What's your number one food craving?

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  • jpsgirl96
    jpsgirl96 Posts: 9 Member
    I still crave Starburst jelly beans, though I stopped eating them long ago. And they are one in a list of foods that I don't necessarily crave but that I can't stop eating once I start. Pretty much anything in the carb/fat/salt world qualifies. Chips or Fritos with Lipton Onion Dip...made worse if it's at cocktail hour and I've had a drink...I'm also of the "substitutes don't cut it" school - they have calories, too, and they don't feed the craving (which isn't usually hunger based).
    There is no substitute for those Starburst Jelly Beans...;)
  • Catawampous
    Catawampous Posts: 447 Member
    Chips and salt! Favorite is Dill Pickle chips ... then Ruffles, then Lays, Lays Wavey, Doritos, Tostitos ... and yeah, it goes on and on.
  • Kelll12123
    Kelll12123 Posts: 212 Member
    Cheez its. Once I got high and ate an entire box. I don't buy them because I have no self control. I have air popped popcorn when I'm feeling snacky.
  • stacey01575
    stacey01575 Posts: 8 Member
    Cake/brownies - these I just try to limit as best I can but I don't substitute. The less I eat them, the easier it is to say "no". Also... pizza... love it and make room for it in my calories probably every week.
  • debtay123
    debtay123 Posts: 1,327 Member
    chips- I mean real potatoe chips- but I make do- with baked chips or good thin crackers which are pretty good
  • sunburntgalaxy
    sunburntgalaxy Posts: 455 Member
    French Fries or chips. I usually don't substitute I just fit them in my calories for the day. Luckily I don't crave them too often, and a lot of the time when I do I am too lazy to actually go out and get them. But if I can get someone to bring me some when I am lazy I just fit them in.
  • workinonit1956
    workinonit1956 Posts: 1,043 Member
    Potato Chips!! Lays Lightly Salted Chips-- I work them into my calorie allowance. No substitute:)
  • divcara
    divcara Posts: 79 Member
    Ice cream!!
  • juliebowman4
    juliebowman4 Posts: 784 Member
    Anything with potatoes, cheese or bread.
    All three together? A foodgasm.
  • joans1976
    joans1976 Posts: 2,201 Member
    Pizza. I can't stop at one slice or two....I used to give in the craving but now the sodium in it makes me blow up like a balloon the next day. I don't really have anything in my everyday eating with that much sodium in it and my body says "yikes! What did you do?" So now I find I just don't eat it.
    I have English muffins with tomatoes, basil and mozzarella now. Lots of delicious mozzerrella!
  • joans1976
    joans1976 Posts: 2,201 Member
    Oh and also
    CHEESE LOVERS UNITE!
  • labgeekj80
    labgeekj80 Posts: 32 Member
    I crave so many things at different times I'm just trying to be better about making sound choices. Like today I've been absolutely dreaming about gummy worms so I worked them into my calories for the day. Now my craving has been satisfied and I don't feel like I have ruined my diet.
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    Cake! Seriously Love cake and frosting, cake and buttercream icing!
  • ValerieMartini2Olives
    ValerieMartini2Olives Posts: 3,024 Member
    Chinese.
    Been making homemade fried rice which satisfies the craving.
  • Caquini
    Caquini Posts: 4 Member
    Cucumber with lemon and hot sauce.
  • bethannien
    bethannien Posts: 556 Member
    Potato salad but particularly this baked potato salad my sister in law makes. I could eat a days worth of calories in one sitting of potato salad.
  • LittleChipin
    LittleChipin Posts: 102 Member
    Hot cheetos, lime hot cheetos and extra hot hot cheetos, I blackout and when I come to I have red fingers and crumbs all over my couch, idk what happens...
  • cassandrag93
    cassandrag93 Posts: 825 Member
    Pizza <3
  • jofaithisfit
    jofaithisfit Posts: 94 Member
    I could use a glazed donut right about now.
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,594 Member
    candice072 wrote: »
    What's your food cravings and what do you use as a substitute?

    Bread ... and so ... I eat bread.

    Hardly ever ate bread before joining MFP last year. Now I eat it every day.
  • snowflake930
    snowflake930 Posts: 2,188 Member
    Pizza-but I don't substitute anything. If I want it, I eat it, and work it into my daily calorie allotment.
    I do make better choices (for me) now. We have grown to really like veggie pizza, and don't even miss the meat.
  • duddysdad
    duddysdad Posts: 403 Member
    The only thing I really crave is sweet. If I don't have a Hershey bar every day, I feel pretty crappy. Sometimes I will take a glucose tablet and it makes me feel normal again. Sometimes just having a few peanut M&Ms will get rid of the cravings. I mean like 5, not an entire bag.
  • Ricksh1000
    Ricksh1000 Posts: 88 Member
    edited September 2016
    I do miss a huge portion of chip shop chips, large carton curry, rice

    :|

    Typical British bloke!
  • ahoy_m8
    ahoy_m8 Posts: 3,053 Member
    Lobster. No substitute, and none needed.
  • RayvenLark
    RayvenLark Posts: 11 Member
    edited September 2016
    Chocolate. As is chocolate bars, m&m candies,chocolate chip cookies, etc. I cannot have those in the house at all! My substitution I guess would be my protein powders. It's a way to kind of have the chocolate taste while still being healthy :D
  • mparker87
    mparker87 Posts: 8 Member
    My number one craving is chocolate chip cookies and there are no substitutes! I try to not even make them because there is also no self-control when they're around. Others are french fries (I recently started making sweet potato fries and if they're crunchy enough, I love them!) and ranch dressing (I started using Bolthouse Farms and can't tell a difference).
  • tink11464
    tink11464 Posts: 119 Member
    Popcorn - which is bad for me due to carbs (health reasons).
  • _sacar
    _sacar Posts: 80 Member
    edited September 2016
    CHOCOLATE!! If it's mixed with peanut butter, I'm a goner.
  • _sacar
    _sacar Posts: 80 Member
    jdb3388 wrote: »
    Cheese, Sour Cream, Ranch Dressing, pretty much anything dairy.

    I use Greek Yogurt in place of sour cream, but everything else I pretty much just have to live without it or use a small quantity. Everyone has a reason they got fat, mine is cheese/dairy.

    I have been eating a lot of the Boathouse Farms yogurt-based dressings - they're usually 40 cals/serving. The roasted garlic one has all but replaced ranch for me!
  • sardelsa
    sardelsa Posts: 9,812 Member
    My mom's pasta and wine. No substitution since I have it about once a week, but having less wine I suppose is the compromise

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