5@5 is a daily, food-related list from chefs, writers, political pundits, musicians, actors, and all manner of opinionated people from around the globe.
Melissa Clark, a James Beard award-winning writer, pens the wildly popular “A Good Appetite” column for the New York Times Dining section, as well as articles for magazines including Bon Appétit, Food & Wine, and Martha Stewart Living. Her twenty-ninth cookbook, In the Kitchen with A Good Appetite: 150 Recipes and Stories About the Food You Love, is - conveniently enough - out in stores today.
She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, Daniel Gercke, and their young daughter Dahlia - but, for Clark, when the cat (or husband) is away, the mice shall play ... and eat whatever the heck they want.
5 Favorite Things to Eat When No One Is Looking (i.e. When My Hubby is Away and the Baby is Asleep): Melissa Clark
1. A mountain of cheese
"My husband Daniel rolls dairy-free, and the kid isn’t old enough to appreciate the nuances of a sheep’s milk Ossau-Iraty or a 4-year old Gouda. So, if I want to indulge in some of my favorite stinkers, I wait for a chance to go solo. I like my cheeses straight up, no bread or even forks needed. I like to nibble small slivers out of hand - even the oozing washed rinds taste better licked off my digits than off any cracker I know."
2. "Avocado Surprise" (pronounced with a French accent so it sounds sophisticated)
"Halve an avocado and take out the pit (save it to plant, then throw it out a week later when you realize Brooklyn doesn’t have the ideal climate for growing avocado trees). Place the halves on a pretty plate. Drizzle with hot sauce and sprinkle with salt. Crumble some blue cheese into the cavities and top with a small spoonful of mayonnaise. Smoosh with a spoon as you eat, adding more hot sauce as needed. Triscuits are an excellent accompaniment, as is toasted, buttered brioche."
3. Hot, buttered cinnamon toast
"My secret here is using brown sugar in place of the white, and a touch of salt. Toast thin slices of firm but not-too-crusty bread and spread thickly with sweet butter. Sprinkle with brown sugar (or demerara if you want a crunch), cinnamon and a tiny bit of salt and broil until the sugar melts (a toaster oven is ideal for this). Savor with a hot toddy, preferably in bed while reading a novel when no one is around to remind you not to get crumbs on the duvet."
4. Strawberries, sour cream and sugar
"The dessert of my childhood: dip strawberries first into a container of sour cream (admire the pretty red swirls the berries leave, then be grateful your mother lives miles away so she won’t scold you). Now dip the sour cream-swabbed berry directly into the sugar bowl (pink sugar is so much prettier than white sugar; ditto, re: Mom). Eat standing up, and not while wearing your best white shirt."
5. "Lazy Bones" Cocktail
"When hubby is away, there is no one around to make me a proper cocktail, so I fudge it. Pour a shot of rye into a rocks glass. Add one teeny, tiny ice-cube. Drizzle with a teaspoon of the liquid covering the homemade maraschino cherries you, of course, made last July. Eat a cherry, then grab a handful of salted cashews. Call it dinner."
What's your special go-to meal when you're all by your lonesome or think no one is looking?
Is there someone you'd like to see in the hot seat? Let us know in the comments below and if we agree, we'll do our best to chase 'em down.
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Very nice site!
any flavor of chip with "snak-pak" individual choc pudding as a dip. tooooo die for, also crispy bacon strips dipped in choc pudding
when ABSOLUTELY no one is watching or there isn't the slightest chance the doorbell will ring...I eat hot wings...with no napkin! I keep some in the freezer for times such as this...I put my PJ's on with warm fuzzy socks...and find the biggest "Chick Flick" I can possibly watch and go at it...
Pizza, jalapenos, and hot sauce....massive heart burn but amazingly good!
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Cool ranch Dorittos with cottage-cheese.....AMAZING!
Chocolate caramel milk...yummerz!!!
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Meant to say sugar on the French toast....
I know the whole world must have their French toast with syrup, but in my family, we were raised to have French toast buttered, with a good sprinkling of suguar, then squirted with fresh squeezed lemon juice. Absolutely delicious - it's like eating dessert for breakfast!
Bacon! Crispy crispy crispy..with Heinz ketchup for dipping. I could (and have) eaten a whole package on my own.
Where to even start? Cake mix, dry with a huge glass of milk. An entire loaf of garlic cheese bread. Any bread at all, really. Oven roasted garlic potatoes, cookie dough, cupcakes, chocolate frosting with pretzels, Starburst, DoubleStuf Oreos . . . That's the stuff I craved the most when pregnant and am now trying to remove from my hips lol
Oreos dunked in peanut butter...mmmmm!!!
peanut butter mixed with dark karo syrup on plain white bread with tall glass of milk
I wish we had Fluff in TN... *sniff*
Marshmallow Fluff right out of the jar! Sweet!
Nacho Cheese Doritos and cottage cheese for dippin' *drool*
1. Scrapple with cheese eggs
2. Pretzels dipped in caramel and sprinkled with chocolate chips
3. Marshmallow fluff and cream cheese dip. Eat with fruit or brownies or straight off the spoon :)
Lay's potato chips and Miracle Whip... My dad used to eat this when I was a kid, and I love it!
Cake mix... dry. I have no idea what it's appeal is, but it's soooo tasty!
Toasted bagel, cream cheese, and pastrami sandwich.
Grilled cheese with caramelized onions in the middle, dipped in ketchup.
Artificial bacon bits, right out of the jar. If it was possible to casually snack on bacon, I would do that–but this is close enough.
Dude...at least go for the real bacon bits! Indulge!
1. rye bread spread with cream cheese, topped with crisp bacon and very thin slices of cucumber
2. a bowl of buttermilk, sprinkled with pepper, then popcorn on top...eat like cereal.
3. tuna casserole. no one in my family will eat it
My brother's favourite- two slices of white bread (the square kind), butter on one, a little mayo on the other, made into a sandwich with salt and vinegar flavoured potato chips as filling. Must be consumed while the chips are still crunchy.
My weakness: Fresh, Warm, Crusty French bread slathered with a mixture of bleu cheese, butter, and hot sauce. *droool*
Since neither my kids, or my husband like bleu cheese it's a very rare treat for me.
Oh another one is olive oil popped popcorn drowning in melted butter mixed with garlic powder, salt and parmesan cheese.
The whole family fights over who gets the last pieces.
Peanut butter and bacon sandwiches!
Oops, someone already mentioned this on toast - OK, second choice is peanut butter and potato chips on yellow egg bun!
Thinly sliced SPAM, pan-fried to crispy perfection, over poached eggs and steamed jasmine rice. Don't knock it until you've tried it!
Try using buckwheat noodles cooked with a little sweet soy sauce instead of the jasmine rice- and cook some sliced pineapple along with the SPAM. Long ago something similar appeared in a women's magazine in Australia and became a favourite Saturday night dinner in my house. I may have to pick up a can of SPAM on the way home this evening.
Chef Boyardee ravioli cold and straight out of the can.
I just did that two weeks ago and thought..."what? are you in college?" but it was so delicious!
Asiago pasta salad and any type of soft bread with spinach dip! And pizza, always love the pizza...
1. Tostitos and that awful-for-you cheese sause
2. Cheese and a baguette
4. Ice cream covered in hershey's chocolate sauce
a giant flour tortilla topped with sabra hummus and white cheddar cheese. THE BEST.
An entire can of Pillsbury Cinnamon Rolls fresh from the oven. Although I have to admit that since having this 4 years ago, alone during a snowstorm, I haven't had the taste for a single cinnamon roll again!
Pork rinds – my favorite closet food!
Croutons. I could eat a bucket full of croutons. I always get a bunch whenever I'm at a salad bar (and I don't even get salad).
Ohh here's a good one: Jiffy Blueberry Muffin mix, made into waffles. To spread on top, mix tub margarine with Karo corn syrup and slather on. Yum! I could eat it all!
OMG!! Grilled PB&J with cream cheese in the middle. Thank you Elvis!
1. Rye bread slathered with Miracle Whip
2. Frosting straight from the tub
3. Saltines with butter and honey
Frosted Flakes.
