - well and tarantulas too if you are interested.
@Kidsandliz @werehatrack
Thanks but no thanks. I was just joking on the whole kero protein thing because bugs are supposed to be a great source of protein.
@Kidsandliz @Kyeh @werehatrack
Ew gross!
Chocolate covered spiders, they’ve got to be a delicacy somewhere!
Ew…!
@Kyeh @werehatrack Oh trust me I haven’t tried them. It is my kid who knew the recipe. I asked her if that was what she wanted that for dinner, thinking how would I tell PetSmart I want your biggest, juiciest tarantula and no spider food when she said, “No mom spider no good. In this country we have chicken”.
@Kyeh @Lynnerizer @werehatrack My cousin tried ants in some country where they eat them. She said they weren’t as bad as you thought they might be - as long as you didn’t think of them as ants.
@Kidsandliz @Lynnerizer @werehatrack
From @blaineg’s topic, which you need to check out:
https://meh.com/forum/topics/lots-of-halloween-toons#616f7cff6979af001cd95a6f
@blaineg @Kidsandliz @Kyeh @werehatrack
Those are cute! Thanks!
@Kidsandliz @Kyeh @werehatrack
Definitely would have to be a mind over matter type of thing!
@Kidsandliz @Lynnerizer @werehatrack
Just saw this program - it was really interesting!
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/edible-insects/