I really like carrots because they keep very easily and have such as satisfying crunchy freshness. Mini tomatoes are great when you alternate them with a few tiny mozzarella balls.
The hoppy sodas too can be a nice replacement for beer though my dentist told me to cut back on sparkling water bc the high acidity can cause excess wear on your teeth. I sort of listened.
My go-to is cashews. I used to eat raw, unroasted, unsalted cashews, but during the pandemic, I developed a sensitivity from eating too many, I guess? (tingling mouth/tongue, elevated heart rate) so I’ve recently started roasting them myself, which takes care of the relevant (natural) bacteria. Put them in a pan for 15 minutes at 350F. They taste much better than store bought roasted nuts, too.
Other favorites:
- Cheddar cheese
- Beef/turkey jerky
- Salami or other thin-cut cured meats
It’s important to watch salt intake, though. Cheap stuff generally has more.
And then every afternoon, after 3 or 4, coffee and a “coffee snack”, usually a fig newton or other fresh baked good.
No, I don't think from snacking, anyway, though also since just before the pandemic started and I was spending more time at home, I started exercising regularly, too.
Just coffee these days. I feel like I stopped snacking in the last 2 years. I snacked much more when we were in the office. lots of trailmix, wasabi peas, M&Ms, and bowls of cereal. I always had wet wipes lol because of snacks.
Impress everyone with your chopstick skills, picking up spherical cheese puffs with the chopsticks, while leaving your fingers clean. Given the texture, weight, and deformability of cheese puffs, it's probably a lot easier than it looks.
Okay I gave chopsticks a try and it messed up my workflow. Before:
1. Type on keyboard and use mouse as needed.
2. Grab snack bite with left hand that leaves orangey-coloured dust on my fingers.
3. Move left hand back to keyboard.
After:
1. Type on keyboard and use mouse as needed.
2. Move right hand off keyboard or mouse to location of chopsticks.
3. Pick up and use chopsticks to grab a snack bite.
4. Put down chopsticks.
5. Move right hand back to mouse or keyboard.
See, no orangey-coloured dust, but no profit! Maybe I should build a foot-pedal-activated snack launching catapult or trebuchet.
I've developed a routine of walking to my local grocery store (Metropolitan Market) and getting a soup from their lunch counter / deli area and sipping on it while I work.
I used to snack on salted unshelled sunflower seeds. The process of sucking the salt off the shell, breaking the shell open in my mouth, separating the two, spitting out the shell and swallowing the sunflower seed was just the right level of physical distraction to block out most other external stimuli while not breaking my coding concentration. These days I don't snack but if I did, I'd probably go back to sunflower seeds. The pile of chewed up shells is a bit unsightly, even if you have a paper towel to sit them on before dumping them into the trash, so that's something to keep in mind if you share your workspace with others.
My most common snack is a green sour apple (granny smith) sliced into 8 semi-equal pieces with the core removed. I put them on a small plate and subconsciously eat while thinking.
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[ 3.9 ms ] story [ 117 ms ] thread(but really i do love grapes) maybe celery or baby carrots. the high water content keeps me awake
I also drink lots of coffee.
(yes I'm aware they're pretty bad for the environment)
Caffeine though, that's my weakness
> caffeine is my weakness
I think these two statements are related!
And going away to prepare a meal gives me time to step back and think over the bigger picture of whatever I’m in the middle of.
Other favorites:
- Cheddar cheese
- Beef/turkey jerky
- Salami or other thin-cut cured meats
It’s important to watch salt intake, though. Cheap stuff generally has more.
And then every afternoon, after 3 or 4, coffee and a “coffee snack”, usually a fig newton or other fresh baked good.
I snack on fresh bits from HN.
1. Type on keyboard and use mouse as needed. 2. Grab snack bite with left hand that leaves orangey-coloured dust on my fingers. 3. Move left hand back to keyboard.
After:
1. Type on keyboard and use mouse as needed. 2. Move right hand off keyboard or mouse to location of chopsticks. 3. Pick up and use chopsticks to grab a snack bite. 4. Put down chopsticks. 5. Move right hand back to mouse or keyboard.
See, no orangey-coloured dust, but no profit! Maybe I should build a foot-pedal-activated snack launching catapult or trebuchet.