Do you snack a lot?

How often do you have a snack? Or, more importantly, what do you have for a snack?

Chocolate?

Crisps?

Biscuits? 

Or perhaps something healthy?

This is an extract from a text about snacks on the British Council website:-

Snack facts

Young people in Britain eat more snacks than people of the same age in other European countries. A recent survey has discovered that 64 per cent of under-20-year-olds snack between meals. How does this compare with other countries? 58.7 per cent of young people snack in Germany, 53 per cent in France and only 40.7 per cent in Spain.

What are these young Brits eating? Savoury snacks, especially crisps, are the favourite snack in the UK. Snack researchers found that the average person in Britain spends £43 on savoury snacks each year, compared with £12 for the French and only £7 for the Italians. British people are spending a total of about £2.8 billion a year on savoury snacks!

I have underlined two parts that I find particularly surprising, but on the other hand I know, being British, that eating habits in the UK are very different to other places in Europe.

Now, let's read and complete some short texts with other snack facts about crisps, chocolate and health.

https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/October_snack_facts_photocopiable_texts.pdf

Feel free to comment and tell me about what you have for a snack!