Junkout habits when you were a kid.

[voggmo]

Especially those of you who had health nut parents, eeeuuwww! Kids worst nightmare.

My parents got onto a Zuccini Beehler diet around 5th grade, what horror. They made us eat Eggplant & Liver too. Unspeakable. So when we got our allowance, it was junk time. Mowed lawns too for extra junk $. Start with a giant Slurpee, sometimes a Malt, & follow it with as much candy as 5 dollars would buy. Once I bought a giant Cheetos bag, had to eat as much as possible before getting home because our dreaded health nut parents wouldn't let us have the stuff. Got about half way through it. We also sometimes bought Smuckers Butterscotch or Carmel syrup & drank it straight.

I cringe now thinking about that, but at age 10 it was a delight.

 

[WillsBabe]

The first and only time I ever stole money, was from my mother's purse when I was 11 or 12. My friend and I decided we'd each knick 50p from our mothers in the morning and buy sweets on the way to school. This was back in 77/78 when money was worth something, so we had a total pig-out for our dosh. I can still remember the shop we went to and what we bought. Ah, what a magical, corrupt childhood I had!

 

[voggmo]

Ah, but did you ever steal candy? My advice is NOT to get caught if you do when your a kid, from a store that is.

We nicked a giant candy bar from the cupboard once. Turned out to be Baking Chocolate, which has NO sugar. What a major dissapointment that was.

 

[WillsBabe]

We nicked a giant candy bar from the cupboard once. Turned out to be Baking Chocolate, which has NO sugar. What a major dissapointment that was.

Oh, the woe that is baking chocolate. My mother (she's featuring large here) used to keep a well-stocked pantry. And one day I swiped a bar of chocolate. Yes, it was the waxy, tastless lump that is cooking chocolate.

 

[Thespeckledkiwi]

I still eat a lot of junk food. I can't eat as many sweets due to me actually becoming allergic to some of it.

 

[Jadzia]

We never had any healthy fad diets forced upon us. Our family was never big on high protein or high fat meals -- mostly carbs and veggies with some or no high protein component to a meal, and we typically had bigger meals than most. Our platefuls were huge. This was our regular diet.

When I was about 10 years old I think I chose to become vegetarian. I did decide to cook my own meals at this age because it was hard for my mum to prepare several different meals. But my dietary choices are still muchthe same as I was raised -- high carb and veggies, low protein and fat.

Sweets were always handed out on a friday night in our family. It was our treat after finishing school. Not massive amounts, but typically 50p worth of 1p sweets, or equivalent.

Also, chocolate was daily. It was made available after desert in the form of a snack sized bar or something of similar size. It was always available but always in moderation of no more than one per day. We didn't always choose them everyday though.

It was my mum who introduced this really as it was what her parents did when she was young. There's a tradition of sweet-toothedness in the women in our family. My grandmother too as she always liked a bag of sweets in her pocket.

My pocket money was rarely spent on sweet things.

 

[voggmo]

If you forbid kids having it, they'll just want it all the more. Marshmallow Peanuts were a big thing for me age 5. Banana popsicles too. 3rd grade we learned the all important homeade popsicle making skill. Black Cherry Shasta was my # 1.

 

[backstept]

my family used to do 'candy night!' on fridays
I'd have a Milky Way bar and slowly eat it while watching, you guessed it, Star Trek The Next Generation!
CANDY AND STAR TREK!?
YAY!

hehe

 

[An Officer]

Sweets or junk food were never really a fixture in the home I grew up in. They were for special occasions. I was never given enough pocket money to buy my own either. Perhaps a Ribena or Tango after school very occasionally. My mother had a strong idea sweets would ruin my teeth. However I did get ice cream when we did the weekly shopping. And I remember having it for breakfast whilst watching kids morning TV whilst she was still asleep.

I'm greatful for the way I was raised. Like any other kid though, I did pig out on the rare occasions one of my aunts took me to pizza hut or McDonald's.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I hated "sweets" from the sweet shop - chocolate was more my thing. I also hated soft drinks because of the carbonated element - it would hurt my tongue and mouth and my nose. This would even extend to most fruit juice drinks exccept for some reason apple juice.

My parents were sensible - my junkout moments only reallt family treats such as family visits to McDonald's (even then I would only ever insist on milkshakes and not the food), the chip shop or KFC. Then came University...

 

[FordSVT]

I used to eat a 15" round pizza by myself, almost every single day after school and before a full dinner. And no, I was not a fat kid. I'm basically the same size now, 5'10", 175 pounds. I used to work out a lot too, even in grade 11 and 12. Just a teenage boy I guess, just eat and eat and eat.... I eat half now what I did then I reckon.

Never was much into really sugary candy, but I do have a weakness for chips and chocolate bars (Coffee Crisp - yum). I try to eat those only on weekends, maybe a Saturday movie night or something.

 

[voggmo]

Junk for breakfast is a great way to ruin a whole day. I had a maple bar donut for breakfast once when I was 13 after sleeeping til noon one day during summer time, I went to the record store, on the way stopped at the Donut shop. About a half hour later I felt crummy.

 

[Saturn0660]

Especially those of you who had health nut parents, eeeuuwww! Kids worst nightmare.

My parents got onto a Zuccini Beehler diet around 5th grade, what horror. They made us eat Eggplant & Liver too. Unspeakable. So when we got our allowance, it was junk time. Mowed lawns too for extra junk $. Start with a giant Slurpee, sometimes a Malt, & follow it with as much candy as 5 dollars would buy. Once I bought a giant Cheetos bag, had to eat as much as possible before getting home because our dreaded health nut parents wouldn't let us have the stuff. Got about half way through it. We also sometimes bought Smuckers Butterscotch or Carmel syrup & drank it straight.

I cringe now thinking about that, but at age 10 it was a delight.

I rather enjoy eggplant..

 

[Mallory]

Boy am I glad I grew up in the 50s and 60s when eating healthy meant consuming 2000-3000 calories of anything just to get you through the next day on the farm or at the factory or in the mines or wherever. And there was still a pound of sugar in every box of breakfast cereal. You people have my sympathy.

 

[Starbreaker]

I was supposedly limited to one soft drink a day... that never really happened.