For me it's Coke, Flaming hot cheetohs, synders pretzel bites and anything... like... microwavable pizza esque. Like hot pockets, bagel bites, pizza rolls etc

  • tamagotchicowboy [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    Sugar, I basically have a damn sugar addiction. Wish I could stop, especially since I've not been keeping up on working out due to a fall last year and have gained a whole ton of weight. From fruit to boring grandparent candy if its sweet and put in front of me its fucking gone.

  • Beaver [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    McDonald's breakfast sandwiches, they're so greasy and tassty

  • makotech222 [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    my entire diet is food slop products. its my worst vice by far.

    • FearsomeJoeandmac [he/him, he/him]
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      4 months ago

      Other than my mom's cooking (which is great, but I'm moving out soon to sober living) yeah I eat nothing but processed slop. Should be eating apples and shit not Spicy dill pickle flavored potato chips.

    • Chronicon [comrade/them]
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      4 months ago

      how about when they raise the price to $3+?

      seems to be the trajectory of any taco bell menu item that is cheap and well liked. (though the last couple years of increases might be topping out in terms of what people's wallets can bear)

  • Chronicon [comrade/them]
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    4 months ago

    taco bell ngl

    I don't even have a car which complicates things. I'm literally thinking of getting some right now. Most other highly processed slop I can take or leave, and frankly maybe this I could too, but just would be replaced by a different "cheap" easily accessible food

  • erik [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    Energy drinks. I get them sugar free, but all that caffeine daily cannot be good for me. Friends have told me it completely perplexes them because I eat clean outside of them, I drink 3 liters of water a day, no red meat, no refined sugar, little fried food, almost no carbs and I'm basically straight edge, no alcohol, no other drugs. But caffeine via energy drinks. it's like my one little treat, but it's probably killing me faster than a moderate amount of grass fed beef or something.

    • TrudeauCastroson [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      Maybe I'm in denial, but depending on how many you drink it's probably fine?

      One energy drink has around the same caffeine as a cup of coffee. One time I did drink so much knock-off redbull that my pee was fluorescent (It's never been that colour before or since), but other than that it's probably fine.

      • erik [he/him]
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        4 months ago

        I do mostly do Monster, which has less than some of the more extreme brands like Bang. Maybe I am being a little too crunchy, but coffee feels "natural", but I hate the taste of it, whereas energy drinks are this very synthetic thing that I love.

        • Chronicon [comrade/them]
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          4 months ago

          try something else like yerba mate?

          or get into different kinds of coffee, light roasts with more of a berry aftertaste vs the dark or even burnt crap

          But yeah its not gonna totally sub in for energy drinks because of the B vitamins and shit. Those can really make a difference for some people. One of my friends gets full on manic when they have anything with B vitamins, even with low or no caffeine

    • FearsomeJoeandmac [he/him, he/him]
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      4 months ago

      The instant ramen is one I forgot about.

      Fuck man even though it shaves like half a day off your life everytime you ingest a pack

    • BoxedFenders [any, comrade/them]
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      4 months ago

      I rediscovered my love for mac and cheese when I found out Walmart's generic version was 39 cents. It was seriously the cheapest calorie per dollar meal you could find so I was buying up cartfuls of that slop every trip during the pandemic when grocery prices for most other foods skyrocketed. It's gone up a bit since then but still a hell of a bargain compared to the Kraft box and it tastes pretty much the same.

      What powder are you using BTW? The Hoosier Farm Big Daddy Mac Mix?

  • SpiderFarmer [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    Coffee and chocolate. The coffee can be pretty easily sourced from not hyper-evil stuff, but even with cutting out Nestle it's still a coin flip. Hoping to cut out the chocolate, save for maybe a local vegan chocalatier.

  • M68040 [they/them]
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    4 months ago

    I’ve been living on a steady diet of gas station gunk since my delivery job started needing me more regularly.

    On that note - energy drinks and caffeine pills. I’ve been drinking coffee since middle school so I have a high threshold.

    • pastalicious [he/him, undecided]
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      4 months ago

      As a former employee, I hope you were showing up for the cheap or free pizzas right before closing. We ripped the box tops off to signal to inventory that we threw it away, then gave it out or sold it for a couple bucks we pocketed. That was a looong time ago; they probably have better prevention systems now.

      • HiImThomasPynchon [des/pair, it/its]
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        4 months ago

        Like I said, I was a carnie. The only restaurants reliably open after we closed were y'all and McDonald's, and McD's was somehow always further from the lot than Little Caesars.

      • Chronicon [comrade/them]
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        4 months ago

        this explains a lot lol

        They were still doing this in my neck of the woods as late as like 2019, I only ran into it a few times accidentally but now I almost wish I'd just made a habit of it

  • Breath_Of_The_Snake [they/them, comrade/them]
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    4 months ago

    To quote dethklok: waddya mean booze ain’t food?

    If it is, that. If not, doing well food wise tbh. Maybe salt? I need to reduce my salt intake more than I have so far.