I know you love chips n guac. I love creme brûlée but I'm not claiming to "need" it...
“I just need something a little crunchy” is a phrase I’ve heard often. But it’s not actually true. You WANT crunch, but you certainly don’t need it. And that’s okay.
There are lots of nutrient-dense, bioavailable sources of supportive nutrition that have some crunch to them. Let’s see... last night’s salad had some cabbage and pistachio nuts in it. Sometimes I make my chicken skin extra crispy. See? I’m living proof that a human can live on mild to moderate crunch.
Even if you were to decide to go ahead and have the chips or the crackers or the pretzels or the popcorn, that’s completely fine. Just generally move toward making your food decisions from a place of information and honesty: “I want some salty, crunchy, hyper-palatable snack foods and, gosh darnit, I’m going to have some.”
This real, honest, no-BS, grown-assed adult kind of language is so much more productive than dancing around the notion of “needing” something sweet, “needing” something salty, “needing” something crunchy... Endlessly advancing/retreating on your cravings. It’s gotta be exhausting!
Call a spade a spade: Ya want chips and guac.
Just name the desire, choose into it, and move on, rather than belabouring the whole ordeal by talking yourself into it or out of it with this kind of meek, small, obliging language — as though you are simply the powerless vessel answering the whims of your brain’s supposed “need” for treats.
You’re a grown-up. You can have treats. You can choose whatever you want to eat, so just choose it because you *want* it (not “need” it) and move on.