what's the weirdest non-food item that you eat!

[ScottyTotty2]

finger nails...........er

When I was a kid I used to eat Chapsticks. They smelt so fruity

Now it’s just nail polish that I pick off my nails and eat.

I’m a pregnant sponge eater too!

You apple core eaters, you do realise apple seeds contain cyanide?

Soap. Dove soap.

You apple core eaters, you do realise apple seeds contain cyanide?

You do realise you would need to eat A LOT of apple cores before it affects you?

I know about the cyanide, you'd have to eat kilos of apple pips before they'd be enough to kill you. But, yes, I eat the whole apple.

Dead skin, the flaky skin off my lips, scabs, the white flaky stuff that I find inside my ears, snot (you end up swallowing it anyway, look it up,) I bite the dead skin off my fingers too.

I used to eat cake cases and bite my nails when I was younger, although I don't do that anymore.

I crunch ice cubes. Done it for years.

oh yeah I eat the whole apple. I really don't like the apple core which you then have to carry around until you can bin it. I've done it for years and I am fine. I don't really think of apple cores as non food tho.

Some of these are a bit gross. 😄😄 I do chew Bic biro pen lids but I'm not eating them!

I’ve never actually eaten anything non food, but in my third pregnancy I craved sand. I think it was iron deficiency.
My DD1 (5) eats paper though 🤢. She was a weird sensory thing with her mouth. As a baby she constantly had something in her mouth, way more than other babies I knew, and it’s continued as she’s got older. She sucks her hair, chews the sleeves of her school cardigans... allsorts. She looked at a random object the other day (can’t remember what it was) and she said ‘I really want to chew that’!

When I had horrible morning sickness, I really wanted to try a colleague's lime green Uggs - they looked so refreshing! I managed to satisfy myself with real citrus fruit though

I chew a lot of things, mostly my fingers, nails, inside of my mouth and lips, scabs.....

I disgust myself.

My eldest chews all manner of things and has done since she was a baby. She used to chew through the spines of all her fathers DVDs and books.

You can buy chewing items but she managed to actually chew one into pieces

I used to eat the corners of newspapers until my DM said if I carried on doing that I'd be making my own toilet roll! I didn't fancy finding out where it would come from so I stopped.

I eat bogies, love the satisfying crunch of a fingernail and enjoy chewing loose skin off my thumb.

Ice cubes are linked to lack of iron

 BertieBotts your my weird bitey twin I used to bite my bunk bed rail as well!

Fairly tame stuff here just the whole lemon chunk they put in your soft drink, skin and all.

Surely fruit cores are food though, just because most people throw them away it doesn't make them non food.

I don't wear lipstick or gloss, or lip salve/Vaseline but there must be a vast amount consumed every year.

Y... You eat sponges? 😳

Mentallists.

Nolagerfor me: Plenty of old Reader's Digests in charity shops for her!

You do realise you would need to eat A LOT of apple cores before it affects you?

True, but nobody's mentioned numbers.

The wrappers off sweets, you know like starbursts?
I used to get loads of grief for leaving wrappers everywhere as a child, so I just resorted to eating them. Healthy!

hot yankee candles

i dont use them as intended i take chunks out and put into a melter,i then put my finger in the melted wax wait for it to dry on me then nibble it

the baby powder and fluffy towels taste better than food

i also like smelling everything and anything

dove is one of my most fave smells

Ihavebrillohair

Omg meee tooo. I used to soap them up in cheap apple shampoo and munch away. Didn’t swallow but went through loads of sponges. I can still remember the feeling of how good it felt thinking about them all day then coming home for a sponge munch.

People still assume I mean a cake sponge.

Gosh I just read back through and realised how many fellow sponge eaters there are.

I used to eat newspaper and old book pages. I also ate the paper cases of small cakes -but that was mainly hunger ( wanting every scrap of the cake) rather than whatever caused the paper eating.
My DD eats the wallpaper off the wall beside her bed. Its quite a bit missing now and very annoying as the whole wall will need redoing .

I used to eat novelty smelly rubbers in the 1980s. I distinctly remember a biscuit rubber that smelled like a custard cream. Ate the lot!