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Some days, like particularly this week as we’re hearing more about Epstein’s connections to Prince Andrew, I feel bad that Kaiser does all the heavy lifting. She doesn’t mind it and she’s particularly good at it, I just know that it’s a lot of work. So here I am covering a fluff story about Daphne Zuniga, just so I can talk about diets. You probably know me by now, I love superficial sh-t like hair, makeup, shopping, workouts and dieting. Daphne Zuniga, 56, is best known for her work in The Sure Thing (1985) with John Cusack and for Melrose Place and One Tree Hill. She’s starring in The Lifetime series Gates of Paradise, which she also directed, and she just got married this summer for the first time. Daphne did a “25 Things You Don’t Know About” interview with US Magazine, and her first answer was something that I do all the time. She said she skips dinner and will just eat ice cream, popcorn or cereal instead, but only when her new husband isn’t with her.
1. I eat popcorn, cereal or vegan ice cream for dinner when my husband, David Mleczko, who I married in June, is away.
6. I love using Instagram at this point, but I’m so thankful it didn’t exist when I was beginning my acting career! Too much pressure!
7. I’ve gone on several nine-day silent-meditation retreats.
8. I attended 10 different schools between first and 12th grades.
9. I lived on a houseboat with my mom and sister for a year.
10. I went to a lot of antiwar and free speech marches when I was little. I thought they were picnics the whole city was going to.
11. I love children but never wanted [to have] them. I used to tutor kids, and I did children’s theater.
21. I think cooking is stressful. I don’t have the patience for reading a recipe or waiting for food to simmer.
Answer #21 explains a lot. I don’t mind cooking, but it’s a lot of work. I’m trying to make more homecooked meals, but I have a teenager so I don’t have the added pressure like I would around a partner. Sometimes we both eat junk like this for dinner. I reason that it’s better than eating a whole dinner plus ice cream and popcorn. (It doesn’t have to be either/or.) I also do this for lunch and just yesterday had barbeque chips instead of a real meal. Eating more like an adult is a priority for me, I swear, but this is a way to save calories while being able to eat dessert and snacks. As long as you’re not doing it every night and your other meals are balanced, I don’t think it’s that bad. At least ten people are going to yell at me now.
I love cooking but I also love having a bowl of cereal for dinner. Or I make myself nachos in the microwave, lol. (when i’m alone.)
However, I beg to differ as to what Daphne Zuniga is best known for. We all know its Spaceballs.
Just commented the same thing below!
#spaceballsforever
It’s my industrial strength hair dryer, AND I CANT LIVE WITHOUT IT!!!!!
Bwahaha!!!
“I knew it! I am surrounded by a$$hòles!”
Some of the quotes have stuck with me for decades lol
“Ludicrous speed!”
omg spaceballs lol!!!
Yes to cereal being my go-to alone meal. And Spaceballs.
There is just something about a bowl of Honey nut Cheerios and ice cold milk that just makes my day.
Banana be damned.
a DRUISH PRINCESS.
love her, and she looks great.
I’m so glad the first comment mentioned Spaceballs! My husband can quote the movie by heart.
I’m a salt and vinegar chip girl myself, but I may have to consider the nachos approach now . . .
I was coming to say the same thing!
Spaceballs, Gross Anatomy, and a terrible movie with Tom Berenger that I love frankly because it is so bad.
Ice cold milk on chocolate cereal is a summer dinner staple.
YES! That movie with Tom Berenger!!! *Guilty!*
I always loved her, although I saw the Sure Thing after Spaceballs.
I like what she said about children as well.
I have always loved her as well.
I just wanted to share that.
I’m exactly the same way. The other day, I ate caramel corn we got from OCMD for lunch, and it was amazing. I’ve also been known to eat doritos as a meal too.
Dollie’s or Fishers?
I’m a Fisher’s girl all the way! My parents have a place down there so we go a couple times a year and every time I get the 1 1/2 gallon tub and finish it in 5 days. It’s sooo good! What about you?
