It's not the end of the world

Im so ashamed to admit that i have tryed the buttered bread with sugar out of desperation on just having something to put in my mouth. It tastes like fairy bread but hurts the teeth more.

Oddly enough - we have a whole store down here that sells bagel sandwiches - I'm actually quite fond of them

(perhaps not 3 in a row though! ah well we won't even go into what I can take out when the mood strikes)

Uhm, i must admit i've eaten more than half of the things on your list, probably all except the ones that are uncommon in Europe (snickerdoodles? what are those?) but never thought eating them was strange? Maybe because i was never overweight so nobody commented on me eating them?

uhm, i ate a banana and cheese sandwich yesterday, which my roommate at work thinks is very strange. As a kid i used to eat toast with jam and cheese. Microwaved marshmellows, is that considered strange?

Holy crap, I totally could have written more than half your list. I have struggled with binge eating over the past few months as well. I was down in the 150's end of last summer, and now I'm back in the 190's and I just can't get my mojo back. Wow.

nienuh - Snickerdoodles are a delicious cinnamon sugar cookie. Here's Betty Crocker's Snickerdoodle Recipe which my mom used to make. They make the house smell good enough to eat the drywall. They're best when they're warm and soft.

Wow, I thought I was the only person who ate brown sugar right out of the bag! I think that's about the strangest thing. No, wait, there was the day at work I ate a packet of instant oatmeal, uncooked even. It was amazingly good too.

I love raw cookie dough and used to make it myself and eat it... then Pillsbury started to make some, so now I eat that now and again... usually in a stressful period.... also, good ol' chips and dip, but, must be dill pickle!

Um, those are my two main pig-outs... I had a big explosive moment yesterday with an outburst of stress and... hubby asked if I wanted to stop for chips and dip... I actually said no AND turned down ice cream... so, maybe I'm getting this emotional eating thing under control...

But, mmmmmmmmm,,,,,,,,,,cookie dough!

Yeah, definitely agree with several things on your list, including frosting and buttered bread. Except my buttered bread had parmesan cheese heaped on it (thanks Dad, for showing me that one!). Also definitely the whole frozen pizzas.

I also used to make whole batches of rice krispie treats for myself. And consume whole bags of M&Ms or Raisinettes in one or two sittings. I guess that's weird only in the quantity. Briefly I had a thing for hot dogs out of the package. And then there was the uncooked biscuit dough (like pillsbury crescent rolls). Man, my stomach and I do NOT miss those days one bit.

When I was in grad school, I'd eat entire medium thin crust pepperoni-and-mushroom pizzas from pizza hut. I'd order one, and 2 hours later, all 8 slices would be gone.
I think the wierdest thing I ate, though, was vanilla wafers with cool whip (when i was about 12-13 or so). I've graduated to tortilla chips microwaved with pepperjack cheese slices and hot sauce.
Goodness -- just typing it makes me feel bad.

man oh man...this is embarrassing to admit...

i'm a PK (preacher's kid) so there was always a small communion kit on top of the refrigerator. there was a brief period in time when i would slip out a wafer or two and let it dissolve on my tongue....kinda like edible Styrofoam...but for some reason i liked it......i think it was a texture thing.

ugh...confessing that reminded me that whenever we got packages with the biodegradable "peanuts" in it...i would slip a few and eat those...that i think trumps all the other stuff people have listed...this was not even real food.

man....

A bakery near my house used to make deep-fried croissants with vanilla icing. They were 75 cents each, or 3 for $2, so back in my binge eating days, of course I thought it was a bargain to get 3 at once, and immediately eat them all. Boy would my stomach ache after that. I would swear I would never do it again, but the next week I would forget, and start all over.

As much as I hate to say "me, too," well ... me, too, with your list. I ate sugar bread all the time (that's what my family called it).

My biggest binge food was a cookie-dough type mixture of shortening, flour, sugar, vanilla and a little milk. I could down a bowl of that in less time than it took to mix it up!

As a child I gagged at all the usual breakfast foods, but I would eat Cheerios with some strawberry jam mixed in. I still kind of like Cheerios that way.

I also meant to add that eating ice is a symptom of anemia (along with eating other weird items like sand).

Pretty tame list I'd say. I've eaten all that stuff and more. Some of the things in just one day (individual days--not all in the SAME day---although I ate other things on those days too):

Entire cakes; entire pies; pan of brownies; entire recipe of cookies--chocolate chip with nuts or oatmeal with nuts; 2 lb box of See's chocolates; Giant family size M&M peanuts; large can of peanuts; Dozen glazed donuts; large bag of potato chips with 1/2 lb of chedder cheese; big pan of home fried potatoes; loaf of toasted french bread with butter and jelly; box of HoHos; box of snickers ice cream bars; 1/2 gallon of nut-studded high-fat ice-cream; boxes of cheese-its; large box of honey-oat granola; box of chocolate-almond Zone-bars...

I could go on and on...but those are the delicious things I ate.
I also ate lots of things I didn't like as much.
If I was in the mood to Binge, and I had no transportation or money, I could always find SOMETHING to eat. There are lots of easy recipes that put flour,(or other kinds of carbs), sugar and fat together....a combination of which are contained in most of my binge foods.

I recognize the "relief" you mention when I let go of my restrictions and return to my poor eating habits. It feels awful, like giving up, but is yet also liberating. There's so much power in food and to quit having to fight it actually feels good (in the short term.) I'm glad you acknowledged that.

oh, I used to love to eat sugar bread. buttered rice was a big binge food for me.

Pretty tame list I'd say. I've eaten all that and more.

