It’s become a bit of a family tradition that whenever we return from a trip away we always follow the holiday with a day at home. It’s an opportunity to deal with the inevitable pile of washing and for me to catch up with some work.
At 7am, as the day stretches ahead with no obligation to meet anyone or be anywhere, it feels like a bit of a luxury. By 1pm we all tend to be tearing our hair out. And by 3pm I often give up completely, shut the laptop, turn off the washing machine, stop shouting at everyone to “LET ME GET ON WITH STUFF I NEED TO DOOOOOO!” and sit on the sofa. If you can’t beat them, join them.
It’s at this point the girls will throw themselves on me and the NLM will breathe a sigh of relief that he has someone to share the toddler mayhem and five year old dramas with. Now, it’s not uncommon on days like today for us all to still be in our PJs at 4pm, as we realise that getting dressed is just one thing on our huge post-holiday To Do list that we simply can’t fit in.
So what do you do when you find yourself on the sofa, in your PJ’s, with a rumbling stomach and a faint feeling of failure at not having ticked off the mountain of chores you had set yourself? You have a family movie afternoon with some sofa tapas, that’s what you do.
Sofa tapas sounds far fancier than it actually is. My five year old calls it “sofa party food” which means, basically, a selection of snacks that we can all tuck into while watching a family film on Netflix (today’s choice: Ratatouille).
For the perfect sofa tapas you need:
- Fresh bread (a sourdough loaf or anything from the bakery section of the supermarket – non of the sliced stuff here)
- Houmous (or your dip of choice – we alternate between houmous and guacamole)
- Carrots and cucumber, sliced (if you’re feeling adventurous you could add sliced red pepper and raw brocolli to the mix)
- Pate on melba toast
- A selection of cold meat-based snacks (the five year old’s choice today was scotch eggs and sausage rolls)
- Popcorn – obviously.
As you can see, it’s a complicated dish requiring hours of patient nurturing. Ahem.
The thing is, whenever we eat like this the girls dive straight in and there’s nothing left on the plate. It’s such a treat to eat in front of the telly, all sharing snack food from the same dish, that they seem to revel in the novelty of it all. It means we actually get to watch at least some of the film, and I feel like the day hasn’t been a total failure after all.
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anything sweet for me, chocolate or ice-cream or both!!! mmmmmmm
My favourite snack would be something along the lines of a plate of mussels in a creamy white wine or garlic sauce, followed by a salted caramel dessert with cornish clotted cream ice cream. After this I would be in heaven!
Depends on who’s snacking tbh…..
If it’s ALL of us, it tends to be homemade salty popcorn (with extra choccy snacks for Daddy as he doesn’t do popcorn…..weirdo…..)
We have “World Cup Tea” (so named because it was the World Cup on TV 1st time we had it) which is basically just a selection of frozen party food which takes 12 mins in the oven!! (lazy but true……)
On the rare chance it’s JUST ME, then it’s Nacho style, chilli topped Sweet potato wedges with cheese, jalapeños and anything else I fancy!!
Celeriac crisps: Peel and thinly slice celeriac. Lay it out on a baking sheet, season, spray with oil and cook in a hot oven for 15 minutes.
Home popped popcorn with a variety of sweet toppings, chocolate, toffee anything sweet 🙂
we always have home made nachos when we are watching films on the sofa, although the kids love popcorn with minsterals mixed in x
Popcorn mixed with melted milk chocolate! Keep a pack of wipes at hand!
doritos with melted cheese on with a sour cream and chive dip
It depends on how hungry we are. Homemade pizza is a great sofa snack for bottomless boys. This week we have been having Easter popcorn, which is basically popcorn with added bots, so micro eggs and mini marshmallows! The husbeast would tell you that it is any chocolate with a hard shell, such as mini eggs or M&M’s as you can sit them on the sofa arm with no fear of the dreaded melt and stain!
If it’s an evening snack for adults only then it’s nuts, nuts and more nuts along with posh cheeses and crackers.
If the children are still up then we mix the healthy with fun eating fruit and veg sticks, crisps, cheese, crackers and popcorn.
salsa with cheese and crisps!
Cheese chunks, black pepper crackers, apple slices and black grapes.
My sofa picnic is salted sticks. These are crisps that have the perfect amount of salt. Delish 🙂
Popcorn & Chocolate x
Praline chocolate or ice cream
We had one of these days today! We had cabin fever but it was most definitely worth it.
My all-time fave sofa tapas dish is a whole roasted camembert with honey and bread – YUM.
Chocolate, especially if I don’t have to share (probably sounds a bit mean) but it’s the best way!
Pizza.
I love having chicken tikka chicken breast on ryvita & salad cream
Has got to be cheese, crackers and a sweet chutney or pickle! Although if its a romantic movie, we always break out the ben and jerrys…. I say we but I actually mean ME!!!
nachos and dips (anything garlicky) I tend to make my own then I know what is on the dip #nonasties x
A bowl of raspberry ripple ice cream
Pitta bread with melted cheese and chilli’s
I would bake some chocolate chip cookies. They’re easy to make, and a treat to eat!
I’m a fan of a fruit salad to pick at whilst watching TV …or if I’m feeling naughty custard donuts! 🙂
Jen xx
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Full fat Philadelphia on Jacob’s cream crackers.
I love nachos with lots of jalapeños
Digestive biscuits!
Marshmallow fluff! It’s supposed to be a bread spread or cake filling, but sometimes we have it straight from the container with a spoon each! Peanut butter is also good for this “alternative method” 😉
Cheese and crackers. 🙂
Ice cream sundaes! With banana, lots of cream, ice cream and broken up flake!
