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But like I say, there's degrees of full, isn't there?
Its a survival response from when we swung from the trees in Olduvia gorge..
The calories are better inside us then potentially rotting on the ground or being stolen by the neighbourhood sabre tooth chickens..
We didnt know when the next meal was coming so it made sense to gorge while there was a glut...
No trees in the Olduvai gorge. We were plains animals walking upright 🙂
What about the sabre tooth chickens?
Anything, literally anything that you can take out of the cupboard/fridge/freezer and eat, and i'll finish the lot on the day i buy it.
Yoghurts, crips, ice-creams, chocolate bars, biscuits, those oatmeal things, any sugary cereal (esp the white cholate and raspberry one from sainsburys), cream cakes, donuts, malt loaf, cycling energy bars, beer, wine, lemnonade etc etc..
i must only stock food that requires preparation! i never feel full.
The worst things is "pre-justification" by saying to myself, its ok, i'll cycle it off tomorrow, then it'll rain or some other minor excuse and i won't ride.
Chocolate digestives - like crack cocaine.
But I'm terrible for eating all sorts of sweet stuff. If I carry on like this, I'll have no teeth left in my head and will be blind with diabtets.
Hence, I started a diet today...
I feel humbled to be in the presence of such greedy greatness. The best I can offer is once a bag of Tangfastics is opened they must be eaten. Trouble is, mostly this seems to happen at night, so even 3am comes and goes without sleep troubling my head....
I thought I read somewhere there was a milk shake type thing sold by one of the burger 'restaurants' that was 2000 calories a pop. So a multiple of one would do it!
edit: ah yes, here it is:
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Never go shopping hungry...
Hungry and about to go shopping...
Ritz crackers and Philadelhia -light if it makes a difference.
I don't trust myself with sausage rolls or Pringles...
So will buy fruit and bananas 🙂
How the hell can you eat 3 tubes of Pringles???
As others have said, Jaffa Cakes. Never buy just one pack, you need a second pack to distract everyone else whilst you trough the first one.
I used to get catering packs of Haribo from a cash & carry. Fatal. Maltesers also.
A favourite hangover cure used to be a Jamaican Ginger Cake. I'd sit there and eat it straight from the wrapper like a Mars bar.
Mars Bars.
At college, after lunch (large chips and curry from the chippie typically) I'd sometimes raid the supermarket for dessert. Common choices included a whole family sized lemon meringue pie, a triple pack of Fox's Crunch Creams (split half with a mate) (sometimes), or a three-pack of Cadbury's Caramels.
I'm now 38, 5'10" and around 11 stone. No, I'm not quite sure how, either.
+1 Jaffa Cakes
malt loaf
pork pies
tubes of primula cheese (sucked straight from the tube - but none of that prawn flavoured sh!te; plain or "with chives" only) nomnomnomnom
McVities Digestives (large packet) and a big mug of tea.
Big tub of olives.
Flying saucers.
Cashews or pistachios are pretty bad, but KP chilli nuts are more moreish than crack.
And to add insult to injury they make your ring sting BAD.
Nuts now banned from house and I'm half a stone lighter!
Frazzles
Tangfastics
Ben & Jerry's Choc macademia or Fudge brownie ice cream
Melton Mobray Pork Pies
Jaffa Cakes
Brownie bites from the supermarket
plain choc chip cookies
Salt & vinegar sticks
Wispa's
All seem to just evaporate as soon as they enter the house.
Leftover chinese/curry/spag bol. I can't help going back for "just a little bit more".
Digestives.
Hobnobs (especially chocolate ones).
Golden Crunch.
Bourbons.
Mini pasties.
And surprisingly, cucumber. Although I do tend to smother it in philadelphia if we have any, so probably not that healthy.
Our local farmshop does a 1.3kg bag of broken biscuits. £3. And they are top quality, lots of chocs and creams. I hope it's a one off job lot as their sell by date is end August. We bought them as they were cheap but at the rate they get eaten we are spending a lot of money on biscuits.
What is it that makes people carry on eating, even when they know their full?
By an extraordinary stroke of luck, evolution has provided me with an entirely separate cake stomach. No matter how much I've eaten, there is always room for pudding 😛 Sadly for me, my work has a free canteen, and the 3 cakes a day diet is not consistent with happy cycling 🙁
For me it's definitely Tunnocks teacakes. Box of 10, gone in a matter of minutes 😳 I've had to stop buying them because it's physically impossible to have them in the house for longer than the time it takes to stuff them in my gob.
Cheesy Doritos in a bowl layered with mature cheddar.
45 seconds in the microwave and you have delicious real cheesy doritos.
Can't believe no-one else has mentioned these.
Choccy biscuit cake from the nice coffee place in our local park.
Apart from that, not really interested in unhealthy food (the odd curry and pizza but that's it) - wife cooks lovely food that's all good for us.
But exercising a lot means I can drink beer without feeling too bad!
Try being hungry and shopping at a cash and carry!!! I have to be 'accompanied' now, Haribo by the bucket, Oreos by the box, sitting down to tuck into a'catering pack' of anything on your own is soo wrong but oh soo right at the same time!!
sitting down to tuck into a'catering pack' of anything on your own is soo wrong but oh soo right at the same time!!
Hail! Well met fellow proper catering pack glutton! None of that 'family pack' nonsense with you.
Oh - I once ate the entire McDonalds menu in a night about 20 years ago.
