It’s been a summer of snacking. You forget, don’t you, how much kids eat when they’re home from school and they demand constant variety at all hours of the day.
Whilst we try to get as much fruit down them as possible and to deny Ieuan his insatiable quest for crisps, there are times when you just want something that’s fun, tasty, not too calorific and preferably portable.
Plus, you’ll never be stuck if you can’t find the Jenga set.
I like my snacks to have a little pleasure built in. My dad’s favourite biscuit, for example, is the Rich Tea. At the risk of sounding like Peter Kay, there’s little pleasure in one of those.
I am also occasionally guilty of using snacks to bribe the kids or to pacify them when it’s just too long a gap between meals – as happens every Friday when Caitlin has ballet.
Ieuan is the personification of ‘hangry’ when his blood sugar’s down and we’ve learned to get him a glass of milk and something not too substantial but enough to fill his tummy.
Knoppers is a new crispy baked wafer biscuit with a milky hazelnut filling and a chocolatey wafer coating. It weighs in at a reasonable 137 calories (a four-finger KitKat is 250 calories) and each one is individually wrapped, ideal for slinging in your bag or the glove box of the car.
Knoppers wafer biscuits have already launched in 50 countries around Europe and are extremely popular so you may well have come across these if you’ve been lucky enough to travel lately. But now they are over here and, judging by the taste, likely to be equally as popular.
We all loved the taste of these and whilst Caitlin and Ieuan take them to Tae Kwon-do and ballet, the Husband throws them in his travel bag en route to the airport or London, where he spends most of his time.
Far better for him than succumbing to the Danish Pastries which apparently lie in wait for him at Cardiff Central Railway Station. And, when he gets the train home, lots of the food places at Paddington are closed – unless you want a pasty. Who said London is an international capital eh?
Knoppers is a more solid wafer biscuit than a couple of the rivals on the market and denser, with the filling running through the wafer, rather than being soft, piped in cream. You feel as if you have had a decent snack when you have one – although be warned, they are very moreish.
Have you tried Knoppers Wafer Biscuits?
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Normally my go-to snacks are biscuits or granola bars. However, in the run-up to Christmas I have resolved to forgo these in favour of healthy snacks such as grapes and carrot sticks, so that I can lose a couple of pounds which I will then undoubtedly put on again over the holiday season.
Look yummy
I love yoghurts and jelly pots, pears, baby bells and salt and vinegar crisps. Not all at the same time though lol.
Dried Fruit & Nuts
Nuts – preferably roasted, salted almonds.
A biscuit or a couple of pieces of chocolate
Love snacking on grapes or cheese and crackers
I aim for a healthy snack but somehow a chocolate biscuit jump right into my hand.
yoghurt and chocolate covered sunflower seeds that i get frm the local deli at the indoor market – they are delicious and I keep a bag in my desk drawer at work
crackers
Banana 🙂
My kids love breakfast bars at any time of the day if they’re hungry x
My little boy loves Milky Ways as a special treat at snack time.
Dried bananas
On SW plan at moment so usually Raspberries or a pink and whites
Grapes or an apple
A banana always does the trick for me 🙂
Biscuits for me normally rich teas x
Crisps…. I cannot resist them.
Chocolate Trackers or crisps and a dip.
Mine is crisps! I know it shouldn’t be but if they are in the house then I eat them. I try not to buy them for just that reason
We love rice krispie squares, just right to keep hunger pangs at bay and satisfy my sweet tooth at the same time.
Have a break? Have a KitKat lol that’s a naughty treat a healthy one has to be a banana ?
A bag of mini cheddars
I’m a sucker for a packet of crisps
grapes or cookies
peanuts
Love Kit Kat
Crisps – lots and lots of crisps!
I suffer with the low blood sugar ‘hangry’ issue too so I always have a small pack off raisins or nuts in my bag.
Bananas
Hobnobs!
At work it tends to be an apple xx
Salt and vinegar rice cakes
Bananas!
A hobnob!
Celery
Penguin biscuits
Crisps
I love celery sticks with humus 🙂
A Banana
Malted milk biscuits
Bananas!
