Its 10 pm and I need something to munch on!

[Bobberman]

I am always eating something at night from about 6 to 11 pm. I have to watch because milk products make it hard for me to sleep. I eat sometimes Roman chicken noodle soup that does not seem to bother my stomach! One of my favorites is celery with olive oil and salt and pepper. I am also a cheese lover but its a milk product.! Candy is my down fall along with potato chips which I try to cut down on! Sugar coated pop corn is also something I like! Tonight the two stocks of celery will do. Lets get some ideas of what to eat at night that is good and gives not to much heart burn or acid reflex?? I usually go to bed 1 am and watch tv to 2 am kick boxing or westerns!

[webmaster]

Cheerios.

Ramen not so good because of insanely high sodium levels and preservatives.

I have been eating natural and organic food since 1988. I kind of read the labels to see what is in things. I do eat instant soup but I buy a special veggie broth, miso, dried vegetable flakes and low sodium instant noodles to get it done right. No preservatives, all natural. Low sodium, zero fat, healthy, good for the digestion etc.

[Bobberman]

I did buy some frosted cheerios tonight and also so old fashion mother oats! I have a cough for 3 weeks now and eating constantly seems to help!

[imafan26]

apples and peanut butter

[valley]

Thanks for the suggestion! Haven't had that in a while. [ apple and peanut butter]

Richard

[Bobberman]

I heard of celery and peanut butter!

[rainbowgardener]

edamame. If you want chips, eat veggie chips. Still not health food, but lower in fat and sodium than potato chips. Why ruin popcorn by putting sugar on it? Use nutritional yeast instead to make it a power snack. If you have to have something sweet, get the little 100 calorie fat free pudding cups.

applesauce with plenty of cinnamon (add some cottage cheese for protein if you aren't avoiding milk products and some toasted wheat germ for crunch and extra vitamins). Hard boiled egg. Fresh fruit. Pickles or pickled anything. whole grain crackers with hummus. A handful of nuts or nuts and craisins.

[applestar]

I second lacto-fermented food and probiotics before bedtime.

Yogurt if you can take the dairy, but if not pickles are good, miso soup is good especially if you make fresh from scratch -- a piece of dried kelp and shaved dried bonito in boiling water or boil dried anchovies for broth, strain then cook "gu" (seasonal veg or protein ingredient) of your choice in addition to the basic onions/scallions, potatoes, wakame seaweed, and/or daikon, then turn off heat and add your choice of miso (dark, light, sweet, non-soybean like chickpea, no wheat, etc.) to taste. Yeah breakfast food, but it is very warming and filling. Eat with cooked (brown rice) or mochi if you are extra hungry. Yum!

For quick snack -- my dentist extols nuts for least cavity causing. NO starchy carbohydrates which stick to the teeth and become cavity bacteria food. Crunchy vegs like celery and carrots -- well... crudités.

But if. I had been working hard my body sometimes craves bananas or avocados, or some kind of fruit. Maybe for potassium? Also, I don't take vitamins regularly, but if I'm roaming the kitchen looking for something to eat without pinpointing what I need/want, I'll take my multi vitamin/mineral supplement.

Oh, and herbal tea according to what you need. Usually I prefer digestive aid blend to calming for bedtime, but since I mix up loose herbal tea blends, I can mix up whatever I'm in mood for or just have a made up blend.

...that's not to say I sometimes eat junk food for quick fix. but I won't recommend those.

[valley]

Hummus with tahin [ tahini] stirred in is very nice.



We have the wood stove going all the time. I just washed an apple, cut into 3/8" slices and set it on the stand off grates on the stove top. In a couple hours they will be very nice, very nice indeed.

Richard

[rainbowgardener]

Just because I've been feeling a little behind / ignorant on the whole probiotic thing, kind of missed the boat when it started getting popular, I looked it up.

Pro-biotic is the opposite of anti-biotic, which kills bacteria. Probiotics provide beneficial micro-organisms which help your body cope with the bad guys and aid in digestion, may even be cancer preventative. They are mostly products of fermentation. Probiotic foods include: yoghurt (milk yoghurt, soy yogurt, etc), sauerkraut, miso, soft cheese, kefir, sourdough bread, acidophilus milk, butter milk, naturally fermented pickles, tempeh (fermented soybeans).

There are also pre-biotics, which don't provide the micro-organisms, but feed the ones that are already there. Prebiotic foods include: asparagus, jerusalem artichoke, bananas, oatmeal, red wine, honey, (real) maple syrup, legumes.


All of this is courtesy of WebMD.

