I could easily make LC versions of birthday cake, pizza, French fries and blueberry pie if I wanted them. But I'd rather have a juicy steak or roast chicken with crispy skin and some colourful veggies sautéd in butter or with full fat salad dressing. Tuna with lots of home-made mayo, mashed cauliflower with plenty of butter and salt. Back in my sugar-filled days I would eat broccoli (rarely) because it is good for you, but now I actually find myself wanting broccoli (steamed al dente, with butter or oil).

I recently had a bite of red velvet cake that everyone was raving about since I had never had it; it was red but had no taste whatsoever and the icing was basically over-sweetened Crisco with a chemical note due to the food colouring. Ugh.