and I don't know how I forgot about this one, because my husband loves these things. Rootbeer floats! Not particularly healthy, but a small one is ok and for my husband not fattening at all. He has a milkshake it just seems to energize him. Me, I gain 3 pounds LOL. I don't make them but I do keep the ingredients in the house for him; vanilla ice cream, cow's milk, root beer.

are you getting some ideas? I'd love to hear what you've come up with!

I've been thinking more about the snacks I make for my husband for around the house and pack in his lunch for work, so here's a few more. Tuna! I'm a vegetarian but my husband went back to eating meat every now and then a few years ago, but I don't cook it or anything. But I do get cans of tuna for him, he likes it with crackers for snacks sometimes. also veggie jerky, it's like beef jerky just made with tofu or seitan. here's a recipe, it's real easy to make or you can also buy it at most health food, vegetarian, or co-op type stores.

to anyone else if this is how things work in BC's house. She's happy, that's how things work over there. If things work differently in your house that's great for you. I really don't see how tossing a few extras in the cart on grocery day is putting anyone out. At my house this is how it works too; DH and I are nice to each other all the time, washing each others plate or bringing coffee in the morning or a cup of tea if one of us is in the bath. Those little things make a huge difference for some people. I'm one of them! Yes, I could stand in line behind DH while he rinses his own plate so I can rinse mine, then again at the door of the garage while he tosses his napkin into the laundry basket so I can toss mine in there too - but why not offer to take his napkin for him while he offers to take my plate? You're pouring yourself a glass of wine, why not ask your partner if they want one, too? You're already at the store doing the weeks' shopping (and in my house it's always me cause I have the car, credit cards and the time to do so); why not grab some stuff you know your partner likes to snack on?

My husband also likes cherry tomatoes and blackberries for snacking, which is great in the summer because we grow these. and he likes those corn tortilla chips, the low-salt ones. Walnuts! are also good snacks, if you can get your husband to eat those that's half the battle because they are very fulling and hit the same mind zones that chocolate and ice cream do, you know what I mean. My husband likes these after a long day at work, driving home. and just a handful is often enough to curb appetite till dinner and give you a late-afternoon boost. Boiled eggs are another good snack option, my husband likes egg salad sandwiches sometimes for an afternoon snack.

can't he get his own snacks if he doesn't like what's in the house? or do the grocery shopping, or at least put what he wants on the list?

i'm really impressed that you even think about what snacks are available/around/you can make/buy for your husband! i mean, it is not my thang and i wouldn't do it, but i didn't even consider that people actually do think about what snacks to make/have around for their husbands. i don't have any suggestions, as i only make/think about snacks for my kids. but maybe you could just tell him to make a list of things he would like you to get at the grocery store (something else i don't do - the grocery shopping for the family! lol! but i do stop by the store sometimes for odds and ends or snacks for our kids). or he can give you a list of all the foodstuff you have made in the past that he likes so you have a few surefire things to make. then, if you like food prep/cooking you could try something new once a week or something.

and i have to ask, is this something you like to do? i'm assuming you do. and, does he show annoyance if you don't do it? does he expect you to think about his snacks? or does he genuinely appreciate you doing this? which to me would mean if one week there was no snacks in the house instead of getting upset he would make his own snacks and maybe even offer to make some for you. i dunno, maybe when my kids are older and i have more energy and headspace to think, i may do something similar myself as i like doing nice things for hal - so i'm not knocking your generosity towards your husband.

My husband likes carrots, apples, sliced cucumbers, and sliced tomato on toasted bread. If you bake, make cookies and keep them in a cookie jar, go healthy like oatmeal cookies, peanut butter. oh! rice balls are also awesome for the tupperware-type snacks that he can also take to work, just make some rice and season it with whatever rice seasoning you like, then while the rice is warm form it into golf-ball sized balls.

Left-overs are also good for snacks, you can take just about any kind of leftover and make little party hat sandwiches out of them. Like say we have left-over chili, I will toast 4 (or however many) slices of whole wheat bread, then slice them into little cracker-sized squares. Spoon some chili on each, top them with another square, the stick a toothpick in each one. Mercury Man likes these a lot! says it makes him feel festive

Does he think about what snacks to keep around the house for you? Next time he whines about this, tell him to buy his own effin' snacks, or eat what is in the house, because there are actual children you need to care for. Crimeny. You are NOT his mother. Really. My KIDS figure out their own snacks.

I bought DH a bag of potato chips and his own jar of french onion dip this weekend and he was as happy as a kid in a candy store. He thrives on cheez-its and pre-sliced snack cheese (some brand actually makes this, sells it in a square brick, but its already sliced for snacking). If you want to "fix" something, you can make those pinwheels I've seen (but never eaten)...I think you spread a tortilla with cream cheese and, if you want, a spicy thing like jalapeno jelly, then layer with cheese and deli meat, roll up and slice. Yuck to me but lots of people love them. They would tupperware well. He does alot of pepperoni and cheese slices together. More yuck. Maybe the bacon-wrapped dates I have heard about? And, finally, how about frozen swedish meatballs simmered in barbecue sauce in the crockpot? They go nicely with dinner rolls, I hear. Don't ask me- I don't eat any of this crap and, for the most part, neither will my 3 yo, but the hubby? He loves it.

Oh, thank goodness- I thought I was the only one with this problem. My big issue is that any effort I make is short lived- because he'll either eat the entire tupperware full of snack food (e.g. the 5 banana nut muffins he ate this weekend as he passed through the kitchen right after I baked them), or if he thinks it's something too healthy (like the strawberry rhubarb bread that I put a little too much flaxmeal in) I'll end up trying to eat all of it before it goes bad.

I can't wait to see some good ideas from the other mamas here!