Salt & Sweet popcorn – very moreish and satisfies a sweet tooth and the desire for something savoury at the same time
SHERRY TRIFLE
My favourite snack at the moment has to be Easter egg.. in any way, shape or form!
I’ve found a great range of sugar-free chocolate in Holland & Barrett, so we gorge on this whilst watching TV at the weekend. A slightly less guilty way of indulging …
love cheese and crackers as a sofa snack
I love sweet popcorn
Popcorn
Salt and vinegar pringles – YUM!
Doritos and dip
Garlic bread
I will always go for chocolate 🙂
My hubby does a Mean ‘Nachos with tomato and melted Cheese topping topping’ kids love it whilst watching a film
Chili heatwave doritos with the sour cream dip 😀
We love to snack on the kids chocolate, protecting their health and teeth. !!
Tacos with cheese 🙂
It depends what kind of mood I’m in. If I’m feeling angelic I will eat chopped melon, or if I am after a mega munch I make nachos. Seriously loaded with pulled pork, gooey melted cheese and loads of jalepanos. *drool*
Messy, but chocolate covered fruit, especially strawberries!
I love peanut butter on toast!
Cheese & Crackers
either an easy and simple cheese on toast or some chilli nacho’s 🙂
Popcorn
I don’t have a recipe as such – I’m definitely a chuck a bag of Walkers Sensations crisps into a bowl and grab some shop-bought dips kind of person! I especially love tsatziki and homous 🙂
Toasted pitta bread cut into quarters with pick ‘n’ mix fillings. The pick ‘n’ mix is ends of things from the fridge, freezer and pantry. Usually a few onion rings, guacamole, cottage cheese, pickled onions, halloumi, carrots, peppers…. whatever needs using up. It can lead to some very unusual combinations, pickled onions, teriyaki sauce and coleslaw is not recommended!
We make a bean nacho on a plate with a can of refried beans spread around, topped with shredded white mild cheddar cheese and to taste, we put chopped onions, mushrooms, peppers and micro until cheese is melted, usually about 8 minutes and then top with shredded lettuce, chopped tomatoes, salsa, sour cream and guacamole to taste and dip with tortilla chips….and having just typed this, we have decided to have this for dinner…YUMMY
A ploughmans cracker feast, Mature cheddar cheese, a dollop of small chunk Branston pickle all piled onto a buttered Jacobs cracker.
cheese on toast
Bacon and egg sandwich
I like roast chickpeas with various flavours.
a cup of good chocolate and some decadent chocolates
My fave sofa snack is mixed olives 🙂
My favourite sofa recipe are my chicken wings, cooked in an ‘airfryer’ (I have the Breville Halo Plus, which I love). They come out really well.
All I do is mix the wings with 1 tbsp. salt, 1 tbsp. red pepper flakes, 2 tsp black pepper, 2 tsp cayenne, 2 tsp poultry seasoning and 1 tsp lemon juice. Let it marinade for some time (However much time I have).
Then, I mix 2 tbsp. hot pepper sauce, 1 tsp pepper, 1 tsp cayenne and two cups of flour. Then just dip the wings into the flour mix, and let them rest until the coating goes sticky. Then add them to the airfryer and cook for about 30 mins, not moving them for at least 20 mins, or the coating comes off.
Simple, and delicious.
I love popcorn so I’ll have that or I’ll share some nachos with my partner!
Crackers and cheese
Cream crackers with herb cheese. Lovely
Home made spicy potato wedges!
I have a serious sweet and salted popcorn addiction. I used to eat pitta sticks with humus (alot healthier!)
I love a glass of our homemade elderflower wine with some tasty salted snacks such as Phileas Fogg bubble crisps.
Pitts and houmous, sliced chorizo and brightest with black olive tapenade.
Hummus with pitta bread for me
Anything chocolatey!
Nachos with guacamole, sour cream & melted cheese – delicious!
Me, the husband, the kids, a blanket, a movie and some popcorn and haribo….perfect recipe for a great family night in.
Popcorn sweet and salty for me.
Homemade Cheesecake (Creme Egg at the moment!)
Love homemade seedy bread, cheeseboard and homemade avocado dips
Greek yogurt and semi frozen berries
I love papadums and mango chutney any time as a snack!
chocolate or cheese on biscuits, if I am really pushing the boat out, I will have melted cheese on toast with red onion
Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate!!!????
Cheese and Crackers with some Grapes on the side 🙂
Popcorn with melted cheese.
I enjoy a bag of vegetable crisps if I’m alone
A huge dessert spoon and spending the evening in the company of Ben & Jerry is all it takes for me 😉
My go to snack is a plate piled with celery, carrot and cucumber sticks, grapes (red), sliced apple and humous.
Veg sticks and a couple of homemade dips (whizzing up a hummus or tsatsiki takes minutes) plus a good old-fashioned 70s retro cheese, picked onion and pineapple hedgehog!
You cant beat a cup of tea and a box of maltesers..
I like snacking on crisps and nuts
Pretzels
We like cheese baked pretzels. So moreish!
buttered home cooked popcorn
It’s got to be baked Camembert with rustic bread and cranberry sauce
Home-popped popcorn with chilli sprinkled on it for a bit of spice!
Cake! I flipping love the stuff! Marble cake is the current favourite.
But, I try and be good and I love fruit so often chomp on melon or pears or mango. Sometimes push the boat out with popcorn or nachos too when I’m adventurous.
Flapjacks and brownies 🙂 Thanks for the giveaway!
Plain pringles and cheese and chive dip
cheesy tortilla chips and dips such as guacamole and hummus
My favourite sofa snack is tortillas with melted cheese on them with a salsa dip
Crisps
Got to be cheese on toast
It has to be Nachos for me with melted cheese and sour cream 🙂 x
My 2 boys and I make an amazing rocky road – chocolate, marshmallows, raisins, biscuits, syrup & more. The perfect treat for a weekend with a nice coffee ????????
