I'm eating a Slim Jim

[Tab]

I get these maybe once a year or so, just if I'm in the mood. This was one of the fatter ones ("Fat Jim", I guess), and Tobasco flavor.

Total fat: 42 g
(Saturated 11 g)
(trans fat 1.5 g)

Sodium: 22% RDA

Protein: 11 g

The only thing going for it is the protein.

I'm only halfway through it. Maybe I should give the rest to my dogs. I can't do this to my body.

[Warpy]

1. I keep a jar of fair trade chocolate chips around

for those few times I get a chocolate Jones. I know that when Jones shows up, if I don't feed him quickly I will have to stuff him full.

We all eat stuff that's bad for us and that's OK. Our bodies were designed to handle a certain amount of trash.

However, it's a wise person who knows when to drop the rest of the chocolate chips back into the jar or feed the rest of the Slim Jim to the dog (whose gut is better designed to handle a fat stick).

Funny, I see the same thing at work with smokers. That first suck of nicotine is sheer heaven. By the time they get down to the butt, they never want to see another cigarette as long as they live...until the nicotine wears off.

[Tab]

2. I tossed it

I got about 60% through and couldn't bear to bring myself to eat the rest.

I don't feel too guilty because I only grab one every year or two.

I don't know if I'm in a weird mood or what - the other day I bought a box of Chick'n in a Biskit (or however they spell it). I haven't had that for at leat 10 years, but I loved it growing up.

Now I can tell it's basically a fattening cracker loaded with chicken boullion.

Getting old is taking all the fun out of junk food.

[hippywife]

3. Sometimes you just gotta

answer that momentary craving to find out it how overblown the memory of the taste is in your mind. LOL

Tums? ;)

[htuttle]

4. Ohh...the siren song of Chick'n in a Biskit!

I can easily eat a whole box in a sitting if I don't stop myself. That's why I never buy them...

They're so full of chickeny goodness! :D

[sandnsea]

6. I remember when they first came on the market

So how old am I. They're still my favorite cracker, although I never eat them anymore. Haven't had one in years.

[kestrel91316]

7. I bought a 2 lb bag of Ghirardelli chips (ostensibly to have on hand for making

cookies if the whim came over me) and put them in the fridge because it's hard to keep things from melting INSIDE the apartment when those 115+ heat waves settle in..........anyway, they have been calling my name every frickin' time I open the fridge and now the bag is almost empty. I do feel virtuous, however, as I nibble them while sipping my red wine in the evening.

[Stinky The Clown]

5. Geeze .... I have more respect for my dog than to feed her a Slim Jim

Those things are poison!

(But they *are* tasty in a disgusting sort of way)

[kestrel91316]

8. I used to LOVE Slim Jims, but haven't had one in years.

Seeing as they have apparently found a way to sneak trans fats into them, I'll have to pass. That seems to be the one dietary restriction I am able to consistently follow without succumbing to temptation. If I know there are trans fats in something, I don't eat it.

[kestrel91316]

9. Don't give it to the dog. You probably can't afford to be paying

thousands to get Puppy treated for pancreatitis.......