We went to Krispy kreme in college when they first opened up in So Cal. I wasn't impressed. And I love bread more than life itself.

I also don't like danishes. hmm maybe I like my bread more plain, who knows?

I also never really cared for pancakes until later in life but I can't eat syrup on pancakes, I prefer them plain, same with waffles/french toast/etc. I can eat sweets for breakfast but not that sweet.

I love bagels though, oh my I love bagels. Especially an everything bagel...

My favorite candy bar growing up was abba zabba and recently I wanted one. I may buy one when I'm in CA. They don't have them east of the rockies I believe.

Originally Posted by PhotoChick:
They need to be allowed to play in the dirt and eat things that would make an adult gag and not be followed around with a bottle of Purell and a Wet-wipe.

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Oh NO - just realized that kids today have probably never made Mudpies!! With germ phobia rampant, fear that dirt will be tracked indoors and HOA (home owner associations) insistence on manicured yards meaning there's no dirt available that isn't covered with sod or mulch, kids don't have a chance!

Also showers and baths weren't as frequent as they are today. You still washed and stayed clean, you just did it with less water.

The Christmas foods aisle . . .
 

. . . seems to have grossly expanded :devil: in our local food superstore.

Wandered past and just had to try a package of chocolate covered caramels studded with sea salt :p. Never combined chocolate and salt before.

And never will again. There were 9 of these in the package and I ate 3. By that time my tongue was doing strange things. About an hour later I was in the bathroom :barf:.

I have the proverbial cast iron stomach so this was a surprise :eek:.

Surprised my brain is still fighting my body's attempts to never again eat anything unhealthy. I know these things are going to make me feel sick but I keep trying.

The emotional component of eating - ain't it grand? If I could conquer that I would be set for life as far as my health goes.

Dagmar :tired:

Originally Posted by WaterRat:
Since I grew up in the late 40's and the 50's, we were not subjected to all this germ phobia (well, not as much).

I've noticed that while I'm very relaxed about the germ thing (maybe that's my advanced age) my kids don't seem any sicker than the kids who carry germX.

As for doughnuts, um, possibly one of my favorites. I don't eat them because if I can't have half a dozen why bother.

joyofsix - I feel the same way about bagels. I finish one and want another one immediately after.

mudpie - OH MY, I love chocolate covered sea salt caramels... I bought some at a fancy chocolate shop and they were soooo good. Of course I love sweet/salty together.

I used to LOVE sweet stuff for breakfast. I have the biggest sweet tooth known to man. My favorite breakfast I used to get? Cinnamon roll french toast at Coco's. They take a cinnamon roll, slice it up, and cook it like french toast, then smother it in butter and maple syrup, and serve it with eggs and bacon. One time I ate an entire plate full of it at a restaurant (huge restaurant-sized serving, this is when I was at my high weight) and drank a big glass of OJ, then passed out in a sugar coma an hour afterwards. :rofl:

I still love that stuff but I can't stomach it in the morning anymore. Gone are the days of cinnamon rolls, cinnamon roll french toast, enormous sugar-coated blueberry muffins, donuts for breakfast, cocoa puffs, danishes, the list goes on and on. I need my breakfast to be slightly sweet -- I can't stand oatmeal without any sugar in it -- but only, like, a max of 1 Tbsp sugar.

My kids think I'm crazy about some of the things I eat for breakfast. I don't know why, but I'm often cold in the morning and therefore I want something hot. If I make a huge batch of Irish oats, I'm good to go for many mornings, but often all I have on hand is the instant stuff and that just won't cut it. A lot of the time I'll choose some leftover food. Rice is easy. Today it was leftover casserole. Yesterday it was pumpernickel bread with cheese melted on top. Not good choices at all, but I usually make up for it with smaller noon-time meals when I go overboard at breakfast.

Cinnamon rolls are another thing that I never really appreciated until recently although I'm very picky about them and only like certain ones. And I don't like the icing.

I'm odd in that it is difficult for me to have a substantial breakfast. My stomach just doesn't handle it too well. I was doing smoothies for a while but lately, it is soy milk in some type of tea like chai. That will hold me over for a couple hours when I am able to have a more subtantial snack.

