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A REPORT RELEASED this morning shows the Irish shopper is rather partial to chocolate and crisps, with 12 of the Top 100 Brands being confectionery products.
Dairy Milk and Tayto are the 4th and 5th most purchased of any brand in Irish shops, with Walkers in 8th place, and a number of other sweets and crisps spread throughout the list.
We all know they’re not particularly good for us, and yet we seem to keep going back for more.
So, be honest: Do you eat too much chocolate, and too many sweets and crisps?
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I said that I’m happy with how much I eat but I tend to go through phases of eating nothing for a while and then binging for a while, I guess it balances out overall!
No I don’t eat to much junk food and if I was able to get out of my chair I’d chase you with my reaching stick
FFS ‘too’.
I start to feel antsy if I have no chocolate in my bag or at home.. in my defense I don’t drink or smoke and get daily exercise so I figure it’s my crutch to get through the days! Everyone has their poison.
No such thing as too much chocolate . Which is why I don’t eat the stuff anymore . Too fecking hard to stop.
I thought it would be near 100% yes due to the enormous support of cannabis legalisation we see on the journal!!
All food tastes good after a few smokes Paddy, as I’m sure you know only too well! If you’re smoking weed nearly every night then you just cannot keep eating chocolate and crisps every time – as delicious and all as they are. Most nights the munchies are satisfied by a nice sandwich, but on the other occasions I could go through numerous packets of Cheese Doritos, Twirls, Golden Crisps and Maltesers…Its like the scene from the Simpsons where Homer ends up in hell,and is force fed doughnuts and shows no sign of having enough!
I find that if you have one or two iced bottles of good beer when smoking it pretty much cuts out the munchies. It seems to keep the taste buds occupied.
Yes Paddy I’m quite fond of a few Erdinger myself with my spliffs, and the fact that I smoke cigarettes cuts down the rubbish-eating significantly. Mrs Vandelay on the other hand doesn’t smoke cigarettes and only drinks a glass of wine or water when we partake, so she’s gorging herself on chocolate before I burn my lips on the roach she’s just handed me…
Art, you should have got her to blow on your roach
no. only buy 85% cocoa chocolate not the Cadbury cr@p , the simple solution is to not buy the stuff in the first place, if its not in the cupboard you wont think about it.
Dunno about that. If it’s not in the cupboard I can think of nothing else.
Its hard to get 85 per cent cocoa. I buy green and blacks 70 per cent dark. Then put it in a smoothie with almond milk, chia seeds, strawberries, banana and protein powder. Yum! I can’t actually eat cadburys because of the effect it has of my teeth.
Dree4, when’s the next party in your house
ah Brian , will I get some smarties and dolly mixtures in for you and a bag of monster munch.
Don’t forget the skittles and coke dee
Simon , Tesco do Lindt 85% , must try it in a smoothie!
Hey – even Tesco have an 85% cocoa bar, I think it’s Ecuadorian, quite cheap too..
Don’t knock the monster munch!
That’s true Giz, tescos 85% cocoa is Ivory coast and Ecuador, lidl do a decent 70% which I chop into chunks and use when making my cookies on a Friday, only problem is I need to have an extra bar to eat an hour or so after having one of my cookies :)
Thanks Dee4, and maybe some diet coke
Simon. Tesco do a very good quality brand of 85% dark choc. That with hazelnut butter is real good.
You know ur addicted 2 chocolate wen ur too lasy 2 go 2d shop so u start eating the cooking chocolate followed by the hundreds and thousands toppings!!
Huh?
I’m usually pretty conscious of what I put into my body. Not a health freak by any sense of the word, but like to think I live a fairly healthy lifestyle. That said, I’ll go on the odd binge and put in a weeks worth in a 20 minute sitting. Long periods of abstinence generally follow though.
Eat what I want and never gain weight. Life is great.
Fat will find you!! !!
