I love that you beefed up these fan faves instead of just completely remaking it. You know? Like I don’t want a pop tart “alternative” I want a god damn pop tart lol

I am currently in recovery for anorexia, and seeing you make these hunger crushing combos makes me so happy! It is making me see that healthy is more than just low cal or low sugar. Gives me hope that I can enjoy food that I want while being healthy! Thank you for what you do!

Watching a nutritionist normalizing all foods is so helpful, plus this is entertaining and the recepies are easy and pretty fast, and kids will love these. This video is gold, thank you Abbey 🥰

Easy Mac with a can of tuna and frozen green peas was legit as close to a “complete meal” as I ever got in college.

watching this as I eat a "parfait" made from greek yogurt, bananas, peanut butter, and reese's puffs cereal lolol. I am a 23 year old with no children but sometimes you've had a long week, you're at the grocery store, and you find yourself reaching for the kids cereal!!

Girrrl, NOTHING beats a sourdough grilled cheese. I actually do a half teaspoon of ghee and a half teaspoon of olive oil on each side. The oil helps with crisping up the toast to crunch perfection!

These are so fun. Here are a few foods I'd love to see: PB&J, popcorn, eggs and bacon.

Love these recipes, Abbey! You are really helping me balance my favorite foods with more nutritional-dense ones. On that note, do you think you could try this type of video again but with a vegetarian addition? I find that as a vegetarian my hardest goal is getting in enough protein that isn't eggs, tofu, or yogurt. You can only eat so much to get enough protein! Or just some fun high protein vegetarian/vegan recipes - naturally with that hunger crushing combo.

I loved the glammed up KD. I do something similar at home. My add ins are: rotisserie chicken, green peas, broccoli, nutritional yeast and either cream cheese or more sharp cheddar. Never thought of using cottage cheese which would be so good!

The strudel was better for sure, but blueberry pop tarts have a special place in my heart.

My grilled cheese favorite: sourdough bread, smoked turkey, a slice of aged Swiss, spread with seedless raspberry jam. Grill with butter.

Team toaster strudel all the way!! lol - My mom always bought the ones with the cream cheese frosting because cheese is healthy... ahhh 90's nutritional education!

I feel like dipping a pop tart into Greek yogurt would be amazing...maybe have a little side of fruit and then you're set!

A can of milk instead of a can of water to tomato soup makes it sooo much better 😋

That grilled cheese is so close to my favorite (was introduced to pesto grilled cheese on sourdough in college and my life was changed), BUT I “butter” the outside of the sandwich with mayonnaise! It gives a grilled cheese just the most perfect even light brown. Excellent.

Hearing Abbey stir the Kraft Mac n Cheese was like the best childhood ASMR 😂 I always had to have tons of salt n pep on it. Also one of my favorite childhood treats was those Carnation breakfast bars. You can still find the breakfast drink powder but not the bars. Such powdery, chalky bars that were somehow appealing. Thanks for the great HCC and the memories.

My hunger crushing Kraft meal: normal Kraft with whole milk and then on the side: steamed broccoli and rotisserie chicken. I’m not a big fan of stuff in my Mac n cheese or really mixing foods together.

As a non-American I hadn’t heard about these until KZfaq and 9Gag.. they seem very American/Canadian. 😄

OMG! All of these things! I honestly thought “cinnamon toast”, as we called it in my house, was just the fun toast mom gave us on Friday mornings. I honestly forgot about it until this video. And I always used to joke that grilled cheese and tomato soup was the best “old man” meal ever! Can’t wait to try these.

