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A favorite food that I need to restrain myself around

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What is a food you will always overeat, no matter what?

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Yesterday I took a peek at what my prompt for today would be, and seeing this one made me pause and think about a larger problem I have.

I just love food in general! I have bad habits about sometimes skipping meals so I can eat a larger meal later, and then I run into problems like overeating because I forget how many calories some foods can have, or their macro nutrient balance.

However, taking a more focused look at what foods I like and which ones I really do overeat every single time? It’s probably ice cream.

See, I can’t grab a pint of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream from the store and just eat the recommended serving size. I will, without fail, eat the entire pint in a single sitting. In fact, I bought two pints of their ice cream before I went on my vacation, and they sat in the freezer for a week waiting for me. Want to know what happened? I ate them both within 24 hours of each other. One at about midnight on Christmas Eve, and the other the evening of Christmas. One of those pints, according the nutrition label, is 1,210 calories for the whole container. And I demolished it while playing Phasmophobia with my family.

Granted, this happens when I buy my own ice cream from the grocery store, but if I were out and about doing things like hanging out with friends or family and we went out to eat? I wouldn’t be getting ice cream for dessert every single time. In fact, I rarely order dessert at all when I go out to eat, so it really is just a problem for when I decide to buy a pint of ice cream to stow away in the freezer.

Childhood Nostalgia: Food Edition

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Daily writing prompt
Which food, when you eat it, instantly transports you to childhood?
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Growing up, my family was fortunate enough to have Schwan’s in the area. If you don’t know what that is, it’s a frozen food delivery service. They drive around in these utility type trucks decked out with coolers/freezers and emblazoned with company logos and art. You could either call them up and place an order or schedule a monthly or weekly stop where they come to your home, hand you a magazine of products for you to select from, and then give you whatever you want so long as it was on the truck. (It wasn’t cheap, mind you, but not exorbitantly expensive like today’s food delivery services that took over the gig work industry during and after the pandemic.) We didn’t order/buy from them very frequently because of the cost, but there were a select few items that we would get once or twice a year (I did say not very frequently) and those were a kind of highlight to my childhood, at least when it came to food.

The one item that would top the list of foods that transport me to my childhood, the thing I enjoyed most often from those Schwan’s trucks, was those little single-serve vanilla ice cream cups that had a swirl of strawberry. Those cups that come with the little wood spoon. I still see them around today, and have even had little flashbacks just from LOOKING at them.

It’s not like they were a staple food/dessert/treat of my childhood, but my family loved those little cups of frozen joy.