As an antidote to all the depression of rising prices etc.  was wondering what are your guilty pleasures??

Mine is ..... Sushi    I love it, but the family can't stand it, so every so often I get a little box of Sushi, put it on a Japanese style plate with pickled ginger and soy and ... enjoy preferably when everyone's out or they'll all say things like "EW how can you eat that - it's raw fish!!"  

Sometimes I go really wild and make it myself - if I can get the right ingredients    Trying to think of an excuse to go to the 'Big Smoke' so I can try different kinds at a Sushi Bar  

Bacon!  Found an organic farm shop a couple of weeks back, and the bacon - grown, slaughtered and sold all on-site - is to DIE for.  Fantastic!

But of course, with the joy of those rising prices it is about to become a very rare pleasure indeed.  Not least because it's a 15 minute drive away!

Oh! to find good Bacon, that doesn't spit water everywhere and shrink to nothing when cooked leaving a salty crust in the pan - sigh!

recent addition- Green and Blacks Organic White Chocolate. i suffer from chronic migraine and chocolate and cheese are my triggers- not had either in approx 5 years. however white choc is ok. but, fussy me, i've never really likes bars of it- till now! a friend bought me a bar as part of my bday prezzy, oh my god its so good! creamy but not sickly and its got real vanilla in it. yum yum yum...

the green and blacks ice cream is amazing too.

Dill im with you on the sushi, I often pop into Tescos at lunchtime for some although I quite like the veggie sushi you get there. You cant beat London's sushi bars though - the soft shelled crab is amazing !!  We have all the stuff to make it at home, just havent got round to doing it yet. 

I would say my indulgence is a 45 minute drive to the beach with the boys, they love the beach (as do I)  but with rising prices of petrol etc its become a rare treat that they get to go. 

they do ice cream? ohhh...theres a notion...

Potato Chips and Dip, Passion Flakies, Margaritas, Chocolate Chip Cookies.

Oh goodness, the amount of guilty fat I am consuming........oh my. 

Good guilty pleasures?  Triple B Treatments.  Love them!!  BTW they are: Bath Book Bag of Chocolates all at the same time.  Laying in the bath - perferably with bubbles, reading a good book and taking a piece of chocolate and letting it melt in my mouth. No chewing allowed!  Such a wonderful treat. 

Hi Crespin. What are passion flakies????

Passion Flakies are a pastry, that is all bubblie (like air bubbles, in between the pastry, so good! Makes the pastry flakie instead of solid) with Apple Cranberry filling, and whip cream.  LOVE THEM SO MUCH!!!!!!!!

You can also get them with just apple filling, or chocolate, or grape.  But all have the whip cream.  My fave is the Apple Cranberry though!

Here is a link to a pic:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/firda/123197256/

This thread really does go to show how old we all are!!!! Many years agothe word passion, would of meant a completely different and less fattening kind of appetite!!!?

still does lol, they just think this passion food, is better than the passion you get elsewhere?  LMAO

> they just think this passion food, is better than the passion you get elsewhere

lol, they'd need to get out more then but we're not talking about that kind of guilty pleasure!

I don't think we get passion flakes in the UK--not seen them anyway!
Must admit that my guilty passion is crisps, especially some variation on cheese and onionish eg sour cream and chives.
More of a savoury than sweet person really, though I must say I did buy a green and blacks white chocolate bar today after reading one of the previous posts! (but I've only eaten a bit of it so far!!!!) And I do like an occasional packet of maltesers

yay i've started a trend :D their lovely aren't they?

>a completely different and less fattening kind of appetite!!!?

Less fattening? Only after 9 months have passed!

I have to make do with vegan chocolate, as i can't have milk, the one from sainsburys is rather good.

The list of my guilty pleasures is endless:
Chinese takeaway(especially crispy duck), Chocolate: A yorkie bar dipped in a cup of tea after a hard days work,a kinder egg, aero(again dunked in tea), toffee crisp & of course - chocolate digestives,  Now for non food pleasures - coming home from work putting on my Pyjamas ordering takeaway and laying in bed with the dog watching tele followed by an early night, pampering myself for 4 hours before a night out (drives my friends wild-they can all get ready in 20mins) and going really really fast on the motorbike.
What would life be without our little pleasures now and again?

LoisLane,

There's no milk in Green and Blacks dark chocolate either (it's on the labels)   the Maya Gold is fab

> Less fattening? Only after 9 months have passed!

Snort!

Edit: Have to add - Ainsley Harriott's chocolate heaven bars. Yum!  Haven't had any in about 2 years (at least), but just spotted them in a bargain shop

Yep the 70% cocoa one is totally vegan!!!

But I just love dark choccie of any kind.  Aldi's own dark stuff (85%) is great and really good value i.e. cheap

And homemade pizza - love it!!!

>>And homemade pizza - love it!!!

Try homemade stuffed crust pizza...wow!!!

Hi Dill..

WOW, I never knew that, i miss chocolate so much!! Sainsbury's choc is lovely but the bar is tiny, only six squares and it's 85p per bar and i have around two aday, i also buy chocolate soya milk everyday that's £1.50, this non dairy lark is a dear DO!! lol

Most 70% choccie has no dairy in it whatsoever!!!

EmilyRose - going to try that out soon!!!  Can't wait.

More trips to the gym will soon be in order though to keep the balance.

Sausages good old fashioned sausages but can't find them anywhere.  Its been years since i had a good sausage!!!!!

>Its been years since i had a good sausage!!!!!

The best sausages ever are made by Supreme Sausages. Really meaty and flavoursome, not full of fillers and fat.

Will try them straightaway and let you know.  Must admit that i have never heard of them.  Thanks Jeangenie

> Its been years since i had a good sausage!!!!!

Snort again!

Not saying a word

We know where your mind is lol

Trust Nikita to lower the tone, i must admitt my mind done the same. lol

must confess to also snorting.

Astarte!! Lol.

>must confess to also snorting

but snorting what ??? is this another of your guilty pleasures

Read above!

not at all! lol, sorry, didn't realise that! oops!

lol I know what you meant - just my naff sense of humour

must admit, I didnt think like that until it was mentioned about the snorting to the sausages comment.  LOL

Its very chucklish though lol

I don't think i look a sausage in the face again now!!!!!!!

Ooops

Titter titter... sausages... hee hee.  Ahem, now to raise the tone a little, my guilty pleasures are a Z-list celeb mags, just once every couple of months I have a binge and buy a few, Green & Blacks ginger or mint choc, Bendicts Bitter Mints and Benny & Gerry's ice cream to eat.  On TV I have to watch America's Next Top Model (not especially fond of the UK version) and Antiques Road Show.  Music-wise my guilty pleasure is Time Flies, Vaya Con Dios which I play full blast and howl along to like a banshee, the dogs love it too!  I think that's about it :D

I love America's next top model too (again not the british or australian version), also so you think you can dance, some of them are amazing, Ramseys Kitchen Nightmares and Supernatural.