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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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Original poster

..to really, really want a cheese sandwich on plain white bread?

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FurryDogMother · 05/02/2014 15:33

I admit it, I have food issues - I do the low carb thing 90% of the time, and a lot of my waking life is spent obsessing over things I put in my mouth (ooer!). Right now I would kill for the cheese sarnie of my youth - just plain, ordinary cheddar slices (sliced at home!) on cotton-wool white bread (sliced in the factory) with a smearing of real butter. Maybe a smidgen of Branston. Or, alternatively, a fish paste sandwich. I think I've been brainwashed into thinking all I should be eating is hand-crafted ciabatta with a sprinkling of organic goats' vomit decorated with olives and drizzled with either prune juice or truffle-scented oil.

Fuck know what point I'm trying to make, I just want a cheese sarnie, but can't deal with the guilt.

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FridgePervert · 05/02/2014 15:58

YABU, much better with a well fired roll with lashings of butter, mature cheddar and tomato!

RedLentil · 05/02/2014 16:00

ViviPru, I was that coeliac until about half an hour ago, but a quick batch of scones later, I'm positively cheerful.

Joysmum · 05/02/2014 16:01

White bread is one of my triggers. Yes, I do have an eating disorder and can't practice moderation.

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FurryDogMother · 05/02/2014 16:02

Flouncing off to the kitchen to do the toad :) As you were. Made chocolate gingernuts earlier - anyone want a ?

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PrimalLass · 05/02/2014 16:04

That's all I wanted to eat when I was preggers with DS. It totally cancelled out the no drinking thing re calories.

CaramelisedOnion · 05/02/2014 17:08

People are being really harsh! She's on a diet and she's having a whinge. Anyone who has ever cut weight for any reason has had moments like this. People are allowed to have a silly "feeling guilty about hankering after a banned food while dieting! It's really quite a normal part of dieting!

kobacat · 05/02/2014 17:16

I read it as the OP sending herself up and doing so rather well :)

TonyThePony · 05/02/2014 17:17

YABU. I hate white bread, I'll bite your hand off for a cheese-string though.

Innogen · 05/02/2014 17:19

Fucking hell just have the sandwich.

BadgersRetreat · 05/02/2014 17:22

I fecking love cheese sandwiches - any kind of bread will do

You should have seen the delight in DH and my eyes when we found 'robust' British cheddar in Costco the other week. $15 a pound tho . Does that make it artisan?

canadian cheddar is made of rubber and tastes of nothing

theDudesmummy · 05/02/2014 17:24

I hear you OP. Low carbing here and have plenty of high quality food around, but get to thinking about a cheap and probably nasty kind of chocolate cake I used to get in my youth, so sweet it might kill me these days....wish I had one....

ChubbyKitty · 05/02/2014 17:25

I only ever eat white bread..

I balance it out with monster sized bowls of bran flakes?

Have the cheese sandwich cheese has protein so it's good for you.

And make me one while you're at it

ashamedoverthinker · 05/02/2014 17:25

well I think food can be reflection of class

scantilymad · 05/02/2014 17:28

I'm sure Prince Harry eats Pot Noodle

ashamedoverthinker · 05/02/2014 17:29

Thats ok if he is in the nude

bodygoingsouth · 05/02/2014 17:33

is this a stealth post telling us how posh you is because you don't eat white bread and value cheese?

if yes you are sounding like a dick head and if it's for real you are still sounding like a dick head.

Caitlin17 · 05/02/2014 17:35

I can't stand brown bread.

WorraLiberty · 05/02/2014 17:37

Read the thread

The OP said she low carbs 90% of the time

She hasn't said she's low carbing right now or that she's on any other kind of diet.

It was more about being a food snob...although lightheartedly as it turned out.

Mintyy · 05/02/2014 17:39

This is why diets don't work! You (we) have got to find a way of accommodating all foods we like occasionally within our diets without demonising them. When someone works out how to do that ... please let me know .

scantilymad · 05/02/2014 17:42

Nude pot noodling? Imagine the burn risk....his poor ginger bits

ashamedoverthinker · 05/02/2014 18:23

Nah - he sizzles anyhow doesnt he?

ashamedoverthinker · 05/02/2014 18:25

it would depend on the flavour of the pot noodle actually.

RE the OP's cheese sardines - ah simple flavours from childhood. A grated cheese sandwich on brown bread with lurpak lining reminds me of my DGM and a trip to Scarborough to drop off family members going to Butlins - we just went for the ride out!

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FurryDogMother · 05/02/2014 18:25

Yay, I'm a dickhead :) I am giving the tiniest amount of shit about that. FFS all I was trying to say was that sometimes it would be good to just eat plain food, instead of feeling like every meal has to be a production number. I plead guilty to being a food snob most of the time - mainly 'cos I get bored with the usual stuff.

I am trying to tell you all (why, I have no idea, other than feeling a bit bored tonight) that I am posher than posh because I resist the urge to buy white bread and eat it with cheap cheese :) Yes, I'm low carbing, and I try to stop myself feeling deprived by eating fancy foods like salmon caviar and/or stinky cheese, all slathered over a delightul melange of shredded organic leaves.

On the whole, I'd rather just have a cheese sarnie :) Or pot noodles with Harry, if that's an option?

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Fakebook · 05/02/2014 18:31

You should have written "(light hearted)" on the thread title OP.

WorraLiberty · 05/02/2014 18:36

Well more fool you then

Just eat what you want. No-one cares whether you're posh or not.

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