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

[ASammy1]

I am addicted to Fiber One bars

[channlluv]

My favorite food coop has started carrying dark chocolate-covered cherries and almonds in their bulk foods bins. I've been buying them and freezing them, and oh, man, are they good after a long ride. It only takes a couple, too, to take the edge off a chocolate craving.

I also love apples with peanut butter, and lately I've been making almond butter and honey on whole grain bread to take with me during my long teaching days when I'm working from one end of the county to the other from 8am - 10pm. They're very portable, and it keeps me from breaking my no-fast-food-in-2009 rule.

I'm amazed at how little I miss fast food.

Roxy

[OakLeaf]

I just can't justify buying canned beans, between the expense and the wasted packaging. Even chickpeas only take 18 minutes to cook in the pressure cooker, and I think they're the longest cooking bean of all. It's just remembering to soak them that gets in the way.

If I'm thinking about it, I'll cook a big batch unseasoned and freeze a few portions. Cooked beans freeze really well (covered in cooking liquid). But I rarely have that foresight.

[Aggie_Ama]

What is the difference in chickpeas and garbanzo? I love the chickpeas you get in Indian food. Yummy, I have been craving indian like something fierce.

[Ana]

What is the difference in chickpeas and garbanzo? I love the chickpeas you get in Indian food. Yummy, I have been craving indian like something fierce.

I thought they were two names for the same thing...

[OakLeaf]

Yellow Indian channa tend to be a little smaller than European ceci/garbanzos, but I don't notice a difference in flavor. I don't know whether they're actually the same variety or not. Kala channa (black chickpeas) are a little nuttier and have thicker skins than the yellow ones.

[skinimini]

Yellow Indian channa tend to be a little smaller than European ceci/garbanzos, but I don't notice a difference in flavor. I don't know whether they're actually the same variety or not. Kala channa (black chickpeas) are a little nuttier and have thicker skins than the yellow ones.

You learn something new everyday. I had no idea that there were different types of chickpeas! Makes sense as there are different varieties of almost every type of bean/legume. I'm a vegetarian, a great cook, love Mediterranean, Indian, North African cuisine, etc and have great access to all kinds of foods. I'll have to look harder in the local markets.