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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
I remember realizing this at about 20, and that if I bought my own cake ingredients I could make cake for startlingly little money. The most expensive part was probably the ready made frosting.
Anyway I started making cakes for friends and neighbours in my apartment building after work. I didn't keep it up for very long, maybe a year, but I'm convinced my reputation is still riding high, decades later, from the goodwill I sowed during that time.
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.
I had to get rid of mine to make room for the raptor enclosure. Muldoon keeps telling me I should just destroy them because they are too dangerous, but I might be able to monetize them so they must stay. Safety is his job anyways, so I don't know why he bugs me about it.
You can, you absolutely can. The thing is now it's not just that cake at the bakery counter in the grocery store. You're going to commit to buying a 10,000 calorie pile of wonder. You need to make sure that you do a good job. You need to go find the best goddamn cake in your area. But then, that means you got to drive a little bit. And it's going to be expensive, and you already a couple of pounds heavier than you should be because you're out of time and dealing with the kids. Ah crap, the kids they're going to want some cake. I have to eat this in my car. Do you think the bakery has utensils? Damn now I'm going to have to go two places. Ahh screw it maybe the next time this is posted.
Yeah it makes me want to go out and get a cake. For about 30 seconds before I think about the logistics of actually getting a cake, having to pay for it myself, then eating like 2 pieces before I start feeling sick and overloaded on sugar and just leave the rest in the fridge until it goes stale.
OMG, coffee shops exists who sell cake by the serving. Some are delicious and they will keep bringing you new slices of cake as long as you promise to pay for them until all the cake is gone. And the waiter might judge you, but she will do so silently and from afar.
Diners are also a pretty good place. The desserts are usually somewhat generic repeatable things but they are of a consistently decent quality, and as you point out sold by the slice.
It seems like every time I find a favorite place they just disappear.
We (me, wife and 3yo) were driving through a fairly urban area. There was this little sign outside this place that said vegan spiced chai cupcakes. I'm not vegan, I'm not vegetarian, but what I have found is that if a place says they've got vegan cupcakes or vegan cookies, somebody has been working on that taste and texture for years to get it right.
They were absolutely the best cupcakes I've ever had in my life. The store closed up shop after about 6 months.
I discovered that in my mid-20s. I enjoyed eating a whole cake all by myself whenever the hell I wanted a few times and then the consequences begin to show and that's how we learn our lessons about things like that and then we eventually teach our kids the right way to do things and then they get bored with that and they turn around and rebel and then they learn their lessons in their 20s and the cycle continues.
As an adult you should realize that eating a cake any time you want is unhealthy and should have the self control to delay that gratification. Sure noone can stop you, but you should have the self respect to stop yourself.
You know I don't think I've ever eaten a whole cake, and at this point I think I would regret it before I was even half finished lol, but if you've got the mettle good speed to you 🙇