Junk Food

How often do you actually have junk food and how often do you feel like junk food? To me, junk food includes but not limited to KFC, McDonalds, Wendys, Pizza, Fish & Chips, Burger King.

I have limited it to once a week for about 6 months but now its creeping back in a little more

Hardly ever.. I have felafel kebabs quite a bit these days, otherwise if I'm getting takeaways I'll typically prefer Subway, or pasta places...

This year not so much. Had KFC only once and had McD's once too (but that was breakfast). Haven't had Wendy's, BK or F&C's this year either. Have had my fair share of pizza and takeaway pasta though.



gc.

I know the craving

You naturally don't like them or you are suppressing the desire knowing they are not so good for you?

No I naturally like them, but I avoid McDonalds/Wendys for ethical reasons, and the others are difficult because I only eat free-range meat these days. Hardly any of the places even know where their meat comes from, so I just avoid them and have vege kebabs and pasta instead. I will have a vege pizza occasionally though.

Fatty imo.

Crikey - you're deadly serious about this whole thing aren't ya!



gc.

more to junk food than simply takeaways

chocolate.... sweets... chips.. et al

Me I eat them all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

start thread again

I never buy chocolate, lollies or chips. I'll have the odd pick if they're around, but I don't go out of my way to buy crap most of the time.

Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.



gc.

Good point, I was more thinking about junk food as to meals.

being the active alhpa male you so seem SMF I am sure you could eat anything and still stay trim

thin is a fad

In for a penny in for a pound and all.

Haha - thin is a fad for women, but men have always looked 'fit' in one way or another in the western culture.



gc.

working types maybe but us gentlemen like to have a few stone to spare

sign of wealth mate

Yeah, I see why people buy free-range meats for health and ethical reasons. Call me cheap, they can be a lot more expensive than the factory ones though. For example, free range eggs cost at least $2-3 extra at supermarkets.

I avoid pretty much all of it and i've never really eaten lollies or drunk soft drinks, BUT, potatoe chips i can not give up.
Is beer junk food? Cos i like beer. Quite a bit.

Don't get us started on this! Haha... Whilst I agree, it's been discussed on here at length.

JG - we can't count booze as junk food, although obviously it is bad for ya!



gc.

I believe moderate consumption of beer is not bad at all. So I probably wouldn't classify beer as junk food.

ah sweeeeeeeet, so yeh, i dont really do junk food

WTF do you do for a living.... is beer junk food

GET OUT NOW I DON"T KNOW YOU ANYMORE

Damn straight son, water and plant matter.



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umm yeah, moderate is quite a generous term heh.

was just checking man!

dude we should be checking with you

get one of ya students to slap you repeatedly until beer o'clock - if feeling saintly turn the cheek every 34.2 minutes

some say there is a pie in every guiness, and that guiness is a food group. I just didnt want to openly diss the Irish on St Pats day you know?

Ohhh I do have a lot of pies and sausage rolls though.



gc.

Never really buy packaged junk food like chocolate, chips etc.

Usually put away at least one KFC/Maccas meal (or equivalent a week). Usually whilst drunk or hungover. <3 KFC/Maccas.

I've only had 2 pies in the last 2 weeks! :O

I rarely have fast food except when out of town or overseas*. I had a Big Mac for the first time in about 2-3 years recently - hence the Big Mac sauce thread.

Anytime I go into ff joint I look at the size/state of the customers queueing up and it is usually enough motivation to go elsewhere instead.

(*Not counting the odd 4am BK/McDs visit - but even then I only have something small)

you must hate buying petrol...

hows everyones morning start - many packaged cereals are junk food

I destroyed a bucket of dirty chicken last week!!, and I can make the staff at Wendy's run for cover!!
I lovem junk foods!!!
Not keen on sweet stuff however.

A toasted Cheese sammie is my version of junk food these days : )

I have a takeaway burrito once a week, is that junk? Then pizza once evry 2/3 weeks

Fish n chips most Mondays. Usually Oceanz. Good times.

Burritos are pretty deace. Well in general they are - as long as they're not overloaded with cheese and sour cream etc.



gc.

