10 Guilty Pleasures

Fast food chicken fingers should be on this list...

This week's Listicles is all about confessions. When I started making my list, I realized that a ton of them are about food. Which reminded me of an episode of Sex And The City where they talked about 'secret single behaviour'. I forget which of the women it was, but hers was eating saltines standing up at her kitchen counter. I could really relate to that.

It's been a loooong time since I was single & these days I'm rarely even alone at all, but I still have some guilty pleasures when it comes to eating. I feel guiltiest when the things I secretly like are super processed, sugary, salty or just generally unhealthy. Which is most of the list.

1. Campbell's soup--particularly tomato or cream of mushroom. As if the sodium-laced canned soup wasn't bad enough, I eat it with at least a dozen crushed saltines. Heh.
2. Kraft Dinner (you Americans may know this as Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, but north of 49 we don't call it that). Again with the tons of salt. & cheese powder. So gross, but yet so yummy.
3. Eating an entire bag of chips. I prefer the kettle cooked ones, but will eat pretty much any kind of potato chips, I'm not that picky when I get a bad craving.
4. Rice with butter. I'll snack on this when we have leftovers--I just put a bunch of butter on a big bowl of rice & heat it in the microwave. Generally I'll sprinkle a little tamari sauce on too. The redeeming quality of this is that it's brown rice--we rarely eat white rice at home.
5. Licking Nutella off a spoon.
6. Eating chocolate chips. In our house, at least 75% of chocolate chips never make it into baking. Heh.
7. Drowning pancakes or french toast in syrup. At least it's real maple syrup, but still...
8. McDonald's breakfasts. It doesn't really matter whether it's a Sausage McMuffin or Breakfast Burritos, they're all full of sodium, fat & probably a number of other things I shouldn't be eating. But I still love me a good Mickey Dee's breakfast every once in a while.
9. Jello. I've recently rediscovered my love for this jiggly stuff. I avoid looking at the ingredients list with who knows how many numbered food dyes & just enjoy the nostalgic squishy taste.
10. Combining a can of corn & cubed cheddar, then eating it cold. It's really tasty, I tell you!

There you have it. Did I shock those of you who thought I was a healthy eater? Do you share my love of any of the above things? It's your turn now: what are your guilty food-related pleasures? 

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