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    What are the foods you refuse to compromise on?

    Posts: 162 Member
    edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
    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.

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    • Posts: 131 Member
      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.
    • Posts: 2,424 Member
      Butter and cheese. Cheese should not taste like plastic.
    • Posts: 664 Member
      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?
    • Posts: 33
      Butter, cheese, mead - you just can't substitute it.
    • Posts: 19,251 Member
      Beer. If I'm going to have it, it's NOT going to be a lite beer.

      Cheese. Again, full fat or go home.

    • Posts: 30 Member
      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.
    • Posts: 997 Member
      Ice cream, cheese, mayo, milk, peanut butter ( no pb2),
    • Posts: 3,501 Member
      Beer.

      I don't want beer brewed the hard way. I want beer brewed the right way.
    • Posts: 18,804 Member
      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.
    • Posts: 1,395 Member
      Brownies. If you're not melting real true chocolate and butter for the batter, get off my planet.
    • Posts: 207 Member
      Anything dairy--cottage cheese, sour cream, etc. I can go with 2%, but fat free tastes like crap.
    • Posts: 207 Member
      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.
    • Posts: 2
      coffee mate. gotta have it for my morning coffee. 2 cups!
    • Posts: 563 Member
      Bacon (although I will eat turkey bacon), butter, peanut butter, cheese, milk, meat, wine.
    • Posts: 67 Member
      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.
    • Posts: 54 Member
      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"
    • Posts: 756 Member
      Cheese! I will not accept anything less that real cheese.
    • Posts: 162 Member
      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.)
    • Posts: 1,369 Member
      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.
    • Posts: 1,168 Member
      Cheese. Always cheese.
    • Posts: 42 Member
      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
    • Posts: 19,251 Member
      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.
    • Posts: 9,097 Member
      I workout, I eat. I don't compromise the gift of food.
    • Posts: 1,941 Member
      Peanut butter.
    • Posts: 264 Member
      Buttered toast!
    • Posts: 1,941 Member
      bread bread bread bread. I love a good loaf.
    • Posts: 85 Member
      Salted butter and Duke's mayo.
    • Posts: 135 Member
      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.
    • Posts: 622 Member
      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.
    • Posts: 622 Member
      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.
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