Do you not keep certain foods around?

Christismylife
Christismylife Posts: 93 Member
edited November 21 in Health and Weight Loss
Do you have foods that are too much of a trigger/temptation so you just don't keep them around the house? I understand eating in moderation and no foods are truly off limits with counting calories. But do you personally find it helpful to keep certain foods out of your house?
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  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    So many sweets. Ice cream (hubby's weakness) as well as cookies, snack cakes, etc (my weakness)...and we have to be careful about what chocolate we have on hand. Fun size Snickers or Kit Kat? NO. Nutella? Generally no...that's gotta be for a recipe or specific meal usage, like banana hazelnut crepes once a year. Semisweet baking chips? Sure. Nice blocks of better quality dark chocolate? Yes, often, we can control ourselves with that.

    Nothing else poses an issue though. We're both sweets freaks.
  • Hichiko
    Hichiko Posts: 97 Member
    I can't have chips/crisps, sweet junk food, or things like pizza rolls in the house. I binge them baaaaaad.
  • tomteboda
    tomteboda Posts: 2,171 Member
    I used to have to eliminate things from the house. Now, well, my diet could probably use fewer cookies but whatever.
  • DEBOO7
    DEBOO7 Posts: 245 Member
    In 3+ years I have only had to ban one thing...... but I'd probably be ok now as I have new habits.
    Peanut butter (or any nut butter for that matter).
    One teaspoon leads to two... three... four... half a jar!
  • estherdragonbat
    estherdragonbat Posts: 5,283 Member
    JustRobby1 wrote: »
    I used to buy huge boxes of 48 Nature Valley bars from Sam's Club. Kind bars also. Yeah, ummmm, that was a bad idea. Those things just taste too dang good too keep around in mass quantity. Quest Bars I can keep around because they are about like chewing on road tar and I just eat them for their ability to hold me over. I do buy those in bulk :smile:

    I ration the Nature Valley bars. One crumbled on my Greek yogurt and grapes six days out of seven for breakfast.

    Forgot to mention I don't buy many vegetable dips anymore. I am perfectly capable of sitting with a pint of cherry tomatoes and a sliced English cuke and dunking them into a container of chipotle dip (a local deli makes it. It's probably mayo with chipotle blended in) until the veggies or dip are totally consumed. It wouldn't be terrible if my husband ate it too, but he doesn't like spicy the way I do.
  • SCoil123
    SCoil123 Posts: 2,111 Member
    There are certain cereals that I will eat the box in a sitting so I just don't buy them anymore
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    We buy so many things in bulk (rice, lentils, beans, spices, certain produce & even cheese) but when it comes to anything sweet we're more likely to be out at an ice cream shop paying full price for 1 scoop. My husband always says that one pint is a serving and Halo Top just won't cut it.
  • JustRobby1
    JustRobby1 Posts: 674 Member
    edited September 2017
    estherdragonbat wrote: »
    JustRobby1 wrote: »
    I used to buy huge boxes of 48 Nature Valley bars from Sam's Club. Kind bars also. Yeah, ummmm, that was a bad idea. Those things just taste too dang good too keep around in mass quantity. Quest Bars I can keep around because they are about like chewing on road tar and I just eat them for their ability to hold me over. I do buy those in bulk :smile:

    I ration the Nature Valley bars. One crumbled on my Greek yogurt and grapes six days out of seven for breakfast.

    Forgot to mention I don't buy many vegetable dips anymore. I am perfectly capable of sitting with a pint of cherry tomatoes and a sliced English cuke and dunking them into a container of chipotle dip (a local deli makes it. It's probably mayo with chipotle blended in) until the veggies or dip are totally consumed. It wouldn't be terrible if my husband ate it too, but he doesn't like spicy the way I do.