Try this... it is unbelievable, I always make these when my hubby is away, if he only knew how much I eat them. Warm up a soft tortillia shell, and spread butter all over. Sprinkle a cinnamon and sugar mixture all over the melted butter, and then down the middle, make a line of cool whip and wrap up. So yummy!
Of course Wisconsin cheese curds are the best indulgance, however I will pig out on those when I am alone or with someone.
Jar of peanut butter and a spoon.
I like to make stuffed jalapenos. take jalapenos & hollow them out. mix together cream cheese with all kinds of herbs & onion. stuff the Jalapenos with the cream cheese mixture, wrap them in BACON, and throw them in the oven. So good!
So many – but my ultimate fav is the peanut butter anything. Cereal, granola bars, out of the jar, energy bars, ice cream (moosetracks is alright- but I just tried Ben n Jerry's PB cup the other night. pint gone)
One thing that I'm happy I can't seem to find is Salted caremel ice cream. One place here serves it. If I can't make it to them and craving it terribly bad- I'll throw some salt on the caremel ice cream from the local grocery store. not the same though.
Ummmmmmmmm Ciao Bella anything gelatos. Ciao Bella Key Lime Graham, Chocolate Jalapeno, Turkish Pistashio, Tahitian Vanilla, Honey Toasted Pecan, Dark Chocolate, Maple Ginger snaps, Malted Milk Balls, Italian Caramel, Caramel Toffee. Ohhhhhhhhhhhh so good, sooooooooooo good. Having a moment here.
That should been DILL Pickles
A jar (the whole thing) of Heinz Genuine Sour PIlls! YUM!
Correction: Uncooked broccoli crowns and KC Masterpiece brand BBQ sauce (Honey smoke flavor)
Broccoli crowns and KC Masterpiece brand BBQ sauce (Honey smoke flavor)
Hot, buttered egg noodles mixed with cottage cheese and some pepper. Everyone thinks I'm nuts, but it is soooooooooooo good!
(in no particular order)
1. sweetened condensed milk right out of the can, with a spoon
2. garlic shrimp pasta – VERY galicky and best eaten alone
3. microwave s'mores: graham cracker, choc. chips, marshmallow, nuke about 30 sec, top with another cracker
4. a plate filled with various pickles, olives, cheeses, perhaps some fruit, and a hunk of garlic bread
5. liverwurst on sourdough with mayo and sweet pickles
6. vienna sausages
7. apricot baby food
8. tater tots with homemade chipotle dipping sauce
All followed by copius amounts of Mylanta and pepto, I am sure...
for the best easy s'mores, try nuking two LU Cookies Le Petit Ecolier (dark chocolate) with one big marshmallow, open faced. then, mush together and yummmm!
Maggie Q
Kroger jarlsberg cheese dip and Nut Thin rice crackers. I also use other cheeses, like taleggio. It's made in the deli using Murrays jarlsberg. Un-freaking-believable.
For a while it was caprese salad....I ate it non-stop: lunch & dinner for weeks.
But generally, I could seriously feast on a good plate (or bowl) of pasta with a nice big glass of (red) wine. It will always be my go-to.
Anything that is covered in nacho cheese and hot sauce!
Tacos in a bag! i get a personal bag of doritos then put taco meat and anything else you normally put on a taco in it, mix it up and eat it with a spoon! yummm!!!
I'm so trying this later!
Walking Taco's, oh how could I forget those!!
trail bologna, swiss cheese from the Minerva Dairy and ritz crackers!
String Cheese!!! I try so hard to only eat 1 or 2 pieces but I was home alone the other night and didn't want to cook dinner so I ate the whole bag. I eat it 1 piece at a time though, so I'm getting some exercise as I walk from the couch to the fridge to get the next piece... Not my proudest moment... :)
Dolmas, variety of olives, buffalo mozz, marinated cherry peppers, ryr or sourdough bread drowning in olive oil and Montreal Steak Seasoning. Mmmm
Prosciutto and mozzarella. Wrap thin slices of peppered prosciutto around mozzarella sticks or cubes, yum. There is also the ol' go to salami and crackers (wheat thins or saltines). Or one of my favorites salami and cream cheese (don't knock it until you try it).
I like salt, can you tell?
Kraft Mac and Cheese-the whole box!
Lime Kool Aid with strips of bologna in it.
Say what?
Pate with sea salt melba toast, brie, grapes and a glass of pinot noir. That is my ideal dinner and all I can have of the four right now are the sea salt melba toast and grapes because I'm pregnant. The minute I'm able, the full plate is going to be back in my rotation, perhaps minus the wine so I don't fall asleep in the middle of my meal!
Being pregnant, some of the responses have appeal they never would have before- especially the sweet/salty combos.
Soft White Bread, Butter, and spinkle sugar on top...ahhhh...bliss
I'm from TX but my hubby is from NJ and introduced me to Disco Fries...standard diner fare from up north but easy to make at home...french fries covered with brown gravy with melted shredded mozzarella cheese on top.
Fresh fried gizzards from Chicken Express!
Cheetos are my downfall. I can make myself SICK with them! The tiny ones at the bottom of the bag are the BEST!!!
1 – Grilled Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich. Crunch Jif & Smuckers Strawberry. 2 – French bread with orange marmalade. 3 – Vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce and peanuts. 4 – Root beer float. 5 – Hendricks gin, muddled cucumber, fresh lime juice, fever tree tonic water.
Fritos, with M&M's placed in the "scoop"
Pickle slices on top of cream cheese on top of pepperoni slices. So good!
3 T butter, 3 T milk, 3 T brown sugar. Bring to a rolling boil, cool (put pan in cold water if youre' in a hurry), add powdered sugar to consistency. Sit down with a sleeve of saltines, the icing and have at it. Salty/sweet at its best. Best PMS food in the world.
Or candy corn mixed with dry roasted peanuts
A whole bag of Swedish fish.
OMG – Swedish Fish used to be traveling staple – always had to have a bag to pack in our carry on for snackin.....
Fresh beets, golden if possible, from the farmer's market, roasted with butter, salt and pepper. A whole pound, all by myself, and no, I don't skin them :D
warm french bread – with melted butter and fresh garlic used as a dipping sauce! To DIE for!!!! YUM!
A fresh fig, sliced lengthwise. Reduce some balsamic vinegar in a sauce pan until slightly thickened. Toast a few chopped pecans. Put a little maytag blue chesse on each fig half, a few chopped pecans, and drizzle with the balsamic syrup. Takes about 10 minutes to make, tastes better than anything you've ever eaten, and company freak out at the presentation (if you so choose to share).
oops, meant sour cream, not dour cream.
Dour is how I look post-indulgence, after catching a glimpse of my arse
homemade cookie dough ( but before the flour, salt, etc ) go in – basically butter, eggs, brown and white sugars, and vanilla extract mixed together and eaten with a BIG wooden spoon.
also homemade dour cream devils food cake batter!!
S I G H
Fresh bread and butter...that's all I need to survive.
Nutter Butter cookies. Up there with Meth for addictive quality.
How do you know?
Because, when someone brings is a package, I am ok if I do not have that first one...much like a recovering drug addict. I tell my assistant "Cookies – Not even once"
Graham cracker with a thick layer of Nutella topped by and even thicker layer of Marshmellow Fluff, or when I can get my hands on them, Moon Pies warmed in the microwave! YUM
I love Easy cheese on reduced fat cheez-its or wheat thins. A very rare treat, but yummy!
French fries dipped in vanilla icecream, cottage cheese and doritos, garlic bread smothered in cheese, pepperoni pizza with extra cheese, anything with extra cheese really lol
I'm a vegetarian but even meat eaters enjoy this:
Mexican Ground Round
Salsa
Tostitos Hot Cheese dip
Peppers, onions, mushrooms
Mix together in a frying pan and eat with Salt and Lime Tostitos :D (you can shred cheese on the mix if you want but YOU MUST USE Tostitos to dip!)
SO SO SO good :D
Garlic bread dipped in ice cream (best with either Superman or Butter Pecan and cheesey garlic bread)
Frozen Thin Mints dipped in peanut butter
Raw cookie dough (always ate it with my sister growing up)
Jalapeno burgers w/ swiss cheese, mayo and dipped in ranch (not that weird, but so delicious!)
Another not so weird one, I can over-indulge in cheese and pepperoni. Yum!
