To ask if you've binned biscuits, chocolate and other crappy snacks overnight and never bought them again?

[LaureBerthaud]

Or were you banging on the door of the Co-op next day for your sugar fix?

@LaureBerthaud - as a teenager I once went without sweets and chocolate for comic relief when it fell on my birthday. It was bloody hard.

I think I would happily not buy it to have in the house, but there would be anarchy from the rest of the household. One trick I've found is to buy the stuff that I am not so fond of.

But yeah, if I chucked everything out, for me, I would definitely be beating down the door of the supermarket the next day. I have zero will power.

should clarify, the comic relief fundraiser was for the month prior to my birthday so I would be able to have my cake.

Yes, but then lockdown struck and now I need a crane to leave the house.

I have, because my children were eating those instead of meals. We now have no snacks but a huge bowl of fruit instead. We did all miss it at first but not for long and not now. Sometimes I get a craving for cake, so I eat it, but very rarely

We always have chocolate in the house, sweets too usually, DDs are teens and have a bag a week. We have crisps as well. I eat chocolate pretty much every evening but I do try and ration it, I could eat a lot more if I didn't think it had to last all week til the next food shop.

I deliberately buy snacks my children like but I'm not keen on. I don't buy anything for myself because if it's there, I will eat it. Fact.

Although, I started doing intermittent fasting and lowish carb about five weeks ago and it's really got rid of the cravings. And I've lost a stone!

Yes, four years ago. However, I had done research about LCHF and spent some months procrastinating first before trying to go sugar, starch, grain free - just for one month (March 2016).

Today I am still sugar, starch, grain-free but these things are still in the house for other family members and I still buy them for everyone else.

I don't know why I don't bother with them any more, mentally "they are not for me" comes to mind when I see them or use them in cooking for others. It's a habit now, I guess.

From my experience, I had to get it right in my head before making the change, that took time. The health benefits have encouraged me to keep going (no piece of cake/biscuits/bread/ice-cream etc is worth losing my health again).

When I lived alone this was no problem. Whenever I live with a partner it all goes a bit wrong......

If it's in the house, I'll eat it. If it's not in the house the Co-op is open 7am-10pm. Bastard enablers!

Brilliant !
You’ve just proper made me laugh OP

we dont keep crisps, biscuits at home. only some dark chocolate and some other bits that we ration a day.

Those of you who keep snacks you don't like in the house for your DC - aren't you worried you're helping them form bad habits/sugar addictions?

@LaureBerthaud

Those of you who keep snacks you don't like in the house for your DC - aren't you worried you're helping them form bad habits/sugar addictions?

No, I'd be more worried about them not learning self control and self regulation.

Surely that's the sort of thing that leads to them throwing snacks in the bin as adults and then going to the shops to buy them again?

I want my kids to have good healthy relationships with food, like I do.

Actually having said that, they're not kids anymore

They're 28, 21 and 17

But they do all have healthy relationships with food.

I removed anything with palm oil in it from my diet, that makes it easier to avoid sweet stuff because it is in so much! If I want something now I have to make a bigger effort to find it..

I did OP.

The first few days were awful with headaches and cravings. But I got through it and now I don't even want that stuff anymore.

Your tastebuds change and junk food doesn't have any appeal. You have to get through those tough first days/weeks though, and it is hard.

Yes but it doesn't last. for the last 6 weeks I have had nothing of the sort after i chucked it out overnight. But I know once things change and i fall into a cycle of bad food then it comes back. But yes I can do cold turkey for a couple of months at a time!

We were on a very tight budget and the first things I stopped buying was squash and chocolate/crisps. Occasionally the kids ask for squash but it gets drunk so quickly that I refuse