I used to fear my childhood favorite foods and meals. But nothing beats the feeling of goodness and nostalgia when I'm eating my childhood foods

Thank you for this! The pop tart calories scare me but seeing you enjoy them makes them actually less intimidating

Thank you for taking and adding to the full amount of the original foods. I feel like it could have easily been like "now break up HALF of a poptart..." or "just use the pasta from the KD box..." (but we all know that isn't KD lol). I'm so excited to try all of these, I eat these foods all the time still when I'm feeling lazy about cooking but always feel guilty knowing I'm not really getting the most out of the meal with protein or fruit&veggies

Hands down, my favorite of all your series! To see you joyfully embracing all foods equally is medicine to all of us who have been beaten down by diet culture. And let's be honest, who isn't touched by diet culture? We recently realized our dad hides food and binge eats. Very cool tips for using nutritional yeast. I still love it on popcorn (a holdover from my being a vegan as a cover for dieting phase), but would never think to put it in something like mac n cheese or soup.

The KD makes me so happy. My mom and now me have the easy-dinner-when-I-just-can't go-to of Mac and cheese "cassarole." We just add frozen veggies, meat (usually ground beef/turkey/ or hotdogs) and something for flavor. Usually mustards or spicy queso or salsa... So good and so easy.

Omg! I LOVED this video!!!! I have a really hard time trying to find a balance, especially when I get home and I don’t feel like cooking, but this just gave me a few ideas!! Thank you so much and I Vite for more of these types of videos 😁

These are my favorite videos of yours - I try the HCCs and talk about them with my own dietitian. Thank you for support ED recovery folks!

I add a couple scoops of plain greek yogurt to my KD and it is sooooo good! Adds a bit of a tangy flavour PLUS tons of protein :)

A diner trick i learned for even toasting of the bread is to use mayo! The high oil content in it and spreadability really does the trick for that even crisp

Love these ‘turning your fear foods’ videos - will totally be putting nutritional yeast in my tinned tomato soup from now on!

Yayy!! This is my favourite series of yours Abbey, thank you :))

Going to the grocery and trying out the KD tonight! All of this food looks genuinely delicious, and I adore Abbey's attitude toward food. I love how she made it a point that she chose the sourdough because of a taste preference (I love sourdough too). It really is all about intention

Your grilled cheese story reminds me of a story I have about Kraft singles cheese. Once when I was about 5 years old, I decided that the cup of milk on the Kraft single package was a serving suggestion rather than telling you that it's made with real milk. So, I insisted that my mom make me a bowl of Kraft singles with milk poured on it - like, Sliced cheese cereal. 🤢 Because I insisted, she obliged and tried to make me at least eat a few bites before giving up after I realized that was not a good idea. 😅

Abbey, I can't thank you enough. I was starting to slip back into a restrictive mindset, even after so much work to eat intuitively. I was starting to feel trapped and frustrated. BUT then I saw your hack to put "fear foods" on the plate for your normal meal. That, combined with your "hunger crushing combo" has stopped me from slipping into restriction hell. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. Please keep making these types of videos!!!

I realize that my parents taught us a very healthy way to eat... I've never had any of these foods at home, so they're not nostalgic to me. But great video nonetheless, I LOVE the ideas.

The Kraft with cauliflower florets and cottage cheese is so good too I just tried it! Filled me up way better than Mac and cheese alone

Abbey you looks so happy in this video. I can feel your energy and excitement from watching! ❤

I love putting kielbasa and frozen green peas in my Mac and cheese! Makes it so much more filling.

Spaghetti and meatball hunger crushing combo! Never realized that was a fear food of mine until recently.

i love this series! i would love to see a fast food edition!!

That's it. I'm eating pop tarts for breakfast tomorrow! Thank you for those ideas! :)

As a kid my sister would toast the pop tart, break them up into a bowl, pour milk over it and eat it like cereal!

I truly adore these videos and this concept of hunger crushing combos! I have definitely used this mindset in my every day 💖

Omg I made the Mac and cheese and I was so skeptical about. i really thought it would change the taste of it but it made it even better! Instead of eating the entire box(like I used to lol) I did make 3 servings out of it and I was so full with one serving! 🤯 thank you!

I love a grilled cheese sandwich with honey mustard, some ham and sliced tomatoes. And of course a good cheddar cheese! YUM, the best!

