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Gutted that Heinz no longer do their large sponge puddings in tins:(
Oh God! I remember them! I loved them. Also loved sponge and stewed apple with Birds custard. Never liked Toblerone. Wasn't allowed to have Fry's Cream bar when I was little as there was some bizarre idea from my mother and grandmother that I'd choke on them!
have always been able to eat what I like without gaining weight.
I'm the same as is my sister. I think it's partly genetic. As a child I was underweight for years despite eating like a horse. Were you the same? The danger of it is that you can end up eating a lot of unhealthy food because you can get away with it.
When I was teaching I used to have Weetabix, toast with butter and marmalade and tea before leaving the house. Then I'd buy a Danish pastry and a doughnut on the way to school and eat them before lessons started at nine! I remember one morning another teacher commenting, 'Look at her, stuffing her face on cakes as usual and she's tiny, tiny, tiny!' She made a motion with her hands that was supposed to indicate my small size but actually it looked like she was picturing throttling me!
But I think even eating cakes, pastries, chocolate etc. in the UK or Ireland is not too bad because the quality of our food is so much higher than the US where a lot of the stuff you buy in the supermarket is just chemicals and ingredients that are banned in Europe. American chocolate is vile. Cheap, sugary shite.
Plus of course we tend to be much more physically active. We walk much more and don't drive everywhere. I walked a few miles every day just getting to and from my teaching job.
