Let’s do this together
The snacking crisis continues in Lockdown 2.0 as eight out of 10 people admitted to snacking up to six times a day during the first lockdown. To which I say, is that all?
The snack brand Graze has done extensive research into the nation’s snacking habits and discovered we’re a nation of serial snackers, with crisps, biscuits, and chocolate the three main reasons we leave the sofa to go and forage.
We take snacking very seriously in our house and even have a dedicated cupboard for a wide range of crunchy nibbles.
Obviously they’re not all unhealthy – but put it this way, there’s a strict pecking order and the plain crackers and nuts only ever get eaten once the big bags of salty crisps are polished off.
I even have a theory that crunching on crisps helps you think – although obviously this has yet to be neurologically proven – but I am quietly confident I have the next Nobel prize in the bag (salt and vinegar, natch).
With half the nation confessing to putting on a bit of timber from boredom snacking, two-thirds revealed they were looking to change their snack eating habits this lockdown.
But clearly this survey didn’t compare notes with a Prodigy Snacks’ survey, which found some greedy chocoholics have already raided the festive stash – with nearly 10% confessing to cracking open Christmas choccies.
And shockingly, for one in 20 men, it’s already December 24 – because they’ve already eaten their advent calendar, which is probably blasphemous or something.
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