I made a partial long listing of many of my former binge foods, but for some reason it didn't post here........Perhaps it's a good thing....
Anyway...lots and lots of anything made with grains or starches...including flour, oats, corn, potatoes, etc. ; Sugar...white, brown, fruit, etc; and fat...butter, oil, shortening, cheese, etc.
Entire cakes, pies, recipes of cookies, cans of nuts, bags of chips, boxes of crackers, bags of cookies, family size bags of candy, boxes of pastries, boxes of chocolates, fried potatoes, loaves of bread with butter and jelly; pans of enchaladas; pizzas; all types of melted cheese covered & infused into hot-casserole dishes; cream covered fruit salads etc. etc.

Since I didn't purge...these foods made me bigger and bigger and bigger.

Some of the weirder things from my youth are:

• French onion chip dip on white toast.
• Country time lemonade mix on a spoon.
• Miracle whip sandwiches.

I see now that my prior message posted after all. Please Forgive the duplication.

"Ditto" to your list. But I wanted to add one sick thing I used to do. After polishing off an entire batch of homemade cookies, I would make another to replace it so no one knew that I had eaten them all!

I've eaten seven of the things off your list. The absolute grossest binge thing I've ever eaten was salad dressing straight out of the bottle. I was a broke college student and didn't have money to buy any proper food to binge on and the salad dressing was the only thing available. It made me every bit as sick as you'd think it would. I deserved it.

And when I was a little kid, I ate some of my cat's Little Friskies dry food. That was more curiosity than anything else. (The verdict? Not very good, but better than the pork rinds I got out of a vending machine once.)

Plates of cheese melted in the microwave until it was slightly burnt in the middle.

Similarly, plates of marshmallows melted in the microwave until they where slightly burnt in the middle. You could stretch these really far with a fork and they'd crisp up as they cooled.

I remember having to do a food journal for health class in junior high and being completely honest about the melty cheese and marshmallows. The teacher did not hide her disgust.

I've eaten more than half the stuff on your list! (Including the buttered bread with sugar. Now it makes me cringe to think about eating that.)

Hey, if you're going to binge at least it was on "diet" food. I bought some of those Hostess 100 calorie packs and realized, "Even if I freak out and eat all six packages, I've only eating 600 calories!" Whoever at Hostess thought that up needs to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

I too have eaten many of the things on your list... apparently you're not that wierd after all (despite what kids in high school thought-side note-who wasn't wierd in high school?) I appreciate your "one day at a time" attitude too-I have been eating like crazy (both in quantity and type of food) for about a week, for no apparent reason, but I decided today to stop it, and so far its working. I think the analogy to alcoholics is perfect!!

They say confession is good for the soul so here goes:

peanut butter and maple syrup

peanut butter and chocolate chips

peanut butter and raisins

yellow mustard and Miracle Whip sandwiches on Wonder bread (sometimes with a slice of American cheese thrown in for good measure)

canned chocolate frosting and marshmallow cream whipped together

dill pickle spears slathered with cream cheese

sweetened cocoa straight from the can by spoonful

WOW...glad those days are long behind me!!!!

The dry cake mix...by the spoon full....straight out of the bag...vanilla or chocolate. Also used to eat the dry Quik stuff...teh chocolate stuff you mix into milk. I'd eat it plain from the can.

I am a new commenter. I have been reading you for a few months. I've dropped almost 80 pounds since August by eating right and walking. I could lose another 100, and I hope to.

chewie

My sister and I ate something similar to sugar bread. We would toast a slice of white bread, slather it with peanut butter and then sprinkle sugar on top. Yum! I hate to admit that I have been eating this again lately, although using whole grain bread instead of white. It is just sooo delicious. My husband thinks I'm a freak.

Other weird foods I have eaten in the past include buttered noodles with a ton of salt on them and no-bake cookies straight from the pan--a whole batch at a time.

Thanks for the Snickerdoodle recipe--I have heard of them but never tried them. I might make some soon, but promise to exercise self-restraint if I do--I will only eat one or two of the cookies and freeze the rest of the dough. That's what I do now any time I make cookies.

Your honesty is refreshing!

I don't know if I have eaten anything that weird or wonderful, it is more about portion sizes with me. I've done the 3 bagels, tub of ice cream etc... I wouldn't even want to now!

I've had rice with butter and soy sauce- a comfort food for me that i've had since i was a toddler living in Korea. i don't think that i've ever had a n experience with whole cakes, pans of brownies, etc- i'm more a bit of everything binge-eater. a cookie,a brownie, a handful of chips, and a cup of ice cream. i used to be 4'10" and 140 pounds- now i'm 5' and 122 pounds. i'm hoping to lose another 20 pounds- and i'm going to.

In Jr High I went through a phase of snitching coffee beans from my parents and eating them at school

Now I'm grown and know how silly and wrong that was. The only proper way to eat coffee beans is when they are wrapped in dark chocolate. Mmmm Endangered Species Tiger Bar

I would drink vinegar or pickle juice.

Every day after Jr High I would come home and eat a sleeve of saltines either with butter and salt or with mustard.

Lunch at school was also saltines - with dill pickle slices on them.

Sometimes I would eat spoonfuls of white flour straight from the bag.

(any questions on how I got fat? Nah - ask questions about how I'm not fat anymore - that's more fun!!)

I don't think you can beat me for weird eating, young Jedi!

I had a mean sweet tooth. Like the ho ho's on occasion or the cheaper little debbie similar cakes. I love choc. ice cream straight out of the carton. But then also like bbq chips or choc chip cookies, mac and cheese, fettucini alfredo.
Argghghh!
I also was a drive thru queen and loved burgers, egg mcmuffin's, tacos. And the weight came on fast, that's for sure.
Thank god those days are over. I mean I don't binge hardly any more but on some days I give myself a small treat so I don't feel deprived! My new drug to replace the food is exercise! Lot's healthier, thank goodness.