Make a pot of sweet custard with heaps of cocoa powder. If you wait until it goes cold then put on a dollop of full cream. Almost like cheats chocolate mousse.
Slice of turkey or ham spread generously with Salad Cream (British version of mayo), roll and enjoy!! aaaaaarrrrrrhhhh!!
White bread toasted, smothered in butter till it pools, then a really thin layer of PB over it.
cookie dough.,, chocolate chip of course
A HUGE bowl of watermelon with a ton of salt!!
Cheese w/ any good fruit jam. Heaven!
haven't seen fish sticks yet?! I'm a good vegetarian, but sometimes i indulge when the fiance is away for awhile. The cheaper the better. Might as well polish of the whole box, right? homemade tartar sauce + american cheese singles + toasted bun = omg then passout. then wake up and hop on the mountain bike to try and make up for my sins.
is that sortofavegetarian diet ? :)
popcorn, pickles and ketchup... and maple syrup. only when noone's around
a bowl of rice with italian dressing and A-1 steak sauce...it's delicious. also, a tomato and mayo sandwich...on white fluffy bread w/ salt and pepper of course. more recently my "alone" food is a box of Kraft mac & cheese with lots of Sweet Baby Rays Honey BBQ sauce mixed in...yum!
baloney with ketchup...yum
1. Kraft Mac 'n Cheese made with hot dogs
2. Spicy ramen made with 4C. of water to make soup, extra chicken soup base and frozen peas
3. a can of lima beans with lots of butter, slat and fresh ground pepper.
Sorry – salt
Haven't read the article. Just wanted to say that the pic of the lady smiling kind of gives me the willies. Obviously painted with no crinkle in the eyes. I'm sure she's a nice person though.
A balony sandwhich on skushy fresh white bread with ketchup. YUM...takes me back!
A bag or marshmallows. Just eat me, the whole bag! Intermittanly grave a chunk of chocolate.
gummi bears, reese's peanut butter cups and klondike bars................ and chocolate anything.
A huge bowl of Cap n Crunch; especially when you're watching junk on t.v.
Avocado, bacon and melted cheese sandwich
Tater tot casserole
Funyuns, sour cream & cheddar, and Doritos all mixed in a party bowl
S'Mores
Grilled hot dog with grilled onions, jalapeno slices, mustard
I gotta leave this page before I give in to temptation!
Frito Pie, a true southern treat. Fritos with chili and (if you're lucky) some kind of liquified nacho cheese. Grab a spoon and dig in!
I love croutons, cold fried chicken, chow mein noodles, and plain flour tortillas.
I also love french fried onions straight out of the can.
Not all together, of course. :)
refrigerated chocolate frosting out of the can piled on graham crackers mmmmm thanks Mom :)
Fried chicken (yes with the skin on) drizzled with honey OMG I'm in heaven. And don't even get me started on a bottle of nice white with some triple cream brie drizzled with warmed orange marmalade.
Things with real butter. Any kind of bread (especially raison cinnamon), or mashed potatoes or just peanut butter mixed with real butter. Yes I am a sick woman. I no longer allow any of these things in my house but I would really like to go to the store right now. Yes need to put some clothes on. Wonder if 7-11 carries real butter. Where are my keys. Oh no, it begins again...
peanut butter toast with bacon !!
I admit, I have occasionally eaten these things with/in front of roommates and family.
1. canned corn with tapatio/valentino and squeezed lime
2. bread + ketchup
3. rice + hot sauce, soy sauce, pork grease
less weird... but I consume immodest quantities of:
1. french bread + olive oil & balsamic vinegar
2. goat cheese w/ flat crackers
3. dumplings (dipped in a sauce of rice vinegar, soy sauce, chili oil, chopped garlic, sesame oil)
..especially when high.
Nothing wrong with rice and hot sauce. It's good. Sometimes that's dinner! Rice, a little butter, salt and rooster sauce. YUM!
From my "getting high" days:
Peanut butter and jelly (most any kind will work), spoon, no bread
Warm cinnamon roll with a slice of bologna on top. A little bit easier – toast with grape jam and a slice of bologna on top. Really ... try it :)
1)Heavily buttered pocorn with hot sauce and parmesan cheese
2) Drumstick(ice cream on a sugar cone with chocolate and nuts)
3) Boiled shrimp, lots of butter and cheap Andre Cold Duck
4) Green Apples, Accent salt and lemon
5) Put an Oreo in your mouth, drink Mountain Dew and let it desenigrate in your mouth.
Those pink snowballs with coconut outside, marshmellow covering, chocolate cake with cream filling.
Oh, I forgot!
Ice cream with Magic Shell!!! I put sooooo much Magic Shell on the ice cream.....it is so awesome!!!!!
College student budget:
1. Mix butter with honey and drizzle over soft toast or dip the toast into the mix. Favorite as a kid.
2. Fried egg sandwich (it's been a decade, I am due!) heavy with the salt and pepper.
3. Peanut butter spread thick on both slices of bread with a big glass of chocolate milk.
4. Rice with cream of mushroom soup straight out of the can.
5. Naan with melted butter and sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar.
Too long since I ate any of these....eenie, meanie, minie, moe......
Menudo...been eating it in the closet for years.
I don't blame you! ;-)
a loaf of french bread and a thing of red pepper hummus. it will be gone at the end of the night.
I know a classic by nuking a bag of popcorn then opening a bag of doritos and mixing em :D works with cheetos too
Jack in the Box jalapeno poppers with ranch dressing and a big diet coke.
Olive Garden bread with ranch dressing.
I can't buy peppermint ice cream anymore because I can't stop eating it.
A pudding cup with Reddi-Whip on top. When the pudding is all gone, I go back and fill up the cup with more Reddi=Whip. Repeat.
Saltine crackers with mayonnaise.
When I ABSOLUTELY MUST have something sweet, I don't mess around...I open a can of Eagle Brand, let it sit in the fridge for a couple of days to set up and then eat it with a spoon..like pudding. I wonder if that could possibly have anything to do with my sugar "issues"?? :-D
Another favorite as a child was a thin pancake, slathered with butter, sprinkled with brown sugar and drizzled with syrup....blame my mother for that one!
On the other hand, salt craving is best served by drinking milk through a mouthful of salty popcorn...or, garlic stuffed olives!
But then you have to wait a couple days! If I absolutely have to have something sweet, I have to have it now!! And wow–that's hard core. ;)
Some favorites: Fritos and ketchup or Oscar Meyer liver sausage with dill pickles on white bread or a spoonful of chocolate fudge, or the best: roasting a marshmallow over my gas stove in the middle of winter...heaven!
I like to mix spicy and sweet. Not in one mouth, on a rotational basis.
Grab really spicy chicken wings or Chinese super spicy chicken dish and eat it until I can't close my mouth. Then I eat a spoonful of Haagan daz vanilla ice cream. Repeat until you get high.
Yes, I only do this when no one's around.
Did you say high?
Junky pizzas!
A tablespoon of marinara sauce on a toasted half English muffin; top with a slice of American cheese. Add some garlic and oregano.
Heat at 350 degrees until the cheese is melted!
And oh yeah: fried baloney with ketchup, also on a toasted English muffin.
Chocolate Pepsi: 2-Tbs. chocolate syrup over ice in a tall glass, then fill up with ice cold Pepsi. Great!
my two favorite food groups. now i have to try it!
Oreos & warm/hot milk & a good book/tv show/movie - I could eat the whole package!!!!
I love ice cold (as in "kept in the freezer" Oreos and lots of ice cold milk...and yes, eating the whole package is a distinct possibility!
so this is where all the fat ppl go on the internet. hahahahahahah!
idiot.
Queso fresco and deep fried corn tortilla chips, can't get much better than that baby!
and if you have it, Pay de Carlotta, it's a lime, cream, cookie concoction. ooh, so good!
Uh ... all the food ideas in the article sound really gross. Barf.
Leftover shrimp – boiled, broiled, sauteed or fried. And blue or Parmesan cheese, boiled peanuts.
I know this may seem a little snobby – but I love foie gras pate. One of the few things in life that actually lives up its' hype. But it must be eaten alone for the shame of eating something that 's produced by tormenting geese.
