I do ok with most cookies, but can not stop on homemade ...and I have a hard time with overeating all cookies...but like Anne said, not a full out binge like with homemade. All chocolate chip are a bit of a problem, My MIL bought a big bag of chips ahoy for her train trip home and then left them here yesterday. Havent decided if they are a problem yet or not. I think they may be in the "if I dont start I wont continue" list. But I meant to send them to work with dh today.

My weirdest trigger is whipped cream..I dont even like it, but I will get a can of reddiwhip and clear it out in one fell swoop.

I remember making dough for peanut butter cookies. I swear, half the dough never saw an oven! As for the cookies I did bake - -small batches, cause I like them warm...

*sigh*

Ha, raw cookie dough reminds me of a story. A neighbor made a batch of chocolate chip cookie dough and ate almost all of it raw, washed down with a giant Pepsi. The Pepsi's carbonation reacted with the baking soda in the raw dough and apparently set off one of those volcanoes in her stomach that we used to make in 5th grade science class. I seriously though I would have to take her to the ER for a while, but she recovered.

I would say there is a 3rd gene in addition to sweet or salty and that is FATTY. That is me. I dont like SWEET things or Salty things unless they are also fatty. For example I detest all candy except chocolate. And I dont really care about cake, but chocolate or shortbread cookies The only cake I have a problem with is cheesecake. Salty - I could give or take potato chips although doritos are an issue, but cheese, pizza, anything salty and fatty

I can eat thinmints...those I got mad because I ordered several boxes and they didnt come. I can eat 1 or2 of them and not binge because they are lowfat.

Helen - I am the same as you with chocolate. Usually I can eat a dove promise or a hershey nugget (bite size individually wrapped)...but I can not open a bar of chocolate and just break off a square.

Hmm, what is it called when you don't have any particular addiction, but can be addicted to stuff pertaining to each of these categories?

I can't say I have a sweet tooth or a salty tooth, there are foods in both 'groups' that I can't be around, and some that I don't care about. Eating cookie dough sounds appaling to me, but I love chocolate; and I don't like chips, but bretzels (I'm not even sure--is that the same as pretzels?) are seriously my huge downfall--I could eat them all day long, and I mean the big stuff, not necessarily the small ones.

Remember the package of cookies I bought last week? They remain unopened in the pantry!!! I know that they are unopened--I checked last night. I'm thinking that once they get opened, I'll wait until they are 3/4 gone and try 2 of them.

As for salty, sweet or fatty, give me fatty any day. Can you say cheese? Warm, creamy cheese sauce in a casserole. Salty is okay. I like a good cracker with my cheese! Sweet--obviously not my downfall. Even chocolate I can pass by without trouble.

Ok, I like fatty too. And my love of baked goods is pretty much limited to chocolate or fruit desserts. I never eat things where the dominant flavor is sugar or corn syrup. I just don't like it.

wyllenn, I used to make a big batch of cookie dough to keep in the fridge, and we'd just bake 3 cookies apiece each evening. I'll nibble at the raw dough while I'm mixing it, but I like it much better all baked and warm and melty. Half the attraction of cookies is the chocolate; the other half is the butter.

oh god my favorite part about baking cookies used to be the creamed butter & sugar...before you add the eggs

meg -- great story!

baffled -- for whatever reason, my real problem with cookie dough really comes out with peanut butter cookies. I'll eat dough with choc chip ones, but do prefer warm cookies.... I actually love warm pb cookies too...

It's a good thing I just had a good lunch... this is giving me cravings!!

Visions of those YouTube Mentos and Diet Coke videos!!!

