Our caf at work (after much nagging, BTW) sells ‘old-fashioned doughnuts’ (smallish, heavily glazed cake ones). I always get two, because one isn’t enough and three is too many. My co-worker djxiii went over yesterday, and also came back with two. We agreed that o-f. d. MUST come in pairs, and any other number is just wrong. Both of us consume various other foods (mostly snacks) only in the correct number of pieces.
Do others here do the same? What foods, and how many pieces?
Well, not sure if this is what you mean. But I used to work at a grocery store as a bagger, and I would kind of space out and count what people were buying. I noticed that people seemed to buy products in pairs, or atleast in EVEN numbers. With the exception of 5, as that seems to be a common number for people to buy things in. But other ingredients and such they would always buy them in pairs. I thought maybe it was just a coincidence… maybe there is something to that?
I drink insane amounts of Diet Dr Pepper, and usually buy six bottles at a time – three bottles in a bag, and then a bag in each hand.
Often I’m buying things in twos because I’m planning to double a recipe (usually in order to freeze half).
Another reason I’ll buy things in twos is that the item is on sale, and I figure I can eat two (whatsits) of it before it either goes bad or I get tired of it – e.g., two boxes of a particular kind of cereal.
I don’t know anything about this subject, except in the case of potato chips
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I think that refers to one single CHIP, not one BAG of chips… although I’m sure I could eat more than a bag of chips if i was so inclined… 
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Reminds me of a book I read on a girl with an eating disorder. Have I got any reason to be concerned in your case?
Well, I do buy certain foods in certain numbers, but I’m not restricted to even numbers. I buy two-liters of Diet Coke three at a time, I buy yougurt and apples in fours, and packages of noodles in twos. Usually it depends on a) how quickly these things will be eaten before I have to go back to the grocery, and b) how quickly before they go bad.
What I thought you meant when I opened the thread, though, was counting your food during a meal. If I’m eating, say, chicken fingers and fries, I’ll space it out in a pattern like two fries, one chicken finger, repeat. Or I’ll evenly space bites of food until one item is gone, then evenly space the others, and make sure that the last bite is the food I like the most. I think I do this at every meal, but I’m not entirely sure, because it’s largely subconscious.
Before everyone insists that I have an eating disorder, I don’t. My weight’s consistent at about five to ten pounds over. I also count stairs, tiles on the bathroom floor, etc…
I guess I didn’t quite make myself clear in the OP. On re-reading, it is a little over the top.
What I mean is that some things, like cookies or doughnuts, seem to come in a natural serving size, maybe a pair, or four cookies from the package, or whatever amount you normally grab. I have noticed that I often buy things by twos, but I usually don’t mean to consume them that way.
And Melanie, the only eating disorder I have is eating too much, and I’m not obsessive about that. The OP is just about what number of pieces you may prefer. (But thanks for the concern. :))
Corn dogs must simply come in pairs. Oh, and one piece of pizza is never enough.
That is all.
When I was in high school my date startled me with a serving of one slice of toast. It had never occurred to me that you could serve 1. They always came in pairs, butter on the inside to melt.
But in their house, with 5 kids, even a 4-slice toaster never made enough for one person to get two slices at one time.
Bacon should be consumed in servings of three slices. Two just isn’t quite enough yet four is gluttonous. Same with breakfast sausage links, patties are somehow okay in twos though.
Eggs should be served in pairs, unless for an omelette, in which case it’s three.
Hmmm, add the toast comment and it seems breakfast counting issues are quite common.
I eat anything that comes in many pieces (pretzels, large cereal (I don’t count rice krispies or something), grapes, veggie sticks) in multiples of either 5 or 6. To the extent that I will throw out/give away the end of a bag if it would give me, say, 19 pretzels. And I’m sure that’s a little obsessive compulsive, but I don’t think it’s really an eating disorder, since the concern isn’t how many I eat, but what how many I eat is divisible by.
I eat M&Ms in pairs by color. Have to eat any extras of any color first, and then consume them in order by the color that has the fewest to the color that has the most.
My mother kept the cookie jar filled with homemade chocolate chip cookies the whole time I was growing up, and the perfect serving size is 3 cookies.
I almost forgot that one, been so long since I had M&Ms. I eat them in “rainbow” order (stick the brown at the end), one of each colour per time through. leftovers are given to someone else, like the other stuff.
I’m trying to decide if this thread is about o-f d or OCD. I don’t know, but I know some fruit is sold in pears.
Thanks, AskNott! I’ll make a note about pairs of pears.
There does seem to be a little OCD here, but not enough to matter. I’ll stick to o-f d, though.