MrsSwadey is away for the week so I'm in charge - she'd arranged a Tesco delivery to arrive the day she left so me and the kids didn't go hungry.
She'd also ordered a few treats as well. First evening saw a tub of Franke and Bennys Chocolate Fudge Brownie disappear. Second night a big pack of Kettle chips. Third night a big pack of peanuts and raisins - some of which were in chocolate.
[adopts irritating Geordie accent] It's night 4 in the Fat Brother house, and the crunchy nut cornflakes are under pressure.......
Swadey -I may be over shortly to join you.
Chocolate coated raisins only last a few minutes in the bunnyhop household even at catering pack size.
We can't buy jaffa cakes, dark chocolate digestives, anything made by Tunnocks or pringles. It would all disappear within an hour.
The guilty eating pleasures of single people who work at home shouldn't be divulged.
Anything mini sized, especially Thorntons mini caramel shortcake
Tootie Frooties
Bourbon biscuits
Blueberries
Not exactly bulk packed, but things that once opened, dont get stored anywhere other than my stomach.... or in "his hollow legs" as everyone suggests without realising how agonisingly predicatable they've become
Sainsburys fig roll biscuits. Whole pack is devoured within 1.5 minutes of opening everytime, usually at work whilst someone looks on in semi disgust.
Mars milk drink in 1 litre cartons, down in one.
Cheapo sinew, eyeball, and sphincter meat sausage rolls, pack of 8 with half bottle of HP sauce on.... Mmmmm
Have a serious weakness for biscuits, once they're open they're gone. Fox's are a particular favourite. Cup of tea is a great excuse for even more biscuits.
Pretty much anything fried and 'packaged in a protective atmosphere' -crisps, scratchings etc. Mrs Ambrose tries to hide them... Pickled Eggs- I've got a production line going now, alongside the homebrew.
And cheese. And Salami, and decent bread.
I'm off for a bite to eat
God I'm hungry after reading all that! I clearly haven't been gorging in the way I should have been. Lots of the above will be on my shopping list tomorrow.
Beer or Cider. If I buy it, I drink it. It doesn't keep. Even in tins. Kept in the freezer. It just doesn't keep.
Milka chocolate in them big bars you can get from home bargains for £1.27. I refuse to buy the stuff now as I can nail a whole bar in one sitting.
I generally eat a very healthy and balanced diet.
But Whittakers Ghana Peppermint choc is like crack cocaine in our house. I inadvertently ate a whole bar the other night in a single sitting. Appaling. We've had to ban it because its like one massive After Eight in a bar and you just can't leave it !!
Jaffa cakes
Red Wine (I never buy boxes as 3 litres only lasts a few days 😳 )
Pistachio nuts (sp!)
'Posh' bacon
White bread with real butter and pigs' toenail ham. Gone in 30 seconds.
How amusing that this thread is triggering an ad for [url= http://www.thedietsolutionprogram.com/burnfatg.aspx ]this[/url] up there top right.
Biscuits, sweets and cakes are all doomed around me, but I'm glad to see I'm not the only fat ba$tard trawling the pages here 🙂
Also Peanut butter and jam on toast, I hate the american's for claiming this excellent invention!
Red Wine (I never buy boxes as 3 litres only lasts a few days )
Yeah. I once started buying box wine rather than bottles so that I could have "a glass" of wine rather than a whole bottle. I found the flaw in that particular train of logic the hard way.
Waking up in the armchair at about 5am, lying with my back on the seat, my legs slung over the back of the chair and my head dangling off into space, I felt was nature's way of saying "stop buying wine in boxes."
Also Peanut butter and jam on toast, I hate the american's for claiming this excellent invention!
I got horrifically addicted to PBJ butties back when I was dating an American lass, to a point now where I buy American "Jif" peanut butter at vastly inflated prices from Selfridges, and whenever anyone goes on holiday to the States and offers to bring me something back I've shelved my bourbon order in favour of Smucker's Strawberry Jelly. It's the one true way, I've not yet found a worthy UK substitute.
Dates - oh I love dates.
Whisky - I have stopped treating myself to any specials at the Co-Op now. Most of a bottle in one evening then enough left over a for a tipple the next was a waste of good whisky. I could have just drunk turps.
Thinking about it, I really should be a fat knacker. I do apologise.
Oh man, how could I forget.
Chip butties. Extra-thick white bread, proper chips, salt and vinegar, Heinz ketchup, real butter that's running off your elbows by the end.
I once went for lunch in a local pub and ordered two chip butties, the bardroid said "are you sure, they are rather large?" I scoffed them and went back for a third, the guy said, incredulously, "if you eat it, you can have it for free." Easy. Omnomnom.
Those Snakes from Natural Confectionery Company
Cougar - there are plenty of websites that sell that stuff.
There's a store in the mall at Milton Keynes that sells 'merican foods, it's good for jelly beans but the rest is such shit (sorry Cougar), massively ****ed about with to within an inch of being an industrial process rather than food.
Will look out for your Jam though.
Home-made pies, pasties, sausage rolls and scotch eggs from the local butcher. They really are the nuts.
I'd never tried pickled eggs before last week as the concept just seemed so wrong. Then I thought 'how can anything pickled be wrong?'. I shall not be keeping them in stock though as I reckon you'd be pretty offensive on every level after troughing a jar of those (which I would undoubtedly do) 😀
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Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of things the US gets wrong, but sometimes they get things very right. PB&J sammiches rates fairly highly in the latter category.
IMO, etc etc.