But at least the goose didn't die in vain.
in the event that pizza rolls are unavailable: baloney w/ hellman's mayo on squishy-soft white bread.
and in cleveland: velvet ice cream, raspberry cordial fudge. heaven!
Fun-yuns (yep, those faux onion chips).
Microwaved M&Ms (so they melt in your mouth).
Hot cocoa powder spooned from the bottom of the mug.
Marshmallows roasted over a lit candle.
brown ground beef. put in bowl and add hot pepper flakes, salt, garlic powder, fresh lemon juice. eat with pita bread.
How about 6 fresh, plain glazed Krispy Kreme donuts?
toasted bagel with cream cheese and 3 or 4 pieces of crisp bacon on top - to die for.
um... that sounds SO GOOD. Thanks for the idea, I am so doing this next time!!
Never thought of that – Guess what's for breakfast this weekend kiddos!
SO good. Add a couple slices of tomato too . . . heavenly.
A whole tub of Cool Whip with a tablespoon of condensed milk. Soooo good.
In order of preference
1. Grilled Cheese (cheddar of course) toasted in butter (REAL butter) on the outside
2. Haagen Daz Vanilla Swiss Almond (So high calorie I usually only eat it if i've missed lunch and skipped dinner)
3. Peanut Butter and honey sandwich....MMMMMmmmmm
No one has mentioned Banquet Chicken – I get a serious craving and have to be elbowed out of the way of the pan for anyone else to share the bounty!
Bacon and grape jelly sandwich!
bacon, fresh tomato, bbq sauce, loads of pepper in a toasted english muffin...I can eat 3 in one sitting!...and then think about why I shouldn't eat more..
I like to sneak a failure pile in a sadness bowl every once in awhile.
I enjoy it also-no matter what Patton Oswald says!
I like to melt chocolate and mix it with peanut butter and dip just about anything in it- crackers, cookies, fruits, bread, etc.
Fritos and bean dip. . .nothing better.
this sounds bad but i can almost eat the bean dip with a spoon!
OMG. a whole bag of JELLY BEANS!!!!!!
DNA, I think you mean "drivel".
I eat Ramen noodles raw when no one's watching. I crunch up the noodles in the bag (but do so carefully as not to blow a hole in the flimsy cellophane wrapper), then sprinkle the entire contents of the salt package onto the broken noodles. I pinch it closed and shake it up until each piece has some salt flavoring on it. I eat it straight out of the package...what a treat! It's something I did during my childhood and I still love it.
HAHA! I haven't done that since I was in middle school! I like to cook the ramen now (beef) and drain all the liquid, add a can of sweet corn and some Parmesan cheese.
I love that too! Thought I was the only person that does that. Sooo goood!!!
croutons covered in ranch dressing....thats it.....garlic and cheese ones are the BEST!!
take a level Tablespoon of natural crunchy peanut butter, immerse it completely in the honey jar, pull it out , and let it drip for a few seconds. perfect ratio of salty to sweet.
creamed corn, I eat it straight from the can (note that when other people are around I cook four-course gourmet meals)
Cake batter!!!!!!!!! (Without the eggs added.) Must be vanilla cake, Duncan Hines preferred. Chocolate or Devil's Food is second best. Must be whisked for about 3 minutes to become really aerated, then scooped up with a large spatula to fill your mouth with sweet goodness. A very sensuous treat, like snacking on a fluffy yellow cloud!
really bad but delicious. make a cheese sandwich(pick your favorite cheese), dip it in bisquick and deep fry it...
A toasted sandwich made of bananas, peanut butter, sugar and cinnamon.
Make easy hot fudge sauce for ice cream: Put two to three tablespoons or so of quality chocolate chips in a cup, and add a nice blob of unsalted butter – maybe a tablespoon or so. Microwave a minute or so, stir with a fork, and microwave a bit more until the chips are melted. Pour immediately over your ice cream and have a great supper! A high proportion of butter will cause a shell to form on the ice cream; a lower proportion will keep the hot fudge soft and gooey. You can always dump some cordial on this, too.
Doritos and French Onion dip
good crusty bread and butter
Steamed broccoli, then sauté it lightly with a ton of garlic, salt and butter
When I was a kid I used to make quick frosting– i.e., smash up butter, mix in powdered sugar and vanilla, and eat! Very delicious. Now I usually just crave cheese– if there's no box of mac n cheese in the house or pizza, i'll do an impromptu pizza by making toast, and putting tomato sauce and cheese on it and heating iit n the microwave!
I used to do the bowl of icing thing too, especially when pregnant. Uncooked brownie batter is another great mouthful, of course leaving out the raw eggs.
Toasted cinnamon raisen bread. With a mug of tea. Fantastic
Crumpet with loads of real salted butter, golden syrup and cinnamon sugar on top and English Breakfast tea. Heaven!
french fries dipped in the ranch dressing from Chili's. I swear to you all, they put crack in their ranch dressing.
That's my favorite, too! They swear it's just Hidden Valley powder mix but I think they're holding back. I've made it with regular milk, buttermilk, and sour cream and it has never turned out close to the same...
condensed milk with cocoa powder on top of really crushed ice.
I <3 you.
hmm that sounds delicious.. so going to try it
Condensed milk overload in steaming hot porridge.
Strawberries sliced into cottage cheese!!!
Maybe I am too easy, but this seems like a healthy and not-gross snack. Why hide it?
My mom used to cringe every time I ate it...
condensed milk with cocoa power on top of really crushed ice.
ooooh, spaghettiOs are the ultimate comfort food for me.
peanut butter and bacon sandwiches! YUM!!
DNA – What's vapid dribble...does Friendly's make it? Lighten up:)
I miss Friendly's . . . and the Fribble! But their best was the hot fudge sundae on coffee ice cream . . . mmmmmm
spaghettios
Cap'n Crunch Crunchberries - in half and half!
This is vapid dribble.
Then why bother reading or commenting? Go tuck yourself into bed and get some rest, Precious.
For trying to appear intellectual, you could at least use the correct word: drivel. Moron.
Tostinos party pizza straight from the oven. So good.
Oh god the fried Cheerios are killing me!!
My go-to meal when hubz is gone is a box of Kraft Mac n Cheese... add a can of tuna, a handful of whatever freezer-burned pocked veggies are skulking around the freezer, and topped with handfuls of crushed Lays potato chips and lots of pepper. Eaten (all of it) out of the pan used to make the Mac, a never-ending box of generic red wine on hand, hours of Criminal Minds reruns. Odd, perhaps, that the Mac *must* be Kraft, and the chips Lays, but the tuna, frozen peas, and wine can be any old. But there you have it. Shame.
OMG! Love it! Especially the unending box of wine!...LOL.
White bread then Mayo then peanut butter enjoy!
I do that, too! My mom learned it from her dad. Everyone thinks it's disgusting, but it's so yummy!
OMG – just give me a box of Kraft Mac-N-Cheese and I'm in HEAVEN. Haven't had it in years. I MUST go buy a box tomorrow and eat while hubby is at work.
Cross-post LOL. Get the blue, girlfriend. Anyone else put ketchup on their Mac n Cheese? Is that just a Texas thing?
Both hubby and I do, as well as my mother, sisters and nieces and nephews. And we're up North.
Good also when you add cooked ground beef.
rice krispy bars
sliced apples and melted brie
kidney beans and pickle relish
lima beans and macaroni & cheese
butterscotch pudding on yellow cake
Spanish jamon on a warm baugette all day!!!!
A baked potato topped with spicy peanut sauce.
Hot buttered popcorn.
Onion rings.
Hot, crunchy egg rolls.
Moo shu pork.
Milk Duds and Whoppers. Love em!
Chicken fried steak with sausage gravy,home fries covered with said gravy, a really runny egg and some tabasco.
I was right there with you until you got to the runny egg, eww!
french fries dipped in a chocolate milkshake
amen
Preach it, sister! LOVE this.
MMM Wendy's Fries dipped in a Frosty!!!
Oh! Ii used to eat those as a staple in college! Vegetable and dairy groups represented.. right? :)
Cool Whip scooped with Pringles!l
I like to see how many Pringles I can put into my mouth at once. Fun times!!!