I prefer fishers as well! my brother and SIL live there and they are big dollie’s fans so I don’t get Fishers that much, lol.
It’s so good when you first get it and it’s still warm. Now I’m craving Fisher’s caramel popcorn!
“I reason that it’s better than eating a whole dinner plus ice cream and popcorn.”
I do the same. I really don’t like cooking because it is a lot of work. The cleanup especially. I do make veggies and try and make them last the week. I will usually couple with a veggie burger, or a pita pizza i make with low fat cheese. But at least once a week I will just eat a bag of microwave popcorn, or a bowl of sugary cereal. Maybe once a month I will do a pint of dairy-free ice cream. It is better than having dinner AND desert!
Me, too. I used to love cooking but the pressure to keep two kids eating healthy every day really kinda sucked the joy out of it for me. I still cook a ton for them but don’t eat much of it myself because I’m a vegetarian and they’re not.
And now that both my kids are away at school I plan to do a lot more of this. My husband can fend for himself, lol.
She looks great, I’ve loved her since Spaceballs.
And Celebitchy, SAME. It’s better than just skipping and not eating anything? Is the lie I tell myself?
She does look amazing, doesn’t she??
Toast with butter and jam is my go to when I don’t want to make anything else to eat. Oh and chips. of course.
I live alone. I have Dr. Pepper for dinner. Many, many nights. Cooking means putting dressing on lettuce and sometimes that’s too much trouble.
Yup. Sometimes it’s all I can do to get the ice from the ice cube tray for the Diet Coke.
While raising my 3 children as a single Mom, there was what was know as “Breakfast for Dinner night”.
It was when I’d gotten home late from work and was too exhausted to cook.
We’d have cereal, Pop Tarts, whatever breakfast foods we wanted.
We laugh now when we reminisce about those days; the kids loved it at the time!
My Mom did this when we were growing up. I always thought that having waffles for dinner was a special treat and had no clue that it was because money was tight. The other thing I remember from those days is that there was rarely a time without a big pot of beans simmering away. Waffles or beans and cornbread would make me happy now too.
My mom did that for us kids, too. Toast & eggs, waffles or pancakes. Loved it.
I always forget to do this!! It’s totally a thing kids love and such a relief.
It’s such a hassle to cook for just yourself at times. I’m with everyone on the cleanup. I overdid it on the dish chores as a kid and man I hate huge kitchen cleanups now.
Seriously, if I lived alone, I don’t think I’d cook at all. At least nothing more than boiled corn.
Kale. I ate a lot of kale for dinner when I lived alone. If I was hungrier, I’d put some noodles in it.
Ha, roasted kale is my go-to vegetable these days. My son discovered it, too, and now we fight over a pan. Thankfully he leaves for school in two days, lol.
I love popcorn for dinner. I do that sometimes too. I’d love ice cream for dinner too, but I know that I would eat the entire litre so I avoid buying it at all.
Me, too. With a can of Coke Zero.
My friends use to call me “The Cereal Killer” because I ate cereal at night. I would arrive home too tired to cook from work. Just like Zuniga I only know do this occasionally when my husband is not at home because in order to lure him into my web I sort of pretended I like to cook (second best way to a man’s heart). I actually do like to cook now and we get home now tired I make a healthy salad for us or let him make us dinner.
@NATTERS5 “The Cereal Killer” is the funniest and cutest nickname ever! Haha! Love it!
Just had this convo with my MIL and how I’m so lazy when I’m alone that dinner is sometimes just a salad (I called myself lazy the MIL didn’t!)! So proud of myself I cooked several portions of salmon and veggies so I’m set for the rest of the week…I imagine when I get older oatmeal, cheese sticks and turkey wraps will be all I eat.
