Your guilty pleasure/secret meal

I did the spaghetti sandwich thing on this list when I was super poor. It was filling. But some of these.....ugh.

I get a large, microwave-safe container and add layers of spinach, kale, arugula, sundried tomatoes, pesto, asiago, mozzarella, parmesan, and garlic croutons. I microwave it for around four minutes and eat.

It's AMAZING.

Loxs & Bagels

A ribeye steak from Ponderosa, with a baked Idaho potato on the side.

[quote] I get a large, microwave-safe container and add layers of spinach, kale, arugula, sundried tomatoes, pesto, asiago, mozzarella, parmesan, and garlic croutons. I microwave it for around four minutes and eat.

How the hell is this a guilty pleasure

When I was about 5 I announced I wanted a spaghetti sandwich. Surprisingly, my parents obliged. I remember it was fantastic.

r5 lots of cheese!

Liver and onions.... extra onions, please!

R7, Sorry, sounds more like a humble brag with all of those dark green leafy vegetables.

Trust me, r9. It's not healthy.

My guilty pleasure is chipotle, or texas roadhouse ribs with a baked potato on the side.

Earrings

Caftans

Gin

Regret

5 Guys.

The burger joint and the bath house.

Pancakes Barbara!

Kraft macaroni & cheese - a huge portion.

Or scrambled egg toast sandwiches, with ketchup.

Or sandwiches filled with tinned salmon which is mashed up with a liberaly dose of white vinegar.

Carvel ice cream

Oreo sandwiches.

Pulverize a dozen Oreos in a food processor with a handful of walnuts and a dash of simple syrup.

Butter two slices of smooshy white bread and dust them with sugar.

Spread the walnut/Oreo mixture on the bread.

Eat alone while crying uncontrollably because everything sucks and life is shit.

Brandy Alexander is a good accompaniment. Line up four of the fuckers and pretend you're Anthony Blanche.

Fried chicken livers

Crispy Bacon on wheat toast with Butter...a lot of Bacon.

1 of those white trash sandwiches that I have to have, every now and them.

BTW it is delicious!!

Fried bologna and swansons or banquet salisbury steak tv dinner

Red Baron singles deep dish style pepperoni pizzas. There are 2 in a box and I eat both. Salty and delicious. I need to put that on my shopping list.

when I was A Poor I used to make ramen noodles, drain them, add the seasoning in, and then throw in any veggies or anything in the fridge I had left, along with a spoonful of mayo, and made a little pasta salad.

r21 I used to get Totino's for that reason.

They were, as the cashier would remind me, 99 CENT. And it was super salty. Yum!

Tortillas with peanut butter.

A good duck liver pate, Gorgonzola, good caviar, a selection of water crackers, toast points; soft-shell crab Vietnamese style; Salmorejo soup; chocolate mousse served with whipped cream in a gallon bowl.

I do the scrambled eggs and tomato thing but that’s not weird.

My struggle food was baked potato with the Concord Foods Potato Topping and lots of butter. I’m not struggling as much these days but I still like the same baked potato, this time with pickled onions thrown on top as well.

Oh i change my answer, my guilty pleasure is def a the hungry man classic fried chicken tv dinner, with the corn, potatoes, and brownie. It's like 1,000 calories and so much sodium but a def tasty (once in a while)

Bow tie noodles with cottage cheese, a little butter and salt. My mother used to make it for me when I was a kid. Calorically dense and very comforting. A little goes a long way.

I guess I’m not as disgusting as I thought my worst guilty pleasure meal is probably pizza rolls or making hamburger helper with lentils instead of meat.

I haven’t had peanut butter in the house for years but you bitches have me craving a pb&j (Jif chunky, Welch’s grape, wheat bread) with a half inch of crushed potato chips right on the jelly.

