Is it worth it?

[kamkazmoto]

What is your secret craving? You know, the one that you will bolus for when you know that the opportunity to pig out exists? Your favorite buffet, desert, carb? Confess, we all have a weakness.:D

[Cramster]

Since I work at a coffee shop, i am tempted all the time with sugary drinks and bagels/pastries. If I do plan to pig out, itll have to be between the chocolate chip scone, pumpkin muffin, or my favorite, the chocolate pecan bar *drool*

[notme]

Only one thing that I absolutely can't walk away from...... peppermint ice cream. Tis the season, coming up.

[kamkazmoto]

Forgot to confess mine. A good french baguette and coffee in the morning will raise my bg from a fbg of 105 to a two hour bg of 220, and a bran muffin and coffee will raise it from 75 to 80 points. Something about serious starch in the morning is my downfall. :(

[GeishaGirl]

Mmm. Dinner at Panera. Always worth the money and the insulin.

[jer.lawrence]

Mmm. Dinner at Panera. Always worth the money and the insulin.

*sigh*

I'd kill for a Smoked Turkey Breast sandwich on Asiago Foccacia with a side of potato chips. And a sweetened iced tea.

:P

I could go for just the sandwich though.

I haven't cheated that bad intentionally yet. Once I learned that a half of one of those sandwiches spikes me pretty good, I haven't tried since then.

[genie86333]

Thai Iced Tea...makes me glad I'm not on insulin because if I was, I'd probably go out for Thai every time I go down to town & splurge....

[Granny Shanny]

Since I don't have the option to bolus, I just have to pine away for homemade sourdough bread & butter . . . :( :( :(

[enigmalady777]

Fresh hot baked french bread.......hubby brought a loaf home last night with our dinner (rotisserie chicken). It was still warm in the bag.....*gah*

I ate TWO slices instead of my usual one. Two hours later I was staring down a BG of 172.......correction time of course.

But it was so worth it!!!!!!

[xMenace]

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[ShottleBop]

Only one thing that I absolutely can't walk away from...... peppermint ice cream. Tis the season, coming up.

1 pint heavy cream
Enough DaVinci SF peppermint syrup to give you the peppermint taste strength you like
Some stevia for additional sweetness
5 eggs, beaten
Enough unsweetened almond milk to make up a quart of mix

Ice cream maker.

I've had a bowl of mint/raw cacao nib ice cream every night this week.
appears to do do wonders for my BGs!

[soso]

do you have to heat the cream to cook the eggs or does one eat them raw?

[ShottleBop]

I do not cook them. I suppose that you could, if you weren't lazy, like me.

[Chef Barrae]

do you have to heat the cream to cook the eggs or does one eat them raw?

It's a fairly traditional custard based ice cream mixture. Yes, you have to cook it or warm it enough so that the egg yolks thicken the cream and then you refrigerate it to cool for several hours and then pop into the ice cream maker. I've always loved the custard based ice creams. Great luxurious mouth feel and the taste is just rediculous!

Now, in answer to the op's question, I have to say that since I do not really go for fast foods or the kind of foods that chain restaurants offer, my weakness is Chinese food. However, since I have been cooking Chinese food (Cantonese) since the early 70's, I can make just about whatever I want. I don't really miss anything because I can easily convert a recipe to something that is not going to spike me (and many others but YMMV) and I eat just about anything I want. I guess the only thing I miss that I have not been able to duplicate is maybe a chocolate croissant. Ahh, the memories. But since I'm still eating the results of my testing of Decadent Double Chocolate Tartlets and they have just about 8.5 g net carb (posted here in recipes) I am not missing chocolate at the moment one bit.

[jkane13]

I am not type 1, and no insulin yet for me, but the one that is worth the sugar spike is Korean Bebimbap. It spikes me to about 180, but I accept that risk since I love it so much!

Darn! I don't have lunch plans yet. I may end up there today now. ;)

[kamkazmoto]

Bibimbap (sp) is great but the one I can eat is their spicy tofu soup with oysters. Love it but can't handle the rice that comes with it.

[ShottleBop]

It's a fairly traditional custard based ice cream mixture. Yes, you have to cook it or warm it enough so that the egg yolks thicken the cream and then you refrigerate it to cool for several hours and then pop into the ice cream maker. I've always loved the custard based ice creams. Great luxurious mouth feel and the taste is just rediculous!

If you do all that, you may get smoother ice cream (or maybe one that doesn't get so hard in the freezer)--and will reduce your risk of getting salmonella, but doing that would drastically reduce how much ice cream gets made in the house. Mrs. ShottleBop whips up the mix, uses a Hamilton Beach ice cream maker that we bought for $25 at WalMart, and spoons it into individual plastic containers we picked up from the bargain bin at Walgreens. It's bricklike, but that just means it lasts longer when I sit down to have some--plus, the individual containers are automatic portion control. (Fresh from the machine, it's like soft-serve.)

[dbaratta]

What is your secret craving? You know, the one that you will bolus for when you know that the opportunity to pig out exists? Your favorite buffet, desert, carb? Confess, we all have a weakness.:D

Birthday Cake. :birthday:

[foxl]

Potato chips.

and last time I had any ... I had ONE. So it was worth it!

[Moonpie]

bread stuffing, with gravy, mash & cranberry jelly. all too carby. Hoping someone comes up with some good low carb stuffings :)