Five foods to NEVER avoid...True or False?

BrainyBurro
BrainyBurro Posts: 6,129 Member
edited January 26 in Food and Nutrition
pie
pizza
donuts
pop tarts
cheeseburgers

there is nothing wrong with ANY food. eaten in moderation, you can include any food you like into your diet. there is no benefit in deprivation diets. food is simply fuel. it's a delivery system for your micro- and macro-nutrient requirements. so long as you are getting adequate amounts of nutrients, where the nutrients come from is completely irrelevant.

i don't understand why people come to MFP or other calorie counting sites with archaic deprivation diet mindsets. are logic, common sense, and critical thinking more rare in today's world than i presume them to be? :huh:

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  • majope
    majope Posts: 1,325 Member
    You should most DEFINITELY avoid ALL of those foods--except PopTarts







    ...if you are wearing a crisp white shirt. Unless the doughnut does not have a filling or lots of messy topping on it, in which case, why are you eating it?
  • Delicate
    Delicate Posts: 625 Member
    Dont eat any of them anyway

    except pie

    Steak and guiness pie mmm protein and fat
  • bagge72
    bagge72 Posts: 1,377 Member
    I feel like this is all made up so people can start threads about it. I really don't think I see a lot of posts about it, and if I do it's people just asking about it, and then a whole crowd of people asking them why the heck they wouldn't eat pizza, because they eat it 12 nights a week, and lost weight. It really is just one of those threads along with bacon, starvation, and I lift heavy why don't you, that people make to call out fictional people so the popular people will reply with cheers, well done, so true, and things like that.
  • Jxnsmma
    Jxnsmma Posts: 919 Member
    Why do you care what other people do? Go eat your cheeseburgers and pop tarts. That shiznit goes straight to my *kitten*...

    Thanks for caring.
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    pie
    pizza
    donuts
    pop tarts
    cheeseburgers

    False. Always avoid pop tarts and donuts, they are crap. Pie, pizza and cheeseburgers should be avoided if they are not made with quality ingredients, because why waste calories on crappy food.
  • ST99000722
    ST99000722 Posts: 204 Member
    because why waste calories on crappy food.


    ^ This exactly
  • SoDamnHungry
    SoDamnHungry Posts: 6,998 Member
    You can avoid any food if you don't like it. Or if you feel it doesn't work for your diet or lifestyle. Or you're morally opposed. Or you just don't think it's worth the money. My favorite food is of the Nunya variety. Nunya business.
  • LoraF83
    LoraF83 Posts: 15,694 Member
    pie
    pizza
    donuts
    pop tarts
    cheeseburgers

    False. Always avoid pop tarts and donuts, they are crap. Pie, pizza and cheeseburgers should be avoided if they are not made with quality ingredients, because why waste calories on crappy food.

    Your definition of crap and mine must be very different because I happen to find pop tarts and donuts to be delicious. And sometimes, I really like cheap, crappy pizza. Papa John's is my favorite.

    There are times I want something "artisanal" or "hand crafted" and there are times that I want something covered in gooey cheese and dripping in grease. Why can't I have both?

    To each their own right?
  • stealthSLOTH
    stealthSLOTH Posts: 695 Member
    burro burrito - mmm! no foods are off limits!
  • jillwhite12
    jillwhite12 Posts: 102 Member
    I had a delicious Boston Cream Donut yesterday... and it fit into my calorie goal :)
  • cleotherio
    cleotherio Posts: 712 Member
    maybe i was being a bit of a smart aleck with my title, but i never, ever mentioned that this thread was directed at any specific person on this site.

    I can see that. These "5 foods to avoid????!?!?!?" questions come up at least once a day (probably based on the banner ad that comes up and looks like an MFP article).
  • I feel like this is all made up so people can start threads about it. I really don't think I see a lot of posts about it, and if I do it's people just asking about it, and then a whole crowd of people asking them why the heck they wouldn't eat pizza, because they eat it 12 nights a week, and lost weight. It really is just one of those threads along with bacon, starvation, and I lift heavy why don't you, that people make to call out fictional people so the popular people will reply with cheers, well done, so true, and things like that.

    Oh, thought it was made up to get curious people to click links to adverts.
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    pie
    pizza
    donuts
    pop tarts
    cheeseburgers

    False. Always avoid pop tarts and donuts, they are crap. Pie, pizza and cheeseburgers should be avoided if they are not made with quality ingredients, because why waste calories on crappy food.

    Your definition of crap and mine must be very different because I happen to find pop tarts and donuts to be delicious. And sometimes, I really like cheap, crappy pizza. Papa John's is my favorite.

    There are times I want something "artisanal" or "hand crafted" and there are times that I want something covered in gooey cheese and dripping in grease. Why can't I have both?

    To each their own right?


    Absolutely right. If you want to eat crap or two pizzas, that is your business. If everyone stopped eating crap a lot of people would lose their jobs. But, that Papa John dude only uses quality ingredients. He told me so on TV.
  • SteveJWatson
    SteveJWatson Posts: 1,225 Member
    Dont eat any of them anyway

    except pie

    Steak and guiness pie mmm protein and fat

    In for the meat pies - Steak and Kidney for me, and none of your 'shop bought, light on the kidney' pie, either - I want me some home-made, plenty of offal cos yer mum is stingy pie.

    NOM.
  • ironanimal
    ironanimal Posts: 5,922 Member
    Pie... ew. Happy to pass. Pop tarts? Never had one. Never seen them in the shops here. Would defo try them though.

    Now.

    Pizza - stonebaked, thin based and preferably from a Pizzeria. Yes. All of the yes.

    Doughnuts - Sugar coated, filled with custard. Get in my face you sexy mofo.

    Cheeseburgers - are life. A half pounder with cheese and salad and fresh mustard and quality tomato sauce.... mmmmmmmmm
  • jofjltncb6
    jofjltncb6 Posts: 34,415 Member
    :drinker: ...

    ...well done...

    ...so true...

    ...and things like that.
  • susannamarie
    susannamarie Posts: 2,148 Member
    But but ... I don't LIKE poptarts!
  • Pearsquared
    Pearsquared Posts: 1,656 Member
    But but ... I don't LIKE poptarts!
    Eat the poptart...Eat it!

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  • MelsAuntie
    MelsAuntie Posts: 2,833 Member
    pie
    pizza
    donuts
    pop tarts
    cheeseburgers

    there is nothing wrong with ANY food. eaten in moderation, you can include any food you like into your diet. there is no benefit in deprivation diets. food is simply fuel. it's a delivery system for your micro- and macro-nutrient requirements. so long as you are getting adequate amounts of nutrients, where the nutrients come from is completely irrelevant.

    i don't understand why people come to MFP or other calorie counting sites with archaic deprivation diet mindsets. are logic, common sense, and critical thinking more rare in today's world than i presume them to be? :huh:


    Agreed, though I don't like pop-tarts or cheeseburgers and I can take donuts or leave them.
  • MelsAuntie
    MelsAuntie Posts: 2,833 Member
    But but ... I don't LIKE poptarts!
    Eat the poptart...Eat it!

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    No.
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