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Went to the drug store for toilet paper and Swiffer mop refills.
But succumbed to the lure of "flaming hot Cheetos".
<sigh>
Oh well, I'm a big believer in give your body what it's craving, and in moderation in all things, including moderation.
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Re: I gave in to marketing
Tue, March 25, 2008 - 7:56 PMWELL?!?!?!?
Don't leave us hanging in suspense -- how were they?!?!? -
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Re: I gave in to marketing
Tue, March 25, 2008 - 11:57 PM
<laugh>
My mouth liked them. Not so sure about the rest of my body though.
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Re: I gave in to marketing
Wed, March 26, 2008 - 7:48 AMStephanie, I've been snacking on those things for YEARS. They're awesome. They also have chile-lemon, as well.
I also recommend wasabi flavored Funyuns, too.
Okay, okay, yes, I admit it. I get junk food cravings. Especially when I'm traveling. My company sends me to the outskirts of Phoenix, or Villa Rica, Georgia, and the only place to shop is the local convenience store, next to the hotel... yep, I resort to buying the crap.
I recommend lots of water and cut down on the guilt.
Love and light, dear ones.
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Wed, March 26, 2008 - 8:40 AMRev - I completely agree with your recommendations. :) Flaming hot cheetos, chili-lime and the wasabi funyun are the kind of snacks I go for during my rare cravings for junk food.
Have you ever had hot nuts? (no.. not THOSE kind! get your mind out of the gutter! tee hee!). The only picture I could find was this: images.google.com/imgres
I couldn't find the bigger close up picture, but it's the middle bag at the top. They're like a flaming hot chile-lime cheetos coating around a cracker nut www.philippinefoodstore.com/cata...1.jpg . Anyone ever have cracker nuts? It's my sweeties favorite snack (besides Hot Nuts, which I can only find in Mexico!!!). Anyway - I found hot nuts during my first trip to Mexico and bought them just cuz the name was hilarious and there's a picture of a chile and lime on it (can't go wrong with that combination!). They were devoured by my shipmates in seconds (I was working on a cruise ship). I then bought as many as I could at every port and gave a bag to my dad when I got home. He just went to Mexico and bought several bags and gave me 2. We're saving one for a special occasion. ;) -
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Wed, March 26, 2008 - 10:10 AMTri, not just yes... HELL YES! Love the cracker nuts. I usually buy the Nagaraya brand, too. I have a local Asian market (Fubonn) that carries a wide assortment of flavors. My favorite is usually the adobo, but I've been known to grab a bag of garlic, too. That is, if my lovely wife will still agree to kiss me afterwards... I do have to be courteous to her. She can't have peanuts, so I'll usually buy a bag of my other favorite snack from the Asian foods market... SHRIMP CHIPS. The garlic shrimp chips are absolutely addictive.
Okay, so now I'm getting those cravings. Looks like there's a snack run in my near future.
I'll look for those Hot Nuts when I'm in Phoenix, next week. I'll let you know if I see them!
Love and light, dear ones.
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Re: I gave in to marketing
Wed, March 26, 2008 - 10:33 AMMmm.... shrimp chips. They were the only junk food my parents would let me have growing up and not until college did I realize they weren't "normal." My newest treat is Kettle chips brand Buffalo Bleu (bleu cheese and buffalo wings sauce). Yum!
... my apologies for talking junk food on the healthy food tribe, but we all have our vices! ;) -
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Thu, March 27, 2008 - 9:24 AMI myself have become a slightly addicted to Kettle chips sea salt and cracked pepper. I currently have a bag in my house. I hide it and act like I don't know its there, but its there, right next to the Funyuns and Bugles. They all call my name sometimes.
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Re: I gave in to marketing
Wed, March 26, 2008 - 3:07 PM
> I recommend lots of water and cut down on the guilt.
Good recommendations.
I didn't even get a migraine, which I thought I might with all that MSG and cheese.
I do like the Kettle Chips brand that someone else mentioned, and AFAIK they don't have MSG.
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Wed, March 26, 2008 - 5:58 PMhaha luckily there's no real cheese in cheetos!
i bought a bag of skittles today and scarfed it on my walk home. i succumbed as well.
it feels pretty good sometimes, until your teeth start to hurt . . .
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Re: I gave in to marketing
Wed, March 26, 2008 - 8:14 PMI LOVE Funyuns! I get the smallest bag they have at the store (I think it's about 35 cents per tiny bag!).
Where do you find wasabi Funyuns? I must try them! -
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Thu, March 27, 2008 - 5:12 PMThe original post made me laugh out loud.
