On Mindless Eating

[livingdeb]

Bad Idea

Everyone knows that mindless eating is a bad idea because you eat way too much without noticing, plus, since you're not paying attention, you don't even enjoy it as much.

Good Idea

However, I have found an excellent use for mindless eating: cantaloup that turned out not to be very good. In fact, I'd say it's a good idea for any food that's healthy but not very tasty (though not horrible) and that is easy/neat to eat mindlessly while doing something else.

Comments

[texpenguin.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I enjoy food too much to eat bad food, even mindlessly. If I don't have tasty food to eat, I just don't eat at all.

[livingdeb.livejournal.com]

It's not bad, exactly, just sad or mediocre. And I only do it because it's healthy.

[(Anonymous)]

This sounds like a reasonable approach for things like boring raw veg that are healthy but not something you want to eat.

It's also proven to work with stale popcorn but that's not recommended ;)

Sally

[livingdeb.livejournal.com]

Ha, stale popcorn! I laughed.

[(Anonymous)]

Yep!

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep/01/news/la-heb-eating-habits-stale-popcorn-20110901

Sally

[(Anonymous)]

My link was marked as spam but google Wansink stale popcorn for the research on that.

Sally