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Thursday Thirteen #4

By Jerry ⋅ May 16, 2007 ⋅ Email This Post Email This Post ⋅ Print This Post Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment
Thirteen things I could probably live with less of

  1. Coffee: At a pot or more a day,I’m probably not doing myself any favors. (I can quit any time I tell you! Now give me the cup back!)
  2. Beer: Definitely not helping my waistline.
  3. Funyuns: What can I say, they go good with beer!
  4. Peanut butter on toast: OK, this time I can’t deny it, it’s an addiction… A very nearly daily habit, too.
  5. Butter based pan sauces: Again,not doing any wonders for my waistline, but I love ‘em, especially when there’s garlic in ‘em!
  6. Hot dogs: I love the bloody things, but they really aren’t a food group by themselves.
  7. Fat: I’m infamous for it. I’ll eat the fat off of nearly any piece of cooked meat. At least it doesn’t go to waste.
  8. Sugar: It’s in the coffee, in the tea, and in quite a few of the sauces I make. Then there’s the cookies and muffins and…
  9. Chicken: OK, I like it and it’s good for me, but we’ve been eating too damned much of it.
  10. Sandra Lee: Really, I could live without her altogether, but watching her show is like watching a train wreck. I find myself sitting in front of the TV screaming “Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!”
  11. Rachael Ray: OK, I love Ray-Ray, but 5 times a day… It’s a bit much.
  12. Boxed Mac-N-Cheese: It’s a dirty secret. I’ve never made mac and cheese from scratch, and the amount of sodium there is probably not helping anything in my life. At least I can say I try to make it healthier by adding broccoli and fresh cheese when I do make it.
  13. Cookbooks: Oh don’t get me wrong, I love cookbooks. the problem is that I’ll grab anything on the display rack at the grocery store with all the best intentions in the world of “making this one” or “trying that one”. And then I toss the sucker in a drawer with all the other forgotten orphaned books and never look at it again. It’s sad really. I’m a cookbook abuser! Is there a 13 step program for this?

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Discussion

25 comments for “Thursday Thirteen #4”

  1. Posted by dew | May 16, 2007, 4:18 pm

    Maybe you should write your own cookbook. The No-Beer, No-Butter-Sauces, No-PB, No-Fat, No-Sugar, BUT STILL TASTY Cookbook. I’d buy it!

  2. Posted by Shannon | May 16, 2007, 5:12 pm

    I haven’t had Funyuns for years! They are yummy as are most of the things on your list! :) Except for Rachel Ray….she drives me crazy.

  3. Posted by Pussreboots | May 16, 2007, 5:17 pm

    That reminds me, I need to buy more butter… :D

  4. Posted by Lene | May 16, 2007, 5:49 pm

    hehe cute list! I could do without all the above also!

    Happy TT!

  5. Posted by Terra | May 16, 2007, 5:55 pm

    If these are addictions, I am in trouble! (Well minus the beer and the coffee, I am on a diet so I only drink lemonaid! LOL)

  6. Posted by Annamary | May 16, 2007, 8:56 pm

    Funny list! My mouth goes dry just reading about PB on toast! How in the world can you eat that? :)

    Happy TT!

    Remember May is Military Appreciation Month!

  7. Posted by Lisa | May 16, 2007, 9:41 pm

    I drink way too much coffee, and the more I drink, the more I want!

  8. Posted by Barb | May 16, 2007, 11:32 pm

    I have almost cut coffee out of my diet. I drink perhaps 1/2 a cup a day, unless I go out for breakfast. Thank goodness I never got addicted to it. It isn’t good for us.

    Check out my TT.

  9. Posted by Immi | May 17, 2007, 12:55 am

    There is no life without butter. Maybe the cookbooks should go instead? Nah!
    Good TT :)

    My TT for this week

  10. Posted by palmtreefanatic | May 17, 2007, 4:40 am

    I like funyons too but havent had them in quite sometime! probly a good thing as I need to watch sodium doue to kidney stones! sigh
    coffee?
    I try to cut back but drinking the stuff makes me feel SO great and energetic, how to stop that??? As for some of your other habbits, I got them to, what to do!

  11. Posted by Kuanyin | May 17, 2007, 6:13 am

    I could live without all of these things too, especially now I’m on a weightloss plan! Happy TT!

  12. Posted by Freya | May 17, 2007, 7:43 am

    Hilarious list! Lucky for me, I can’t tolerate caffeine, hate the taste of beer, have no idea what funyuns are (something with onions and fun?) and don’t like fat. You got me with the peanut butter though!

  13. Posted by My Quotidian Mysteries | May 17, 2007, 8:04 am

    This is a great list! That pot-of-coffee-a-day thing was me a few years ago. I got boomerang headaches when I couldn’t maintain my caffeine levels. Hope that’s not happening to you!

  14. Posted by Jess | May 17, 2007, 9:15 am

    Well…butter’s better than the alternative “butter-like substances” with their unpronounceable ingredients, no? :) And from one peanut-butter-on-toast addict to another: I feel ya.

  15. Posted by Meg - badhomeschoolmom | May 17, 2007, 9:20 am

    My husband calls Ray-Ray a bobblehead on steroids :D

    happy TT!!!!

  16. Posted by Sue | May 17, 2007, 10:59 am

    I will admit that I have a thing for boxed mac and cheese too. Oh so yummy! Great list. Happy TT!

  17. Posted by Jennifer of Dog.Yarn.Knit. | May 17, 2007, 11:19 am

    Your list made me hungry.

    I need more coffee.

  18. Posted by Norma | May 17, 2007, 12:36 pm

    I did a list of 13 food triggers for TT, and it worked. Nothing like telling the public what your sins are.

    My TT is up.

  19. Posted by MC | May 17, 2007, 12:37 pm

    I think everyone could do without Funyuns.

  20. Posted by bernie | May 17, 2007, 1:10 pm

    Most of the chicken is not bad, but I love chicken hearts and liver.

    I linked to you from 13 Ways to tell if you are a Surrender Monkey

  21. Posted by Titania | May 17, 2007, 3:51 pm

    Happy T13! This is one of the best lists I have seen. Couldbe because I love cooking too. I use to like Rachael Ray but she is a bit much these days. I love Paula Deen!!! Pass me some of that buttah! :)

  22. Posted by Titania | May 17, 2007, 3:53 pm

    I loved this list! It could be because I love to cook. I once liked Rachel Ray but she is a bit too much these days. Ilove Paul Deen. Pass me some of that buttah!

    There can never be too many cookbooks.

  23. Posted by Peter | May 17, 2007, 4:52 pm

    Great list jerry…I can certainly relate to a few…My TT is about childhood foods and experiences and how they influenced me as an adult.

    I think hot dogs should definetly go into theeir own food group!!

  24. Posted by Mallory | May 17, 2007, 11:22 pm

    This list settles it. I am coming to your house for dinner. I will even bring the Funyons!

  25. Posted by Dolores | May 22, 2007, 12:05 am

    What a *great* theme for the Thursday 13. I need to start doing those again… :)

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