That is awesome!
rice with milk . yummy
Great, I'll try the smoked oysters/vinegar chips, chips with spray cheese, etc and find a bunch of other things to eat while no one is watching.
Boneless buffalo wings, buttercream frosting right out of the jar, and pasta with extra Alfredo sauce (not all together though) are my guilty pleasures. Mmmm :)
Try the boneless buffalo wings with smokey BBQ sauce and Blue cheese dressing. OMG!
I boil white rice in a bag, and mix in several large dollops of mild chunky salsa. It makes sort of a slacker's version of Spanish Rice. It's actually surprisingly delicious, and is my go-to when I am stressed out or sick.
A guilty (and some say disgusting) pleasure....sliced bananas topped with mayonnaise. there's something about the combo I can't break myself away from.
Finishing up the top 5 for me...fried baloney sandwiches with mustard, mozzarella or cheddar cheese straight up, peanut butter on a spoon, pretzel rods dipped in soft vanilla ice cream.
My sweetie thinks this is completely gross, but if I'm alone, tired, and hungry, I'll drain a can of kidney beans, put them in the microwave for a minute, then plop a big spoon of mayonnaise on it and mix it up. It's a weird pink color, but it's very tasty and the beans are good for me, right?
this author is either pregnant or has not taste buds! YUCK!!
Raw hot dogs....
A favorite of mine as a child, I can't eat 'em that way anymore. Damn old age!
I'm from northern MN...we always ate "raw" hotdogs! I was going to give my son one & hubby about had a fit – says I have to cook it....................."what??" :)
Fritos and bean dip, something I can only eat maybe once every year or two
mashed potatoes with ketchup
Brownie mix....i know i know raw eggs
Vienna sausages again one of those things I can only eat maybe once a year or so
Hersheys syrup straight from the container
re: brownie mix – i buy brownie mix just to eat it....not to cook. i just add water and a sprinkle of cinnamon to the mix. it tastes the same/is same consistency of the batter with eggs. you won't even miss them
Take one loaf fresh Italian bread, cut into chunks. Pour a quality Bleu cheese dressing into a bowl. Dip bread into dressing. Eat. Repeat.
I love some plain yogurt, fresh mint leaves, jalepeno, ground cumin, salt, a clove or two or garlic and cilantro all blended up in the blender. Makes a delicious and healthy dip for veggies or grilled meats.
A dill Vlasic Pickle wrapped in cream cheese and deli sliced ham
green olives – I can eat them by the jar.
peanut butter Cap'n Crunch. always leaves the top of my mouth raw, but it hurts so good.
chocolate milk and pretzels
I would die in heavan if I can has jars of green olives infinitely. NO JOKE! I eat a few spoonfulls at a time right out of the jar!!! hahaha MY FAVE!
Chocolate milk and Pretzels! I didn't know anyone else like this combo :)
Crackers with cream cheese and sweet roasted garlic jalapeno jelly with a piece of smoked salmon strip on top. OMG. Or, for something ooey-gooey, poutine: french fries drenched in hot gravy with cheese curds on top. Heart attack on a plate, but so yummy and comforting.
Oh my god I think I love you LOL... I love poutine with cheese curds. We have this awesome place here that make squeeky cheese curds, I sometimes go directly there to buy it and they have just made it and it's still warm (drooling like homer simpson).... add the curds to hot fries and then top it with St-Hubert poutine sauce and OMG ..... I'm hungry.
Oh yum....I thought I was the only Ritz cracker and cream cheese eater but the addition of jalepeno jelly sounds fabulous. I must try this tonight.
Home fried potatoes with warm french bread and soft butter. Then, Nutella and strawberries for dessert. Mmmmmmm.
Sometimes when I'm having a horrible sweet craving and nothing is in the house, I will eat a piece of bread with butter and sugar. mmmm
When I was a kid, I'd come home from school STARVING and have a syrup sandwich. Yep, Log Cabin Syrup between two slices of bread. Thank God I don't do that anymore. (Now it's Apple Butter sandwiches).
ok, try the syrup sandwich w/ peanut butter on one side. it's wicked good.
Molasses sandwiches! Had them on change-the-clock nights every spring and fall at 2am!
my mom used to give us butter and sugar sandwiches.
My closet junk food- PB or Kraft spray cheese shot into Bugles
Read this and almost peed myself laughing!
When people are around: a handful of Cheez-Its
When no one is around: and entire box
Muske, that's what everyone does. Shhhhh, don't tell everyone's secrets!
A double cheeseburger from Culver's with bacon. The best tasting grease heartattack ever!! If I'm home by myself though I have to make a sauted portabello and onion sandwich on french bread...toasted in the oven with tomato and provolone cheese. My guy would die if he knew there was ever mushrooms in the house, but oh do I love them.
That is crazy to me. you love them. Your guy doesn't have to eat them; why in the world wouldn't he want them in the house if you love them? He should be bringing them to you every day, not forbidding them!
I love to dip vinegar and salt chips into low-fat cottage cheese, also peanut butter and banana sandwiches.
I love the call out to Ossau-Iraty. That along with red seedless grapes is one of the great flavor combinations in the world – pb&j, bagels & cream cheese, Ossau-Iraty & red seedless grapes.
Fried (Oscar Meyer Beef) baloney sandwich, on good nutty-oat bread with lots of mustard. Can you say Elvis?
There is nothing better out there than Top Roman with loads of red pepper flakes cooked into the broth. The spicier the better! The red pepper flakes added to cottage cheese is a close second. To top it off you need to drink down a big glass of spicy V-8 juice with pepper and Franks red hot sauce added until you sweat! That's my heaven and I wonder if anyone likes my husbands favorite...a bologna sandwich with white bread, mayo and a load of fritos or potato chips smashed into the middle of it??
A fluff sandwich - peanut butter and marshmallow creme. Heavenly!
A fluffernutter!
I can eat an entire can of French's Fried Onions in one sitting if I'm not paying attention.
Also LOVE my homemade chili...has to have a ton of melted cheese, onions and Frito's to scoop it all up....soooo good
green onion dip and chips. so good, so bad
fried cheerios. melt butter in pan, saute cheerios until warm and slightly brown. OMG.
i do the same thing, nothing better than salted and buttered cherrios!
Hey that sounds yummy, might have to try that tonight
I thought I was the only one who ate crap like this!!! I guess there are a whole lot of other people who will eat just about anything if the craving stricks. Or maybe it is just people who read CNN news story comment sections.....A bite of banana with Hershey chocolate syrup squirted on it, a piece of deli ham with softened cream cheese spread on it wrapped around a small sliver of dill pickle spear, thin pretzel sticks dipped in Nutella, well I could go on and on
Saltines with a dab of butter or brie.
Or steamed zucchini with fresh corn, tomato and melted white cheese.
Sour, southern potato salad made with pickles and olives.
Cold baked salmon, straight from the fridge.
After reading these posts, I see that Julia Child was right. She loved butter too!!
Bananas and Cheez-Its... every single night!!! .... Guilty ;)
Tropical Punch Kool-Aid (Pre-Sweetened)
Seriously, I have to exert SERIOUS self-control around it!
Sharp cheddar slices, buttery crackers and good summer sausage with uncooked broccoli...
but really, if no one is looking, just a bowl of maple and brown sugar oatmeal, uncooked and cold, loveeeeeeeeely
Oh, I LOVE summer sausage, Ritz crackers, & gouda cheese together. My grandfather got me started on it as a child.
Captain crunch with crunch berries. I could polish off a whole box of it. Or if I am feeling particularly "foodie-ish" I like french bread slathered in pesto and topped with sundried tomatoes and goat cheese. Mmmm.
1 lb ground beef, large Velveeta block, Rotel (tomatos & chiopped green chilis) & Fritos scoops for dinner
pre-made Pilsbury chocolate chip cookie dough straight out of the package for desert
so glad my husband can't see this post....
ohh one more thing: Cheez-its drizzled with lemon juice(and sometimes, topped with zesty ranch dressing). YUM.
French fries swimming in gravy...and stove top stuffing!!
i'm definitely trying this tomorrow!!!
It's gotta be a Filet of Fish with those scrumptious greasy heart clogging fries from McDonalds. This is definitely a once in a while thing, but boy oh boy I can't wait for "once in a while" to get here again! Woo!
thank god for lent...mcdonalds sells those fish sandwiches suoer cheap at that time..i could eat 4 in one sitting!!!