I remember the look my former housemate gave me when he discovered the Pringles I had bought. Every so often, like once or twice a year, I just have to have Pringles. I know they're weird reconstituted fake potato things. But I like salt & vinegar, and their particular kind of crunch.... -
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Re: I gave in to marketing
Fri, March 28, 2008 - 10:15 AMI feel the same way about Pringles! Every once in a while I just have to have them.....
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Thu, April 10, 2008 - 9:22 PMwasabi flavored Funyuns>
you just blew my mind.
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Sat, March 29, 2008 - 10:14 PMoh... so not healthy. So gross ... but devilishly gooood!
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Re: I gave in to marketing
Sun, March 30, 2008 - 8:51 AMMeh . . . sound like a cop out.
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Sun, March 30, 2008 - 10:45 PMOh! It's the worst... going to the store when you're hungry or when you're hurried. (Now when are these Not the case, I know..lol). Beware the aisle-end displays and the impulse grabs at the checkout stand! -
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Mon, March 31, 2008 - 8:20 AMI gave in and bought some of the Spicy Sweet Chile Doritos that Stephen Colbert has been shilling lately.
Really good. To me they taste like General Tso's chicken. (only without the chicken, the sauce, the broccoli, the rice… the healthyish)
My husband thought they were too sweet and not spicy enough. I didn't pick up on anything that struck me as particularly sweet… it was just a sweet/spicy combined – which is probably why it tasted like General Tso's.
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Re: I gave in to marketing
Tue, April 1, 2008 - 7:53 AMI don't do the flaming hot ones, but cheetos are my guilty pleasure.
On the first Tuesday of the month, I get one small bag from the vending machine at work.
Guess what today is? That's right, it's cheetos Tuesday!!! -
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Re: I gave in to marketing
Tue, April 1, 2008 - 10:30 PM
LOL.
Why the first Tuesday? -
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Wed, April 2, 2008 - 7:41 AMI'm sorry, I've never felt the love for cheetos. I never understood pork rinds as a food, either. But I love those sea salt and vinegar chips. -
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Wed, April 2, 2008 - 8:02 AMomg i used to love me some cheetos!
have you tried Tings? like cheetos in form, but made with nutritional yeast instead of chemical cheese and msg.
love them!
when i do go for the junk chips, i gotta have some Frito's. preferably smashed up in a pb&j.
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Wed, April 2, 2008 - 8:07 AMWhen I was in Weight Watchers, a woman spoke up and said she HAD to have cheetos and tequila at a certain time of the month.
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Fri, April 4, 2008 - 4:14 PM"have you tried Tings? "
I used to love Tings. like a "healthy" version of Cheetos. but then when the company that makes them had to recall one of their other products for something like salmonella, I just got freaked and stopped buying anything from them. seriously, it you can't keep something like that out of your products, I don't need to be the guinea pig for the next time it happens. eesh. ( www.robscape.com/files/veg...recall.php )
I like those honey wheat pretzels. they're not a salt lick. :)
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Re: I gave in to marketing
Thu, April 3, 2008 - 4:17 PM<<Why the first Tuesday? >>
Well, I think once a month is good, not too much, not too little. It had to be 1st or 3rd Tuesday to coincide with when the vending machine guy restocks the machine.
I picked the first, just because.
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Re: I gave in to marketing
Thu, April 3, 2008 - 5:16 PM
Guess what I just found? Trader Joe's "Baked jalapeno cheese crunchies"! No MSG, no artificial colors, 33% less fat, and they actually taste *good*! At least as good as Cheetos, and maybe better.
And they have non spicy versions for Loren and others.
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Re: I gave in to marketing
Fri, April 4, 2008 - 7:44 AMMy favorite brand of all natural cheese puffs is Barabara's - they've got bleu cheese in them - soooooooooo good! -
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Sat, April 12, 2008 - 7:51 AMBarbara's has jalapeno cheese puffs, they're really tasty....I try and get to those when I feel a craving comin' on. but once in awhile i succumb to the power of ruffles sour cream and onion chips =) -
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Sat, April 12, 2008 - 10:58 AMI recently discovered Trader Joe's baked Jalapeno Cheese Crunchies. 30% less fat (9g for the original and 6g for the baked version) and really tasty. Not quite Flamin' Hot Cheetos, but they do in a crisis, believe me.
Now if I could just find an alternativie to the wasabi Funyuns, I'd be a changed addict, er, man.
Love and light, dear ones.
Rev
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