- Hilary Duff’s dressing room rider includes super-relatable snacks.
- The list includes everything from pickles to Reese’s and meat sticks.
- Fans love the low-key, approachable list, calling it “the same” as their own snack habits.
Hilary Duff knows what dreams are made of—and apparently, they're made of meat sticks.
In April, Duff stopped by The New York Times kitchen to both promote her new album, Luck … or Something, and share a few of her favorite family recipes. While the full interview is fantastic, there was one snippet that Duff's fans really adored: as she explains the foods she insists on having in her dressing room at all times. It turns out, the snack list is wildly relatable.
"My rider is so boring right now, I have to change things around," Duff joked. She’s referring to the section in a performer's contract that outlines what they must have in their dressing rooms before a show.
The list includes chips and salsa, a jar of dill pickles, string cheese, a veggie tray, Reese's peanut butter cups, Watermelon Sour Patch Kids, wine, lemon Spindrift, Diet Coke, and water, she explains. Seems simple enough, but hang on, there's one more thing: "Oh, and meat sticks, like Chomps. My kids call them meat sticks. I'm like, we gotta change this."
While Duff found the list "boring," fans quickly chimed in, commenting on the Instagram post that they found the list to be anything but.
"She is me, and I am her," one commenter wrote, while another joked, "this is also my rider for any vacation house rental." Plenty of others found the list relatable, with one fan noting, "we are literally the same person with snacks."
Others praised the simplicity, with one noting, "Thank you for not having an over-complicated rider."
Beyond the snacks, Duff shared details about one of her favorite recipes, a soup her mother would make her as a child any time she was sick.
“It’s got a little bit of a Mexican flair to it, so there’s cilantro and lime and jalapeño," Duff said. "It’s meant to be a real sinus opener. Just like that comforting chicken soup vibe with a spin."
The soup typically contains stock, whole chicken, rosemary, thyme, a bay leaf, onions, celery, carrots, garlic, ginger, corn, jalapeño, and cilantro—but the best part, Duff says, is you can also riff however you'd like.
"This recipe is not shared on an index card," she said. "She’s a real free-flowing recipe. So, we’re like, 'What do we have? How do we throw this together?' It’s casual soup, if you will. There are no real measurements. I think that’s the way soup is meant to be."
Who knows, maybe you could even try tossing a meat stick in there just to see how it tastes.