Sprinkle chocolate chips on toast covered with peanut butter. Delicious – especially when the chocolate chips start melting into the peanut butter.
Those awful but so artificially delicious cheese logs coated with the sliced almonds.
Ruffles potato chips and onion dip.
Homemade bread and homemade butter.
a whole flat bar of chocolate with almonds.
Peanut butter and mustard sandwiches!
OMG! I thought I was the only one. :) Delicious. I made Kraft peanut butter and French's mustard sandwiches as a kid and still eat them today.
I also like a tomato sandwich with Hellman's mayonnaise and about 20 Hot banana pepper rings.
And last but not least... a big bowl, mix 3-5 diffferent cereals, (choco berry, reeses pieces cereal, corn pops, rice krispies, frosted flakes) with fresh cold milk.... ahhhhhhhhhhhhh
Stuwe your favorite reminds me of a friend who used to dip his Oreos into mustard....ick!
When I was desperate for sweet and no one was around, used to mix butter, sugar and flour. Cookie dough with out the eggs. Soooo bad.
Nachos are pretty great - good tortilla chips, rice, beans, cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream, salsa ... pile it on.
Grilled cheese sandwich dipped in ranch dressing. I'm with the commenter above: ranch is the universal condiment and can make anything taste better.
Crunchy peanut butter, bologna and Cheez Whiz sandwich on Wonder bread.
Don't knock it 'till you try it!
Wow! You are not alone My brother and sister ate this as kids. With Wonder Bread and Miracle Whip.
I loved Cheez Whiz and Bologna. The other not so much.
French bread dipped in blue cheese dressing. And I'm supposed to be gluten-free.
Definitely peanut butter on a spoon!
Cake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and Ice Cream
ewwww, strawberries and sour cream? yuck
seeing as this was posted on the CNN main page, i was sure they would have something about apples in here.
i guess not.
keep it up, CNN.
Hi Bob,
I'm not really sure what that comment means. Care to explain?
Thanks,
Kat
I think Bob was being sarcastic about the number of articles CNN posts about Apple – the company. :)
Let's see.... About 12 Krystal burgers with their soggiest fries!
I thought I was the only closet peanut butter on a spoon with chocolate bits on top snacker. I am relieved to read that I am not. Also yummy..PB on a spoon with a spoonful of Fluff on top! Yum. Fluff is only in the northeast I am told....but so good. For pur indulgence.....a whoopie pie.
I grew up eating a peanut butter fluff sandwich – love them and so do my kids!
Fluff is in the south but we call it what it is...Marshmallow Creme.
Marshmallow Creme is different than Marshmallow Fluff....we can get both. Creme is not as...well...fluffy. Really. I think Kraft makes the creme but Fluff the real thing is made by Durkee-Mower in Lynn, Mass. I am a bit of an addict, I admit. :-)
Savoury – Salt and vinegar potato chips smashed up into cottage cheese, buffalo chicken and ranch dip, good old fashioned cheese bread with lots of garlic powder sprinkled on top.
Sweet – anything peanut butter cup, sour patch kids, french toast stuffed with cream cheese and caramelised bananas!
My favorite guilty pleasure is cream cheese. JUST cream cheese. Pull out a bar of Philly and munch.
Hot baked potato, melted cheddar, broccoli or cauliflower (or, in a pinch, frozen peas) with lots of salsa and sour cream. Hard to believe that I'm only slightly overweight!
Blazin' Buffalo & Ranch Doritos (when I can find them! Whyyy are they not in the north anymore?!?). Give me a good TV show or book and I'll eat the whole bag. Now that option's gone, I'll gladly down a bag of Snyder's Hot Buffalo Wing pieces.... nirvana.
Also a really good ice cream. I can't keep ice cream in the house or i'd be severely unhealthy.
Chicken fingers wrapped in flour tortilla shells warm, dipped in ranch dressing, guilty pleasure. A spoonful of Chocolate chip cookie dough warmed in the microwave for 10 seconds so it is half cooked, gets the sweet edge off. When I was a kid, white bread toasted with butter, sugar, powered sugar, and Cinnamon. Shhhh, I am supposed to be health girl :)
Nachos. Not ball park kind. Layer cooking pan with tortilla chips, ground beef, lots of cheese, tomatoes, lettuce, jalapenos, black olives, onions. Bake, top with sour cream and eat the whole sheet pan. Follow up with a whole can of mixed nuts. For dessert I will eat broken up hard pretzels with vanilla ice cream. Dip the pretzel chunks right in the ice cream. This is a very, very nice dream.
Yo, badger! You rock! A whole can of mixed nuts AFTER eating a whole sheet pan of nachos? Hah! Classic. Definitely sounds like something I'd do. Not sure I could fit in the ice cream and pretzels, but I'd probably at least try.
I LOOOOOOOOOVE Campbell's tomato soup, steaming hot, in a huge coffee mug...packed with mini shredded wheat w/ a dollup of sour cream on top.....God! I need to go to the store right now!
Pretzel rods dipped into a jar of peanut butter.
Blueberries and sour cream. A bit of sugar sprinkled on top.
I find it funny when people eat in private. I eat junk, normal, processed, fast food all the time in front of people or alone. I like to eat, period. If people around me are offended, I will stop offering. :)
A GIANT bowl of Peanut Butter Cap'n Crunch with whole milk!!!
YES YES YES. OMG yes. I've been obsessed w/ peanut butter crunch for the past two weeks and can't stop eating it.
An entire box of mac and cheese. It can be Kraft or a store brand; doesn't matter. Sprinkle with some garlic salt and pepper, add a big glass of cold milk, and that's comfort food for me.
I also sometimes get digestive problems, and invented something I can always eat. Cook up a batch of rice, either white or brown. Mix in several spoonfuls of peanut butter and drizzles of honey. Very bad for you in many ways, but it will sit in my stomach when nothing else will, and has seen me through some painful times.
That "Avocado surprise" makes my stomach churn. It's the thought of mayo with avocado (shudder). But I totally get the strawberries and sour cream thing. It's even better with blueberries.
My secret splurge when the spouse is away is morning pastries from the bakery. Cinnamon rolls, various sweet cheese or fruit-filled danishes, or bear claws - not all of them together! For some reason it feels indulgent to munch down a big Danish when I'm home alone. Go figure.
ew, I also shuttered at the thought of avocado and mayo. No way.
I'd substitute sour cream for the mayo and skip the cheese and it sounds like my kind of meal.
Fritos dipped into a jar of chocolate frosting.
Have mercy. ;-) But, whatever works!
I love Fritos dipped into low-fat cottage cheese....I can eat the whole bag of chips with the whole carton of cottage cheese.
Fritos with cream cheese....ruffles chips with vanilla ice cream!! Oh, I'm so hungry! Everyone, STOP!!! Step away from the junk food!
Also – Doritos dipped in chocolate pudding. :)
pizza rolls with ranch dressing... sounds soooo nasty but it is freakin awesome!!!
Ribeye steak with mashed potatoes! Sounds crazy that I would even think of this combo, but trust me, it's delish!!!
It is so good I love that combo, I usually wait till everyone is asleep, then croos my fingers and hope nobody hears the microwave when it stops, then curl up on the couch and eat every last one. Delicious.
Peanut butter and dill pickle sandwiches on wonder bread, Franco-American Spaghetti-O's, and good-quality vanilla ice cream with broken Heath-bar bits and caramel syrup all smushed together.
My husband *loves* PB & dill sandwiches. He always grosses out the people at work when he makes them!
Me, I'm more of a nutella and peach slices kind of gal.
Homemade biscuit dough. So good, so bad for you.
A sliced up banana, topped with melted peanut butter, Cheerios, and honey.
And olives. Any kind of olives. I would live on olive sandwiches (on garlic bread) if I could.
Ohh olives yessss, I can easily kill off a jar of jalepeno stuffed green olives on my own.
Love Ruffles and cottage cheese together too. My secret snack is buttered toast dipped in hot chocolate though.
