Saturday, September 27, 2025

Spicy Snacks and Sweet Moments

Coffee-flavored biscuits, cappuccino-flavored hard candies, and Kokola Super Cream pineapple cookies were the big winners from this month’s Universal Yums Indonesian snack box. With Jeremy, Megan, and Oliver off at the Gophers football game, it was just Caleb, Charlotte, Joe, and me tasting our way through the treats.

Caleb wasn’t a fan of the crackers topped with cheese and chocolate sprinkles, or the lemon and mint hard candy. I agreed with him about the crackers, while Joe sided with Caleb on the hard candy. Charlotte didn’t care for the jasmine tea drink and thought the cassava chips with spicy balado flavor were too hot. The rest of us liked both the tea and the chips. Oddly enough, Charlotte loved the Chiki Twist flaming hot extra-spicy corn snacks (basically like spicy Cheetos).

Caleb’s quote of the day was, “Isn’t it funny how I like international snacks so much?” We all laughed, and I told him, “You like snacks in the USA too!” He admitted that was true. Charlotte’s special treat this month was that none of the snacks had any kind of tree nuts. In past months she’s often had to skip at least one—sometimes more—since she’s allergic to walnuts and sensitive to other nuts.

We enjoyed spending the day with our oldest grandchildren, and we even managed to sneak in a few snuggles with Oliver before and after the football game. It was a sweet mix of snacks, laughter, and time together—the very best kind of Saturday.

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