Fish Snack

Have you ever tried fish snacks or fish chips?

We were recently at a farmers' market that focused on the direct marketing of Icelandic agricultural and fishing products and came across some interesting fish chips there.

These fish chips come from Hella, from Alda Björk Ólafsdóttir's company. Alda, born in Kópavogur in 1966, is actually an Icelandic singer and songwriter. She began her music career with a Bulgarian band with whom she played on cruise ships. She later returned to Iceland and had a No. 1 hit here with her singing partner at the time. In 1989 she went to London to become internationally known. Their most successful hit reached number 7 in the British charts in 1998. She later ran a catering service in the British county of Herfordshire.

However, during her time in the UK she missed Icelandic dried fish and so developed a method to make her own dried fish. And after more than 30 years in England, she returned to Iceland two years ago and now produces her own fish chips in Hella under the brand name “Krispa Fish Snack”.

These fish snacks are healthy snacks, meaning they are full of proteins and omega-3 fatty acids, but contain few carbohydrates.

This pack contains 50g of dried fish. The ingredients for the fish chips here are cod, black olives, onions, garlic, parsley and pepper - for a really intense, spicy taste. And a look at the nutritional values ​​shows: The fish chips have 407 kcal per 100 g, they contain 12 g fat, 8 g carbohydrates and 69 g protein.

For comparison: Classic potato chips have an average of around 540 kcal and contain around 35 g of fat, around 54 g of carbohydrates and 7 g of protein. The fish chips contain significantly less fat and carbohydrates than conventional potato chips, but significantly more protein.

In terms of calories, the fish chips are a bit “lighter” - although I personally think you simply eat less of them. Classic potato chips are often sold in packs of 150 to 170 g, the fish chips here in 50 g packs and due to the intense taste and smell, very few people probably eat a pack at once.

The fish snacks are available in different flavors . There is dried cod or other white fish with oyster sauce, with jalapenos or with black olives with garlic, and there are also salmon chips.

Of course we tried it out and my favorite was actually the salmon chips, which I found very tasty but comparatively harmless. Finally we ended up with the dried cod with black olives and garlic because they tasted and smelled very intense. And they were simply a crazy highlight for a planned invitation.

I don't want to eat large quantities of them, but I find these fish chips very interesting and intense, in terms of taste and smell, and simply an exciting experience.

As far as I know, the fish snacks are sold, among others, at Hagkaup or at some Olis gas stations in Iceland, but also in local shops such as Alda's "Made in Iceland" store on the main street in Selfoss, where they only sell items that... Made in Iceland, food, wool, but also handicrafts, souvenirs and gifts.

So if you ever like fish snacks like this in the store - maybe you would like to buy a pack and try the chips..?

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