Cheese Wiz and Wheat Thins....can't get enough, but try to avoid as much as possible! :)
Hunt's snack pack tapioca pudding cup drizzled with homemade strawberry freezer jelly. The blandness of one with the sweetness of the other is a treat for the tastebuds.
When I'm craving something sweet but there's nothing around – I mix up some brown sugar & butter (a tad bit more sugar than butter) – works every time.
pure...primitive...perfect!
Thought I was the only one! br sugar & butter=yum
I haven't had that since I was a kid – but I remember it had to be *salted* butter, for that perfect combination of sweet and salty.
Also, whipped cream cream cheese frosting with berries. YUM.
Cereal with almond milk or soy yogurt! I have been on such a cereal trip since getting pregnant. I could eat it for every meal....that or a bean and rice burrito with red sauce! YUM-O
Chocolate croissants. I can eat two or three at a time if no one is looking. Preferably with a creamy hot beverage. Also, Garlic Naan. Trader Joe's makes an awesome frozen version – just put in a hot oven for a couple of minutes!
Amen to the chocolate croissants. For my 21st birthday friends threw me a champagne and choc croissant-tasting party. Wow. "Au Bon Pain" choc croissants were the taste-test winner.
Any sort of in season fruit with half and half and sugar... especially blueberries... Ice Cream out of the container... and as a Wisconsinite, of course I have to mention deep fried cheese curds and a nice cold bee, Spotted Cow please... if I could live off of those and not die of a heart attack at age 30, I would, in a heart beat.
Haha Bee... of course meant to be beer
I agree with every part of this statement. Throw in a beer brat or two on occasion.
My other favorite occasional foods are grilled cheese, mac & cheese, and pizza. Total cheese junkie here.
Pizza with ranch dressing.
Ranch would make dirt taste good.
Yes Yes YES!
I love cinnamon Life cereal. If left to my own devices, I'll eat 2 or 3 boxes at a time.
Life cereal, slightly crushed, equal amount of Cheerios, drizzle with hot, melted, slightly browned butter, sprinkle with cinnamon sugar, toss, eat.
If you live in Atlanta: krispy kreme bread budding at Relish restaurant! At home: home made hot chocolate (largest mug in the house) with toast with tons of raspberry jam, or Ben and Jerry's Boston creme pie ice cream is amazing.
Amen on the Krispy Kreme pudding @ Relish in Atlanta (actually Roswell).
A huge plate of nachos – cheese, chili beans, tomatoes, salsa, sour cream. Wrap it in foil and grill till melted and slightly crispy. Yummm!!!!
Classic lays potato chips with Texas Pete hot sauce.
Uncooked Ramen noodles with the seasoning poured over them.
Large white wine drenched sauteed portabello mushroom– hubby doesn't like mushrooms:(
I love uncooked ramen noodles too!
She must practice buolemia if that is an accurate recent picture of her. )Probably not.) All those forbidden foods she listed are MAJOR calories for even thinking about it. Hope her husband doesn't go away for long or wifey-poo will be unrecognizable in XXX sizes when he returns!
Oh, Ms. Clark actually practices incredibly smart, healthy eating practices - even wrote a book about how to be a food writer and stay slim.
http://www.melissaclark.net/blog/2006/11/food-writers-dont-get-fat.html
I don't feel the need to hide my eating habits from anyone. Unless I'm stoned out of my mind and have massive munchies. Don't wanna tip anyone off.
I've gotten some new snack ideas since I started cooking a meal for every country in the world. For example, I love, love love croissant dough spread with peanut butter, rolled up and baked. This west African inspired recipe is amazing for midnight munchies – simple, and ready in 15 minutes!
If you are interested in learning more about my Adventure, please feel free to visit http://GlobalTableAdventure.com I'd love to be in the hot seat! :)
15 min!? If I'm making something at midnight, it better take less than 1 minute to make/pour/grab out of the cupboard.
Individual American cheese slices. So bad. So good. No bread, no crackers, just the cheese, please.
Thats how I eat the cheese as well!! :)
I can't keep american cheese in the house because I can hear it calling to me from the fridge...."I'm here, you know you want me...."
homemade guacamole w/Tostitos scoops! Or, some pork chops breaded and fried...w/a beer!
Home fried potatoes, bacon and salsa wrapped in a flour tortilla.....or, Kraft Mac and Cheese...with lots of pepper....both served with a big glass of milk.....
Homemade Mushroom soup, my husband and my kids dont care for it. so when they are away I make that with home made light garlic bread and enjoy.
Take a big bowl. Smoosh up half an avocado, mix in sour cream & your favorite salsa. Crush tortilla chips over the top, mix it all up & eat with a spoon, like soup. Sigh, if I had tortilla chips I'd make it right now.
Ooh, that sounds good.
I do something similar too! Salsa soup. Crushed tortilla chips (usually the bottom of the bag) and just enough salsa to make it all stick together. Eaten with a spoon. Nice snack.
I enjoy tortilla chips, sour cream, salsa, and shredded cheddar cheese all mixed together. The mixture looks a little like vomit, but it's so good!
chicken 65..atleast 50 peices
Sounds delicious, and some sheek kabob wrap with potato salad... wow I am hungry!!!
One of my favs too. Most probably don't know what chicken 65 is. I also love the chili chicken
Cereal, cereal and more cereal. I grew up in a 'one box open at a time' family. It's a treat to have a choice of 5 open boxes of cereal (two "healthy", three junky, sugar-y types). A giant bowl, whole milk (not the usual skim) and my favorite spoon with the red plastic handle, and I'm a happy, solo-eating camper. A spoonful of peanut butter is a close second, especially if I have chocolate chips or chocolate syrup on hand.
I love you , Colleen!
You should try a bowl of cereal WITH a spoonful of peanut butter! Especially Cocoa Puffs, Cinnamon Toast Crunch or Cap'n Crunch. I thought my husband was crazy when he introduced me to the idea, but YUM!
Cap'n Crunch....absofreakinlutley!
For as long as I can remember, I have to have ice in my cereal. Others think it's gross but without it, the milk is never cold enough for me. It doesn't change the taste of anything, it's just makes the milk super cold and that much tastier when you drink it!
Frosting-in-a-can (preferably the cream cheese variety). Who needs cake?
One of my favs as well.
Frosting in the can is the best – especially the one in the whipped cream can! Choc fudge that you can squirt right in your mouth. Totally amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's very interesting to see what others consider "forbidden" food. Melissa's choices all sound wonderful, and some are even pretty healthy, but for me nothing hits the spot like good ol' junk food. Give me an In-N-Out cheeseburger, or some H. Salt Fish and Chips, or maybe a huge combo burrito from Del Taco and I'm in heaven. Follow any of those with a Krispy Kreme donuts and I can die happy. Needless to say, I don't do any of those very often, but it's nice to dream a little.
Don't say "In N Out cheeseburger" in front of us poor East Coasters! It makes some of us cry really loud.
I canz haz cheezburger?
You east coasters have White Castle. I would kill for one to open up in Washington.
You can get White Castle at the freezer section at the market. But In-N-Out can only, unfortunately, be had in CA and some parts of Arizona, Nevada and Utah.
In-N-Out is the King of all burger places.
Oh please... Two words, Krystal Burgers! If you are in the South, then you are eating Krystals. Which, are waaaaaaaaay better than White Castle. Wtf is the other?
In-N-Out Burger is building a restaurant in Garland, Tx. Can't wait!
jack n the box!!! there are none in FL!
ShakeShack in NYC gets my vote
Five Guys, available on the east coast, sure gives in-n-out a run for its money!
hmmm, its a toss-up; Normally I have no problem eating a HOT krispy kreme in front of anybody, but by myself I get dangerous: i can easily suck down 4. my other go-to, is ramen noodles! still stuck on them, even though they are full of MSG! I like mine sauteed with butter and minced garlic
ANIMAL STYLE!!!
Hey, H. Salt Esq.!!!! Yeah!!!! Haven't had their fish & chips for decades, not since I moved from Sothern CA.
lately, I've been too tired after work to eat anything healthy or even remotely elaborate. I've been living off of beef jerky, light popcorn, and whiskey+Diet Coke LOL.
Sounds like my kind of dinner except skip the whiskey and give me some Malibu Rum or Cpt. Morgan's with my diet coke! Who needs to eat when there us coconut rum in the house?!!