Really cant believe I’m admitting to this… my favorite sofa snack, especially if Ive had a bad day, is a mars bar sandwhich toasted in a toastie machine! Oh my goodness is it good! I don’t have it often though, honest 😉
My fav hummus with nachos, followed by Green & Black Salted Caramel Thin. Yum!
popcorn
Dried Fruit
Ingredients: My family, comfy cushions, knitted throws, big helping of love, and a sprinkling of savoury salty snacks and milkshakes x
chrisps and dips 🙂
A tub of Ben and Jerry’s and a spoon xx
For a sofa snack it tends to be olives and crisps for us!
Assorted cheese and assorted biscuits for cheese.
My favourite sofa snack is pringles
I make a quick guacamole in the food processor – blitz one tomato and one clove of garlic. Add one ripe avocado scooped out of the skin and a squeeze of lemon juice if you have it. blitz until smooth. Serve with tortilla chipc. Very garlicky so great to be staying in and eating this!
Breadsticks dipped into Cadbury’s chocolate spread – mmm mmm mmm
Popcorn
We lovely sofa nights! I always make sure we have plenty yummy snacks
Our family favourite sharing yummy treat is Volovants filled with chicken and white sauce! They are super tasty and can be eaten hot or cold.
You can fill the volovants with any filling you prefer, I often use my left over chicken fricasse as my filling.
The only problem is they are very addictive ????
I like to nuke a pizza
giant chocolate buttons 🙂
oven roasted apple slices
Peanut butter and choc chip mug cake- peanut butter, one egg and a handful of chips, mixed together and microwaved- amazing iwth vanilla ice cream and so easy
Crisps or nuts!
I love sweet snacks; Icecream, biscuits chocolate bars. The sweeter the better.
We keep it simple, either posh crisps and nuts or something covered in dark chocolate. Or all of the above.
I love toasted pitta pieces to dip in hummus for a sofa snack!
Tortilla wraps cut into triangles, crisped up in the oven with dips
We love to have a big plate of chopped fruit with chocolate dipping sauce
vegetable crisps, or veggie sticks and dips
Doritos and dip
Homemade guacamole and doritos! Slice two avocados and add a couple of crushed garlic cloves. Mash together with a fork or masher then add a small pot of natural yoghurt and stir through until everything is an even consistency (or leave it a bit lumpy if you like!) Then I like to add some chilli flakes, coarse ground black pepper and a squeeze of lemon/lime! Perfect!
Greek yogurt (the real stuff,not that nonsense “like Greek yogurt” stuff!) drizzled with honey & sprinkled with fresh blueberries(or any other toppings e.g. raspberries, choc chips, granola)
I love hot and crispy home made chicken, cheese and chilli quesadillas with a sour cream dip! YUM!!
I love doritos and dips
Home made toffee popcorn
my favourite sofa snack is hummus and french bread
Thinly sliced potato microwaved and covered in salt makes some great healthy crisps.
beans on toast
Pringles original they are the best
Coffee cake
I love celery and blue cheese as a snack
Chocolate chip cookies
toffee popcorn
CHEESE, CRACKERS AND OLIVES
crisps in a bowl ,or popcorn with a glass of something
Peanuts, once I start I can’t stop!
It’s got to be cheese and crackers with chutney
My favourite sofa snack is chocolate
My favourite sofa snack is either chocolate or popcorn.
Pancakes with Nutella. Yummmm
i love olives and cheese, they are my faves
Cream cheese and crackers xx
i just love snacking on cheese and crackers 🙂 with loads and loads of butter !
cookies ice cream!!!!
I always go to ginger biscuits or sweet and salted popcorn!!
Doritos (or other tortilla chip) on a plate, cover in cheese and melt under the grill. Great with a sour cream dip.
Doritos and dip
Popcorn
Myself and my sister make some mean nachos!!!
I love a pot of whipped garlic and herb Philadelphia with some cracker bread 🙂
Cheese and pickle on toast.
Homemade chilli jam with strong cheddar and Manchego on crackers and some olives
One of my fave snacks is crackers smeared with marmite and topped with cottage cheese , cucumber , onions and black pepper! Yum 🙂
Peanut M&Ms and Cool Doritos
I love anything with cheese, so with crackers, quesadillas. Cheese dip and bread sticks!! Love it! Fantastic giveaway, thanks for the chance!
a BLT sandwich
Popcorn & Chocolate
humus with pitta chips
ritz crackers
corn chips and a dip
popcorn olives and crisps
rice cakes
I love nachos with jalapenos and soured cream and grated cheese and salsa, nom nom nom (VERY bad for you though!).
Mature Cheddar Cheese on crackers.
nibbles! crackers & cheese, nuts, grapes etc
i like a variety of nuts.
Tortilla nachos, a nice selection of dips and a large white wine spritzer – perfect!
Sweet and Salty popcorn
Oo pickled onions a lump of good cheese and crackers for me with a glass of wine
A big bag of Maltesers
My favourite sofa snack is popcorn
Home made pizza bites. I slice up some french bread and top with tomato paste and shredded mozzarella. Pop them under the grill and they are lovely with a glass of wine.
It depends on whether I’m in a sweet or a savoury mood! If savoury, we have a “sofa picnic” – cheese, cold meats, salads, olives, crackers or nice bread – nibbly bits to curb our appetites! If sweet, then at the moment it’s lots of Easter chocolate!
I love pizza toast, toast the bread add tomato puree, cheese, mushrooms, sweetcorn. I like to add garlic too then put it under the grill.
Love to snack on toffee popcorn xx
We love chicken with mayo sandwichs , ciabatta with smoky bacon and we cant go wrong with lots of icecream !!
