Posts Tagged “snack”
Snacking with Seoul. Japan Centre offers some classy and tempting food shopping options and not all of them are Japanese. Their selection of Korean goods offers some of the most popular items from that country. Here is a peek at some of their snack suggestions. Peanut chocolate biscuit sticks from Sunyoung are convenient for snacking…
Energy Balls of Flavour. Squished! It conjures an image of squashed and discarded fruit. But Squished, the company that is, hopes that all that waste will be a thing of the past. Those bin-destined fruits are the treasured ingredients for delicious treats made by Squished. The Squished journey started with three friends who wanted to…
I am not a great cereal eater. Bowls of sugary floating goods first thing in the morning just doesn’t appeal. I am an adult and left such pleasures behind several decades ago. Grandma Crunch has an alternative with added benefits. This is indeed a grown-up snack which one could enjoy with milk or without. Grandma…
Biltong – Mighty Meaty Jack Links offer snacks which are healthy and full of delicious umami. Biltong is a traditional food and it’s been around for centuries in one form or another. European settlers arriving in southern Africa in the early 17th century used vinegar as the meat-preserving medium along with saltpetre which prevents botulism;…
Sounded more like a threat than a snack – Karma Bites. They were in fact light and airy puffed and flavourful lotus seed nibbles, and new to me. Lotus seeds, also called fox nuts or makhanas, come from a plant called Euryale Fox which grows in the still waters of ponds over much of Asia….
A very clever name, Podberry. It’s all about peas, those delicious little health bombs which are so underrated. Podberry Peas are little packets of crunchy snacks containing nothing but the vegetable and flavourings. One might imagine that a dried pea could be nothing but tasteless and tooth-breaking. But these Podberry Peas are similar to those…
Deep joy! Another seaweed snack. No, dear reader, I am not kidding. I love this healthy and tasty stuff, and not just surrounding one’s sushi, either! Enjoy itsu crispy seaweed thins. I have tried two flavours of itsu crispy seaweed thins. The ‘thin’ element really is ‘butterfly light’ as the company actually says. (Who has…
Seaweed is considered a super healthy food and that’s a secret that has been known to the Japanese for centuries. But these days people are more familiar with the delicate flavour. It’s the green wrap that we enjoy around our sushi. Shore Seaweed Puffs are a delicious snack and the Sweet and Smoky version has…