I would love to see more videos like this- and more ideas for nostalgic foods turned into a healthier meal

Abbey, thanks for sharing your expertise on turning some of our fav “fear foods” into hunger crushing combos. Today, I had Kraft Mac n cheese, loaded with broccoli and cauliflower…oh my heavens, so delicious!! It wouldn’t have even dawned on me to do this. I’ll never eat it the “old” way again!❤️

I love this series. Please keep making more nostalgic/fear food upgrades!

Cinnamon. Sugar. Toast. Yes!!! That's my childhood summed up, right there :) There was always a small container of white AND brown sugar mixed with cinnamon ready to go in the cupboard. And then there was the "fancy" KD my Mom would make...made with onions, peas & grated old cheddar on top. Yum. Thanks for this food trip back in time!

I love these videos! I’m pregnant and love seeing that I can eat the “bad” foods I want to get adequate nutrition!

Started my sourdough making journey one year ago, I toast it with butter and flakey sea salt. That is all. I have been having it as my pre workout for 1 year now. NOTHING beats it (specially on Avo toast). I lost my love for White bread for quite sometime now.

Abby: My mom never wanted ANY cheese in the house so we could not have KD. Also Abby: My mom made me grilled cheeses all the time... 😂

Tomato soup is SO good...I make mine with milk instead of water, though, and it’s amazing! Also, one of my fave breads for GCs is potato bread! And I don’t butter the bread, I just melt a little butter in the pan and let the bread butter itself!

re jar opening: dish gloves are great for helping with grip. Also running a metal or plastic lidded glass jar under really hot water helps loosen it to turn because a) the metal and plastic expand faster than the glass and b) just barely enough hot water gets into the threads to loosen anything helping it stick together. just remember to wipe down the threads. I use both tricks often as joint issues make jar opening troublesome. that grilled cheese looks fantastic. Ever tried peanut butter and honey sandwiches? quite tasty.

I would love to see more of these! I really like the idea of leveling up classic foods I've long given up on!

one of my favorite new spices is cardamom and I started adding a bit of cardamom to my cinnamon sugar toast and it's just so good. Another new favorite is toasted english muffin, butter, mashed banana and then sprinkled with a bit of cinnamon. It's amazingly good.

Abbey, this made me excited for the KD and the cinnamon toast. Thank you 🙏🏼

My go to is smart KD with ground turkey/beef/whatever floats your boat. We called it taco casserole in my house growing up but my mom told me she originally made it when she forget that she had no meat for pasta sauce but have taco meat. So she skipped the tomato sauce and used the taco meat and added extra cheese. Sooo good and you get a bit more of a meal feeling if you add some veggies

Those toasts seems to die for! I also just tried your recipe for chickpeas cookie dough for my breakfast and it's absolutely amazing!!

I’m team Poptarts myself. The way I’ve tried to balance it as an adult is to eat it with fruit and peanut butter. For mac&cheese, I’ve never heard of adding ketchup to it. That just seems wrong to me, and I’m a ketchup-lover! Dad likes canned tuna added to his, but I can’t stand fish. I ate it plain as a kid, but then I got to a point where I couldn’t stand any cheese sauce (I’ve never been a big cheese person anyways). Grilled cheese to me is white bread and Kraft American cheese. I’m not a fan of sourdough, and any other cheese just doesn’t melt right and most are too strong for me (see above about not being a big cheese person lol). The way I make grilled cheese is by buttering both sides, then I toast one side of the bread, and THEN assemble it with the side I toasted in the center before toasting the outside and letting the cheese melt. Also to me I’m a purist-adding non-cheese fillings to the sandwich automatically makes it a melt, not a grilled cheese. I also can’t stand tomato soup, so I usually eat my grilled cheese by itself. Though one unique thing that started when I was in college was dipping it in guacamole. Surprisingly tasty! Cinnamon toast was a snack for me, rather than a meal.

