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Accept No Substitutes [Oh, It’s Tuesday]
One of the things that I discovered after a year of making lifestyle changes (read: dieting) is that there are certain foods that I will happily substitute with a lower-calorie alternative and a certain kind of food that I will not. For instance, I happily chow on sugar free jello and pudding. And on the rare occasion that I want a soda, diet will totally do. Light or greek yogurt? Mmm-mmm! Let’s do this. And I think my turkey sandwich taste just as good on whole grain bread with lowfat provolone. But there is one kind of foodstuff for which I can accept no substitute and that is cake.
I love cakey things of all varieties. I love Starbucks lemon cake. I love a nice piece of coconut cake. Back when I was in grad school and still had a working metabolism, to the horror of my program mates I used to eat a package of those orange Hostess cupcakes every day in class. I went on several field trips as a child in St. Louis: There was the free zoo, and the free art museum, the gorgeous botanical garden, our state capital, the beautiful central library — I could go on and on. But which trip do I remember with the most fondness? The one we took to the Hostess Factory when I was in second grade. Afterwards we got free twinkies. FREE TWINKIES — seriously, who could ask for anything more?
So today, I’ll pour fat free milk over my multigrain cereal and I’ll heat up a Lean Cuisine for lunch and I’ll eat a Weight Watchers toffee ice cream bar for my evening snack, but those Weight Watchers lemon cakes? No, dude, that’s gross. Thank the Lord for 100 calorie packs of Nabisco cakesters, or I’d be in a constant state of cake frenzy.
My MIL has a similar policy concerning milk. She just can’t stomach fat-free or even lowfat milk. She’d rather not have breakfast at all than have to suffer through what she feels to be the equivalent of pouring milk-colored water over her cereal.
How about you? Do you have a food for which you’ll accept no substitutes? Let us know in the comments.
Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. I’ve even tried it with the Spider Man pasta & it is just not the same!!!
PS – Have you seen the Strawberry Twinkies? Ewwwwwwwwwwwwww.
Strawberry twinkies sound kind of wonderful. Sorry, I grew up with a poor diet, and I only have so much self-correction in me.
Recently I made some cookie dough as a treat for myself.
But I used whole wheat flour instead of regular flour. And margarine instead of butter. And agave instead of sugar. It was awful.
Then I decided that if I’m going to eat cookie dough, I should go all the way. Otherwise I should just eat an apple.
My husband in a fit of nostalgia bought me a box of samoas, which I ate like daily and by the box when I was pregnant with my daughter. My solve: keep them high in the pantry and eat two at a certain time every day. And let me tell you I appreciated 2 of those samoas way more than I would have appreciated a box of a diet cookie. I got to the point where I really looked forward to my Samoa time, which was basically walking to Starbucks, while listening to an audiobook and chewing on my two gooey delights.
Wow. If there was an entire box of Samoas in my pantry, they would not last more than a few hours, no matter what promises I made to myself. They rarely lasted a day when I kept them in my desk drawer. Hats off to your will power!
I refuse to eat baked/low fat chips. They are poor imitations of the real thing. I want every greasy calorie that brings that wonderful, flavorful crunch to life, LOL!
I must admit, I did try baked chips w/ French onion dip and it did not go well. I mean, I’ll eat it, but it’s definitely not the same as Wavy Lays…
Can’t do any fat free diary, espicially fat free cheese. And I have to only have full fat cream cheese.
Oooh, I love Laughing Cow though!
Yeah, say no to the fat free dairy. It’s actually worse for your waist line and arteries than the full fat stuff.
Yeah, say no to the fat free dairy. It’s actually worse for your waist line and arteries than the full fat stuff.
Um, is it really? B/c laughing cow be the bomb.
Yeah it really is, but if Laughing Cow is all your eating when it comes to the low fat dairy than you have nothing to worry about.
Ice Cream. I do not want to hear that this yogurt taste soooooooo much like ice cream you never notice it, cause it’s not true. Froxen yogurt is delicious for what it is, but it is NOT Ice Cream. And don’t even get me started on gellato. “But it has less air in it than Ice Cream so it’s a better value and richer tasting.” How is it of better value when I don’t like the consistency enough to choke it down? And it doesn’t taste better, you know why? It’s NOT ICE CREAM!
I have an intense love of ice cream, too, but I ain’t fancy about it. I’ll take anything: weight watchers, yogurt, gelato, the stuff in the 7-11 freezer case. If it’s ice cream, I’m down to eat it.
Ice Cream. I do not want to hear that this yogurt taste soooooooo much like ice cream you never notice it, cause it’s not true. Froxen yogurt is delicious for what it is, but it is NOT Ice Cream. And don’t even get me started on gellato. “But it has less air in it than Ice Cream so it’s a better value and richer tasting.” How is it of better value when I don’t like the consistency enough to choke it down? And it doesn’t taste better, you know why? It’s NOT ICE CREAM!
Frosting. I will not stand for canned or point and shoot frosting. It just tastes so plastic-y. I was raised on the real stuff, butter and sugar and the canned stuff just ruins cake/cookies. Any kind of frosting from a jar is nastiness.
Ooh, I love me some canned frosting. There’s just something about it that reminds me of childhood with my strictly boxed cakes mother.
I would give up Coke altogether before I would force myself to stomach a Diet Coke! Seriously, hate diet soda of any kind!!!!
I used to feel that way, too. But now that I’ve given up soda for the most part, I can stomach it when I let myself indulge. Most days I just drink water and call it a day.