PB$J sandwiches at midnight

Stale bread and beans. You'll have to work with me on this. You tear up pieces of stale Italian bread in a bowl. Smash a clove of garlic and throw it in. Then ladle in hot cannelloni, navy, or pinto beans and it's salted water over making sure the bread is hydrated. It's better if you cook the beans rather than use canned, but I often use canned and heat with additional water and salt. I like it on the wet side. Add chopped Italian parsley and a good deal of olive oil and mix. My Italian immigrant mother would make this for lunch to use up the stale bread (because it never got thrown away) and I love it to this day.

I still eat PB&J sandwiches for lunch or a late snack sometimes. IJ have never stopped eating PB&J and my other childhood pleasure that I still eat is Cheerios.

Potato sandwiches. Slice a potato (or two) fairly thin (around 1/8"). Fry until golden brown. Butter both sides of some basic white bread. Put potatoes on bread, salt and pepper liberally, and go to carb heaven.

My mom's Thanksgiving stuffing was pretty good. One of my cousins would make stuffing sandwiches with the leftovers.

The other white trash meal is PB&J crackers, lots of them, with a tall glass of milk.

Large jar of Skippy extra chunky, jelly or jam. When it's too hot to eat, it's my meal.

When the cupboard and refrigerator were bare, cooked spaghetti, salt, pepper, an egg, and ketchup. Once or twice a year, I make it on purpose.

Chicken roll.

If you know, you know.

R28, Slavic by chance?

Sometimes, my dinner or lunch will be an entire bag of chips.

Hot buttered noodles with Lawry salt.

Macaroni and cheese with ketchup

Adult female genitalia.

A hot salad r2?!? Gross! 🤢🤮🤮🤮

30 days aged dry filet mignon paired with Parmesan garlic zucchini and caviar.

Macaroni cheese.

I adore the Hemingway sandwich:

Two slices of Rosen's white country sandwich bread

A rough tablespoon of salted butter

Thinly sliced white onion

Creamy peanut butter

Like somebody above, my "secret" mean, i.e., the one I make when I really want something comforting, is pelmeni – Russian meat dumplings.

I make them myself, as they are extremely easy to make. I boil them in chicken broth, ladle them into a bowl and eat them with salt, pepper, vinegar, and sour cream. If I weren't a fat cow, I would freeze leftovers, but there never are any left over.

A breakfast sandwich, which I'll eat at any time of the day, when I'm tired, in a particular mood, and need some basic comfort food to pick me up: Canadian bacon, mayonnaise with some added maple syrup, cheddar, all in an English muffin.

meatball something or other

Peanut butter and jelly sandwich with popcorn smooshed in between.

To R43, that sounds like an awesome meal, not a secret meal!!

A semi-healthy yet trash-tastic meal that I used to eat: Campbell's cream of chicken soup (undiluted) with a bit of milk and some fresh broccoli (cooked in the soup), poured over white rice.

I keep a bag of Doritos on my nightstand in case I wake up in the middle of the night.

2 filet o fish and a Diet Coke

R52, emergency Doritos? Nacho cheese or Cool Ranch?

To R51...I've done that with Cream of Chicken, Mushroom or Turkey with fresh spinach, mushrooms white rice or egg noodles.

Chop up some garlic, a little milk, grated cheese. It's delicious!!

If you shred a decent cheddar cheese into Kraft Mac & Cheese dinner and stir in some red pepper flakes, dried basil, butter and whole milk until you have a creamy consistency you can eat it without 100% hating yourself.

Maybe 97% hating yourself.

A whole Edwards key lime pie.

Worcestershire sauce makes Mac and cheese better.

A toasted sweetbread in cream, an oyster soufflé, caviar sandwiches, White House spinach, morels in champagne sauce and blackberry junket.

Get a brick of ramen (Top Ramen) boil it with an egg in there for the amount of time it takes to cook the ramen (around 3mins) and add some cut up onion in the boiling water. Drain the noodles and onions. Add butter to the ramen and some real bacon bits or a piece of cooked crumbled bacon. Use 1/2 of the seasoning packet only. It like a cheap version of cab

Strong cheddar cheese broiled on bread heavily slathered with mango chutney. I binge. Then I stop when behind my ears gets that cheese smell.

