This is as good a time as any, I suppose, to jump in with my first post- but this totally resonated with me. The first time my AH quit drinking, he started in with an unprecedented, voracious need for ice cream (Magnum bars to be exact...truthfully, they are rather wonderful...lol). He never had a 'sweet tooth' prior to this fixation with ice cream. As I look back now, I can pinpoint a time at which that need abruptly, and kind of mysteriously stopped. What I didn't fully recognize then, was it was a clue to his backslide. He had started drinking again. His body was no longer craving the sugars from the ice cream as a substitute. He is currently, and newly attempting sobriety for the second time. Maybe I will go get him some icecream.....:-).