This is a wonderful post, esp on a Friday. I spend today, discussing all the wonderful things we will prepare and eat for the weekend.

We must be related, there is nothing more comforting than a warm piece of buttered toast. Sourdough, french bread, or italian, I could go on and on. Fits in the hand, goes well with tea, milk or coffee.

I can't give up eggs either, love them over easy and then placed on a slice of buttered bread. (Like you didn't see that coming)

Oh my - Mine would have to be chocolate mousse..its so light it doesnt FEEL like i am doing anything bad..hehe

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come on----POTATO CHIPS!

Kettle chips...NUTELLA!

Mmmm... I second Nutella! Also: good ol' mac and cheese.

oh gosh. this could be a long list. first and foremost:

CHEESE! the really good stuff. i demolished a huge hunk of fromage d'affinois in no time flat the other day.

pasta, fresh bread & butter, anything caramel related, any iteration of creme brulee/panna cotta/etc. guacamole. and if there are killer french fries in front of me, i'm a goner.

Chewy homemade molasses cookies rolled in coarse sanding sugar before baking so as to give a little crunch. I'm SO helpless in their presence that I can't ever make them because I eat the entire batch in a day.
But I, too cast a vote for fresh, warm bread or toast with butter. Homemade sourdough...mmmmmmmm.

Pecan bars are hard to resist.

But actually my worst is cookie dough. When I make regular old chocolate chip cookies I can't help but eat large portions of dough from the bowls. I think looking back on this consumption actually helps me resist the cookies later when I serve them, or when they're sitting around in the cookie jar.

Haagen Daz's sticky toffee pudding ice cream. Since it was a limited edition flavor, I'd buy a pint or two every time I saw it in the store. I miss it. =(

Fresh baked, homemade chocolate chip cookies. Still warm from the oven, with a glass of cold milk--probably my single favorite thing to eat in the whole world. (I also love the dough!)

Also high on my cannot-resist list: polenta (with LOTS of butter and cheese), really good French fries, avocado, tuna melts, sweet potato casserole, and nice moist cake with lots of good-quality frosting. Oh yeah, and like several above, good fresh bread with butter.

cheese or chips

didn't even have to think for a second here: it's Pad Thai, hands down, and the spicier the better. Any meal, any time. Hmmm, I might have to get into my kitchen....

I'm surprised and delighted to see that other people are as weak in the knees over toast as I am, though my weakness is a bit more specific...sourdough toast. Topped with butter, peanut butter, thinly sliced sharp cheese or even plain, it is my perfect food.

cheese. especially melted cheese.

Fresh baked anything is irresistable, especially fresh baked french bread or fresh baked cookies... or cake. I agree with the carbs - something about them just makes me feel good inside, even when I know I shouldn't!

I'm just going to lump the entire DAIRY category into my "food I can't resist." Cheese, butter, milk, ice cream, yogurt...yum.
I hope I am never ever lactose intolerant. Can you develop that or are you born with it? Let's pray it never happens, for my sake. :)

Brownies -- the fudgier and chewier the better. Nothing disappoints me more than a dry, cake-like brownie.

I have to say - a good chunk of warm, fresh, crusty bread would be almost impossible to resist. The no-knead bread recipes have made staying away from just that kind of bread virtually impossible!

warm, baked brie. and mashed potatoes.

cheese, in all its many variations (specifically mac & cheese, pizza, cheese & crackers...).

Sodas. I've been trying to treat them as a treat rather than something to have with lunch, and sparkling water with fruit syrup can be a decent substitute. But sometimes I just get the worst cravings for a Dr. Pepper.

Ketchup is pretty awful for you between the sodium and the HFCS, but I love it. I eat it on eggs, any sort of potatoes, even white rice... oh ketchup. You complete me.

I dream of cheese, along with really good bread (sourdough!), walnuts (can't get enough), and many fruits and veggies. Really good chocolate, of course. Lemon bars. High quality ice cream.

Toast is absolute HEAVEN! Butter only!

Lavender ice cream, salty cookies (oatmeal or ginger are the best), homemade baked mac and cheese, and anything made with moose or lamb sausage. Great, now I'm hungry!

Toast too. I stand at my counter and go through four slices at a time. With Earth Balance and honey or cinnamon sugar. Although nothing is quite like bread and real butter.

And puddings, particularly rice and tapioca.
And crunchy, salty things. Pickles, chips, etc.

CHEESE!!!!

I confess to being a compulsive diet soda drinker. I know, I know, but cut me some slack. Surely there are worse vices. Foodwise--melted cheese on anything, and ginger cookies made from my grandmother's recipe. I will eat those things until I'm ill.

macaroni and cheese... and neiman marcus cookies. oh my.

Turkey Hill Duetto in root beer. ohmygoodness i cannot resist its siren song. i deliberately buy it in pint size containers so i don't get fat on the stuff.

Fresh, warm bagels. New Zealand butter on almost any kind of bread. Cheetos! Even though I know cheetos are more "food" than food.

