To eat a packet of biscuits a day?

I'm currently half way through Ultra Processed People by Chris van Tulken. It's really making me think.

I’m still to listen that but I have it on my audible library.

I actually love baking so I let myself bake now and again as a trade off for not ordering biscuits and cakes etc with my weekly food delivery. And I enjoy tweaking recipes to make them more healthy or at least less unhealthy! 😆

From my understanding of UPFs, cake or cookies baked from scratch are classed as “normal” processed foods while packaged store bought ones are UPFs.

A packet of biscuits is nothing!

However, a shed load of sugar dill bite you 9n tje bum later in life. Maybe increase your fat and protein intake do you feel fuller for longer. Fill out a food diary and tske a perk with your GP to see why you're craving biccies. Apart from the yumminess.

That must be way too much sugar if you do it every day.

I rarely buy biscuits but if I do I can easily eat a packet over a day, so no judgment here!

Would make me feel very sluggish, right enough so definitely not something I would do on a regular basis even if I wasn’t watching my weight.

if They are not organic maybe try to get some organic ones.

😄 I buy Doves Farm organic wholemeal digestives and pretend they’re good for me!

Same. Worse as I can’t eat much for medical reasons, so it interferes with eating what I actually need to. No idea how to quit though as tried hypnosis and it didn’t work.

I'm currently half way through Ultra Processed People by Chris van Tulken. It's really making me think.

Well, that's daft & inaccurate. 🙄

You will almost certainly get diabetes.

Yes it's too much sugar. Even if you don't need to lose weight too much sugar is bad for you and leaves you vulnerable to Diabetes. Get your extra calories from something healthy like protein in the form of eggs, cheese, yogurt or peanut butter, nuts etc.

Really you know the answer dont you? Long term not good. How about some home made flapjacks? Vegan cake for treats .The amount of sugar is alarming .Also by constantly snacking like this , your teeth can be damaged too.I feel sympathy as I am a "salad dodger" according to my Son ! Due to a recent health scare I cannot eat Chocolate ,and have had to be careful with my diet. Sugar is addictive thats the problem.A couple od squares of dark chocolate will be better too,

What kind? Depending on what biscuits they are a packet is easy to eat (Jaffa cakes or fig rolls) McVities chocolate digestives or hobnobs is quite an achievement 😁

That really is a gross amount of junk. I say this as someone who loves biscuits too but a packet, a whole packet with chocolate on top is just gross and greedy.

It might catch up with you in your 40s so I'd try and cut back. Similar to dh and his cholesterol is now high.

Well, on the one hand my gran scoffed a packet of custard creams a day (and smoked like a chimney and drank rum like a pirate), lived to 98 and the worst health problem she had was a bad ankle.

But on the other hand it really is an awful lot of sugar. I think we underestimate how addictive sugar really is, when I decided to lose weight a couple of years ago cutting sugar was the hardest part. It actually made me really cross and unpleasant to be around for a while! I do think for the sake of your future health you should try and cut down a bit.

Nothing wrong with a few biscuits but a whole pack every day is too much imo!

What do you actually eat in a day? Perhaps your meals are lacking?

It’s not great but I emphathise. I’ve been buying the Lidl multipacks of cream biscuits, the individual packs inside contain 6 custard creams of various flavours.

I can stop at one and it still feels like I’ve eaten a whole packet, so it minimises the damage.

I only eat biscuits when I’m actually hungry and cba to cook/shop. No freezer.

It's a lot, though biscuits come in different sized packages of course. I struggle to only take a few so just don't buy them very often and don't have chocolate in the house. Thankfully I'm not keen on massed products chocolate bars so resist (now dark chocolate that's different)

That’s a lot of sugar and no nutrients. Think of your teeth if not your weight

Someone on Mumsnet used to talk about the No S Diet: no snacks, sweets or seconds except on Saturdays, Sundays, special days and sick days.

I quite like that as a description of a fairly sane lifestyle: treats are allowed but they should be treats not every day. I am currently trying to bring my alcohol consumption to that level too.

Same. I do eat chocolate daily but just one of those bars

Yes, me too!

Me too, if I'm being honest.

But, it stops the way I'd eat the other types of chocolate, kind of in passing, on the way past the fridge or when I'm tired / hungry but can't face making proper food

I do enjoy a square of dark chocolate with my tea (I drink herbal tea) & on a good day, that's a really nice treat.

If I'm wolfing down multiple squares, I'll feel a bit ill.

I don't drink (virtually), don't like savoury treats, don't like takeaways, chocolate feels like my one indulgence! So I'm resentful I can't just eat it normally.

I'm going to persist with my current scheme & hope I can stick with it. In the few weeks I was not eating 'normal' chocolate, I actually went off the taste of it so it was annoying to me that I so easily went back to snaffling bars that weren't actually nice!

Aldi individually wrapped bars compared with Lidl in one big bar does stop me psychologically from eating more than two 25g bars though. That's why I mentioned the little packets of biscuits.

I have recently cut out all milk chocolate & had only 78% or 85% dark chocolate & this worked much better, and I ate more healthily (I'd often go to the gym, eat no breakfast, then have chocolate instead).

85% doesn't stop me eating it, or even 100% if I see it on offer. I can have biscuits or milk chocolate or sub 80% dark chocolate in the house and won't touch it as I'm not interested. I can eat six squares, 75g of 85% on a stressful day though!

OP, I could have written this. BMI is about 18.7, so just a smidge above underweight, and I am a total chocolate fiend and biscuit goblin. I am trying to cut it down a little just because I've been getting an upset stomach of late, but I am an addict. Bad day? Comfort myself with a biscuit. Great day? Celebrate with some chocolate.