LeadHatter

any other favourite treats for the recovering alcoholic

doggonecarl

A New York Egg Cream

Bamboozle

Oh my, anything food.

I love to eat.

Creekryder

Unfortunately, ice cream. I say unfortunately because it is a sugary substitute for the sugar, alcohol. I am under the belief that sugar may be the underlying culprit for alcohol addiction in many cases. Continued use of excess sugar could keep the pumped primed. See more in web articles on sugar sensitivity research.

ReadyAndAble

Dang, Carl, why'd you have to remind me of egg creams? Haven't had one in years. Doggonecarl indeed!

Pandora1

Reeses's Cups

MsCooterBrown

Ben and Jerrys Karamel Sutra...new discovery.

least

Hershey's Special Dark - dark chocolate bar. I get the giant bars... Drink a lot of coffee too, but it won't get me a ticket or put me in jail.

Danae

Thanks, Least, for the reminder about the difference between the evils of sugar and alcohol

I get down about still eating too much sugar, but it is a far cry from what I used to do to my body with alcohol.

There's still room for progress, but at the moment eating ice cream seems like small potatoes (oops, high carb food!) and I can live with it.

ACT10Npack

Sugar is not evil. Fruits have sugar and it's good for you. Just saying. Eating too much of anything is never good.

nitenurse

White chocolate mochas and blueberry muffins for breakfast!

c49

chocolate covered raisins if I want to keep it healthy (1/2 chocolate, half fruit)

m&ms if I want to be a total badass!!

battypatty

I totally abused ice cream when first sober.

loosenut

I make my own juice.

notaloser

dark chocolate
fresca
crystal lite

Winer249er

chocolate milkshake (real ice cream only)
&
a Three Stooges movie (candy for the mind)

TwoJacks

I eat ice cream every day now, where as before I quit drinking I never ate sugar at all, ever. What does that tell you?

MsCooterBrown

Me too TwoJacks.

topspin

I've seen sucrose addiction first hand devastate the lives of more than a few folks in recovery. If we all could act on the phrase "eating (or drinking) too much of anything is never good" .....more than likely, we wouldn't be here on SR.

reading a book , Sugar Blues; cleared up the definite distinction between how our bodies react to healthy sugar ( fructose --from fruit ) and sucrose ( a highly processed chemical )

Anyway, .....everyone has to find out for themselves, I guess.

(hopefully, not the hard way )

Creekryder

Thanks, topspin, I believe we alcoholics need to do more research on the effects of sugar. Fructose, found naturally in fruits are a lot different than processed sugar and the villainous high fructose corn syrup. Also when we eat fruit, we are taking in fiber and other substances that slow the ingestion of the sugar. Ice cream (my nemesis), candy, sodas, and processed carbohydrates go directly to the blood system and spike the levels, which in turn imbalance the adrenal system, our insulin levels, and a number of other internal functions. IMHO we need to be very careful with these sugary items in order to get ourselves balanced and at our optimum to defend against the alcohol cravings.