Put them in a sturdy bag, bang them with a hammer and use the dust in ice cream?

I can think of other things to do with them, but not worth the effort. Might be a goid candidate for the food bank?

Probably no help to you at all but when I raised pet bunnies, I mixed banana chips and other dried fruits and veg into their alfalfa pellets. They loved these treats and the hard texture kept their teeth from overgrowing.

If you break them up or crush them, they can be added to granola, cookies and other baked goods. They are great in banana bread as a substitute for walnuts or pecans (nice for those with nut allergies) and help to increase that banana flavor. They can be used similarly as part of a fruit crisp or crumble topping - a sweet nut substitute.

I ended up with a bunch too. Looked quite a bit online for ideas. My conclusion . . . not much.

You can use them in meat marinade. They have enzymes that can help tenderize meat. It won't make your meat taste like bananas, they just sweeten it up.

Bananas can go with lime, hot peppers, vinegar, wine or beer, and herbs for a pork marinade. What you want for the acid ratios or if you want booze or not is up to you.

You can use dried kiwi or pineapple for this too, they also have the meat breaking enzymes.

Bananas for meat tenderizing? That's news to me...

AFAIK, they're mostly pretty high in carbohydrates, and the chips are made from unripe ones - hence the sweetener. I have seen the peels suggested for tenderizing meat, tho.

I guess they are different from dehydrated bananas, which I use in smoothies.

Do the chips have salt? That will be a major factor in how you can use them.

When my banana trees make bananas, I dehydrate most of the bananas, even though the bananas I get are rather small, due to the variety that I planted.

I second the food pantry idea. I don't like them at all, and only one of the four grandkids here will eat them, so I don't even try to put them into other things, they go directly into the box for the local food pantry. Hopefully someone can get some use from them.

Annie

Are you sure you have banana chips?

Those could be plantain chips perhaps?

dcarch

It says banana on the packet.

i have a friend who has a parrot. I will ask her if he can eat them! they do have sugar, though.

I would not give sugar to innocent animals, except for hummingbirds and horses.

[ETA: I do not consider kids to be innocent animals.]

Donate to the food bank. Some kids would probably be thrilled to have them in their food baskets.