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Guilty Pleasure Foods – Chattavore Top Ten

March 30, 2016

We all have guilty pleasure foods that we can’t resist. This is a list of foods that I can’t keep in the house, or I’ll eat all of it. What are your guilty pleasure foods?
We all have guilty pleasure foods that we can't resist. This is a list of foods that I can't keep in the house, or I'll eat all of it. What are your guilty pleasure foods? | list from Chattavore.com
1.  Kettle Chips

Topping my list of guilty pleasure foods is kettle chips. If I’m going with chips (besides my homemade microwave chips), these are definitely my first choice.  Preferably Kettle Brand, but I’ll really eat any kettle-cooked chips I can get my hands on. In my mind, they really aren’t all that bad….they only have three ingredients (potatoes, oil, and salt) and they taste so good they couldn’t possibly be bad.  The problem is that once I start eating them I can’t stop.  My justification is that “I need to get them out of the house”.  Because it’s obviously better to eat them all at once and have them gone than to eat them a few at a time…right?

2.  Salt & Vinegar or Dill Pickle Lay’s

Actually, I don’t think that they make the dill pickle variety anymore.  It’s been ages since I bought a bag of Lay’s potato chips.  Not because they’re “bad” but because the flavored varieties usually only come in gigantic bags.  It’s dangerous to have these in the house.  I used to buy bags of chips for Philip to parse out to take in his lunch, and every time we would have salt & vinegar or dill pickle chips, I would eat them until my mouth burned and the corners of my mouth started to crack from the salt and the acidity of the vinegar.

3.  Nacho or Taco Doritos

Okay, does anyone see a pattern here?  Chips are my weakness…my trigger food…my kryptonite.  They are literally the only food that I just can’t. Stop. Eating.  My number one guilty pleasure, for sure. I love Doritos.  Love them, love them, love them.  I know they have approximately 18,000 ingredients.  You know what?  I don’t care.  I love the fact that the orange cheese powder coats my fingers. It’s like second snack.  I cannot cannot cannot purchase these in a large bag to bring home with me.  I only eat them in a restaurant (say, Subway or Firehouse Subs) where I can purchase a small bag and not see them again once I have finished my meal. By the way, I recently discovered that my cat loves them too. Weirdo.

4.  Boxed Cake Mix

I don’t do it very often.  It’s hard to justify.  But when I make cake balls, it’s much easier to just mix up a cake from a box and stir in some canned icing.  I love to scrape all of the excess batter out of the bowl and straight into my mouth (I married someone who doesn’t care for this practice-what?  Who doesn’t like cake batter?!?!-so more for me!).

5.  Homemade Cream Cheese Icing

This is a guilty pleasure that I share with my mom and my sister.  If you’ve ever had cream cheese icing out of a can, you know that there is no comparison to the homemade stuff.  Cream cheese + butter + powdered sugar = perfection.  If I could get away with it, I would make an entire batch just for eating with a spoon.  I think that would probably evoke the evil eye from my husband, so it’s doubtful that this is ever going to happen.  Plus there’s the whole problem of needing to fit into my jeans….but can you imagine a world where you could just eat cream cheese icing with a spoon and never gain an ounce?  That’s the way it’s going to be in Heaven.  I’m sure of it.

6.  Bacon

Duh.  I don’t know that I can really call this a “guilty” pleasure because I really don’t feel all that guilty about it.  I probably should, though.  Bacon is a perfect food.  It’s salty candy.  And it’s practically religion in this house.

7.  Crusty Bread Dipped in Olive Oil

So, bread and olive oil may not seem like a “guilty pleasure” food to many of you, but when you consider the volumes of it that I could eat, it might.  I can throw this stuff down.  Carb and fat overload, I tell you.  And let’s be honest, wheat bread generally doesn’t make the cut for this purpose.  Oh boy.  This is my favorite thing about going to Tony’s (where they serve garlic-studded ciabatta with an olive/canola oil mix).

8.  Peppermint Patties

I remember my grandmother buying these when I was a kid. These days, they’re in my freezer at all times. I buy the minis and eat them, one at a time, each night. I don’t eat a lot of candy but this is a 50-calorie indulgence. Like bacon, I call this a guilty pleasure but honestly I really don’t feel all that guilty about it. I ❤️ peppermint anything. I tried to make my own peppermint patties and it didn’t go so well. I’ll keep buying them, thanks.