I actually break up a warm poptart in my yogurt quite often, lol! I’ve crumbled it into my overnight oats before putting them in the fridge as well- they get all soft and jammy in the oats! Ugh, perfection 😍

your smile is absolutely bright this video, i can tell how much fun you're having with this video and all of the nostalgia

Your videos are so satisfying to watch. I could literally listen to you talk about food all day. It's actually calming to me. lol!

I LEGIT can’t choose between Toaster Strudels and the Pop Tarts. They’re just SO GOOD! Both are such a throwback to simpler times. Thank you for another video of HCCs, they really help. Some foods I would love to see are: Nutella (my literal weakness 🤤) PB&J sandwiches 🥜 (or just PB in general), Sour Patch Kids and sweets, fries 🍟, Cadbury mini eggs, cake, donuts and pretzels 🥨. Lots of love and support! 🤍🤍🤍

I saw cinnamon sugar toast and I’ve never clicked faster in my life. I ate this RELIGIOUSLY as a kid (birth defects = major food/digestion issues, especially as a child) and it’s one of the only foods I ate as a kid that I’m not completely sick of now 😂

My Mom was a horrible cook so she made KD all the time only she never got the powder really mixed in. I would get little nuggets of salty goodness in there an I have to say I loved it. I never make it now since my husband hates it and I can't really sit down and eat a whole box but last year when I had my colonoscopy I was supposed to eat mushy foods so I made a box and ate on it all day. It was really comforting.

Thank you so much for this video!!! As someone in ED recovery who also never gained their taste and smell back after Covid (over a year ago!!) I have the hardest time with so any aspects with food and deciding what to eat. I am someone with a big sweet tooth and not a lot of funds for food I rely so much on specific fruit and veggies but it’s even more difficult when I get these urges for the more processed and cheap foods and I feel so guilty about the idea of choosing “bad” food items. I’ve been doing so well with not letting my ED take the reigns and this video has made me feel more as ease and I guess normal in a way 😊 you’re the best Abbey!!!

Growing up, we ate cinnamon toast so often that we had a cinnamon sugar shaker.

I absolutely love and need this. Please please continue this series! It's incredibly helpful.

This series has saved my relationship w food. Thank you, Abbie 🥺❤️

If you haven’t already, can you PLEASE do one of these for PB&J? That’d be so appreciated:))

I'm sorry, but... what psycho opts for water and not milk with making canned tomato soup?! LOL! (teasing) Though, honestly, I just had something similar the other day. It was more like a grilled capresse sandwich with fresh basil. I'm definitely team cream of tomato soup, but my husband hates cream based soups. I love the idea of yogurt, fruit, and nuts with the pop-tart croutons. LOL! I might have to try that since my kids are fiends for pop-tarts and toaster strudels. Could you change out chickpeas for the white beans?

I love the hum when you dipped the sandwich lmao. When I was pregnant cinnamon toast was one craving I cried for lmao, it was that serious

I’m loving how fun your videos are Abby! Your personality is so uplifting

The first time I had macaroni and cheese I was 28. My mom said “you were lactose intolerant from birth why would I give you a literal bowl of cheese” when I asked her why I never had it. It’s okay, but it holds no nostalgia for me so I don’t ever want or crave it.

That avocado toast and cinnamon toast looks amazing 🤩! White beans mixed with avocado 🥑? Mediterranean diet approved! Great combos! Thanks, Abbey! I’m going to try that for breakfast this coming week.

Hi!!! Do you think you could make a video series of how to create hunger crushing combos on the go??? Like at a gas station or grocery store when you are on a trip or travel for work?

I love adding kimchi in my grilled cheese. So good

This may be my favorite of your fear foods series so far! As a kid I preferred pop parts (especially brown sugar cinnamon) then as I got older switched to toaster strudel. But I definitely need to try that pop tart parfait! And I already love mixing veggies in with my mac and cheese, so I'll have to try your version too. Thanks again for the yummy meal/snack ideas and inspiration!

