survey:"junk" what foods do u consider to be junk food?

Junk food is anything I shovel into my mouth mindlessly in large, caloric quantity (aka binge on). Note that this means certain foods are only junk when bought in "Family Size" packages. Everything else is fair game.

Processed foods. Foods made with HFCS ( i dont care what the govt. subsidized farmers tell you in their commercial), foods made with GMO grains, meats from animals on an unnatural diet....all this being said, i will occassionally eat foods like this when i get in a crunch for time, or i am on cheat day, but more often go for whole ingredients. One unhealthy meal does not make you unhealthy, but one healthy meal will not make you healthy!

@NonnyMary - Couldn't just take that 5 minutes to think of everything and then post once? :huh:

I'm with the people who don't consider any food junk. I'm also with the people who say the foods they hate are junk. Thirdly, the silly recipes for pancakes, cookies, pizza crusts, and fries where 1 or more of the ingredients are applesauce, bananas, and/or cauliflower I would consider junk, as in they've been ruined by people who think mashed frozen bananas = ice cream.

naw,,, lol.... it just came to me like that

Twinkies, Pop-tarts, chocolate milk, Tostino cheese pizza rolls, plain bagels (they're ok if you put cream cheese on em), baked chips, low fat mayo, green olives, or anything else I don't like.

PS I will still eat the pizza rolls because they are convenient, but I definitely don't like them as much as I used to.

Things I think of as junk food are cookies, desserts, chips, anything fried, soda, candy, and fast food.

I would classify some foods as junk if after eating them that I would want to continue eating them well past my daily budget, and that don't leave me very satisfied not long thereafter.
Another way of looking at it for me are foods that are mostly sugar, and or cream/oil.

Probably the simplest way I look at it is a food is junk if I can't eat a large amount of it in one day and both fit my daily goals and feel good afterwards.

Like this, a food may be junk one day, and not another, or eating some of it may not be junk, but eating lots of it would be.

Probably the simpler answer is junk food = candy, sweets, cakes, pies, and snack foods. Not sure I would call junk food bad, but they are foods that are a bit more 'dangerous', in that eating them requires more deliberate moderation. My body naturally tells me to stop eating chicken, veggies and rice when I'm full, and near my daily goals, without really tracking in the same way. When I do that with peanut butter, candy or other snacks, ie. chips, then it's really quite easy to go way over my goals.

Good question!

Chips, candy, cookies,cake, pie, bread, sweetened beverages including bottled juices, anything with added sugar, anything with hydrogenated oils, pancakes, donuts, individual packets of sweetened oatmeal, cured meats, french fries, pasta, batter fried anything.

I cry for you.

Things that I don't want to eat.

I try not to call food dirty names.

Junk food is something past expiration that gets thrown in the garbage or something that does not taste good and you throw it away.

Everything else is just food.

Things that I consider junk food is anything that is high in fat, carbs, sugar, cals and sodium that also totally lack of substance...pretty much no nutrition. If I have to feel guilty for eating it, then it is junk food to me. With that said, moderation is key because you can not deprive yourself of the foods that you like 100% of the time.

To me, junk is anything that has calories and no nutritional value. Things like chips and candy bars.

exactly what i was going to say

Junk food = Any food that I actually want to eat and makes me smile (besides fruit).

To me, junk is anything that has calories and no nutritional value. Things like chips and candy bars.

Please explain this "no nutritional value" statement.

Stop being obtuse ... You know what they mean ... Nutritional Value, i.e. vitamins and minerals ... not added synthetic ones, either, but naturally occurring ones ... not just empty calories ... There is more to nutrition than MACROS, there are also these little things called Micronutrients, which are just as important to meet ... Sure, you can eat a diet of nothing but PopTarts and Oreos, and still lose weight, but you will run into some sort of nutritional deficiency along the way ...

I only describe fast food like mcdonalds and kfc as junk

Junk food is food-like substances manufactured in a factory, containing several chemical additives and that provides little to help me meet my nutritional goals. A better definition is what junk food is not: my grandmother's apple pie, homemade brownies, basil leaves, fresh mozzarella, and a grape tomato on a toothpick, a banana and Nutella crepe,oh, I do eat some pre-packaged items, Dutch Cocoa summersaults. They look like tiny cookies, but are full of seeds. I just found them recently.