What bad food can't you live without?

IronBatMaiden
IronBatMaiden Posts: 377 Member
edited November 22 in Food and Nutrition
Everyone has some foods that they can't live without, but have to eat in moderation in order to be healthy.

Mine are the following:

Pizza
Fries
Cheeseburgers
Ice cream
Sherbet
Sour candy
White rice
Cheese
Hummus

What are yours?
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  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    I don't have any bad foods. I just eat everything in moderation. Favorite would include what you call bad though, like pizza, burgers, ice cream Pepsi, etc.
  • mommyvudu
    mommyvudu Posts: 99 Member
    I have a lot of tempting vices...oreos, nachos, pizza...so I just don't keep them around. Ever. I run in the opposite direction from them outside of an occasional piece of veggie pizza!
  • mccindy72
    mccindy72 Posts: 7,001 Member
    There's no 'bad' food. I don't eat a lot of pizza, because it's quite high in calories, and when I eat it, I want to eat more than one little piece. So I just bank calories so I can eat it the way I want to - eating under my calories for several days in a row, I'll have a good 1200 extra calories for the week by the time I get to the day I'm having my pizza, and I know I can indulge in it without worrying about going over on my calories for the week.
    Otherwise, as OP said, everything in moderation.
  • Kalikel
    Kalikel Posts: 9,603 Member
    Nature Valley Crunchy Granola Bars. They walk the line between good and bad, but are as bad as I get.

    I never gave them up, even when I was on a heavily restricted diet.

    I freaking love those things.
  • curiouschemist
    curiouschemist Posts: 23 Member
    Cheese... I've found myself buying GOOD cheese lately so that the 1oz serving is actually satisfying. The key to doing well for me is not cutting foods I love out, but learning how much a serving is and going for quality over quantity.
  • TnTWalter
    TnTWalter Posts: 345 Member
    what I love but tend to overeat on so try to limit: wine, gummy bears, oreos, pizza, lucky charms, did I mention wine?
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,251 Member
    Sour cream. I know it is off cream, but it's just delicious. And stinky mouldy cheeses.

    Other than things that are actually "off", I don't consider any food bad. I eat what I love in moderation.

  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,251 Member
    Everyone has some foods that they can't live without, but have to eat in moderation in order to be healthy.

    Mine are the following:

    Pizza
    Fries
    Cheeseburgers
    Ice cream
    Sherbet
    Sour candy
    White rice
    Cheese
    Hummus

    What are yours?

    How did hummus get in a list of "bad" foods with sour candy? I eat hummus and cheese for the nutrients in them. Just yesterday, I needed more calories, including more carbs and fats, but not many sugars, and I needed it to be in an easily eaten snack form for my ten minute break at work....Hummus with pretzel crisps worked perfectly to fill that need in my diet.

    Agreed, all "good food/bad food" aside, what's the issue with hummas? It's like.. chickpeas, garlic, olive oil and herbs, right?
  • curiouschemist
    curiouschemist Posts: 23 Member
    Everyone has some foods that they can't live without, but have to eat in moderation in order to be healthy.

    Mine are the following:

    Pizza
    Fries
    Cheeseburgers
    Ice cream
    Sherbet
    Sour candy
    White rice
    Cheese
    Hummus

    What are yours?

    How did hummus get in a list of "bad" foods with sour candy? I eat hummus and cheese for the nutrients in them. Just yesterday, I needed more calories, including more carbs and fats, but not many sugars, and I needed it to be in an easily eaten snack form for my ten minute break at work....Hummus with pretzel crisps worked perfectly to fill that need in my diet.

    Agreed, all "good food/bad food" aside, what's the issue with hummas? It's like.. chickpeas, garlic, olive oil and herbs, right?

    Sometimes it isn't the ingredients that people consider bad. It might be the portion sizes. Or what people are eating with other things. Hummus might be made of healthy things but it can be easy to over-eat and some people eat it with pita bread or chips which can also be easy to over eat.
  • ohmscheeks
    ohmscheeks Posts: 840 Member
    Pretty much any restaurant food, lol.
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    So I don't have any bad foods because I have a balanced diet, but I like an inappropriate AMOUNT of fries, chips, ben and jerry's, talenti, pizza, cheese, and beer with pretzels from time to time. Even when I eat a stupid amount of calories worth of these things, I've usually banked for it so I still don't consider it bad really.
  • Jelaan
    Jelaan Posts: 815 Member
    Chocolate because I have no self control not because it is "bad". I would love to be able to eat only one piece, but that one piece opens the floodgates :(.
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  • IsaackGMOON
    IsaackGMOON Posts: 3,358 Member
    I don't list foods good and bad... because everything is bad in abundance.

