February 23, 2009
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Confessions of a Junk Food Junkie
Her Royal Xangness Kween_of_the_Queens has asked us, her loyal Xangies:
Are you a saltie or a sweetie?:
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE JUNK FOOD? WHY?
Give us details! Show us pictures! Just be that junk food junkie for a bit of time and “let it all hang out”![note: all photo credit: Google]For a millisecond, I couldn’t decide whether I am a saltie or a sweetie. I have been a sugar addict since infancy, but now that I have Splenda® it is easier for me to resist sugar than it is to do without one particular savory and oh-so-forbidden dish. Since I have a bazillion sweet favorites, and only just the one savory must-have, the choice of which to blog about is easy.
In 2002, I finally came to understand my food allergies and addictions (basically the same foods, due to sound biochemical principles that any true addict will naturally hate hate HATE). I went on a strict diet that allowed me to eat all I wanted from a list of allowable foods, all the foods I didn’t crave. My health improved, and before I even realized I was losing weight, my pants started falling off.
All would have been well with me, if it hadn’t been for one haunting thought that kept recurring at odd unguarded moments: “Is life without pizza really worth living?”
My food sensitivities include wheat (the crust), cow’s milk (the cheese), nightshade family plants (tomatoes, peppers), mushrooms, beef, pork… all my favorite toppings. I’ll eat pizza with just about any of the conventional toppings except olives and anchovies, but my favorite is multi-meat with mushrooms, extra cheese and fresh tomatoes.When we go out to a pizza parlor, my Old Fart habitually eats the gooey middle out and leaves the crusty handle behind for me to eat — and you can bet that I do. I fell off the first episode of that diet after a couple of years — fell HARD — at Pizza Hut’s all-you-can-eat buffet. I have been on and off the diet, and in and out of the hospital, since then. Guilt, when I fall off, is the least of my problems. Weight is a relatively minor issue. Breathing is the real issue for me. I’m a fool for ever falling off, and I am a confirmed fool for pizza.
Once I allow pizza to tempt me off the straight-and-narrow, it opens the door to all sorts of indulgences:
ten-pound chocolate bars
giant Alaska cinnamon rolls
banana splits
cherry pie
apple pie ala mode with butterscotch sauce
pecan pie
hot fudge sundaes
hot fudge brownie sundaes
birthday cake
German chocolate cake
Black Forest cake
carrot cake with cream cheese icing
doughnuts
ice cream
cookies
candy bars
Oh, oooh…. I can’t stand any more. There’s none of that in the house, or anywhere for miles and miles around, and the car is snowed in the driveway. I’m salivating and my stomach is a vast vacant void. I guess I’ll go take a gluten-free sugarless high-protein muffin out of the freezer and nuke it.Seeya later.
P.S. As I was collecting the images for this post, Greyfox called. He has a buy one get one free coupon for the Pizza Hut buffet, and it doesn’t expire until the end of next month. Can you guess where we’re going to have lunch next time I go to Wasilla and who’s going to fall off her diet again?
Comments (18)
I can so relate! I’m diabetic, so you can imagine what all the sweets cravings can do to me!
wow–this is a frustrating yet delicious entry. to be allergic to most pizza ingredients!
i’m both, i think. sometimes i’ll eat a lot of sweets and then crave salty stuff–a balanced diet, of course.
I want something salty to look at now,.
all that stuff makes me deathly ill lately so even when i do give in- i regret it!
Brownie sundaes, I can relate. The only other sundae I really go nuts over is Friendly’s Reeses pieces with the peanut butter sauce. I’m a big chocolate fan. I don’t think I could give it up to save my life.
You should look into gluten free or soy cheese pizzas. There’s a product we get Amy’s(amys.com), they’re macaroni and cheese is really good. I can’t have dairy either. Ruins ice cream. Although, there is a good soy ice cream - Turtle Mountain Soy Delicous. (http://www.purelydecadent.com/products/purely_decadent.html)
I don’t know any imitations of the veggies or meats though, sorry.
@jerjonji - Sometimes I stop with a bite halfway in my mouth, knowing it’s a mistake. Other times, I go ahead and get sick. I used the word, “fool”, consciously.
@FalconBridge -
I can’t eat soy. Sometimes, I open the soy sauce bottle and inhale the fumes the way an alcoholic will inhale alcohol fumes. I have tried every substitute there is, and there is no substitute for gluten. I crave it because I am addicted/allergic to it. I don’t want a pizza substitute any more than any other addict wants a substitute for his drug of choice.
MiLady,
Oh so yummy! I love the hand tossed pizza w/ham, pineapple and green bell peppers…heaven! Fortunately (or unfortunately depending on how one looks at it) I have no food algeries. Perhaps if I did I could actually loose this extra weight I keep complaining about! Thanks so much for participating I’m off to the site now to link you!~Kween
Man, that just about has me wanting to go out to some all night pharmacy and buy some chocolate. I already had a roast beest sammich with cheddar and horseradish on multigrain breat. Still waiting for that to settle a bit (beest is so bad for one!) before I let myself go to blessed bed…
I sure would love to try some of those cakes.
Would hate trying to live with a food allergy. Definite way to lose weight though.
All the sweets gave me a tummy ache.
Take care
Oh noes–I am become a minion of the Dark Side!!
Great list!
I’m a sweet addict, without question.
Yummy pictures! Brownie sundae… yum!!
There really is something about pizza. I love it!
Btw, all of your pictures made me hungry!
I’m not much of a sweet person, but after seeing all those pictures of ice cream all of a sudden, I am craving a banana spilt..or really any kind of ice cream. Just wanted to add: love your layout.
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