I’m popping over, what can you give me?

[slanksy]

I never have any food other than meals in. It’s not a cost thing (thankfully), it’s more that any snack type things I might buy eg ham, quiche, hummus doesn’t get fully eaten within the use by: it’s really wasteful. The result is my cupboards/fridge are bare and I’ve never got a snack to offer someone. My daughter complained about this today (13). And she’s right. Today she ate out so I don’t feel like cooking - but yet again, there is nothing in the house other than a meal.

If I popped to yours today, what can I have?
or let’s say if I popped to yours on Tuesday at 3pm (saying this as it’s Sunday and you might offer me a roast meat type sandwich (which I would love btw!)

All and any snacking ideas / or very light meals are welcome. Also sweet stuff. But needs to keep unless sold in small amounts. I’m not dieting so happy to hear about all kinds of food!

Thank you

Cookies are really quick to make without many ingredients. Otherwise
Something on toast; beans, cheese, egg, peanut butter, nutella...
Always have roasted nuts of different varieties
Fruits
Carrots and hummus
Cereal
Crisps

I'd keep wraps in the freezer - you can make quesadillas if you have cheese. Maybe a tin of refried beans, some of those bottles of salsa, sour cream etc (obv not as good as fresh sour cream).

Or pittas in the freezer, or part-baked baguettes.

Eggs, hash browns (frozen), bacon in freezer... You can make shakshuka with tinned tomatoes.
Frozen pastries (croissants etc)

I’ve got a bag of tortilla crisps and a small jar of salsa in the cupboard. The salsa is the type that doesn’t need to be refrigerated until it’s opened.
I’ve also got an unopened pack of Jaffa cakes, Battenburg and Kipling mini apple pies.

We usually have multiple different types of nut mixes in - meets your criteria and could be put out in a bowl. Various family members eat them - useful also as portable.

We always have apples and bananas unless someone just ate the last one, but I buy at least three kg of apples a week, put 2/3 in the fridge and 1/3 at a time out in a big glass bowl, and usually rebuy when there are no more in the fridge.

I always have toast bread and extra butter in the freezer and jams and peanut butter and honey in the store so could always make toast, and that fits your criteria for not going off too.

I have teenagers who play a lot of sport and I only cook once per day, everyone fends for themselves for the other meals as nobody under 14 in the house, so just buying cooking ingredients wouldn't be very practical, especially as we're a bit of a treck from shops (too far to walk unless you've got a couple of hours spare).

In this house you could pretty much always have a banana, a bag of mini Cheddars or some Jaffa cakes. Other things are generally available but those are the staple snacks.

Buy some tins, olives (Waitrose ones are so lovely)
Chick peas, so you can always whip up a hummus and frozen pittas
Tuna - make the Italian tuna bruschetta
Part baked breads and danish pastries in the freezer
Mini spring rolls in the freezer
Homemade frozen biscuit dough
Frozen pizza dough, either make mini pizzas or dough balls
Frozen chilli, jar jalapeños, to make chilli nachos
You don’t need lots in, there’s always a shop open most times

I have a bag of popping corn in so you can always have popcorn
We always have wraps, pitta breads and flatbreads in the freezer and I could do something with those - eg we always have tinned chickpeas and tahini so I could make hummus and do toasted pitta cut into strips to dip, plus we usually have carrots and cucumber or bell peppers to cut into crudités.

I made some super garlicky hummus last night so as long as you are not a vampire there’s that, pittas, red pepper dip and some roasted veg. Nuts. Cheesecake. Baguettes you have to bake, almond cheese, vegan pastrami

I could offer you:
fruit (banana, apple, some not so good melon)
Toasted bagel w/salmon and cream cheese or cucumber or cheese
Pasta if really hungry (jars of pasta sauce plus some chorizo)
Bacon and eggs with a bagel
A salad with lettuce, tomato and cucumber, celery
I could make you brownies
Bagel and butter and jam or Bovril.
There’s probably some biscuits or Doritos.
I buy for the week.

Well right now I have vegetable chili, Chicken and sweetcorn soup, banana muffins and white chocolate flapjacks.
There is normally a packet of biscuits around, as long as I have hidden them from DH well enough

What an interesting idea for a thread!
Almost dinner time here (no Sunday roast) but if it wasn't, I'd give you a hot beverage and a mini magnum. I could also offer you a glass of wine or a Zero Beer. If it was morning, I have some of those frozen pain au chocolats I could airfry in a few mins.

If I had to provide you with food, there's some chicken wings in the freezer and a box of potato waffles. I'd be unlikely to offer the PW unless you were a friend of my DC. I have apples, bananas, cucumber, rocket and a host of frozen veg.

I am going to aim to do better from now on in case anyone ever posts this thread again.

Jamaican ginger cake and double cream, cheese on toast, thats probably it on the snack front. We are not snackers.