Chewie beat me to it-- dry cake mix, out of the box, with a glass of 2% milk near by to wash it down. And I'd eat Nestle Quik out of the can, too.

Pie crust. No pie filling, just rolled-out pie dough, sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar and baked to a nice golden crispy brown.

okay, I'm pretty sure that I win for the strangest binge food. When I was in elementary school, I used to eat heaping spoonfuls of Bisquick right out of the box. It drove my parents nuts. I also used to sit on my parents bed, watch television and eat Q-tips. I would break off the cotton ends and chew on the paper sticks. We moved after high school and behind their bed was a literal mountain of Q-tip cotton ends.

Oh yeah.. I still do that. I also eat paper from my printer. Anyone have any guesses as to why? I could never figure it out.

Oh, i forgot to add- when we were in Korea, I was slightly overweight, but pretty healthy. After we moved to US- hello fast food! We had burger king every sunday for lunch, and chinese takeout twice a week, and we used to go to Chinese buffets 1-2 a month, and donuts every weekend. I also drank 2-3 juice boxes every day and ate bags of chips...and we wondered why i was obese...

Worst? Probably crunchy peanut butter with a thick slab of tasty cheese on top, on white bread toast.... at least 2 or 3 slices for breakfast, lunch or dinner... sometimes all! And I used to eat ice too... wish I had only eaten ice for a month or two.

Jackie - you should bring up the paper-eating with your doctor. I have read low iron may cause some people to crave paper. Another potential cause for the craving is high lead levels in your blood.

Eggos, toasted with butter and lots of sugar (I had friends who ate frozen Eggos and Eggos with peanut butter and I thought that was strange). I don't do this anymore.

Whole Totinos party pizzas for dinner, occasionally two of them. I haven't had two of them in a long time, but one still happens occasionally.

The standard: chocolate chip cookie dough. Ever since they made it in tubes I would buy it just to eat without baking. I still do occasionally. However, I control it better now that they make the packages where you can break off one or two to bake, but I don't bake them.

I was also a Country Time Lemonade eater, luckily I got over that.

Peanut butter sandwiches, loaded with peanut butter, and microwaved just enough long to be runny.

Baguettes or loaves of french bread with the Allouette cheese spread, or butter when I ran out of the cheese spread, or Nutella since I discovered it. I'd each as much as I could in one sitting, stop for a few hours and finish it off later or the next day. This is a very rare occurrence now, mainly because I noticed the emotional component (and Allouette is expensive). If I get the urge for this now, I call someone.

The worst, as a small child I used to eat butter or margerine, by itself, luckily I grew out of that.

There are probably other things, but they are not coming to mind right now.

Peanut butter, butter and brown sugar sandwiches.

Liverwurst and oreos...don't ask

Oh, just one old one I forgot.

Spaghetti sandwiches. Leftover spaghetti mixed with a little sauce, warmed up, between two slices of buttered bread.

I've eaten sugar bread, and had a friend who took this treat to new heights. He would take two slices of white bread butter them liberally, spoon white sugar over that, and then fill it with "light" karo syrup.

I used to make half a cookie sheet of tortilla chips & cheese.

Freshly cooked rice, butter and soy sauce with a few chili flakes thrown in. This was a real comfort food while first adjusting to living in Japan.

Random stuff:
Toasted seaweed sheets. Rice crispies with orange juice instead of milk. Mashed banana with honey & milk, lightly heated in the microwave. Macaroni & cheese with curry powder. French fries with vinegar and extra salt.

When I was in high school, I had a pop and candy bar for lunch every day.

Also in high school, for breakfast one year (an entire year), I would make cinnamon bread for breakfast. It involved toasting two pieces of bread. While the toast was in, I would place some butter in a bowl and put it in the microwave until it was liquid. I'd pour the butter on the toast covering it completely. Then I would mix sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl and sprinkle it over the butter-drenched toast.

How crazy that we both had the same sort of idea at the same time!

I used to hide under my bed and eat frosting out of the jar when I was a kid!

I used to eat Nutella out of the bottle (still do, SO GEWD), Cheese spread out of the bottle; and I went through a face where I used to make a triple cheese thing in the afternoon. I'd spread a slice of white bread with Kraft Cheese and Onion spread, top that with a slice of processed Cheddar Cheese, and top that with a couple of pieces of Colby Cheese that I sliced off the block. Then, I'd zap the thing in the microwave, and get all pissed off when the cheeses dribbled over the sides of the bread and onto the plate. King Kah-ray-zy.

I am sorry to say that I don't see what's odd about eating bread with just butter on it (although for me it would've been Flora Light margarine).

I'd admit to occasionally sneaking the odd spoonful of sugar. Or drinking chocolate powder. I might still do that now if I bought it readymade, but it's not so tempting if you make it up from cocoa powder and sweetener.

I still chew ice cubes and my teeth are fine. I also can't resist eating the lemon slice after I've finished a drink if I'm out.

Other than that... nothing too odd. Except that I do eat uncooked oatmeal for breakfast. But hey, I'm Scottish.

In childhood, I definitely binged on graham crackers (especially cinnamon graham crackers), fairly often a whole individually waxed-paper-wrapped half-box at a time. I liked to dip them in milk until they became soggy in this special way that only graham crackers can get--and, presumably, easier to chew and physically eat in bulk quantities.

Same thing with vanilla wafers and, of course, breakfast cereal eaten at times other than breakfast, bowl after bowl (usually Cheerios with plenty of sugar, Life, or Golden Grahams). There is something about that combination of milk-induced soddenness and sweet, refined carbohydrates that was very conducive to mindless overeating.

Large, repeated swigs of "healthy" orange juice straight out of the carton.

