Guilty pleasures?

[XmisterIS]

Mostly, I eat healthy food, but occasionally I love a blow-out on a particularly guilty pleasure.

Three of my more shameful ones are as follows:

Ben & Jerry's ice cream. An entire tub, eaten in one go, with a spoon straight from the tub.

An entire 700g pack of hash browns, baked until they are super-crunchy and sprinkled with even more salt than they already contain!

An entire pack of smoked bacon in a half-baguette and slathered in mayonaise.

Luckily, I have the metabolic rate of a small rodent and so I can eat that stuff without putting on any weight. (Much to my Mother's chagrin - luckily I inherited skinny genes from my Dad, rather than fat genes from my Mum).

So what are your guilty pleasures? And do you indulge in them by the bucketload as I do? Oh, the excess!

 

[Adasta]

McVitie's Chocolate Digestives.

 

[vernon]

A stand pie consumed in one sitting.

A malt loaf with one longitudinal cut, the two halfs buttered and slapped together and eaten.

 

[Keith Oates]

Ritters Rum & Raisin Chocolate, the only problem is that one bar is not sufficient. I'm now trying very hard not to eat anymore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[vernon]

Ritters Rum & Raisin Chocolate, the only problem is that one bar is not sufficient. I'm now trying very hard not to eat anymore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!

Rittersport Marzipan does it for me. Thankfully it's not widely available.

 

[Cardiac]

Luckily, I have the metabolic rate of a small rodent and so I can eat that stuff without putting on any weight.

The phrase "you have the metabolism of a herd of wildebeest" was once used to describe my capacity for burnng through excess calorific intake. Having my chest ripped open by a heart surgeon has encouraged me to be more considerate to my internals, however, although I find it all but impossible to cut down on coffee. Two sugars please...

 

[PaulSB]

Both my wife and I are chocaholics though Mrs P has recently moved on to Werthers Originals. If chocolate is available I have to eat it but if there is none I can survive without. I try very hard to avoid buying chocolate.

Bassett's jelly babies last about ten minutes in my company and I do find them truly compulsive. Denying the urge to buy a packet is very hard.

 

[vernon]

The thing is - I don't feel guilty.

 

[yello]

The thing is - I don't feel guilty.

No, me neither. Fortunately, such earned pleasures (for that is what they are ) are not a daily occurrence.

There's nothing particular that I treat myself to. It could be a magnum ice cream, or a couple of white chocolate and cranberry cookies but perhaps the most frequent one is a glass of single malt of an evening. That really does work for me.

 

[XmisterIS]

McVitie's Chocolate Digestives.

A whole packet, I hope! Anything less is failure ...

Seriously though and in the light of what Cardiac said about his heart, I reckon the real reason why I'm not super-sized is because I do a lot of exercise and most of my meals are healthy (brown rice, veg, fruit, nuts, pulses, not much meat, etc) and about once a week or once a fortnight I'll indulge in one of my guilty pleasures!

 

[coffeejo]

I've not bought any sweets, chocolate, biscuits, crisps or cake from a shop for two months now, since I can eat a whole tub of Ben and Jerry's in one sitting - but without the benefit of a helpful metabolism!

Instead, I'm restricting my intake to something I've baked myself or when I'm out and I'm enjoying it much more.

 

[ianrauk]

These

And these

And this

 

[Fnaar]

Biscuits/jaffa cakes. I buy them to have in my office, as biccies don't last 5 mins at home (3 nippers) and I rarely get a look in. So, stick them in my desk drawer. They rarely see the day out

 

[Melonfish]

entire tub of ben a jerry's Phish food...

buttermilk scones -no fruit slathered with clotted cream, repeat until cream is gone!

very guilty indeed...

 

[andylaw79]

McVitie's Dark chocolate digestives, consumed 3/4 pack last night whilst ironing shirts for work. Luckily they are on offer at £1 a pack at the local supermarket, Got 3 packs yesterday which probably won't last the week.

High on the list is also Cadbury's Fruit & Nut, the bigger the bar the better.