There are many brands of free-range egg now, and some of them are only like 30c more, so there's really no excuse these days imo

I will grant you the cost in general on free-range meat, but it's just not about the price for me. Once you're aware of just how horrific some of these factory farms are, I don't really think it's acceptable to just go "screw ethics, this stuff is cheaper". There should be some things that are more important than convenience and price imo. It's really not that much of a hassle abstaining from factory-farmed meat even if you can't afford free-range though - felafel kebabs are delicious, and there's heaps of yum vege food that I've cottoned onto recently

I am trying not to be all preachy about it though heh.

Only when drunk really... Kebab for dinner after having a few beers in the afternoon or drunken 3am pies. Although I usually have a bar of chocolate before football but that's because I want something light that will provide a bit of energy.

LYING SON OF A BITCH!!! We had Maccas on Thursday night

I have junk food at least twice a week.

Ohhhhhhhh after the cricket. Word.

Boozey!



gc.

While I do agree with you, a good portion of supermarket meat comes from regular old farms. We're not quite America yet.

Yeah that's true, but there's still enough around. All supermarkets should have plentiful free-range chicken these days, and all NZ beef/lamb is fine (gotta check the label though - most people just assume that beef/lamb comes from NZ, but most of it is actually Australian, and they're almost worse than America with their animal-treatment). Free-range pork is the hardest to find - Countdown doesn't have any at all, but New World are really good like that

It's due to that funny brown shit on the ground they call grass. Needs more green imo.

I'm happy to shovel whatever fatty foods I feel like down my throat, whenever.
Coincidentally, I was eating processed chicken nuggets last night at 1am, when I took a short break from pulling the legs off spiders and not recycling plastics and glass. Course, I only had a few hours to do that as I was tired from sitting in a maternity ward all day chain smoking.

I eat junkfood 2-3 times a week.

Calls for "world infant smoking day"!!

I allow myself one "treat" a week where I can have some chocolate, ice cream or maybe a burger. It helps keep the cravings at bay and gives me a better chance at not falling off the wagon later on.

I did really well last week, eating incredibly healthy food (salads, fruit, stir-fries etc.) and then the weekend came...

And boy did I chow down on some greasy shit for those two days

Once a week we have chocolate friday at work (people bring in bad stuff to eat, chips, chocolate, lollies, mmmm). i usually go nuts. thats all i have tho.

I have been bad lately and had burger fuel on sunday night. god damn it was good.

I havent had pizza for so long, like over 6 months. So sad

If you have proper thin crust pizza and don't go overboard with cheeses etc, you can still have pizza and be ok. There are different bases you can make at home with wholegrain flour etc which are a good alternative as well. :>

Yeah but im not allowed carbs at dinner so i'd have to make it for lunch. if only i had an oven at work i could make one with a pita pocket.

Carb restriction FTL. Noone who knows anything about proper nutrition would recommend that.



gc.

Have Pizza for lunch on Saturdays and Sundays - assume you don't work during weekends Could be a bit heavy for lunch though.

If your thin crust pizza is too light for lunch, you're doing it wrong.

K

I feel like hot chips and onion rings like maybe 1 or 2 times a day.

Pizza maybe once a week... maybe everything junk once a week.

Though I don't actually eat it .. the after thoughts/taste isn't great and is a bit depressing in my experience and I don't particulary want to put back on any of the weight I've lost.

Giving up junk food is kindly like giving up smoking.. the craving is still there but it's not as strong.. like I don't act on my cravings...

This seems blatantly false to me? Could you expand please...

I eat junky stuff about once a week (usually pizza or the local home made burger place). I drink quite a bit of beer though and I love salty snacks (chips/processed meat like salami etc).

Last weekend I read an interesting (well it may/may not be depending how much you already know about the subject) about the evolution of junk food/obesity.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/mar/13/obesity-salt-fat-sugar-kessler

Check out the doco 'Fathead' for an expansion on this if you're interested
Lot of very interesting stuff exposed...

carb restriction at night only. don't need fuel for sleeping.

Yeah i never get around to it tho! i prob should, it would cut my pizza craving!

Have Pizza the "right way" - thick base with lots of cheese. Mmmmm....Pizza....