Foods

Ohhh I just had a random food flashback to my unhealthy past.  I remembered how my dad used to fix me and my brother huge platefuls of deep-fried potatoes while we would play video games for hours.  He would make us plate after plate of these delicious potatoes that had been deep-fried and covered in salt!  If we wanted more, he'd make it.  He always loved to see his kids eat good--he grew up in a third world country where they hardly ever had food, so he thought the more the better.  I never thought anything of putting away a shameless amount of those potatoes!  But damn they were good!

Anyway, I had totally forgotten about that until just now, and it makes me cringe.  Have you ever randomly remembered something scary you used to eat?  Care to share your nightmare?

(I know there are already posts like this but I think they're fun :)

When I was younger, I used to go to my grandmothers house when I got home from school. She grew up during the holocaust in Norway where she had very little food. So like your dad, she always liked to see her grandchildren eating well. She would cut up fruit and cheese for my brother and I, but she also made us these delicious mini pizzas to go with them. After that, I always wanted more so I would take two cinnimon raison bagels and cover them with butter, cool-whip, and cinnimon. Those were my absolute FAVORITE snack. I would do this atleast one a day sometimes twice. All of these snacks happend about an hour and a half before dinner so this was on top of a HUGE dinner as well. Knowing what I know about nutrition now, all those pizzas and bagels seem like a nightmare!

And I agree, they are fun :-)

When I was younger my friend and I used to go to the grocery store and get like 2 bags of Doritos, a six pack of soda (regular, not diet.), a pack of oreo's and some candy bars. Then we would pick some movies out at her house and eat all of it. within 1 1/2 days. Just thinking about it makes me sick. Sometimes we'd even throw in a pizza or something. I will never go back to eating like that again.

Some of my favorite things, that I would eat as a young tweenager (12-15), made myself during the daytime, usually during summer when mom was working:  Sandwich, w/pan-fried in oil/butter potato cakes (think McD's hash browns), on white bread, tons of cheese, and lots of real mayo.  Or, hamburger, also pan fried, on a big white bun with mayo, bacon, and cheese.  Had one or the other pretty much every weekday.  Blech!

Favorite snack combo as a kid:  Puffy Cheetos, PB/cheese crackers (yes, the orange ones), Snicker, and a Dr. Pepper, yes, all at once, alternating bites to get sweet, salty, smushy, crispy, and crunchy all together.  

Ah yes I can totally relate to these food flashbacks!

I used to hit up the KFC/Taco Bell/Pizza Hut (They were all one restaurant) and order a personal pepperoni pizza, nachos belle grande and honey bbq strips in one meal totally gross! Top it off with a 24oz Pepsi, Im suprised I didnt weigh more than I did. 

Also as an afterschool snack I would buy a Tastykake chocolate junior, pint of cookies and cream ice cream and a bag of M&M's and mash it all together in a big bowl.

CHILI CHEESE FRIES

MMMMM.....

I used to take about 15 chocolate chip cookies, put them in the microwave for a few seconds to make them melty, and then proceed to eat all of them with a glass fo milk....and I usually got up for more....o lordy.

deep fried plantains...and super super super extra butter popcorn - the kind thats so dark yellow it dosnt even look like popcorn!

and pop tarts....

Original Post by sk33ny:

deep fried plantains...and super super super extra butter popcorn - the kind thats so dark yellow it dosnt even look like popcorn!

and pop tarts....

 super super extra butter popcorn ALL THE WAY, from the movie theatre

I used to be a stay at home mom "back in the day" when the kids are little and I would watch Days of our Lives when the kids went for their nap and take a tablespoon, heap it with peanut butter then take chocolate chips - about 50 or so and place them randomly in the peanut butter then sit there and lick it....next commercial...I would get more!!  Can't actually believe I did that!!  But is was rather tasty I must say.  :) 

I never ate anything too unhealthy, but the highest cal things i can remember are... a PJ&J sandwich with a ton of PB and jelly with whole peanuts sprinkled inside and a glass of apple juice, a huge empty butter bowl FULL(like a $th of the box) of raisin bran,entire bag of frozen berries with sugar and lots of frozen almonds and peanuts on top.

