"Fat" Tuesday ?!?!

Well, tomorrow is "Fat Tuesday". It used to be a day I would really get excited about! The paczki! The debauchary! Now I'm going to call this day "Thanksgiving" because I'm so thankful my days don't revolve around pastry anymore. I am happy because I know I could have some, but I don't want to. I don't think like a fat girl anymore (most of the time!). For all of you that are pre-op, or that don't dump......remember that you have friends here, and that feeling good about yourself and having self control are way better than a stupid donut! Brenda

I actually bought a half dozen of paczkis today....for my kids though. I don't even want one thankfully, cause before i loved them. It's just another day to me now. Hugs Linda

The "tradition was new to me when I came back to MI after 24 years gone. So, having never tasted one, I think I can manage ok. But it's great to ignore the aisles of valentine/easter candy and truly not care about it. I've been to Steve's, a Polish style restaurant in Livonia and found nothing on the menu except liver and onions that was at all a possibility. I forgot about that style of cooking! Talk about having to learn a whole new way to cook and eat for folks coming from those traditions. Anybody remember spudnuts?

...."For all of you that are pre-op, or that don't dump......remember that you have friends here, and that feeling good about yourself and having self control are way better than a stupid donut!".... Interesting....I don't dump and the thought of having a paczki tomorrow never crossed my mind...LOL

I don't dump but even before my surgery, paczki always left a really yucky fatty coating on the roof of my mouth. I think I have eaten maybe 2 in my whole life, so I won't miss them at all. My Fat Tuesday food of indulgence? I will eat the crunchy skin on a piece of fried chicken, instead of peeling it off. I love the deep fried skin on a fresh chicken thigh from KFC. Yumm-O! I practically live on chicken. Before surgery, if we had KFC, I would suffer days of indigestion and intestinal distress. It's weird but chicken doesn't bother me anymore. At all. Same goes for beef. Pot roast. I would have a horrible time for 2 or 3 days after having a nice rump roast. I can eat beef all day without a problem now. The problems must have been in the part of my gut that was bypassed with surgery. It's a blessing really, since I HAVE to eat those things for their "maximum protein/minimum quantity" value. I think I will have a Thin Mint girl scout cookie today, too. Well, maybe not. KathyG

To me, paczkis are just glorified donuts. I have heard they can be between 450-600 calories each!!

i've never had a paczki. to me they look like jelly donuts but people tell me they're very different. i'm curious but too lazy to hunt one down. i'm guessing the ones at S-bux aren't authentic and there are no polish bakeries around here that i know about. one of my grandpas was polish but yet i've never heard of these. odd. maybe cause "my people" don't celebrate fat tuesday (whatever that is.) we're fat 7 days a week.