List an item of junk food that you really like...

[old mark]

I occasionally really crave canned ravioli...have 2 cans in the cupboard right now...


mark

[HopeHoops]

1. Corn chips and salsa.

My wife's making home-made salsa today with all of the ingredients coming from our garden! I know what I'M having for an afternoon snack!

[kentauros]

35. I'd say the only junk food ingredient there is the chips!

Home-made salsa is the best, especially so when you've grown all the ingredients :thumbsup:

I bought some avocados the other day and need to make some guacamole soon. I think they're ripe enough now :)

[HopeHoops]

36. She made it last night - WOO HOO! I had some for dinner and on a fried egg this morning.

This batch turned out a little hotter than the last, which is just fine for us. Our girls probably won't be able to handle it though. She's going to try to make a less spicy batch today for them. Her dog will eat anything that she eats, even if it is hot.

[kentauros]

38. Though I don't eat eggs any more, I'm jealous!

I'd put it on some tofu scramble however :D

Have you ever tried growing tomatillos? You can make a nice and mild green sauce with them. Or make green cornbread :P

[HopeHoops]

41. Funny you should mention tomatillos. I got HUNDREDS from four plants in NH!!

I'm not kidding. I thought, "Gee, a southern vegetable in NH, I should grow four plants to be sure to get some" so that's what I planted. Each of them turned into a 4' or taller BUSH! They started producing early and continued well into September. I filled paper grocery bags with the things and they went in everything. Curiously, they kept very well in the basement at least into December. I haven't tried them in cornbread. That sounds good.

As for the eggs, we've been vegetarian since '89 but we do eat eggs and dairy, but with moderation. Our three daughters have been vegetarian their entire lives and are all strong and healthy.

One of our favorite substances is tempeh. The girls like it when I cut it into 1/4" strips and pan fry it in peanut oil with a little spicing (Old Bay is my favorite, but they also like paprika, garlic and onion powder, and finely ground white pepper). It is great dipped in ketchup, BBQ sauce, cocktail sauce, or even honey if you skip the spices.

They aren't big on tofu in stir fries, but scrambles are fine and it works great for replacing ricotta in lasagne. My eldest (19 now) loves any kind of dahl, and I make a lot of different variations of it.

Geeze, that was a rambling message. I've been awake since 4:00 and still don't feel "awake".

[kentauros]

43. Vegetarian here, too.

I just lost my taste for eggs, and only buy them once a year now, when I make biscotti for Christmas presents. And if I don't use all the eggs, I end up throwing out one or two. If I have more than that, I'll just make another batch ;)

That's cool about the tomatillo plants. I'll have to try growing them sometime, too. Some of the plants I've let "flourish" were the mammoth sunflowers and a blue-basil plant. It got huge as well and too often I couldn't get near it until late at night because the bumblebees were all over it during the day :D

When I'm healthier (I've got a third-time's-a-charm boomerang cold right now) I tend to eat stir-fry and use what used to be considered a junkfood ingredient: coconut oil. I still use olive oil, but those are the only oils I use for cooking or making bread.

I've got a slab of tempeh in my fridge but it's likely past the expiration date by now. I suppose I could open it up and see. I'll do the same with it, cut it thin and either fry it or bake it. It makes a great BBQ substitute :9

Don't feel bad about the rambling. I've been up since about 5:30, with 4 or 5 wake-ups throughout the night. I should be more tired...

[CBR]

2. Flaming Cheetos... love them!!! nt

[blueamy66]

3. salt and vinegar potato chips

and fried calamari...is calamari a junk food?

also like the canned raviolis and spaghetti Os

[Tom_Foolery]

4. Pork rinds. n/t

[gvstn]

5. Cool Ranch Doritos

Also had a sustained love affair with Oreos two years ago. Hadn't had one in about 10 years and bought a box on sale from a big display figuring I would throw out what I didn't finish. They tasted exactly as I remembered. Bought about three boxes a week for 8 months. Thank FSM warmer weather arrived and I lost my taste for them!

***
Spaghetti-O's are inedible in my mind. I was scarred as a child of about 5 years old, when I ate lunch over at a friend's house and his Mom served spaghetti-o's. Big bowl of tomato sauce with a few noodles swimming around. Blech! I had been taught to eat whatever was served me to be polite and forced myself to eat them. Never ate at his house again or even looked at anything by Chef-Boy-Ardee. (That was many many years ago so I shouldn't judge your tastes but frozen ravioli and a decent jar of sauce is so easy ;))

[old mark]

7. Oh, I LOVE really good ravioli - we go to a Sicillian restaurant serving

homemade ravioli - and everything else-but I just get a craving for the canned slop from time to time...it is, as you can imagine, totally different...

mark

[gvstn]

29. Oh, I know the irrational love of junk food, well!

I just can't get over that one experience with canned pasta.