Original Post by ratinhat88:

Ohhh I just had a random food flashback to my unhealthy past.  I remembered how my dad used to fix me and my brother huge platefuls of deep-fried potatoes while we would play video games for hours.  He would make us plate after plate of these delicious potatoes that had been deep-fried and covered in salt!  If we wanted more, he'd make it.  He always loved to see his kids eat good--he grew up in a third world country where they hardly ever had food, so he thought the more the better.  I never thought anything of putting away a shameless amount of those potatoes!  But damn they were good!

Anyway, I had totally forgotten about that until just now, and it makes me cringe.  Have you ever randomly remembered something scary you used to eat?  Care to share your nightmare?

(I know there are already posts like this but I think they're fun :)

 

 I posted in another thread about how I used to cut up like 5 or 6 potatoes and fry them in oil, then cover them with salt, ketchup and hot sauce!! OMG how many calories do you think were in that?!? I would do this on days when I didn't know what else to have for lunch...then i had to have something chocolate after to cut that salty/spicy taste out! I still love my own home-fried potatoes, but I'm never gonna eat like that again.

I think my nightmare is pizza, anytime we ordered I never control how much I had to eat ,I would always eat more food than I needed.  Also ,awhile back last year I went on a 7-11 binge after eating organically for months{ huge mistake)  ,I swear I wanted  to commit suicide I felt absolutey horrid, I went to the toilet 43 times through the nite with the worst runs ever !!!It freakin scary that it could that to your system . My neighbor had to give me  amodium AD in the moring  because she heard all the flushing! I will NEVER do that again, you cannot eat strict organic foods for a prolonged period and expect to enjoy 7-11 garbage ,it ain't gunna happen, take this as a serious warning.

Ugh I remember I used to eat sugar right out the bag. How disgusting is that? *Shudder*

perfectpanda - not as disgusting as mayonnaise out of the jar! *blushes*

I recently went to a restaurant that I use to go to weekly.  I ordered a healthy meal but I was half finished my meal before I realized that I had drowned it in soya sauce.  Old habits really die hard.  Thats why it tasted sooooo good!!!!  Must have eaten two weeks worth of salt.  

 

My father makes the best hot wings, and we can eat tons. In fact, this is one bad eating habit I keep, but it only comes once a year: New Years eve: three pans of fried, dipped in hot sauce, then baked hot chicken wings. There are usually no pans left, and we put the hottest Blair's Jersey Death sauce on it.

Whoever can eat the most during an all night movie marathon (LOTR, Evil Dead, Reanimator etc) and withstand the constant stream of snot and tears running down their face wins.

Ever look at pictures of Basic Combat Training, specifically after the tear gas chamber? Yeah. That's us.

Ah to be a kid again and not care about what we eat! Lol. I had a lot of what my mother calls "dashboard dinners". I took 5 dance classes a week, voice lessons and did numerous community theater musicals from the age of 5-12. Mom was always taking me here and there so I was always eating a happy meal from McD's or the BK. I didn't care I loved that nasty crap! I also used to kill a pack of rainbow nerds! You know the BIG multi flavored box of pure sugary goodness! Also i remember how last year when my boyfriend and i first started dating we went out a lot, and i made bad choices on food lol, now i know better. I also had my fair share of Wendy's chicken nuggets in high school before being a vegetarian. DQ blizzards were eaten every 2 days. God I ate like crap when I was a kid! I don't miss that life style of eating at all! 

Ohh fun:-)

• Marshmallows with peanut butter (gross - I know... but loved it as a kid)
• As a kid (I would have been 7 or 8 years old) I'd used to go over to my best- friends place and we'd make ourselves "Spiders" to drink... a huge ball of vanilla icecream with lemonade poured over it

 

I just remembered... (my dad would kill me if he knew I was divulging this) when I was really little, like maybe 5, and my dad was babysitting me while my mom was working, I would ask for a snack and he would give me a little bowl filled with powdered sugar to eat.  He knew I liked powdered sugar and so he thought he was doing something good by making me happy!  But looking back, could that be classed as child abuse?  lol j/k... He didn't have sugar in his country growing up so it didn't seem so horrible to him I guess.

I used to drink pancake syrup.