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Want To See My Snacks? [Happy Food Eating ASMR]

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The video centers on the creator's enthusiastic exploration of various snacks, with a strong emphasis on consuming fresh, seasonal, and locally sourced produce from British Columbia. The host begins by showcasing an array of fruits including apples, bananas, pears, and apricots, expressing a deep love for eating them directly off the tree or when they are perfectly ripe. He highlights the specific benefits of local BC fruits like apricots, peaches, nectarines, and plums, noting that while some items like bananas must be imported, locally grown options provide superior flavor and nutrition. Throughout the video, he encourages viewers to follow nature's calendar by eating foods that are in season in their own regions to maximize health benefits. Beyond fresh fruits, the creator shares his culinary experiments involving eggs, homemade pickles, and unique meat combinations. He prepares soft-boiled and hard-boiled eggs, often pairing them with salty homemade pickles and even pickled garlic for a crunchy texture. A significant portion of the video is dedicated to an innovative snack idea: combining crispy bacon bits with sweet apricots. He demonstrates how to cook bacon in the oven using ends or leftover pieces at 350 degrees Fahrenheit to create "bacon bites," which he then mixes with apricots to create a sweet and savory treat that he describes as incredibly addictive and perfect for sharing at gatherings. The snack journey continues with fresh vegetables harvested from his patio garden, such as zucchini, tomatoes, strawberries, and grapes, alongside store-bought items like olives and dried golden berries. He takes viewers on a trip to a local Persian grocery store to buy hard but sweet apricots and discusses the versatility of using bacon in various dishes, from rice with greens to creamy pasta sauces. Additionally, he features a chicken schnitzel sandwich from a highly rated local restaurant, praising its kamut flour batter, coleslaw topping, and dairy-free options, while also sharing tips on how to enjoy it during happy hour for a better price. In conclusion, the video serves as both a food review and a lifestyle guide promoting healthy eating habits centered around whole foods. The creator repeatedly advocates for eating well by incorporating fruits, vegetables, herbs, and greens into one's diet, whether they are grown personally or sourced locally. He emphasizes that investing in health involves not just exercise but also making conscious choices about what to eat, such as avoiding processed snacks in favor of fresh produce and creative combinations like apricot and bacon. The overall message is one of gratitude for the abundance of local food available and an invitation for viewers to explore their own gardens and markets to enjoy similar delicious and nutritious experiences.
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What did you have for your snacks you chose? Oh, I got fruits. I cut off some fruit. Apple, apples, bananas, and pear. This is my snacks. I love fruit. I I ate a [ __ ] ton of fruit. Like a lot of fruit, right? Like fantastic. This banana and pear or banana. Yeah, banana and pear. Banana and apple. Here's the pear. Green skin. Bananas and apples are the fruits that I eat the most. Eat your fruits, gang. Eat your fruits, gang. My snacks. My snacks. Let me show you my snacks. I just cooked up some eggs. Soft boiled eggs. I love softboiled eggs. Super delicious, right? Phenomenal. Awesome protein and fats. Mhm. I salted it already. And I brought out some homemade pickles that my partner made a few years ago, like four or five years ago. And these are amazing. And they go fantastic with the eggs together. Wow. Come on you egg. Come to me. Come to me. Super delicious. Power food. More pickles. One more egg. Right. Super good. Soft boiled eggs are some of the best. the monitor. There we go. Let it focus. And one more pickle. Actually got pickled garlic in the bottom there, too. I'm going to eat the pickled garlic. This guy. Pickled garlics. The bomb. So good. And fantastic crunch to them. A fantastic crunch. Cheers, gang. Oh, yeah. That's nice. You want to see my snacks? I'm going fruit. We got some BC fruit is coming in. Okay. For my snacks, right? So BC fruit is coming in and I'm buying local BC fruit from our province and there's a lot of fruit that they grow in the Okonogan and stuff like this. Now unfortunately it's hard to find some of the stuff organic. So these are local BC apricots. And man, if you ever get the chance, gang, if you ever have the chance to have a fruit tree in your yard, I highly recommend putting an apricot tree in your yard. That's one of the trees 100%. When we get a some land, we're going to put an apricot tree in there because one, all fruit, vegetables, and stuff are amazing off the plant, right? Ripen off the plant. But apricots ripened on the tree is insane, right? So, these are really delicious. This is as close you can get as