Discussion Question: Eating and Reading

[fashion_piranha]

Do you eat while reading?

I do. All the time.  In fact, my habit of noshing while turning pages could easily explain how I gained all that extra weight in the past year. 
It's food that does me in.  Descriptions of food.  If the author describes how her character ate a rich chocolate cake with strawberries on top, I have to go find some M&Ms or some

Comments

[niamh_sage]

I love to read while eating, and yes, it does lead to the disastrous other activity of eating while reading. Í don't know why I do it. I suspect that sometime long ago I decided that mealtimes were perfectly good reading times going to waste. I don't do it while in company, of course.

Mmmmm, cake.

[deathjoy]

Of course! In fact, I will often have a reading "set up". Pillows just so, fan on, drink at my hand and a piece of fruit or toast or what have you. All possible needs and comforts accounted for!

[kiri_l]

I'm glad I'm not the only one. My vice is popcorn. Or if I'm feeling like something spicy.. nachos (and I can't tell you WHAT that does to the waistline) also Trader Joes has these Jalapeno cheese twists (think spicy cheetos) and I'm certain they are addictive. I try not to eat when I read, just a drink nearby (usually tea) but every now and then..

oh sushi. I'll eat sushi while reading.

now I'm hungry. *goes to find sushi*

[fashion_piranha]

OM NOM NOM
I love Trader Joe's. I haven't had the jalepeno cheese sticks, but I think I've had the parmesean ones? YUMMY.
I am also rather addicted to their tubs of crunchy chocolate chip cookies.

[wikkidgothbabe]

i like the chocolate raspberry sticks, meself... and Trader Joe's has some of the best "heat & eat" curry packages!!!

[fashion_piranha]

Oh I forgot about the raspberry sticks. They were my favorite candy growing up! My dad would carry them on hiking trips to motivate my brother and I!

[ardentdelirium]

I totally do. I read during my breaks at work, including lunch, so there's that, and I tend to snack while I read despite knowing that, like tv snacking, its a sort of mindless eating that leads to extra pounds...plus I have foods associated with certain books. If I'm re-reading A Wind in the Door, for example, I will have oatmeal at some point during the book (because they eat it for breakfast and I always think that it sounds good) or pizza (because the first time I read it, I ate pizza and got grease on some pages, and now the book sort of smells like a used pizza box-not strongly, and possibly only in my brain, but its that book smell plus a slight pizza smell)

[elfbiter]

Not exactly, although I read when I'm eating, Not necessarily vice versa.