Do you keep snacks like chocolate, biscuits or crisps in? Is there anything you can't have in the house?

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I love to have a variety of things in at all times, to go with a cup of tea. Today's choice was some chocolate-dipped marshmallows. We have a lot of different flavours of ice cream in the fridge because again I like the variety, I like being able to choose something different whenever I fancy rather than just having one thing. Never feel compelled to eat all of them in one go because they are there.

But I cannot do this with crisps! Crisps are the one thing where I can't leave them alone, so would eat far too many. I love crisps but cannot be trusted to buy them in bulk, they won't last. I buy a single serving packet of crisps if I really fancy them instead, even though it's more expensive to buy them like this.

If majorly stressed and losing my appetite, interestingly crisps are still one thing I can always eat without having to force it. When my mum was dying I ate a LOT of crisps and just went with it.

Do you have any snack that is so moreish and palatable you would keep wandering back for another helping, and so tend not to buy?

These are clearly extras, not staples or food for meals. I don’t eat the families meals in one sitting. But if it’s a bar of Cadbury’s I might.

I call big bags “free flow” I can’t be trusted either.

Crisps for me too. Fortunately DH and the kids love cheese and onion which is the one flavour I hate so we keep those in the house.

Bendicks bittermints. Luckily they are expensive so only for occasions. We keep biscuits in for visitors but I'm not that interested. Never buy crisps, don't like them.

I don't restrict, only on cost basis. If I eat it all in one go it doesn't really matter, but I wouldn't buy for example 20 bars of chocolate because that would cost a lot of money.

I do tend to buy separate snacks for different people or we each have a "share" otherwise DS1 would eat everything that is intended for everyone.

It doesn't really bother me as I've got older, when my daughter was young I didn't buy chocolate or crisps etc as I'd eat them. Now there is loads of crisps and chocolate and other snacks in the kitchen and I'm not really interested.
Point of interest... currently I don't really 'diet', just try to eat mindfully, prefer to have a protein bar or an apple as a snack etc, and reduce carbs. If I really want a biscuit or something I'll have one.
The times in my life its been much more likely I'd go pacman on the contents of the cupboards have been when I've dieted more strictly.

Nuts.

We have a fair amount of junk in our house and I'm going to blame my DH here; he loves crisps, sweeties and chocolate. Crisps I can for the most part take or leave so that's not a problem for me (although occasionally with an aperitif I really fancy some, and pre meeting DH I just wouldn't have had them in the house). The sweeties I have no interest in but now I am firmly in the habit of wanting something sweet in the evening after dinner and therefore eating some chocolate as there's a cupboard full of it. I'm also the heaviest I've ever been, which is partly working much longer hours, partly age, and partly now having all of this stuff in the house so with the best will in the world sometimes I eat it. Humph.
We also have some biscuits and I do love a few biscuits with a cup of tea (if left to my own devices I could polish off loads and loads of biscuits, provided I've got tea to dunk them in) - I therefore try to restrain myself and only eat them on a weekend afternoon.

I can't think of any cuisine that doesn't have snack foods!

Salt and vinegar posh crisps (kettle chips and the like).
Naturli vegan spread (posh vegan butter) especially if we also have hot cross buns in the house. Lethal.

Cheese sandwich biscuits and co.op cheesey puffs. Can't stop at 1.

Same. I've had a packet of chocolate biscuits in my cupboard since Jan, I recently threw away the remains of last year's Easter egg, but I can't have crisps in because I'd inhale even the biggest family size bag in one go.

We have snack foods, but they have to last the week. If we eat them on the first day then there are none left for other days. I buy a bar of chocolate that usually lasts 5 days so I go without on two days. Two days is okay as it's not long until shopping day but I wouldn't want to eat it all in one day and have none all week.

No, never have anything like biscuits, cakes or crisps.

There are unopened packs of biscuits for cheese left over from Christmas, which I’ll throw out very soon. There may be frost bitten ice cream in the freezer from last summer when the kids bought it.

Curiously Cinnamon cereal. I don't know what it is about it since other sweetened cereals don't float my boat and I don't like cinnamon, but if there's an open box of it in the house I'll have several bowlfuls (dry, like crisps) in the evening and it will be gone in two or three days. Seeing it on the shelf labelled Children's Cereals in the supermarket helped me to think, "No, not for me."

I can manage portion control fine with other "treat" foods and we've always got chocolate, crisps, biscuits and ice cream at home.

Well, I'm not really understanding what there is to understand about snacking as a concept.

Perhaps it is something to do with preferring to eat smaller amounts more frequently, as opposed to eating a larger meals in one go?

Mid-afternoon I'll drink two cups of tea, and frequently have a piece of chocolate or whatever. On other days when I don't want something sweet, it will be olives/ cheese/ nuts. In the evening watching my show I might have some ice cream.

It's as and when I fancy it because I quite simply enjoy it.

Chocolate bars. But I'm dairy free due to a daughter with CMPA so I've gone cold turkey. 😭

For my husband it's fig rolls.

Can't walk to the shop so we always have crisps and cake and chocolate and stuff like that in in case we want it or have guests or something. If it doesn't get eaten it won't go off. Drinks too. If it all got eaten I'd just buy more, not a problem

Can't have Pringles in or those sensations honey salted nuts

If I am in the mood, ie ARFID allows..

Crisps - cannot have them, will eat the lot no matter how many, what flavour, whatever.

Malted Milk biscuits... ditto Biscoff biscuits. Jaffa cakes (in fact Jaffas are one thing ARFID has never said no to..)

However if ARFID kicks in and i go off something, it can sit for months and I don't care.

Chocolate I can ignore it, I can have a bit and put it back, ignore it again for months. I've been that person who still has easter chocolate at Christmas, or who still has last years Christmas chocs at the following Christmas... to my knowledge there are two whole and four partially consumed easter eggs in the house plus Montezumas giant buttons, plus half a pack of After Eights.

There are no crisps. Not after the row I had with OH who, after being told the diet was really fucking serious this time, no crisps, no bad shit and if he wanted it, have one pack and eat it in the car or when I am not there... he brought in a fucking 24 pack of Seabrooks! Either they're in the car or he ate the lot as they're not in the house now!

OP your array of Ice cream flavours would not last 24 hours in my freezer. I buy it… I eat it.