[PunkRotten]

Plain popcorn, bell peppers/cucumbers and hummus, bowl of cereal, an orange, handful of nuts, and chips and salsa are usually what I snack on.

[grrlgeek]

I just ate half a box of Thin Mints. The other half being saved for tomorrow.

It's a primal weakness. I can't help it. At least they only come out once a year.

I don't snack a lot, but when the urge strikes, it's usually cereal - a busy, different every time, combination of whatever is in the pantry. Or toast - dry, sometimes with butter - topped with tomato slices and lots of cracked pepper. Can't wait to make that with my own home-grown tomatoes!

[hendi_alex]

It is nice to develop some kind of off switch. For me, it is eat dinner, drink a cup of hot tea, floss and brush teeth. The tea represents the end of eating for the evening. The clean teeth are the exclamation point. After all, why would I want to dirty my teeth any more for the evening!

[tomf]

On week nights I go to bed at 3:30 pm as I work nights but week ends can be hard and I want to snack, good idea tea. I got a popcorn popper as all the microwave stuff has bad fats in it, this way I can pop it with out bad fats.

[hendi_alex]

A couple of years ago I switched to using olive oil in my popcorn. It pops very nicely, the flavor is great, and the oils are especially good for you. Before that we tried an air popper. They work great, but the popcorn tastes bland plus no salt will stick to the dry puffs of corn. You can make your own microwave popcorn and use good oil. I've never done it but my daughter says that it is very easy, and as you say, [so much better for you] than the store bought ready to microwave popcorn.

[Sweyn]

I am always eating something at night from about 6 to 11 pm. I have to watch because milk products make it hard for me to sleep. I eat sometimes Roman chicken noodle soup that does not seem to bother my stomach! One of my favorites is celery with olive oil and salt and pepper. I am also a cheese lover but its a milk product.! Candy is my down fall along with potato chips which I try to cut down on! Sugar coated pop corn is also something I like! Tonight the two stocks of celery will do. Lets get some ideas of what to eat at night that is good and gives not to much heart burn or acid reflex?? I usually go to bed 1 am and watch tv to 2 am kick boxing or westerns!

That doesn't sound like a healthy bedtime routine. Staying up late can seriously mess up the body in the daytimes. Getting enough rest, even if it doesn't always mean sleeping, is very important for general health. It's better to eat earlier than 11pm and then, have a period of settling down and relaxing, before going to bed. This gets the body ready for going to bed and makes it easier to sleep.

You mentioned milk products. Do they cause you unpleasant symptoms like farting, pain and bloating? Some people are lactose intolerant and just need to change to lactose free milk and milk products.

[applestar]

If you make popcorn on the stovetop, it's fun to experiment with different oils.

High heat oils are best -- I tried coconut oil, but that somehow didn't work out as well -- coconut oil is hard to burn and the popcorn didn't taste toasty enough resulting in blandness. Sunflower and sufflower oils are good. A tiny bit of roasted sesame or pumpkin seed oil mixed in adds great flavor. I haven't tried it in awhile but I remember peanut oil is good too.

I like EVOO popcorn when tossed with ground (sun)dried tomato powder, locatelli cheese and oregano (add fresh dribble of EVOO).

[Ozark Lady]

Not overly healthy, but to me filling, and satisfying.

Grilled peanut butter sandwiches. Sometimes I even add a bit of jelly to them, then I butter them up and grill them until peanut butter is gooey!

Not as bad as candy or my favorite... an ice cream sundae...

[Susan W]

Just glancing through this thread has me clutching a roll of 'tums'

[Bobberman]

That's funny that tums were on the market for a long time lately since rollaids quit for a year and now have their rollaids back on the shelves. What the problem was I don't know!I like rollaids better since tums give me a funny after taste! Had my 1/2 beer once a month!

[weterman]

I just eat pizza pops whenever I'm hungry.

[imafan26]

I don't know what is in Rolaids but at least Tums has calcium. People who do shift work can get their circadian rhythm mixed up if they try to change sleep and waking habits every few days. It is best to get into a routine other wise you never really feel rested and your body won't even know what time to day to do its business. So people who work evening and nights especially if they have done it for years, live their lives on an evening or night schedule and sleep during part of the day.

[tomf]

I don't know what is in Rolaids but at least Tums has calcium. People who do shift work can get their circadian rhythm mixed up if they try to change sleep and waking habits every few days. It is best to get into a routine other wise you never really feel rested and your body won't even know what time to day to do its business. So people who work evening and nights especially if they have done it for years, live their lives on an evening or night schedule and sleep during part of the day.

You are talking about me!