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How many biscuits do you eat a day, on average?

191 replies

SnugglyJumpersMakeItBetter · 24/11/2025 16:05

I'm trying to be healthy(ish) so stick to 2 these days, but I've been known to clear a pack a day of the really addictive ones, like Maryland cookies, or Oreos. I don't know what they put in those things but it's very hard to stop once I start on them! Anyway, I'm intrigued to know what the national average is, roughly!

OP posts:
foreverbasil · 24/11/2025 16:21

I don’t really like biscuits or chocolate so don’t buy them. If I’m really starving and can’t wait for the next meal I’d have two or three crackers

Bourneyesterday · 24/11/2025 16:21

Our biscuits always go out of date. I eat plenty of rubbish, mostly in the form of crisps and chocolate but would never think to eat a biscuit.

Extraenergyneeded · 24/11/2025 16:21

Usually none, occasionally one.
However have a cake in the afternoon with a cup of tea!!

AuldWeegie · 24/11/2025 16:23

One is one too many. A dozen is never enough.

Starlight1984 · 24/11/2025 16:23

Bear in mind OP that this is MN and you will get a whole load of "oh I don't ever eat sugar but occasionally I will treat myself to a handful of chia seeds washed down with some almond milk".

I once made the mistake of starting a thread to see how much people drink and made myself feel a million times worse as most of the answers were people calling me an alcoholic 😂

PluckyChancer · 24/11/2025 16:24

None. I don’t really like biscuits. DH likes biscuits and always buys a couple of tins of them at Christmas. He’s very skinny and can eat a couple of biscuits and then leave them alone and not be tempted to carry on eating them. DS will happily eat a biscuit with his tea or coffee in the evening.

I like decent quality chocolate but I’ll only eat a couple of squares at a time as I don’t fancy more than that.

landlordhell · 24/11/2025 16:25

None. I do eat one square of dark chocolate in the evening.

OriginalUsername2 · 24/11/2025 16:26

Rarely eat a biscuit anymore. They’re like next day double chin pills for me.

allthegoodusernameshavegone · 24/11/2025 16:27

Is a Malteasers gingerbread reindeer counted as a biscuit? I ate my first one yesterday and now I need more!

Ambridgefan · 24/11/2025 16:28

I don't eat any biscuits. I could easily eat a bar of milk chocolate a day though so I don't have it in the house at all.

itsgettingweird · 24/11/2025 16:28

saveforthat · 24/11/2025 16:07

I don't eat any because if there are any in the house I will eat them all.

This!!!

I buy a packet of biscuits every now and again but that’s because I eat the whole pack! Plus I’m wheat free and those biscuits aren’t cheap either!!!

WonderingWanda · 24/11/2025 16:29

More than I should as I love biscuits. However, it would be none if all that was on offer was Oreo's Maryland Cookies which are the worst unless you could jaffa cakes which are also revolting and neither cake nor biscuit. All three of them are far too overprocessed.

HeadDeskHeadDesk · 24/11/2025 16:30

I'll go days or weeks without eating biscuits, but if I'm having them at all then I'm having about six. With a cup of tea. No way can I open the biscuit tin and just have two.

eqpi4t2hbsnktd · 24/11/2025 16:30

Most days none but if there is a packet open maybe 2.

But we dont usually have them in the house.

HouseAshamed · 24/11/2025 16:31

None.

Elbowpatch · 24/11/2025 16:32

None. They go soft before they get eaten.

LaurieFairyCake · 24/11/2025 16:33

I ate 3 yesterday, normally don’t keep them in the house.

but I bought some ‘For Christmas’ and naturally opened them 😂

Mikart · 24/11/2025 16:34

Zero.
Never buy them.

VegQueen · 24/11/2025 16:34

None and then once a month or so I will eat a whole pack in a day. So what does that work out as 0.5 a day…?

Tomatocutwithazigzagedge · 24/11/2025 16:34

saveforthat · 24/11/2025 16:07

I don't eat any because if there are any in the house I will eat them all.

This basically! I can hoover a packet of chocolate digestives in about 3 days so I buy a packet of them monthly, and then assuage my guilt on the remaining 27 biscuitless days. 😅

BoudiccaRuled · 24/11/2025 16:35

Zero.

cramptramp · 24/11/2025 16:38

None.

user1471481356 · 24/11/2025 16:39

None. I don’t buy them so I can’t eat them.

ImogenBrocklehurst · 24/11/2025 16:42

None, but I’m not a biscuit fan. Cake, on the other hand…

REDB99 · 24/11/2025 16:46

None, don’t have them in the house at all.