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Do you think people go a bit overboard on junk food in December

26 replies

nickiredcar · 09/12/2018 22:56

I buy a few junky things for the holidays, but others seem to have whole shopping trolleys full of shit - enough to last several weeks.

Am I the odd one not buying weeks worth of junk food for the holidays?

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MaisyPops · 09/12/2018 22:59

You're not alone. I've never got the obsession with filling the pantry with crap because it's Christmas.

One of my relatives used to do this and the older I've got the more I've realised they don't have a healthy attitude to food.

Then again I also don't understand mass buying lots of alcohol and shopping for a zombie apocalypse because the shops will be closed for 2 days.

I tend to get a couple of nice extras in but that's it.

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nickiredcar · 10/12/2018 14:34

I agree I don't think it's healthly, just so much absolute junk - packets and packets of it

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BarbaraofSevillle · 10/12/2018 14:40

How do you know that they're not having a big gathering, or stocking up on things that might take them months to get through, while the good offers are on?

Just because someone has a trolley full, it doesn't necessarily mean that they plan to consume all of it by themselves during the 2 days that the shops are shut.

You would have judged me the other day OP, because I had a load of treaty stuff, plus a load of processed packet and canned stuff. But what you don't know is that I was shopping for the food bank collection that we're having at work.

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nickiredcar · 10/12/2018 15:06

I'm judging YouTubers that are showing their shop and saying exactly what they are doing for it. I would never just point at someone random in a supermarket and judge them!

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MaisyPops · 10/12/2018 22:21

I dont waste my time judging people's trolleys when I'm shopping.
I do know of a few people who seem to think that Christmas means lots of junk and alcohol etc. It seems an unusually unhealthy attitude to food/drink. Then again I think that using food as a treat or reward is also unhealthy.
If I want cheese and biscuits then I'll buy cheese and biscuits and veg out with that instead of a proper meal. Ditto if I want cake then I'll have cake. There's no need to 'treat myself' because it's Christmas.

Mayhemmumma · 10/12/2018 22:24

I do. Cheese and crackers, shortbread, chocolates....washed down mainly with Bailey's. It's difficult to avoid sometimes with socialising and self restraint

Velvetbee · 10/12/2018 22:36

Yep. I ate 3 mince pies for lunch while the DC had sandwiches and crudités in the other room. I have to grab my happy where I find it at the mo.

PipGoesPop · 10/12/2018 22:46

Gosh imagine the organic raw vegan in the supermarket standing behind you at the checkout judging you for your 3 or 4 junk food items.

hidinginthenightgarden · 10/12/2018 22:55

I don’t get why people buy and then eat tubs and tubs of chocolates and drink twice their usual limit just because it is Xmas. Especially when they class Xmas as the whole of December!

AviatorShades · 10/12/2018 23:15

class Xmas as the whole of December....yes, and some of us carry it through to the 6th January - EpiphanyGrinGrinGrin

Just when my friends (and their livers) think they've survived the Festivities, Shades hits 'em with an Epiphany PartyGrin It might be the time when the Three Kings reach Bethlehem with their gifts for the babe, but in my house it's the day when all those bottles of weird coloured booze get finished. Bloody love Epiphany!

ComtesseDeSpair · 10/12/2018 23:19

Walking around the supermarket at this time of year especially I am amazed by how much food is simply variations of junk. Aisles and aisles dedicated to processed sugar and fat and a few aisles of fresh actual food.

However, even my ripped and jacked ex-para PT recently admitted his secret weakness for eating tubs and tubs of Mini Cheddars af Christmas, so it seems few people are immune!

Kismetjayn · 10/12/2018 23:26

I do it! I love it. I eat really well the rest of the year but I'm a secret pig. I love giving in and eating junk for a couple of weeks. Then back to wholesome again.

I used to be anorexic and having two weeks of feasting is a big fuck-you to my ED. Maybe not ideal but I've maintained a healthy BMI within a point of itself for a good while now so it works for me!

Amibeingnaive · 10/12/2018 23:30

I'm judging YouTubers that are showing their shop and saying exactly what they are doing for it. I would never just point at someone random in a supermarket and judge them!

Because that would be strange behaviour.

Not like watching strangers unpack their shopping on the internet, in order to find fault with it...

Klobuchar · 10/12/2018 23:31

There’s nothing like a good judge thread about other people’s shopping/ eating habits, is there?

