Tell me what ONE food is your Waterloo, you know, you see it, want it, and can't resist it. Your weak, spineless, and have to have it. You would scale mountains and---okay, you get my drift, right?

Mine is Potato Chips and I love the people who are constantly inventing new flavors and kinds for me to try. God help me, do NOT put me in a room with PCs...I'm weak.

(And you thought it would be Oreos, didn't you?...my secret is out!)

chocolate.
i spend a fortune on fine chocolate. i do try not to eat more than an ounce a day, but some days I'm weaker than others.

Just one thing, huh! Hummmm, I'll have to think about that. I can get excited about any kind of good quality food! I do love fresh homemade bread though!

Coffee --just simply dark coffee with a bit of milk, every day. It is the one indulgence that I allow myself daily. Because I have to pay for it, I limit myself to 1 c.

I don't buy/make coffee at home. If I did, I would bankrupt myself! Because I would drink multiple cups of coffee. I know myself for all the workplaces I've been at and had free unlimited coffee.

Tea is cheaper to buy and make at home --in multiple cups.

Mine's definitely potato chips. I have to have potato chips at 3pm every afternoon, not a lot, just a small fruit bowlful. I've tried substituting everything I can think of: fruit, cereal, chocolate, nuts, raisin toast...but no matter what or how much I eat, the hunger isn't satisfied until I eat those chips. I've given up and given in. Now we always have chips on hand. Funny how it's the only time of the day that I want any. Can't eat them at night, or in themorning, only at 3 in the afternoon.

Watermelon when in season. I have two in the fridge at all times and eat it constantly. I can finish off an entire watermelon in one day. When not in season I SUFFER!!!!!!!!!!!

All year however it's A&W Diet Root Beer.

When I say potatoe chips my mouth waters. I think it's a salt craving. I've tried to substite the urge with pretzels...but it just isn't the same thing. I'm amazed, eagle, that you can eat only a few chips. When I start, I can't stop, so I try not to start.
Chatty, when I read your craving, I thought of the song Polly wolly Doodle all Day. I sing that with "A" all the time.

"Oh I eat watermelon and I have for years
Sing Polly Wolly Doodle all the day
I like watermelon but it wets my ears
Sing Polly Wolly Doodle all the day"

This is fun becasue I can relate to all foods mentioned.

Chips - can't keep them in the house because I devour them. It's killing my daughter now that she's living here. She craves them too. I've even found some she's bought for herself in her room, and I can't eat them. Dad also loves chips. Always has - Utz regular chips. When I go to his house, I snatch a few, but that's it. I try to stay away because once I get started, it's like only a few more, then a few more, etc.

Oreo's. Can't bring them in the house, They last a few days, but I can't rest until they are gone. I've been known to keep them in the trunk of the car. Forgot about them. Can you believe that? Then ahd to throw them out becasue they were stale. IT near killed me.

Chocolate, love it. Have downscaled to peppermint patties becasue they have littel fat and hardly any claories, but quench my chocolate craving.

Well coffee - not my thing. Phew. That's one thing I don't crave. I guess it's not sweet or salty enough.

Chatty, watermelon was on sale for a few days at the Super Fresh so I got one and have only a bit left in the fridge now. I love keeping it cut up and on the shelf in the fridge for easy access.

About the salt and chocolate thing. I recall when the kids were little and we had lots of snack food in the house, eating a piece of chocolate, then some chips, then some chocolate and on and on - especially at certain times of the month.

Okay, I'm thinking that if I see these, I have to eat some -

French Fries!

I've been known to eat them off the plates of those I dine out with. It's that bad. If someone is finished and they leave fries on their plate, I ask if I can have some. How piggy is that? That's especially if my meal didn't come with fries.

Fortunately, I've never, ever fried any at home, but have certainly made the baked kind. But when eating out, especially at lunch, everything comes with chips or fries. What a shame!

Oink, oink Dots...same here. I used to tell people I raised my boys on MacDonald fries when in reality, it was ME. They were young, ate little, and I came in like a clean up batter...LOL! Gimme, gimme! The good news is that they no longer taste the same and so I stopped craving them. Thank you Mickey Dee's for changing whatever you changed. Their fries suck now, if you ask me.

Do you all love that crunchy stuff you can get at Captain Dee's? With a red face I'm admitting that I too will eat off someone else's plate if they leave any of that crunchy stuff. I LOVE IT. Must be the salt content. Oh like I need more of that!

JJ, I'm not sure who Captain Dee's is, but I'm the same way with KFC, I can't stand to see any of that finger-licking-good skin get thrown away. And when someone leaves fries on their plate, it takes every ounce of discipline not to reach over and eat them. If it's hubby or the grandchildren (not likely, they're fry-fiends too) I won't hesitate, but there aren't too many other people in my life I feel comfortable enough with to eat off their plates....wish I had more of those people in my life! Not just for the fries...

Eagle, I could never have potato chips every day. Results would show quickly. You must undertake miraculous regime of activity to prevent the chip result expansion.

Eagle, here you go, hun

http://www.captainds.com/files/home.aspx

Orchid..."chip result expansion?" Sounds like an event, doesn't it? HA!

Bread!!! BREADs and pastries, most any kind - I can fill up on Hawaiian bread, dinner rolls... oh, and don't forget donuts!

Thanks JJ. I don't think we have Capt D in Canada. It definitely looks like a place I'd be well-acquainted with if we did!

Orchid, I'm amazed too. I was worried about my weight, but my doctor said it was fine. And I'm (physically) healthier than I've ever been. And hubby reminded me just the other day that I'm still wearing the same size in clothes that I've been wearing for about 5 years now. I can't seem to lose any weight, but I'm also not gaining. So if it ain't broke, don't fix it, right?

As for the chips, I really do only eat about 10 chips in the afternoon. If I don't eat the chips to begin with, I end up binging on other things. But if I eat just these few chips, it satisfies the craving I don't eat anything else until supper. I rarely snack between meals. Three meals, those chips at 3 in the afternoon, and a piece of toast to go with my medication before bed. And I'm often running up and down the stairs, playing with my Wii and incorporate other exercise into whatever activity I'm doing throughout the day.

Premium ice cream -- Ben & Jerry's (Cherry Garcia is #1!) Haagen Dazs (coffee) and Cold Stone (any flavor.) I love chocolate chunks or nuts of any kind as an addition, but will not eat chocolate syrup or marshmallow anything. We try not to buy ice cream very often because it gets scarfed down.

OK I'm cheating and adding a second item -- raw pistachios in the shell. I drive 20 miles to go to a certain Persian store which I swear has the best pistachios in SoCali.

Meredith, I too am an Ice Cream lover. I found something I love just as much though. Publix-brand Strawberry, low-fat, frozen yogurt. OMLord...it is so good. And I can have MORE of it than I can ice cream (calorie-wise), so I indulge once a day, usually.

Good stuff. I want to try their new flavor, pomegranate. I bet it's good. They are always out of it though.

I never heard of Publix, so maybe it's not around here.