Jude wrote:
> Blair P. Houghton wrote:
> > Jude > wrote:
> > >Who can help me? I need to come up with a yummy birthday cake for
> > >someone who's dieting, but loves sweets. I'm looking for something
> > >that's NOT a fruit cake or a spice cake, but something like a
> low-fat
> > >chocoalte or yellow cake with a decent low-fat frosting.
> >
> > First rule of dieting: don't worry about a short excursion
> > from the diet. It's soul-defeating to be completely ascetic.
> >
> > One healthy meal in an unhealthy lifestyle won't make
> > you healthy, and one piece of real birthday cake on your
> > birthday won't make you fat again.
> >
> > --Blair
> > "2-layer Devil's food with chocolate
> > buttercream, for me, please."
> Yes, but friendship is about respecting the choices made by others.
if
> I bake a "real" cake, he spimply won't eat it and I'll look like I
> don't care that he's been strictly dieting for a whie now. I don't
feel
> that it';s my choice to make. I don;'t really want to bake a regular
> cake only to have him feel obligated to break his diet to eat a
piece.
>
> jude

Guests always come first, otherwise you're a rude host. What gives any
sinful soul who for years ate too much and of the wrong foods the right
to
visit their personal restrictions on innocent others. Bake two cakes,
one normal and one of sinner's sawdust... watching the others enjoy
real cake while the glutton has to eat chalk will build some character
into his gelatinous spine. I think it's selfishly sick of you to
attempt punishing innocent others for the years of wild indescretions
commited by your spouse. Your clandestine guilt transference is not
fooling/helping anyone... do you really think no one will take umbrage
at your manipulating them into having to eat styrofoam while sporting a
smile? I think your dearest should be made to sit there watching
everyone gorge themselves into gormand oblivion while all he has to
distract himself is to pop the bubble wrap from your shipment of
gourmet chocolates... let him inhale the heady aroma emanating with
each pop while drooling like an idiot, that's all.


Sheldon