• SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    As an adult, I can bake as many cakes as I want, and everybody will want to hang out with me even more than usual because of all the delicious cakes.

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      5 months ago

      I think about that kid every time I’m sitting there eating a whole cake straight out of the box without even bothering to slice it up or anything.

      Which is uh… not often >_>

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    5 months ago

    I live near a store that sells mini sheet cakes. I buy them whenever I’m in the mood.

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      5 months ago

      I shot up to 50 pounds above my healthy weight during 2020, and a big part of that I can attribute to the availability of Ben & Jerry’s Phish Food at a nearby gas station

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        For me, the brand is Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream. They’re pricey, but I ended up buying a couple of pints and eating them over the weekend. It completely undoes all my progress throughout the week too.

        Aw, shoot. Maybe I need to cut out ice cream.

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          I’ve had a pint of Phish Food in my freezer for months now. I keep wanting to eat it, but that stuff is so outrageously high in calories, and I know I’ll eat the whole pint the moment I open it!

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        5 months ago

        Its only 1100 Cal per pint, what could go wrong?

        edit: don’t tell me you stop at half a pint, that is clearly impossible.

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      5 months ago

      Yes but it’s up charged by the delivery app you use + tip to the driver so an $8 cake becomes $16 after taxes fees and tip.

      On the other hand, cake.

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        I thought food is way cheaper in the US but considering the taxes and tip, the prices seems similar to Europe.

        What type of cake are we talking here? Industrial or home baked? Also what size? I am talking about a cake of 6 portion of around 200g.

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          I would never spend that much for grocery store cake …. I’d spend the same amount and get the Costco 5 lb cheesecake with like 20 servings

          Is that American enough for you?

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        Weren’t there studies that showed it’s linked to increased risk of cancer? Even all processed meat like hot dogs and sausages.

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          The thing is, fat isn’t all that bad for you. The idea that fat is unhealthy is mostly dead outside of sugar lobbyists. It’s sugar that you really have to look out for.

          Salt is also likely not as bad as reporting used to make it out to be. It causes short term blood pressure increases, but potentially not long term and also we don’t know the direction of causation with that and heart disease.

          Basically, don’t over-indulge, but bacon probably isn’t going to kill you.

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        Red meat and nitrate salts are still not great. It’s not as bad as the internet wellness influencers say it is, but if your other option for breakfast is oatmeal, then bacon is a bad choice for heart health.

        But if your other option is breakfast sausage, then yeah, bacon isn’t too bad of an option.

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    5 months ago

    I was raised poor so even now that I can afford it, I feel something forbidding me from buying cake. That and knowing that I gain weight very easily and it takes me lots of hours to get raid of it.

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      Regular grocery store cake is usually not worth it anyway. You’re much better off making your own, or at least your wallet and taste buds are better off, even if your blood sugar is not

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      yeah every time I eat a pint of Ben & Jerry’s, it takes a literal month to burn it off. The last time I had Ben and Jerry’s was probably 2021. I’ve learned that hard lesson so many times. I figure it’s easier to NOT eat something than it is to run a literal marathon to burn it off.

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      5 months ago

      Where I live cake isn’t that expensive to make, or to buy, as long as it doesn’t have some elaborate decorations on it. But any excuse to not eat it is probably the healthier choice.

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      5 months ago

      Yeah I bake cakes and sweet treats for my family. I am kind of worried about the consequences on all of us. Please help.

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        In my early housewife days I thought I was supposed to bake things so I did that and it didn’t last long because baking is never really healthy and why would I want to sabotage my health and my family’s health? I stopped baking.

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          It depends what you are baking and what your health goals are. Sweet things are pretty bad, though probably better than chocolate. That’s what makes me feel kind of guilty, because I like baking sweet things. It’s also important to note I am not really overweight and what excess I have is lack of exercise from being unemployed and living at home in a tiny village not dietary reasons. My parents who eat the baking are overweight though especially my dad.

          I think freshly baked pie and pasties are a lot better than say junk food, though they can be high in calories. A vegetable pie would be a lot better than say chicken pie with a creamy sauce. Something like a Cornish pasty wouldn’t be too bad either I wouldn’t think as it’s largely vegetable and lean beef.

          Baking bread at home can be potentially healthier especially if you live in the US where they add lots of sugar to bread and it’s heavily processed. Some homemade whole grain should be better than this. The only issue here is people can overeat fresh bread more than they would supermarket bread simply because it tastes better. I know some of my extended family had this problem and stopped baking bread because of it.

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    When I was an early teenager I realized with an epiphany that I could take my paper route money, go to the grocery store, and buy my own cookies! It was a light bulb moment. No mom to tell me how many I could have. An entire box of cookies all to myself! So I did it, and I ate half a box of Oreo cookies, and drank 2 cherry Cokes. I got so sick that I threw up and had to go to bed several hours early. At that point I realized that my mom wasn’t just being mean when she told me “no” and put limits on me, and I started listening to her more. Of course a couple of years later my real teenage years started, and I completely forgot that valuable lesson.

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        In my early twenties I started getting into the habit of eating a couple Pop-Tarts every morning for breakfas and began to notice Pop-Tarts were giving me pain in my heart. Literal pain in my heart. I’ve always been a healthy fit person, those Pop-Tart pains are the closest thing I’ve ever felt to a heart attack, and anyway that’s how I stopped eating Pop-Tarts.