Cheese and crackers or fruit.
Crisps
Crisps, garlic bread, popcorn, cheese on toast – basically the lovely but naughty things in life!
Chucky egg – a bowl full of buttered bread cut into bite size bits, covered in multiple soft boiled eggs then given a good mix through. Perfect sofa food.
I love home made popcorn with melted butter, icing sugar and salt.
I like to snack on paprika crisps – tangy but not too spicy!
Soreen malt loaf with butter 🙂
Chocolate – most kinds will do
I love to have Wensleydale & cranberries, creamy Brie, Cornish wafers and plum & apple chutney, alongside a nice cold glass of red grape shloer.
Crisps with a lovely homemade garlic and onion dip
just popcorn
Wasabi coared rice crackers and peanuts
Nachos with lots of melted cheese, salsa, guacamole, sour cream, jalapenos and chilli. I really crave this now!
Cheese and crackers and a bag of salted crisps
Hummous on oat crackers
just raid the cupboards; cheese, popcorn, tortillas, grapes, chocolate and marshmallows
choccy covered profiteroles
Melted white chocolate with raspberries in
I love eating cheese grapes and apple on the sofa.
Bread sticks and dips
Chocolate or crisps
Pistachios x
sweet potato wedges
It would be nachos and salsa for us
Pringles, pringles and more pringles (grandson usually nicks them though)
Has to be tortilla chips and homemade guacamole. We always say we’ll just have a bit but end up finishing it off fairly quickly!
Has to be tortilla chips and home made guacamole 🙂
freshly made Popcorn
Nachos, cheese and salsa
cornish clotted cream ice cream x
Pico De Gallo
Four to six large de-seeded tomatoes, chopped
A pinch of garlic or garlic salt
Half a purple onion, finely chopped
A handful of fresh coriander, chopped
The juice of 1-2 limes, freshly squeezed
Salt, pepper and spice to taste.
Mix and eat with tortilla chips. My favourite!
Oreo Truffle Balls. Ok, you’re about to discover chocolate in a whole new light. You have never tasted anything as rich and yummy as these Oreo balls. This is my secret recipe: Take one pack of Oreos and crush them up. I use a wooden spoon or a rolling pin and do it in a bowl. Next, mix in one pack of cream cheese. Roll this mixture into balls, (it can get messy!), dip them into melted chocolate and then refrigerate for a few hours until hard. Warning: You will be addicted.
Crisps and chili houmous
Toasted pitta breads with home made hummus
Pizza yummmm
My fav sofa snack would have to definely be oreos. Heavenly. Mmm
I love a bowl of sorbet.
sweet potato chips xx
Nachos with all the extras
A hot chocolate and a buttered crumpet.
BBQ chicken wings and ribs
I feel really inadequate now,I don’t make anything for a TV snack,If it’s going to be a movie night in then I’ll buy crisps,n dips or perhaps some chocolate all washed down with a couple of G&T’s.Thanks for the fab prize guys altough I’ve probably blown it as I don’t make anything !
It’s got to be nachos with homeade chilli, melted cheese, guacamole and salsa
Pepperoni pizza and Garlic Bread
Cheesey garlic bread and a glass of fizz
Hummus and pitta bread with tomatoes
Prawn sandwiches and crisps
Has to be marinated garlic grilled chicken bites. I’m hungry now!
I like cheese and biscuits 🙂
Salt and vinegar peanuts
Nachos with chilli.
date and nut truffles or popcorn
Popchips or chocolate, all the naughty stuff!
Its got to be nachos but always with homemade guac – heavy on the lime, coriander and chilli – YUM!
I love raw vegetables big and small: mixed with humous, caramalised onions and mayonnaise dips along with tortilla chips for the yummiest snacking of all.
Haribo’s
Chips n’ dips!
I love savoury snacks with all sorts of tasty dips, my son is the same xx
I love savoury snacks with all sorts of tasty dips, my son is the same xx
doritos and a dip
I love sitting down with nacho with plenty of sour cream and jalapeno peppers, sharing is not an option with these. Thanks
We love homemade cheese straws made with puff pastry cut into slices twisted and sprinkled with cheese. Our daughter also loves slated popcorn and homemade smoothies 🙂 . Thanks for the chance to win this amazing hamper.
Doritos with a sour cream and onion dip
The grandchildren love my crispy chicken goujons in pitta envelopes with salad and a garlic mayo
ben and jerrys cherry garcia
Nachos with cheese and the traditional dips – salsa, sour cream and guacamole
cut up fruit trying to be good
Cheesy Heats
It is traditional to buy exotic cheeses at Christmas, but in our household they often get left until well after the celebrations before being eaten. My son, William, (when aged 9) came up with the idea of putting two different cheeses onto a cheese cracker, put another cracker on top to form a sandwich, and then microwave until the cheese has just melted. Great, that’s my son.
I love cutting up broccoli, red and yellow peppers, carrot, celery and sugar snap peas to dip into houmous or a sweet potato dip. If I’m feeling like a treat, it’s strange but I put some Cadbury favourites on toast and put it in the microwave. You’ll be sorry you tried it it’s so good!
Can’t beat some homemade rocky road! Yum
Oooh, maybe some olives, crusty bread, oils, dips and posh crisps!
My fav. sofa snack is homemade lemon curd cake drizzled with plain chocolate. Lush especially as my son makes it.
onion rings or pizza slices with salsa dip
Popadoms with homemade mango chutney!
selection of Italian antipasti
My TV snack is wasabi peas.
Yum…cheese and crackers with vege sticks and grapes.