To be fair I love tomatoes but am not fond of tomato products. I hate tomato juice and cold pizza or cold spaghetti sauce are unappealing. The finest chef and freshest ingredients and I could only eat gazpacho to be polite. I like everything in it but the dish is just not my thing. Salsa which has some pepper to it, at least covers the tomato sauce flavor. Although a two hour old dish of salsa is gross. I hate to even clean the dish. Just my thing. Maybe the Spaghetti-O's weren't hot enough for me?

Doritos on the other hand...I thought were disgusting for months when my family first tried them but now they are something to avoid because I keep eating them trying to figure out why they taste good even though my fingers are covered in fake chemical cheese powder.

There are plenty of people who are paid good money to figure out the perfect mix of flavors to keep us coming back for more of things we know aren't real food but taste good to us anyway. This thread proves they earn their money.

Enjoy your ravioli! Doesn't even count as a vice. :)

[libodem]

6. cheeseburger

[GoCubsGo]

8. Little Debbie Nutty Bars

I could eat the whole box in a sitting--which is why I never buy them.

I like canned raviolis, too, FWIW.

[hippywife]

22. Bingo!

We don't indulge in Nutty Bars very often. It is a RARE treat, and yes, they can disappear pretty quickly. :D

:hi:

[MorningGlow]

9. OMG Doritos

I can't keep a bag in the house because I will eat them nonstop until they are gone. Ditto for Chips Ahoy cookies. Nom nom nom...empty.

Oh, and these:



They are crack, I swear. And as you can plainly see, I knows my junk food.

[Throd]

10. Carl's Jr, Double Western Bacon Cheeseburger!

I eat one every month as a treat.

[hyphenate]

11. Gotta be

Tiramisu at the moment. There's other junk food as well, but my "habit" mainly revolves around my consumption of desserts. Another one is Cella's Chocolate covered cherries. Cella's is the only one with syrup inside, not that super sweet white stuff.

Both of these create the endorphins I need to keep going!

[Callalily]

12. Archer Farms- Jalapeño Cheddar Chips

I can't even keep them in the house . . . they are soooooo addicting! YUM!

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__cezjirArH0/Sl4khjg-CKI/AAAAAAAAClA/Txch9d8ImFQ/s400/Archer+Farms+Jalapeno+Cheddar+bag.JPG

[Curmudgeoness]

13. Just "an item"? Agh. Can't buy Goldfish without finishing the

whole package. Those Pepperridge Farms Goldfish are addicting. Once made the mistake of buying something that looked like a milk carton of them. I was just going to have a few before getting dinner. That turned into dinner of Goldfish, and I was really miserable!

Also did this once with Oreos too. Next day my BM was black and I got scared until I realized why. I don't suggest this.

[gvstn]

27. When I was about 14

I ate almost a whole 20 oz. package of Oreos. I was literally dizzy from the sugar that my body couldn't metabolize. That put me off them for years. But I have to say I still have a weakness for them. I know they are crap but the "food engineers" definitely earned their pay figuring out the proper mix of sugar, salt and fat to make your body say--More!

[Lars39]

14. I get a craving for Cheetos every once in a while.

Sure as hell didn't help that I figured out that they go really well with tomato soup.:9

[cordelia]

15. Fig Newtons

Can't help myself.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

16. Carl's Jr. fried zucchini with ranch dressing...I know it's bad for me, but...

[Old Troop]

17. Fried plantain chips

[PADemD]

18. Scrapple

It's PA Dutch

[gvstn]

30. I tell myself it is mostly corn meal--sounds healthier! n/t

[TK421]

46. You speak my language! but it has to be well-done

I've ordered it in plenty of diners that served it mushy :-(

[PADemD]

53. I know what you mean.

Scrapple needs to be crisp.

Some diners also make terrible scrambled eggs. I like mine fluffy.

[TK421]

54. We have an Amish market here in Bristol Borough...they make their own

http://www.bristolamishmarket.com/index.php

If I had plenty of money, I would spend it here and get to be 800 lbs

[blogslut]

19. It depends on my phase

Currently I've been re-introduced to the disgusting wonderfullness of Vienna Sausages.

[elana i am]

20. heh! i just came back from schlotzkys

the schlotzkys original sandwich on sourdough. absolutely terrible for you, but so delicious.

[pink-o]

21. I was just thinking about this! I'm a health foodie, very little processed

food in my house

With one great exception....

Kraft grated Parmesan cheese. The stuff that has a shelf-life of 5000 years and comes in the plastic tubes. I throw that shit on everything from minestrone soup to salads to cage-free egg whites to home made dressings--hell, I'd probably even eat it plain! The sodium alone is probably gonna kill me one day, but I just can't make it stop!

[bigwillq]

23. Doritos (nt)

[applegrove]

24. I had a old great aunt who once admitted she had captain crunch in her cubboard. After she died

I would buy a box a year just to keep her memory alive. Plus it was tasty.

[old mark]

32. And don't forget the famous whistle-the free prize that was included in

Captain Crunch back in the 1960s or 1970's...one was used by the pioneer phone phreaq named Captain Crunch to hijack the phone system...but that's a whole other story!!!
(Here's a link to it:

http://www.jetcityorange.com/CapnCrunchWhistle/ )

NOTE. You can't do this stuff anymore...they changed the phone system long ago.

mark

[femmocrat]

25. Right now it's Keebler's Sandies cookies.

Sweets are my weakness.

