I just ate a big FAT caramel roll!
Any body have a let down with dietary issues? I just ate big fat caramel roll and enjoyed every minute of it. I have been limiting dairy, sugar, coffee (a llot of cheating here) and meat for a couple of years. This holiday season is getting to me. I was just wondering how you all are dealing with trying to maintain a healthy, preventative diet and the usual daily temptations. Wanted to quite all the vitamins for a while too.
This is probably a passing urge.
MJ
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For shame!
I love those too.
I am on a pop tart kick. I had some gingerbread ones and last weekend bought the caramel roll variety. No, they are not as good as a real caramel roll, but I can dream.
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if I need a coffee I have one or a chocolate... I think that the food we eat has been gm'd and the growth hormones and plastics are the cause of our problems... I now take fish oil, cal, multi v and Greens plus.. and Ihope this helps me to be stronger.. but I refuse to stop living in fear of cancer returning...
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I guess I'm not doing myself any good, but I pretty much eat what I want....in moderation. I don't know that stopping foods is going to stop me from getting cancer again. I just keep on top of things, and try to remember to move forward. I had a "scarey thought moment" that lasted about two days, but am better now, and Susan has mentioned pop-tarts. So, I am going to eat the chocolate sunday ones that are in my cabinet. Not all, just one....maybe!
Jennifer
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"Any body have a let down with dietary issues?"
All the time. I think it's natural to have cravings for certain things that we've been going without. Last week I had to have a steak, so I went to a restaurant that supposedly has the best steaks and it was awful. No taste whatsoever. That got that out of my system, but a caramel roll, (how big was it?) now that's a good thing. Enjoy yourself, you'll get back on track soon enough.
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Oh Rose! I went hunting for thr gingerbread poptarts the other day and couldn't find them. Now I am on a mission since they are only in stores for the season. I think in our area we are in a severe shortage of poptarts cause my son loves the brown sugar cinnamon and we are unable to find those also. As far as living the healthy life and eating healthy, I profess to the rule of severe restriction is unable to be sustained over the long haul. I do believe ocassionally one should allow a "treat" but the wagon needs to be jumped back on. I probably would also feel guilty about a whole anything but still it isn't the end of the world.
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I had lunch with a friend yesterday. I ate healthy!!!! I had an Asian salad with salmon. Now, if I could just eat out ALL the time. And I finished it for lunch today. And I had unsweetened tea cuz that restaurant sweetens their tea waaayyy to much. Rosemary would be proud of me (a secret...I used some Splenda and lemon
).Shirley
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Now you have me thinking about sticky buns. A coffee place downtown used to have wonderful sticky buns, but now they're nowhere to be found. Well, I guess I'll have to start my holiday baking.
fwiw, my sweet tooth has diminished considerably since I ditched beverages sweetened with corn syrup. While I was going through chemo, I was practically living on arizona energy drinks. When I got to rads, they were weighing me every week. I was gaining a pound every other week. My food didn't seem excessive, so I started looking closer at my drinks. I was taking in 1000 calories some days just from my drinks. Drinks that were loaded with corn syrup.
I think better eating is a process, not an event. And if we have to stop and enjoy a caramel roll on the way, then the best thing to do is savor every bite and every moment.
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I saw that on a show about the calories in coffee drinks. I almost fell off my chair. Huge amounts of calories! We're better off eating the sweet then drinking the double this and that coffee with it. It ruined me cause I use to love to drop by for a double this and that.
Shirley,
The whole idea here is for you to actually taste the tea. It's darn tasty. You can't taste it with any type of sweetener in it. I tell ya, once you do, you'll become the tea police. I can tell what time of the day the tea was made. Sometimes, it was yesterday but you won't know that. Color can be deceiving, but not taste. Someday.
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I love green tea.I cant live w/out it for breakfast, and I ut 3 teabags in a huge mug:White tea w/plum, green tea w/acai,antioxident green tea .All from Celestial, all unflavored/unsweetened.And all..celestial!Mmmmmm!
I also like their green/ginger chai, also unsweetened and tasting fine plain.
Mjcs--following your body's cravings is the best way to do.Dont agonize over it!Just enjoy it.You are obviously a healthful eater.
Personally if something chocolae is callin my name, I never hesitate.Because y'know what?It gets the craving out of your system.AND I find being tghe type of eater I am, I actually get fed up with "caamel rolls" really fast.(My thing s something like fugde-icd chocolate cake") It's marvellous but I truely get sick of it and wind up throwing it away.
Dr Spock(anybody?) in hs book Baby & Child Care said that babies who are fed healthfully and w/out added sweets grow up not to crave them.
It's true!I never fed my kids sweets and now as women they still dont eat them.At Christmas I used to have a tablefull of sweets -every kind of cookie, a cake, and then lots of fruit.And when my grandkids were 2 and 4, they "tasted" a cookie or 2, but cleaned the whole bowl of fresh strawberries!
