How often do you have snacks, e.g. biscuits, cakes, buns, crumpets etc with coffee and tea ?

[WildRosie]

I've largely got out of the habit on account of my waistline not getting any smaller but I occasionally like a small bar of Aldi dark chocolate with mid-morning coffee. Hobnobs, pain au chocolat et al are great but I'm trying to be strict!

The 25g bars of moser Roth 85% dark chocolate have over 150 calories though.
An Asda chocolate digestive has 88.
A banana (depending on size, I’ve weighed mine) has 109.

If a smaller waist is your goal you would be better off, calorie wise, with the chocolate digestive. Health wise is a different matter!

Never, I can't eat sweet things (and drink wine) and stay thin. I prefer the wine!

What @underneaththeash said

That would be breakfast for me, not the chocolate but crumpets or pain au chocolat

I'm not at the moment due to having become too fat.

Crumpets or pastries would be a breakfast for me anyway, not an extra snack.

What do people have instead of a packet of biscuits ? I really need to make the habit as I'm pre-diabetic.

I don’t really snack tbh. I would only really have biscuits, cake etc if we have guests

I have something with my afternoon cup of tea and find it doesn't make much difference to my weight as long as whatever I have is small and I only have one of them. It stops me being ravenous by dinner and snacking later.

Current afternoon snack of choice is a ginger nut as they are quite flavoursome for their size.

I can drink tea or coffee on their own but if I am having a biscuit, cake or chocolate bar I really like a cup of coffee with it.

I'm glad to see this thread has survived! When I hit 'create' I had a message saying it had been auto-deleted for some obscure reason.

I don't have the Moser Roth chocolate but the small ones that come in five-packs. Probably just as calorific! I always have plenty of bananas in which are a reasonable stop-gap before meals but not as nice with ones' High Tea.

Hardly ever. Snacking is a slippery slope. Also, as I have got older my appetite has reduced and a mid morning snack would put me off my lunch. I eat enough at mal times not to need to snack in between.

Never. Ever.
Thankfully don’t enjoy this time of food.

I do enjoy caramel coffee syrup though. That might help you?

I have very big lunches.

Sees me through until dinner

I ate two jam doughnuts today, amazing but I felt so fat

I tend to have something most days, but I eat healthily otherwise which keeps my weight stable I suppose. I'm partial to a pink lady apple.

I never have a snack with tea or coffee. I have cake in the house because I made one for my dds birthday last night and did have a slice this afternoon, but that was breaking my fast.

I don't have biscuits in the house. I find the more sweet things I have the more I crave. I'm better with none.

This thread inspired me to go and get a biscuit

I don’t really have sweet snacks. Very occasionally I’ll have a biscuit but a boring digestive.

Crisps on the other hand are my weakness... sometimes lunch is just a small bag of crisps 😬

Sometimes we’ll get a treat like some Gu puddings from the supermarket but rarely have dessert. Never bother in restaurants. I got a box of chocolates for Mother’s Day and still have half left.

I do love a pain au chocolat but a really good one - there’s an amazing patisserie nearby so maybe once a month I’ll get one if passing.

Sadly despite all this restraint I am a blob. Not fair really.

Sometimes a digestive or a homemade flapjack, never crumpet, occasionally a bun.
Generally I drink tea or coffee in its own.
I do have a single digestive with my early morning coffee because I can’t take my medication on an empty stomach and I don’t eat breakfast.

In answer to your question op every day.

I always have a mid morning and mid afternoon snack, generally would be a cereal bar or chocolate biscuit. Occasionally will be cake!

I'm a normal weight 🤷‍♀️

Today there were no biscuits or cakes in the house – an utter planning failure – so I ate DD’s snack pack gingerbread men, half a block of pink fondant from the baking cupboard, and a water biscuit. Would swing for a pain au chocolat or a crumpet with melty butter and runny honey. Ooh, or a drop scone. Or any scone! A small cake. Perhaps a cream bun. Wait, what was the question?

@WildRosie

I'm glad to see this thread has survived! When I hit 'create' I had a message saying it had been auto-deleted for some obscure reason.

I don't have the Moser Roth chocolate but the small ones that come in five-packs. Probably just as calorific! I always have plenty of bananas in which are a reasonable stop-gap before meals but not as nice with ones' High Tea.

The 5 pack bars is the one I was on about. 152 calories.

I don't have sweet snacks during the day, but have cakes/ice cream quite regularly after dinner. I need to stop that, really.

I’m crap at just having one, so snacks turn into a near constant eating session for me. I have stopped but only because I was too fat. If I found out I had a month to live tomorrow I’d eat crisps, biscuits, sweets and cake constantly. And enjoy it!

Rich tea biscuit in the afternoon with tea. Kallo dark chocolate rice cake in the morning with coffee. Trying to keep to 1100 calories a day.

Every day. But only one of them. I’ve lost over a stone and a half this year (half a stone to go) and I’ve still had one of the things you’ve listed every day of that.

But if I am having a pastry, that is my breakfast, as a pastry is quite calorific. A biscuit is different - I tend to have ginger biscuits (45 calories each) so I have two of them, and that is a mid morning or mid afternoon snack.

If I’m having some chocolate, I only have a small amount, maximum amount would be a normal size bar (like from a multi pack of twirls or whatever) or two or three chocolates from a mixed box.

I also have a bag of crisps each day - the size that you get in a multi-pack. Wheat crunchies or quavers or frazzles from a multi pack are less than 100 calories a bag. I love them.

It has taken me a while to realise that I need to cut down to this level though. I could previously have eaten a family size bag of maltesers or similar, or a big grab bag of crisps, or both, and not really think about it.