Yes… this is why I made a “mini-batch” of chocolate peanut butter treats for Sunshine. These rolls/treats are almost like fudge and too many of them… well you know. And sometimes she just can’t stop herself.
Sunshine does pretty good with other deserts and baked goods, but chocolate and peanut butter treats are definitely her weakness.
I will try to keep up with you.
I have been keeping a fresh fruit salad in the fridge, so that’s a start!
NY style pizza slices, from one of several great places here in town.
This is my favorite Chex Mix recipe from Brown Eyed Baker:
The ingredients I use are from an earlier recipe I think:
3 cups Corn Chex cereal
3 cups Rice Chex cereal
3 cups Wheat Chex cereal
2 cups mixed nuts (I used roasted, unsalted from Trader Joe)
2 cups twisted pretzels
2 cups Goldfish (I used Rocket cheese crackers from Trader Joe)
1¾ sticks butter, melted (Microwave about 33 seconds at a time until butter melts then whisk in following ingredients)
4 Tablespoons Worcestershire sauce (use 6 T?)
2 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons garlic powder
1 ½ teaspoons onion powder
½ teaspoon cayenne pepper
Dashes of Crystal Hot Sauce
Nice thread topic.
I have my comfort take-out and other foods when I’m down, but as I was thinking about it, I don’t think I’m driven to food by other people (just my own stress 
)
I most often reach for Chinese (beef chow fun, char siu ribs).
Savory carbs. I can do carbs on carbs on carbs on carbs 
(But I try very hard not to the majority of the time)
This. Why, yes. I would like to have this pesto pasta with potatoes. That sounds delightful! Also, potato and cheese pierogi for life!
I didn’t realize I was driven to Drive Thru Quarter Pounders with Cheese until Friday night, and I noticed a pattern over the past 4 years.
Maybe I needed that 2 year break from fast food, from Feb 2020 (a Egg McMuffin at a roadside McD’s on my way home from Jasper, on a vacation) and April 2022 (drive thru Quarter Pounder with Cheese in suburbia after an upsetting disagreement), then last Friday (upsetting phone call, which drove me to a Drive Thru McDs) to recognize I have triggers that send me to McDonald’s. 
I just bought 3 boxes of frozen pierogis.
I would be careful with that thought. While muscle does more calories than fat (pound for pound) the difference is not as significant as the popular press makes out to be.
Did it cure what ailed you?
I have been able to stay away from fast food except occasionally I was getting chicken breasts from KFC when I’d run out of roasted chicken I feed my cat. We share it. I don’t give her the skin, of course.
The last time she was fine the first day or 2 then next she threw up 2 meals in a row. I threw the rest out even though it hadn’t bothered me.
Went out, bought and roasted a chicken, everything fine, back to normal.
A friend has gained some weight recently, he thinks he eats too much bread. I told him to eat an organic apple, Good Culture cottage cheese and then go for bread if he’s still hungry.
I dropped weight and added muscle. Less carbs, cut out junk and HFCS and walked everyday…but it took 3 years+. My thinking was keep it simple and I wanted to add muscle for aging, balance, etc.
This article is a logical and medical disaster. It appears to be comparing brown fat (which, in most people, constitutes 0.5% of their body’s mass) with skeletal muscle. And even brown fat burns 1/3 the fat of muscle.
Have you ever seen the fake lumps of fat and muscle tissue dieticians and gym owners use to demonstrate the density difference? It’s huge, when you compare the volumes of 5 pounds of muscle and fat. So if you lose 30 pounds of fat while gaining 30 pounds of lean mass, your RMR will increase quite a bit.
Now, it is true that calorie expenditure in a given exercise may be the same for both individuals of equal weight. But where it gets interesting (and depressing) is that it takes 2500-2800 excess calories to synthesize a pound of muscle, and if you take in excess, if you do it wrong, you also add fat. On the other end, dieting usually strips both fat and muscle. Most people can’t lose fat and gain muscle at the same time, even under the best conditions; the challenge becomes coming up with ways to minimize muscle loss as stored fat is used for fuel. If you can’t burn fat preferentially, it takes a very long time to end up leaner and stronger. And past a certain age, you may never be able to build muscle; you might just be lighter and weaker after you diet.
What is it about McDonald’s that hits the spot in such an effective way? I can’t easily get to McDonald’s, which is probably a blessing in disguise. But sometimes after a bad shift I’ll ask my husband if we can go and we actually sit inside the McDonald’s at a table silently - I usually go for a sausage and egg McMuffin meal if it’s breakfast time (I tuck the hash brown inside the muffin). Other times of day, a hamburger, cheeseburger or filet o fish or 6 chicken Mcnuggets depending on my mood. I have 2 colleagues who also love a McDonald’s to de-stress. And a very strange 57 year old colleague who has never been to a McDonald’s in his life and never allowed his kids to eat any. We tell him his kids must have eaten some and not told him…
Cheese toast or
Matzoh ball soup or
Macaroni and cheese
And a large glass of white wine (if it’s reasonably close to 5:00 PM).
Oh lord- Oreos- one of those things I close my eyes when I pass lest I buy them and gobble them up in way too short a time. I don’t like the flavored, double stuff, anemic ones, just plain original Oreos. I just realized I’m hungry. Glad I don’t have any Oreos in the house…
Sounds good to me
I think McDonald’s has figured out their Bliss Points.
I would think trying McD’s would be at the top of the list for things to try for at least one of your colleague’s kids.
I had a classmate in high school who told everyone she was a vegan. She would carry a glass jar full of nuts and seeds for lunch. And then we found out she still enjoyed the occasional Big Mac. With the meat.
Later, in university, I met someone who was a vegetarian, who would order a Big Mac and ask McDonalds to leave out the meat. She liked the toppings in a bun.
I avoid hot dogs now but I realized I wouldn’t like them naked; what I really like is the fresh onions, mustard, relish.
In Vienna there are wonderful hot dog stands, hot dogs are high quality, excellent mustard. That’s it! I was really missing the onions!
The Original Wiener!
I didn’t try one on my one visit to Vienna in 1996.
I only started eating more sausages on my last 2 or 3 trips to Europe. I love the Drei im Weggla that are 3 little grilled sausages in a bun, sold in Nurnberg.
The hot dogs in Switzerland are good in my experience, too.
My comfort Chinese take-out is usually Ginger Beef, Honey garlic ribs/wings, General Tso chicken, Singapore noodles, various other fried noodles.