Dont worry about the carmel rll!You were probably PMSing!
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Rosemary.....someday......
LOL
Shirley
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Joan, growing up I didn't have a lot of sweets either. I really crave them UNTIL I started taking Amitriptyline. I'm still on that d-r-u-g. It's what helped to make me have bulges..lol.
Guess what I ordered and sent to my daughter's house for Christmas. We'll be there for Christmas or I wouldn't have. A Junior's (of New York) Devil's Food Cheese Cake. Sooooo, sooooo bad!
Here's a real picture of it. It's in my dd's freezer.
Yep, I'm taping my mouth so I can't eat!
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OMG--Shirley
I used to live in Fort Greene in Brooklyn when I went grad school at Pratt Institute .
I lived at Juniors and was never without their cheese cakes in my apartment or freezer since all roads led me to Junior's. I was 5 minutes away. Yum!
Strawberry cheesecakes to die for and I can't even blame amitriptyline.
Enjoy! Definitely worth falling off the wagon for. Maybe I should be thankful for a little bit of Lactose intolerance these days? Keeps my indulgences in check. LOL
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Ive been horrible lately but, oh well!!! Out here in California, there are Sees Candies. Yesterday at work we had a couple of 1 Lb boxes. Well, guess who couldnt eat just one.
I must have had 3 or 4 pieces. Their are some that I dont like so when I got one of those, Id throw that one out and go get another one. OINK!!!That cake looks so yummy, do they have a website? Theirs probably 500 calories in a half a sliver of that thing.
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My son used to work at Starbuck's and he would come home and shower because he said he was sticky from making all the drinks. Most of the frap drinks are disguised milk shakes!
I've been looking for more ginger poptarts too! They disappeared. I will be more grateful for the Cinnamon ones. My store seems to have plenty of those.
They smell so good. When I get up I put two in the toaster oven and then when they're finished I open the door so the smell will go all over. When my son gets up I don't have to remind him to eat it.
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Susie, there are a few people that I know who would have envied you living so near Junior's. One of my friends goes to N.Y. every once and a while. She and her family MAKE SURE they go to Junior's. I doubt I'll ever get there so I suppose ordering a cheese cake is the next best thing. At least I won't have that tempation in front of me DAILY!
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Labhusky, I don't believe Junior's has a website. I got it from QVC. They sell different varieties of Junior's cheese cakes. I bought another kind of cake, a pink ribbon cake, for Thanksgiving to share with my family to celebrate my upcoming third anniversary of bc (actually I believe I found the tumor 12/7/04). Good excuse, huh? My girls LOVED it, so it wasn't a waste of money. Some of the hosts on air at QVC used this cake for the wedding cake..not the pink ribbon. LOL So I thought it couldn't be too bad.
If your interested in the cheese cake you go to http://www.qvc.com/ and the item number is M104156. If you order it now it will bet there in time for Christmas.
Okay, now I'm getting hungry!
Shirley
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Okay ladies,
I started this thread with the caramel roll idea and after that picture Shirley put up I am now on the QVC web site ordering a cake for Christmas!! I have never even heard of Junior's but that chocolate cake looks out of this world. Thanks for the input. I am going to enjoy all of it ( I mean a piece of it, I am planning on sharing it with my family). After all, my "good behavior" eating didn't do a thing to prevent my bone metastases Dx'd last August.
Enjoy the holidays everyone...a new year is close at hand. Wishing you all the best each and every day!
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Ahhhhhhh, Shirley,
Let's have some more decadence!
http://www.juniorscheesecake.com/juniors_cheesecake/Juniors_Cheesecake_Home/Our_Collections.php
By the way there is a cookbook with Junior's recipes called:
Junior's Cheesecake Cookbook: 50 To-Die-For Recipes for New York-Style Cheesecake by Alan Rosen and Beth Allen
Amazon has it for $14.96
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I loved Junior's. Even their food was good. Brooklyn is home to me, so whenever I go back, I'm usually in search of a good pizza and I've been disappointed lately. They don't make them like they use to. Now I'll have to remember to go to Junior's again.
There was a boxer who had a restaurant in the City and I can't remember his name now, but I would go there to bring home a cheese cake. Jack Dempsey. I remembered. What a cheesecake that was, and heavy. I think I'm going to have to order a cheesecake from Junior's for Xmas. What a treat that will be. Thanks Susie.
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Rosemary--This is going to sound very odd but there is this guy named Jeff Varasano and he has spent years perfecting a clone of Patsey's Pizza in its heyday in NYC
He also has generously shared the recipe on his website with all who are adventurous enough to try it at home.---He worked 6 years on it---now thats dedication to perfection!
For those who are not bakers he has an ongoing quest is to find the current best Pizza. His site rates them.
Apparently there are still two great ones in Brooklyn!----Nobody rates a ten in his book except maybe in his memories so 9 or above is orth searching out!