Always chocolate for me
Fruit
Pizza, home made balls from the freezer once defrosted roll out and place on smallest frying pan. Smear on a bit of tomato pasata, few slices of mozzarella add a few anchovies or what ever you fancy. Sprinkle on oregano, pepper, splash of olive oil and when the base is slightly burnt, finish off under the grill. It really is super quick
A chip butty for me and my husband
Crunchy nut cornflakes with nice cold milk
The best snack I make is oat and date cookies.
crackers cheese and cucumber
cheese and crackers
Cheese scones
Crisps – but not expensive ones. I find that the more they cost, the more disappointing (and painful in the case of hand cooked ones) they are.
My boy melts cheese over tortillas. Delicious!
I chop up chicken breast a coat it in a hot and spicy dust and shallow fry – home made nuggets!
Chips n dips!! Salsa,sour cream and chive,guacamole,hummus………the list goes on………..!
depends on my mood. love abit of pick & mix sweets but partial to pringles and peanuts too.
Prawn crackers with celery & onion dip
Weekdays is biscuits, weekends is BARTIME 🙂 so we share a huge bag of crisps or nachos with the kids and enjoy a good movie.
Homemade nachos is my favourite. They’re so quick to do in the microwave. Just lay out tortilla chips and salsa with grated cheese on top, then pop in the microwave for a minute. Scrummy. 🙂
Cheeseboard with crackers and pickles
I love a bowl of strawberries, raspberries and bananas topped with mascarpone 🙂
Crisp butty!
ready salted pringles, coke, and some dairy milk! simples
For me, it’s blue cheese and crackers, but the rest of the family prefer sausage rolls followed by chocolate.
has to be savoury for me, crisps, peanuts or tortillas with a dip
Melted cheese, fondue style with carrot, celery sticks and crackers to dip
Cheese straws, salsa and tortilla chips
Cheese and onion toasties (or cheese and ham, or cheese and tomato)
A glass of wine with plenty of crisps and mixed nuts
The small packets of party rings and jammie dodgers that they sell in the supermarkets
Has to be my homemade shortbread and they must be good as even the hubby eats em lol x
I load the nachos into a grill pan and cover with lots of grated cheese, then cook until just melted. Then I add chopped up cucumber and tomatoes, a few dollops of sour cream and guacamole and a sprinkle of black pepper. It’s all loaded into a big bowl and we all tuck in. Heaven!
Toffe coated popcorn!
Toffee popcorn
Anything savoury for me like crispbread with peanut butter, mixed nuts or crisps.
Salty popcorn is my favourite.
Our family have a delicious yet simple recipe for teabread – if I am going to have a lazy afternoon on the sofa on a Sunday I always plan ahead as for the best results you have to soak the sultanas in tea overnight!
Although it’s called a bread it is more like a cake and with butter spread on it warm out of the oven it’s so comforting and perfect for a chill out with a cup of tea in the sofa watching tv!
Red peppers with sweet chilli homous
Chocolate covered raisins!
Nachos
pizza and chips haha x
cheese and pickle on sticks
We like to get a large multipack of crisps and mix them all up in a bowl so every taste is different
Cheese and crackers (ideally more than one type of each), grapes and sliced apple, and squares of dark chocolate….delicious!
Banana muffins – much easier to make than everyone thinks!
Veggie crisps for me…..preferably home made 🙂
baked kale chips – sounds healthy & boring, but sooo yummy & moorish – just bake kale in the oven with salt & coconut oil until it goes lovely & crispy – Nom!
good old chocolate ice cream for me
Homemade ‘naked’ popcorn, made with toasted sesame oil – Nom Nom… X
Cheese and crackers.
Fresh veg and pita bread with homemade hummus / guacamole xx
Pizza hot or cold
Popcorn
Sweet Popcorn, Maltesers and Doritos!
Sweet popcorn
Pizza, garlic bread and ice-cream
freshly popped popcorn and nutella
Pate Crackers and crisps yummy!! ha its making me hungry
Fresh popcorn (with sugar and cinnamon for me)
I love cream crackers with cheddar cheese and red grapes. Delicious
In the winter it has to be really buttery toast! In summer we make fruit kebabs
A bowl of crisps, mixed with salsa and melted cheese on top.
A lovely soft stilton cheese on buttered crackers- yum!
Cheese and biscuits
Roast Beef flavoured potato chips
Mine is sweet popcorn or chicken crisps x
loads of goodies,popcorn,crisps,chocolates,biscuits
Sweet and Salted Popcorn
Nachos and spicy cheese dip
popcorn – sweet & salty 🙂
Has to be crisps – salted Kettle crisps are my favs 🙂
homemade chocolate brownies mmmm
cheese with crackers
popcorn or malteasers
We have a “piggy meal” just odds and ends from the fridge and cupboards in mini bowls!
Home made popcorn – mixed with prezels, vanilla candy melts and smarties!
Either Doritos, cream cheese with carrot sticks, cheese and crackers or lots of chocolate!
Strawberries and cream
it has to be cheesy nachos for us – dead easy to make and spice up a bit with jalapeños sometimes 🙂
Bombay Mix…home made pickles, loads of different cheeses and vegetable sticks
Has to be popcorn.
would have to be crumpets x
I would love to say fruit and I do love it but Beef Hula Hoops are my favourite
Nacho bake – nachos, salsa, cheese,nachos, salsa cheese – in the oven. 20 minutes max. Boom.
Buttered fruit scones
ham sandwiches and crisps
I love popcorn with honey drizzled on top.
I just like to have a selection of different things to choose from, carrot sticks, peppers, celery, homemade houmous, sour cream & chive dip, crisps, homemade popcorn, chocolate (melted) with strawberries, raspberries, marshmallows
Macaroni Cheese
Me and my step son are nice and easy a bag of toffee popcorn for me and bag of salted for him but my other half is the awkward one wanting nachos topped with chorizo slices and melted cheese on top. Which tastes great but annoying because I get stuck making it!