[Critters2]

26. Fritos. I love them! nt

[valerief]

28. Pizza. If it's organic, does it count as junk food? nt

[gvstn]

31. I think

If you use an unbleached napkin to sop up the excess oil from the melted cheese it counts as nutritious. But don't go somewhere that uses low fat cheese--you only want to remove the EXCESS oil not the necessary oil that gives flavor. ;)

[CreekDog]

33. Anything Hostess

:P

[Quantess]

34. cheetos

especially the puffy kind.

sometimes I actually am wearing cheeto-stained pajamas at the keyboard. :)

[gbate]

37. Doritos. Can't have them in the house.

[Dulcinea]

39. Smartfood popcorn.

The best snack food ever.

[Dr Morbius]

40. Any cheese-flavored snack, from Cheetos to pretzels.

Fritos, Doritos, Tostitos, Cheetos: I pretty much enjoy the entire "Toes" group. I like Chex mix and potato chips. At my house we just call them salty snacks, and we keep them on top of the fridge. Currently, there's a cheapo Cheetos knockoff and some tortilla chips up there. Oops, the tortilla chips are gone. I brought a bag of Cracker Jack home; that's what's up there. My wife likes to snack on cereal; figuring cereal is healthier than chips or pretzels I encourage this.

I love McDonald's double cheeseburgers (no ketchup, no pickle). I had a couple recently for the first time in a long while and noted how salty they are, so I looked it up. A double cheeseburger contains some 1160 milligrams of sodium. Leaving off the pickle and ketchup perhaps reduces this by 20 or 30 milligrams. I could eat half a bag of cheez balls and consume only 900 milligrams. Now, that's what I call junk food! But I still love them, in moderation. Besides the milkshakes, that's the best thing McDonald's has. Mostly, their food fails to satisfy. Maybe that's because it should be seen as a big junk-food snack, not a meal.

[Phentex]

42. So far, ALL OF THE ABOVE...

I hate threads like this. Makes me want to eat these things immediately!

[ThomCat]

44. JennaLaw's homemade Baking! Pies! Cakes! Cookies!

:9

JennaLaw loves to Bake. And she's great at it!

She's one of those amazingly talented people who is very crafty and loves to create things. She knits, crochets, sews, and bakes. She's walking talent! I'm amazed almost every day!

(I've been teaching her to cook. That was my talent back when my hands worked. How can anyone be a phenomenal baker and not know how to cook? But she's a great student, and now she's a good cook too, and getting better every day.)

Um, unfortunately, I'm allergic to dairy.* I also react badly to eggs, but that isn't an allergy. It's some other kind of reaction, and fortunately, not as severe. But regardless, I can't eat anything made with butter, cream, milk, or eggs.

Big problem, right? No cake for me! No pie, or tarts, cookies, or any other goodies.

JennaLaw went to Vegweb. http://www.vegweb.com/

Lots of wonderful, incredible recipes, ranked by lots of people who have tried them, and they are vegan!

:woohoo:

So now she's on a mission to fatten me up!

We have a half-eaten Spice Cake in the kitchen right now.

Before that it was Apple Pies.

Lemon Shortbread Cookies! :9

Chocolate Cinnamon Cake!

Cinnamon Buns!

Chocolate Cherry Cake!

Oh, lots of homemade breads! Yum!

She has a stack of recipes put aside of things she's planning to make next. Our kitchen is going to smell wonderful, and I am going to enjoy every day of it! :9



* Yes, it is a real allergy, not just lactose intolerance. Even small amounts of dairy and I have trouble breathing, get very painful muscle cramps everywhere, get a immediate headaches, and get to find out how many Smurf Jokes the EMT's know because I'm turning blue. It takes large doses of antihistamines, muscle relaxers, painkillers and rest for me to recover. :(

[Mopar151]

45. Canned hash

Grilled and browned, with fried eggs. Mallomars.

[TK421]

47. Recently, its been Ginos pizza rolls

[Kali]

48. I recently discovered fried cheese curds at A & W

yeah, those are it.

I have convinced myself that I can only have them when I go to Tucson alone. I hardly ever go and even more rarely am I alone. So far it has worked. I also tricked myself into believing the A & W closer to home on the other side of Benson doesn't carry them and has no drive through.

Not sure how long that is going to work.

[PassingFair]

49. The only place we EVER ate out when I was growing up was McDonald's.

Once in a while, in clement weather, we would go to McDonald's
after a nature walk. There were seven of us and not much money.

Oh,those precious hamburgers and fries eaten slowly and with
much love and appreciation in the "way-back" section of the
family station wagon...

I confess to pulling into the drive-thru a couple of times
a year and ordering a cheeseburger.

[vanlassie]

50. What would I do for a Klondike bar, or three?

[MrScorpio]

51. Fig Newtons

I love Fig Newtons

[Skittles]

52. Jack in the Box tacos

total friggin' greasefest :thumbsup: