When I want a little sweet treat I make smoothies.
My base is always frozen banana + milk + oats then do one of these:
Cinnamon + vanilla
Pumpkin + pumpkin spice+ brown sugar
Strawberries/blue berries
Cost like under a dollar to make a good cup and they are pretty filling.
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Popcorn with garlic powder, Parmesan, and black pepper.
35¢ of ingredients for a gourmet-feeling snack.
Oooh great shout! Now remembering how crazy we would go with the little $20 popcorn machine my mom bought.
And does it just stick? If so what’s the trick? I pop my popcorn, and it must be some crazy salt resistant mutation. I have ground the salt up in a blender, bought the popcorn salt, etc and it’s like the popcorn has some defense mechanism.
I mean a small amount of oil usually helps.
Tried Flavacol?
I had no idea that existed. Thanks! I am going to order some.
You’re not using enough oil when you pop, or you’re not seeing it soon enough after removing it from the heat.
I am popping it in a microwave silicon popper. Does a great job popping, but I might have to go back to the oil method and a metal bowl. Thanks.
just a straight up orange. I fucking love oranges
Huge orange fan also. Incredible fruit. Nom nom nom nom nom.
When i have water to clean up after myself, i just eat it like an apple, fuck eating every slice individually lol
unhinged but i get it
Not sure if this counts as “little” because it has to go into the oven for 45mins… But it’s assembled in under 5 minutes and you can get rid of your old bananas that already turned brown:
Banana bread
4 Bananas, 80ml (vegetable) oil, 80g sugar, 250g flour, 2tsp baking powder, 1tsp vanilla sugar, some chocolate (drops).
Smash the bananas, mix in all the other ingredients to a smooth dough. Find some chocolate from christmas that’s still laying around in the house, smash it too and mix it in.
Bake it at 170°C. Takes 40-50min in a loaf pan. Don’t forget to grase the pan before or use baking parchment.
Doesn’t need any fancy ingredients like milk or eggs. And you can pretty much wing it. You can also experiment, put some cinnamon or oat flakes in… And don’t bake it too well, I think it’s best when it’s still a bit gooey and moist inside.
Banana milk! 1 ripe banana, 1/2 cup milk, 1/2 cup water, 1 tbsp maple syrup, a few drops of vanilla extract, blend and pour through a sieve over ice. So refreshing and very cheap.
My banana bro!
Vegan chocolate chip cookie. I’m not vegan, but cutting dairy completely was a major daily health improvement. Tried it once for a few weeks and never went back.
Oh sick!
I always find joy in the fact that vegan community accidentally made a large infrastructure for people who need to cut out certain animal products.
Find that you can’t eat eggs? Vegans know what replacements work for what purpose.
Milk disagree with you? They have choices!
Happy to hear that it made it easier to cut out dairy for your health!
Hint of Lime Tostitos and guacamole. I could eat an entire bag, which is why I rarely buy them.
Cheap popsicles. Relatively low calories (<100 depending on the brand), take a while to eat, and are extremely cheap.
If you make your own you can drive the price and Calories even lower and drive the flavor way up.
Side note: I just learned “popsicle” is the brand name and not a term for the food. Kind of like saying Kleenex instead of tissue. I had no idea, I’ve just always called them popsicles.
The British were right with their Ice Lollies!
Hah crazy how often brands pull this off and we don’t even notice.
But yeah popsicles are good! I now have good memories of making popsicles with like lemonade and strawberries in them in ice cube trays.
I should make some ice cube popsicles…
The skinny chocolate fudge pops usually hit the spot for me.
I’ve been enjoying these Skyr frozen yogurt pops that have only 90 calories and 7g of sugar but they’re still about a dollar each which I feel is a little expensive.
Definitely make your own, if you can stomach the time. You can buy molds online for a cheap initial investment, then just water down some fruit juice.
You can also use real fruit if you don’t mind a chunkier texture and own a food processor already.
You have mecurious now if I could do the same thing with my own skyr and xanthum gum… I might have to do some experimenting.
Marshmallow Creme
Heck yeah
Brown soda bread made with buttermilk, still warm from the oven with butter and good cheddar. So comforting. It’s like tasting my childhood again.
I’ve been making Alton Brown’s seedy date bars. Not too much prep, and quick to snag and enjoy! Maybe 170 calories per bar
Ooh those look good! Just fruit and seeds. Looks better than the stupid granola bars that are mostly sugar.
DIET COKE
Which is probably even more unhealthy than regular coke since it uses the same or more amount of sugar but artificial sugar.
It’s either chocolate milk shake or chocolate cake which is relatively cheap near my place 60 for ms and 15-30 rs for cake. But if I feel I need more I get a waffle with white + normal chocolate.
Instant oats + brown sugar or maple syrup + seeds and/or nuts
This is a weird one, but hear me out. Undiluted cold brew coffee mixed with chocolate meal replacement powder and milk. The powder and milk make it really foamy when mixed and it tastes so good; it would probably also be amazing blended with ice.
I don’t tend to eat until later in the day so this has the added benefit of making me feel less guilty for forgetting to eat.
Also, frozen pudding cups are yummy.
“Hear me out”
describes a lazy chocolate coffee
I mean it is a unique way of making it, but it’s still just adding coco powder and sugar to cold brew!
Exactly why I said “hear me out” haha
It’s not exactly a “little treat,” and it has a different mouth feel to making cold brew with cocoa.
kinder bueno icecream perhaps?
