Pluggers by Rick McKee for December 30, 2024

Actually me never hads eithers of thems.

Your loss.

Long ago I shared an apartment. My roommate and went to dinner and he ordered a steak dinner with baked potato with butter and sour cream and apple pie à la Mode and a diet coke. The waitress could not contain herself and repeated the order with emphasis on the “and a diet coke” as she burst out laughing like Birdie on the Great Gildersleeve radio show. (Yeah, I’m that old)

What about a doughnut and a coffee without a sweetener?

Donuts: You would think, through the power of sympathetic magic, that something shaped like a ‘zero’ would have only a few calories, if any. Wishful thinking, I guess.

Ain’t no way, drinking a diet soda with a doughnut—there are only two drinks that go with doughnuts coffee or milk ! ! ! !!

This one is a no way ! Don’t drink soda ;-)

Good grief!

I can’t stand diet drinks with their chemical artificial sweeteners. I know some people like them but to me they taste terrible.

Isn’t that what makes the Double Wopper and Super Sized fries meal healthy?

I drink diet soda because HFCS is way too sweet and my GI does not like it.

Haha…. Good one !

Onion rings in reality, are vegetable donuts…..

I’ll have a cup of joe with donuts.

I’ve switched to diet sodas but my stomach seems to have figured out my scheme and just makes me snack more to make up for it.

I have tried “diet” things but after a couple times they just taste too “wrong.” I won’t consume anything with an artificial sweetener if I can help it.

Well, it is a “zero-shaped” donut. :)

That’s just wrong. Savory snacks with soda chemicals! Coffee, tea, or milk with doughnuts!

Philistines!

Donuts are to be treated the same as cookies. Pull or break apart, allows calories to evaporate.

to be fair, a guy’s gotta be balanced!

My daughter brought me a six pack of the “mini” Pepsi and said "Here’s your Diet Pepsi! LOL

Many times

He appears not to be conscious of the fact that he’s NOT healthy.

Ick… one or the other, tho I rarely drink soda (reg, no diet, if), but not both together.

I tentatively seem to recall that, 55 or so years ago, Diet-Rite tasted better to me than other colas, regardless of how they were sweetened.

Lunch used to be a Snickers bar and a Tab. :)

For those who say it’s “not healthy”: It’ been my diet since I was young (with frequent substitution of pizza or burgers for the donuts). I’m over 80 and still going strong (except for some arthritis in my knees).

KETO DONUTSINGREDIENTS 1 cup Wholesome Yum Blanched Almond Flour 1/4 cup Besti Monk Fruit Allulose Blend 2 tsp Baking powder 1 tsp Cinnamon 1/8 tsp Sea salt 1/4 cup Butter (unsalted; measured solid, then melted) 1/4 cup Unsweetened almond milk 2 large Egg 1/2 tsp Vanilla extractCINNAMON COATING 1/2 cup Besti Monk Fruit Allulose Blend 1 tsp Cinnamon 3 tbsp Butter (unsalted; measured solid, then melted)INSTRUCTIONS1.Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (177 degrees C). Grease a donut pan well.2.In a large bowl, stir together the almond flour, Besti, baking powder, cinnamon, and sea salt.3.In a small bowl, whisk together the melted butter, almond milk, egg, and vanilla extract. Whisk the wet mixture into the dry mixture.4.Transfer the batter evenly into the donut cavities, filling them 3/4 of the way. Bake for about 22-28 minutes (or longer for a silicone pan!), until dark golden brown. Cool until donuts are easy to remove from the pan.5.Meanwhile, in a small bowl, stir together Besti and cinnamon for the coating.6.When the donuts have cooled enough to easily remove from the molds, transfer them to a cutting board. Brush both sides of one donut with butter, then press/roll in the sweetener/cinnamon mixture to coat. Repeat with the remaining donuts.Serves 6, 2.8 net carbs eachfrom WholesumYum

sigh, it DOES make a difference. 400 calories VS 200 calories.

When Diabetic one has to switch to diet things as others have too many carbs and one needs something sweet every now and then.