To me, junk food is comfort food. If I’m in a pissy mood, or particularly stressed, junk food makes me feel better. I’m particular, though. I’m not too fond of pies or pastries, not a chocolate kind of girl, not even a big fan of ice cream.<\/p>\n
That’s why when I saw an article <\/a>– front page and above the fold, no less – in yesterday’s Citizen <\/em>that said that eating a small sugary snack actually reduces the stress hormones in your system, I thought they were talking directly to me.<\/p>\n The article mentions two snacks in particular – a Tim Horton’s doughnut, and a can of Coke Classic. Both have about 200 calories, just the right amount of sugar to combat those nasty stress hormones. (The article even confirms what I have long suspected, that artificial sweetners just don’t make the cut. It has to be real sugar.)<\/p>\n It’s as if they were reading my mind… in my world of junk food as anti-depressant, a Timmy’s chocolate glazed or an indulgently fizzy cold Coke would be two of my top three choices. The third, for what it’s worth, is a jumbo sized bag of Lay’s ruffled barbeque potato chips.<\/p>\n (Digression: it has been five, maybe six months since I’ve quit Weight Watchers, and if you google <\/a>“Tim Horton WW points”, blog continues to be the number one search return. This<\/em> is my legacy for the Internet.)<\/p>\n It’s been a rough couple of weeks, and I have to admit, I’ve indulged in each of my top three comfort food faves more than once recently. The good news is, at least they’re all under $2.00 a piece. It might not be great for my waistline, but at least I’m not blowing the kids’ inheritance.<\/p>\n What say ye, oh wise bloggy friends? What’s the balm for your soul on a bad day? Vintage red wine? Mashed potatoes and gravy? Fancy truffles that cost $8 each? Beer by the litre?<\/p>\n Sorry, you’ll have to type a little louder, these bbq chips are making quite the racket…<\/p>\n Categories: <\/span>Peccadillos<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To me, junk food is comfort food. If I’m in a pissy mood, or particularly stressed, junk food makes me feel better. I’m particular, though. I’m not too fond of pies or pastries, not a chocolate kind of girl, not even a big fan of ice cream. That’s why when I saw an article – … Continue reading “Comfort food”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}