apricots being ripened on the tree. And they're really squishy when they're ripened on the tree. They're amazing. Just absolutely absolutely phenomenal. really so good. So, BC fruits, I'm getting as much as I can uh because it's in season. So, I try to eat a lot of fruits and vegetables in season. And I put together a fruit salad. I put peaches in this because these are local BC peaches as well. Okay. So really good. Fantastic. I got bananas. The apples aren't local. The bananas and apples aren't local. And these things you see here, the dried berries, they're called golden berries. They're called Come here. They're called golden berries. They're like uh I think they're goosebererries that are dried. I have a gooseberry plant here, but I eat it fresh when it gives berries, right? Gooseberry bush, right? When it's dried, they're like tart. They're really good in cereals and stuff. This stuff is amazing. And by itself, just a bomb. So, fruit snacks. So effing good. So good. Really absolutely phenomenal. The apricots are just something else. The apricots are something else. gang. You want to see my snacks? You want to see my snacks? I went to the store this morning, bought some stuff. And I got I loaded up on more apricots. Okay. Loaded up on more apricots. And these these are red plums, Japanese plums from the neighbors. Um where I picked the they were actually they weren't called Loganberries. They were called oyber berries or something, right? And these are phenomenal. Japanese round purple plums. So good. And then the apricots are actually amazing. Right. They have to ripen a little bit more, but still fantastic. Right. I also this morning grab some bacon because I just felt like having bacon. So, I made some uh bacon in the oven. Okay. And I make the bacon in the oven. It's less messy, not on a frying pan. I put these um on uh what do you call it? Parchment paper in a pan. I lay them out. cooked at 350 degrees Celsius and um or Fahrenheit, I think. Fahrenheit. Celsius. Fahrenheit. It should be Fahrenheit, I think. Uh 350 Fahrenheit or 350°. I'll just say degrees, right? And uh uh cook them up for about 30 to 35 minutes. Okay. A lot of bacon. Mhm. And one thing I do with bacon, I'll show you another one. Hold on. Every now and then you got to take down bacon, right? And what other one other thing I buy from bacon? I'm going say Japanese plums. Very nice. Very tried. Yuzu is very good as well. Japanese lemons. Oh, I've never tried. And I brought bacon ends. All right. So, these are packages. Uh the stores in our area are sell them. They're not the bacon strips, but they're bacon like leftover pieces, the ends. And they package them together. And when I get them, I cut them up into smaller pieces, bite-sized pieces. And I cook them the same way. But these ones take a little bit longer sometimes cuz they're chunkier. Right? You got to be careful cuz these can burn easy if you let them go too far, right? So, it's bacon bacon ends cut up. And these are fantastic. Like really like chunks of bacon. It's like bacon bites. Okay. And both these bacons are double smoked. This one has maple syrup in it as well. And then what I did when I was cooking them up, I took the bacon and put it with the apricot. So it was apricot bacon bites, right? Like seriously, uh, incredibly unique flavor. Super yummy. Uh, very addictive. I popped like four of these when I was cooking them up. They were coming out when I was eating these things. like this. So it's so it's like bacon maple syrup bacon sweet. It's got the apricot flavor. Absolutely phenomenal. Like if I was throwing like a little party with little bites of stuff, I would include this. like walk around with trays. Offer people apricot with bacon inside. Oh, very yummy. Very yummy. I'm going to be munching on that all day. I brought a little wet rag here, too, cuz my hands get sticky with bacon. So, give them a little wipe because we're not going to go to the sink and wash them, right? We're busy. We're busy streaming, eating, smoking, and drinking and chit chatting about life, right? Salute gang hamburglar. Those would be awesome in a creamy pasta dish. Oh yeah, the bacon chunks. It would be amazing. Amazing. Like a Alfredo pasta. Oof. Oof. Oof. So good. So good. And it's cheaper than buying the bacon strips, right? So, if you're on budget, and I've been splitting them bacon, bacon ends and the bacon strips, right? Because they're cheaper, you get more if you know how to cook them properly, you can use them. They're versatile, right? And you can include them with stuff. And these these chunks are really good with rice. Uh I've been eating them with rice and uh greens. Uh pan fry, some uh like fast fry, some uh greens. have rice made and then take the greens, mix it in with the rice, put in the bacon bits and munch away. Phenomenal. Phenomenal. All the god says 350° C. Put it on your house as well. It has to be Fahrenheit. [laughter and gasps] Should we have another snack? Apricot with bacon. Yes, we should. Apricot. Apricot with bacon. I'm going to do Yeah, I'm going to do the chunks of bacon again. Apricot