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    Favorite splurge?

    Posts: 4,572 Member
    edited February 4 in Goal: Maintaining Weight
    One of the nice things about maintaining after all this time is that always seem to have a bunch of extra calories left at the end of the day. I usually have ice cream around 9PM, but that's only 100 or so calories for 1/4 cup and I don't want more that that. I'm usually looking for 200 or so.

    Lately I've been going for brie or Stilton on Ryvita crackers or homemade bread. Any other suggestions? I'm looking for something savory, not sweet. What's your favorite splurge?

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    • Posts: 1,454 Member
      Laughing Cow Creamy Swiss cheese on Tomato and Basil crackers or the Tomato Basil Wheat Thins
    • Posts: 26 Member
      A few slices of bacon and cabbage fried together. Simple and so good.
    • Posts: 1,120 Member
      Ice cream, beer, and cheesecake. Sometimes all at once.
    • Posts: 111 Member
      My favorite savory splurge is buttered toast dipped in a sunny side up egg. Sooooo good!
    • Posts: 611 Member
      Red wine (I like Shiraz, Lambrusco, a Rose called Santa Digna ... just to name a few) and cheese ... Naked Goat (Mucia Curado), Petit Basque, Drunken Goat, and Manchego, are some of my favorites ... All kinds of nuts ... Dried dates and figs (Turkish) are yummy too ...
    • Posts: 4,404 Member
      Toast with butter and honey, large pot of full fat total fage greek yoghurt, peanut M&Ms.
    • Posts: 143 Member
      Fresh guacamole with tortilla chips.
    • Posts: 2,099 Member
      Chocolate, always. Although wine is a good choice also
    • Posts: 6,474 Member
      wine, cheese and chocolate.
    • Posts: 3,596 Member
      Hot buttered toast - hopefully homemade bread, either a nice seedy granary loaf, or a white sourdough, (or maybe an English muffin or a bagel or a crumpet) generously spread with real butter. Sometimes jam or marmalade on it, although that's making it sweet.

      Or, cheese of some kind. Something tasty. A strong gouda, or mature cheddar, or manchego, or Stilton.

      Or, a couple of spoonfuls of peanut/almond/cashew/hazelnut butter.

      Or, some salted roasted pistachios.

      Occasionally, marinated green olives with capers and/or cheese and/or anchovies.
    • Posts: 921 Member
      cupcakes, just 1 instead of a dozen
    • Posts: 9 Member
      Favorite splurge is rewarding myself once a week with frozen yogurt topped with any/all the toppings I feel like that day! Yum!
    • Posts: 207 Member
      Ice cream, beer, and cheesecake. Sometimes all at once.


      THIS!!!!!
    • Posts: 74 Member
      Sour cream and chive dip & tortilla chips ^_^
    • Posts: 775 Member
      Plantain chips, rum and coke, McVities Digestives (Original) or macadamia nuts
    • Posts: 3
      A perfectly made cosmo!!!
    • Posts: 413 Member
      Kamikaze
    • Posts: 375 Member
      Favorite splurge is rewarding myself once a week with frozen yogurt topped with any/all the toppings I feel like that day! Yum!

      I have done this many times as well and love it! I just load it up and don't let it bother me;)
    • Posts: 1,118 Member
      Wine! :drinker:
    • Posts: 23
      Franz Sweet Dark bread w/a little butter and topped with a strong cheese. I like either extra sharp white cheddar or gouda!
    • Posts: 2,297 Member
      I'd say wine...a nice glass of Red...(A Malbec or Merlot...) Or peanut butter. In any form. With anything.
    • Posts: 95 Member
      Sweet treats: I like 100g banana & 100g vanilla ice cream approx 220 calories. Or sugar free jelly with 4 fresh pineapple spears approx 50 calories.

      Savoury treats: I like 2 slices of wholemeal bread toasted (176), with 1 laughing cow cheese lite triangle (25) and one fresh tomato sliced (10) total 210. Or 1 egg scrambled with 2 chopped mushrooms approx 90 calories.
    • Posts: 1,186 Member
      If it's under 200 calories, it's a McDonald's ice cream cone. If it's between 300-400 calories, I'll go for the McDonald's Hot Fudge Sundae. And surprisingly, they aren't too bad on macros, either.
    • Posts: 121 Member
      I thought you meant splurge as in something expensive that you spring for every once in a while. So I'm thinking caviar with blinis and creme fraiche and expensive champagne.
    • Posts: 240 Member
      Chocolate of course, but the savory bomb is Poutine. Fries, gravy, cheese curds - there is nothig more perfect or more unhealthy. Back in the bar days wouldn't go home without hitting up a fast food place that served it really greasy. (I know - a very Canadian Response).
    • Posts: 257 Member
      If I have left over calories I eat nuts and dried fruit as a splurge :)
    • Posts: 330 Member
      Wedding cake ice cream or cinnamon raisin toast with butter.

      Edit to add: My answer was based on the original question of having leftover calories at the end of the day. If it was an entire meal, I'd have to say Indian food.
    • Posts: 1,690 Member
      Pizza, wine, ice cream, rib eye, creamy pasta, boneless chicken wings.... How do I choose?!?
    • Posts: 945 Member
      Beef tenderloin filet cooked medium rare. With a side salad, a baked sweet potato, and bread. And red wine!
    • Posts: 1,654 Member
      Half an order of onion rings or fries to go with my favorite sandwich - or potato chips, if eating at home.
      Fancy cheese, turkey, crackers, and berries arranged nicely on one of the good plates.
      A chocolate-covered, sea salt-topped graham cracker with a glass of iced tea.
      A slice with my salad at our favorite pizza joint.
      Half of the bread and butter that comes with my meal at Outback. Or one of those mini-shakes they serve now.
      Oh yeah, and pistachios... I don't know why, but I fracking love pistachios.

      My daily 200-300 calorie splurge is frozen yogurt - no toppings, just a great big yummy cup of the stuff. But since I make room for it and eat it every day, maybe it doesn't count as a splurge....
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