Feed the Teens with New Goldfish Puffs

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Summer vacation is here and our house is a revolving door of our kids and their friends. Teenagers are a high metabolism, snack destroying breed. Where they mingle, snacks are required, and a lot of them.  After a school year of eating the same after-school snacks, both Tori and Tristan have been recently begging that we try something different.  Walking through Target, the new Goldfish Puffs from Pepperidge Farm caught their eye.

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Goldfish crackers have been a staple of our snack drawer for years, so we were confident that the snacks would be a high quality. My main concern was the price because with a teenager in the house we go through bags of snacks very quickly. But with a price of $2.98 per bag, they’re on par with the price of your average bag of chips.

Once we got back home, we tore open a bag and performed the customary family taste test at the kitchen counter. They’re a little bigger than your normal goldfish cracker, and puffed so they have a different texture that both my kids loved. Surprisingly, my finicky daughter preferred the buffalo wing flavor, while my son favored the more mild Mega Cheese. Goldfish Puffs also come in Bacon Cheddar flavor, however our Super Target was currently out of that flavor.

It’s difficult to get my daughter to try new things, so she was content to pour some into a bowl and pop them one by one into her mouth while she played video games.

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My son, on the other hand, is getting to the age where he likes to have foods with a little more pizazz. We’re always on the lookout for ways to create options that are great tasting, interesting, and easy to put together himself during the day when Vonnie and I are not home, or when he’s hanging out with his friends.  Together we came up with an idea of making a trail mix using Goldfish Puffs.

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Here’s the recipe we came up with:

  • 1/2 cup Mega Cheese Goldfish Puffs
  • 1/2 cup Buffalo Wing Goldfish Puffs
  • 1/2 cup Peanuts
  • 1/2 cup Pretzel sticks

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He took a bowl of the trail mix with him downstairs to where he was playing video games. I was hoping he would like it, and we’d have a great new, low cost snack option for the kids.  I expected him to return a half full bowl indicating he was full. I was surprised to have my son bring back an empty bowl, and asking for more.

Looks like we may be going back to the store for more sooner than I expected.

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4 Responses to “Feed the Teens with New Goldfish Puffs”

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  1. Moni says:

    Teens and food. Oh boy, yeah, that’s a tough one. Eating machines, definately. Feeding a house full of teen is an area where the ideals of nutrition and budgeting find it difficult to meet. The teens want instant-it-jumped-out-of-the-pantry-and-into-my-hands type food, often costly and often not the most nutrious of options.

    Buy a pantry full of food that ticks all the boxes for nutrition and its costly and may remain untouched.

    Buy food that keeps you safely in budget and you may fall into a false economy situation ie we used to buy 10-12 loaves of a particular budget line bread, for a little bit more we were able to buy five loaves of an acceptably tasty yet nutritionally superior loaf. Strangely, we almost scraped in with those five loaves of better bread.

    It was explained to me that a body remains hungry for 12 mins after it is actually full. AND that a body remains hungry until it has reached its requirements for protein and nutriants from a meal. So a meal high in sugar and carbs (not the good kind) won’t trigger the ‘I’m full’ message until the the requisite amount of goodness filters in along side. Some cheaper types of food can be high in fat too.

    But bring in time – working parents don’t always have time to make meals and snacks from scratch, and its a really tough one to crack.

    My kids are 18, 16 and 15 and so have been thru the stage where food consumption was mammoth, and it remains a bit on the scary side. I still haven’t gotten it right.

    • Travis says:

      It’s a hard balance to keep, Moni – nutrition vs time vs budget. I tend to break it into pieces: 1.) nutrition – make sure they get the good stuff they need when I’m at home for meal time 2.) time – have time friendly snacks they like available when we’re not home (especially in summer) 3.) budget – this is taken care of during grocery shopping time to get a good mix of 1 and 2.

      Thanks for stopping by and sharing your perspective, Moni!

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