Brooklyn, NY Franny's Wood Burning Oven Rating 9.5 Very true to the Neapolitan Standard, except the sauce is a little more balanced. 295 Flatbush Ave
(718) 230-0221
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Brooklyn Totonno's Coal oven rating 9 Original on Coney Island is pretty amazing. Light, well charred. This is classic NY style pizza. Very tasty sauce. Worth the trip
Spin-off from Lombardi's. 1524 Neptune Ave
Coney Island, NY
(718) 372-8606 check that the number matches the branch!Manhattan Location is Terrible. Westchester Location is pretty good.
--------------------------------------------------Pizza is truly my downfall and the photos of the one from Franny's was to die for.
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MJ, enjoy your PIECE of cheesecake.
Susie, did you HAVE to post Junior's link?
I've seen the cookbook, but thought, nah, it's too much trouble. I understand they tell you ALL their secrets in making cheesecakes. And, besides, I certainly do not need to be eating this type of dessert all year long.
Rosemary, be sure to share that cake if you do order it. Geez, I can't imagine how much fat and calories are in it. I'm going to try to be real good and only eat one piece (ONE BIG PIECE). LOL I'm also making a pumpkin pie.
I almost ordered one of the samplers, but the Devil's Food one look so good ("Devil" is certainly a good name for this chocolate cake...EVIL!).
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I've been to Totonno's. That was one of my disappointments, it was too light. I saw it on TV, so of course, I had to go. My memories of real pizza, heavy on the cheese that would drop off the dough part if we weren't careful. Patsy's in Brooklyn, in the shadow of the Brooklyn bridge, that has an excellent white pizza.
My next venture will be to Dominic's on Ave J. Always looking. And now Franny's. I'm not planning a trip back for awhile, so it might take a bit for my review.
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I sure do miss NY pizza, the kind where the crust is soft enough to fold without cracking, the oil runs up your arm and the cheese is all stringy. My dh has family near Coney Island, so we'll be sure to check out Totonno's, and Sac's in Astoria, where my ds lives.
Hmmm, guess I'll be planning a visit soon.
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Has any one tried Domino's Pizza. They have a Brookynn Style Pizza that we like. Of course I'm sure it's not as good as the real thing. We introduced it to my SIL and DD and they like it.
Shirley
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No, I really shouldn't have found this thread!!! NOW I am hungry, and I want pizza!!
HARLEY -
Oh, did I ever fall off the wagon last night!----Its my fifth anniversary of my diagnosis and dancing with NED.
----And as a bonus I received my first normal Blood labs in five years yesterday. Normal LFTs --and that hasn't happened in 20 years never-mind since my dx . As a matter of fact, 6 months ago they were elevated in multiples---over 100 points more of what they were supposed to be.
Needless to say I am euphoric.
Did allot of stuff to bring them down but I truly didn't think anything would bring them down to normal! But that is for another thread. And I was so apprehensive about just calling for the results that I started to black out just thinking about it. That's how I've been every three months for the past five years---Actually, the worry would start a month before the labs were due--nevermind the periodic abdominal scans--Mental wreck perpetually waiting for Damocles Sword to fall.
Anyway had an incredible celebration bash last night. Fried Chicken----Not just any Fried Chicken but the most magical stuff you'll ever eat. I truly have never tasted anything like it.
It's just amazing in taste----And if you ever try it you will never touch Popeye's or the Colonel again.
It's a Korean Fried Chicken called Bonchon Chicken (no Transfats)---amazingly seasoned---I ask for half and half (half with a sweet soy garlic sauce + half hot)----And they give you a side
of pickled daikon cut in little cubes to cool off your palette. Not to guild the Lily I of course rewarded myself with some beer which just toped off a perfectly outrageous dining experience.
I've never seen chicken fried like this. If you are lucky enough to live in the NY/NJ environs
you may want to check it out----
Here are some of the places.
http://offthebroiler.wordpress.com/2007/06/13/nycnj-dining-the-great-korean-fried-chicken-round-up/
---We are lucky enough to have one in Phila.---TG I'm far enough away that it is a special event---because I am seriously addicted!
This about sums it up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMTbSt_Ln9c
The Euphoria continues!
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Congratulations Susie!
What a way to celebrate. I'm going to do the same thing when my 5 years is up, do what you did. EAT, drink and be merry.
So what's the plan now? Are you off the AI? Ohhh, I can't wait for that day. I'll be hoping to lose 10 lbs. the first week, well not if I celebrate too much. Much joy to you with your celebrations.
Rosemary
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Talk about falling off the wagon that I hadn't even started....!!!!
I ate too much junk! Please don't tell me weight will not come off if one really tries.
As far as the cheesecake...it was good, but too much chocolate for my taste. Therefore, I really didn't go hog wild eating it. I had a couple of small pieces. Don't be proud of me. If I had really liked it I would have probably (NO, I would have) eaten MORE!!
I think I'm more of a "plain" cheesecake eater.
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