Snack foods in the house?

[cinmell]

Do you keep snack foods in the house (cookies, chips, etc.) for your family even though you don't eat them? I just went thru my cabinets and fridge and tossed all the cookies, junk, etc. I can't believe the amount of junk we had, I'm actually embarassed by it .

I obviously can't have them in the house b/c I have zero will power and my husband and three year old don't need the junk either.

 

[MHopkins2]

Unfortunately, I have a roommate, so there are bad foods all around our kitchen. *cringe* A lot of it is stuff I don't like because I'm such a picky eater, but if she doesn't stop buying Tostitos, we're going to have a Serious Talk!

 

[catherine]

Yes, I still have cookies, chips, chocolate, etc. in my kitchen. My DH and DD's don't really eat a lot of it, but I don't want to say that we can't have these types of food in the house. I figure that the lifestyle changes I have made are for a lifetime so at some point I am going to have to deal with the temptations, I might as well do it now!

 

[newholiday]

no cookies, no cakes, no ice cream

I do keep no butter popcorn and lowfat granola bars in the house for myself - reg granola bars & buttered popcorn for my boys

 

[MelanieC]

Unfortunately DH, DD12 and DS6 have all that stuff in the house and I try really hard to get it out, but it always ends up back in the house with DH saying "but it was on sale".

I have tried to have healthier alternatives, even though when DH buys things he selectively forgets that I don't want "unhealthy" things in the house.

Its a slow torturous process, but slowly one day at a time he is learning. At least they eat my healthy whole wheat all natural bread and whole wheat pasta now.

 

[trola2]

Seriously, we have it all, but there's less than there was. When I'm buying for everyone else, I try to buy things I don't like, so that will help and I do plan in my own treats like kudos bars or rice crispy treats and of course my chips and salsa...so yes, we have them, and I just have to be careful!

 

[ohMom]

BIG HUGE PROBLEM for me too

this is what I did after taking Dr. Phils no fail environment test and scoring a 13 where he recommends a 2. I had it all on a specific shelf in the pantry (snack shelf) and divided it, my stuff -- their stuff. well, their stuff just always looked so much better. Than I took to heart that I'm not really doing them any good letting them each so much junk, but I don't feel I need to get it totally out of the house b/c they are fine with their weight and I didn't want to make a huge issue with a pre-teen DD. So I bought a "washtub" thing at Meijer, open tub - no lid. I put all the "hard-core" junk -- i.e. chips, candy, cookies -- and took it down to our basement pantry. I said that's the junk food tub and you can have one snack per day from it.

Truthfully my DDs went almost a week before remembering it.

I also took to heart Dr. Phil saying once you stop eating the hard core junk so much you really do lose your taste for it. I nodded when I heard him say that (audiobook UWS) and thought if it is true for me it'll be true for them too. Outta sight -- outta mind and eventually they'll lose their taste for it as well.

NOTE: I did restock the snack shelf with more nutritional snacks, some a bit "junky" but not as bad -- i.e. trail mix, pudding cups, granola bars, applesauce tubes, peanut butter, crackers, graham crackers, marshmallows.

 

[Chim Chiminy]

We keep the same stuff stocked in the house, however I have noticed since we started incorporating this low carb way of eating into our diets some things have started to change.

Today at the grocery store my 4 year old said "You don't have to look at the carbs on that box mommy!"

I am becoming much more conscious of what I buy for the kids. In fact usually I buy them candy for movie night every weekend, but I walked right past that stuff today. Told DD we could do without!

I think the snack cabinet right now is a pretty equal split between healthy and junk. Trying to move them slowly toward healthy.

 

[webray]

I keep all the low carb snack foods in the house.

They are great, espcially for kids.

 

[believe]

Yes and I even bake cookies atleast once a week for DH. I figure if it is a life change I need to figure out a way not to go overboard. I try to make sure I have a version for me in the house. If there is regular ice cream, then there is fat free ice cream for me. Chips are my downfall, so I do try to only keep plain tortilla chips in the house.

 

[disboo]

We do have some snack foods around - skinny husband and son eat it in moderation. I am OK as long as it is out of sight. Yesterday, though, I made cookies from some special nuts (ever hear of butternuts?) we bought at a farmer's market, and I ate not only some cookies but raw dough as well. So today I hid the cookies in the microwave and told the guys to eat them!

The packaged stuff rarely tempts me anymore. Yippee!

 

[candykisses]

I still have cookies, ice cream etc. It doesn't bother me to buy it, or to know it's there. My downward spiral would start with my first bite. As long as I don't start I'll be okay.