Can you give a random recommendation?

If you shop in Tesco or Asda, or on Amazon, look out for 'Hippeas'. Chickpea puff snacks. Several different flavours like salt & vinegar, cheesy, sriracha chilli, hot something or other...
Yummily crunchy treats. Just a nice change from ordinary crisps.

The £ shops do multipacks of those biscuits you often get with tea or coffee in cafés and hospital cafés. Oh, what are they called? They're rather moresome, I think maybe an almondy taste. Caramelised biscuits.
They're rather lovely.

Everyone is recommending edibles and I'm taking notes!
My recommendation would be a software for photo slideshows called Smartshow, it's simple and I used it last week to make a birthday video for my DGD. It looks kinda dated but it's way easier than those fancy AI editors, I really liked this one.
smartshow-software.com

I think Nairns should start paying me a commission on the sales I have gained them!

A packet of Nairn's marmite and cheese oat cakes fell into my basket today...oh dear....ladies what have you done🤣

Oreo

Baggs

A whole banana, a whole avocado and a mug of milk would be a whole meal for me!

Baggs you really must start eating more or you’ll shrivel away😲
It would just be two snacks to me😁

That's about 500 calories.
A good breakfast or lunch!

Scribbles

St Dalfour blackcurrant fruit spread - heaped thickly on new bread. Or on your porridge. Or by the spoonful straight from the jar 🫢

Am drooling👅

Baggs

A whole banana, a whole avocado and a mug of milk would be a whole meal for me!

Baggs you really must start eating more or you’ll shrivel away😲
It would just be two snacks to me😁

On the subject of ice cream, I much prefer Waitrose own brand ice cream to Mackies. But having said that, I agree that Mackies is a nice ice cream.

prestbury

I have just discovered Snack a Jacks, a packet of miniature rice cakes with a choice of flavours, salt and vinegar, cheese and chives etc and at only 81 calories a bag are good on the waist.

On the subject of household products, a call out for Fabulosa (not Fabuloso) which are all made in the UK at a factory in Nantwich, Cheshire.

Marmite Rice Cakes from Amazon for me. Delicious with cheese, so that’s why I enjoyed MOnica’s cheese and Marmite oatcakes?

( Oh, and the Borders raspberry biscuits are long gone as well)

Baggs

A whole banana, a whole avocado and a mug of milk would be a whole meal for me!

Quite a good number of calories and nutrients too.
Depending on size of fruit, that could add up to 500 calories!

I have just discovered Snack a Jacks, a packet of miniature rice cakes with a choice of flavours, salt and vinegar, cheese and chives etc and at only 81 calories a bag are good on the waist.

On the subject of household products, a call out for Fabulosa (not Fabuloso) which are all made in the UK at a factory in Nantwich, Cheshire.

A whole banana, a whole avocado and a mug of milk would be a whole meal for me!

HelterSkelter1

I too like marmalade and mashed banàna on toast, but I add smooth peanut butter as well.

I also like a banana and avocado smoothie made in my 50 year old Moulinex electric blender. One banana, one avocado and a mug of milk.

Not sure about your toast toppings but I may try the avocado smoothie 😋

I've found that hummus, warmed up, tastes quite cheesey.
I like to toast wholemeal bread on one side, under the grill, spread the untoasted side with hummus then toast/grill it.
It can also make a cheesey tasting sauce by warming it in a pan while mixing in a little of your choice of milk.

Warning! Do not microwave hummus in its plastic pot.
The pot shrivels and no doubt contaminates the hummus.

I can only recommend drinking a lot of tea :-) It gives me pleasure in life. I used to have various favourite teapots, leaf teas and china cups. But then ended up drinking black tea which I have weaker - we both drink black tea now. The teapots stopped being used when life changed - health etc. And one got broken.

I vaguely remember Mrs Tiggywinkle saying something about "a nice hot strong cup of tea" but can't remember if that was in the book or an animated version of something :-)

So yes, I'm a teaholic!

As for anything else I can recommend - just generally - always have a spare! Of anything. I hate things breaking, being non functional, or being left without something useful. So have a spare. If one breaks, replace the spare.

NotSpaghetti

Me too Sodapop!

Another me too here, I hate hot toast where the butter sinks in.

Bodach

Dear Fleur20 and ViceVersa
It's good to know that there are at least two other robust gourmets out there. Well done, F20, for gee-ing up that Mackies backslider. And thanks for the recipe tip, VV. I put eight fresh pheasant breasts in the freezer the other day - and at least two of them will be coming out soon to follow your suggestion.

I take two of Charlie Barley’s finest to my friends in Zakynthos, but he tells me the Clonakilty pudding may be as good, and another friend is bringing him Bury black puddings.I suspect it’s a ruse by him to ensure an ongoing supply throughout the summer!

Dear Fleur20 and ViceVersa
It's good to know that there are at least two other robust gourmets out there. Well done, F20, for gee-ing up that Mackies backslider. And thanks for the recipe tip, VV. I put eight fresh pheasant breasts in the freezer the other day - and at least two of them will be coming out soon to follow your suggestion.

Bodach, I totally agree with you. I only ever buy Stornoway Black Pudding. Which has reminded me that I need to get some, as I've got a couple of pheasant breasts in the freezer and I like to serve them stuffed with the black pudding and wrapped in bacon.

I am with you Bodach!!.. Charlie McLeod all the way.. Sublime!!

Granmarderby10

I can vouch for Nairns oatcakes (very addictive) but also Jacob’s Cornish Wafers way better than butter puffs if way more expensive.

Sadly Mackies ice cream tubs are too tall for my freezer so I’m largely safe from that vice. Though do know how good it is.

Cadbury Boost chocolate bar or Twirl (less mess than a flake) never fails to satisfy when only milk chocolate will do.

GrannySomerset sadly no spangles but a Peppermint Aero followed by a glass of chilled milk is just divine🤤 …and to lower the tone further still
…original Spam Fritters from Iceland (the shop not the place). Now I wouldn’t have touched these with a bargepole at school and was never offered such things at home …but…served with creamy mash, a spoon of peas and a drizzle of “thin-ish” gravy really quite delicious. Honest.

!! You are just not trying... can you not lie the Mackies tub on its side?
Don't let a minor detail stop you eating the BEST ice cream!!😊😊

Having just dipped back in to this thread, I note that there has been zero interest in my having done everyone the enormous favour of alerting you all to the veritable ambrosia that is MacLeod's Stornoway Black Pudding. Instead, I see a variety of insubstantial frivolities such as chocolate, ice cream, Marmite, caramel wafers and the like taking pride of place in a sad cavalcade of sinful and unhealthy morsels. I urge you to repent while you still may, and cleave to the One True Delicacy that deserves Pride of Place on Every Plate: Stornoway Black Pudding!!
No? Ah, well.... All the more for me.

Glad you liked them.

Fudgemonkey

M0nica

Nairn's Marmite aand cheese oatcakes. They come in a box wrapped in packs of 5. A friend introduced me to them last autumn. They are now a staple nibble, when I want one.

Adding to my shopping list ☺️

Mr Waitrose has been, and the Nairn’s Marmite and cheese oatcakes have been scoffed, and pronounced delicious.
I’ll keep the Border’s raspberry and chocolate biscuits until tomorrow!