I don't want a grab bag

Word of warning - rant alert. I (like many many MANY people around the world, including, of late, Anna) am constantly attempting to slim. I've been a chronic diet bore since the beginning of the year and am in danger of becoming a weight watchers born-again. One of reasons why is that with ww you can eat what you want, so long as you dont eat too much of it. So, if I wanted to, I could eat 40 jaffa cakes a day and not break my diet. So long as I don't eat anything else apart from vegetables that day of course. However. This new annoying trend towards the 'grab bag' is threatening to derail me. If I have a salad at work with me for lunch, I like a bag of crisps so I'm not just muching boring tedious depressing lettuce. But the WH Smiths at work doesn't sell normal sized bags of crisps any more, they only sell these ghastly grab bags. Salt'n'vinegar Squares, my weapon of choice, used to come in nifty 25g bags. Perfect. Only 2 points. But now they only come in big fat ugly 50g bags. Why? WHY? It's dumb. I don't to grab a grab bag, I want my small but perfectly formed squares back to give me my salt n vinegar fix (mm). Walkers, I'm talking to you. Join the fight against obesity. Drop the grab bag.

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Comments

[Ithika]

I've never found an 'individual' crisp packet that was big enough for me. So you're the person that's ruining my chances of getting one!

[ssp]

Have you ever considered eating a non-boring salad? There are loads of nice salads around.

But that's easy to say when you're not dieting, I guess.

[A]

Sorry for the somewhat-off-topic comment, but can you give us an update on the inkycircus mag?

[Katie]

That's a fair point, there are many non boring salads around. In fact when I take a salad to work it's usually got artichokes and sprouty bean things and maybe even the occaisional chick pea so it's not too boring. But if I want to supplement with a couple of crisps it annoys me that I have to buy so many. Why can't they sell the littler bags and the big bags? I don't get it. Tis petty but it frustrates me!

The update on the science mag is thus - it is undergoing temporary relocation to the US. So once A & A get themselves settled again it'll be full steam ahead.

[Chrysalis]

I too am a WW disciple. I lost 60lbs with them. My trick was the Ziploc snack sized bag. Get whatever you want crisp wise and pre subdivide it into premeasured ziploc snack bags - they're tiny, but at least you get the FEELING that you ate a whole bag of something.

[sharon]

I just buy large packets of crisps (works out cheaper...) and some of these: www.vesproinc.com/klippit/uses.html.

[ssp]

Here in Germany crisps only come in huge (200g) bags for all the family ... and the whole concept of having crisps with your lunch is unknown. I guess people just have a bread roll or slice of bread with their salad.