Coming home from a long day at work or school calls for one thing, and one thing only: A snack.
How else are you going to reward yourself for a hard day’s work and make sure you can last until dinner? The main thing with snacks is they have to be quick and easy, which is why so many of us reach for a packet of crisps or hunt for the last muesli bar languishing at the back of the cupboard.
But sometimes you might think to yourself: Can I do better? This is the question food writer and cookbook author Jack Monroe posed on Twitter, crowdsourcing everyone’s best snack hacks to jazz up an afternoon bite.
These are the best replies to Monroe’s tweet…
1. Pot Noodle and peanut butter
Monroe kicked off proceedings with a Pot Noodle, but taken to the next level with peanut butter for that satay effect. Add frozen veg and you’ve basically got a full meal.
What are your fave snack hacks? I'll start: putting peanut butter in a Bombay Bad Boy pot noodle elevates it to 10x better than the original, which is pretty good as it is!! Makes it kind of like a spicy satay noodle dish. Add mixed frozen veg for extra brownie points. Your turn!
— ☘️🇨🇾Jack Monroe (@BootstrapCook) September 9, 2019
2. Microwaved apple and cinnamon
It’s like an instant apple pie, but healthier and a lot quicker to make.
Peel an apple, slice, microwave to desired softness. Sprinkle cinnamon. Devour.
— Leslie Wren Vandever (@RheumaBlog_Wren) September 9, 2019
WOW!
3. Pimped up cheese on toast
Sometimes, Welsh rarebit doesn’t taste enough like a roast dinner – and this hack will fix that problem.
Dried sage and onion stuffing mix mixed into grated cheese for cheese on toast.
— Sharron (@sharroncaw) September 9, 2019
4. Paprika and popcorn
If this Twitter user proclaiming it "tastes like bacon" doesn’t make you want to try this combo, we don’t know what will.
Smoked paprika on microwaved salty popcorn. Tastes like bacon!
— Joannah Barnard (@jarnabarnard) September 9, 2019
5. DIY mini cheesecakes
If you want to be even more decadent with this one, sub cream cheese in for the butter.
Spreading butter and strawberry jam on digestive biscuits. Like fake cheesecakes.
— Laura Sweeney (@laura_c_sweeney) September 9, 2019
6. Cheese and chocolate biscuits
Definitive proof that cheese goes with everything.
Slice of mature cheddar on a dark chocolate digestive biscuit
— Jonathan (@tintinabulashun) September 9, 2019
7. Cheddar, hula hoops and… mint sauce?
OK, the third ingredient is a bit of a curveball, but don’t knock it ’til you’ve tried it.
Cheddar, cubed, pushed into the centre of an original hula hoop. Smothered in mint sauce. AMAZING ❤
— Faye (@Fayebelina) September 9, 2019
8. Marmite in tomato soup
Love it or hate it, there was always going to be someone suggesting Marmite.
Marmite in tomato soup.
— steve akerman (@frimleysteve) September 9, 2019
9. Breadsticks and Nutella
If you know, you know.
Breadsticks + jar of Nutella = a massive Choc Dip for us children of the 80s
— Joe Mulrooney (@joeymuller) September 9, 2019
10. Digestive biscuits, cream cheese and jam
We don't know how this particular combo came about but it's a doozy.
Digestive biscuits, cream cheese, jam.
— Jason Luke (@jasonsnelling) September 9, 2019
11. Satay sandwich
Peanut butter really does go with anything... apparently. Would you try a peanut butter, hot sauce, chicken, soy sauce sambo?
Two pieces bread: peanut butter on one, hot sauce on the other. Put some chicken in the middle if you like. Splash on some soy sauce if you have it. Put it together and it's basically a satay sandwich
— HOT TAKE X COLD HEART 😬🐙 (@nick_octopus) September 9, 2019
