# Foods that make it hard to eat healthy **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 9, 2018, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-make-it-hard-to-eat-healthy/813872 "2018-05-09T18:53:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2018, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-make-it-hard-to-eat-healthy/813872/1 "2018-05-09T18:53:19Z")
Hello everyone. I’m fasting today (intermittent fasting), and so of course I’m sitting here fantasizing about food. When I’m not fasting, I try to eat healthy, which is easier in some circumstances than others. Here are a few circumstances that make it hard for me: (1) When people bring homemade goodies into the rescue squad. I volunteer at the rescue squad, and people bring snacks in and leave them in the kitchen all the time. If it’s some mass-produced convenience food, I can probably resist it. But set down some homemade dessert that I have to keep walking past and it’s very hard to resist. (2) Noodles. Noodles can be healthy, but I love them whether or not they’re healthy. Macaroni and cheese, lasagna, all those Thai dishes – when I see noodles on the menu, I’m often tempted to forego the grilled whatever with the healthy vegetables and get the noodles instead. (3) Sugary drinks. I never liked soda, and I drink my coffee without sugar (but with creamer). But in the winter, I am a sucker for lattes and mochas and hot chocolates (I ask for less syrup, but even with less syrup is still gets sugary). Then in the summer I crave smoothies or frappuccinos. If I’m at home I can stay healthy, but god help me if I’m in a shopping center with a smoothie or coffee place! What about you guys? What tempts you when you’re trying to be healthy? ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2018, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-make-it-hard-to-eat-healthy/813872/2 "2018-05-09T19:32:05Z")
Pizza. Beer. Pizza and beer. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2018, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-make-it-hard-to-eat-healthy/813872/3 "2018-05-09T19:39:55Z")
Pasta, rice, biscuits and gravy, potato chips; basically, anything carb. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2018, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-make-it-hard-to-eat-healthy/813872/4 "2018-05-09T19:49:42Z")
Justin’s goddamn Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter cups. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2018, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-make-it-hard-to-eat-healthy/813872/5 "2018-05-09T20:03:05Z")
Thin, crisp French fries. Real chocolate malts. Home-baked pie. Impossible to leave alone any of these goodies. On the other hand, there are plenty of healthy things that I love just as much, so there you go. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2018, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-make-it-hard-to-eat-healthy/813872/6 "2018-05-09T20:38:25Z")
Green Beans. Hard not to make them with out throwing in a can of Cream of Mushroom soup along with some crisp bacon. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2018, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-make-it-hard-to-eat-healthy/813872/7 "2018-05-09T21:02:21Z")
Peanut M&Ms And pizza ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2018, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-make-it-hard-to-eat-healthy/813872/8 "2018-05-09T21:30:22Z")
Blenheim’s extra hot ginger ale Home-made hash browns with onions caramelized in butter and dressed with grated sharp cheddar Gelato Mac and cheese made with bacon, sour cream, and aged cheddar Dobos torte I’ll stop now, though I bet I could add a thousand more items without difficulty. But I’m making myself too hungry. ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2018, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-make-it-hard-to-eat-healthy/813872/9 "2018-05-09T21:39:56Z")
Cheese. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2018, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-make-it-hard-to-eat-healthy/813872/10 "2018-05-09T21:59:50Z")
Doritos. I could eat those things all day. Potato chips or tortilla chips. Any kind as long as they’re salty. I could go through several tubes of Pringles in one sitting if I had enough beer to wash them down. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2018, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-make-it-hard-to-eat-healthy/813872/11 "2018-05-09T22:00:20Z")
> [@DavidwithanR](#): > > Cheese. You left off “burgers”. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2018, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-make-it-hard-to-eat-healthy/813872/12 "2018-05-09T22:14:01Z")
Macaroni and Cheese! A good mac and cheese is to fucking die for and I wish I could eat it everyday. Also a good spaghetti with hot Italian sausage. And garlic bread. Also Cake. Just about any kind. I could actually go on and on. So I’ll shut up instead. ---
**Author:** ![amaguri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@amaguri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amaguri)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-make-it-hard-to-eat-healthy/813872/13 "2018-05-10T01:49:46Z")
> [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](#): > > (1) When people bring homemade goodies into the rescue squad. I volunteer at the rescue squad, and people bring snacks in and leave them in the kitchen all the time. If it’s some mass-produced convenience food, I can probably resist it. But set down some homemade dessert that I have to keep walking past and it’s very hard to resist. This is sorta funny to me only because i’m the exact opposite. I’ve started getting very squirrelly around food people bring from home unless I’ve been to their house and know how they function in a kitchen. But that’s a personal problem 😉 For me, I can’t resist pizza. It’s so easy to just walk by and grab a slice without even thinking about it-- especially dangerous because pizza’s one of those foods for me that one slice is DEFINITELY NOT ENOUGH! ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-make-it-hard-to-eat-healthy/813872/14 "2018-05-10T02:05:51Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > You left off “burgers”. You don’t understand. I mean, sure, cheeseburgers. But my cheese difficulty is finding half a pound of good cheese, and then running out of cheese the next day. ---
**Author:** ![Rough\_Draft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@Rough\_Draft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rough_Draft)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-make-it-hard-to-eat-healthy/813872/15 "2018-05-10T02:30:21Z")
I’m a meat and potatoes kind of guy. So, meat and potatoes. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-make-it-hard-to-eat-healthy/813872/16 "2018-05-10T02:50:21Z")
I reject the idea “unhealthy food”. Being happy is a huge part of being healthy. I eat what I want. And I’ll wind up as dead as everybody else. Foolin’ myself? You bet. Works for me. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-make-it-hard-to-eat-healthy/813872/17 "2018-05-10T06:16:55Z")
Chocolate. Any chocolate. More chocolate. Oops, I ate all the chocolate. ---
**Author:** ![Newtosite](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/newtosite/32/8623_2.png) [@Newtosite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Newtosite)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-make-it-hard-to-eat-healthy/813872/18 "2018-05-10T09:37:17Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > Justin’s goddamn Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter cups. I’ve always told myself these _are_ healthy! Organic, with 4 grams protein. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-make-it-hard-to-eat-healthy/813872/19 "2018-05-10T09:57:29Z")
Root vegetables are my friends!!! Chips or crisps of all sorts. CAKE!!! ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-make-it-hard-to-eat-healthy/813872/20 "2018-05-10T12:15:54Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > Pizza. > Beer. > > Pizza and beer. Right there. And yet the damn temptress pizza makers continue to sell their extra large single-serving pizzas. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-make-it-hard-to-eat-healthy/813872.md?page=2)