It’s a festival. If you want to worry about what other people eat and drink, it’s what they eat week in, week out that makes the difference, not the week/ fortnight/ whatever around Christmas

LadyGodivasOperation · 10/12/2018 23:31

Concentrate on your own eating, and stop judging and critiquing others. Its none of your business.

Its attitudes like this that help push sensitive people towards eating disorders.

Enjoy your nice food, kismetjayne!

Calvinsmam · 10/12/2018 23:36

I usually do two shops in the holidays.

I do my normal shop then I do my ‘hosting’ shop.

I usually have about four or five gatherings at my house and I do a big shop for them all at together so I can combine deals etc and I don’t just go to the co op and paying over the odds and panic buying last minute things.
I buy all the alcohol in that shop too.

It always amuses me to think that someone might be standing behind me thinking it’s my weekly shop.

WaterBird · 10/12/2018 23:44

Some people probably buy extra junk food because this time of year can be very stressful.
Although I bet a lot of these You-Tubers are just speaking about what they will do with the food out of sheer bravado... just to get "liked."

EnidButton · 11/12/2018 00:00

Yes I do. I don't judge others for it though, each to their own, but have had to stop myself from being swept away by the 'hype' (wrong word..) in previous years. We're now better at judging how much food we'll actually eat and what's excessive. We get loads of chocolates and biscuits for gifts and a cake made by MiL anyway.

Love the sound of food shopping videos though! Grin What do I search for? Just 'Christmas food shop'??

EnidButton · 11/12/2018 00:01

"Yes I do"= think some people go overboard.

explodingkitten · 11/12/2018 00:45

I'm fat. I have a trolley full of food and shit. I'll make food to eat with my dad fir christmas eve (4ppl), I'll make extra for my MIL in case someone cones to lunch around christmas to cheer her up, I'll make our own meals on christmas day. I'll make a big family meal on boxing day. I'm doong a late christmas after that with a cousin who is alone.

It's a cooking marathon for me. I like cooking amd baking though, although I don't like sweets or multiple course dinners.

Tbh I'd rather have a sausage and mash but that's apparantly not done for the holidays.... uj

EnidButton · 11/12/2018 04:26

I just re-read my post and it sounds like I only get what we eat normally. Not the case. I definitely buy a lot more treats than usual and eat loads more. I just don't go as wild as I used too. Just because the tin of biscuits has holly and Santa on it, doesn't mean you need 5 of them. Grin

Bestseller · 11/12/2018 08:18

I don't buy any of it because by December 24 I'm sick of the sight of it. Despite not buying any I have it foisted on me all through December at work and socially. I know I could say no, but there's the manners thing and the whole point of Junk food is that it's designed to be addictive and cause cravings.

I buy extra luxuries over Christmas but not sweets, buscuits, chocolate or processed "treats"

CaptainMarvelDanvers · 11/12/2018 08:28

Yes. I think any weight I lose throughout the year is so I have room for the junk at Christmas.

Whyislarryhappy · 11/12/2018 09:18

People always seem to over buy junk and treats over xma period I know when I was younger my mum would buy ridiculous amounts of alcohol, fizzy drink, crisps, sweets, chocolate and other savoury and sweet snacks. It obviously seemed normal to me growing up but really it was only ever 4 of us at Xmas, often over the Xmas period me and bro would have few friends over but that was it really.
However, last year we had a silly amount of sweets, choc and biscuits. My work did an Xmas raffle everyone got a goody box, then the room I was in we all got given goodies so we shared them out between the 5 of us. Last year I ended up with 6 boxes of choc and a box of biscuits to bring home, and my partner was a delivery driver, a lot of customers gave him boxes of chocolate, sweets and biscuits too along with 2 bottles of wine (we don't drink so gave that away) I'm glad all them goodies lasted until Feb or march!

caperplips · 11/12/2018 09:49

Growing up we always had a lot of treats around christmas. My mum has a very sweet tooth and always bought loads and I have great memories of the house being full of anything you might wish for.

I guess I do sort of the same thing now in my own house.

We get gifts of boxes of chocolates / biscuits but I buy things like stollen, pannetone, cheese, crackers, chutneys, mince pies, flavoured creams, crisps, nuts, fruits, desserts and lots of wine / beer / baileys

We live rurally and have a fair few callers so it is important to me that we can always offer guests something nice when they arrive.

We also host at least 2 gatherings, though this year will be one big one with 24+ and we might have a smaller but more luxury dinner for 4 friends too.

I have to say I LOVE seeing people with laden down trolleys at this time of year. I always think how lovely and hobbit-like it all is