    Oh yes, sweet and salty cashew nature valley bars crushed up and topped on yogurt is pure heaven. Though I was just about certain I was not the only person on the planet that had that idea, and now my hunch is confirmed :) Kind makes bags of clusters that are similarly wonderful for this purpose. The peanut butter is a fav. 120 cals per 1/4 cup, which is more than adaquate for single serving yogurt cups
  • ladyrkill
    ladyrkill Posts: 12 Member
    Chips and ice cream are always my downfall so I am trying very hard not to have them in the house anymore. Whenever I was bored or going through a stressful time I would sit on the couch and munch on a bag of low sodium kettle chips the entire day!!
  • MarziPanda95
    MarziPanda95 Posts: 1,326 Member
    Crisps. I can't really buy multipacks, or I'll eat them all, or at least 2 or 3 packs. So when I feel like crisps, I'll usually buy a singular pack. If I keep any foods in my room other than dry stuff (I'm a student, my shared kitchen is very small and doesn't fit everything in) I'll just eat it. Jam is my undoing, too. I'll eat it out of the jar. With a spoon. Sigh.
  • asianolikeyou
    asianolikeyou Posts: 393 Member
    Crackers. Chips. Peanut butter. Red meat. White bread. Cheese.
  • amusedmonkey
    amusedmonkey Posts: 10,330 Member
    All kinds of whole nuts. Oddly, nut butters are fine. Peanut butter can sit in the fridge for weeks and separate before I feel like having some. That's why I buy the smallest containers of it or make my own in smaller quantities.
  • CynthiasChoice
    CynthiasChoice Posts: 1,047 Member
    Well I figured out yesterday that I can't keep leftover chow mein in the house.
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,341 Member
    Candy. I will eat it, and I don't have brakes. If it's there it will get eaten until it is gone.
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,341 Member
    Noel_57 wrote: »
    Chicken livers. I am so addicted to chicken livers. Help.

    I do appreciate a fine pate...
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,341 Member
    amietest wrote: »
    Homemade bread.

    Oh yeah. Loaf of bread, whatever. But if it's baked that day, at home, it's eaten that day.
  • Julani34
    Julani34 Posts: 36 Member
    Chocolate. White bread. Crisps. Nuts. Any carbonated drink
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    I am very careful with ice cream, other desserts, cookies, cake, chocolate, other candy, sweet cereal, chocolate milk powder, instant tea powder, nutella and similar, chips, other salty snacks. I just avoid buying them. I don't care about soda and alcohol, and things like hamburgers, pizza and hot dogs are "just food" to me, not "trigger food". Dates and certain other dried fruit, peanuts, honey, tahini and peanut butter form their own special category because they are real foods that are just too easy to overeat.

    When I'm out and social (which isn't often), I eat anything I want that is offered. Recently I've started to buy single servings of chocolate to eat at home, alone, but just one per week, and I plan on doing the same with all the foods on the list that can be portioned safely. I will be following this pattern for the foreseeable future.

    I'm a moderator, I will eat anything I want, but not all the time, and not everything at once. I don't feel restricted. (I resent feeling the need to explain myself, but - oh well.) Food should taste good, but not too good. This strategy reduces stress. So much easier to say no just once, in the grocery store.
  • Mccloud74
    Mccloud74 Posts: 788 Member
    Bread & cheese!
    That is my treat / cheat meal...a freshly baked baguette with a good chunk of blue or goats cheese...droooooool :smile:
  • Christismylife
    Christismylife Posts: 93 Member
    Thanks everyone for the responses! Sweets are one of my top ways to go overboard too. Ice cream, cake, donuts...
  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,423 Member
    Goldfish crackers, cheese puffs are hard to have around and moderate.

    My not buying these things is also driven by wanting to spend my money on food with more nutrients per calorie.
  • MeemawCanDoIt
    MeemawCanDoIt Posts: 92 Member
    Potato chips are my downfall. My husband hides a bag in the garage.
  • arya8
    arya8 Posts: 316 Member
    Anything home baked like bread, cookies, cakes, cupcakes.... I love to bake but I don't do it.
  • jeanstudies
    jeanstudies Posts: 81 Member
    Pasta and ramen noodles, and peanut butter. The last two especially, since it takes so little time from preparation to cheating with them on my diet.
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