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How to eat healthy when the munchies strike - Popular Science
Fifty million American adults (most of them millennials) use marijuana, according to a 2017 Marist poll. That’s a whole lot of people getting stoned—and often, getting the munchies, that almost-feral craving for foods that are salty, sweet, fatty, or all of the above.
If the urge to snack turns you into a Pac-Man—chomping your way through cookies, pizza rolls, and even that questionable-looking box of chocolate that’s been sitting in the back of your pantry for months—you can do something about it. Here are our best tips for damage control in the moment, and making healthier choices when you do blitz your pantry. And this advice applies whether or not you can blame your snacking on marijuana.
Fifty million American adults (most of them millennials) use marijuana, according to a 2017 Marist poll. That’s a whole lot of people getting stoned—and often, getting the munchies, that almost-feral craving for foods that are salty, sweet, fatty, or all of the above.
If the urge to snack turns you into a Pac-Man—chomping your way through cookies, pizza rolls, and even that questionable-looking box of chocolate that’s been sitting in the back of your pantry for months—you can do something about it. Here are our best tips for damage control in the moment, and making healthier choices when you do blitz your pantry. And this advice applies whether or not you can blame your snacking on marijuana.