It’s kettle chips and Ben and Jerry’s ice cream for me
Doritos and dip
We love fruit and popcorn
I love nuts! I have a huge variety in the cupboard, tonights snack was pistachios
I’m not bothered about anything fancy and am quite happy with a bag of crisps or a big bar of chocolate.
Tea and toast
Homemade hoummous with carrot and cucumber sticks
nachos drenched in cheese
I love savoury things, like tapenade, cured ham, olives, humus, the list goes on and on.
Crisps I like most flavours but ones with no added salt are best!!
I love savoury snacks so for me it’s nachos with a sour cream and chive dip – yummy!
slices of strong cheddar
Biscuits and a cup of tea
If I’m with the daughter it’s savoury snacks usually something with a bit of spice. However, if it’s just me and the other half then it’s either popcorn or chocolate…..
If I’m alone then it really depends on my mood.
Mine would have to be salt and vinegar pringles, with some sweet and salty freshly made warm popcorn from our popcorn machine! Plus some choccie buttons…always get a sweet craving after salty things!
I either have salted roasted Pistachio’s or mixed mint sweets for snacking during a movie at home 🙂
If i’m trying to be healthy then it’s carrot sticks and hummous, if not then it’s crisps.
It has to be breadcrumb covered, garlic, button mushrooms, we make loads, they don’t last long, then for seconds and equally the same favourite is the classic cheddar cheese and pineapple on cocktail sticks. Wonderful
just like most people its popcorn, chocolate and unfortunately for the waist line especially Ben & Jerrys ice cream. Also my girls are starting to enjoy cooking and this week I have had low fat Blueberry muffins and Meringues made for me – could get used to this!!
Got to be crisps. x
A plate of Walkers ready salted crisps and a mound of salad cream is my guilty treat!
Slices of cheese and apple
I like a slice of Margherita pizza topped with pineapple.
I’m a things-with-dips kinda gal so I go for celery, cucumber and pepper sticks. toasted pitta chunks, cheddar cubes and houmous with added lemon juice.
I’m on the slimmingworld diet, so chopped baby bel cheeses, pickled onions and celery sticks at the moment x
Cheese and crackers with sweet onion chutney
Chips and dips for me, one of the dips usually being guacamole.
Cottage cheese with sticks of carrot, cucumber and celery
Teriyaka rice crackers with hummous
cream cheese with flat bagels
A toasted bagel with Marmite… or some home made popcorn!
crackers and cheeses 🙂
Nachos topped with salsa and cheese, then grilled.
MINI FLATBREAD PIZZAS – not only healthy and delicious but easy to prepare X
Hummus, carrot sticks and home made sweet potato wedges.
Pittas, veggie sticks, houmous, Tzatziki, olives, cheeses and crackers with chutney and red wine. Yummy!
A good quality cheese flavoured crisp and chilli peanuts
My near 3 year old loves dry cheerio’s in a bowl!! I prefer hummus and crudites! 😉
we love sweet popcorn with cheese puffs as well
homemade cheese twists, yummy.x
A selection of chopped up fruit 🙂
My roasted pepper hummus with thin cheese straws
Crisps and dip are my favourite xx
Anything sweet! Galaxy chocolate is my favourite but only for a treat
pringles
I love nothing more than simply chocolate hobknobs.. keeps me happy!
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Nachos and chilli with lots of cheese
Sesame Prawn Toast
Cheese on toast with ketchup
Houmous and dippy things, as well as marinated olives!
Cheese and crackers
beetroot and salad cream
I love peppers with humous or m&ms!
Homemade salted popcorn or homemade wild garlic hummous.
Melt a camembert and dip in lots of cherry tomatoes, pieces of bread, ham and cucumber.
It has to be Doritos and a lovely salsa
Cold pizza, homemade nachos and grapes.
… not together.
… actually, together works. 😉
Oh and cheese and pineapple on little cocktail sticks. Reminds me of being a kid when my parents would have their friends over and still tastes awesome.
We don’t have family film night tapas, but we do have family movie night cheesy nachos (sometimes with dips)
Cheese and crackers followed by chocolate. Yummy!
A tin of wasabi almonds. Beautiful.
almonds and cashews
crisps
My husband calls it football nibbles I call it dips and bits. Humus, Tzatziki, Salsa, bread sticks, carrot batons, cucumber strips, pepper strips, crisps, mini sausages cheeses, crackers and a bowl of chocolates.
pizza
sweet chilli crisps
Good old cheese on toast!
Popcorn or nachos 🙂
lots and lots of popcorn
crackers and cheese mmmmmm
My favourite sofa snack is chocolate #guilty
It has to be popcorn for me. Usually a mix of swet and salty, with maybe a bit of toffee thrown in. My children love making it too.
popcorn!
Chocolate ????
crackers, cheese and gherkin
Big bag of crisps and large mug of coffee
my new one is cadburys dairy milk mixed buttons.
We love cheese and crackers and fresh fruit!
chocolate
I love a warming bowl of porridge.
houmous and breadsticks
I love a warming bowl of porridge.
Nachos
pitta bread and hummus <3
i love cheese and crackers
Popcorn and chocolate mmmm
Crisps!
Cheese and biscuits! My son’s 3 and loves them as much as I do. His favourite cheese is camembert 🙂
Buttered hot toast
Strawberries and cream
Mine is popcorn.
Maltesers!
cheese and crisps!
Cheese biscuits topped with cream cheese and spring onions 🙂
If feeling rich champagne and sweet/salty popcorn
My favourite is crisps and dip
Homemade guacamole with crackers
Carrot, cucumber and celery sticks with dip made with garlic, chilli, mayonnaise and a tsp oil.