    Rocks. I just love that crunch.
  • vrpeacestar
    vrpeacestar Posts: 11 Member
    Pizza!
  • WinoGelato
    WinoGelato Posts: 13,454 Member
    Same as others... I Don't classify foods as good or bad, just foods that are more calorie dense and a little more challenging to work into my day. If I can't work them into a specific day, I'm usually able to plan to fit them in sometime during the week.

    These may include things like:
    Pizza
    Burgers
    Steak
    Cheese and Salami
    Indulgent Restaurant Meals
    Baked Goods

    Individual treats that are easier to fit into a single day if I really want them (not all on the same day!) include single servings of:

    Gelato/Ice Cream
    Packaged Cookies
    Chips

    Things I fit in pretty much every day include:
    Wine
    Dark Chocolate








  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    If the food has gone bad, I won't eat it
  • sharhealth
    sharhealth Posts: 20 Member
    malibu927 wrote: »
    If the food has gone bad, I won't eat it

    teehee

  • 970Mikaela1
    970Mikaela1 Posts: 2,013 Member
    I have a bacon cheeseburger at least one a week. A whole pizza probably once a month. A pint of ice cream every two weeks. And anything else that I can manage to fit in that sounds yummy. Except pancakes. They are evil. Maybe every few months......can't control the intake of buttery syrupy carbohydratey goodness.
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    I have a bacon cheeseburger at least one a week. A whole pizza probably once a month. A pint of ice cream every two weeks. And anything else that I can manage to fit in that sounds yummy. Except pancakes. They are evil. Maybe every few months......can't control the intake of buttery syrupy carbohydratey goodness.

    Really? Pancakes? I had no idea.
  • Original_Beauty
    Original_Beauty Posts: 180 Member
    Chaelaz wrote: »
    I don't have any bad foods. I just eat everything in moderation. Favorite would include what you call bad though, like pizza, burgers, ice cream Pepsi, etc.

    I completely agree!!! We need to get out of this mentality that food is bad or good.
  • IronBatMaiden
    IronBatMaiden Posts: 377 Member
    Everyone has some foods that they can't live without, but have to eat in moderation in order to be healthy.

    Mine are the following:

    Pizza
    Fries
    Cheeseburgers
    Ice cream
    Sherbet
    Sour candy
    White rice
    Cheese
    Hummus

    What are yours?

    How did hummus get in a list of "bad" foods with sour candy? I eat hummus and cheese for the nutrients in them. Just yesterday, I needed more calories, including more carbs and fats, but not many sugars, and I needed it to be in an easily eaten snack form for my ten minute break at work....Hummus with pretzel crisps worked perfectly to fill that need in my diet.

    Agreed, all "good food/bad food" aside, what's the issue with hummas? It's like.. chickpeas, garlic, olive oil and herbs, right?

    Yes but it's very dense in calories.
  • IronBatMaiden
    IronBatMaiden Posts: 377 Member
    Man! A lot of people here can't live without pizza either.
  • sevenofnine01
    sevenofnine01 Posts: 54 Member
    Wine. And Peanut butter. I'd never live without those two things.

    On the healthier side - eggs. Everyday. I'd be lost without them.
  • LaurenNotLaura
    LaurenNotLaura Posts: 64 Member
    Pizza is definitely a fav. I make my own with whole wheat thin crust, and add lots of veggies to make up for that. I find anything that you make yourself can be satisfying, and done up a lot healthier than store/restaurant versions. Oh, and chocolate, what kind of woman would I be if I didn't love chocolate lol
  • tinaolsson
    tinaolsson Posts: 109 Member
    Pizza and chips. :love: But it's okay to eat those things every now and then. :smile:
  • Shells918
    Shells918 Posts: 1,070 Member
    Dunkin Donuts iced Oreo coffee OR the Oreo coolata. I always have a lot of extra calories so I can usually work one of them in once a week. It's that not having sugar thing that kills me!


    Also any dark chocolate. I'm waiting till my bday (maybe) to have that.


    Oh and a bagel. I'm not sure I'll eat one of those for a long time.
  • aledba
    aledba Posts: 564 Member
    darlswife wrote: »
    Also any dark chocolate. I'm waiting till my bday (maybe) to have that.

    Dark chocolate, like real dark chocolate, is not bad for you.

  • DeguelloTex
    DeguelloTex Posts: 6,652 Member
    Water. I know it's a chemical. I know it has no nutritional value. I know too much is bad for me and will even kill me. Even so, every day -- every single damned day -- I have some.
  • AllOutof_Bubblegum
    AllOutof_Bubblegum Posts: 3,646 Member
    There are no "bad foods", only bad portions. But I always eat bad portions of Oreos and Wheat Thins. I don't know what is is about those addictive little b!tches, but I can't have them in the house, I'll polish off an entire package of either within a single day.
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