Do you have junk food in your house?

_Kaiser_ · 03-07-2015 11:12AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Oh you're absolutely right! I don't buy junk food in the shopping because I will eat it. And that's entirely down to self control. If I really want a bar of chocolate or ice cream, I'll go have it but I won't keep stock of it in the house.

To me, life's too short to feel fat all the time, I've done that before, and I don't want to go there again.

I look at it more that life's too short to not enjoy it as much as I can. It's hard enough with work pressures, the Government's ever inventive ways to extract every cent they can from me, depressing stuff on the news etc so eating some junk food is not something I bother myself with feeling bad about at all.

Sure I could lose a little weight, and sure I could probably exercise more, but feck it.. could also die tomorrow so no point worrying about it too much either.

not yet · 03-07-2015 11:23AM

Pighead wrote: »

There's not much more to say not yet. Pighead treats his body with the love and respect it deserves. It is a finely tuned machine and is in great shape. Looking in mirrors is one of life's simple pleasures for Pighead.

That must be nice for you...

not yet · 03-07-2015 11:27AM

Bambi wrote: »

Nice to see Pighead back doing the rounds again in annyways

Story doing the rounds is he is just out of The big house, something to do with Stealing bread in the dalk..

Tar.Aldarion · 03-07-2015 11:28AM

No, sometimes I have a dip bag or two! And have popcorn but make it rarely.Eat very well these days, if it was in the house i'd just eat it all. The only drink I have is water. (Apart from protein smoothies)

NachoBusiness · 03-07-2015 11:31AM

Not today there's not. Had a recent junk binge though and now regretting it as I feel dreadfully awful.

Usually I am very good: make my own Guacamole, my own wraps from ground golden linseed, healthy banana ice cream using a Yonanans, free range meats, organic fruit and veg etc etc but when I have a junk food binge I go all out. It's just too damn easy to eat junk these days. You can buy 700 chocolate biscuits in Lidl for 4p like.

Yeast is what does me in though. That spongy fermented crap that turns sawdust into a loaf of bread makes me feel like crap after I eat it. Especially if I eat white bread of any description. In prisons they make hooch from the yeast that is still active in white bread. The stuff is poison. I just wish I could stop craving it, especially in the form of Pizza. I blame the opiates.

And I soooo thought I'd be beach body ready by July 1st too :mad:

Malari · 03-07-2015 11:32AM

I wouldn't eat it all. I'd just have a biscuit or two when I felt like it, but my boyfriend would finish it all, so we generally don't :pac:

I prefer baking my own junk anyway.

TPD · 03-07-2015 11:54AM

I'm another 'no bread' person. If I buy a loaf, I'd use three or four slices for whatever inspired me to buy the loaf in the first place, then the rest would rot or go in the freezer. Hardly ever eat the stuff.

The unhealthiest things I keep a stock of (excluding beer and gin, obviously) are microwave butter popcorn and nutella - which, due to the lack of bread, lasts quite a while :P

catallus · 03-07-2015 11:58AM

Madeira cakes with chocolate chips in them. Jaffa Cakes. Raspberry jam for the madeiras. Chocolate roses. Lots of coke. Assorted juices. Tucs. Wispa biscuits and Crunchie biscuits. More jaffa cakes.

failinis · 03-07-2015 12:00PM

Fat Christy wrote: »

I stare aimlessly into the cupboard in search of a sugar fix, knowing full well there's nothing there.

Thats basically me, as if something will appear if I open and close the cupboard door.
We have digestives for guests and ourselves.
Can't stop myself if its in the room - not helped by my brother being diabetic so he has sweets left all over the house for himself in case of a sugar crash.

Fat Christy · 03-07-2015 12:00PM

catallus wrote: »

Madeira cakes with chocolate chips in them. Jaffa Cakes. Raspberry jam for the madeiras. Chocolate roses. Lots of coke. Assorted juices. Tucs. Wispa biscuits and Crunchie biscuits. More jaffa cakes.

Are you a feeder?

I don't think it's going to work out.

03-07-2015 12:03PM

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

I look at it more that life's too short to not enjoy it as much as I can. It's hard enough with work pressures, the Government's ever inventive ways to extract every cent they can from me, depressing stuff on the news etc so eating some junk food is not something I bother myself with feeling bad about at all.

Sure I could lose a little weight, and sure I could probably exercise more, but feck it.. could also die tomorrow so no point worrying about it too much either.

+1 on this big time.

About two years ago I decided to lose some weight and dropped 3 stone but it was so much effort and as a person who loves eating I just wasn't looking forward to meals or feeling satisfied after eating.

I just went back eating more or less as I was before and have almost all the weight back on but its much more enjoyable. My plan is to try row back to say 75% and lose a small bit of weight but to a level where its not torture keeping it off and pretty much exercise can compensate a bit too for eating as I want. I'm not a big sweet or chocolate eater either, a big bar (200g) would last me a week but I'd have a bit after dinner everyday and a bit more at weekends.

