Do you snack after dinner?
By whyaskq
@whyaskq (7523)
Singapore
April 10, 2007 12:10pm CST
If I had my dinner in restaurants, western or oriental, desserts are served after the main course. It may be fruits, some sweet soup, coffee, tea, cakes or even ice-cream. I take them.
If I had dinner at home, the meal is what my mother prepared. I eat a plain healthy dinner what nutritionist called a balanced diet. There is no desserts unless I raid my fridge for something worthy to be known as desserts. I do not normally take desserts, but I snacked. Most of the times, the raid will be extended to the kitchen cabinets where nuts and chips are hidden from the eyes of little children.
I know it is a bad habit to snack after a meal, but like a teething baby, my gums does itch at times, and I just need to bite something hard, crispy or crunchy. Nuts and chips come in handy. If I can't find any, ice cubes are substitutes. No, I don't take fruits after dinner. They are too filling :P
Am I wierd or crazy? Do you have the habit of snacking (anything also counts) after dinner or any meal? Or do you walk the so-called "healthy path" where fruits are taken after food? Do share your habits after meal.
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57 responses
@stella1989 (2274)
• India
11 Apr 07
I do like having snacks after dinner but mumma denies.My parents just creat such a situation with some comments that I stop myself from having snacks after dinner.But its like in our culutre (India) to have sweets after dinner so you can consider it as a snack.
Well but sometimes I just love breaking rules!!
Sometimes I even get up and have "midnight" snacks..lol!! See now no one can stop me doing that because no body is awake..!!lol I am kind of childish gilr he he!!
well thats me!!
@stella1989 (2274)
• India
11 Apr 07
One thing more I am not even that fat girl who eats a lot.
well I do eat a lot but I belive in burning the fats rather than cutting them of..lol
thats true!!
I just can't stop eating can say I am an emotional eater so cutting eating is something like impossible for me!!
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@Aphroditei_5279 (2465)
• Philippines
11 Apr 07
I'm guilty too for snacking sometimes after dinner. Especially when you don't feel like sleeping at once and there is a good movie on tv. And even if, I do resolve to eat an apple or a banana. I end up searching for something crunchy and salted. And to add on top a good cool fruit juice or soda if available. But I'm trying to correct my bad habits, because my daughter might get a taste for snacking after dinner. And it is not that a good habit for children especially late at night. (^^,)
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@spiritwolf52 (2300)
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11 Apr 07
I must admit, I do like my snacking. We usually have ice cream after dinner. Or if we can hold out a bit longer, we dive into a bag of doritos. If we have any eggs left, then I may rustle up some brownies. I'm not really into eating fruits unless it is on my cereal.
@charms88 (7538)
• Philippines
10 Apr 07
How could I eat snack after dinner when I'm not eating dinner at all, bighead. Its not that I'm dieting. As a matter of fact, I'm a little underweight right now. I just don't feel like eating for now. I normally drink a cup of coffee or a glass of green tea. It really depends on my mood. You might like to give me something nice to eat to fill me up, LOL!!!
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@moumitamazumder (817)
• India
10 Apr 07
Snacking after dinner is not a healthy style of living. No, it is not weird, but is just not healthy. Many people do that, and many people also munch at the mid of might in between sleep.
Although I am a great food lover, I do not snack after dinner. Even I don't like fruits or desert after dinner.
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@lordwarwizard (35747)
• Singapore
10 Apr 07
Usually just after a meal, I will be very full. If you ask me where I find like going for dinner tomorrow, no food will interest me.
My brain is too smart. My body knows it is not hungry so it is just not excited about food.
But occasionally, I will itch to eat too. Then I will just eat just about anything I feel like eating.
@cjthedog64 (1552)
• United States
11 Apr 07
I ususally end up eating something between dinner and bed. Usually it'll be some sort of desert or munchie like chips. If my dinner was interrupted, I might seek out some real food to eat. All depends on what's going on. I don't have to have anything though, and wouldn't consider ice for a snack. Hmm. Fruits are fine though. I enjoy them anytime.
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@dfinster (3528)
• United States
11 Apr 07
I just can't ever seem to have any room left for desert of any kind right after I eat a meal. I don't think I've ever really been a desert person. I do snack a few ours after supper though or in between luch and dinner. I usually try to eat more healthy things like fruit because that's usually what I like anyway. I've never been a big sweets kind of person. I think that may be from the way I was brought up. My parents never really had sweets around the house and we never really had desert after our evening meal. I always ate fruits and nuts and things like that and still do now. I do find that once in a while I have to have pretzels or chips to satisfy my craving for something salty.
@samrat16 (2442)
• India
10 Apr 07
I'm trying to lose the last 5 pounds. A typical day for me is fruit and a cup of coffee in the am, a salad with protein for lunch, fruit for a snack and stir fry with seafood for dinner.
I know I need some carbs and I crave suger after dinner. I've been eating a cup of dry fruity cheerios every night. It says it has whole grains and 25% less sugar than other cereals. This a decent after dinner snack.
@sunshine4 (8703)
• United States
10 Apr 07
I don't find it weird. I have a habit of looking for something sweet after dinner. Even if I go out to eat and they offer dessert, I usually am too full for a dessert, but I will get home and start looking for a little sweet. With Easter just being here, this is great for me. I just go and get a chocolate from the easter basket. That satisfies me~ a chocolate or 2 every night.
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@LordGregoroftheSith (667)
• United States
17 Apr 07
This really depends on how much I eat for dinner, and if I even have something I am craving. Most the time, I will munch on some sunflower seeds after a meal. Other times, I will eat some ice cream. It all depends.
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@cutiedhes (507)
• Philippines
11 Apr 07
I don't usually eat after having dinner especially when the food that is serve at the table was kind of fruits and everything expect I won't eat it at all. But when I am home usually I can't help not to eat snacks after eating dinner for me its a habit that when finish eating dinner next is to eat snacks as if I haven't eat anything yet..lol
Why eating snacks after dinner is that bad habit? How come?
@Woodpigeon (3710)
• Ireland
21 Apr 07
My gums don't itch to cause me to snack, I just get cravings. I know it is a bad idea to eat in the evening, I have heard the food just sits there, undigested, and is more liable to turn into fat. I tend to like to have abowl of cereal, or maybe a little cheese and lettuce sandwich. If there are leftovers, I might heat them up, too. I wouldn't make an actual meal for myself, though. I do manage to restrain myself a little bit!
@MGjhaud (23171)
• Philippines
11 Apr 07
not really that i like and used to it but my cravings' killing me. probably it's because of the vitamins im taking that i really sometimes get out of my room and go to the nearest 24-hour store and buy a junkfood or somethin'. my parents told me to take vitamins on interval days so it wont hit my appetite that hard.
am really into fruits but instead i like junkfoods or bread.
@vicky19810 (1600)
• China
11 Apr 07
hi friend,i would like to eat some snack after the dinner.for me ,i alaways buy many kinds of snacks in my home,and eat them a little everyday.i do not know why i like that,but i think that i need to eat something after dinners,but not mean i am not full.lol...however,i know i should control myself,as it can make me increase weight with so many snacks.lol
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@donafelchua (15)
• Philippines
11 Apr 07
Hey i also crave for ice cubes, but i don't snack after dinner, because I'm on a diet.
@crackhead (1826)
• India
11 Apr 07
Yes if i am away from home and if i stay awake even after midnight i will take some snacks.
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@grazell1986 (34)
• Philippines
11 Apr 07
No, I don't snack after dinner cause we're only poor. Only those in the middle and upper class can observed that.
