Popcorn

Crunch on a carrot, or a cucumber with a sprinkle of salt

I try really hard not to snack. Especially when I watch TV. Way too easy to eat way too much. I do eat meals in front of the TV,but it usually requires more attention than a snack,so I am more aware of how much goes in. I guess I COULD pre-portion snacks before sitting down to snack,but that never works......

However,as I am but a simple, imperfect person, i have indulged and will again no doubt. And when I do,it will almost certainly be something crunchy and covered in neon orange powder. I'm looking at you cheese puffs......

I like those little sesame sticks. Last night we had a scoop of ice cream about 8:30pm. Oh...and....DH likes grabbing a handful of trail mix.

I recently re-discovered frozen grapes. They are wonderful. I usually grab 2 and enjoy them. I will consider munching them while watching tv. I am hopeless and can eat mindlessly while watching tv. ( a jar of peanut butter? and amylou I would do that but I don't buy them for that reason)... I try to do the celery cucumber carrots canteloupe though.) I do try to be healthy..

Try to be good....sometimes a few hunks of cheese, cracker and grapes.

Sometimes a dish of watermelon chunks if in season.

Sometimes popcorn. Once in a Blue Moon to spoil myself...a Diet Coke

with the popcorn.

If I have had a complete dinner, (don't always), I usually don't snack on

anything, if I had dinner out...don't snack either.

Around three in afternoon , I have a snack using crackers and small amount of peanut butter. Somedays, Apple with peanut butter. Just a smidge.

I generally knit while watching TV- can't knit and eat - they just don't go together.

I don’t snack so much while watching tv as nurse a glass of wine.

Snacking in front of the tv is my downfall. I can easily polish off a box of crackers or can of nuts. I’ve been trying to stop or substitute something healthier or at least low cal but it’s hard to find anything. I did buy grapes, and blueberries have been yummy lately but they don’t satisfy like cheese and crackers!

No snacking in front of the TV. Yea, like bpath, a glass of wine maybe, but I'm always multitasking with a crossword puzzle or sudoku. We watch TV only between 6 and 9 anyway, so that's news while we are fixing dinner and then more news and maybe one show, during which my DH wil fall asleep by 8:30.

Anything edible...

puff corn, chips, whatever is on hand

I don't often snack while watching tv, but if I do it's either a small dish of ice cream or strawberries with whipped cream if I want something sweet or tortilla chips and salsa if I'm craving something crunchy/salty.

We don't watch TV much (although we have DISH and streaming services) but when we're watching something we never snack.

TV snacking?.......it's hard to say :-) I live my life around my coffee table (unless in my office or garden) and eat my meals with the TV on. But they are really meals rather than just snacks. I guess as close as I get to snacking is some late afternoon or early evening crackers and cheese (or similar) with some usually alcoholic liquid refreshment, like a glass of wine or a beer if I've been working outside. And sometimes that IS dinner so not exactly a 'snack' either.

I have been enjoying the little cherry tomatoes. Cut in half and sprinkled with pepper and salt. I also add one tablespoon of high quality extra virgin olive oil and one tablespoon of vinegar. Sometimes I do the same thing using cukes. I like to get in a tablespoon of olive oil and vinegar every day. Once the tomatoes are eaten I drink down the juices.

Ravencajun, a little OT, but are you still doing the apple cider vinegar for reflux?

Like Raven, I love tomatoes with salt and pepper. But as for TV, it's either on behind me in my office as I'm at my desk and I'm listening to DH channel surf, or I will finally watch something after going to bed. Usually Nat Geo once the nightly news has finished. Eating in bed just doesn't work for me.

Last night before bedtime, DH brought me a glass (yes glass, not bowl) of haagen dazs chocolate ice cream and a spoon at my computer. Had some dental work done Tuesday and I'm trying to fit in some calories....he was helping ;0)

Patti, yes actually I am using the apple cider vinegar capsules too.

Drinking vinegar seems to be one of those old fashioned practices that has continued as a tradition with no medical evidence of beneficial effects.

Does anyone know if there are any tested and accepted studies that prove an effect on general health or particular medical conditions?

I follow the instructions from my gastroenterologist. And the true life evidence that it works for me and others. That's the kind of evidence that I believe in. It works.

Of course we all should follow our doctors' advice but remember in doing so, as I'm sure you know, that medical science and practices come from scientifically valid studies and trials that have been tested and have reproduce-able results. Which is why I asked somewhat rhetorically if anyone knew if there were such evidence for vinegar (which I was unable to find).

I don't think the ingestion of vinegar has any demonstrated efficacy, certainly nothing providing evidence and a basis to follow. Anecdotal experiences and beliefs don't play a role.

I'm glad you find it helpful and perhaps it's a placebo reaction. That's something that is affected by a patient's beliefs. If a practitioner says "take this", or "do this", even when it's known that the advice or substance is inert and does nothing, studies have shown over and over that a percentage of patients experience a desired outcome. From, effectively, nothing, because they believe what they were given or told to do will help.

Ravencajun, thanks for your response. I was just curious, I'm glad you are finding relief and it works for you.

Of course we all should follow our doctors' advice but remember in doing so, as I'm sure you know, that medical science and practices come from scientifically valid studies and trials that have been tested and have reproduce-able results. Which is why I asked somewhat rhetorically if anyone knew if there were such evidence for vinegar (which I was unable to find).

