I have two questions:
- What is your Frog and Toad Temptation?
- Do you know what a Frog and Toad Temptation is?
Second question first. For those who don’t know, Frog and Toad are characters in a children’s book. They have all sorts of adventures. For example, Toad bakes cookies and shares them with Frog, but then the two of them can’t stop eating them, so they try to find ways to keep themselves from eating the cookies: putting them in a box, tying the box shut (because they can open the box), putting the box on a high shelf (because they can cut the string), and then eventually feeding them to the birds (because they can climb up on a stool and retrieve the box).
So to summarize: a Frog and Toad Temptation is the food you have to give away, or throw away or not buy or make in the first place, because you know you will be absolutely helpless against its pull.
First question second. There are lots of foods I find distressingly tempting and have to think twice about before purchasing — Twizzlers, salt and vinegar chips, peanut M&Ms, candied nuts — but I don’t have nearly as much trouble with homemade goodies except for this one thing: caramel popcorn.
If I make a batch of popcorn, I am ruined. The sticky buttery caramel. The crunchy popcorn. The salty-sweet-chewy deliciousness. I just can’t even.
A couple days before Christmas, I made a double batch to give to the kids as their Christmas Eve treat — one batch with candied peanuts for the boys and my daughter-in-law, and one without for the girls. I ate so much caramel I felt ill, but then I boxed it all up so it was off limits.
I stashed the one remaining jar of caramel popcorn in the towel drawer in the guest room and then forgot about (!) for a couple days, but then my husband discovered it. It’s gone now.
Your turn!
This same time, years previous: the quotidian (1.1.18), 2017, Christmas, quite frankly, cranberry crumble bars.
14 Comments
Thrift at Home
I cannot resist chips at all. A wise friend once said we are going to eat the ENTIRE bag of chips – there’s no stopping – so if you’re trying for portion control, buy a small bag. Ha!
I also have a thing for salted nuts.
I find my sweet tooth has diminished a bit with age, but chocolate peanut butter anything is still hard for me to resist. And the other thing is eclair dessert, which is that icebox dessert made of pudding and graham crackers and chocolate icing – I even make a homemade version and I basically eat it continuously as long as it lasts.
suburbancorrespondent
Rice Krispie treats – occasionally I’ll want some and make a batch and then if someone doesn’t take the pan away from me, I eat the whole darn thing
Also, watermelon, but that’s healthy, so I just go right ahead
Jennifer Jo
Oh yes, Rice Krispie treats! 100%
Becky R.
I never buy caramel popcorn. And I never make it, even though I covet the recipe my fellow juror gave me. Her decision to get up at 4am and make caramel popcorn for us all during a very long trial made the entire jury’s day! I have had a problem with caramel popcorn since I discovered Crackerjacks as a kid. I also cannot resist Medjool dates or almost any kind of cake. Unlike most folks, I can resist any kind of salted snack.
Hattie
I’m drinking a lot of hot tea these days and my mother taught me coffee is fine by itself, but you must have a little something to go with your tea. In my mind there’s nothing better than Walker’s Shortbread with tea. I have to hide the box in the basement or else the box would not last long.
SK
Now I have to look up Walker’s Shortbread.
SarahDB
This isn’t quite the same thing, but when we have watermelon I will eat it and eat it, as much as I can possibly hold at one time. If we have muskmelon in a quantity that I can do the same without depriving others, I will.
Jennifer Jo
I eat loads of watermelon, too, but it’s not something I avoid. It’s what I consider a free-for-all food. (Same with popcorn and apples.)
Odette
Hi i dont have a sweet tooth, BUT cowboy cookies i enjoy, so i made a double batch for the grand kids and oh boy it lasted a few hours.
Ruby Gray
Aarrgghh! Where’s the Edit button? Typo alert
Ruby Gray
My large friend had a passion for icecream. She would break into a gallon of icecream when nobody else was home, and eat half of it with a spoon.
Then she was obviously going to be caught out when husband and kids came home to find dmso.khch icecream missing.
The only sensible thing to do, obviously, was to eat the other incriminating half gallon, drive to the store to buy a new gallon of icecream, and dump the empty container far from home.
Kim
Unsure why you needed to add the adjective “large” here.
melodiemillerdavis
My biggest temptations are Twizzlers, Peanut M&Ms, cashews and pistachios. My daughter gave me a big bag of Twizzlers for my recent birthday, and my brother-in-law gave us a huge bag of big cashews for Christmas. My daughter’s mother-in-law gave me two bags of pistachios. These things I gobble up.
I’d love to hear from others too.
Jennifer Jo
My husband’s is salted pistachios in the shell! (My younger son says we sound like a crackling fire when we’re eating them.)