Do you still shop when you're hungry?

Ya I’m hungry so I buy food to satisfy it.

I do, but only because it’s pretty much the only time I’m interested in looking at food I might want to eat. The rest of the time, it’s like I’m just staring at stuff. I don’t want any of it.

I really try not to, but sometimes circumstances dictate how my time is spent.

I shop while I’m hungry and high. It’s bad news.

I usually shop when I’m hungry or at least when I’m not full. One time I went grocery shopping with my mom when I was quite full and I got almost nothing for myself. I regretted it later when I found that I had to return to the store in just a few days.

Sometimes, I must because of scheduling and whatnot.

However, I am weird and rarely hungry…and if I am, I’m usually “past” hungry and feel like not eating ever again.

So…hungry or not, it doesn’t usually affect my shopping habits. Or if it does, it’s not something bad, it’s a craving for an orange or grapes. Really.

I try to avoid it.

I will just grab a Jr Bacon Cheeseburger from Wendy’s. One fills me up enough to make it so I don’t buy tons of crap.

edit :: I should add that I eat fast food first to help with the craving of salty and fatty foods. But I mostly eat food I find around the house. I go shopping about twice per month. I have eaten fast food twice this month. I had Burger King 11/3/09 and I had Taco Bell about 4 days ago.

I have great self control when it comes to food shopping even when hungry. Probably because I am a tight c**t :p

i think there is a happy medium where i’m neither full nor hungry when i go. if i’m hungry when i go i buy everything, but if i eat right before i go shopping then i don’t buy anything.

It doesn’t affect me much because I eat the same foods all the time. If I shop alone then I can be trusted not to bend but if I’m shopping to prepare a meal for someone else then that’s when I get a bit slippery and might pick up goodies and justify they are for the other person.

Not any more. I eat first and use my grocery list.

Heck yea.

I always assumed the reason they had samples around the store was to fill you up while shopping. I can eat a meal walking thru Kroger!

If I’m hungry, I tend to buy more junk food, as opposed to the healthy stuff we all need!

i shop early on saturday mornings after a 3-mile run. the run sets back my hunger at least for the time i spend in the grocery store. as i shop, i buy fresh produce and other items on a healthy conscience. a slow metabolic body will shop on hunger impulses. an active body will shop for health and “color” or fruits, meats and vegetables.

ooops. i know i shouldnt but i still do

a girl cant help it. :P

No. If the timing ends up putting me at the store when I’m hungry, the first thing I do is buy a drinkable yogurt and some crackers. Then I drink it and eat the crackers while I am shopping. I never go up and down the isles while hungry.

I shop when I am in town whether I am hungry or not. But it doesn’t make any difference in what I buy because I refuse to buy junk food. I won’t buy it because of the excessive sugar, the excessive packaging and the excessive cost.

I don’t mean to sound holier than thou, I just want to keep my weight in line, feel lean and mean and energetic.

It is hard to overbuy on fruit & veg whether I am hungry or not, it all gets used.

@rooeytoo I’m actually getting better NOT buying so much junk. With hubby on special diet and teenaged son who wrestles, healthy is a word this house is becoming used to!

(OK I did buy dark choc hershey’s kisses – ate 2 and put away for holiday company)

@Skippy – you are a strong woman to only eat 2 hershey kisses!!!

I have to admit about once a week, I sneak out after dinner and have an ice cream or a candy bar, hehehehe. I am more concerned about my husband’s weight and blood pressure than my own which is in the proper zone, so I don’t think a little indulgence here and there is too bad. We have both lost a lot of weight by eliminating sugar and white carbs and once I was on the diet for a week or so, I lost the constant craving for sugar. That is good!

Yup I do and I buy stupidly brilliant things.

I always wonder if it’s because I’m hungry or because I read that shopping when hungry makes you buy more… Like the whole theory is just a self fulfilling prophecy.

Well, they say that you shouldn’t shop for food when you are hungry because you’ll buy unhealthy, unnecessary junk food. I think it’s true to a point, depending on habits. I think you are probably more prone to buy things you crave. I’ve noticed I buy a lot more of fresh vegetables and fruit.

But I am a vegetarian, and don’t much crave or use sugar. I think that my body just don’t expect me to have any, so I go for my easy favorites.

@oratio I do the same thing, but I spend a ton of cash on crappy fruit. It looks so good in the store, but I always forget that out of season fruit is flavorless. I don’t know how many times I bought a honeydew that tastes like water.

@Capt_Bloth Lol, very true.