Usually a pink and white, popped in the microwave for about 8 secs so the marshmallow is all squidgy…delicious! Love the jammy pink and whites too.
I have tried these wafers and they are lovely, highly recommended.
carrot sticks
Custard creams are my favourite
Oat cakes with houmous or if i fancy something sweet a banana
Jaffa Cakes!
I Love pink and white wafers to snack on. Yum xx
pineapple
Kitkat chunky! Bad I know!
A breakfast bar is one of my go to snacks
A mixture of roasted nuts!
I love salted almonds and green olives!
An apple
Bananas! Filling and healthy! 🙂
I love grapes easy to eat and always available
Dried mango slices
A cereal bar
yummy flapjacks
Toast … with just butter!! 🙂
My go-to snack to stave off hunger pangs is a handful of cereal like Cheerios.
Biscuits and tea!
Yoghurt coated raisins
Anything we have in the house, I’m terrible for junk food x
I always have a punnet of grapes in the fridge so I can pick a few off and munch on them
Biscuits, any type of biscuit, except for rich tea, I don’t like rich tea!!!
Whatever’s close to hand! Mostly it’s a biscuit such as a custard cream or digestive. Sometimes it’ll be an apple.
Redskin peanuts for me.
A chocolate bar keeps of the hunger pangs
Mini cheddars!
Apple and cheese slices
apple or grapes, with cheesy biscuits
GRAPES
a packet of crisps nomally
A chocolate biscuit
Crackers with cream cheese on
My go to snack is Belvita biscuits 😀
My go to snack is a banana
The mini cheesecakes from Aldi are my vice
I eat a lot of fruit. I raid the fruit drawer in the fridge when I’m hungry
Cheese and onion crisps
A banana
Plain Cashew nuts are mine. Love them!
If I’m being good, a small handful of mixed nuts!
Usually a handful of nuts!
Generally Biscuits. Im addicted!
A yoghurt – I like the thick and creamy ones as they are more filling :o)
Either a Twix or a packet of crisps.
A handful of nuts 🙂
A banana always makes me feel full!
its normally a mars
yogurt raisains
A small square of chocolate usually does the trick!
Toast- I can make it savoury (with cheese or vegemite) or sweet (with jam or marmalade).
Pringles, have to stop myself eating the whole tube
Mine is a cereal bar…. I keep one in my handbag for my daughter after school as shes always starving on the way home. these look like a better alternative though as they are less filling x
A kit kat or a bowl of cereal
An apple from the fridge, it’s cold and cut into chunks it lasts a while 🙂
Has to be Pringles crisps, cashew nuts or a ginger nut. Or all three together……I know, so bad 😉
snickers
Flapjacks, we all love them. The kids like just the plain ones but I love them all, especially the ones with healthy seeds in too
Nuts – I’m nutty about them
Definitely crisps, their my downfall
sunflower seeds are a quick little snack
i try to snack on carrot sticks as i find it hard to cut down but it doesnt always work, especially when pringles are involved 😛
chunky kitkat
Either Fruit or popcorn as I try to be good most of the time
if im being good some fruit if im being naughty a few biccies 🙂
I love crisps
Banana chips.
I love pink lady apples or cherry tomatoes as a nice healthy snack!
peanuts
I try not to snack, but I would go to the fruit bowl for either grapes or a banana
grapes or satsuma
bananas
Biscuits or buttered crackers.
My favourite snack has got to be oreos
chocolate
Chocolate digestive biscuits! 😀
a digestive biscuit chocolate if I have them
Usually some cashews.
bananas i cant get enough of them or grapes or raisins
Apples for me, recently someone suggested I dip them in peanut butter and I’m now obsessed with this!
brunch bars
Pom bears
My go to snack is kale crisps
Nuts or Grapes
Fruits or cheese strings.
Bananas ?
currently I am into chocolate rice cakes
I like dark Ryvita with meridian crunchy peanut butter
My real love is flapjack but when I’m feeling healthy its bananas
I like to snack on grapes and cashew nuts, and if i’m really peckish I will have carrots with houmous
bourbon buiscuits x
I love caramel wafers.