9.  Cheese

I’m pretty much an equal opportunity cheese lover, as long as it’s a cow’s milk cheese.  Goat and sheep milk cheeses have not quite grown on me yet.  I won’t lie, since Philip and I started eating less meat, I pretty much eat cheese every day.  I do portion it carefully, but still.  The sharpest cheddars are probably my favorite, especially when I make a grilled cheese and some of the cheese falls into the pan and burns.  I love to eat those little burnt cheese crusts.  Mmmmmm.  Chips and queso?  Well, think about that one….two of my weaknesses rolled into one.  Stick a fork in me…..

10.  Firehouse Subs Cherry Limeade

Really, Firehouse Subs anything (I usually order the steamer, with pastrami and melted cheese…gah). But there is something about that giant cup of high-fructose syrup sweetened non-carbonated cherry drink with a bunch of limes squeezed into it. Philip and I are both addicted and we can look right past that sugar rush to slurp down this syrupy sweet but still a little tart goodness. If you ever see me looking like a kid who’s been slurping cherry Kool-aid, you’ll know where I’ve been.

Can any of you commiserate with me on any of my guilty pleasure foods?  Do you have anything to add?  Tell me your guilty pleasure foods – inquiring minds want to know!

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  1. Mommy Boots says

    July 6, 2012 at 9:34 am

    I agree with most of these. Except the salt & vinegar/dill pickle chips. I do love salt & pepper chips, though. I'd add Oreos to this. I'm more of a salty food lover than sweet, but I love Oreos.
    Reply
  2. Aunt Susan! says

    July 6, 2012 at 9:49 am

    1.) Fritos. I absolutely will not buy them because I eat them. 2.) I'm generally a salty-food rather than a sweet-food consumer, but I lovelovelove deep, dark chocolate .. and Fran's dark chocolate covered caramels with a wee sprinkling of smoked sea salt make me swoon. I cut them in half to portion them out to myself and make them last longer. I had 3 remaining in their small plastic box in my pantry, was getting something down one day when the kids were over and the chocolates fell on the floor. Dylan and Molly were immediately on them ~ "what's this?? Can we have them?" Me: "NO! You can have M&M's" That may be the only moment in time when I have been even remotely mean to my grandbabies. 3.) wild rice sticks from the bulk food aisle at WF [code for Whole Foods]. I will sometimes crunch them up and give them to the birds to keep from eating them. 4.) Granny's biscuits, either crispy or buttermilk, makes no matter, hot out of the oven with the best unsalted butter in my fridge and a few grains of kosher salt. Keep your jellies, jams and preserves, I'm a purist when it comes to biscuits. I do not think 5 or 6 at a sitting is unreasonable, I mean, after all, they're not nearly as good warmed up later. I miss the biscuits now that I'm eating vegan. *sigh* 5.) Gardetto's original snack mix. I haven't had this in years, in consideration of those around me, particularly in confined spaces, as the garlic bagel chips cause my body to emit noxious gases. No more need be said.
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    • Chattavore says

      July 6, 2012 at 10:12 am

      Oh yeah! I forgot about Gardetto's! Amanda and I also share this weakness. Once I had a student teacher who bought a bag of nothing but the rye crisps or whatever they are (I fortunately have been unable to find these myself) to make Chex mix with my class. I finished the bag.
      Reply
      • Susan says

        March 30, 2016 at 9:26 am

        The Lay's dill pickle chips ~ yes, they are still made! We often see them at the cornier convenience store in bags that two people could share, but don't try to take them from Dylan ~ he loves those, can eat an entire bag by himself. He also loves the Kettle brand maple bacon chips. This kid's middle name should be either bacon or anchovy ....
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        • Mary // Chattavore says

          March 30, 2016 at 12:12 pm

          I LOVE those maple bacon chips. The beer cheese ones are great too. Chips + me = DANGER.
          Reply
  3. bamajammer says

    July 6, 2012 at 3:37 pm

    I know all of you are going to cringe, but I absoutely love McDonald's cheeseburgers. I may have one a year because I always feel so guilty, but I adore the taste of them! I also love butter! Bread and butter, crackers and butter, fresh farm eggs fried in butter, pasta and butter. Butter! Butter! Butter!
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    • Chattavore says

