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Do You Avoid Baking to Prevent Temptation?

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Baking is one of my favorite ways to unwind. Measuring, sifting, stirring — it's meditative for me. Plus it makes the house smell divine. The problem is, baking leads to baked goods, and since I have a sweet tooth I find my cookies, cakes, and pies difficult to resist. When I do bake these days, I tend to give a lot of my goodies away, but have backed off the baking considerably. If the sweets aren't in the house, I can't eat them. What's your relationship with baking?

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29 Comments

Mouzzer Mouzzer
No way! Listen, I am gonna eat the stuff anyway so I'd rather bake MY way without sugar, eggs and partially hydrogenated fats that are found in bought stuff. A piece of loaf does no harm. :) Everyone enjoys my extra high fiber breakfast loaves!
I rarely bake, but it's not because of my own lack of willpower.... I'm trying to watch out for my husband, who will eat cake/brownies/cookies for breakfast/lunch/dinner if they are around the house. I don't really care for sweets, but we do keep a Toblerone bar in the fridge as a sweet treat with a tall glass of milk (only one section apiece though!) for the nights that we watch tv together.
GirlOverboard GirlOverboard
I generally bake on Sundays so that the husband and I can bring the bulk of what we make to work the day after OR we bake on Thursdays/Fridays since we play board/tabletop games with friends every weekend. If we bake, we plan to pawn off as much as we can on other eager tastebuds!
Kensington7 Kensington7
If I do bake I make it healthy but even you use whole wheat flour and natural sweeteners it's healthier but it's not healthy by any means. I would rather spend my time cooking a meal that I can actually eat than giving away something I baked. Of course it is nice to do that once in a while but I just don't have the kind of time to spend hours baking.
I've stopped baking, but not because of the temptation, because it's all crap food anyway. Too much sugar and unhealthy fats, food with little to no nutritional value at all has no room in my nutrition plan anymore. Plus the less I eat of the sugary stuff the less I crave it (sugar is addictive, the more you eat, the more you crave).
Advah Advah
I'm with Asche. If I want to have sweet things, I'd rather bake them then get ubersweet cookies I won't really enjoy from the shops. So I bake, have a few slices of cake and don't want to see it anymore, and leave the rest for my flatmates and coworkers.
Wild Magelet Wild Magelet
No, I love to bake. If it's something large like a cake, there are plenty of other people around who are going to want some as well, so I'm hardly going to keep them at bay with my foot or something while I devour the whole thing myself. :) And for smaller things like muffins and biscuits (cookies), I bake a batch, then portion them out into individual Glad bags and stick them in the freezer. If I want a couple of chocolate biscuits or a cupcake with dessert, I just defrost them.
danakscully64 danakscully64
No, I justify it by using Ener-G instead of eggs and margarine instead of butter :P The only reason I avoid baking is because I don't want to clean up the mess.
totygoliguez totygoliguez
I don't buy nor bake sweets for that reason. If you put a jar of cookies in front of me, I will eat them in front of me.
TiVo TiVo
Even though I like to bake, I don't do it in order to avoid temptation. I'll eat half the pan as soon as it comes out of the oven! I really hate it though when people bring their leftover junk food to the office. I keep this stuff out of my home for a reason! Keep that in mind, fellow fit friends. : )
I also bake and then give most of it it away. That should be an option on the poll.....
ticamorena ticamorena
my willpower fluctuates from time to time - sometimes i can bake and not touch the finished item, even if it's something i'd really enjoy, other times i'll eat 1/4 of it in one sitting. but i find baking stressful, so i usually do it as a gift for others or for an event and i'll buy myself something from a patisserie
Spectra Spectra
I bake all the time. Usually, I eat a little of what I bake, then I bring the rest to work and whatever I make gets totally devoured by halfway through the morning. Works for me.
bluebellknoll bluebellknoll
I don't refrain from baking but I'll try a healthier version of something if it's not too complicated. Also, I make my hubby take most of the goodies to work to give to his co-workers. :)
fuzzles fuzzles
I avoid baking sweets because I completely suck at it. I can screw up refrigerator cookie dough. I'm not kidding! Plus, I HATE to measure. But, savory dishes? I'm your gal!
GlowingMoon GlowingMoon
I'm somewhat with Asche on this one. Like her, I bake to avoid temptation (or manage temptation rather). Personally, I love muffins. I make a big batch (of the low-fat variety), have one, and freeze the rest. Whenever I crave a muffin, I would re-heat a frozen muffin (which tastes just like a freshly baked muffin) to satisfy my craving. I would have no temptation afterward because my craving is gone. This works for me.
tlsgirl tlsgirl
Heck no. I bake like crazy, and then either eat a small portion or pawn the leftovers off on friends and neighbors. It was a great way to meet people in my new building.
goddessru goddessru
The great thing about baking at home is that you control everything. I always make lighter versions. And I try not to have more than 1 portion a day. I'm making apple crisp this weekend, with homemade vanilla ice cream. I can subsitute low fat cream and milk, and control the sugar in the apple crisp.
chloe bella chloe bella
I'm of the mindset that baked goods should be a rare treat, so I never bake. I have a cookie from Whole Foods once every few weeks, but that's it. It would be a huge waste of money for me to make a batch of cookies and then eat only one, and I don't want to force them all on my boyfriend.
Soniabonya Soniabonya
I have to willpower and my fiance is trying to lose weight. When we moved in together, he packed on 20lbs, half in part to my cooking and baking. :\ Been banned from baking until after the wedding.
britestcrayon britestcrayon
My problem is that I will eat half the cookie dough before it ever makes it into the oven. My new trick is to chew gum while I bake so that I'm not as tempted to taste test.
Prada12 Prada12
Im terrible when it comes to cakes and goodies, I will eat, but then diet hard for the next few days on fruit, water with honey and lemon, and non fattening, meat and veggie stuff so I dont feel too guilty.
Chrstne Chrstne
If I bake any kind of sweet like cookies, or cake, it is never for myself. Since I hate those things and have since I was a kid, I mostly make it for my ravenous boyfriend. If I bake something like a Italian bread or any kind of bread, I have absolutely no will power to NOT eat an entire loaf. Needless to say, I don't do much bread baking anymore.
I miss baking (and eating baked goods) terribly, but I have no will power. And everybody at work is trying to lose weight anymore so dumping cookies on them is not nice either.
Sundown321 Sundown321
I'm with Asche when it comes to making sweets. I LOVE making them, but usually find that I'm not hungry once I finish. I don't have much of a sweet tooth and I think smelling sugar for a long period of time makes me lose my appetite.
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