What do you eat when you're studying?

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What do you eat when you're studying?

Postby D-Man » Sun Oct 14, 2007 1:59 pm

I'm bored (from studying) :roll: ...


so far, I've had chips, salted peanuts, pretzels, pork chops, and pizza (not usually my favorite, but I must've been craving the salt from the meat :drool: )

What does everyone else do?
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Postby deerdree » Sun Oct 14, 2007 2:20 pm

studying is usually my WORST time for giving in to cravings -- for some reason I can never sit down to study without a bag of candy to 'keep me going'. It's even worse if I'm studying in a coffee shop. :roll:

When I'm being good, I usually try to keep 2L of diet coke (not a coffee drinker -- I suppose water would be better) and a bag of baby carrots on the desk.
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Postby turd ferguson » Sun Oct 14, 2007 2:24 pm

Take a backpack to Pizza Hut for all you can eat lunch, put three slices in the bag for each slice you eat, eat for two hours, you've got two weeks worth of pizza in the bag.

I also used to spend the week before exams cooking up big batches of food I could eat while studying - chili, lasagna, that sort of thing.
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Postby RA. » Sun Oct 14, 2007 2:43 pm

deerdree wrote:studying is usually my WORST time for giving in to cravings --
Me too. I use it as a distraction from doing work. Candy, crackers, whatever I can get my hands on.
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Postby ultraslacker » Sun Oct 14, 2007 2:44 pm

weird, I'm that way when I'm programming (cuz I have a "zone") but not while I'm studying... last night I had chips and a grape fanta (which is not nearly as good as grape crush, btw).
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Postby scrumhalfgirl » Sun Oct 14, 2007 3:01 pm

If I'm trying to be healthy, I'll switch over to something like herbal tea. Nice and warm on a day like today, but gives me a distraction, without extra calories.
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Postby da » Mon Oct 15, 2007 7:58 am

Popcorn when I was at home.
When I studied at the library (which was most of exams & midterms - I used to live in the stacks) I used to have water with me, and then we'd take tea/coffee breaks.
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Postby QuickChick » Mon Oct 15, 2007 6:36 pm

You know what used to be my favourite studying snack... dry golden grahams. If I was extra stressed I would throw in a few marshmallows and chocolate chips and nuke for a few seconds. :drool:
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Postby markB » Mon Oct 15, 2007 7:52 pm

i'm all about sugar snap peas, baby carrots, and broccoli for study snacks. it's especially fun to eat them on the 'quiet' floors of the library.
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Postby graciousgoat » Mon Oct 15, 2007 7:54 pm

Twix; smarties; more smarties; lots of smarties. baked cheetos. and smarties.
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Postby IronColl » Mon Oct 15, 2007 8:07 pm

I used to make a munchie plate: crackers, cheese, veggies with a bit of dip, sausage and some cut up fruit.
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Postby FishPants » Mon Oct 15, 2007 9:41 pm

I don't really study, but the rare times I did, my weakness was candy. Skittles, twizzlers, etc.
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Postby Jaimer » Mon Oct 15, 2007 10:09 pm

ooooh, good thread! Now this is horrible but I tend to chew on my lips while I study...so I counter it by always having nibblies handy. Hot Tamales are a favourite, although Quick Chick's cereal chocolate chip marshmallow snack is sounding great right now...
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Postby IronColl » Mon Oct 15, 2007 11:01 pm

I knew a girl who used to pull at her eyebrows when stressed during exams. She went through a lot of brow pencil!
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Postby BKv2 » Tue Oct 16, 2007 11:04 am

It's been awhile but.... BEER and PIZZA always hit the spot in the university years...
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Postby Kelodie » Tue Oct 16, 2007 11:31 am

I used to have popcorn or cookies when I studied.

My roommate had sour gummy bears and Coke... She got sores in her mouth from eating too many sour gummy bears, but she couldn't help it.
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Postby CeilidhOnTheRun » Tue Oct 16, 2007 1:08 pm

running angel wrote:
deerdree wrote:studying is usually my WORST time for giving in to cravings --
Me too. I use it as a distraction from doing work. Candy, crackers, whatever I can get my hands on.


Same here.
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Postby Ironboy » Tue Oct 16, 2007 1:27 pm

I don't remember. It's been too long. Sorry.
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Postby turd ferguson » Tue Oct 16, 2007 1:29 pm

Carrie reminded me last night about the one time I bought a club pack of cheap weiners at Superstore and ate nothing but microwaved weiners for about a week. Except for the time I made weiner fried rice.

I miss university. :cry:
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Postby Kelodie » Tue Oct 16, 2007 2:11 pm

mike rµns wrote:Carrie reminded me last night about the one time I bought a club pack of cheap weiners at Superstore and ate nothing but microwaved weiners for about a week. Except for the time I made weiner fried rice.

I miss university. :cry:


I made that too back in the days!
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Postby FishHog » Wed Oct 17, 2007 7:41 am

coffee sandwiches for those all night cram sessions.

Man, its been a long time since I had to study, and I don't like even thinking about it.
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