What's your favorite naughty snack?
When you just feel like “cheating” on your normal healthy eating routine.
Does it vary or is it always the same?
Are there healthy alternatives that keep the cravings away most of the time?
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I just bought a big plastic bear full of frosted animal crackers. (However, I also bought skim milk to compensate.)
Lately, a digestif glass of this and a few squares of this.
French toast made with locally baked challah, available only on Fridays, and medium amber local maple syrup.
If I picked only one, the others would feel left out.
Those Hostess or Tastykake pies. Chocolate, preferably.
What I find for me is sugar begets sugar. I’m either on it or off it, so the “healthy alternative” is to be off it.
What I crave and wish I could eat I do not allow myself to eat. What I crave and wish I could ea would either be cheese popcorn or Doritos. I don’t buy those things because if I did, I would eat them.
Totally depends on the day and my mood.
@dxs Once when I worked at a start-up in the 80s, we were having some problems with the software and were on deadline and a colleague and I literally had to move into the office for three weeks and were working around the clock except for short snatches of sleep. About ⅔ of the way through, one night we had gone to the store to get snacks and the programmer that I was working with asked me to taste one of his frosted animal cookies to see if it was sweet. I said, “Oh, yes, almost sickenly so. He said, “Hmm, I think I’ve eaten too many or I’m too tired because they no longer even taste sweet to me any more.”
@kevbo I am the same way. I try to stay totally off sugar, because one thing leads to another. But sometimes I am human and slip up.
French fries, if I had to pick one.
Deep fried anything makes me feel guilty, but potatoes and onions cause the most guilt. Deep fried fish the least because, duh, I live in the Midwestern USofA and we fry river/pond/stream food here. Thank goodness there aren’t ‘fish poppers! Seafood gets better treatment.
I don’t think there’s a day go by that I don’t think about stopping for some fries, tots or onion rings. Jalapeno poppers. Tater wedges. On average I resist 5–7 days a week, but it might cross my mind 2–15 times a day. Empty calories that mess up my stomach.
Every kind of snack. I just love junk food.
My latest phase is Starbucks Chocolate Chip Cookies, which are soft and wonderful and full of hunks of chocolate. Naught, naughty!
I could down an entire bag of Mother’s Iced Raisin Cookies.
Alas, they don’t make them anymore.
@filmfann go for the Circus Animals! They are also by Mothers and are pure sugar coating on a graham cracker, vaguely animal shaped lump. Nothing like them anywhere else in the world!
@filmfann I used to love those too. They don’t? Darn.
@chyna I have found a healthy alternative to those that’s pretty good.
@marinelife Hah. They’re sickeningly sweet to me, too. I can only enjoy the taste of all 1.2 grams of sugar if I eat the cookie with milk. And like @kevbo, I noticed that when I eat a little bit of junk food, I’m inclined to eat much more. I’m at school now and my frosted animal crackers are at home. This is bad.
@dxs Especially if you need to pull an all-nighter studying. You would need them then!
Double Big Mac with medium coke. With a vanilla Boost.
I haven’t eaten them in ages, but I love those waxy chocolate Donettes.
@Kardamom I haven’t eaten those in so long, either! I liked the clash of textures those things had.
Anyone here like Butterfingers?
@rojo I was Butterfingers when they weren’t cool. (Before Bart Simpson.) Loved them. They used to have really big ones for a nickel.
@marinelife: Sadly (and true of most of the new versions of the old candy bars), Butterfingers is loaded with corn syrup.
“Butterfingers contain a high percentage of corn syrup, a mixture of the simple sugars fructose and glucose, as well as sucrose.” Source
Tootsie rolls today taste like soap.
@gailcalled Yes, I know, but I still remember the ones from my youth. I had a Russell Stover coconut nest to celebrate the season of spring. It no longer had any jelly beans (used to have four—all different flavors) and was only vaguely nest shaped with a small depression.
@gailcalled The actual candy bar is “Butterfinger”. “Butterfingers are loaded…” for plural.
^^ You are correct. I was sloppy. Sorry.
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