CRAZY sweets/carbs cravings just before "that time of the month"?

The unsweetened kind? That stuff is probably the most vile substance you
could
possibly put in your mouth. Eaugh!


Hey that might kill my interest in chocolate. Skinner would've thought so
anyway.

Seriously, I scraped a little off with my fingernail and ate it out of
curiosity. It tastes like bitter dirt. On the up side, I must have drank a
gallon of water trying to get that taste out of my mouth! That teeney-tiny bit
was HORRIBLE!! It doesn't resemble what we think of as chocolate (and I LIKE
dark chocolate!) in any way, shape or form. Nasty, NASTY stuff! (until you mix
it with something of course!)

LCing since 12/01/03-
Me- 265/222/140
& hubby- 310/242/180

LCer09 wrote:

Seriously, I scraped a little off with my fingernail and ate it out of
curiosity. It tastes like bitter dirt. On the up side, I must have drank a
gallon of water trying to get that taste out of my mouth! That teeney-tiny
bit was HORRIBLE!! It doesn't resemble what we think of as chocolate (and
I LIKE dark chocolate!) in any way, shape or form. Nasty, NASTY stuff!
(until you mix it with something of course!)

I like melting a small amount (1/2 ounce) and mixing it with nut
butter (almond butter is nice). The sweetness of the almonds
takes off the bitter edge, making it taste about the same "sweetness"
of black coffee. I've not liked it with peanut butter, but my
favorites have been macadamia butter (a rare and expensive find
here, but nice sometimes), hazelnut butter, and almond butter.
I most often use almond as it's the more widely available and asks
me for less of my $$$.

CM



LCing since 12/01/03-
Me- 265/222/140
& hubby- 310/242/180

Ignoramus10317 wrote:

Funny, I like unsweetened chocolate. Unfortunately, it causes me to
gain 1/2 lb of weight for every ounce eaten, miraculously. Hence, I
cannot eat much of it.

i

I like unsweetened chocolate, but I could never eat a whole ounce
in one sitting. 1/2 of a square gives me the same chocolate hit
that is in most commercial king sized chocolate bars, which I
would never touch anyway ... (seriously,
most of the commercial "chocolate" bars contain very little actual
chocolate) so I don't crave as much. I mentioned how I like it
with nut butter in another post, but I also enjoy it with coffee and
cream. I have to be in the mood for it really bitter.

CM

Crafting Mom burbled across the ether:
I like melting a small amount (1/2 ounce) and mixing it with nut
butter (almond butter is nice). The sweetness of the almonds
takes off the bitter edge, making it taste about the same "sweetness"
of black coffee. I've not liked it with peanut butter, but my
favorites have been macadamia butter (a rare and expensive find
here, but nice sometimes), hazelnut butter, and almond butter.
I most often use almond as it's the more widely available and asks
me for less of my $$$.

Have you tried making your own almond butter? A big bag of almonds
ground up in your food processor is mucho cheaper, isn't it? Fresher
too.

--
revek www.geocities.com/tanirevek/LowCarb.html lowcarbing since June
2002 5'2" 41 F 165+/too much/size seven petite please
"To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem."

In article ,
"revek" wrote:

Crafting Mom burbled across the ether:
I like melting a small amount (1/2 ounce) and mixing it with nut
butter (almond butter is nice). The sweetness of the almonds
takes off the bitter edge, making it taste about the same "sweetness"
of black coffee. I've not liked it with peanut butter, but my
favorites have been macadamia butter (a rare and expensive find
here, but nice sometimes), hazelnut butter, and almond butter.
I most often use almond as it's the more widely available and asks
me for less of my $$$.

Have you tried making your own almond butter? A big bag of almonds
ground up in your food processor is mucho cheaper, isn't it? Fresher
too.

Can you do this with any kind of nuts? I think pistachio butter would be
yummy. But not until maintenance for me. )

--
Michelle Levin
http://www.mindspring.com/~lunachick

I have only 3 flaws. My first flaw is thinking that I only have 3 flaws.

