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.
No problem! Glad I could help, hope it works for you!
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.
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, crush it 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.
just a straight up orange. I fucking love oranges
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
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.
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!
Chopped, frozen strawberries in milk. Sometimes with maple syrup. Cream if I’m feeling rich.
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.
Hell I just mix strong black coffee with hot chocolate and add half and half or whipping cream for added decadence.
Bulk, cheapest grocery outlet store coffee and any hot chocolate that isn’t nestle because fuck nestle.
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 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.
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…
Marshmallow Creme
Heck yeah
Raw mushrooms dipped in Hidden Valley are pretty good… I love how they pop lightly when your teeth pass through them. You also can’t go wrong with a peanut butter and banana sandwich…
I have a copycat recipe for Taco Bells quesadilla sauce that is dirt cheap to make. I’ve probably made 30 liters of it in my lifetime. Smear that on a mini flour tortilla with some Great Value grilled chicken strips (no doubt made with tortured chickens to keep the price low) and a bit of shredded cheese (cheddar and monteray jack) and you’ve got one hell of a tasty quesadilla to fry up.
Here’s the recipe for the sauce. Let me know if you get around to making it. Would love to know what you think.
1 cup mayo (I use Helman’s 1/2 fat)
2 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp pickled jalapeno juice (from Old El Paso pickled jalapeños)
2 tsp cumin
2 tsp paprika
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
A dash of salt
And how ever many diced pickled jalapeños you see fit
Fancy coffee.
Toast with butter and brown sugar. Super cheap, super good, and basically ingredients almost every household has.
kinder bueno icecream perhaps?
Vanilla yogurt with crisp rye bread / tack crumbled into it, with bilberries (forest blueberry). The sour crunchy tack, vanilla and the sweet berries compliment each other nicely.
Edit: oh and the bilberries must come straight from the freezer, thats crucial.
Oh yes! Yogurt with some crunch and fruit is just SOOO good, and you can get a like $4 tub of yogurt that lets you eat some every day for a week.
