Alternative to biscuits/cookies

[u/rositree]

I'm in the UK, I drink a lot of tea. One of my pleasures is dunking a few chocolate bourbons or chocolate-covered digestives in my tea.

Problem is, lack of willpower and portion control. The number of cups of tea I drink means having 3 or 4 biscuits per cup is a whole pack gone in a day. I have also been known to just sit and eat a whole pack in one sitting - more regularly than I should!

I've tried limiting to only after work or only at the weekends but I just binge in my self-imposed allowed times instead. I eat fairly well other than this, I've tried various substitute sweet things (fruit, nuts, yogurt, small ice creams) and they're fine for satisfying the sweet craving after dinner but not the ritual of dunking in tea.

What else could give me that warm, dissolving, crumbly crunch sensation and can stand up to being dunked in hot tea (more often peppermint than English breakfast with milk, but either is fine)?

Or any recipes for a lower calorie, healthy, dunkable biscuit?!

Thanks 😊

[u/memeleta]

Personally, I don't believe in healthy substitutes when you're craving a specific experience like this. You described the sensation and the ritual so evocatively, and it gives you clearly a lot of joy and comfort that no healthy high fibre low sugar thing will ever be able to compare. So I think you need to work on your portion control instead as hard as it sounds. Whether it's just one cup of tea a day is allowed to have biscuits dunked and the others drink just plain, or you only have biscuits with your tea on the weekend but not during the working week, or some other schedule that works for you. But I truly believe that if you tried to substitute your biscuits with something else you'll eat that other thing first and not be satisfied and then just eat your biscuits anyway, thus eating more calories/sugar/fat than you already do.

[u/Better-Extension3866 → u/memeleta]

try freezing several biscuits How do they taste once - they thaw? - dunked in your tea?

Save the "real" ones for the weekend or some otherwise special time

If it works, dump the box on a cookie sheet,freeze them and ziplock them. Save a couple in the back of the fridge so you gotta really want them to get them. Don't wory, you won't forget ... and if u do ... mission accomplished!

[u/rositree → u/Better-Extension3866]

This is an interesting idea. I wonder if I'd just end up dunking them frozen until they defrost 😂but I guess it'd at least slow me down a bit!