The fuck is "White House" spinach, r59?

And WTF is "cab" R60?

r47 A breakfast sandwich with no egg?

Yeah, when you eat it at a random time of the day, you don't really need an egg. Just a guilty pleasure sandwich.

R62, its fucking spinach creamed with fucking olive oil instead of fucking cream. It's thought to be fucking healthier but some people find it bitter.

It's not really secret but my partner hates the look of it and texture, so he'll leave the kitchen when I have it. It's a package of natto (Japanese fermented soy beans) with seasonings that come with it (Japanese mustard and shoyu sauce), some chopped kimchi, sesame oil, and toasted sesame seeds. Then serve it over a toast or a bowl of rice.

Microwave a can of corned beef hash (in a bowl of course), add ketchup and stir.

Cook a cup of rice (saffron if you can afford it) in a can of veggie beef soup (poured into a small pot, of course.

R63 carbonara. Sorry for the typo

R67 I’m a big mustard fan and curious what does Japanese mustard taste like?

"When the cupboard and refrigerator were bare, cooked spaghetti, salt, pepper, an egg, and ketchup."

Does that feed five?

A toasted bagel with scallion cream cheese and 2 slices of crispy bacon.

R72. Yum!!

Microwaved hotdog in a bun loaded with cheese, sauerkraut and sriracha.

[quote] I’m a big mustard fan and curious what does Japanese mustard taste like?

It's a bit like hot English mustard, quite yellow and it has a bit of a bite. My local Japanese grocery store carries this brand and little pouches of it are packaged with fermented soy beans they sell.

A can of black beans or garbanzo beans with Tapatio on top.

Sweet potato, olive oil, kale, a cut up hot dog, microwaved with Frank’s Red Hot and diced apple mixed in.

Baked potato with a tablespoon of mayo, tablespoon of mustard salt and paprika.

Guilty pleasure dessert is oatmeal mixed with peanut butter and chocolate sauce.

Peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwich with potato chips.

R77 your gross.

MARY!

Another vote for Red Baron individual deep dish pizza — pepperoni or cheese.

[quote][R77] your gross.

No, R78, YOU'RE gross.

Hard salami and cream cheese on a bagel.

Salami and grape jelly on soft white bread, dill pickle on the side.

OK, when I lived in Japan, I used to buy thick-sliced, soft, white bread. They sold pizza sauce in a squeeze bottle in Japan, so I always bought that. Then, pre-shredded (in a bag) mozzarella cheese. In Japan, most people have what's called a "fish cooker," which is a broiler that you can cook anything in, really, heating element on top. There's a drawer. You put your food in the drawer and push it in under the broiler.

ANYWAY, that bogus Japanese pizza was on my regular rotation and I thought it was delicious, back then.

R83 That looks and sounds delicious.

R84, it was pretty good. That Japanese bread was so good, soft and chewy. It also had an amazing shelf life.

Back then, I wasn't even into hot sauces, but I can see putting some Tabasco on those little pizzas.

Hot dogs and baked beans.

Peanut butter and mayonnaise together. That’s just nasty. And then some salty ass potato chips. 😷

R86 Yes, with a big dollop of ketchup.

R83 Looks a lot better than the make-your-own-pizza kits I see on the shelf.

When we (siblings and I) were young and there was no dip in the house, we'd (I'd) put ketchup on Ruffles potato chips. Looking back, we were lucky to even have Ruffles.

R86 yea same here actually. Nathan’s franks and some bush baked beans. Once they’re both cooked I sautéed some onions mixed with ketchup and butter. Dogs on the bun topped with the onion sauce. A teaspoon of sugar in the beans. And then devour it with some UTZ potato chips and pickle.

R90 I have a nephew who dips potato chips in ketchup. I thought it was weird but we dip potato fries in ketchup so what's the difference except one is hot and one is cold.