PMS: Tell it Like It Is. Your cravings, Babe (Part 1)

[Lady T]

...and hey, I turned down the house thermostat, I should burn a few fat calories off shivering.

Not an option at my place. I have to be warm enough during That Week, or I raise total hell until I am.

[Batgrrrl]

coconut cherry surprises (anyone had those? they're up there on the list for sugar fixes

Oh yes indeedy-do, Megaira! These were the first "Christmas Cookies" I ever made, and I doubt that even half the recipe made it past my mouth and into the cookie tin. Baker's Coconut. Yum. I haven't eaten one in thirty years, but I just might have to whip up a batch --though it would be quicker, I suppose, to simply mainline the sugar.

For the love of god, someone, please post a recipe for these! I must try these!

Will also be trying the Nanaimo Bars--that recipe looks great!

What are butter tarts?

Batgrrrl

[cakewalk]

I have eaten nothing all day today but sugar and caffeine. Who needs a calendar?

[megaira]

cherry surprise recipe -I will go digging.

Butter tarts -I'll dig up one for those as well. It's like a mini pecan pie without the pecans, substitute golden raisins. Very sweet, very addictive, yummy yummy yummy.

[elyse]

Butter Tart Squares.

[megaira]

Butter Tart 1

Butter Tart 2

Cherry Surprises

[Pumpkin Lover]

These past few days have been more than strange for me as far as PMSC... I've specifically craved Japanese food. So yesterday, I got take-out chicken katsu curry, and I also went to a Japanese market down the street (JAS Mart), and bought two bowls of instant yakisoba, and two packages of boil-n'-serve curry.

At said market, I bought some wasabi peas, some roasted nuts, and the coolest snack I've ever encountered. Scroll down to the section that says "Roasted Crab Snack." They are the teeniest-meeneist crabs ever! One package is a serving size, and it has 440% of calcium (from the shells). A good way to get lots of calcium before the thingy comes: calcium reduces the pain of cramps, I hear.

I'm not sure if the crabs on that site are the same ones that I have. My crabs came in a yellow bag that has some Japanese script, and below that, in English, it says "Let's Party." How could I resist partying with crabs? Mmmmm... crab party.

A few hours ago, I was craving chocolate, so I had a mini-Snickers bar and a choco-chip cookie. Now, I want some bacon and cheese.

Edited November 11, 2003 by Pumpkin Lover (log)

[maggiethecat]

Thank you for Telling All on this thread, Pumpkin.

I think you have assembled amazing ammunition against PMS---it could hardly be bettered. It even has that solid calcium crab nutritional value.

Stick that bacon and cheese on a rare burger, glass of red wine--- it almost makes the cramps , the crying and the craving so worth it.

Edited November 11, 2003 by maggiethecat (log)

[suzilightning]

ok- they hit this morning while fixing johnnybird's breakfast - eggypotatoes- and i picked about half the turkey bacon out because that's what i wanted BACON.

worked out and was craving meat - buffalo, elk, cow - grilled rare maybe with a salad and lardons of BACON. went to lunch with a really good friend at lreda's An American Grill. had the sirloin tips with parpadelle and mushrooms in a wine sauce. very good but it needed something - BACON?

johnnybird wants the ususal tuesday night fare -fish of some sort so halibut with a light tomato sauce and prociutto(close to BACON). plus i made a meatloaf for sandwiches and to go with leftover scalloped potatoes with BACON on top.

sigh

thanks snowangel

[snowangel]

suzi, sounds like you need a bacon sandwich (my famous bacon sandwiched between bacon). I had one for lunch today!

My family wants macaroni and cheese for dinner. I suppose that will have to do. They want fruit salad for dessert. For dessert, I want hash browns with bacon.

[hillvalley]

I thought I was craving Tex-Mex, which is patiently waiting for me to inhale but...

After reading Susan's post I am now craving hash browns and bacon. Think I can make it to the Midwest and back to DC by 8:30am tomorrow?

I am also craving sushi and spent the day sneaking mini Snickers bars when my students weren't watching. Just realized that I have no chocolate in the house. Ahhhhhhhhh!

[browniebaker]

Got my period today, which explains the pimiento-cheese spree that I have been on for the last two days. Pimiento cheese on soft eggy white bread -- incomparable.

[hillvalley]

I have a craving question. Do you get your cravings before your period, during or both?

For me it is the week before with a little bit during the week of. Anyone else?

