It's okay to love food

jemhh

DebSozo wrote: »

jemhh wrote: »

I love a lot of foods and if I really want something I will find a way to fit them in. But there are also foods that I specifically love to eat in great quantity and that quantity just doesn't fit into my calorie budget. I'd rather abstain from eating them than to eat just a small amount. Those foods I eat only on very rare occasions. But I also don't sit around dreaming about how I miss them.

I have found that after a while I was able to reintroduce certain old favorites and not get cravings for more triggered. I don't think about missing them anymore and do taste a bit when offered in small portions.

I have foods that I've been able to add back in small portions but there are foods that are texture or feeling foods that just don't deliver in small quantity. Saltine crackers, for example. I like a bowl of tomato soup loaded with so many saltines that they pretty much scrape my throat as they go down. That's at least a full sleeve of crackers for one bowl of soup. M&Ms, I like to swallow whole because I like the feeling, but I also like to chew some for flavor. One serving size bag isn't enough for me to be satisfied both flavor and feelng-wise so I mostly skip those.

JeromeBarry1

I love my mother's banana pudding, but she's dead and nobody knows how to make it.

jemhh

JeromeBarry1 wrote: »

I love my mother's banana pudding, but she's dead and nobody knows how to make it.

I am so sorry. There are several recipes that I wish I had gotten from my grandma and my husband's grandparents before they passed away. I've tried to replicate them in various ways but the results are not exactly the same.

DebSozo

JeromeBarry1 wrote: »

I love my mother's banana pudding, but she's dead and nobody knows how to make it.

My mom used to use a recipe off of the Nilla Wafer box.

Francl27

Cheesecake is the tough one for me, love the stuff, lucky if I can fit in a few times a year!

I'm pretty good about fitting in things I crave though (I had two donuts, some meatloaf, creamed spinach, and mashed potatoes today, but it was a maintenance day).

jayeless

Some of the foods I love, but only allow myself occasionally as treats, would include cheesecake, bavarian, chocolate mousse, lemon/orange and poppyseed muffins... and on the savoury side, Red Rock Deli chips. Especially that lime and cracked pepper flavour that for some reason they don't sell in single-serve packages, unlike every other flavour. Yum! I don't really bother substituting these foods, I just eat them kind of rarely.

There's also lots of healthy food I love though (thankfully). Things like curries, pasta (or better yet, gnocchi) with diced tomatoes and chilli, scrambled eggs with various ingredients, fish and shellfish, minced chicken with lots of spices and veggies in a wrap... Yeah. So even if I don't often get my treats, at least I console myself by getting to eat great food nearly every day.