Do You Eat Junk Food?

[birdmom]

I'm taking a poll:

 

How often do you eat fast food? eg:

drive thru eateries such as McDonalds, Carls Jr, Taco-Hell, etc.

 

Me: I go to fast food places as a last resort about once a month at the most. Sometimes months go by and I don't eat there. If I must I get either a chicken sandwich or an all-bean burrito. No beef.

 

Do you feed it to your Parrot?

 

Me, no.... I take it back, I think a few years ago I got some french fries and I slipped one to Buddi.

 

Do you eat chips and cookies at home?

How often do you give them to your bird?

 

Me: Cookies I rarely eat 'em, none are in the house.

I only buy corn chips, blue or white and I buy the ones with very low sodium content. I give my bird maybe 2 chips a week when I have them-- but I don't always have any. Right now I have organic white corn chips, they have a sodium content of 75 mg or 3%/ per a serving of 12 chips.

 

I figger if I shouldn't be eating it, neither should the Parrot.

[spookyhurst]

I don't eat a lot of fast food. I had a record of probably 3 years where I had nothing more than ice cream from Dairy Queen. However, I started mystery shopping a year or so ago, and so my fast food consumption had gone up quite a bit (at least I don't have to pay for it . Unfortunately, due to eating more of it, I also have started craving more of it :pinch:. If I'm not shopping a store though, I probably don't eat fast food more than once a month, if that.

 

I allow Nikko certain fast foods. She can have a little pizza (we had Peter Piper Pizza tonight ), macaroni & cheese, mashed potatoes, biscuits, etc. No meat though, and if a food is greasy, she can only have a little bite. She loves it when we eat at IHOP, because I bring her back pancakes, scrambled eggs, and hashbrowns. Tonight, Nikko ate squash, carrots, and apples with her pizza, so I don't think that was too bad.

 

We don't have many chips. Occasionally, I'll get a craving for Cheetos (not very often though), and Nikko likes to try them too. Other than that, we just have tortilla chips, which Nikko loves.

 

I love cookies ! I get really yummy sugar cookies at the bakery, and let Nikko have a nibble off of one. This isn't everyday though.

 

I just believe in moderation. A little junk food once in awhile won't do me or Nikko in...hopefully .

[Laurie]

I do junk food once in awhile. My absolute downfall is Kraft Macaroni & Cheese (one of Klaus' favorites, too!). I just joined a gym last week, though, and I go on my lunch hour at work. This conveniently forces me to pack a nice healthy sandwich, maybe some yogurt & a granola bar and I graze on the lot all day at work. If I get fast food with my son on the weekends while we're out running errands, he almost always picks Subway, and that's not too bad.

As far as what's around the house, we do have an occasional package of cookies or chips. It's just not all the time and I try really hard to choose reduced fat cookies, baked (not fried) chips, etc.

[judygram]

How often do you eat fast food?

I have almost given up fast food since I have been more health conscious.

 

Do you feed it to your Parrot?

No

 

Do you eat chips and cookies at home?

Not any more. I am having a few cookies this week due to Christmas but not on a regular basis. And Josey does not eat cookies either.