Guilty Pleasures Food Favorites and Snacks

[John Brunner]

I was on a homemade chocolate covered almonds and candied nuts kick for a while. I cut back the almonds because the almonds and the chocolate are bad for kidney stones (oxalate in both of them.) I just made a batch of baked candied pecans with egg white, syrup, brown sugar, salt, and cayenne pepper. I was gonna make a batch of baked cinnamon walnuts with maple syrup, but decided to make candied ones on the stove top with sugar, butter, and a little salt. I threw them together while the pecans were baking.

I picked up the trick of soaking nuts overnight and then running them through a dehydrator for 24 hours. Apparently, this makes them easy to digest because soaking gets rid of the enzyme inhibitors that preserve the food until water is present and the thing sprouts...the enzyme inhibitors actually inhibit your own digestive enzymes. And the process makes the nuts crunchy rather than mealy.

I don't really need all the sugar of the candied walnuts (1/4 cup for 1 cup of nuts), but what the heck. They are addictive...and it's healthy·ish candy. By way of comparison, the pecans only have 2 TB maple syrup per 3 cups of nuts.

 

[Marie Miller]

I was on a homemade chocolate covered almonds and candied nuts kick for a while. I cut back the almonds because the almonds and the chocolate are bad for kidney stones (oxalate in both of them.) I just made a batch of baked candied pecans with egg white, syrup, brown sugar, salt, and cayenne pepper. I was gonna make a batch of baked cinnamon walnuts with maple syrup, but decided to make candied ones on the stove top with sugar, butter, and a little salt. I threw them together while the pecans were baking.

I picked up the trick of soaking nuts overnight and then running them through a dehydrator for 24 hours. Apparently, this makes them easy to digest because soaking gets rid of the enzyme inhibitors that preserve the food until water is present and the thing sprouts...the enzyme inhibitors actually inhibit your own digestive enzymes. And the process makes the nuts crunchy rather than mealy.

I don't really need all the sugar of the candied walnuts (1/4 cup for 1 cup of nuts), but what the heck. They are addictive...and it's healthy·ish candy. By way of comparison, the pecans only have 2 TB maple syrup per 3 cups of nuts.

Boil your nuts in sugar/water/spice until dust stage sets in. Then add a couple of spoon of water and get it to hard candy stage. You can go sugarless in the air fryer.

 

[Marie Miller]

Homemade pretzel knots about 1 1/2 inch with shaved hard Italian salami and aged parm chips.

 

[Ed Wilson]

Back in the day it was pizza and beer, or cheese puffs and beer, or _________ and beer.

 

[Marie Mallory]

Two that come to mind are Sicilian pizza and potato chips. I limit myself to potato chips twice a week because of salt.

I like the crunchy Cheeto's.Jake likes the puffy ones.
I also liked the Eclares at Publix bakery,although not now a days.

 

[John Brunner]

Boil your nuts in sugar/water/spice until dust stage sets in. Then add a couple of spoon of water and get it to hard candy stage. You can go sugarless in the air fryer.

The recipe I use has 1/4 cup sugar, 1TB butter, 2TB water and a little salt in the pan with the nuts. You heat it until it caramelizes. Is that the same thing you're talking about?

 

[Krystal Shay]

I really like chocolate. Dark chocolate!

One of my favorite foods is pizza. I do love a good pizza! And just like @Ed Wilson....pizza with a cold beer!

 

[Marie Miller]

The recipe I use has 1/4 cup sugar, 1TB butter, 2TB water and a little salt in the pan with the nuts. You heat it until it caramelizes. Is that the same thing you're talking about?

No John.
100 ml water
150 g sugar
200 g raw almonds
Dash of salt
Slices I use either 1/2 teaspoon fresh ground Thai Pepper or 1 tablespoon cinnamon/ground clove

 

[John Brunner]

I really like chocolate. Dark chocolate!

One of my favorite foods is pizza. I do love a good pizza! And just like @Ed Wilson....pizza with a cold beer!

I used to make chocolate covered almonds with the darkest Ghirardelli I could find. Good stuff.

 

[Marie Mallory]

Some other things I really like is Better Goods products (Canada made) chicken tenders, light crust good in microwave or oven..
Better goods Amaretto Peaches in a jar- tasty. I like the BG chicken pot pie. Not MAreis C, chicken pot pie, but not bad. Comes in family size only here. Bimbo ( loaf) also makes some high fiber bread I hope to try soon.

Qw usually buy Maries pot pies, chicken or turkey. Now I just take a couple bites of Jakes when we have one.
My main meal is oatmeal, with a couple real fruit bars, strayberry ,blue berry.Or vanella yogurt.Peanut butter saltine to take Tylenol.

 

[Marie Mallory]

We also have these …in our panty and are an essential for our morning smoko ..at 9.30 ~ 10 am …if we are not going to be home at those times we take our thermos brand coffee travel mugs and have a small plastic container with spicy fruit roll biscuits in the centre counsel …

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I like fig newtons, darn tooten.

 

[Ken Anderson]

For me, that would be Häagen-Dazs vanilla ice cream. For the past couple of years, I have been pretty good about eating ice cream seldomly, although I love it. I like several other flavors as well, but vanilla has always been my favorite. Call me a racist if you must.

 

[Shirley Martin]

I have been having a banana with vanilla wafers for breakfast lately. Bananas are a fruit, right? And vanilla wafers have flour, eggs, and milk, right? So, I am having a healthy breakfast!

Do you ever have a craving for a particular food? I think that is our bodies way of telling us that we need those foods. Even chocolate.

 

[John Brunner]

For me, that would be Häagen-Dazs vanilla ice cream. For the past couple of years, I have been pretty good about eating ice cream seldomly, although I love it. I like several other flavors as well, but vanilla has always been my favorite. Call me a racist if you must.

I went through an ice cream phase for a while and ended up switching to ice cream bars in order to impose portion control. As an aside, any non-plain yogurt (even just vanilla) has as much sugar per ounce as Bryers vanilla ice cream. So ice cream ain't that bad for you.

 

[Shirley Martin]

I go all winter and don't eat ice cream, but I buy a gallon in the middle of summer and eat some every day until it's gone. My favorite is chocolate swirl.

 

[Ken Anderson]

Do you ever have a craving for a particular food?

Oh yes, when I did the Atkins Diet many years ago, before they changed it, I found that it is quite possible to crave bread. Oddly enough, potato chips have never been something that I ate a lot of, and more for convenience than anything else, but if I am dieting for any period of time, I often crave potato chips, but not only potato chips - potato chips and dip. If I'm going to cheat on a diet with potato chips, I may as well add dip.

 

[Shirley Martin]

I never missed the bread on the low card eating plan. But then, I've never been a big bread eater. We never have bread and potatoes at the same meal.

 

[Krystal Shay]

I could not go without bread; homemade bread that is! But Store bread---I can do without completely.

 

[Ken Anderson]

I could not go without bread

I would need something to put peanut butter on.

 

[Marie Mallory]

For me, that would be Häagen-Dazs vanilla ice cream. For the past couple of years, I have been pretty good about eating ice cream seldomly, although I love it. I like several other flavors as well, but vanilla has always been my favorite. Call me a racist if you must.

I like vanilla ice cream with Terrasoul organic Cacao aka chocolate. I pour a little liquid over it to moisten the powder.
Lately I don't eat ice cream, but when I do and did I had a choice.