Almost anything that had gotten cold and sort of thickened in the refrigerator for most of an evening, or overnight. Special favorites: pizza (cold leftover pizza for breakfast was nirvana) and birthday cake, with the icing sort of soaked into the cake, and tasting cold, slightly dense, and resistant.

Slice after slice of Midwestern, 1980s cheddar cheese, in a round soupcan-shaped form with thick wax all around it. The wax was part of the experience, somehow--it had that appealing, soft, unchallenging feel to it that the cheese itself had.

Many of these foods have in common a texture that isn’t really anything--not crisp, not wet, not crackly, not liquid, just sort of thickly mushy--and a preference for being eaten cold. Hotness somehow slows you down, perhaps because it has more of the association of a proper meal.

Leftover lasagna, the next day! The idea of it still makes me weak. It has just the right chilled, mushy-thick texture--the taste of those noodles the next day, if they hadn’t dried out from poorly applied Saran wrap, pushed all my overeating buttons at once.

Leftover Thanksgiving stuffing has the same mushy-thick qualities, and also would vanish down my throat in huge quantities.

All the pickles in a jar. Again, they resist the teeth slightly, but not enough to be at all time-consuming to eat. I can still remember that taste of having too much sour brine in your system.

A package of ramen boiled in a pan with lots of butter, then drained, and combined in the same pan with a scrambling egg. Then the same thing again. And perhaps again. This had an unbeatable taste and texture, to my unsophisticated palate.

Macaroni and cheese--Kraft macaroni and cheese, back in the days before Annie’s--with a can of tuna fish mushed into it. One whole saucepanful, eaten all by myself. The texture was perfect for triggering my overeating subroutine, I can see now. Mushy and easy to scarf, but not *too* mushy.

Cold hot dogs ("fully cooked"), cooked one, then two, then three at a time in sizzling butter, then, increasingly, straight from the package, sometimes cut up longitudinally to make them last longer. It is amazing how many hot dogs you can eat when they are not cooked, and there is a whole package in front of you.

Little Midwestern, 1980s bagels (Lender’s frozen bagels), toasted impatiently and absolutely soaked and saturated with butter, in an endless chain, sometimes nearly all of a package.

Lacking bagels, slice after slice of buttered toast.

Small terrible Midwestern frozen pizzas with cheese, or cheese and sausage, eaten one or two at a time. They were about 8 or 9 inches in diameter.

Too much white rice--a *lot* too much--at dinner, soaked in soy sauce.

Stuffing myself on Chinese buffets when I felt “poor,” as a student, so I would only eat once a day, but in massive, unbelievable quantities, until my stomach felt distended and slightly dangerous.

In stressed-out adulthood, chicken pad Thai, delivered from a Thai restaurant, always arriving slightly cold, in a massive, sodden, greasy, but for me agreeably-textured lump. Felt like a rock in my stomach once I was done eating it.

Jam out of the jar at night in the kitchen, desperate for something to scarf, spoonful after spoonful. Chocolate chips, handful after handful till the whole bag is gone. That bread-crumb stuff that you get to put on fish. Tastes like sharp, vaguely buttery little crumbs.

Andes mints, or Lindt chocolate balls—both of which have that yielding, thick-mushy texture in the middle that I evidently love to binge on.

Whipped cream, cookies, whatever is in the fridge at night.

A whole thing of Breyer’s cookies and cream ice cream, sometimes with a whole package of slightly soft supermarket chocolate-chip cookies (I could never binge on Chips Ahoy or anything with that texture--too hard), and sometimes topped with lots and lots of whipped cream, too.

I worked my way up to getting whole big things of ice cream, by first normalizing the eating of whole pints of Ben & Jerry’s mint chocolate cookie flavor.

Whole Papa John’s and Domino’s pizzas, delivered. I remember that in graduate school going to a pizza restaurant and eating half a pizza, with a friend eating the other half, felt like a real indulgence. So I moved on from there to eating entire large pizzas alone, at home.

Again, there is something about having no resistance between you and the food, no effort’s being required to get it or to chew it--just being able to achieve a food-trance, without having to work very hard in any way to make the eating happen.

A lot of other posters’ binge foods short-circuit the work of cooking and waiting for food--even a few minutes--in a similar way: eating powders meant to be combined with other ingredients (Bisquick, dry cake mix, Quik) without combining them, or cookie dough without waiting for the cookies to cook. You really cannot wait even 30 minutes, typically--you just need to stuff something down your gullet right *now*.

There is something even more drug-food-like about eating lemonade crystals or sugar straight.

It’s the opposite of chopping all sorts of things up for a salad, and eating it while really hungry, so that you really taste everything in it.

I’m not sure, but I think I, too, have eaten cereal with orange juice instead of milk. Seeking the texture of cereal, and the straight, sudden sugar high of fruit juice!

Yeah, I had weird things too.

I would open a can of sweetened condensed milk, and eat it with a spoon. Only a few spoonfuls at a time, or else I would get sick, then I would cover the can with aluminum foil, and stick it in the fridge for a day or two, til I was craving something super sugary again.

My little brother would eat butter. Just butter, plain, off his finger. He always was weird.

The fact that, like a baby bird, I seem to have most liked to overeat things with a mushy-thick texture that approximated someone's having already chewed the food in question for me makes me wonder: could I successfully lose weight by making it a rule to only eat things that involve hard, jaw-tiring work to eat?

America being as it is, there is probably already an actual best-selling diet book based on this principle. The Work-to-Eat Diet.

a pringle with a cube of cadbury's chocolate on top, x a gajillion.

My sister used to eat peanut butter, cheese, and lettuce sandwiches, with a little bit of crumbled up chocolate flake in the middle.

Mud. (back when I was little)

Nacho flavored Doritos with cottage cheese. I'm sure cottage cheese is good for you in moderation, but I could kill off an entire container using it as a chip dip, and a half-bag of large size Doritos would be gone at the same time with 'em!