Wow. When we look up stuff on the internet, Elmer pounds us, saying we should find a doctor and just follow their advice, no need to look stuff up. When we find a doctor and follow their advice, he is all about fact checking on the internet, the very thing he pounds us for.

What is the word I'm looking for? Oh yes. Hypocrite.

I don't watch much TV but if I do I am not snacking. I like to go to late night movies at the theaters because they are mostly empty and no one is crunching and munching and slurping around me. I will have a diet soda or ice tea but that's all.

Most snacking for me are more like mini meals or a dessert item. I am not into a sack or box of something.

We watch TV every evening. We're busy all day, so a little TV watching is a reward for a job well done. We're finishing Upload this evening and enjoying Texas Caviar and salsa chips, with an IPA.

Of course if you spend your day on your chair, a snack isn't earned or deserved. :)

Elmer, what I said is no insult, it is an accurate description of your overly controlling behavior that has gone on for years here. Further proof of your need for control is that you allegedly ran for backup (the mods) when you could not control my thoughts and posts.

Some of us are sick and tired of your constant need to tell everyone what to do. BTW there have been no notes or messages to me from the mods, they apparently do not consider your controlling whining about others to have any validity, but I suspect they have had plenty of complaints about you.

I do occasionally eat popcorn while watching tv, they sell flavor shakers where you sprinkle cheese or other flavors on the popcorn.

I love frozen grapes too. They taste a bit sweeter to me when frozen. Preferably red grapes. I also love snacking on pistachios. I don't really even watch that much TV though. Maybe the news at 5pm, if I think about it.

Brie on flatbread crackers with cherry tomatoes sliced in half or else a few almonds or cashews. I very much limit how much I eat while watching TV, and I will only eat six or eight almonds at a sitting. If eating Brie, I limit myself to three crackers.

I have never snacked while watching TV in my life. I was raised in a household that never snacked and had no such foods in the house. We were a three well-balanced meals a day family. Period. I remember when I had one of my first apartments, I became friendly with my next door neighbor. I was shocked to see she kept snack foods in her living room. There were candy dishes, bowls of nuts and and tin can of Charlie Chips next to her husband's recliner. I just could not imagine!

My DH does snack in the TV room, grapes, nuts, cheese, potato chips or pretzels. He is not the least bit over weight, so I just look the other way on that.

It is dead simple to Google "vinegar health benefits" and see what turns up. You will find a fair amount of medical or science based sources that indicate it does have some benefit, including adding probiotics, altering/lowering blood glucose levels with certain type 2 diabetes patients and even helping with obesity and weight loss. But it is also attributed to have all sorts of other, almost magical properties that have never been scientifically proven. And it does have some unfortunate side effects: it erodes tooth enamel, it can exacerbate acid reflux and if you have any kidney issues, they may not be able to process the level of acidity a daily dose of vinegar supplies.

I did that search and saw the following on the first page of findings. I'll offer the links after each:

Univ of Chicago article, Debunking the Health Benefits of apple cider vinegar, says "It may have some benefits to our bodies, but overall, we need more studies to truly understand the health benefits and side effects "

Debunking the health benefits.....

Consumer Reports Article, Is Vinegar Good for You, quotes a PhD dietician who's a spokesperson for the American Academy of Nurtirition and Dietics who said “Vinegar is absolutely a great tool in cooking,” she says. “However, consumers should be wary of vague health claims about it."

Is Vinegar Good for you?

Harvard Med School article, "If you are trying to lose weight, adding apple cider vinegar to your diet probably won’t do the trick. Of course, you’d never suspect that was the case by the way it’s been trending on Google health searches. But the popularity of diets frequently has little to do with actual evidence. If you read about a new diet (or other remedy) that sounds too good to be true, a healthy dose of skepticism is usually in order."

Apple Cider Vinegar Diet, does it really work?

Good grief.

I eat ice cream.

a dose of vinegar is probably safer than a glass or two of wine or a pint of IPA.....but I still choose the wine and beer...

Elmer, perhaps you'll find this of interest.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1785201/

Scientific investigations do not support the use of vinegar as an anti-infective agent, either topically or orally. Evidence linking vinegar use to reduced risk for hypertension and cancer is equivocal. However, many recent scientific investigations have documented that vinegar ingestion reduces the glucose response to a carbohydrate load in healthy adults and in individuals with diabetes. There is also some evidence that vinegar ingestion increases short-term satiety. Future investigations are needed to delineate the mechanism by which vinegar alters postprandial glycemia and to determine whether regular vinegar ingestion favorably influences glycemic control as indicated by reductions in hemoglobin A1c. Vinegar is widely available; it is affordable; and, as a remedy, it is appealing. But whether vinegar is a useful adjunct therapy for individuals with diabetes or prediabetes has yet to be determined.

Yes annie, I came upon that one too.

People don't understand how science research works. When evidence isn't consistent and compelling, or is absent altogether, one can't say something "might" have a certain effect or might work a certain way. If not demonstrated, it's not demonstrated. The accurate way to describe it in the absence of positive findings is to say "There's NO EVIDENCE OR PROOF such and such is or does such and such". The default is not "it might", rather it's "it doesn't because it hasn't been demonstrated. "

In this case, it's pretty clear. Ingesting vinegar is an old fashioned practice, dating back to when people had little access to effective medical resources and so the attitude was "better to do something with what we have than to do nothing". Unfortunately, for most of these home remedies, doing something was exactly the same as doing nothing because that which was done had no effect on anything. As has been found time and again with vinegar.