What is/are your food weakness(es)?

[Jenise]

I dont think there is enough room on this page to list my weakness(es)
BUT

I think that would go for most of us! I just settled on the things that I'm most helpless to resist. And at that I erred: much as I love Peanut Butter and give in to the very occasional spoonful, that jones is under control. Potato chips, however, specfically Ruffles plain or Kettle Chips S & P, simply cannot be in the house. (Likewise, the donuts and Slim Jims I mentioned.)

JC, you only mentioned cheese four times. Did you forget something?

No, Jeff, she mentioned it five times.

Mark Lipton

My weakness:

Tater Tots, Potato Puffs, or whatever else they call them.

These are those shredded potatoes pressed together with some kind of oil and frozen. You have to heat them in the oven or in a toaster-oven.
Really, Really bad for you, but I love 'em

I may have mentioned cheese five times but I forgot to mention bacon. Probably should add fried chicken to my list also and artichokes.

Custard. It's great comfort food, great self-indulgence food, great reward food .... All kinds. Baked, stirred, made with eggs milk and cream, made with a packet of custard powder. The Francophile loves it too. But he insists you have to have pudding to hold the custard up in the spoon.

Ice cream used to be dangerous waters for me. I love the stuff, and when I lived on my own I was wont to spoon it out of the tub, standing in front of the open refrigerator. I haven't let myself do that for nearly ten years. But I love to eat the stuff, summer or winter. (Just had a "lightbulb moment" - maybe vanilla ice cream with hot currant and rum chocolate sauce for dessert this weekend ... ?)

Chocolate? Well, I indulge. But you know, I enjoy it less these days. Only really good chocolate delivers. I still eat the middle of the road stuff, but it must be habit.

Oh, how could I forget...Totino's Pizza Rolls!!!

Ahh...baking a batch of these puffy little calorie-filled pillows is a midnight snack to end all midnight snacks.

And to think that some people find frozen foods unappealing. Please don't tell my tastebuds!

Jeff

There really are at least 2 or 3 categories.

Because I've been fighting weight gain and high cholesterol for years, there are things (like ice cream) which just are not brought into the house. Actually I have realized that even when there IS ice cream in the house (like right now, my son bought some when he was here) I don't acknowledge that it exists. Chocolate, licorice, cake, pie, all fall into that category. And things like quiche...

Then there are the things I occasionally break down and buy. Salted nuts. Potato chips. When I buy those I know they will not last 24 hours. I might put single malt Scotch into that sort of category -- although a bottle lasts more than 24 hours. I have it in the house but it's down in the cellar which is a reasonably long walk.

I have been trying to have unsalted nuts around. I would have a snack of 7 raw almonds and 14 roasted pistachios -- one new WW point each. This worked for a while and I was proud of myself to be able to keep it under control. But then I sat down on the couch with the bag of pistachios. Gone! Uh oh.

There is a chef in Tel Aviv, Mena Shtrum by name, and I will comfortably take an oath that his thin-crusted pizzas, with a variety of toppings (from Margarita to freshly grated Piedmont truffles on Pecorino) can compete easily as the best in the world. Today, as an act of weakness on my part, I found myself quite hungry at lunchtime and wandered into Radio Rosco (the place that does Mena's pizzas). We were two for lunch and quite easily downed six of his medium-sized pizzas, the first three with the Ruffino Ducale of 2006 and the second three with Antinori's 2007 Pian delle Vigne.

As John Donne proclaimed so nicely: "There is, there is, there is a God"

Best
Rogov

There is a chef in Tel Aviv, Mena Shtrum by name, and I will comfortably take an oath that his thin-crusted pizzas, with a variety of toppings (from Margarita to freshly grated Piedmont truffles on Pecorino) can compete easily as the best in the world. Today, as an act of weakness on my part, I found myself quite hungry at lunchtime and wandered into Radio Rosco (the place that does Mena's pizzas). We were two for lunch and quite easily downed six of his medium-sized pizzas, the first three with the Ruffino Ducale of 2006 and the second three with Antinori's 2007 Pian delle Vigne.

Rogov,
It sounds like I'll have to spend some time in Tel Aviv, a thing I've never done. In Jerusalem, I was quite taken with felafel sandwiches from the Christian quarter (pickles are a great addition) but much of my time in Israel has been spent with family in the Galilee, where alas food is not a high priority. Good pizza is a wonderment.

Mark Lipton

Weight Watchers has been trying to ruin my enjoyment of pizza.

At my department meetings, there is the most wonderful greasy pepperoni pizza. I could probably eat about 4 slices of that stuff but WW says it is 11 points per slice, and 4 slices would use up my entire allotment for a day. So I take a banana, and after one slice I eat the banana. The rest of the pizza looks a little less attractive after that.

Louise had some Manicotti shells and decided she wanted to use them up. I shopped and found the ingredients for Lidia Bastianich's version of manicotti -- which involves fresh mozzarella, so the result is totally TDF. AFTER helping her cook these things (BTW the tomato sauce was also home made from a Lidia recipe and unbelievably good) -- I looked up the points. One manicott(o) is ten points. Gesu!!!