This can't be normal....

I wonder if anyone else has done this... it's a problem I had a lot as
a younger kid...

I guess I hated seeing other people waste good food, one thing that
really ****ed me off when I was growing up for instance is when in the
school cafeteria on the days when he'd have those delicious rolls and
I didn't get have any (I was usually too poor to buy my lunch, had to
pack mine from mom) and it would make me angry that I'd go by the
trash can and see PERFECTLY GOOD ROLLS throw away!

You can substitute this with just about any other type of food that
I'd like (for some reason thrown away vegetables didn't bother me) but
anything that I would have liked... And I'm not talking something with
a bite out of it that was tossed, that wouldn't bother me I don't
guess. I mean, someone at least ate part of it, but a whole food
tossed away? AHHH!

I hate to admit this but sometimes when I was younger, when no one was
looking, if the food looked "okay" i'd reach in and take it for
myself. I mean, yeah, damn unhealthy, but what strikes me now is just
how damn crazy the whole thing was... I mean, yeah, when I was younger
I didn't get to eat a lot of "treat" foods, but hell, even back then I
wasn't exactly starving (been on the heavy side as far as I could
remember) and yet, here I'd be at times acting like some poor homeless
person scrounging for a meal.

Today, I don't do any garbage diving, although I'd hate to admit
sometimes I'm tempted... it's funny, I'd never steal money from an
office I worked at, but sometimes in break rooms when I bags of chips,
crackers, cookies or something with no name on it... Yeah, I've taken
food that wasn't mine, never anything that was obviously not mine, I
mean, if it had a name on it, or was in a lunch bag I wouldn't touch
but...

Man, it's hitting me, just how crazy the whole thing is...

And it gets worse.. sometimes I'll eat something in my car, like I
dunno.. example popcorn or something. Then, maybe the next day, I'm
rooting around for something and I find a piece on the floor, or even
on the seat. What do I do? Throw it away like any normal person
would? Well.... as long as it doesn't look dirty, usually I pop it
into my mouth without thinking. And yeah, I've gotten a few bad
tasting things because of that.

Anyway, not sure why I'm saying all this.. just thought it might be
the appropriate place to share it.

Thanks for listening

Break It (formerly Wayword Son)
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I think a lot of us who are parents do something similar with kid-food
left overs. The amount of perfectly good food that kids waste drives me
nuts - they take bigger servings than they can eat (despite Mom
repeating until she is blue to take a small serving first and then have
more if you want it) and then they leave it on their plate, or they
decide they don't like something after taking a nano-bite, or they
stuff their faces with bread and can't eat the meat and veg.....their
lunches come back from school untouched, complete with the carefully
prepared fresh bagel with the expensive sliced deli meat and cheese
etc. It makes me really crazy.

I totally hate to throw it all and I HAVE been known to eat it - its
like a compulsion. However, that ends up counter productive, since I
don't need the extra calories (I certainly don't need to eat my dinner
and then half of theirs), and there is such a volume of it.

I dunno how you stop the compulsion, but I know how you feel - I hate
the idea of the perfectly yummy whatever being scraped off the plate
almost untouched into the compost bucket, or opening up their lunch
pail and throwing out sandwiches with a single bite out of them.

Mary G.