Ever get in the mood to eat something...

United States
November 29, 2008 9:05pm CST
Do you ever get a craving or get in the mood to eat something, yet you cannot pinpoint exactly what it is you want? This happens to me on occasion. I am hungry but nothing in my fridge or cabinets looked too good. I was thinking I may have wanted a snack to munch on, but I have not yet had dinner. Finally I started getting a craving for some pasta with tomato sauce, so I think that's what I will go fix. Luckily, something the sounded good came into my thoughts. Do you ever get a craving for something, and not know what you want for hours? Sometimes I get a craving for something and don't know what I am in the mood for, and nothing I eat seems to satisfy me. : /
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16 responses
• Malaysia
30 Nov 08
Yup, you got that right. Usually in the afternoon I feel like to eat something but don't know what it is. I always end up eating something that I don't really wants to eat and also it a bad habit since I still seek for it during night time. It was at that time I really come to my sense this is the thing I want to eat and by the time you know it I'll eat it anyway and I know this is a bad habit eating heavy meal at late nights.
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• United States
30 Nov 08
I agree. ... I always intend to make an effort not to eat past a certain time, but I get hungry and give in to my cravings and end up eating before bed all the time! :-(
@lilaclady (28207)
• Australia
30 Nov 08
Oh yes always but usually for the wrong things, I just love take away food and this is what I usually crave for, and donuts, I always get cravings for donuts with pink icing...
• United States
30 Nov 08
Yeah I think 9 times out of 10 I crave something that isn't the healthiest, but oh well! LOL
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
30 Nov 08
Usually I know what I want but sometimes I get hungry and there isn't anything that's interesting. I can usually think of something though, just not where I'm at.
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• United States
30 Nov 08
That happens every now and then, I just get in my car and start driving around because usually its not in my house so I gotta go find it. My senses tell me if its sweet or salty, hope you satisfied your craving.
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• United States
30 Nov 08
yeah im there right now!! its driving me crazy.. i dont know if i want fast food or sweets or what and whatever i try eating just doesnt taste good enough.
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• United States
30 Nov 08
I am bad about getting cravings for food and not knowing what exactly it is i want. I will go through my fridge't and cupboards and can't find anything that is good, but yet i know i want something. I usually just end up popping pop corn.
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• United States
30 Nov 08
ugh i hate that. happens to me fairly often. i end up munching on all kinds of things trying to find what it is that im craving. which doesnt help diet matter in the least lol! personally i think my brain is playing games with me, cause it knows what foods are in the house and yet it makes that craving for something that is inevitably NOT in the pantry! stupid brain.
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• United States
30 Nov 08
LOL I can relate!
@aseretdd (13730)
• Philippines
3 Dec 08
This sometimes happen to me... i get a craving for a particular food and not other food would satisfy me unless i get what i want... sometimes it can be shawarma... or lasagna... or even a certain kind of fruit... i just don't understand the reason behind food craving... i can understand when one is pregnant... but if that is not the case... then what causes craving?
@ersmommy1 (12588)
• United States
1 Dec 08
Oh yeah. This happens to me. It is especially frustrating when this happens while pregnant. Which I am. I look down at my belly and say ok baby you pick then. Because nothing appeals to me. I usually end up with a glass of milk.
@Sillychick (3275)
• United States
30 Nov 08
Sure, that happens to me once in a while. It happened yesterday, in fact. I kept going to the kitchen and looking around, hoping something would catch my eye. Nothing did. It drove me up the wall. I tried chips and salsa, I tried pie. Nothing worked. Finally I had a cup of hot chocolate and went to bed feeling somewhat satisfied.
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• United States
30 Nov 08
... Sometimes I do just go straight to bed if I cannot eat anything satisfying, or I will try to eat something healthy in hopes of curbing my cravings. It doesn't usually work. : / If I get frustrated I usually try to do something else in hopes of forgetting about my food I can't pinpoint that I am desiring!
@katrhina23 (1282)
• United States
30 Nov 08
it happens to me most of the time. i dont know what to eat but i feel like eating. sometimes i would end up getting some chips and a glass of juice.
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• United States
1 Dec 08
gaaah! I HATE that feeling. I get it mostly on the weekends when I am at home with nothing to do. I almost ALWAYS have the urge to eat something, and that something is always out of my reach and it succccks!!! I dont do the grocery shopping for the household, so its not really up to me what we have in the fridge or the cabinets! I usually end up making myself something that doesnt taste good because I didnt make it right.I usually like to have snacks around the house. Some salty and some sweet incase I get the urge. But like you said, sometimes I dont know exactly what I want. Or I do know what I want, I just have no access to it :( I have a friend and I told her about that feeling for something to eat but you dont know what, and she had NO idea what I was talking about! I am glad that someone else has the same feelings/urges. I totally feel for you :(
• Philippines
1 Dec 08
Sometimes i get craving for smonething and i do not know what it is. I finally end up for some chips and ice cream.. Sometimes i just to see foods but i dont want to eat them.. hahahahahha.. so weird..
• United States
30 Nov 08
That happens to me too!! Have you ever went out to eat at a diner or restaurant and you were starving. You take a look at the menu and you want to eat everything on it but you know you cant so you finally pick something. While you are eating it your desire for that food slowly fades away and you regret ordering wishing you had order that chicken you were looking at before you decided. I dont know but that happens to me once in a while........
@hildas (3031)
30 Nov 08
I know what you mean. You just want something really tasty but do not know what it is either. I think we must be lacking something in our bodies when this happens like sugar or saly or something. I am glad you settled on something. Enjoy your pasta with tomato sauce. It sounds really good. I usually get cravings for foods that I do not have in the house and this really annoys me too. I will usually have to go to the shop to get them to as I will not settle for anything else.
30 Nov 08
Yep, This happens to be pretty much everyday, but in the end all i can find to help crave it is something unhealthy :P