What's the dumbest thing you ever did food-wise?

trossk2

Before I ever cared or even paid the slightest attention to the food or calories consumed, I used to do some pretty shortsighted stuff with food.

The one thing that really sticks out is fast food hopping. The idea is to buy the best items from as many fast food places as you can find. We live just off a highway with way too many fast food joints, so you'd generally just get tired of going to another place. Well, $20 would buy a lot of food in the heyday of the dollar menu. By the time you get back each person has their own personal buffet of fast food. Burgers, tacos, fried fish, pastas, chili, etc. Name it. We had it, and we ate it all. Every one of those trips must have been 4k calories at a minimum. We've done that more times than I'd like to admit. It's the dumbest thing I've ever done with food.

What's yours?

Alatariel75

I would just hit the supermarket and buy a huge amount of food, with the full intention of a binge. I'm taking a while roast chicken, blocks of cheese, packs of cookies, sticks of salami, bags of candy... and just go home and eat. And eat. It was so wrong. It was basically self harm with food.

trossk2

From the looks of it, you've come a long way from that.

pie_eyes

Eat it

JSurita3

Simply over eating. Not paying attention to signals of being full. I had to learn that it's okay to leave food on the plate regardless of how many people are hungry in the world. It's not like I was feeding them by stuffing my face anyway. Waste is waste, whether it's in your body or in the trash. Now as soon as I'm satisfied (not stuffed), I'm done.

usmcmp

Breakfast at home followed by second breakfast at work, then a snack, then first lunch of fast food and second lunch was whatever I had packed, then two more snacks, then fast food on the way home from work where I would cook dinner, eat dinner, then have dessert.

That was a standard day for me.

nymphetstein

Skipping breakfast and making dinner the biggest meal of my day.

Eating "healthy" granola bars that were actually filled with sugar.

pie_eyes

JSurita3 wrote: »

Simply over eating. Not paying attention to signals of being full. I had to learn that it's okay to leave food on the plate regardless of how many people are hungry in the world. It's not like I was feeding them by stuffing my face anyway. Waste is waste, whether it's in your body or in the trash. Now as soon as I'm satisfied (not stuffed), I'm done.

True and its also hard to come to terms that you need nourishment

Lynzdee18

Baking bread. I had to quit cold turkey. If I hadn't who knows how much I would weigh. No. Willpower.

kommodevaran

Overeating out of habit and not reflecting on portion sizes and fear of wasting food. Not realising that I was eating badly, just because I was used to feeling bad. Listening to "official" guidelines and trying to eat low fat, boring food. Wasting money on low fat, boring food I had no intention on eating

Eating large amounts of chips and chocolate every day was unhealthy, but that ^ was just stupid.

jrevis001

Started binging when I was in fifth grade. I was home alone for a couple of hours each day after school. I wouldn't eat at school because I hated having people watch me put food in my body (I still do.... Can't stand eating in front of a large family gathering) so when I got home I would have lunch then a sweet snack, then a salty snack, a sweet snack again, and finally another salty snack. I remember it got so bad I had to hide there was a lot of food missing and moving boxes and cans around to trick my parents.

lisasjen

So I was once super slim and then ate an entire cheesecake filled sheet cake from Costco it triggered unrelenting hunger for several months that led to 20lbs of gain. (That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it) I'm an all or nothing kind of person:)

arditarose

Burned the roof of my mouth on a pop tart I put in the microwave. It was a week ago. Eight days later it still hurts so badly I have to take pain killers. Smart, I know.

GreenGoddess22

I once ate a dozen Krispy Kreme donuts in less than 24 hours.

I used to order half sheet cakes for special events such as birthdays, Mother's Day, etc. knowing darn good and well I'd have like half of the cake left over. Then I'd keep a fork in the bakery box and consume the rest of the cake in the next 1-2 days. It was really disgusting.

ThatFatAsianNerd

Apologies in advance for the length:

So around Christmas time out here in LA, you can go downtown and volunteer to serve warm food (not the typical warm meals that are limited that they usually give out to the homeless and destitute), but my first time volunteering, one of the guys in the kitchen left for a second and the food he was cooking in this weird "wok/pan fry" looking thing shot up in flames (normal in many restaurants but definitely not in this place). Anyway, I grabbed a bucket and filled it with the soap-water in the dishwasher (no dirty dishes in there at the time) and dumped it right inside of the pan.

Now, the fire did go out (wooohooo!), but its concaved shape was like a perfect 10-footer off the coast of La Jolla or some skate park my friends and I used to break into at night and quite a bit, if not most, of whatever that was inside that thing went "weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" straight into the next pan.

As I was serving food about an hour or so later, I heard one of the homeless persons say something like he "tasted like I ate a plate of 'laundry detergent" to another guy in line. The person next to me was like, "even on Christmas Eve when we're all showing these (insert derogatory term) some love, they gotta complain."

