Two bags of Boulder Canyon chips. 0 cholesterol with poly and mono unsaturated fats. Still I’d consider it junk food.
This is Junk Food Central! Potato chips, popcorn, tortilla chips, sausage rolls, pizza, french fries, mozzarella cheese sticks, ramen noodles, ice cream, pickled eggs, plus I’m sure a couple of hundred other things that I’ve forgotten! Plus of course the mandatory junk drink – diet Coke.
There’s also real food, which I get around to once in a while! 
I have those, too, but I consider those to be “dim sum” and classify it as real food!
I’ll just say that the spouse put out a few bowls of fun-sized Snickers and Hershey Kisses in anticipation of company coming over on Sunday.
She filled these bowls on Wednesday. On Wednesday night I may have sampled one or two. On Thursday the bowls disappeared.
I said, “you hid the candy, eh?”. She replied, “yes.”
That was the extent of the converstaiton.
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Chex Mix. I eat only a bit at a time, as they are too salty for me. Gettin my favorite Trader joe’s chips sometime today. Also their banana chips.
There was a bag of the stuff around here for a couple of months. Nobody really liked the stuff because of all the salt. My memory of the stuff from the old days didn’t include so much salt, or perhaps my tolerance for it was different back then.
I count frozen pizza as a type of pizza, but not just ‘pizza’, the ‘frozen’ designation is necessary to understand it’s a sub-category. The line between ‘junk food’ and ‘real food’ is not clear though. Beef jerky is junk food to me now, but in ye olde days it was real food under the limitations of preservation techniques of the time.
I’m here at work, and munching on a Starbuck’s Cranberry Bliss Bar. For public consumption, the office has put out a varied selection of Christmas cookies, cocoa, marshmallows, candy canes in addition to the standard array of hard candies, Hershey Kisses, peppermints, and there’s ice cream in the office freezer.
There’s also the Friday office lunch of three kinds of pizza, although they do offer salad on the side.
Oh yes, and a plethora of soft drinks, sugared and diet.
Is pizza junk food though?
It can be, especially stuffed.
Some trail mix and a small box of salmiakki pastilles. If I was at home, I’d have four small boxes of salmiakki pastilles, and no trail mix.
Certainly any food can be turned into more ‘junk’ than ‘real’. And like so many things the dividing line will be uncertain. I though about starting a thread on what defines ‘junk food’ momentarily, but I doubt it will resolve anything.
Co-worker just gifted me another box of chocolates. 
I’m at work, where I keep a bunch of things for Rocco to snack on when he is hungry. I have some peanut butter cheese crackers, some goldfish, and a block of ramen that I cook 1 inch cubes of. I had a bag of Chex Mix, but he finished it off yesterday.
There’s a Christmas stollen from Aldi on the counter, there’s a big bag of Texas Trash (homemade Chex mix) on the counter, there’s a bag of tortilla chips and a jar of salsa in the pantry, and I think there are some Hershey bars in the cabinet. There’s also some ramen noodles in the pantry for quick lunches/dinners.
Defining “junk” food as processed:
- two California Kitchen frozen pizzas in the freezer for those “too damn tired to cook” nights
- Haagen Daz vanilla ice cream so we can make bananas Foster with the 100+ bananas in our freezer (too many banana plants on the property)
Broadening to empty calories, albeit homemade:
- about a gajillion Christmas cookies
- some delicious lemon snack cake
- brownies
- cranberry-ginger blondies
Yeah, I like to bake. What made you figure that out?
Chips are my go to snack. I like Utz brand ruffles.
Using the strictest interpretation of “junk food” and “have access to”: a bag of Cool Ranch Doritos on top of my fridge.
If I was to loosen up the parameters just a bit, there’s a gas station/convenience store less than 200 feet from where I’m sitting that has more junk food than you can shake a stick at.
I’ll offer another definition: if it’s a meal., it isn’t junk food. For example, cheese is always part of a meal - therefore it is not junk food.
So: I think there are some fancy chips and some chocolates which are part of Xmas gifts for friends, so they’re on the premises awaiting delivery (so I think I’ll exclude them). Likewise a (very large) cake, but I imagine some of that will not be gifted.
We do have sugar free soft drinks for Xmas (and some with sugar, for a friend who insists); and there’s a 70g (or whatever) pack of chips that I didn’t know about until a couple of days ago - not sure where that is.*
Yep, that’s us.
Also, one I’m not sure about. There are two or three small packs of Rowntree’s Fruit Pastilles in the medical tray - I don’t know if they’re sold in the US, but I imagine something similar is. Fact is, if you have a lousy sore throat they work very well, so I guess I’m going to classify them as medicine. No, honestly!
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* - The chips…ah… (clears throat)… we buy Not For Eating chips to take on holiday. The idea is that you take them on holiday - and then you bring them back. But while you’re on holiday, it’s the existence of the chips that stops you feeling hungry in the hotel late at night. It works, I promise you. Mrs T, who is as much of a sucker for a bargain as I am, apparently bought two-for-the-price-of-one, and this is the unshipped bag.
Abound Sweet Sriracha Roasted Chickpeas.
That the definition I use. To me junk food = snack food. Stuff some people listed like pizza and mac and cheese, while not the healthiest, are meals, and therefore not what I consider junk food.
So on that note, in my house right now I have:
- Nacho cheese Doritos
- A mostly eaten bag of Trader Joe’s olive oil and sea salt potato chips.
- 2 boxes of Andes mints I bought for Christmas.
- A box of Trader Joe’s candy cane Joe Joes (Their version of Oreos, but every December they make a version with crushed candy cane mixed in with the frosting).
- 1.5 pints of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream (A half eaten pint of Glampfire Trail Mix and a full pint of Gimme S’More)