What are you snacking on now?

Our cat is worse than a dog when it comes to begging table scraps, but he’s partial to chicken or fish fry (haddock). Sits right up like ol’ Fido. It’s comical. Won’t touch tuna, and if ice cream is being consumed, he’ll beg on that, too, but once the empty bowl is offered, he turns his nose up at it. Weird critters.

Had a cat like that. Loved plain dry cat food. Wouldn’t eat any people food except tuna. Had another cat that would steal chicken bones out of the garbage and run to the basement to eat them. Have an interesting stray hanging around for years. Hunts daily around the lawn and fields. Comes near but never gets friendly. He is a true survivor. Knows it is best to keep a healthy distance to humans. He will not eat anything we have given him. It doesn’t have fur. Only sniffs it.

One of mine will always come to me when I’m eating to “inspect”. Sniffs my food, walks away.

Guess ’cause my food doesn’t smell like ass, he ain’t interested.

Even if I’m only browning some chicken-breast in a pan — nothing on or in it — and I pull out a piece for either of them… nope. Sniff, then walk away.

Nothing fancy. I have some Quaker Old Fashioned Oats that is getting close to its end date. So I had some Oatmeal with Raisins and Dark Brown Sugar. Good snack for a cool dreary day.

I confess. Entenmann’s apple-puffs (apfelpuffen). First cakelike thing I bought in B’harni knows how long…

I miss junkfood.

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I can haz cheezburger… with katchup and mayo on a potato-roll. Nom-nom-nom.

Sausage and peppers on a roll and a beer.

Gotta have your vegetables. With wasabi.

Felt like a eggwich, so made some.

Toasted english muffins, murrrrrcan cheese melted on ’em while still hot, some pepper, sausage patties, and of course scrambled eggs.

Stuffed shrooms. Had a box that was already a few days old (they can get slimy/moldy/slimemoldy fast), so wanted to use ’em up.

Aww, man, soooooooooooooooooo goooooooooooooood.

Sliced radish on top of multigrain bread and butter.

I practice a fasting lifestyle and only eat once every 1 or 2 days. I no longer snack since Feb 2021 and lost 23kg so far :smiley: started at 133.6kg, now 110kg

I also did 3x 8 day water only fasts last year and my shoulder healed an old injury, 3 years in agony gone. Well worth it.

Ruby-red grapefruit. Gawd, that was good…

Well, yah, starvation has that effect. :clown_face: :clown_face: :clown_face: :clown_face: :clown_face:

lol, not starvation though. When we don’t eat our insulin hormone drops which switches us over to using our fat stores as energy. When we eat, insulin is produced which tells the body to store the fat for a rainy day, the only issue is most of us don’t stop snacking so our body gains excessive weight. This is the biggest issue today with obesity.

My brother’s friend fasted off food for 40 days and his cancer was gone. The body can heal and do amazing things through a process called Autophagy when we give it a break :slight_smile:

And I always “collected” extra weight because I always et like a bear. One huge meal for the entire day, then virtually nothing after. And it was drummed into me that that’s Really Bad, screws with insulin levels, etc., and that normal people “graze” throughout the day, ie, small snacks just to keep up energy throughout the day (and insulin levels more or less constant).

Nah, that never worked for me, because cooking was/is a royal pain in the ass that I wasn’t about to do it multiple times per day, and at work I’d skip breakfast (ever since I was a kid, in fact), and would gorge on a decent-sized lunch, then have almost nothing when I’d get home.

Funny thing is, with the whole corovirus thing, and people bringing up Joe Mercola like he was Mengele’s reincarnation, I decided to check him out for myself to see just what he was doing that was singlehandedly killing babies and old people by the millions, but he’s… normal. And I found that he recommends things like fasting, time-restricted eating, etc.

And it’s working for me… somewhat? I still snack, ’cause otherwise, well, seeing me hangry is NOT a pretty sight. But I’m at least trying.

Funny thing is, now whenever I wake up, I don’t wake up hungry, but can go 6-8hrs without so much as my “morning” coffee. Back in the old days, I’d wake up, hit the can, then (if home) have something to eat almost immediately, or (if at work) wait ’til lunch by which time I’d be digesting myself and wanting foooooooooood.

I do gotta say, though, since I’ve been doing my own shopping (mum was killed last year), I’m eating lots healthier. She used to get plenty of crap like doughnuts, cakes, cookies, and it’d just be “calling me”, y’know? Now that I do my own shopping, it’s only around the periphery of the store: fruits, veggies, meats, dairy, etc., and little if any processed crap. Aside from the occasional brownies I’d make, I haven’t had much “junk food” in a looooooooong time.

Oh, every now and then I’d get those red-hot chips, which believe me, make me pay dearly the day after, to the point I’d swear offa them for quite some time. :smiley:

And never shop hungry or everything in the store looks good.

I've heard that saying before, but it doesn't seem to apply to me.

When other people shop hungry, I'm guessing they generally buy more food, but I don't.