Substantial breakfasts don't work for me either. I either have to be up at least four hours before eating, or I have to have a tiny snack-sized breakfast.

My hubby is always lecturing me about eating a better breakfast, because he's the one that suffers if I get busy and forget to eat. A blood sugar drop for me, usually means a pain in the rear for him, because I get extremely irritable before I recognize it as hunger. When I am sticking to my lower carb plan, I can forget to eat (boy is that a novel experience), and getting angry is my first recognizeable sign of hunger. It's why my husband begged me not to ever again do an Atkins induction-level plan ever again. I was mean as a badger (which I learned when I moved to WI is very, very mean) the entire time.

Originally Posted by :
OH MY, I love chocolate covered sea salt caramels... I bought some at a fancy chocolate shop and they were soooo good. Of course I love sweet/salty together

Me too. My favorite snack as a kid was brownies with a side of potato chips. I've never had the chocolate covered sea salt caramels. Now I'll be looking for them. :lol:

I always have a substantial breakfast, within 1/2 hour of getting up. DUring the week I go between cold cereal with nuts and/or flax meal and toast, oatmeal nuts and/or flax meal and toast, or eggs and toast. Weekends I'll do "fancier" eggs or protein pancakes. Cannot do just sweet stuff - I'm hungry and queasy about 15 minutes later...

Colleen - I worked for a lawyer who got very cranky when he was hungry. We were on a longish out-of-town trial and working a zillion hours a day - I learned quickly to recognize the signs and make him stop and eat. I understand that badgers do indeed have a mean personality. :)

Well, it's at least better than when I has severe PMS. I've since found a way to minimize that (by choosing to have fewer periods with a bc similar to Seasonique), but hubby used to call me "werewolf," and said that he had to throw a bag of burgers (which I don't like any other time of month) into the apartment and wait to hear munching before it was safe for him to enter the apartment, during "that" week. Which he also started calling "meat week," because while I'm not a vegetarian, I usually eat several meat-free meals a week and generally don't eat a lot of red meat, especially "chunk o' meat" style. Not opposed to it, just not interested in it, but that monthly week I would want beef and/or pork and in fairly substantial quantities (burgers, chops, steaks, ribs....).

I maintain that it wasn't THAT bad, but hubby swears he was not exagerating. And the other day we were watching a comic on tv talk about how his wife is going through menopause and he misses the "good old days of PMS," and my husband was laughing so hard, he started choking.

the salt/sweet combo
 

Saved one of those salty chocs for my DH (who will eat ants if they are dipped in Belgian chocolate). He took one bite, made a :eek:, ran to the bathroom and spat it out. Flushed the whole thing down the toilet.

We agree on something!! :dance: That almost never happens these days.

Funny though - we both like the salty sweet combo in marinades and asian food. Just not in our desserts.

Dagmar (is Christmas over yet?) :tired:

Originally Posted by alinnell:
A lot of the time I'll choose some leftover food. Rice is easy. Today it was leftover casserole. Yesterday it was pumpernickel bread with cheese melted on top. Not good choices at all, but I usually make up for it with smaller noon-time meals when I go overboard at breakfast.

I eat lots of leftovers for breakfast or if there aren't any I'll have oats or a greek omelet. When I'm letting go I really like cheesy, ricy, spicy casseroles best for breakfast. Or samosas:nono:

Originally Posted by joyofsix:
I eat lots of leftovers for breakfast or if there aren't any I'll have oats or a greek omelet. When I'm letting go I really like cheesy, ricy, spicy casseroles best for breakfast. Or samosas:nono:

Oh wow, haven't thought of samosas in a while. Mmmm. And pakoras. And nav rattan korma. I'm going to stop now. Next time I see my sister (we both call this "happy food"), I'm treating her to the Indian restaurant. :) We maintain decorum if we eat at the restaurant. But if we go home, we sit around eating and going "Mmmmmmmm" all the time.

oh Samosas... I keep eyeing the vegetarian ones at Trader Joes and I have a recipe for samosa stuffed potatoes that is pretty good. I love Indian food, way too much. We used to go weekly and that is when I started gaining weight again. Now we go once a year :(