Tostitos with a hint of lime with medium salsa, eating them straight from the bag and the jar. While watching whatever reality show it's on... Makes me so happy :-)!
mmm, I love those lime Tostitos. I could mindlessly munch on them forever! BUT...I've found something better: Qdoba's tortilla chips. I was addicted to those a little while back. lime/salt/warmth. amazing.
Try hint of lime tostitos with spinach dip
Big ol popcorn-sized bowl filled with cereal, sugar and milk. Small spoon so it lasts longer.
If its later in the day, I'll do a whole block of marble cheese on crackers.
A bowl of cereal and HOT almond milk, ( yes, hot) in the afternoon, or after lunch, or after dinner...Then I feel so guilty I work out a little extra the next day....
Almond milk is actually very low in fat. Nothing to feel guilty about.
hahaha I know, but is the cereal part that concerns me a bit...
Whoa, go crazy "Me." You must be a real fun gal if that's your guilty pleasure. I can't imagine what you're like in bed if that's what you feel guilty about, a little cereal! Now, if you're saying it's an entire box of Cap'n Crunch..then we're talkin.
hahahahha that’s so true. I eat cereal 2 times a day. It’s healthy. It’s not a treat!
blueberries, wrapped up in german bologna. sounds gross, but i made it like that once when i was a kid and its still good. :) try it.
Normally, I can't stand that neon orange processed cheese food product or powder or anything overly processed. But every 6 months to a year I'll have to get a box of "Chiken in a Biskit" or bacon-flavored crackers and a can of Kraft easy cheese. Or some Cheetos/Cheese Doodlez or an Arby's beef and cheddar.
None of these products has anything that resembles cheese and are full of MSG, which is why I usually stay away but every so often, I just have to!
One of the weirdest things I eat is kippered snacks which are forbidden when anybody else is around me due to the fishy smell. Smoked sardines are awesome! I put them on chef boyardee (another once a year food) or I put them on buttered toast with Kraft Parmesan and broil them until brown and bubbly.
And no, I'm not a brand wh0re but sometimes generics just ain't right!
Yes, chicken in a bisket!
OMG! Every family car trip back in the 70's had to have Chicken In a Bisket Crackers and Easy Cheese. We demanded it. My mom complied. LOL
I'm with you on the cheese in a can. I only eat it every once in a great while, but it's so nasty good.
Smoked oysters on Lays salt and vinegar potato chips. Heaven.
That sounds AMAZING!
Sounds like stoned munchy food.
Not just stoner food...PMS food. I'm gonna have to try that.
I never would have imagined that combination. Thank you. Awesome.
CA girl, I'm with you, although I haven't tried the salt 'n vinegar chips. Whenever my husband's out of town I love to indulge in smoked oysters with a big glass of white wine, preferably French, like a Pouilly-Fuisse. Now that's a girl's night in!
The smoked oysters and chips combo truly rocks. Hope you all give it try!
I'm giving that a serious go this weekend, CAgirl. I love them with french loaf and soft cheese. One tin is rarely enough.
Try an extra crunchy potato chip with a dollop of creme freche and a dab of caviar on top. Oh so good with a nice glass of bubbly!!!
That sounds amazing.
Graeters Ice Cream, Cincinnati Favorite
Raspberry with Chocolate Pieces is the best (Black Rasperry Chip)... course Amaretto Crunch rocks too! Used to live there... nothing like Graters anywhere else in the country! Love it!
Peanut Butter Chip is my favorite. Man, do I miss it. Why do I live so far away from anywhere that has Graeters now?
You can get it shipped... Graeter's that is. I'm with those that could eat a whole loaf of garlic bread if no one was around. I love that stuff.
Oohhh, Graeters....and Skyline....and Geotta.....how I miss my Cincinnati delicacies! I have Skyline shipped in a carton twice a year to Texas so we can get our Skyline "fix".
I make it to Columbus a couple times a year and always bring a cooler of Buckeye Blitz home with me. The Raspberry Sorbet ot great also. Even when the temp is in the 90's they pack enough dry ice to keep it frozen for teh 600 mile trip and then some. That reminds me, I have about 1 small serving left from the July trip. Time to plan te next one.
Baskin Robbin's Caramel Sutra. The whole pint.
Bite of apple, bite of white aged cheddar, apple, cheddar...
Take heavy cream, make a mix of choc powder and sugar, stir for a bit (while watching TV, of course) voila! Chocolate mouuse.
Fruity Pebbles
Sloppy joes and tater tots
The sort of brie cheese that comes in a plastic wedge and crusty bread
YESSSS!!! FRUITY PEBBLES IS MY WEAKNESS!!! Have not bought a box in over 3 years!! Because they always disappear in my tummy the very same day!..Might have to visit the the store to indulge this weekend!
I LOOOOOOOOVE to take hot french bread, right out of the store, and sqeeze butter and sit on the sofa and eat ALL of it. Don't tell my husband, he'd want me to share.
Oh yeah. That's the best.
get a spoon, dip into peanut butter, dollop with chocolate chips and then spray on the whipped cream. dessert on a spoon! doritos dipped into cream cheese is good too!
I like doritos dipped in peanut butter!
ewwww thats not yum
my hubby just loves cool ranch doritos dipped in cottage cheese...ewww
doritos & cottage cheese:) nutella & pb dipped pretzels. pickles & saltines.
those are some unusual combos
cottage cheese and salsa........potato chips dipped in sour cream.......honey roasted peanuts......tortilla chips with melted gooey cheese.....left over pizza.......
Chocolate chip cookie dough. Barely cooked...just enough to melt the chips. mmmmm!!!
And sweetened condensed milk right outa the can...or on bananas.
We occasionally pressure cook a can of sweetened condensed milk until it caramelizes. Then cut up a bunch of strawberries and go dipping.
Marmite on any kind of bread
Mmmmmm, Marmite.... it's best on toast with melted cheese and a hot cuppa tea!
EWW! Those bugs that eat wood? Gross!
umm... no, not bugs that eat wood.... that would be a termite...
When nobody is around I grab my generic 365 crunch peanut butter and dig in with a spoon.
I could eat a whole loaf of garlic bread if no one was watching.
Oh, you said it sister.
If no one's watching, my weakness is CANDY. Just the worst, neon-dyed, sour/gummy/sweet/nuclear candy I can mack on.
I have a weakness for after-dinner mints...have eaten a bowl in place of dinner. love the how they melt on the tongue.
Candy?! Where? My candy problem can get a little extreme sometimes: laffy taffy, airheads, now-n-laters, starbursts, gummi bears...anything that has the potential to rip my fillings out. After I eat a whole bunch of it, I feel a little buzzed. I can't even keep it in the house. The day after Halloween, I have a sugar hangover.
Don't leave me alone with a loaf of French bread.
french bread with soft butter
MUST HAVE CHICKEN WINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YES! YES! YES!
I'll eat a whole loaf of garlic bread... or many other types of bread... if I'm not careful. I live far too close to Panera for my own good.
A spoonful of peanut butter or nutella. I use the biggest spoon I can find!
Yes! Nutella is so friggen wonderful! I just ate a half a jar yesterday!
I stopped buying Nutella...I eat the whole jar in one sitting...peanut butter makes me lose control also...but I can't eat a whole jar unless I don't mind throwing up...and that's no fun.
Eating a whole pint of Godiva chocolate ice cream is a comfort food that just makes me feel wonderful until I get on the scale a couple of days later....
Ditto on the PB right out of the jar! It kills my diet every week!
Even better...Scoop the Peanut butter on one side of the spoon and scoop the other side of the spoon with nutells. Enjoy together. Kind of like a Peanut buttercup...Yum-o
I AGREE! I love Nutella, there's nothing like it on earth. The other thing I eat when no one is looking is a spoonful of regular Jiff peanut butter drizzled with Hershey's chocolate syrup. It cures my craving for a Reeses Peanut Butter Cup.
A can of whipped cream. Sprayed directly in your mouth. Or on your finger, then lick it off. Sooo very good.
Or a 10 thin-layered cake frosted with strawberry preserves and yummy cream cheese icing sprinkled with crushed walnuts on top and fresh strawberries.....yyyuuummmmm
Thats HOT!!!!!