Mac n Cheese. Just mac n cheese.

If it's something that contains chocolate, I'm in.

Cheese, the crappy grocery store cheddar, melted on a piece of bread. It's crack. Delicious, delicious crack.

Pasta and noodles. In every shape and form. Especially Asian.

Oh so many! Top 5: cheese, good bread and butter, potatoes (especially mashed, fries, or chips), tortilla chips and salsa, pasta.

If creme brulee is on a menu, I will order it, and if you screw it up, it will ruin my whole meal. It does not matter that I can make it deliciously myself. It's a gut reaction.

Oh my... The list goes on, so to narrow it down is difficult at best. I agree with the buttered toast. Like mellis, I can stand at my counter and go through 4 slices in a heartbeat. I toast the first two, then toast the second two whilst eating the first. So by the time I'm done with the first, the seconds are done and still hot and melty wid da buttah!

Salivating...

brie and caramel...not usually together, but now that i think of it....

Pizza of any kind. Take-out, frozen, homemade, doesn't matter. We do all three in our house, have pizza of some form usually at least once a week (though we're gone 3 or 4 days of pizza in a row!)

Also pre-made chocolate chip cookie dough. Not to bake with though, I make my own dough for that. Instead I love grabbing a quick bite of cookie dough as a snack. And now that Pillsbury has come out with the Simply dough that come all formed in small discs, oh my, I really don't want to admit how many packages I've eaten!

Freshly baked bread or biscuits with unsalted butter. Toast sometimes falls into this category. . . .

Japanese sweet potatoes...purple skin, white flesh, microwaved and smashed. Pig heaven!

buttered toast for me too! sometimes i have it for "dessert"

Nutella. I will eat it straight from the jar. I never buy it for this reason, but my husband does, and then wonders what happened to it. I can pass up just about anything temporarily (even bread, cheese, and pasta), but Nutella? Is my crack.

Biscuits. Chocolate cake. Cookie dough, definitely!
Someone mentioned kettle chips and I'd have to agree with that -- cheese or bbq.

pie.
and crackling.

@Kateri You are not alone on the diet soda! I'm a Diet Coke fiend. I keep trying to kick the habit in a half-hearted way but it just tastes so good: cool, not-too-sweet and refreshing. If you give me a bag of M&Ms to go with it, well, any day becomes salvagable, birds sing, rainbows show up, you get the idea.

I absolutely cannot resist good sweet "rustic" breads like No Knead. I can avoid buying it and making it, but if I do end up with one, I'll eat it all by myself! With butter!

@jonnifer You can develop lactose intolerance but most people who are truely lactose intolerant and not allergic to something else in dairy can eat cheese and yogurt still. The bacteria that culture those things eat most of the lactose. I could give up ice cream if I had to, but I pray I can eat cheese and yogurt 'til my dying day.

Addiction to Diet Coke is NOT a weakness. :)

Diet Coke. Gyros.

Who's making bread this weekend? Now that you all mentioned toast with butter, I know I am!

Besides my carbs, CHEESE!

@tamalinn Open a small can (for 4) of pillsbury crescent rolls. Unroll and lay flat on a baking dish. Place a wheel of brie in the center, spread on some jam (I like raspberry). Wrap up the brie with the dough. Drizzle a little honey or syrup, sprinkle a little brown sugar, bake for 20 minutes of so on 350. DEVOUR with apple slices or crackers.

pizza. no contest. even if it's crappy I still scarf down at least three slices.

Mint Milano Cookies!!

"This isn't about punishing or denying ourselves things we love"

Thanks for this. I'm always dismayed when this site posts about guilt and eating.

Cheese, bacon. Bacon, cheese. And butter.

I taught my only weakness with toasted fresh bread with butter but reading the comments I realized I have more! Defintiely baked brie with honey over french baget slices, lately peanut butter with apple or banana or homemade jelly as a sandwich...oooh. Definitely chocolate, especially if there are nuts in it. and SALT! I salt everything even grapefruit...

I tried everything to resist toast and butter and salt but can't get over them...

I put myself on a diet last year and lost a lot of weight, so I am well acquainted with my weaknesses: Homemade yeast rolls (especially potato rolls) and buttermilk biscuits. I could politely turn down cookies and chips for carrots and apples. But soft, warm, fresh homemade potato yeast rolls ... oh my heavens! What is it about baked goods?!

Doritos. (Do those count as food?)

Scones, irish soda bread, un-frosted cake. Fudgy brownies. Any baked good with a salty/sweet combo.

Cupcakes.
Chocolate chip cookies.
Almost anything Entenman's.
Anything with the word "Reese's" attached.
Peanut butter M&M's.

Risotto.

And, I recently discovered, warm Grilled Doughnuts at New York's Garage restaurant. Oh. My. GOD.

Potato skins (the kind from bars with cheese, bacon, green onions, and sour cream), anything cheesecake, CHEEZ-ITS!!!

fresh cut french fries

Buttered toast!

