slo’s MONDAY 7/21 poll - Junk Food

[Dan Murphy]

Of those listed, I would say I have fried chicken, Popeyes, McD's, Raising Cane's Chick-fil-A the most. No bread with any of those. I do like all the others, just don't eat too often. It's hard to do.

 

[bobbiwoz]

The three that I eat most are Pizza, Ice cream, and fried chicken

 

[tvguy]

I voted HAMBURGERS and OTHER. We might have a hamburger once every two or three weeks. OTHER being the big one, usually cookies. My wife loves to bake and insists we have homemade cookies in the house at all times......and she is currently in the kitchen making Apple Pie Bar Cookies. I would add a second OTHER item, which I'm not sure is junk food, but is something I should not have, whole milk. We normally drink Fairlife non-fat filtered milk. But nothing beats a cold glass of whole milk. I have tried just about kind of fake milk there is, almond, cashew, soy and all their allegedly creamier versions and all just don't taste right, and all seem chalky to me.

 

[leebee]

We have pizza maybe 3 times a month, but I don't consider it junk food. It's the dinner entree, served with salad. We are bad about ice cream... we always have ice cream in the freezer. I have a scoop (portion control!) probably 2-3 times a week, on average. Sometimes it's every night, sometimes it's once every couple of weeks.

I also feel burgers are not junk food, if we are cooking them at home and they are the entree, served with a veggie or side. Fast food burgers? NOW we are talking junk food... but sometimes necessary, depending on schedules.

 

[lovin'fl]

Fries and chicken wings most.
Burgers sometimes but I like impossible or turkey or bison and the such, and no cheese or bun. And pizza sometimes that is also gluten free (cauliflower). But I like fries a lot, can bake them and can do sweet potato but will get the real deal often. And wings, the DH loves wings and I also like them so we always have wings when eating out.

 

[georgina]

I voted ice cream, especially in the warmer months. Whole Foods just had their summer 50% off all ice cream sale and I loaded up on my favorite Coffee Chip!

I do eat some 70% dark chocolate after dinner, I do not consider that junk food.

When I grill hamburgers I eat mine without a bun, I do not consider plain ground beef to be junk food either. We don't eat at burger fast food places (or chicken fast food places).

I have mostly given up on pizza. DH has it every Friday, I usually have something else, last week it was a tuna fish sandwich.

 

[Planogirl]

I have pizza maybe once a month. I have ice cream and cheeseburgers a little more often. I limit them but won't give them up.

 

[wallawallakids]

Pizza. I love pizza but I don't have it that often. Maybe once every other month or so. Cookies are a big weakness for me. I love all the cookies. When I make them I have to really be aware of how many I eat, so I try not to make them too often! I don't really eat out much. With 6 of us, it just doesn't make financial sense but my teens will sometimes spend their money on fast food. Mostly they will go to DQ with friends and get a blizzard.

 

[leebee]

Sorry, double posting. Not sure how that happened!

 

[SandyinMonterey]

Pizza and ice cream Love it! When visiting family in NJ, there's a place that makes the BEST grandma pie I ever had. Was there for 5 days, went there 3 days. Ice cream place right across the street...delicious!

 

[loves to dive]

So many for me. I am an ice cream junkie, I eat it in some form at least 5 nights a week. I eat pizza maybe once a month. Usually have some form of choc. just about every day, might be one small peppermint patty or a kiss but something. If we go out for fast food I will share fries with hubby. I don't eat chips often because I get full easy and had all my bottom teeth pulled about 2 months ago and the bite is off on my temp. dentures so chips are hard to eat. I eat a lot of hamburger meat, not always "hamburgers" but ground beef. It's actually the easiest meat for me to eat right now, I can eat shredded chicken too. I don't ever eat fried chicken, I don't eat a whole lot of fried anything (although I did get some fried okra from the bbq place the other night, Georgia girl here it's required) if I make fries at home I bake them. Any kind of flat food is hard for me right now but boy before I got the teeth pulled I would sometimes just eat cheeze its for lunch. No crackers for me now, here's hoping when I get the permanent dentures I can eat things like that again.

 

[tinkerbellandpeterpan]

I don't consider half of these junk food to begin with and I'm really more concerned with portion size than labelling a food bad/junk or off limits.

 

[RedAngie]

I’d hardly classify pizza, fried chicken, and hamburgers as junk food. Well, maybe if you combine them with fries and a carbonated soft drink at a fast food place, but not by themselves. Or if you eat them five days a week.

Even French fries at home aren’t junk food.

From the list, the item I eat the most is ice cream.

 

[Ronaldo17]

Ice cream and chocolate bars are my downfall