I have a cycle ! I go through phases between starbars, toffee crisp and double decker ! Out of the fridge ! I get obsessed :-)
I do plenty of exercise to make it irrelevant
Sugar has a lot more side effects than just weight gain. Excercise is good, but sugar is still doing you serious harm.
‘serious’ harm? really ?
Gabbi, you seem to be lurking in the shadows there, a bit like Cliff Richard
I only eat organically grown fruit and veg, and make sure that it’s sourced locally.
Junk food is for poor people.
Aren’t you the ideal citizen.
Grab a bit of chocolate Terry, that photo of you in your profile makes you look a bit sickly.
Did people think I was serious?
It’s impossible to live on that sort of diet in a climate like ours.
Also, I wrote that after 4 bags of Wheelies and a packet of Tayto.
Define too many. I eat sweets and crisps, but I also stay in shape by exercising. People need to take responsibility for their health, don’t blame the government or advertising for your own obesity.
its all about the individual if your happy with how much you eat thats great if not you cut back never make assumptions or decisions cos of “experts” or muppets of celebrities you see on tv, thats what society is the mess it is were all so uptight about certain things we actually dont live life anymore
What’s to much? I’m not sure of that myself. I’d eat maybe four packets of crisps a week and a couple of bars.
“whats to much?” ‘too’ much that’s what.
When I had a bad case of the flu 2 Christmases ago, I barely ate more than a slice or 2 of dry toast for 4 days. On day 5 I was starting to recover but still had no appetite, but figuring I should eat something I attempted to eat a few things. I ate some weetabix, tasted like cardboard. Tinned spaghetti – tasted like nothing. Buttered brown toast – tasted like carboard. even drank some coke which I’d normally love and it had no taste . Normally all these foods would taste fine. Then I ate a cadburys twirl and it was absolutely delicious! This illustrated to me that chocolate must be one of the most palatable and delicious foods for human beings, if it tastes good even when your immune system is trying to starve the flu virus out of you! I’d say I’m like many people in that I could give up eating crisps, sweets, ice cream, biscuits, takeaways etc..but that chocolate would be a painful one to never have ever again. I’d say I eat at least a bar a day. Fizzy drinks are my weakness though, really need to cut back on them ..
And what
You need to define what is to much…
Probably varies for people!
too
Gabbi you need a hobby.
I have had one bar of Galaxy caramel chocolate sitting in my press for about 2 weeks now. No desire to eat it. Thats the only piece of confectionery I have in my house. Have never been a chocolate or junk food person (although I am carb mad). My mother thinks I am strange.
TELLS US WHERE THE GALAXY CARAMEL IS
Buy Irish!
Have you read the shit that is in cadburys? Taytos are rubbish aswell. I was to base my well being around patriotism I wouldn’t get very far.
If you’re buying sweets and crisps, there’s plenty of high quality Irish products out there (eg O Donnell’s & Tipperary crisps).. plus Cadburys and Taytos certainly aren’t the worst in the market..
Ya, and Bertie wasn’t as bad as haughey, but still bad.
Hand made lightly salted crisps I like – I’m so easily conned.
Notions
Use to devour crisps and chocolate on an industrial scale until the body turned on me. Damn you diabetes!!!
“Here’s what I do Ted, I take a cheese and onion one, and a salt and vinegar one, and I eat them at the same time.”
I eat way to much S…. I am a fat whale a big hunking mountain of love pudding I know I am doing wrong but I can’t help myself.
You worry you die
You don’t worry you still die.
Its been a long time since I had a blow back Brian!
A simple “Yes” would have sufficed without the hand wringing add on.
Now, if you will excuse me, the Tayto and chocolate orange are calling.
only when I’m stoned
*Looks at images of Sweets*
Just hook it up to my vein!!!!
Completely reversed my Diabetes Type 2 the “Walnut Way” so now i can eat as much chocolate and sugary stuff as i like. Sugar ain’t the problem but Trans fats are. http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2014/14_0161.htm
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