I have way more food in the house than I need, a fully stocked pantry, several shelves of snacks and a fridge and freezer full.

The dried, frozen and shelf stable stuff is rotated and checked regularly to make sure it doesn’t go out of date, and the fresh food is all part of a week long meal plan but while it’s accounted for if someone extra showed up and needed a meal we could shift it around easily. Often happens that DD will show up with a gang of strays after school and we suddenly have an extra 2 or 3 kids to feed. Since going back to school the other week they’ve taken to meeting here before school too and by the end of last week that meant kids showing up anything up to an hour before school started and wanting breakfast so my stash of cereal is running a bit low and they found the pop tarts on Friday so they disappeared.

There’s always plenty of fruit, bread to make toast or a sandwich. We also usually have some cured meats, sandwich fillings like honey roast ham, wraps, hummus, tortillas, yogurt, maybe some crips and dip if it’s the weekend.

Toasted cheese ( and onion if you want) made in the flat plate sandwich maker. Followed by fruit and or a naice yogurt then tea and biccies. That do ya?

I usually have breadsticks and carrots that I could whip up some form of dip, hummus, salsa, guacamole or cream cheese. Various bread product in the freezer so crumpets or bagels. Always have eggs, so if you wanted something more substantial you could have scrambled egg or an omelette. Or pancakes. And And canned chickpeas which I could stick in the air fryer with seasoning to make crunchy chickpeas. If I had a bit of notice I could throw together a flapjack or cake.

My son's coming over so I've made a cauldron of spaghetti bolognaise , I've also over catered for his vegetarian girlfriend so mushrooms with truffle oil and halloumi with wedges.

The exact scenario happened to us today! MIL was supposed to come before 1pm to local restaurant for Sunday Lunch we'd booked. Due to several things she was delayed so we had to cancel the booking. She didn't arrive till 2pm and none of us had eaten much since a snack at breakfast.

I had a roll of shortcrust so made a quiche. We have lots of garden veg we grow so made it with bacon, tomato and onions.

Cooked runner beans and new potatoes from the garden, then did a salad with tomato/cucumbers/basil. I'd made an apple/blackberry crumble yesterday, so gave MIL that for dessert with custard.

If it was less of an actual meal and more snacks, then I have nuts, olives and various crisps in the cupboard. I have jars/tins of dolmades and cheese filled cherry peppers to make an antipasto type spread. Cheese/crackers, carrot and celery batons I could serve. If I knew people were coming then I'd have dips also.

I would find it odd that someone didn't have ANY store cupboard things unless they were living hand to mouth and really struggling TBH.

2 freezers and a fridge,we grow a lot of our own fruit and veg..there's plenty of apples,3 different varieties. Different cheeses, grapes.. larder cupboard, tuna, beans,lots of tomatoes,I could run you up a sauce with pasta.. plenty of homemade soup in the freezer, celery or leek. Different crackers.

Crisps nuts olives popcorn
cheese and crackers
toast
biscuits
chocolate biscuits
fruit
humous and breadsticks
ice cream

I made a tub of breakfast bars today! Really easy. Loads of oats, chia, mixed seeds, nuts, coconut, a little dried fruit and cocoa nibs glued together with light condensed cream, bake on 100 degrees for an hour. Absolutely no skill required and tastes amazing.

Family of six here with lots of extended family and friends who pop in regularly. So we always have nuts, crisps, breadsticks, crackers. Various cheeses, fresh fruit, jars of olives, chutneys, bread, bagels, wraps as well as biscuits and cereal etc. I love dates and sultanas and always have pittas, bread and flatbreads in the freezer and some pastry knocking about so I can make a quick quiche or pie with any leftovers. Freezer always has pizzas, chips, fish fingers and chicken goujons in too. Frozen fruit also good for smoothies or dessert with Greek yoghurt.

Shockingly little actually. We never really have snack foods in the house. I do try and have a bottle of wine for popping in occasions though!

Makings of tomorrows fish pie if you fancy doing it and plenty of gin. Otherwise, having bacon sandwiches with tomatoey bread for dinner,

More than that in cupboards and fridge freezer obviously, including Twiglets and posh crisps to go with the gin.

Are you popping over for a snack and a chat or are you wanting to eat a meal

Either way, off the top of my head I have a bean salad I made yesterday for lunch, you can have tht with some fried paneer or just on its own perhaps

I have prawns in the freezer so could cook those up quickly in a pan, I always cook from frozen

I could do you some rice with peppers and onion in it, not sure I have substantial meat offerings to put in it though so rice on its own, not that fancy

I have home made cake of two different types, we have nuts of various types, we have olives, tons and tons of different olives. We do have crisps. I have nuts and fruit covered in chocolate. I might have some biscuits we bought yesterday but if Im honest, they're very very expensive and I bought them as a treat for myself so you cant have those sorry