Kovu · 03-07-2015 12:06PM

I'm a sucker for crisps and mint/nutty chocolate, but have to hide it in my room as my dad has no self control and will gobble an entire 100g bar with a mug of tea. I mightn't touch it for a week and only have a square or two when reading a book. Rarely eat bread too but will make lettuce wraps, substituting leaves of lettuce for the bread.
I carried quite a bit of weight when I was younger all due to my own greediness and worked very hard to get rid of it so the only thing I really pig out on is stir fries (minus noodles/rice, just veg and some sauce) and salads. Omnomnom I love salads.
A real treat for me is a six inch subway or some sushi.

Fat Christy · 03-07-2015 12:06PM

Kamden Creamy Plank wrote: »

+1 on this big time.

About two years ago I decided to lose some weight and dropped 3 stone but it was so much effort and as a person who loves eating I just wasn't looking forward to meals or feeling satisfied after eating.

I just went back eating more or less as I was before and have almost all the weight back on but its much more enjoyable. My plan is to try row back to say 75% and lose a small bit of weight but to a level where its not torture keeping it off and pretty much exercise can compensate a bit too for eating as I want.

Eating healthily doesn't have to be torture. I look forward to all my meals.

Are you sh*te at cooking or something? I love cooking, love it. Everything I make is delicious. There's some great alternatives out there, I never feel like I'm depriving myself of anything.

rainbow kirby · 03-07-2015 12:08PM

We only get bread at the weekends - no point in having it there during the week as we both get lunch out and don't need it with dinner. At the moment the only junk food in the house (apart from some booze) is half a Terry's Chocolate Orange in the fridge, our excuse is that they were down to £1 in Sainsburys...

catallus · 03-07-2015 12:11PM

Fat Christy wrote: »

Are you a feeder?

NO, all that is for me only. I can eat anything I want and still maintain my ruggedly sexy physique

If someone wants to bring their own biccies I have no problem there.

inforfun · 03-07-2015 12:14PM

Fat Christy wrote: »

Eating healthily doesn't have to be torture. I look forward to all my meals.

Are you sh*te at cooking or something? I love cooking, love it. Everything I make is delicious. There's some great alternatives out there, I never feel like I'm depriving myself of anything.

Recently i started to cook with use of the recipes you can find on the hellofresh (english, dutch ,aussie and usa version) website because i got bored with what i could think of myself.

Wish they were doing the same thing here. Deliver a box with ingredients once a week. No shopping needed and never having to figure out what you eat.

Badly Drunk Boy · 03-07-2015 12:19PM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I keep rich tea biscuits in the press for visitors, that's about it. Always have something in for a sandwich, mostly salad items and such, but I grow a few of them myself. Always plenty of fruit too.

You mustn't like getting visitors...

03-07-2015 12:20PM

Fat Christy wrote: »

Eating healthily doesn't have to be torture. I look forward to all my meals.

Are you sh*te at cooking or something? I love cooking, love it. Everything I make is delicious. There's some great alternatives out there, I never feel like I'm depriving myself of anything.

I'm able to cook* and I do cook a few days a week but I hate cooking, absolutely detest it. To lose weight I drastically reduced my carb intake and reduced portion size but I love foods that have lots of carbs and love lots of them so not having them/having small portions was painful. I also love my massive frys every sat and sunday (with loads toast) and eat out or get takeaway almost every fri/sat/sun (again as I hate cooking).

The thing is I did nothing different at weekends when losing weight ate frys every sat and sun, ate take away and drank like a fish (often during the week too) but during the week was painful eating only veg and meat or fish for dinner everyday and salads for lunch almost every day or some veg and meat (another thing I dislike is "dinner food" at lunch).

I should add that I totally stopped exercising also as I was too busy so I'm trying to get back into that which will help.

*people's definition of this changes but in my opinion I'm can cook.

justchecked · 03-07-2015 12:49PM

Munchies are left in the local shop. If fat me wants chocolate he must burn some calories by getting up and going there to buy them.

Shenshen · 03-07-2015 01:00PM

Half a bar of dark chocolate, half a packet of hobnobs and some frozen yoghurt.

I love cooking and baking, so I'd usually make treats rather than buy them.

cbyrd · 03-07-2015 01:09PM

I have, at the moment, about 72 rice crispie buns with marshmallows, 3 bags of aldi mini bars, a big dirty chocolate strawberry tart, chocolate marshmallows with sprinkles, triple chocolate cookies and a host of other shÃ®te... I am hosting a thirteenth birthday party. the giant bouncycastle obstacle course.
On a normal day I will have 1 packet of dark chocolate digestives and a bar of white chocolate from aldi, I buy once a week so when they're gone they're gone.. I bake gluten free dairy free muffins cakes and stuff for the kids and I make Jamie Olivers snickers semi freddo for a treat every so often... I make it and I can't eat it.. The white chocolate is my downfall..
On the up side, I have 3 fruit bowls and I go through about 8 packets of bananas per week.. I have 5 children..