Stem ginger in the syrup with yoghurt. Making it myself is the only thing that stops me eating it every day.

I'd have to go with Chocolate Chip Cookies - especially any of these on my list! http://www.thenaptimechef.com/2010/01/chocolate-chip-cookie-recipes-my-top-10.html

I am so with the commenter who said Dr. Pepper. I know it has false sweeteners in it, I know, I know. But it's the one thing I CRAVE. I can go a few days at a time, but wow, when I have one afterwards, it's like pure honey.

Soda! Coke, Dr. Pepper, etc... and not the diet kind.

Also chocolate of any kind. If I have nothing else for dessert, I'll have a spoon full of Nutella.

Aged gouda, a la the Robusto at Whole Foods....

Starch! Potatoes, pasta, Vinta crackers....

Super sharp cheddar cheese.

Butter and salt.

Oof, I need to go jogging now...if only spinach, kale and lean ground turkey were as appetizing!

Cheese and good bread; toasted or otherwise.

Pork soup dumplings at Grand Sichuan. Moussaka at Nectar on 82nd and Madison. French fries at Baltazar. A real Cadbury Fruit & Nut Bar. Full Monty at Tea & Sympathy. Everything at La Bergamote (including the owner!).

Dark chocolate peanut M&M's kept in the freezer. Game over.

Good bread definitely (glad i can walk to Acme), pretty much any way you could make potatoes, almost any organic fruit and Julie's Mandarin and Cream sorbet, the best flavor ever.

most any cheese, cookie, or pie. sweet potatoes, avocados, strawberries, watermelon (it's hard to make yourself sick on strawberries or watermelon, since they're so light, but given the opportunity I will certainly do it!). baking powder biscuits, especially with butter and honey or blackberry jam. chocolate in most forms. candy corn. candy corn is a bad one - it only takes a few pieces to start feeling bad, but I will just keep eating it until the entire bag is gone, and my teeth hurt, and my stomach hurts... ug!

In summary, I have pretty much no willpower at all...

I can't pick just one, so here are a few of my favourite "naughty" foods I can't live without:
-eggs and bacon (for breakfast, lunch, or dinner)
-French bread and fine cheeses (brie, camembert, port salut, etc.)
-potatoes are great comfort food (home fries, french fries, mashed with butter and gravy, twice-baked)

GreatFriend - If you have a Cost Plus World Market near you, they carry the real Cadbury Fruit & Nut bar. And McVities digestives, which is another of my downfalls - especially the ones with caramel. Oy.

orzo with parm and butter, good sharp cheddar and put me in the buttered toast category too.

i don't get this fascination with toast... no thanks. but a big chunk of gouda or god forbid mac and cheese... i'm done. Only bigger sin is snickerdoodles. yum yum yum. lately i've been on a honey wheat pretzel and red pepper/jalepeno hummus kick so that's been a step up for my diet.

Thick cut fries with creamy chipotle sauce. Deli meats on soft french bread with tons of mayo, lettuce, and tomato. Sliced American cheese, straight up. Steamed white rice with Vietnamese charcoal beef or bulgogi.

I'm a simple gal with a taste for the savory!

sushi, rice (grain) or wheat noodles and pastas in soup or stir fried. Long simmer pork soups.

homemade cookies fresh out of the oven!

@mmepatty -- I am so jealous you can walk to Acme! It's a twenty minute drive for me and we still do it once every 2 weeks or so. Delicious bread!

Fried egg sandwich with american cheese on white bread with mayo.

And I'm with the rest of you... buttered toast, mac n cheese... Face it folks - grab some carbs and throw some fat on 'em and we all become powerless. :)

The question should be, what food CAN I resist?

I think I agree with the person(s) who said potato chips, though.

Coffee. Teeth-rotting, stomach-destroying, wonderful coffee.

McDonald's french fries-freshly fried and lightly salted. I just can't help myself.

Peanut butter oreos are a serious weakness for me. And, cheese. Oh, glorious cheese. I love toast too, but it's got to be oven toast, or no dice.

Potatoes, potatoes, potatoes, and potatoes in every shape and form they come in. Oh, and potatoes.

Although I don't get them very often, homemade donughts are the world's greatest breakfast. yummmmm.

I also become weak at the knees for a good almond croissant, warm chocolate cake topped with ice cream, and lasagna (or any cheesy pasta, for that matter). Yum.

I am pretty much in love with everything I SHOULDN'T eat. :/

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Nutella! and Cheese! :)

1 portion hot chocolate fudge cake
two dollups of ben jerrys chunky chocolate.
6 pieces of slice banana
2 dollups of hagendaz cherrie ice cream
more slices of bananas
whipped cream.
chocolate flakes.
and cherry on top. Give this to me and suddenly i dont give a s.......

Nutella and a big spoon
fries
nutella and more nutella
fried potatoes
BILTONG -- deepest regret since became veg.