I was like, "hey, I mean I'm sure sometimes some of the things they say may have some truth in it, right? I don't think they're all crazy."

Then again, why the hell would the soup kitchen use laundry detergent to wash dishes?

PewterSky

nymphetstein wrote: »

Skipping breakfast and making dinner the biggest meal of my day.

Eating "healthy" granola bars that were actually filled with sugar.

This and eating for comfort or out of boredom in the middle of the night. Stupidest thing ever.
There was a time when I'd not eat anything all day long and then eat non stop after I'd get home from college. Dinner, then snacks, then some more dinner. It was bad.

trossk2

arditarose wrote: »

Burned the roof of my mouth on a pop tart I put in the microwave. It was a week ago. Eight days later it still hurts so badly I have to take pain killers. Smart, I know.

Wow. How long did you put it in for? I guess the filling stuck to the roof and just kept on scalding. That sucks.

Alatariel75

trossk2 wrote: »

From the looks of it, you've come a long way from that.

Yup, I have, and I'm pretty proud of it! It took a good long while though, and the sorting out of the underlying issues

arditarose

trossk2 wrote: »

arditarose wrote: »

Burned the roof of my mouth on a pop tart I put in the microwave. It was a week ago. Eight days later it still hurts so badly I have to take pain killers. Smart, I know.

Wow. How long did you put it in for? I guess the filling stuck to the roof and just kept on scalding. That sucks.

Only like 20 seconds. There's still a hole in the roof of my mouth.

trossk2

projectsix wrote: »

I used to eat a *kitten* tonne of mcdonalds .. like breakfast would be 3 x mcmuffins and 3 x hash browns

I did that a lot. There were fast food trifecta days too. McD's breakfast, Taco Bell lunch, and Arby's dinner.

Alatariel75 wrote: »

Yup, I have, and I'm pretty proud of it! It took a good long while though, and the sorting out of the underlying issues

Congrats. It's no small feat.

arditarose wrote: »

Only like 20 seconds. There's still a hole in the roof of my mouth.

You have my sympathy. I've taken a propane fireball to the face and a serious burn to the roof of my mouth. I'd take another fireball before the roof burn. Hair grows back and the quick light burns heal much faster.

ilfaith

While eating a sushi lunch with a business colleague, I popped what I believed to be a stray piece of avocado from a California roll into my mouth. Turned out to be a big blob of wasabi. Pretty sure I had steam coming out of my ears. A week later he sent me a package containing a ripe avocado. (We actually dated briefly. I remember seeing the Disney movie Aladdin with him. Wonder what ever happened to that guy. I'd Google him, but I don't recall his last name.)

beagletracks

I made an absolutely PERFECT pumpkin cheesecake for dessert at Thanksgiving, except I forgot to add the sugar.

pearso21123

peppermintpudgy wrote: »

I made an absolutely PERFECT pumpkin cheesecake for dessert at Thanksgiving, except I forgot to add the sugar.

If I'd been drinking something just now, I would have snorted it out my nose! At least it was probably easy to resist the temptation of eating that perfect pumpkin cheesecake.

trossk2

peppermintpudgy wrote: »

I made an absolutely PERFECT pumpkin cheesecake for dessert at Thanksgiving, except I forgot to add the sugar.

Lol.

blu_de_ville

I got mini alcohol bottles of the alphabet a-Apple vodka b-brandy c-captain Morgan ect. And mixed it all together and my friends and drank it

trossk2

Whoa, how was that? I bet not great...

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vegmebuff

I decided one year that I was going to present a 'healthy' dessert for Xmas dinner. So I proceeded to make a non-fat cottage cheese(dry curd) and yogurt cheese 'cake'(I know...I know...) Oh, and it was crustless too. There was no sugar in this dessert either, just a few pinches of Stevia. Lets just say the cake stuck in the pan and the whole thing just kind-of crumbled out (just like it's former cottage cheese texture). It tasted like cooked cottage cheese...

So, it's 4 pm on Xmas Day...15 guests are all on their way. What's a girl to do? So I ran out to the nearest open convenience store and bought 2 tubs of Breyer's Ice Cream - and because it was a convenience store, each tub was around $9 each too LOL

13bbird13

Eating - I once ate half a birthday cake in a single weekend.

Cooking - My one and only home-made loaf of bread came out the consistency of a cement block, I think because I used too much flour when kneading and then when it didn't really rise I figured 'oh well' and just put it in the oven anyway. I have a picture of it with the four biggest, heaviest books I own stacked on top of it, and it could probably have taken at least four more without caving in even a little bit.

trossk2

That. Is. Amazing. Did you try a piece?

Ashtoretet

nymphetstein wrote: »

Skipping breakfast and making dinner the biggest meal of my day.

Eating "healthy" granola bars that were actually filled with sugar.

This. I don't care about the sugar so much, but I thought they would help me lose weight because I didn't understand that it's calories that matter, nothing else, and granola bars tend to be fairly high calorie.