      July 6, 2012 at 5:47 pm

      Oh yeah, anything and butter. Mmmmmm.
      Reply
  4. Angie says

    July 6, 2012 at 4:27 pm

    Sour Cream and Onion Lays (chip problem here too)! Cool Ranch Dirotos (which I can no longer eat thanks to a corn intolerance). Diet Dr Pepper (and lots of it). Red meat. Chocolate anything! Bacon. Ketchup.
    Reply
    • Chattavore says

      July 6, 2012 at 4:31 pm

      A couple of things that are funny: (1) I could have named all of the items on the above list for you (except, back in the day, we could have subbed Coke in for the Diet Dr. Pepper); and (2) I remember when you did not eat bacon. Or sausage.
      Reply
  5. Angie says

    July 6, 2012 at 10:32 pm

    Yes...I wish I could still have coke or regular dr pepper on that list...but I do diet now. Not sure why...my butt still grows every year. lol. I never cared much for bacon until my 1st pregnancy...then it was on! Oh...and I absolutely love Sonic Cherry Limeades!!!!
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  6. Kim says

    July 6, 2012 at 10:43 pm

    Best dill pickle chips...Old Dutch. Small Midwestern company. My in-laws bring them down for us each time they visit. Mmmmm....the best! Hard to stop eating!
    Reply
  7. Deidra says

    July 6, 2012 at 10:49 pm

    My daughter made her birthday cake (yes, from a box) but homemade cream cheese icing. We just at dinner at 9 because we have all been snacking on leftover cake and icing all day. Everything on your list is a pleasure...especially the salt and vinegar chips.
    Reply
  8. Brooke says

    July 6, 2012 at 10:56 pm

    Cheeetos, Krispy Kreme donuts and Diet Dr. Pepper (Angie- you stole mine). I don't feel guilty about the soda anymore, though I probably should. The others- totally guilty.
    Reply
  9. Beth {local milk} says

    July 8, 2012 at 4:13 pm

    I too drink an inordinate amount of diet Dr. Pepper. While I think it's socially irresponsible, kinda tacky, and totally bad for me, I can't stop. Won't stop. Sometimes it feels like it and coffee are the only things standing between me and eating all the baked goods ever made! And Chick Fil A is delicious. Anyone who says otherwise is lying. That said, I aspire to one day be the paragon of austere self-control, baking up dozens of treats daily and touching none of them, content to sip on green tea. Yeah. No luck on that yet. Need. Diet. Dr. Pepper!!
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    • Chattavore says

      July 8, 2012 at 10:34 pm

      Soda doesn't have much of a hold on me, and I HATE diet drinks. Thank God, because everyone I know who drinks them is addicted. I have no doubt that is the intention. Coffee + water + the occasional soda, preferably one without HCFS, and I'm happy. I used to drink a ton of sweetened tea, but I guess I "outgrew" that phase.
      Reply
  10. Anastasia says

    March 30, 2016 at 12:50 pm

    Ruffle potato chips and french onion dip is definitely my #1 weakness. If I actually buy them they are gone within the day. I can't stop! Dill pickle chips sound good! I saw some at Aldi the other day, although they were their brand and not Lay's.
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    • Mary // Chattavore says

      March 30, 2016 at 11:12 pm

      Ohhhhh!!! I have never seen them at Aldi! It's probably good that my husband does the grocery shopping. He just picks up what's on the list. If I did it I'd be in trouble.
      Reply
  11. Jessie Weaver says

    March 30, 2016 at 8:46 pm

    Cheetos, Cokes (especially if it's cherry-flavored or from Sonic), ice cream (cannot have it in the house!), and yes to cream cheese icing. I never make regular buttercream, it's always cream cheese.
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  12. La Luz says

    April 2, 2016 at 1:06 pm

    I think you've pretty much covered my guilty pleasures too....except sometimes I do have to have a candy bar in the grocery store..."to keep my strength up"
    Reply
    • Mary // Chattavore says

      April 2, 2016 at 4:05 pm

      Well, of course! How else would you make it through the entire grocery store?
      Reply

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