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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Hint of Lime Tostitos and guacamole. I could eat an entire bag, which is why I rarely buy them.
Where can you get cheap guacamole?
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!
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.
Marshmallow Creme
Heck yeah
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.
We don’t keep bread in the house anymore but occasionally I want cinnamon toast. Nuke a little butter, mix in sugar & cinnamon, enjoy on saltines. It’s a little messy because the sugar and butter won’t completely emulsify but it scratches that itch when I’m baked.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Brown soda bread made with buttermilk, still warm from the oven with butter and good cheddar. So comforting. It’s like tasting my childhood again.
You can’t just lay that out there without giving us the deets on how to create it ourselves
Here you go. :) Let me know if you give it a whirl!
Hahaha. In a short space I’ve had two folks asking for it.
It honestly couldn’t be simpler. I did reply to the other request with the basics and will get back to you both in the morning as it’s 2am here. :)
Do you have a recipe?
I’m gonna get you the proper measurements etc. tomorrow because it’s very late here but the ingredients are:
400g wholemeal flour
White plain flour, seived (my own preference is about 1/4 but you let your mouth decide from experience)
Baking soda
Pinch of salt
Buttermilk until it’s fairly mushy
Honestly you just lump it all together. Make a circular mound out of it. Criss cross with a knife and lob it in the oven on a floured baking tray at 180C for fan.
I’ll get you a proper recipe in the morning or poke me if I forget. It’s hard to do wrong and I’m not a good baker.
That’s good enough, I can work with that. Thank you!
Here’s a decent one. I was pretty close. :D
I would tend to do 400 / 100 brown to white, no wheatgerm as I said but I do like it it a bit more dense. Higher white flour ratio will have it slightly less dense so up to yourself. It’s technically possible to do with normal milk and baking powder (instead of buttermilk / baking soda) but I would always go with the buttermilk and soda myself.
I also frequently use that recipe and just roll it out and cut scones out of it with a glass or large cutter. They cook faster for hungry kids and have more crust (which I like).
Interested to hear if you do give it a whirl. :)
edit: I had a quick look at your post history and see you’re vegan. Baking powder (probably 2tsp I imagine for the acid + base instead of 1 for just the base when using baking soda) with oatmilk I would imagine would be totally fine. I’m not sure if there are any acidic vegan milks that would be the equivalent of the buttermilk?
In a pinch I have used cows milk, baking soda and a small amount of vinegar or even lemon juice in the milk for raising. Good luck!
Ok I’m vegan so I’ll have to substitute a bit but that’s fine, I can make it work! Thanks.
I always buy bananas and wait for them to get brown, and make banana milk with them. I’ll try to freeze them and also add oats, that sounds really good
115gr 9mm with Turkish primers and range brass. It’s cheap to load–about 15cpr–just as fun as +P+, and doesn’t beat the hell out of your frame.
If you have a shot timer, you can do timed draw and fire drills with a single shot from concealment, put in over an hour at the range, and only spend a few bucks in ammo.
The real splurge is 220gr 10mm. That shit is expensive any way you do it.
kinder bueno icecream perhaps?
One spoonful of peanut butter right off the spoon. Lascivious.
Chopped, frozen strawberries in milk. Sometimes with maple syrup. Cream if I’m feeling rich.
It’s either chocolate milk shake or chocolate cake which is relatively cheap near my place 60 for ms and 15-30 rs for cake. But if I feel I need more I get a waffle with white + normal chocolate.
