Back when my bingeing was really bad, my top binge foods are all those Costco breakfast foods. The biggest offenders were those giant 600-calorie muffins they sell in those 6-muffin boxes. The one I think tastes best are the ones with plain cake and chocolate drizzles with chocolate chunks, but they didn't have those all the time, so I used to binge mostly on the double chocolate muffins with several glasses of milk. When we ran out of those, I would binge on the blueberry ones. I would eat 2 muffins in one sitting, about 1300 calories, and if I was in an especially high binge mood I'd have a third muffin or part of a third muffin. I was disgusting.
I also binged a lot on the cheese danishes they sell at Costco. Never the apple or cherry danishes because I didn't like how they tasted, always the cheese danishes. They were so sweet so I had to drink a lot of milk with them. Each cheese danish has 500 calories, and I'd have two in one sitting.
I also binged on the butter croissants they sell at Costco. Each one is 339 calories and I'd have several in one sitting. I can't believe how addicted I was to those carbs.
This one was not as frequent as the others but sometimes I'd binge on the little rugula pieces they sell at Costco. They're those little breakfast rolls that fit in your hand, covered in large bits of crystallized sugar and with chocolate paste or raspberry paste with walnuts inside. I would finish half of the box in one sitting, plus several glasses of milk. I'd finish all the chocolate ones first, telling myself I'd save the raspberry ones for my sister, then end up having the raspberry ones too. Each rugula piece is 85 calories.
This isn't a breakfast food, but every Friday night at my church they have two tables covered in snacks for kids to feast on in the basement. I'd often binge on these snacks. The food I remember most from my church-binges are the Costco assorted cookies, the ones that come in rows laid out on a big platter. My favorite type was the white chocolate chip cookies, also I liked the chocolate chip cookies. I'd grab a bunch of them and put them on my plate, then use another plate to hide my heaping stack of cookies. I'd eat them in the car on the way home from church, where it was pitch-dark so my mom wouldn't see if she turned around while driving, and trying to chew as quietly as possible.
Those were some of my worst binge foods. I don't know if there's anyone who found the Costco breakfast foods as alluring as I did when I was a big binger. Now I restrict as much as I used to binge.
I also binged a lot on the cheese danishes they sell at Costco. Never the apple or cherry danishes because I didn't like how they tasted, always the cheese danishes. They were so sweet so I had to drink a lot of milk with them. Each cheese danish has 500 calories, and I'd have two in one sitting.
I also binged on the butter croissants they sell at Costco. Each one is 339 calories and I'd have several in one sitting. I can't believe how addicted I was to those carbs.
This one was not as frequent as the others but sometimes I'd binge on the little rugula pieces they sell at Costco. They're those little breakfast rolls that fit in your hand, covered in large bits of crystallized sugar and with chocolate paste or raspberry paste with walnuts inside. I would finish half of the box in one sitting, plus several glasses of milk. I'd finish all the chocolate ones first, telling myself I'd save the raspberry ones for my sister, then end up having the raspberry ones too. Each rugula piece is 85 calories.
This isn't a breakfast food, but every Friday night at my church they have two tables covered in snacks for kids to feast on in the basement. I'd often binge on these snacks. The food I remember most from my church-binges are the Costco assorted cookies, the ones that come in rows laid out on a big platter. My favorite type was the white chocolate chip cookies, also I liked the chocolate chip cookies. I'd grab a bunch of them and put them on my plate, then use another plate to hide my heaping stack of cookies. I'd eat them in the car on the way home from church, where it was pitch-dark so my mom wouldn't see if she turned around while driving, and trying to chew as quietly as possible.
Those were some of my worst binge foods. I don't know if there's anyone who found the Costco breakfast foods as alluring as I did when I was a big binger. Now I restrict as much as I used to binge.
