Vending Machine Recipe #8 - Caramel Apple Corn

Today I wanted to try something that would approximate a caramel apple. I found these Quakers Caramel Corn rice cakes and I combined them with an Apple Cinnamon Nutri-grain bar. The cinnamon flavor overpowered the caramel flavor unless when mixed one-for-one. I decided the best way to eat it was to make a sandwich out of it. Two caramel corn rice cakes for the bread and the nutri-grain bar for the filling. The most suprising aspect of this recipe was the stark contrast between the dry crunchy rice cakes and the moist gooey cinnamon apple filling of the Nutri-grain bar.

Ingredients:
1 Apple Cinnamon Nutri-grain bar
1 Bag Quakes Rice Snacks - Caramel Corn flavor
Serves: 2
Price: $1.75

Instructions:
Make a sandwich by using two rice cakes as the bread and by breaking off a piece of the nutri-gran bar as the filling. Makes about 3 - 4 sandwiches with one nutri-grain bar.

Vending Machine Recipe #7 - PB Pretzel Cups

While pondering the vending machine today, co-worker Tom stopped by and we began to discuss possible recipes. Tom said, he always liked the peanut butter pretzel combo snacks so we decided to make our own twist. This is the best of both worlds, salty and sweet. It is both a chocolate covered pretzel and a peanut butter pretzel all in one. Delicious.

Ingredients:
1 Package Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
1 Bag Snyder's Sourdough Pretzel Nibblers
Serves: 3
Price: $1.80

Instructions:
Open up the Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. Dip a Nibbler into the cup and eat.

Vending Machine Recipe #6 - Fruit Cake

Today's Recipe is a vending machine version of the old holiday classic -- the fruit cake. It is like the traditional fruit cake in that it contains strange gummy chunks of "fruit" but the similarities pretty much end there. It is still a fairly enjoyable taste combination of fruit and coffee cake though and is good for a breakfast snack or as a dessert.

Ingredients:
1 Drake's Coffee Cake
1 Bag Kellog's Fruity Snacks
Serves: 2
Price: $1.80

Instructions:
Break off a piece of drakes cake, pop it in your mouth along with a fruity snack.

Vending Machine Recipe #5 - Fish and Chips

Todays Recipe Fish and chips. It must be an acquired taste. But it does kind of taste like a Monte Cristo sandwich.

Ingredients:
1 Package Swedish Fish
1 Bag Lays Classic Potato Chips
Serves: 2
Price: $1.80

Instructions:
Place one swedish fish on a potato chip and eat. Repeat until out of chips or fish. I ran out of fish first.

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Vending Machine Recipe #4 - Chunky Peanut Butter Cups

Today's vending machine recipe is for those who love chunky peanut butter over creamy peanut butter.

Ingredients:
1 Package Planters Peanuts
1 Package Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
Serves: 3
Price: $2.00

Instructions:
Open up the Peanut Butter Cups and the Mr. Peanuts. Stuff some peanuts into the Peanut Butter Cup and enjoy.

Suggested by Nick Casciano of www.musicfangallery.com

Vending Machine Recipe #3 - Chocolate Rose

Just in time for valentines day last minute shoppers. If you have no clue what to give your sweetie for V-day, you can make this delicious rose from 3 items found in almost every vending machine (Snickers Bar, Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, and M&M's). Listen now for the full story.

Ingredients:
1 Snickers Bar
1 Package Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
1 Package Plain M&M's
Serves: 2
Price: $3.00

Instructions:
Open the Snickers bar and put on a napkin. Use 1 Reese's peanut butter cup as the head of the rose. To glue it onto the Snicker's bar, dig out some sticky stuff from the back of a second peanut butter cup. Stick red M&M's onto the peanut butter cup to color the head of the rose. Stick green M&M's down the trunk of the Snicker's bar to color in the stem. M&M's can be stuck on using the same sticky stuff from the back of that other peanut butter cup.

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Slashfood.com - another great site for munchie lovers

I just found a cool site called slashfood.com. It has all sorts of food and munchie related features such as "food porn daily" which is pictures and descriptions of scrumptious food. They also have some quirky news items like:
Kraft will help fight intestinal worms
The girl who eats only french fries

Vending Machine Recipe#2 - Half Baked Lays

On todays episode of Traveling Munchies Radio we discuss vending machine recipe #2 - Half Baked Lays. Also we discuss the "top row hanger" stuck munchie scenario, and how to do your fellow man a favor by throwing out fruit pie lard bombs.

Ingredients:
1 Bag Baked Lays Original Potato Crisps
1 Bag Classic Lays Potato Chips
Serves: 2
Price: $1.60

Instructions:
Open both bags of chips and pour together into a bowl or onto a napkin. Gently mix the chips together. Eat chips 2 at a time (1 of each kind of chip). The combo mostly tastes like Baked Lays, but has the greasy finish of the Classic chips. In all honesty, we just liked the name "Half-baked Lays". However, this recipe can serve as a side dish like twice-baked potatoes.

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More vending machine recipes

I found some more vending machine recipes on the Iowa State Daily website. These are pretty elaborate but look awesome.


The recipes include:

Chocolate Mousse Suprise (Famos Amos, 3 Musketeers, Dove bar)
Mini-Donut Melt (Mini-Donuts, Dove bar, Kit Kat bar)
Cookie Chocolate Mountain (animal crackers, Dove bar, Kit Kat bar, Heath bar)

Vending Machine Recipe#1: Berry Pie

Today's vending machine repcipe is berry pie. Dan explains and Nick cringes at a simple recipe made from the snacks in your local vending machine.

Ingredients:
1 Bag Kellog's Fruity Snacks
1 Pouch Kellog's Brown Sugar and Cinnamon Pop Tarts
Serves: 4
Price: $2.25

Instructions:
Rip off a bite-sized piece of a Pop Tart. Place 1 gummy fruit piece on top of the Pop Tart. Pop it in your mouth and enjoy. The Fruity snacks come in strawberry, raspberry, and blueberry flavors. They can be mixed together for different pie flavors. Straberry-raspberry is a good one.

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Traveling Munchies #12: Kurkure Snacks

Our latest Traveling Munchie comes from Jyoti, who shared an Indian snack (of course owned by Pepsi )with a brand name of Kurkure.

There were four flavors of Kurkure snack that we sampled:
Green Chutney Rajasthani Style
Red Chili Chatka
Masala Munch
Tamatar Hyderabadi Style

The most popular flavor in our taste tests were the Masala Munch. It had lots of tasty Indian spices, but not too much heat. The Tamatar Hyderabadi style were the hottest, most overpowing flavor out of the bunch. The were all very addictive.

Thanks for the munchies Jyoti.

Traveling Munchies Radio: Drake's Cakes and Guacamole Football Fields

On today's episode we discuss Drake's cakes and super bowl snacks, including the newest invention on the snacking scene: The Guacamole Football Field.

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