... And I had to stop buying Lipton Noodles and Sauce about 5 years ago completely. I would eat an entire cooked package in one sitting. Fettuccine was my favorite. I believe these noodles were bought out by Knorr and are now called Knorr Lipton Pasta Sides. And that's the key word: SIDES, not ENTREEs.

Slimfast out of the can, Bologna and peanut butter sandwiches, frozen pizza, oatmeal right out of the packet, same with cocoa. Am I powerless over food? Damn right

OMG, I didn't realise you were looking for the WORST.... i gave you my best! (cookie dough!)

My worst? Ewwwwww, I'm ashamed to say (this was in about grade 5 or 6, and did not last long!)

um.....

raw hamburger :S Not TONS ... just a bit... and I LOVED the flavour... I'm surprised I didn't get worms :S

ditto on the cookie dough
i turned the sugar bread into sugar toast
I didnt know there was any other way to eat white rice without butter and sugar huh??
When I am really upset i will take a piece of white bread and 2 slices of american cheese put the cheese on the bread and ball and eat it that way
also I can polish off a box of scooby doo fruit snacks like nobodys business

i must now do 45 min on the treadmill for this

anji - OMG, I used to eat raw hamburger too! I'd forgotten about that. I guess we should both be glad we're not dead from E. Coli.

I must say, I am really enjoying reading about all the crazy stuff you people have put in your mouths. I would also like to apologize if someday a recovering binge eater stumbles across this thread and relapses because they suddenly have a list of 30 new treats to stuff in their mouth.

Hmm, sounds like you were chasing a "sugar high"?

Like, the tang crystals, the icing, the jelly packets: all kind of .. somewhat burny/painful to eat/taste when you think about it, but all probably were kind of like crack ... getting a rush of blood glucose to your brain's pleasure sensors.

Interesting. I think it's probably useful in your journey to so openly post on this kind of stuff. I mean, there had to be a "reason" you were headed for 400 lbs in your early 20s -- i don't think it could have been just plain "cluelessness about diet and exercise," cause almost everyone doesn't know much about calories and diet but rarely do they go that high weight-wise at that age.

Ghetto sandwiches - Wonder bread, 2 slices of bologna, & yellow mustard. Sometimes 3 in one sitting. Often times with nacho cheese Doritos in the sandwich.

Graham cracker crumb pie crusts.

Liverwurst on toast or with a whole sleeve of Saltines crackers.

Hot buttered noodles - still one of my binge trigger foods.

Chocolate covered oreos dunked & smothered in Cool Whip. Redi-Whip straight out of the can.

I've been losing weight, and generally have my diet under control. I have days where I just keep eating for no good reason, too. Why is that?
But I have to say - I'm jealous of the 2 and a half hour nap. Sounds fabulous. I love naps.

Hrmmm...my weird foods list from when I was a kid:

I did the sugar bread thing too, though I put cinnamon on there as well...

Miricle whip sandwiches...two slices of bread and Miricle Whip and viola...

I would eat cake mix out of the box too, but I would put a little bit of water in it to make it more batter like, I think this is why I love Cake Batter ice cream from Coldstone now...

Franco American spaghetti right out of the can...I went back to eating this when I was preggers with my son 10 years ago as well...

Salad dressing and bacon bits...no salad in sight...

I used to do the melted cheese on a plate in the micro as well...then I switched to a mountain of saltines with cheese on them...

I used to mix dry Kool-Aid with a bit of sugar...made it kinda like a Pixie Stick...

I used to put a huge spoonful of sugar in milk and drink it...I did that until my dad decided to make some eggs with a glass I had put back in the fridge...Blech...

I used to eat Welches grape juice concentrate right out of the can...

I even ate an entire package of mint chocolate cups and paid for it the next day with a horrendous stomach ache...

But by far, the weirdest thing I ever ate as a kid was Vaseline. Never have figured out why that was though...

Oh, and I forgot to mention syrup sandwiches too...maple syrup on two pieces of bread...very ghetto I found out when I was a little older. :D

Macaroni and cheese, except I threw away the noodles and just ate the powder with my fingers.

Croutons from the sack like candy.

Those little single-serving microwave brownies that always seemed to detour, in batter form, to my mouth before they ever made it to the microwave.

Fries dipped in milkshake.

When a bag of tortilla chips was down to crumbs, I would dump them in a bowl along with Velveeta cheese and Ro-Tel tomatoes, microwave it all into a gelatinous mush, and eat it like soup.

I'm going to go eat, like, an English muffin and tea in public now to wipe away these old transgressions.

Wow! I thought I was the only person who ever at Frozen Juice Concentrate out of the can! It was the only way I ever liked Orange Juice, haha.

-hot chocolate powder right from the packet- yummo.
-saltines covered in butter

Fun thread- this is the kind of thing WW boards don't allow- lists of binges. I used to eat much of what everyone has already mentioned- stacks of buttered bread or saltines, peanut butter straight from the jar was a favorite, neither of those were particularly strange, except in the amounts. I also ate dry spaghetti straight from the box, and large bags of carrots sprinkled with salt. We made our own fried pork rinds with fresh pork rinds from the market.

I had a similar bologna sandwich thing to Kriss' ghetto sandwiches. Two slices of bread (usually Roman Meal because my mom wouldn't buy white bread), 2 slices of bologna, and lots of Pringles in the sandwich. Then smash it flat so the Pringles were all crumbly, and it was crunchy to eat. Sometimes, if there weren't enough Pringle crumbs on the sandwich, I'd eat Pringles from the can too. I could polish off 2 or 3 of these, a whole can of Pringles, and 2 or 3 glasses of Pepsi (if not a whole 2 liter) in one sitting.

