What is your new favorite (and possibly healthy) snack?

[Aggie_Ama]

I have become obsessed with gummy bears. I guess that isn't healthy.

[spokewench]

Dates - I just got back from Indian Wells (near Palm Springs) California and went to Shields Date Orchard. They sell a bajillion kinds of dates. My favorite are the Soft Medjols. Sweet, soft candy! Yum

[indysteel]

Oh, how I miss raw almonds. I've had braces since October of 2007 and while I can eat certain nutes, almonds are just a tad too hard. It's not worth losing a bracket.

I'm a big fan of hummus--on pitas and with raw veggies.

I also love certain types of dry cereal. So much so that I have to stop buying them and go back to plan shredded wheat (which doesn't taste so good right out of the box).

[GLC1968]

Carrots dipped in hummus....mmmm!

I'm also a fan of the apple/nut combo. I don't like PB all that much, but almond butter on tart apple slices? Heaven!!

And I love raw snap peas for just munching...

[shootingstar]

and dried figs.

Fresh figs are luscious but a tad more expensive to think of as just a "snack"

[Susan Otcenas]

Fresh figs are luscious but a tad more expensive to think of as just a "snack"

I have a very very large fig tree in my back yard. I've decided to buy a doohickey for drying them this year, because there are sooooooo many figs on the tree that most of them fall to the ground and rot.

We had alot of fun this summer just pulling them off the tree and eating them on the spot!

[gnat23]

String cheese and a piece of fruit. Does the trick nearly every afternoon lately.

-- gnat!

[GLC1968]

I have a very very large fig tree in my back yard. I've decided to buy a doohickey for drying them this year, because there are sooooooo many figs on the tree that most of them fall to the ground and rot.

I'll trade you the use of my drying "doohickey" for a few of those figs of yours.

[shootingstar]

I have a very very large fig tree in my back yard. I've decided to buy a doohickey for drying them this year, because there are sooooooo many figs on the tree that most of them fall to the ground and rot.

We had alot of fun this summer just pulling them off the tree and eating them on the spot!

I didn't realize until we moved to Vancouver that there are certain varieties of fig trees that can grow outdoors in Vancouver. Nothing like that in Ontario/eastern Canada.

It was rather interesting to see how employees responded to plump fresh yellow plums that one woman who worked in my dept., plucked off her backyard tree. They really went for them instead of the donuts. And this was at a workplace with predominantly men.

[Susan Otcenas]

I'll trade you the use of my drying "doohickey" for a few of those figs of yours.

Deal!

[Pax]

I have a very very large fig tree in my back yard. I've decided to buy a doohickey for drying them this year, because there are sooooooo many figs on the tree that most of them fall to the ground and rot.

We had alot of fun this summer just pulling them off the tree and eating them on the spot!

I've always wanted to try a fresh fig, they don't even sell them around here...maybe on vacation some day.

[Susan Otcenas]

It was rather interesting to see how employees responded to plump fresh yellow plums that one woman who worked in my dept., plucked off her backyard tree. They really went for them instead of the donuts. And this was at a workplace with predominantly men.

We have a yellow plum tree too. (Well, technically, it's in the neighbor's yard, but most of the foliage seems to be in mine.) There again, so much fruit that some went to waste. I *really* need to borrow GLC's dryer. We seem to get a bumper crop of cherries too.

[GLC1968]

Ok, how much am I loving the fact that so far, the three types of fruit you've mentioned are three types that we don't grow?! I see a big ole fruit-swap headed our way!

We do have cherries, but so far, no crop yet (birds got em all last year). We have bumper crops of red plums, prune plums, multiple kinds of apples, multiple types of grapes, bartlett pears and three types of blackberres...soon to add 5 kinds of blueberries and 2 kinds of raspberries!

[Susan Otcenas]

I see a big ole fruit-swap headed our way!

Deal!

Of course, MY version of bumper crop might be different than yours.

[BabyBlueNTulsa]

A colleague of mine brought in some dry roasted almonds with a a light coating of dark chocolate cocoa powder on them a few weeks ago. She offered to buy me a canister of them next time she went to that store.. so... I've now been eating an ounce of these delicious almonds every work morning.
YUM!

They are about to get transferred to my FX though for post-ride munching!