how often do you eat processed sacks like crisps and chocolate

[fixingmylife]

just that really?

These are my weakness. I'd say i have either or every other day but I want to cut them out completely.

Crisps every day. Chocolate not so much.

But I'm mainly here for the virtuous eating puritans 😉🍿

Haha. Yes, sorry about the typo!

It's fascinating. It's so polarised. Either people are non stop grazing on a buffet of crisps and cakes or they have half a square of dark chocolate every leap year.

Daily but not in huge amounts. But I also eat fruit, veg and salad daily. Exercise regularly and don’t load up on too many carbs.

I don’t believe in cutting out whole food groups- it can make life miserable. Just moderation if you can.

i have a family member on Ozempic for diabetes and this is the biggest difference it’s made to him - he happily eats healthier food now and limits treats. It’s changed his life so much.

Every day for chocolate in small amounts- up to 150 cals. Every other for crisps- again small low calorie packets like Wotsits for French Fries- around 70/80 cals. Sometimes I do go overboard but I need a little treat every day.

Crisps maybe once a week? Chocolate 4-5 times a week though am trying to cut down.

Chocolate really not that often. I still have uneaten Easter eggs. Once a month. I crave it so it must be linked to my period.

Crisps a small 25g packet once a week. I buy crisps for the DC and Nick a pack now and then. I love crisps but I do restrain myself because I don’t buy them for myself

The first comment in the thread was perfection. Almost a parody. Peak mumsnet competitive eating (or undereating!) 😂

There are no good or bad foods. Foods and morals do not go together. Everything in moderation.

To be fair you can eat a reasonable amount or even overeat without eating chocolate or crisps. I have a sweet tooth but I know some people who overeat mainly on huge (savoury) meals.

While there is a lot of that on MN I don’t think rarely consuming crisps & chocolate is an example of competitive undereating. It doesn’t even necessarily mean you eat that healthily

Crisps or other salty snack, most days.
Chocolate, rarely.

Maybe once a week. I’m sure I must eat more processed foods than that. But crisps, chocolates, sweets I actually don’t really like, so it would be a few times a month. I have had a few pieces of cake this week, but I made it from scratch so maybe not quite the same.

I had a chocolate croissant today and it tasted so different because I’ve been on a diet where carbs and anything nice is all forbidden fruit.
Just so bad today , but it’s so hard cutting out sugar completely and things like crisps.

I probably have 1 item of that sort of thing daily Mon-Fri - if i have crisps then it's the small multi-pack bags that are under 100 calories, and I usually have something sweet with my mid-afternoon cup of tea such as the mini bags of biscuits, again they're all under 100 calories and I have an apple too to balance it out ;)

Totally. It's given me the breathing space I needed to work on my eating habits as I really need to change them permanently.

Crisps everyday. Chocolate once every couple of months. I don't have a sweet tooth.

I was having both, sometimes multiple times a day. Total emotional eater, bored eater, snack lover, all of the above. Not even the "healthy" dark chocolate, I love milk chocolate so much.

I stopped eating chocolate about a month ago. Just wanted to see if I could do it as it was my absolute weakness. So far so good - PMT and my period have been the biggest challenges so far on that front but I've held strong 🤣

Crisps I've become a take or leave kind of person, I have to be in the right mood. I've had a couple of packets in the last month.

Who knows how long it'll last? 🤣