I also used to refuse to eat popcorn unless I had pop to wash it down with, but I would put the popcorn in my mouth, take a swig of pop, and let the popcorn get all mushy in my mouth before chewing it. I would occasionally substitute potato chips or saltines to the same effect. I've tried this with iced tea, milk, and water. Nothing except pop made the popcorn (etc) the right texture, though sweet iced tea would work in a pinch.

Growing up on a farm I had access to all sorts of weird things to munch on, I'll start with the tame household items and move on to the disturbing...
Raw Spaghetti or other noodles
Dry Tapioca Pudding right out of the box
Cake Batter with a little bit of milk in it to make it batter-like
Hot Chocolate Mix- again with a teeny bit of water to make it fudgey
Iced Tea Mix- dry
Frozen Pizzas (Still Frozen)
Marshmallows- put them in the oven at a low temperature for about 15 minutes (a lot like the microwaved marshmallows but with the added deliciousness of carmelization)
Baking Powder- the tingly feel of it, when it went into my mouth
Raw Hamburger was actually a dish at family functions growing up-- we called them Cannibal Sandwiches

Since not everyone will know what these things are I've tried to provide a description (and rationalization) of what I was consuming. Don't run for the key to the padded room, I don't remember doing this all the time, just occasionally, you know, when the mood was right...
Barn Lime -it's calcium carbonate so I was getting minerals right?
Calf Feed- I really only ate the oats maybe the corn because it all sweet with molasses
Calf Milk Replacer-basically powered milk, my brothers and I would get our hands damp, stick it into the bag of milk replacer and then roll the milk goo into a ball and eat it
Minerals and Vitamins- I would try to see what the minerals we were feeding the animals tasted like every time we got a new kind (it was never good)

Yeah... I have issues.

Mmm...Cinnamon Toast. My mom used to make that for us when we were kids. Yummy.

My mom used to keep unsweetened baking chocolate in the house and my sister and I would chop it up and mix it with sugar and eat it with spoons.

Pints of ice cream
Half a dozen donuts (or more)
An entire Entemann's box of danish
Cookie dough right out of the package -- the whole thing.
Really, anything with sugar in it.

Nothing weird there except in the quantities.

I always used to eat sugar cubes. A lot of other stuff too, but in terms of just getting straight to the sugar hit without actually eating food, the sugar cubes win.

Umm...I've eaten most of the things on your list. Also, peanut butter and bacon sandwiches. Sounds gross, but is soooo good.

I eat oatmeal with egg whites mixed in alongside broccoli and edamame dipped in ketchup six out of seven nights a week.

Fiber One cereal with sugar free pudding and sugar free syrup (again, daily).

Cottage cheese with almond extract, Splenda, and peanut butter.

Celery and cucumbers dipped in a mixture of salsa, ketchup, and balsamic vinegar (this mixture works for me on any salad, as well).

I put ketchup and/or balsamic vinegar on almost all savory foods, Splenda in almost all Asian inspired Lean Cuisines, and salt (and Splenda) in oatmeal.

I like cottage cheese with peanut butter and white rice with sour cream...mmmm. I've lost 34 lbs. since January, so I am trying to stay away, yet just typing it is making my mouth water...

I never thought of crumbling potato chips up into something else. Pringles are clearly sort of a force of darkness!

There's definitely something going on with combining dissimilar things--the principle behind the invention of the sandwich, only taken in new directions--that's closely related to overeating when alone.

Maybe it's part of the same urge to speed it all up, to have as many different tastes at once as you can, that lies behind eating the things one uses to prepare other foods, without actually spending the time to prepare them (concentrate, powders, still-frozen foods).

I used to eat peanut butter and butter sandwiches when I was a kid. The trick was to spread the peanut butter evenly across the bread, then dot it with little thin pats of butter. As an adult, I'm grossed out by the idea of biting into a pat of butter, but as a child it was like finding a little bit of buried treasure. In my sandwich.

Ha... I'm not even going into what I ate when I was struggling with bulimia (or the occassional binge that happened afterwards)... Yech.

I've got three to add to the list, the first two not being that exciting, but the third is fairly creative:

1) Cheese Toast---usually heaps of parmesean cheese (shredded/flaked real parmesan, not grated like in those green bottles) on top of bread in the toaster over. Toasted on the bottom and the cheese melted and became crisp on the top. I admit that I still indulge in these from time to time (but only 1 instead of 3+)

2) Graham crackers or Nilla wafers dipped in frosting (vanilla or chocolate, depending on my mood).

3) Peanutbutter and Frosted Flakes. My friend Sarah taught me how to do this in the 5th grade. Take a couple tablespoons of peanut butter (creamy or crunchy, your preference) and a cup or two of Frosted Flakes in a bowl and mash together. You get this sweet, crunchy peanut buttery combination---like it's own candy, but quite filling. I haven't done this since high school, though I admit to be occasionally looking for something to snack on and thinking that I wish I had some Frosted Flakes in the house.

Ok the person who ate Calf Feed and Barn Lime just pwned us all. Pastry and cracker binges don't hold a candle to that!

OMG I love butter bread with sugar and cinnamon. I ate those at all times until I graduated high school. My other binge foods were the tubes of raw pillsbury cookie dough, peanutbutter/butter toast sandwiches, peanutbutter/potato chip (or doritoes) sandwiches, ro-tel/velveeta dip with tortilla chips, and whole packages of cold hot dogs. Occasionally I would buy a bag of hershey's miniatures and eat the whole bag while watching tv. when I was a little kid I ate several flintstones vitamins in a sitting, more than once, uncooked pasta, and toothpaste.

