Everyone has a gaming snack. It’s that something to “do” while waiting for the screen to load. It passes those invaluable seconds you’d be wasting while staring at the screen, all the time you could be doing something more productive such as delighting in the savoury taste of barbeque flavoured Walkers crisps. As I lay in bed weak with sickness last weekend, I noticed a stark revelation. When I play computer games. I eat WAY too much! And I only eat it while in front of the computer! So as the weekend ends I decided to count the foods I had while sitting at the computer. This was done by placing all wrappers in a cardboard box instead of the usual bin in my gaming room (actually it’s my bedroom). There are people, who don’t understand that gaming is a normal thing, that have the stereotypical view of what a gamer looks like. It isn’t the image of Brad Pitt that comes to mind. With a list like I’m about to give you it’s not surprising.
Here’s what I consumed at the weekend. Bear in mind that this is only while I sat in front of the computer.
A large bag of Lidl brand Doritos.
A bag of mini Lion bars.
6 bags of King brand crisps.
7 bags of Tayto brand crisps.
3 bags of Lidl brand Smokey Bacon crisps.
A two-litre bottle of 7-up.
A large bag of Haribo Jelly Babies.
A large Milka brand chocolate bar.
Now hopefully the majority of gamers don’t share my eating habits (though there are some of you out there!) because I know from looking back at this, something isn’t right. It’s just not healthy to eat this sort of junk food in bulk. I had to fall ill from eating endless rubbish to realise my eating habits. And the source of all this rubbish was while I sat in front of my computer at night while trying to bulk up my gamerscore. So now I’ve began planning a new routine. I follow Shaz’s strict routine of dance mats by day and by night I snack on the bag of pears, which have replaced the cheap crisps and lion bars that held my heart (literally speaking!) dearly. I hope maybe this horror story might make you look at what you’re snacking on during a game and if you have my problem, you might join me in my change of diet! Oh and I’m keeping the 7-up you know, ‘cause it’s nice.
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