with bacon. Hell yes. Apricot bacon delight. What an amazing flavor. What an amazing flavor. Should I bring you guys a straw? Uh oh. Strawberry and a and um and a tomato. Yeah, we'll bring a red one, too. Sure. harvest from the patio garden. Strawberry, yellow tomato, and a red tomato. Let's see if we can make this focus. Right, let's pop a yellow tomato first. Very good. Could ripen more, but it is what it is right now. A lot more coming in. Red tomato. M. That was really good. Juicy as [ __ ] I got to do better setup for my strawberries. But we're working on it. Strawberry. Not bad. Not too sweet, but not bad. Definitely strawberry flavor. Delicious. So, we eat a lot of stuff from our garden. This is hip. I love hip. It's like licorice, right? Hip is amazing, gang. If you're going to grow herbs and mints in your garden, mint is one. Growing mint is amazing, right? Hip is another phenomenal flavor. Phenomenal. Apricot and bacon. Apricot and bacon time. Cuz we're going to remain here until we finish our cigar, right? apricot and bacon. This is going to be a big apricot. So that means we got room for more bacon. Apricot and bacon. bacon that I made this morning. So good. Talking about good food, gang. Fruits. My snacks. Bananas, mandarins or clementines, uh peaches, and nectarine. amazing stuff. Except for the bananas uh and the mandarins uh the peaches and the nectarines are local. One thing I can recommend regarding food, if you want to eat healthy, eat fruits and vegetables and greens, herbs and stuff that are in season. So start eating foods that come in season. Right. Fantastic. Local as well. So foods, fruits and vegetables and herbs and greens that are in season wherever you are. Basically follow nature. Super yummy. Super yummy. Delicious. They hydrate from the fruits. Super good. On that note, hamburger saying any snacks. Check out my snacks here. What you see here, this is my stacks. I'm growing vegetables, fruits, berries, and stuff like this, right? This is zucchini from my garden, tomatoes from my garden, right? Amazing. The olives is not from my garden. Obviously, I can't grow olives where I am, West Coast of BC. So, the olives are really salty. Okay. The tomatoes, phenomenal tomatoes, right? And the zucchini is phenomenal, too. So, I'm growing my own food. Food for me, my partner. when we make the vegetables or when I harvest the vegetables and I use them for cooking stews or whatever, share it with family and friends. So absolutely fantastic, right? Like this is just raw vegetables. I didn't no salt, no oil, no balsamic vinegar. The olives are salt salty so it compliments the veggies. Right. And they go amazing together. I have like 13 different types of tomatoes growing. Like different varieties of tomatoes. Here. Check out this one. It's like a purple yellow tomato, right? So good. So good. Right. I just pick it from here. M. So amazing. And for veggies and herbs and stuff, I buy stuff that I'm not growing or I can't grow. And this stuff keeps me healthy. Right. Tomatoes. Tom Dum. Uh Dimus says, "To are a good year this year." Yeah, for sure. For sure. Hamburger on Rumble for a late dinner. Um doing yaki udon. Nice. With chicken, mushrooms, celery, and a Korean style sauce. Gucci chang base. Gucci changed. Can't wait. Yum. Nice. Chicho. Looks delicious. Oh my god. Purple to tomatoes. They're awesome. They're awesome. They're awesome. Super good. Super delicious. All right. snacks. You want to see my snacks? Uh, Lonely Piggy, BC fruit season, brother. BC fruit season. So, I've mentioned this before. If you live in an area where you get local fruits, eat the fruits locally. These are apricots that I bought uh a couple of days ago. Okay. I was in Vancouver. I went to the Persian store and bought these apricots. And I know the Persian store where they bring in a lot of fresh fruit. Okay, these they're hard apricots, so I didn't think they would be too sweet. Okay, you can just crack them open like this. Okay, big seed, right? These are some of the sweetest apricots I've ever had. It's crazy. Local apricots in BC. Really small. Phenomenal. Usually with apricots, you got to wait until they get really ripe and squishy and then they're just heaven, right? These ones are hard. You can probably maybe hear the crunch on them, but they're crazy sweet. Crazy sweet. Very yummy. You only make it. Go hit up the local fruit. Looks so effing good. We get love getting fresh apricots and plums. Yeah. And the plums. We got some plums and peaches. So nectarines. Nectarine season in BC is the bomb. I've been popping these for two days. I wish I bought a lot more. All right, but I didn't know this they were this good. Yeah, Persian Foods truth provider now. Amazing prices on produce and they source out as much local as they can. Fantastic. Fantastic, gang. For my snacks. For my snacks. I got some cookies here, but I don't feel like eating cookies. But I do have some eggs. Some eggs that I made this morning. Hard-boiled eggs. And this is um what do you call it? Green onions. Green onions from our CSA. Love green onions and fantastic