I have to admit, most of the things on your list dont seem all that strange to me. But, I can see how they would seem strange to you or others. I guess it's all in perspective. I used to eat boxes of croutons...like, the entire box in one sitting. The thing that I really loved, which I dont know of anyone else that likes it, is cream cheese and strawberry jelly sandwiches. I could eat an entire loaf of bread smearing it with cream cheese and drowning that with jelly. Then I'd put in whatever kind of chips we had: doritos, pringles, anything. I cant even keep cream cheese in the house anymore because I like it so much. That's sad...

PQ, there's at least 3 of us out there as raw-hamburger eaters! :P

I used to also like it after it was prepped for hamburger (egg white, crackers crumpled...)

But, now that I'm older and realise that it's just raw, dead, cow meat... well - hardly seems as appetizing :S

most of those foods are incredibly normal!

as for me, i used to eat sugar sandwiches all the time when i was little.

Question: are these binge foods things that people came up with when there was nothing else easy to eat in house, or were they particular cravings?

Like, if there was, say, leftover birthday cake in the fridge, or pizza or mac and cheese left over, would people prefer their weird foods over that? Or are the weird food more of a placeholder cause there was nothing else yummy to eat quickly on hand?

Mint Milano Cookies, dipped in milk until the crispy part is soggy and scrapable with my teeth. Then, separate the mint and chocolate with teeth. Go through a bag before coming up for air.

Mayfield Chocolate Chip ice cream, with milk on top. As you eat it, lots of chips settle to bottom and at the end you get the pure chocolaty goodness.

Lots of raw cookie dough in highschool.
French Fries with Ranch Dressing.

And the strangest thing... dry cat food. I didn't want to go inside for the day, so I sat on the basement steps and snacked on Cat Food. I was about 5yo. It wasn't yummy or anything, just available and I was hungry enough.

I think the strangest one was eating whipped cream (cool whip or the canister style) with a spoon. I'd just stand in front of the fridge and eat to my hearts content. Weird.

How 'bout vanilla ice cream with Tang crystals on it; tastes like orange sherbet.
Snow ice cream? Fresh clean snow mixed with milk, sugar and food coloring (optional). My parents used to make this for me when I was a kid.
Peanut butter and honey or peanut butter and sugar (sometimes on bread, sometimes not).
Dry hot cocoa mix, with or without the little dry marshmallows.

Other strange foods in my family:
Buttered popcorn with salt, in milk.
Rice with butter, in milk.
Peanut butter and marshmallow fluff sandwiches.
Cottage cheese with grape jelly.

Okay, I've eaten most of your list! Definitely the buttered bread thing, but I also like a couple of slices of cheese off the block with it. Colby cheese and miracle whip sandwiches, chili cheese fries with mustard and onions, sonic cheddar bites, frosting and cookie dough are the best! I also really like cake batter. Ugh, I have a tummy ache just thinking of it!

I think all little kids eat some sort of odd foods. I remember thinking that a deli roll sprinkled with a ton of salt was a great after school snack (or layered with sweet pickles) In middle school, my idea of a perfect meal/snack was to cook up a box of pasta, but not cook it all the way. I liked it when it was still crunchy in the middle (to be honest, I still enjoy slightly undercooked pasta) I also used to eat leftover cheese ravioli, cold from the fridge.

I wouldn't eat any of these foods now, and think everyone has a history of wacky food. Probably in ten years I'll look back at now and think that something I eat on a regular basis (the huge amounts of miso soup? gardenburgers?) was absolutely disgusting!

I used to love bread, butter and piles of Marmite. delish! I also used to love coffeemate straight out of the jar. I loved the way it would clump in my mouth.

Ok, I really had a hard time deciding whether or not to share my weirdest food with you... but I hear confession is good for the soul, so here goes. In high school, the weirdest (and grossest) thing I used to eat was mayonnaise sandwiches (it gets worse). Not just a little mayo. I slathered it on thick on both pices of bread, squeezed lime juice all over it, topped it with salt, smooshes both pieces together, ate it then made a 2nd (and sometimes 3rd). We weren't poor. I had plenty other options. I actually choose this as an afternoon snack on most days. Ugh, makes me gag just thinking about it now.

Yeah, I think I've eaten pretty much everything on that list, too, except the ice. And the Tang. Because, ew.

I'm another raw hamburger eater. I still think it's good, even though I don't eat it anymore. Usually.

Number one binge item in high school: Toasted cheese sandwiches. Not grilled cheese, toasted. In the toaster oven. And it had to be the american cheese from the specific deli or it didn't count. I would seriously eat, like, FIVE of those suckers before my dad got home from work.

Weirdest binge item: Sour cream and white bread sandwiches. I was living on my own, my fridge was empty, all I had was sour cream and bread. A whole loaf. It was then gone. SOOO good.

Number one binge item after high school: Ham and Cheese Hot Pockets. No lie, you could open my freezer and it would be PACKED with EMPTY Hot Pocket boxes.

I also used to buy two foot long cheeseburger subs with mayo and tomato and stick them in my fridge, and then as soon as they got cold, I'd eat them.

Now I feel sick. Except for the raw hamburger. Because, mmmmmmm.

sandwich cookies made from graham crackers filled with peanut butter mixed with powdered sugar icing

peanut butter mixed with mrs buttersworth syrup on whole wheat toast, at least 4 slices

3 double handfuls of macaroni cooked and drained with about 12 oz of velveeta melted and stirred into it

potato chips dipped in ketchup

Another short-cut to gratification--instead of making S'mores, I'd just make sandwiches with the Hershey bars and the graham crackers and eat them.

Most of my binge foods were/are not that unusual--I just eat ridiculous quantities.

coraspartan--I had a bowl of buttered noodles with too much salt just last night.

