I could sit here and try to make excuses as to why I love junk food.  I grew up poor and these kinds of foods were the only indulgences my family could afford;  Some of the only family bonding my brother and I did with our mom was with us staying up late on Saturday nights watching scary movies and pigging out on potato chips;  I use food for comfort and the sweets tend to provide the most comfort for me.  Those are all excuses and I don’t firmly stand behind a single one of them.  The one golden fact that I can offer is that I just love them.  Just because.

-White Cheddar Popcorn:  This is something that I don’t get very often…..because I will actually sit and eat the entire bag.  I pop my own popcorn every now and then and sprinkle a white cheddar flavoring over the top, but it’s not as sinful as the stuff in a bag.  It’s just soo good.

-Puffed Corn Cheese Snacks:  I love Cheese Balls.  I love Cheese Curls.  I love Cheese Puffs.  I can restrain myself and eat a handful or so at a time, but I still love them.  I have such warm and fuzzy memories from my childhood of eating bologna sandwiches with a side of cheese puffs.

-Lay’s Sour Cream and Onion Potato Chips:  This is probably my all time favorite snack.  I really like potato chips of all different flavors, but this particular brand has been my unchallenged favorite since I was a child.  I still like to buy a bag every now and then and see if I can make it last the whole month.  These go great crunched into a turkey sandwich.  That’s not weird!

-Animal Crackers:  As you know, these are more like a cookie.  When I was little, every now and then one of my attending grown ups (parent, grandparent, etc.) would buy me one of those tiny boxes of Barnum’s Animal Crackers.  It was a treat I had maybe a handful of times in my entire childhood.  Well, when I was pregnant with my son, I was at a Costco and saw a huge tub of Organic Disney animal crackers.  I ate the entire tub in about 2 months.  Now I always have one of those huge tubs in my pantry so that I can snag a couple when I need a little pick me up.  I love them!

-Donuts (or Doughnuts, if you prefer):  I love donuts!  My favorite are the original Krispy Kremes.  I also love chocolate glazed, powder sugared, cream (not custard) filled, jelly filled, fruit filled, cheese filled…..oh I could go on and on.  Again, this isn’t something that I allow myself to indulge too often, but when I do I really enjoy it.

-Soda:  Yes.  I love soda.  I drink diet soda so as not to completely destroy what little bit of a figure I have, but I cannot go through my life without soda.  I’ve tried quitting.  I’ve gone a year before without soda, but then I went to a party where there was only soda to drink and immediately after I was at the grocery store buying soda for my home.

-Vanilla Wafers:  When a get strong hunger pangs late at night, I come downstairs and eat 4 of these babies and drink a small glass of milk and it’s always enough to kill the hunger.  My great grandmother was very very poor, but she always had ‘Nilla Wafers to offer me when I would visit her home and I always think of her when I eat them.

-Cookies:  Any kind.  I love them all.  Oreo are great, but I love baking homemade.

-Candy Bars:  I almost never eat these, but I love them.  I love Snickers, Baby Ruth, Hershey with Almonds, Twix, Kit Kat, and Mr. Goodbar.  YUM.

-Little Debbie Snacks:  Name one and I’ll tell you that I love it.

This is only the snack part.  Tomorrow I will share with you my shameful and passionate love for the McDonald’s Big Mac.  I hope you don’t think less of me for indulging in junk every now and then.  If you do, then I blow a raspberry in your general direction!

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