I know that Christmas is hard for everyone trying to lose weight or just eat healthily and in moderation. Everywhere we go at the time of year there is food being served or offered your way.
Christmas in itself is not an issue for me apart from wine and champagne of course, it's everything that comes before it. As a teacher I'm given lots of gifts which is very sweet and generous of families but many of these are edible gifts. Being a sweet tooth this is sheer torture, today I was given a box of goodies, some chocolate balls made from cake soaked and mixed with butter and cocoa and other deliciousness and some peanut butter biscuits (cookies). Like I said, torture, peanut butter and chocolate, slam it in some ice cream and you have my trifecta, like a Ben and Jerry flavour. So I tried to pass these on to a colleague but she refused, normally my brother would take them but he doesn't eat peanut butter so I'm left with this little box of deliciousness that I can't even put in my car because I will scarf all of it down before I arrive home, I know that of myself. If I can't find anyone to give it to I will be forced to throw it out but that will just be what I need to do but I really hate wasting food. I"m sure I'll be whingeing about this more in the next few weeks but I have had a binge humming in the background for a few days now and I haven't sated it so I need to be really careful, eating sugar at the moment could be a gateway to massive binge.
I know, all this fuss over some biscuits it's ridiculous, I truly hope one day that things like this won't happen to me, that being given a box of deliciousness will not cause me an absurd level of stress!
It is so not worth the stress. Throw it out! Don't sweat getting rid of it, just do it. I have spent so much time trying to place things and getting hung up on it and now I just chuck it. I think half the time I was trying to give things away I was really hoping enough time would elapse my resolve would weaken. So not worth the mental stress. They never have to know and you do not have to worry about it, when in doubt throw it out.
ReplyDeleteDo any charities near you do a Christmas food drive? Maybe you could donate them there - food gone and a good deed done, double win:)
ReplyDeleteMy mum was a primary school teacher and used to have exactly the same problem as you, our house would be overflowing with chocolate at Christmas and summer holiday time. Eventually she spread the word around that she was allergic to chocolate (completely untrue) and she stopped getting edible gifts.
Otherwise, I'm with Anna, chuck it out. Binge guilt is waaaaay worse than wasting food guilt.
FFA, you're totally right, it's not worth the stress, it's food for goodness sake! I gave myself till Friday to find a home or they were going in the bin, they're no longer mine and I didn't eat them woo hoo!
ReplyDeleteSNS, That's a great idea, I thought I had put out the information that I go to the gym, have a personal trainer enough that people wouldn't give me edible gifts but obviously not loudly enough!