1. Sandwiches made from bbq chips, american cheese, and mustard. ONLY eaten as snacks, never as meals.
2. Mashed potatoes with mix-ins. Mostly when I was doing this, I was mixing in french fried onions and shredded cheese. Maybe butter melted on top with salt.
3. One time I bought a 4 pound bag of broken Famous Amos cookies from the cookie factory. I got so depressed over how many of them I ate in 3 days that on day 4 I grabbed a giant glass of milk, the bag, and ate them and cried -- just to get rid of them. It never occurred to me to toss them or send them to work with my boyfriend.
4. Chocolate gravy on biscuits. Really, it's like hot pudding.
5. Hellman's Mayo on a spoon. (My mouth just filled with saliva over that one.)

Toast smothered in butter and ketchup. The fact that my mother let me do that blows my mind! Now it's me trying to get her to eat healthy.

Wow... I'd forgotten about all the weird stuff I used to eat. Y'all have really jogged my memory!

Cheese toast with hot dogs. A slice of white bread topped with a slice of American cheese and a quartered hotdog (fits perfectly in the square) and then toasted. I could eat several of these at a time.

Vienna sausages with saltine crackers and a glass of milk.

"trail mix" made out of baking supplies raided from the freezer. Usually this was pecans, coconut, chocolate chips and butterscotch chips.

Piles of shredded coconut a little pinch at a time until the bag was empty.

Frozen hot dogs.

Popcorn made on the stove with lots of oil topped with tons of butter and tossed together with corn chips and m&ms.

Anyone ever have one of those sandwich makers? I could make pockety sandwiches with just about anything you can think of... plus cheese.

Definitely ate the bread with butter.

Fresh lettuce drizzled with hot bacon grease.

Cold fried chicken, cold chicken and dressing, cold chicken and dumplings, cold white beans and ham, cold mac and cheese made with lots of velveeta... cold pork sausage patties in a biscuit... these were all at my memaw's house. Yes, I am from the south.

Whoever mentioned the chocolate gravy is a friend of mine. I used to love the stuff.

Bologna gravy and biscuits. Kind of gross but when you are poor in Arkansas...

Slabs of government cheese dipped in Hormel chili

Vanilla ice cream and potato chips

Graham crackers slathered in leftover cake frosting. (My mom was a cake decorator so there was always a tub of frosting in the fridge)

I ate the snow ice cream too although never with food coloring. So good!

Spoonfuls of cool whip straight from the freezer.

Spoonfuls of peanut butter.

Raisins and cheese (perhaps a precursor for my love of wine and cheese)

Salt pork. Disgustingly salty. My papaw loved it.

Hot dog and egg scrambled together with cheese.

Anyone ever hear of a Mister Fritter. I remember eating these as an after school snack.

Treet with pork and beans spiced up with mustard, ketchup and brown sugar.

Hot Dr. Pepper with lemon.

Rice with butter milk and sugar. I also put evaporated milk and sugar on my grits. This is a matter of contention with some friends of mine who think grits should always involve cheese.

Never tried the raw hamburger, but I like beef carpaccio so who knows!

Yes, that's why I weighed 336 pounds at age 27. I'm 33 now, 212 pounds, and on my way to recovery! I do still eat frozen cool whip free out of the freezer from time to time, and I may have to figure out the weight watcher points for a batch of chocolate gravy when I get home. I think I could come up with a reasonable version. ( :

I was really into spaghetti sandwiches as my binge food. I would buy a huge french bread, split it in half, toast it and put tons of spaghetti with sauce in it. yum.

Butter on crackers washed down with orange juice. A whole vertical package of crackers and like a half a pat of butter on each one.

My dad taught me this one: "quick dough". It was equal parts butter and sugar creamed together, some vanilla extract, then 2 parts flour mixed up in a bowl.

Ketchup!!! I'll eat it on almost anything, but some favorites are on veggies, on a salad in place of dressing, bread of any kind (or any carb really- rice, pasta, potatoes), chicken, steak, even fish. I get ketchup cravings.
Other weirdo binge items?

-a whole bottle of I Cant Believe its not Butter Spray on a bag of popcorn.
-cereal sandwiches. The best is a sugary cereal like cinnamon toast crunch on soft white bread.
-1/2 a box of fiber one cereal
-a whole pack of pudding cups each mixed with lots of whipped cream to make a mousse-like concoction.
-fiber one cereal, or any cereal, mixed with whipped cream.

I've always been fond of cottage cheese with peanut butter and white rice with sour cream. I'll eat pretty much anything though, so nothing is out of the question! Growing up my mom had a magnet on the fridge that said "Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels", so when I have a craving to munch the entire contents of the kitchen I try to remember that magnet...perhaps I should see if she still has it so I can slap it onto my own refrigerator!

Like someone said, this really brings back memories -- weird stuff eaten as a kid.

My mother used to make a cheesecake dessert with a graham cracker crust, and she showed me how she made the crust. So, in secret, a number of times after that as a kid, I would copy that process and mix graham cracker crumbs, sugar, and margarine in just a bowl and eat that. It tasted like the crust, just not baked. I thought it was really, really great, as a kid.

I also remember eating sugar cubes whenever I could get a hold of them. And a can of frosting here and there. And I remember eating peanut butter in a bowl with either syrup or honey on top of it. Living in one of those households where health food was stressed, I used to fantasize about Pop-Tarts as a kid.

To answer someone's question, I used the weird foods as snacks when I was growing up because nothing else was available. When I grew up and left home, I was able to get what I really wanted to snack on -- then it became more normal snacking foods like chips and cookies.

This was an enjoyable thread to read -- thanks for starting the conversation. It's been enlightening.

Oh gosh, when I was in college and ate at the dining hall, after dinner my friends and I would put Golden Grahams cereal in the bottom of a bowl, then pour hot caramel all over the cereal. And then top that with vanilla soft serve ice cream. It was sooooo good.

Growing up, I did not like loaf br