By the way, I LOVE this thread! Can't wait to go back and read it all!

[snowangel]

Once I get my period, I could care less about food. For at least a few days.

Forgot about the PMS thirst. Drink gallons of water, pee a teaspoon. I can always tell the few hours before it will come -- don't necessarily drink much, but pee gallons.

In addition to hash browns and bacon, another favorite is an egg fried in lots of bacon grease over a really hot burner so the edges get all bubbly/crispy.

[suzilightning]

I have a craving question. Do you get your cravings before your period, during or both?

For me it is the week before with a little bit during the week of. Anyone else?

By the way, I LOVE this thread! Can't wait to go back and read it all!

ok- guys

two weeks before and i am insatiable for a day or two

then nothing till the day before (buffalo chicken wings)

but then i am of the older order( 49-53)

during - i could not care less is i ate or drank anything

[Minou]

For me it’s about craving texture .. I want creamy/crunchy so I hit the nachos and sour cream … or the smooth/chewy … so there I am, wanting dynamite rolls and keep the sushi (maki and sashimi) commin’!

Or the Defibrillator Dinner Special at the Pub (onion rings, poutine and wings .. perhaps some fried “cheese” stix?) … with beer and the Hubby!

But mostly it’s a carbs/fat obsession …

[PopsicleToze]

It's carbs (popcorn, pasta, potatoes, bread, etc.) and eating non-stop for a day. The next day, I can't eat anything. I'm sick, bloated and the pains begin. Like clockwork, the next day is bingo. I give up, I tell you. They win. Now if they'll just leave me the hell alone

[suzilightning]

but at least as long as we have - as our mothers/grandmothers termed it - "the curse" we are better pretected from heart disease. i do not mind this at all since i lost my nana when she was 52 and she entered menopause 20 years earlier. this is also why i am glorying in the fact i will be 5-0 next year. i am healthier than she was at the same age( i was born when she was 46 when i was born and already had health problems).

i'm due next week though i haven't started the chicken wing cravings

[mighty quinn]

will i die if i dip cheetos in plugra butter?? can i pair this with a tempranillo?

Edited November 24, 2003 by mighty quinn (log)

[KatieLoeb]

will i die if i dip cheetos in plugra butter?? can i pair this with a tempranillo?

I find Tempranillo to be quite "food-friendly" and amiable to pairing with almost anything. Cheetos with Plugra isn't that far off from say, blinis with sour cream, is it? What is beanie-weenie casserole but cassoulet under a different and more plebeian guise? It's all in how you look at it, I say...

[mighty quinn]

thanx for your blessing katie- looking forward to pms'ing with y'all in philly sometime in the future!

[bergerka]

I have a craving question. Do you get your cravings before your period, during or both?

For me it is the week before with a little bit during the week of. Anyone else?

By the way, I LOVE this thread! Can't wait to go back and read it all!

I get 'em for about 2-3 days the week before (which, since it's next week, means, er, today and tomorrow are the evil scary craving days. Anyone want to split a quarter pounder?).

Then they go away for a week.

Then the day before (which will be a week from tomorrow), I have a desperate need for something - it varies, last month it was Twinkies, once before it was Taco bell, but it's always something horridly bad, usually fast food that I don't even LIKE that much the rest of the month.

Right now I'm salivating over the bread pudding Slkinsey is making for Thursday. I should perhaps warn him that making it too far in advance would be disastrous.

K

[Laughing Goddess]

Well, it must be close to That Time of the Month here because last night I had bacon and eggs and toast with Plugra, cinnamon and sugar. And I did fry the 3 (!) eggs in the bacon fat.

For lunch today, it was a bacon sandwich on white bread with wasabi mayo. Yum!

I have Ghirardelli chocolate chips in the cupboard, so dinner is bound to be something like a big handful of chocolate chips and walnuts.

Wait... maybe hot caramel sauce, throw in some chocolate chips, walnuts, and top with coconut... the hell with the ice cream.

[Lady T]

I just had the most urgent pre-rehearsal craving for sour-cream-and-onion potato chips.

Gah.

Better go check the calendar.

[Ling]

chocolate chocolate chocolate

For dinner last night: 10 large, chewy, hot-out-of-the-oven Chocolate coconut oatmeal cookies.

Today I had a "gourmet" double chocolate chip cookie, Ferrero Rocher chocolates, and chocolate brownies.

Yummmmm...I love chocolate-y chewy things around this time.