Mesrine65 · 03-07-2015 01:23PM

Munchies for me would be stuffed olives, sun dried tomatoes, houmous, cheese, rye crispbread, ham, chorizo, turkey etc. & once a week pizza (given the chance, I'd probably eat pizza every day, if I could get away with it )

I prefer savoury to sweet TBH

The Black Oil · 03-07-2015 01:27PM

My main treat is hot chocolate. I've cut out a lot of sugar since Jan 2014 and noticed a big drop off with cravings. I didn't do this for weight purposes as I'm not overweight or heavy. I rarely have biscuits now, if it I do it's generally to be polite. Would generally have thrown some sweets or crisps into the shopping basket in the past, don't do this now. Have always eaten 4-5 pieces of fruit a day.

When I do have something sweet now my tastebuds/brain go ---> :eek:

There's a part of me that occasionally wonders if some day I'll just cave and give up the giving up. I refuse to give up peanut butter - now on Meridian stuff, though.

Putin · 03-07-2015 01:30PM

Not a bit of junk food in the house and I have dropped a stone since January. just by cutting out the crap food.

lazeedaisy · 03-07-2015 01:40PM

Just noticed we still have an Easter egg! And a box of after 8s from Christmas!

gidget · 03-07-2015 01:40PM

Yes we do!

I have a huge sweet tooth. We have a drawer full of chocolate bars. I do love a bar with a cuppa when i'm winding down after lunch or dinner. I'm not a crisp eater but the others are so there's usually a multi-pack to be found somewhere. There's the odd Mr. Kipling cakes or a packet of biscuits in the press. I also love to bake so would make something up occasionally. Yougarts in the fridge & ice-cream/cornettos in the freezer.

However, i'm also quite active. I train twice a week & go on long walks daily. I also get my BMI checked regularly, in order to keep in good shape.

03-07-2015 01:41PM

There would be ice cream and plain chocolate in the house but not biscuits or cakes I bake and cook everything from scratch I made home make pizza for dinner yesterday, however I do like nice cheeses with crackers for a snack, we buy a lot of fruit and if its not used up I make a smootie by mixing it with natural yogurt and have it for breakfast. I genuinely don't understand why people buy those bags of mini bars for themselves.

Toto Wolfcastle · 03-07-2015 01:47PM

I live with a diabetic so I tend not to buy junk. Not a fan of biscuits anyway and I rarely eat chocolate. I never buy crisps either. We usually have ice cream in the freezer though, because life without Ben and Jerry's would be no fun. No white bread in this house either unless I decide to bake some. I pretty much always have the ingredients in the house to make chocolate lava cake so if I'm really in need of a treat I can do that.

Sometimes I look at my junkless trolley when I'm shopping and wonder what went wrong.

I used to think when I was a kid that I'd be able to eat as much junk food as I wanted to as an adult but I never want to eat that much.

Spanish Eyes · 03-07-2015 01:48PM

Like Mesrine above I have a savoury tooth. Hate anything sweet. No sugar on porridge or weetabix, no sugar in tea/coffee. Hate soft drinks (unless it's a tonic in my Bombay Sapphire, lol). Would eat anything savoury and tasty and never think of a bit of cake or a biscuit.

That doesn't mean I don't scoff on other things.... like the Aldi crackers and vintage cheddar, hummus, potato salad I make myself and eat the whole dam lot in one go. Yummmmiiiiieeee. And dips and stuff. Don't like crisps and nuts.

So my downfall is bread. I use wholemeal all the time, but the lovely scrummy sambos you can make with such lovely ingredients.... no, I am not ditching the bread.

And anyway, if white bread is the food of the Devil, someone should just hop on the Ferry to Roscoff or Cherbourg and tell the gourmands in France that their baguettes are killing them....

03-07-2015 01:54PM

Bobblehead Panda wrote: »

I live with a diabetic so I tend not to buy junk. Not a fan of biscuits anyway and I rarely eat chocolate. I never buy crisps either. We usually have ice cream in the freezer though, because life without Ben and Jerry's would be no fun. No white bread in this house either unless I decide to bake some. I pretty much always have the ingredients in the house to make chocolate lava cake so if I'm really in need of a treat I can do that.

Sometimes I look at my junkless trolley when I'm shopping and wonder what went wrong. I used to think when I was a kid that I'd be able to eat as much junk food as I wanted to as an adult but I never want to eat that much.

Remind me of someone I know why as child couldn't understand why adults were not buying themselves sweets all the time as they has money and were convinced that when they themselves were an adult they would spend all their money on sweets.

Do you have junk food in your house?

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