Crisps i’m afraid x
breakfast biscuits
Cereal bar
I will usually go for a banana
Bananas
Always chocolate oops 🙂
I love a cheeky chocolate Digestive.
Crisps
Chocolate Digestives
popcorn 🙂
If there’s an open packet of biscuits about, then those. Any sort.
mine is cashew nuts
Almonds x
Like chocolate digestives x
Milky ways
AN APPLE
Chocolate, pref Dairy Milk!!
Cheese or nuts
A packet of crisps
I don’t usually get hunger pangs, but I do sometimes get a craving for peanuts late at night!
popcorn low calorie ones
Digestive biscuits!
bananas
Bananas or a cup of coffee
Cereal Bars
I love a yummy packet of crisps, nom nom x
at the moment it is crackers with butter.
Fruit for me
Flapjacks x
A handful of nuts
I try not to eat choclate.
So go for some cherries
Biscuit.
I’m a cake person but I love a biscuit which is easier to eat at work when I inevitably get the munchies!
has to be a dip into the biscuit tin
Flapjacks!! They are my fave go to snack as they are sweet and filling! My kids love them as an after school snack too! x
Flapjacks
often dried fruit
crisps are my snack x
Mine is crackers and cheese or sliced up apples. These sound yummy, thanks for the giveaway.
Bourbon biscuits x
cashews
We like to have jaffa cakes not too bad for you and tasty and and satisfy the sweet cravings
Knoppers Wafer Biscuits if i have any if not a custard cream
A bit naughty but I love to nibble on peanut M&M’s 🙂 x
A banana
caramel rice cakes
I always nick my daughters little boxes of raisins, handy little snack.
I love peanut butter on rice cakes with sliced banana.
Crisps!
peanut butter on rice cakes 🙂
Bananas or strawberries
Would be sultanas
A banana
a banana
Love biscuits but try to have fruit
Usually a banana, but sometimes a cheeky chocolate bar!
sunflower seeds, or some toast 🙂
A hobnob (or two, maybe 3, lol)
Marmite on toast x
A slice of buttered toast!
biscuits
I’ve been loving nakd bars but if we don’t have any I usually just sack on whatever fruit we have in the house 🙂
I try to be good and head for a banana or cherry tomatoes but failing that it’s usually a chocolate biscuit x
Popcorn!!
Apple with nut butter 🙂
Love crackers and cheese
Blue ribands!
i normally grab a banana but there are times when i give in to chocolate biscuits
A ryvitta and peanut butter.
Fruit and nuts
Crisps for me.
cheese
Crispnreads and chunky cut veggie wedges with houmous and mozzarella cheese
unfortunately mine is crisps but I wish it was fruit x
Great prize! I love these ?
I wish I could say fruit but it’s a Snickers bar other chocolate bars are available
Cheese! Or crisps 😉
Cookies
If I’m being honest I’d have to say crisps!
a nice apple
It’s usually cookies or sometimes a quick cheese sandwich, 🙂
Biscuits
crisps
A pot of coffee and some fruit
Pistachios.
A nice ripe peach
Sliced apple, red grapes and mature cheddar – but I have a sweet tooth and would love to win this prize and give some to children in the family to try!
Biscuits usually.
Toast!
always chocolate
cookies
Plain chocolate digestives
Any kind of fruit.
strawberrys and grapes x
A chocolate biscuit
Mini Cheddars or a Tracker bar
Peanuts I love them
Peanuts
usually biscuits…hard to just have 1!
oranges or a digestive biscuit
A custard cream or two!
Try to eat fruit but its so hard!
My go to snack is any biscuit we have in the cupboard! Hubby has a savoury tooth but I have a sweet tooth. I always make sure we have biscuits in, just in case of visitors, but really they are for me!
Mine is usually almonds! I love the sound of these, they look delicious too 🙂
a mcvities digestive
Dried apricots.
Homemade oat and raisin biscuits
My go to snack is a pink and white (Can’t leave those SW goodies behind)
For the kiddies they really love a piece of fruit!
Lovely!