I met her once and she seemed v down to earth and nice. Happy for her. Here…I just started to enjoy cooking for the first time ever this summer. Trick for me is to relax, breathe, have some nice music or a podcast on, and take my time w chopping and prep. I used to be really frantic — prob because I’d waited til I was starving — in the kitchen. But it’s been fun now to try new things. I don’t use recipes — I just get good whole foods ingredients and experiment w seasonings. Today — sword fish, olive oil w soy sauce and sauteed cut up sweet little tomatoes and kale. Yum… And not to be holier than thou, but I’m losing weight and saving money, enjoying the daily adventure and just feel more in command of my life this way. But for another day…popcorn, ice cream, doctor pepper, etc. sound great too!
This is not diet advice,but I always look and feel my best and get to my lower weight range when I eat junk.Peanut m&m’s for lunch with a coke! I reason that if you want junk food eat it,eventually you’ll be craving grilled chicken and broccoli,but if you eat what satisfies your cravings you’ll stop when full.
This whole thread has me wondering how this is affecting everyone’s health (incl weight), so thanks for sharing! As someone who’s often seriously overweight (I can blame it on hypothyroidism AND gluttony, LOL), one of the frequent issues is I add dessert (if I’m cheating) to a full meal…and even when watching what I eat I rarely lose. I’m wondering if what you guys are describing is actually one of those “skinny” secrets I dont’ know about. Fascinating!!! (I’ve been reading a lot about eating what you want until just before being full. I’m still too scared to try that…
Truth. I just got back from vacation about a month ago and the whole two weeks I ate too much and too rich and had too much alcohol. But it was my vacation with friends I hadn’t seen in years. By the time I got home, I was craving just a spinach chicken salad and that and water was practically all I ate for days.
I generally eat very well but POPCORN FOR DINNER IS MY JAM!! if I work late and miss dinner, my husband will be all “I saved you a plate” and I’m all “no, that’s ok…”
Same here. Usually my BF or I make a healthy meal for dinner (with a few beers to off-set it *sobs*) but when he’s working an overnight shift, I eat popcorn for dinner. I have an air popper that I LOVE and I put olive oil spray and sea salt or olive oil spray and red pepper flakes on my popcorn. It’s YUM-O.
I’ve had popcorn for dinner for years, but I didn’t know others did this too! 🙂 I put 2 handfuls in a regular brown paper lunch bag, and put it in the microwave for about 1 minute 40 seconds on HI (you just have to experiment with your microwave’s timing). Then I add melted butter, salt, or cheese. Very inexpensive, and I don’t trust those commercial microwave popcorns.
Nikki, Thanks for the diy microwave popcorn tip!
I LOVE her!!
While I am married as soon as my husband leaves for business or works late..
I am all about popcorn or cereal for dinner.
However, I do some catering (side hustle) for a University in my town during the holidays. I love to cook but since we do not have kids, I’ll just do me and maybe even have a tuna on 1 slice of toast w/jalapenos and a glass of water. I have NO cereal in my house now because it would be my go to til the weekend.
love me some Daphne Z!! So good to see her, and she looks good too.
Holy crapparoo I hope I look like her when I’m 56!
She’s so stunning and relatable.
I have been living off Diet Coke and popcorn (Boom Chica POP Kettle Corn 😋 to be precise) for three days. I just started a new job, no time for grocery shopping.
I couldn’t eat popcorn for dinner. Not the hugest popcorn fan, I don’t find it filling, and it just makes me thirsty due to all the salt. I totally understand just eating breakfast foods like cereal, toast, or scrambled eggs if you are too tired to cook though. I usually try to meal prep on Sunday but usually depending how much food I make it might just last me through Wednesday. So Thursday might be pasta and then Friday I will probably order something.
The Fly 2. Hehe. I always say that Jennifer Lawrence gives off an 80s vibe because she reminds me of Daphne Zuniga and Leah Thompson’s rich, snobby friend (Molly hagan) in Some Kind of Wonderful.
You just gave me dinner ideas lol.
It’s so hot where I live, and the kitchen is tiny. I love cooking, but at nine months pregnant and daily temperatures reaching 33~35℃, I really can’t be bothered.