What are the foods you refuse to compromise on?

fitbethlin

I was reading a thread about "diet" foods in which a bunch of people talked about the things they thought were worth getting in "diet" versions - diet Coke rather than real, low fat mayo vs full fat, etc.

What is something that you are NOT willing to buy diet/low-cal/low-fat?

I generally prefer the whole-foods, less-processed version of things, but the things that I absolutely cannot under any circumstances compromise on are (1) bacon and (2) butter.

bkerr30

Those are the top two I would have said also! The only other one I would add is ice cream. I only eat it like two times a year but when I do, it CANNOT be that frozen dessert bull$h!t.

JPW1990

Butter and cheese. Cheese should not taste like plastic.

DirrtyH

Ew, I would never drink a diet coke! Ick. Instead I drink only water, and allow myself to have full sugar, delicious coke once a week.
Otherwise, I can't really think of anything. I'll do the lower cal version of pretty much anything, it's not so bad.

Oh, I don't do low sodium soups. Why eat something with no flavor?

TwistedFlowers

Butter, cheese, mead - you just can't substitute it.

Sabine_Stroehm

Beer. If I'm going to have it, it's NOT going to be a lite beer.

Cheese. Again, full fat or go home.

rocknrollfire

beer for sure. i love a vodka soda with lime on a hot summer's day but when it's -20C in the middle of winter all i want is stout.

stephanieluvspb

Ice cream, cheese, mayo, milk, peanut butter ( no pb2),

Jruzer

Beer.

I don't want beer brewed the hard way. I want beer brewed the right way.

Alatariel75

Cheese, beer, and beef. Cheese is a given, low fat is just sadness. Beer - there's no point drinking it unless it tastes good, and a good, hoppy full figured beer makes me drink slower. Beef, I know I can get a lean steak, but it's never as good as a juicy marbeled one.

cheshirecatastrophe

Brownies. If you're not melting real true chocolate and butter for the batter, get off my planet.

streamgirl

Anything dairy--cottage cheese, sour cream, etc. I can go with 2%, but fat free tastes like crap.

streamgirl

I'd add to the cheese/dairy thing that I actually have learned to eat less of it if I get the good stuff. An ounce of good, strong, cheese goes farther than more of a milder kind. Think feta.

bella460

coffee mate. gotta have it for my morning coffee. 2 cups!

goddessofawesome

Bacon (although I will eat turkey bacon), butter, peanut butter, cheese, milk, meat, wine.

silverbeam22

Alatariel75 wrote: »

Cheese, beer, and beef. Cheese is a given, low fat is just sadness. Beer - there's no point drinking it unless it tastes good, and a good, hoppy full figured beer makes me drink slower. Beef, I know I can get a lean steak, but it's never as good as a juicy marbeled one.

This.

blbst36

Pasta, bread, dough, potatoes. Anything with the dreaded "carb" label. No - cauliflower and squash are not the same thing and don't taste "just like the real thing"

Roxiegirl2008

Cheese! I will not accept anything less that real cheese.

fitbethlin

Dear God, I forgot about beer. Clearly I need to add that as number 3. I live in craft brew country, and I do not compromise with generic light crap. (I do like a lighter type of beer in the summer - but that means a Kolsch, not something with "lite" on the label.)

SuggaD

I don't use a lot of butter, but when I need butter in something, it has to be butter. The substitute is plastic, imo. I don't really eat any "diet food," but I have made a lot of healthy substitutions to my diet and eat mostly whole foods.

AmazonMayan

Cheese. Always cheese.

mummyappleseed

Tried a lot of diet products but the no fat us rurally means hidden sugars or chemicals that are debated as being dangerous like aspartame.
Would not try anything that replicates carb foods again like carb free rice or pasta. Most revolting things I've ever eaten were pasta substitution tasted like horribly over cooked squid with a coating of plastic & extra slime. Gross

Sabine_Stroehm

SuggaD wrote: »

I don't use a lot of butter, but when I need butter in something, it has to be butter. The substitute is plastic, imo. I don't really eat any "diet food," but I have made a lot of healthy substitutions to my diet and eat mostly whole foods.

Agree with you there.

Chieflrg

I workout, I eat. I don't compromise the gift of food.

melimomTARDIS

Peanut butter.

jazzy550

Buttered toast!

melimomTARDIS

bread bread bread bread. I love a good loaf.

kelseymallen

Salted butter and Duke's mayo.

acarmon55

I will not give up my 2% milk and Nesquick powder in the mornings. Have drank this all my life and I love it. I have cut back but will not give it up. I also have to say my homemade wine.

ashleycde

Cream cheese, has to be full fat. Any cheese, really. Cheese is literally made from fat.

Beer. Light beer tastes like water, and it only has less calories because it has less alcohol, so that seems illogical to me. None of this skinny girl wine or vodka either, thanks.

Steak. I like my New York strip and all its marbled fat. Filet minion just looks sad to me.

Smoked meat. I like it fatty, it's where the moisture and tenderness comes from. I briefly worked at a delicatessen years and years ago and we actually discouraged people who tried to order a lean sandwich, and if they wouldn't listen, they were charged extra.

Butter, though I wouldn't have thought to say it until you mentioned it, just because I don't really consider margarine a substitute. Does it even have less fat or calories? Isn't it just hydrogenated canola oil?

Bacon, again, because it was mentioned. I was going to say we don't have low-fat bacon in Canada until someone mentioned turkey bacon. No thanks, I like my crispy pork fat.

The only thing I'll substitute is low-fat Hellman's mayo, but we buy both since my boyfriend likes the full-fat version, so I tend to use both, depending on my mood and what I'm making. Though I suppose I rarely use mayo either way.

ashleycde

If you want beer with less calories, drink Guinness. It has a lower alcohol content and therefore less calories. Plus, you know, a pint of Guinness on a cold night is the absolute best.