Luna burbled across the ether:
Can you do this with any kind of nuts? I think pistachio butter
would be yummy. But not until maintenance for me. )

I don't see why not. All any nut butter is, is ground nuts and a little
salt. *Maybe* a tiny bit of oil if the nut isn't oily enough to create
a butter-- but we're talking a mucho small amount. A tablespoon or so,
I think.

--
revek www.geocities.com/tanirevek/LowCarb.html lowcarbing since June
2002 5'2" 41 F 165+/too much/size seven petite please
Why do you care what the scale says? It is an inantimate object that
sits on the floor of your bathroom. Would you listen to anything else
that sat on the floor of your bathroom? Lydia Ash

revek wrote:

Crafting Mom burbled across the ether:
I like melting a small amount (1/2 ounce) and mixing it with nut
butter (almond butter is nice). The sweetness of the almonds
takes off the bitter edge, making it taste about the same "sweetness"
of black coffee. I've not liked it with peanut butter, but my
favorites have been macadamia butter (a rare and expensive find
here, but nice sometimes), hazelnut butter, and almond butter.
I most often use almond as it's the more widely available and asks
me for less of my $$$.

Have you tried making your own almond butter? A big bag of almonds
ground up in your food processor is mucho cheaper, isn't it? Fresher
too.


I've done that before too... mostly I just eat the almonds
themselves, though. I usually get a brand called "Nuts to you"
nut butters, it contains just the nuts, no salt, no sugar, no
anything else, and the almond butter is inexpensive enough
that I don't worry about it.

CM

If "Maxine" had a hammer, they might have built a
post that went like this:

Can you give me the recipe for chocolate low carb ice cream please. I have
tried to make ice cream but it sticks to the side of my maker and then the
paddles jam up. I would like to try another recipe so help would be
appreciated.

My "basic" ice cream maker recipie is:

2 cups Heavy Cream
1 low-carb cup milk substitute (soy/Hoods)
1 cup Splenda
2 eggs

Then I adjust that with whatever other ingredients I'm using, which in
the case of chocolate would be unsweetened cocoa powder and/or Sorbee
sugar free chocolate syrup to taste and a tablespoon of vanilla
extract. I find that I only get the freezing problem if I'm using
mostly soy milk instead of mostly heavy cream, the cream doesn't
freeze like that but the soy milk/Hoods milk will freeze rock hard to
the side. Hoods more so than Soy.

The ice cream I can make with my trusty ice cream maker is about 110%
better than even the full-sugar stuff you can buy in the store without
the weight gain

--Pook! ^_^

curious wrote:

BTW, I don't suppose that men can begin to understand
the hormonal fluctuations...

Actually it's the women who have trouble understanding hormonal
flucuations. Lucky women only get it once per month. Men are
hormonal *all* of the time in waves. By the time a man stops
being hormonal he's quite old. And hence the market for Viagra
and Cialis.

When we're hormonal we want sweets. Of a sort. The feminine
sort. And we stay hormonal until we get those sweets.

Candy is dandy, liquor is quicker, sex won't rot your teeth.
Some men get the candy is dandy part; some don't. But the rest
of the hormonal stuff, men get it far more than women.

Doug Freyburger wrote:

curious wrote:

BTW, I don't suppose that men can begin to understand
the hormonal fluctuations...

Actually it's the women who have trouble understanding hormonal
flucuations. Lucky women only get it once per month. Men are
hormonal *all* of the time in waves. By the time a man stops
being hormonal he's quite old. And hence the market for Viagra
and Cialis.

When we're hormonal we want sweets. Of a sort. The feminine
sort. And we stay hormonal until we get those sweets.

Candy is dandy, liquor is quicker, sex won't rot your teeth.
Some men get the candy is dandy part; some don't. But the rest
of the hormonal stuff, men get it far more than women.

what an asshole.