Hmm, I know I have the salty gene - give me wheat thins or cheez-its or chips any day over sweets, but I have a touch of the fat gene too. Love cheese, pb and - sigh - butter on hot toast Cake, eh, usually I can leave it. Had 2 slivers of DH's double layer b'day cake last week. Once with him on the actual day, another when I knew eating a little cake would save me from a major pb-fest. (It did too)

I seldom bake cookies, as I do like them warm. DH would love it if I'd make them more, but he has a major sweet tooth, but needs to keep his weight at it's low range to keep pressure off his damaged spine. He does really well with this too, and while he still eats sweets, he does so much less often.

Ugh, forget cookies - I was confronted with my big weakness at an early am meeting this morning and lost - maple glazed donuts. I haven't had a donut in 3 years and I caved. At least I didn't eat the whole thing (almost the whole thing!). I guess the old me would have had 2-3 donuts (more if I thought people weren't looking).

Feeling bad and mad at myself - I didn't want to eat a donut but I did anyway! Those weird feelings of "slippery slope, is this the beginning of a downward spiral?" Just going to have my normal salad with turkey for lunch and keep going.

Grrr.

Donuts.

Maple-glazed.

You guys are making me hungry!!!

I have a weird thing with cookies. I *used* to not have a problem with them. When I was a kid the rule for cookies was always that we could have two cookies for a snack, and we always had a maximum of two snacks per day. I continued with the two cookies up through high school and college and was fine. I was also never taught to clean my plate so I had no problem leaving leftovers. HOWEVER, my fiance is a member of the clean plate club, and since his family didn't keep cookies in the house, whenever they had them it was a race to get as many as you could before they were all gone. One time he bought two packages of oreos to take to a party, and only one package got eaten. He took the other package home and at it all IN ONE SITTING. After living with him for three years, I get stuck into that mentality too -- if I don't shove as many cookies in my mouth as possible, he will eat them all. I am so greedy. It's embarrassing when I do it. What I've started doing when we have sweet treats is to divide them up in half beforehand, so there are "his" cookies and "my" cookies, and he's not allowed to touch mine. The problem is that I get jealous watching him eat all his cookies and I'll just eat mine too.

The trick for us is to just not have cookies in the house. At least, only on special occasions.

I have a good excuse for cookies if there is such a thing... two weeks ago we filed for divorce, this is the third time he has moved out in 4 years. He has been gone since May and I am under incredible stress. I have never taken any kind of meds ever in all this and I went on a Lorna Doone shortbread binge and tiny gingersnaps from Trader Joes. The therapist asked me if I had any valium NO) on a Wednesday 2 days before we filed and on the way home I stopped at Walgreens and bought 2 sleeves of LD cookies and some red licorce! My girlfriend said you were getting ready for the weekend and you have not done anything like that in years! I hit the what I thought was comfort foods and used it as a drug! I follow a whole foods diet and have lost 45 lbs in a year ( march) and at least 30 before that. I did not weigh myself at first so I only kept track of the 45... I only ate half the candy and darn near got sick. I am ok now but after not being able to eat for the last 3 months I have to make sure I don't go on that downward spiral. Goes to show food can be a drug. Twenty seven years of marriage, no kids, and no job and a house to take care of with limited money right now.... and I have not been overeating, for the most part taking good care of myself.

Glory, you have been a great source of inspiration for me as I have been a whole food person for a long time! I just wanted to know how you have been support for those of us who look more than post. You all are on here!

Ugh, I have this mentality too. Must be some old instinct of getting one's share before food becomes scarce again. I live alone, so I'm alright at home, but at work or parties, I always have to keep myself in check: most of the time, I'd eat the food that has been brought just because it's here and I want some before it's gone, NOT because I really want to feel its taste, because I love that particular food, etc. I seriously have to keep on telling myself "you don't HAVE to jump on that last croissant: if you want one, there are twenty bakeries on your way home, that sell better ones anyway". Fortunately, this method is starting to work (I don't stop at the bakery, by the way--it's just a mechanism of coping).

Speaking of which, I *was* at the bakery yesterday for bread, around afternoon snack hour, and my eyes just glazed over the croissants. I didn't buy anything else. Weird.