eggs. Organic local eggs. So good. And green onions. Phenomenal. So good. Eggs is the best. Superfood. Multiple varieties of making it used in everything, right? Fantastic. Eat well and exercise. That should be part of investing as well, right? Check this out. I made some roast uh from organic local beef that we got uh from a local farm right u couple of days ago. So these are the end pieces. This is tomatoes that I grew in my own garden right on the patio here. And these are homemade pickles that we my partner made like 3 years ago. So tomato these ones are phenomenal. They're ripe. They're green but they're ripe, right? with meat. Awesome. And with Hey, come here, pickle. Hey, come here, pickle. Hey, come here, pickle. Let's get it. Let's pop it together. And homemade pickles. So, eat well. This is phenomenal. So good. and learn how to cook. Like look at this thing. And we got lots of red tomatoes as well. Meat, tomatoes, and pickles. Oh, I need a pickle on this. This is God's food. Look at this. This is God's food right here. So good. So good. I harvested a lot of grapes from our patio. didn't get a chance to do a live stream, right? So, we've been eating a lot of grapes. This is our grapes from the patio, gang, from here where you see, right? They're ripening up. Delicious grapes. Phenomenal. The best grapes ever. Best grapes ever. They're seedless. I don't know why they're seedless, but they are. Come here, you. Oh, this one's not coming. Hold on. I like eating these grapes like this. Like take a like a stack like this. Super delicious. Very yummy. All right, John. Summer for any snacks or drinks for the stream. Yeah, I got my got my grapes from the patio, right? from our grape vine. All that from all that. I harvested all these from all there and here and on the side. Right. So, I got my grapes. Right. Fantastic grapes. Let's take this whole thing down. Yeah. Yeah. So effing good. That's so good. And I got peaches and nectarine. Organic local peaches and nectarine from BC. So I eat fruits in season a lot. Right. And in BC we got some amazing fruits that come in season. Lots of pro plums, peaches, nectarines, and u lots of organic choices. And these are amazing. Like phenomenal. So good. I bought a [ __ ] ton of these. We got a drawer in the fridge that's full of peaches and nectarines. Super good. Super yummy. Fantastic. Thanks for asking. Jump for the John Summer for so good. So good. Gang, we're talking about food. Let me show you our food. I got two things here. Okay. The first one is we went blackberry picking yesterday, right? So, we munched on a certain amount of blackberries yesterday and these are really good. Like fantastic blackberries, right? Like phenomenal. Phenomenal. So good. They go amazing with everything. Blackberries do. Okay. And then after blackberry picking, we went swimming in the ocean and chilled on the beach for a bit. And then on the way back, we hit up this restaurant and it's sort of a casual dining. It won the 2025 and 2026 uh best casual restaurant dining. Okay. And they have the best chicken schnitle sandwich in town. Bought one, ate it there, and bought another one to bring it home. Okay. Take a look at this. This is half half of it. The other half is in the fridge. Take a look. It's got coleslaw on the top and it's a kamut chicken sandwich, right? A kamut. Uh the batter around it is kamut flour. Okay. It's really good. And the kicker for this is it's phenomenal the next day because we've done this before and the next day is really good. And the bread, like a sandwich, the bread is it's not everything, but the bread is extremely crucial. And the bread is from a local bakery that is partly owned by one of our friends and it's a really good bakery. They make amazing pastries and I've had their sandwiches and their bread is phenomenal. Okay. Like look at the crispiness of this thing, right? Really good. Superb, right? The co stuff. Fantastic. This is the only time I've had a sandwich with colelaw on top of it. Colelaw in the sandwich. Kamut flour, not kenpo or someone else was talking about it. No cheese. Oh my god. No cheese. This is dairyf free. And the for this one, you got them just to put regular mayo. They have one. It's They give you a choice, regular mayo or jalapeno mayo. So, we got one with jalapeno as well. on the jalapeno is really spicy mayo is really good. We'll go back. The price for the sandwich, it's just a sandwich. Like that was half of it and the other half was in the fridge. Regular is $18 Canadian. Okay. But they offer this during their happy hour. And they sell it for how much? 19. Either 12 or $14. I think $12, maybe $14. I think either 12 or let's say $13 for their happy hour, right? Between 2:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. And at night, between 9 and 10, they sell this for like $13 Canadian, which is an amazing deal. Amazing deal. Now that's a sandwich. Whenever I get get kleslaw, I mix a separate bowl with a few shots of srirachi sauce uh or some diced jalapenos. Don't want to make the whole batch spicy, but it's nice for a change. Nice. Nice. Delicious.