I think I’m addicted to summer produce. Any of the following can bring on a binge: melon, cherries, plums, raspberries, apricots, peaches, 'maters off the vine, fresh green beans, cukes, peppers, etc.
For the not-so-healthy cravings, we have Jay’s potato chips with french onion dip, Ben & Jerry’s Coffee Heath Bar Crunch (which, alas, is just not as good with the generic non-Heath bar toffee, but still bingeable), lemon meringue pie, Toll House cookies (fresh from the oven), movie theatre popcorn.
Another vote for movie theatre popcorn. I can - and have - eaten until I was sick, then kept going. Roman Rules FTW. That yellow goo they squirt all over it must contain heroin or something.
It is requiring a lot of will power from me not to simply plow through the 12 pack of Endangered Species 72% Dark Chocolate with Blueberries that I bought.
I bought a party sized bag of Corn chips in preparation for serving chips and Salsa at a Super Bowl party. I opened the bag and took one just to sneak an early one. Then I took another and another and you are seeing where this is going…
I am happy to say I didn’t finish the bag. I think the physical limits of my stomach precluded that but I got close enough I had to go out and get another bag.
Tabouleh. Basil pesto hummus. Pretzel crisps. Petite baby carrots, raw cauliflower, or raw broccoli with some kind of dip, such as the above-mentioned hummus. Dried mango pieces. Dried cherries. Spinach salad with goat cheese, the aforementioned cherries, and red onion.
On the unhealthier side: homemade English toffee. Homemade cinnamon crescent rolls. Monkey bread (aka cinnamon pull-apart bread). Many flavors of homemade cookies.
About a month ago my sister brought home a big container of palmier cookies from Costco. I’d tried a cheap brand before that were bleh, so I wasn’t prepared the delicate, flaky, sweet, yummy, heavenly goodness that these particular palmiers contained. Unfortunately, they also contain something like 150 calories each. (I’ll never wrap my mind around how so many calories can be crammed into something that can’t weigh more than a quarter ounce, if that.)
Anyhow, after that first cookie, I could have easily eaten all the other three dozen or so in one, brief sitting. It’s a good thing my sister was there to keep me honest. I guess.
Oh yeah, other stuff I could really go to town on:
Ice cream. Safeway has a limited edition Sea Salt Caramel Butter Pecan flavor with lots and lots of pecans right now. Oh, yum!
Plain or BBQ potato chips, Nacho Doritos, plain tortilla chips, and puffy or crunchy original Cheetos, depending on my mood.
Pizza! None of the fancy, schmancy types they have now. The good, old-fashioned kind with a tomato sauce, your standard meats and veggies and a good amount of mozzarella.
I do like fruits and veggies. Wish I got cravings for them like I do the bad stuff.
Pretzels, roasted peanuts, Onion bagels with cream cheese, Reeses peanut butter cups, Malt Balls, Long john silver’s fish heavily basted in malt vinegar. Popcorn, either white cheddar or butter.
Pistachio nuts, potato chips (no dip, no flavored, just plain ol’ salty crunchy goodness), popcorn, grapes, watermelon, cucumbers from our garden, chocolate covered peanuts, and mostly Skittles and Starburst candies!
Salted cashews
Lay’s Kettle Chips - jalapeno flavor
Stella D’Oro Swiss Fudge cookies
Gummy vitamins - The daily serving size is 2 gummies, but I’ve gone over that amount, even with the understanding that it could kill me.
That’s one of the pitfalls of living alone. There’s no one to say, “Hey! There was a whole bag/box/container of <FITB*> here yesterday/15 minutes ago! What happened to it??” Of course, you also don’t have to share.
My late husband and I had a pact not to eat each other’s snacks. We even had separate cookie jars. More important for marital harmony than separate bank accounts. Nothing worse than heading home with the taste of those last three Mint Milanos already on your lips and finding the jar empty. Grrr.
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Yeah, me and my wife basically keep our own things like that to ourselves and we have separate areas of the pantry as well as hiding spots for guilty pleasures but I kind of talked my wife into giving up one of her Jeno pizza’s. For some reason we both really like them and I could see on her face as I hinted around before she very grudgingly said “oh fine, go ahead!” lol…sharing isn’t always fun.
