to eat a sweet snack every day

[Hedgehog88]

One of my friends was shocked to hear that I have a 'sweet snack' every day with my afternoon cup of tea - a couple of biscuits, bit of cake, small chocolate bar etc. According to her, these should be once a week treats and this is an extremely unhealthy habit. I cook and eat relatively healthily and get my five a day, so AIBU to eat something like this every day, as part of a balanced diet.

It's absolutely fine. 80% of daily food intake should be nutrient dense. 20% can be utter crap!

I think there’s a middle ground between once a day and once a week - I agree daily is too much, but two or three times a week should be fine.

You both must have missed the thread a few weeks back where everyone was quite proudly admitting to eating packets of biscuits or family packs of chocolates in one go.

Now I want to see what a 500kcal biscuit looks like...

YANBU. Life's too short to not have a small treat every day.

I eat a Galaxy ripple every day (or a Freddo)

I'm still alive

I wish I could stop at one.

I have belatedly come to the conclusion that it's much easier for me to just not eat sweet stuff. The first one is the easiest to resist, once I start it really is like the flood gates opening and I eat everything in sight and then, yes, feel almost hungover afterwards.

I know lots of people who don't have this issue with sugar and would never mention it to anyone in real life. I prefer to pretend that it just doesn't agree with me. So long as I don't give any sign that I would like to eat sweet stuff but am not 'allowing' myself to do so, there is never any problem with people trying to force sweet stuff on me.

My reaction to sugar seems to me analogous to an alcoholic's response to alcohol, where they cannot drink alcohol in moderation.

Alcohol doesn't bother me, sugar is a very different thing.

Your friend would go into complete meltdown if she saw my diet!!!!!! 🍰🎂🥞🍫☕🍪

I don't have a sweet tooth so don't eat sugary treats. I do however love salty, savoury treats and regularly have at least one packet of crisps everyday.

Why though? For example if my 'treat' of choice was a bar of Dairy Milk, what actual difference do you think it would make if I had one every day, or if I had one on Monday, Wednesday and Friday?

Mine too 🍩🍷🍫

I like both

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She would be appalled by me then!

Eugh, this is like the person who used to say to me "ooooh, aren't you naughty having a KitKat".
No, I'm having a KitKat. That's all.

Why though? For example if my 'treat' of choice was a bar of Dairy Milk, what actual difference do you think it would make if I had one every day, or if I had one on Monday, Wednesday and Friday?

Well you’d be cutting out nearly 1000 cal a week - so I suppose it depends if they are calories you need or ones you are just adding to an already filling diet. I’m not saying I would judge like your friend - she was rude. But for me it would definitely make a difference.

Why is daily too much?

I thought we all raided the cupboards for snacks after the kids had gone to bed

It is a Kitkat- not Meth.

Some people want to be miserable eating a lettuce leaf a week.

I can't eat sweet snacks without them going straight to my middle. Every now and then I think sod it, I'll have a pudding everyday, but I definitely pay the price! Even bloody chocolate-topped rice cakes are a no go🤤 I've developed a real sweet tooth in my old age, and would eat heaps of cream cakes, pastries, shortbread, if I could Enjoy your snacks and have one for me.

Labeling food as 'good' or 'bad' shows an unhealthy relationship with food so I ignore anyone who has comments like this.

ooooh, aren't you naughty having a KitKat

Absolutely agree that it's not 'naughty' to eat a kitkat, it's just a kitkat

However, eating a kitkat is guaranteed to set me up with an overwhelming urge to eat more and more. So I choose not to eat the first one to save myself from eating loads more, feeling lethargic and yes hungover and generally bleuch.

Not naughty, not good. I choose the treat and the consequences together

I’d say both YABU and YANBU.
It’s not the sugar I worry about, it’s the dozens of additional crap.

So I’d happily eat (and feed my children) daily any homemade treats that contain only flour, sugar, butter, eggs. Also good quality chocolate that’s pretty much cocoa and sugar only.

I wouldn’t eat highly processed treats daily.

a daily snack is not an issue unless you have some compelling health reason to avoid sugar.

Tell that to my cholesterol

I’m a slim size 8 but since starting to have a daily treat, my lipids have gone up from being ridiculously good to over the ‘normal’ range.

I wouldn't and I have a healthy relationship with food. If you have something every day it's not a "treat" it's part of your diet.

Or it's a daily treat.

Treats don't have to be something rare.