So helpful and that Mac and cheese looks amazing and delicious! I love your reactions when you taste your creations, so fun!

Yummm, I wanna try them all! I love a good sourdough grilled cheese, I'll have to add pesto next time :) . I've been doing sourdough with cheddar and green apple slices, then sprinkle a little salt on the bread once it's done.

This totally brought me back 🥺only then I could eat without pain.

I also like to add to boxed max n cheese! I add different spices (garlic, mustard, hot sauce, hella pepper), spinach, and peas usually, as well as nooch and/or parmesan.

The thumbnail worked! I saw brown sugar and cinnamon toast and was like YAS! 🙌🏻

THANK YOU TOASTER STRUDEL REPRESENTATION 🙌🙌🙌

i just did kraft mac and cheese last night! I also grilled chicken and airfried some broccoli. I'm not a big fan of mixing things together, but i still like to add rather than subtract!

When I was young my mom used to make me Toasted bagels, and on one side she would do the cinnamon toast thing and on the other she would do peanut butter and then she would put it together as a sandwich. Still one of the best things ever AND was a HCC

I love videos like this! Yes you can eat anything but eat some veggies and other whole foods too❤️❤️❤️ everything in balance❤️ I love your videos!!

What direction are we heading here? We have now turned a 200 calorie pop tart into an 800 calorie STILL unsatisfying “gotta eat again in two hours” breakfast. You cannot simply add proteins and fats and fiber to otherwise calorie dense nutritionally deficient foods and expect that all problems are resolved. Yes, you may be satisfied… but who wouldn’t when you’re significantly overeating your calorie needs?

i've alwaysed swapped the water for milk in my tomato soup. i guess it's good for fat/protein a tiny bit lol

I didn’t know my go to dinner in college was a HCC, thought I was the only one who added cottage cheese!…and I didn’t add the yeast or ketchup😵‍💫….I HAVE GOT to try the pop tart hack, but brown sugar pop tarts were my ❤️‼️We always make sourdough grilled cheese with turkey ❣️‼️❤️ Pro Tip= we keep the bread in the freezer, take out your slices and spread softened butter on frozen bread…you don’t use as much butter and it goes on smooth cause your bread is hard. Bread thaws and toasts nicely💖 Mom learned on the farm to use a drip of coffee mixed in to melt butter, sugar and cinnamon together…spread on toast and briefly broil to get bubbly….it’s the most insane cinnamon toast you’ll ever have…even if you’re not a coffee fan (what?!) it just ands a nice homey touch ❤️‼️

I didn't have pop tarts until adulthood and then wondered why people love them so much. We were definitely a toaster strudel family!

Love it every time you make HCC videos! They're my favs!

My grandma always made cinnamon sugar toast aka "kaneltoast" in danish, with 2-3 day old bread. She would butter it up, mix sugar and cinnamon and sprinkle it on top then put it in the oven for 10 minutes 😋 The sugar gets caramelized and it is so good!

"The butter is where the love is" That's my motto

Memories of childhood...cinnamon toast as a treat, toasted bread with butter, brown sugar spread across the toast and sprinkled with cinnamon, peanut butter sandwiches with sliced apple and lettuce...still have one every once in a while when I'm feeling nostalgic! ❤️

Genius. You're so talented Abbey!

I am team Poptart! Brown Sugar Cinnamon lightly toasted! I was thinking of nut butter with my cinnamon toast! Peanut butter on warm toast is sooooo good! Such great ideas! Thank you!

Sorry, but I got slightly offended when you said homemade tomato soup isn't better than...gulp, the canned?! Oy. My homemade tomato soup would make Campbell's cry, lol!!!!

You just earned yourself another subscriber. I’m obsessed with this idea 👏🏻.

I can't wait to try all of these. So many memories + my kid likes a lot of these same foods. Love me some cinnamon sugar toast. I have been bumping up the satiety lately by spreading some almond butter on the toast first, then cinnamon sugar, and then some hemp hearts. So good.