Pomme Bear Crisps, cubes of cheddar cheese, cashew nuts – mixed together in a bowl. Bowl 2 is White Chocolate Buttons, Maltesers and Raisins 🙂
I like to get a bag of nachos, put some tomatoes, onions and chilli on top and then cover in cheese. Bake it in the oven for 20 mins and it is delicious!!
Marmite on toast
Tuna and Mayonnaise on dark rye Ryvita topped with beetroot and cherry tomatoes.
I love popcorn mixed with nuts and toffee sauce
cheese on toast
porridge
Popcorn mixed with melted milk chocolate!
love homemade cheese straws and sour cream and chive dip
crisps and dip naughty but nice
Love having a nice chunk of strong cheddar with chopped apple.
Ready Salted crisps, and if I’m feeling really naughty I’ll add fingers of Red Leicester Cheese.
Pringles and dips then Ben and Jerrys Ice Cream
Sticky BBQ ribs…
Cheese on toast with slices of tomato on top.
walnuts and blueberries
I love a nice selection of olives, homous bread sticks & red pepper dip xx
Tortilla chips and dip are a favourite – but i’m not a fan of corn tortilla chips. Instead, i buy some flour tortilla wraps and cut them with a pizza cutter into triangular pieces. You can either criss cross to make smaller chips or go for the full triangular segments for BIG chips. Pop them on a baking tray (no oil – keep it healthier) and bake them for 10 minutes until they go crispy.
To go with my home made chips – i prepare a sweet chilli dip. I do like my sweet chilli to be closer to the sweet side than the spicy side so my recipe calls for honey.
Garlic, chillies, vinegar, lime juice, tomat0, red pepper and honey. blitz it together in a blender. I use my Froothie blender because if i leave it running it will heat the dip (tastes even better warm). You could always use a microwave if you don’t have a fancy blender.
So – my go to snack, is flour tortilla chips with sweet chilli dip.
Big fan of Kettle Chips
Nachos and dip 🙂
Porridge made with milk
either slimming world hifi bars or fruit
Cashew nuts or for a treat, vegan marshmallows.
It has to be homemade healthy mini pizza’s and homemade lemonade, have lots of wipes handy!
Homemade popcorn and you can make it either sweet or savoury,healthy or not so healthy!
We get the ‘Party Suzanne’ out and load it with crackers, cheese biscuits and nachos with a selection of home-made dips and continental meats and cheeses and spend the evening dipping and spreading, munching and crunching as the mood takes.
There’s no cooking here: our ideal sofa snack involves cold Italian meats, Brie and cheddar, tomatoes, grapes and French bread. But we do slice the French bread into rounds so we don’t eat too much!
Cheese on toast!
Quavers
Sweet & salty popcorn mmmmm
Salted and sweet popcorn
Chorizo, popcorn, salted crackers, grapes, cheese sticks, carrot and hummus.. Yum… It’s a treat for us to have snack in front of th e TV to and the kids love it.. Mummy sometimes has wine too 🙂
Has to be sweet popcorn and galaxy chocolate
Popcorn
I’m pregnant at the moment and constantly hungry and craving chicken, so Chicken satay sticks are a quick sofa snack for me 🙂 x
Homemade salted popcorn, still warm????????
Olives and Sundried tomato bread
cheese on toast 🙂
cheese and crackers
If it’s me and the little one he tends to like dry cereal and some raisins. If it’s me and the hubby then I make a home made slimming world quiche which we nibble on
If it’s a Saturday night and being naughty it’s usually a bar of chocolate and something like a bag of chocolate peanuts.
If I’m having a good day (diet wise) it’s usually bowl of grapes and something like bag of rice cakes.
Now it as to be Metcalfes’ Popcorn but as a child my mother used to butter digestive biscuits for me? I know I was an unusual child ha!
My favourite is a cheeseboard – Stilton, Comte and a Goats cheese with oatcakes and celery – just yum
My easy favourite snack is a bowl of my favourite cereal with some extra fruit or seeds or chocolate on top.
Crumpets topped with melted blue cheese or with melted cheddar and marmite
A bit of tapas, olives, palma ham, mozzarella and tomato, bread and alioli.
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If we’re going to make a sofa snack it would be nachos with a homemade hot sauce dip – soooo yummy!
Giant bag of s&v crisps with a garlic dip – no kissing haha
Crisps, nuts and chocolate.
I am particular to Ritz cheese crackers with Primula out of a tube squeezed on them, particularly the ham or chive one
My favourite is roasted pistachios with plenty of salt and black pepper.
I also recommend putting some popcorn kernels in a pan with a spoonful of oil and when they are popped, sprinkling with some parmesan cheese. It sounds weird but it’s really tasty.
cheese and crackers, cheese balls and bacon fries
My favourite recipe for a night in on the sofa on a healthy day is celery with red pepper and chickpea humous. On a not so healthy day… Nachos with melted cheese, salsa, guacamole and sour cream. Pure bliss!
Would have to be chocolate for me, liking the Cadbury’s Rocky Mallow Road at the moment
Sweet Chilli Crispy Coated Peanuts, warm with a cold mint yogurt drizzle over them ????????
some nice warm sausage rolls
Nachos or chocolate
Toast with butter or sometimes nut butter & jam and always served with a cup of tea!
Forgot to say I’m sourdough toast all the way! 😉
Cheese and biscuits are our favourite snack, with celery and grapes 🙂
I love to make my own bombay mix!
fried chickpea flour noodles, chickpeas, dried peas, flattened or puffed rice, fried onion, fried lentils and nuts and lots and lots of spice!
crumpets with honey and butter 🙂
We love our crisps so we love making our own sweet potato crisps and enjoying them on the couch watching tv!
