Vending Machine Recipe #10: Vegetable Soup

Man I wish the vending machine would stock those meat sticks again. There are so many recipes waiting to be born if only there were meat. In the mean time, I happened to see a Mrs. Freshley's Carrot Cake and thought: "What can I make with carrots?" The obvious choice to go with carrots is potatoes, and thus was born this recipe for vegetable soup.

I know what you're thinking: "How can it be soup without liquid?" Use your imagination people. It's a vending machine recipe. This one would make an excellent side dish for those meat recipes that I will have when I find meat sticks in a vending machine again.

Ingredients:
1 Package Mrs. Freshley's Carrot Cake
1 Bag Lay's Classic Potato Chips
Serves: 2
Price: $1.85

Instructions:
Break a piece of carrot cake off the bottom of the cake being careful to not include any of the frosting. Place the carrot cake piece onto a potato chip and pop it in your mouth.

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Vending Machine Recipe #9 - PB&J Sandwich

They (whoever they are) recently replaced the $1.50 bag of peanuts in our vending machine at work with a $1.50 bag of Twizzlers. So for recipe #9 I endeavored to make something with the strawberry twists.

It occurred to me that Twizzlers are basically the same as jelly that has dried up into a hard mass. So with that appetizing thought in mind, I realized I had the makings of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.


Here is how it goes:


Ingredients:
1 Package Twizzlers Strawberry Twists
1 Package Frito Lay Peanut Butter Toast Crackers
Serves: 3
Price: $2.25

Instructions:
Open up a peanut butter cracker. Rip off two pieces of twizzlers where each piece is about the length of the cracker's diameter. Lay the twizzler pieces on one piece of cracker then put the remaining cracker back on top to form a sandwich.

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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