Wanted: new official food

When I'd Tell You I Love You But Then I'd Have to Kill You comes out in a few short weeks, there will be one huge, terrible, tragic omission on the Acknowledgements page.

I didn't thank Hostess chocolate Donettes--the official food of the Love You Kill You writing process.

It was a long, stressful, and often terrifying process, but the donettes were always there for me--guiding me through.

No matter the time of day (or night) or how many hours I'd been up or how many diet Cokes I'd consumed so that I'd built up an undeniable caffeine-immunity, I could count on the little donettes, and together, we wrote one heck of a book.

But it's time for a new book, and a new era (probably because if I don't change the era I'm going to have to buy all new summer clothes and I really don't want to do that.)

So I've said goodbye to my old friend, the chocolate donette, and I'm looking for a new official food of Gallagher Girls 2.

Here are the candidates:

Microwave popcorn: always a bridesmaid, this food has seen me through a lot of years, but I'm afraid it just doesn't have the energy or enthusiasm of its predecessor.

The little Weight Watcher mini chocolate cakes: they give a quick chocolate fix, but with only 80 calories. Still, they're tiny and expensive, and they're stocked right next to the donettes, so I don't trust myself to go down that aisle at the supermarket. At all.

Red seedless grapes. Yeah. Like that's gonna happen.

Fat free fudgecicles. They too give me a little chocolate hit, but there's an aftertaste situation I'm not real fond of.

Baked Lays: these too have been a staple in my pantry for some time, but I just don't see them replacing the donette for a girl who craves sweet ten times more often than she craves salty.

Little mini 100 Grand bars: after doing my homework I learned that 100 Grand and Almond Joy are two of the lower-calorie candy bars on the market. A little mini 100 Grand has 100 calories, and is also fairly satisfying because all that caramel takes forever to chew.

Okay, nominations from the floor? I desperately need a new official food here, folks! My career (and butt) are riding on it!

--Ally