I make some lovely little sandwiches (cut off crusts, thin bread, spread filling and then roll up like swiss rolls) but they are for dainty eaters only – men just swallow them down!
Tea and biscuits if I’m on the sofa so as not to risk making a real mess.
A packet of crisps and salsa dip always gets the party started! 🙂
My favourite is either chocolate or dry roasted peanuts
Our favourites are homemade air popped popcorn with melted vitalite and cinnamon, and tortillas with hummus, great for watching movies or playing games together.
Homemade popcorn in loads of flavours.. healthy as well x
home made sweet and spicy popcorn
Nachos and salsa 🙂
It’s always chocolate!
icecream, hot chocolate, husband and 4 kiddies all tucked up in bed
A tub of fancy ice cream
I blend together cheese and jalepenos then melt over lightly salted nachos.
Home made hummus and carrot sticks – healthy but tasty and satisfying.
Cant beat a big bag of crisps and a pot of roasted red pepper hummus x
crisps x
tortilla chips with salsa and grated cheese on top – put it into microwave for a minute first YUM
I love baking potato peelings to make homemade chips! Healthy and delicious!
*cough* Ben and Jerry’s Peanut Butter Cup
Peanuts
Carrot sticks! 🙂
My favourite sofa snack is a tasty cheese board, it has to have Brie, a very mature cheddar, Dorset smoked red and stinky Stilton !!
Either sweet popcorn or chocolate depending on my mood, if its been a rough day it can be both though ! 🙂
A cup of tea and a chocolate biscuit always hits the spot
lots of crisps
Mature cheese on crakers
Potato wedges with a two or three dips…
Pistachios are my fave treat!
cheese & crisp sandwiches
It’s got to be crisps for me, especially pringles yum!
Lightly salted doritos with garlic and onion dip
Crisps
Favourite snack is popcorn – sweet and salty. Perfect low fat alternative to crisps ????
Nachos cheese and salsa dip
Homemade cheese straws !
fave recipe is a glass of chardonnay, popcorn and the kids
Homemade popcorn covered in chocolate and cranberrie flakes!
Fresh popcorn with grated, melty parmesan cheese.
Unhealthy I know but we love homemade Churros dipped in Dulce La Leche caramel sauce – yum !
Crisps and taramslata dip
Tastiest snack I had one the sofa was pilchards in tomato sauce on toast, (toast only one side), with red and yellow peppers and English mustard think that was all …… got from Corrie!
I love grapes
I love small sweet peppers stuffed with cream cheese — so delicious!
homemade brownies, mmmm xxxx
Savoury is tortilla chips with salsa dip, or sweet is a big bowl of warm popcorn 🙂 Lush!
For me it’s cheese on toast, cut into slices served with different mustards/sauces.
home made popcorn
When I’m on my own I love to eat feta cubes, olives, sunblush tomatoes and mini cheese-stuffed peppers. Yum!
If there’s a few of us/the kids we have the usual freshly made popcorn with different seasonings on – Asda do a lovely chilli and lime popcorn seasoning.
It just has to involve chocolate! 😉
Apple grapes and cheese
PIZZA CHEESE TOASTIES
A big bag of tortilla chips!
I have a sweet tooth, so a selection of chocolates and popcorn!
Nachos and guacamole!
chocolate!! what else??
Chocolate.
My favourite sofa snack is much like your with bits of watermelon, apple and a carrot chopped up. If we have had some stir fry the night before I make some lettuce cups with a spoonful or two in each. Sometimes we will add some chocolate covered fruit if we have been good.
Baked Camembert with nutty cranberry crumble
Sweet and salty popcorn or a big box of Malteasers!!!
I love fresh prawns and sweet chilli dipping sauce in a picky tea….delish! x
I love popcorn but it has to be sweet
Layer up nachos with refried beans, grated strong cheddar and salsa, nuke to melt cheese, add sour cream. Collapse on sofa.
Natural yoghurt, banana, nuts, seeds and honey
Salty popcorn I have an air popper so it’s not all bad
Crisps and dip
I like a giant grilled cheese sandwich with baby tomatoes and cucumber on the side with an ice cold beer.
Popcorn, I know it’s not a recipe, but so quick and easy
crackers with butter and cheese
My favourite sofa snack is pistachio nuts or cheese & biscuits
I made an amazing stuffed butternut squash once. I’m a terrible cook so that was a big thing for me and was delish ????
I’m getting so hungry just from reading all the answers! ????
I love a grilled cheese sandwich with fresh tomatoes and ham
Ok don’t laugh but my mouthwatering snack for a night on the sofa, in front of the TV would have to be my all time favourite (maybe not to everyone’s taste) hehe,
“Mushy peas on hot buttered toasted french bread” 🙂
“To die for”
Anything I can dip in home mad salsa, yum yum
My favourite sofa snack is homemade Cheese, courgette and red pepper muffins. They’re delicious and healthy so I can eat 2 almost guilt free ??
I love making nigella’s hokey-pokey! It’s so very easy and cheap to make yet so lush. It’s just like homemade crunchies without the chocolate . Once you start you can’t stop eating ????????
I love making nigella’s hokey-pokey! It’s so very easy and cheap to make yet so lush. It’s just like homemade crunchies without the chocolate . Once you start you can’t stop eating ????????
chocolate brownies with cream
My favourite sofa snack is cheesy nachos with salsa x
cheese and crackers … and a glass of wine! 🙂
A good bar of chocolate. No fuss, no messing around, just open and eat.
For something sweet popcorn or ice cream savoury then it’s crackers and cheese
home made Indian Tandoori Chicken
Ritz Baked Crisps, some bite sized sausage rolls and followed by some chocolate to finish :o)
My fave sofa snack is baked camembert with crusty bread and salami
Toast with real butter