The unhealthiest eaters of all…

…are teenage girls, according to recent UK government research.  This does not come as the slightest bit of a surprise to me, having once been a teenage girl myself.  Being a teenager is a pretty horrible experience, as Caitlin Moran argues in this hilarious piece in the London Times, and requires a fair bit of self-medicating with food.   Moran also makes the valid point that chips are possibly the only thing that keep underdressed teenage girls from freezing to death on winter evenings.

I well remember the dreadful habits my friends and I had when we were young teenagers – hours spent lolling around in McDonalds, having two or three of whatever the cheapest thing on the menu was.  School lunchtimes were spent trudging en masse to a nearby sandwich shop and buying cheap white rolls stuffed full of coleslaw.  If you were feeling a bit rich, you might ask them to throw in some ham or cheese.   Slumber parties or anything like that always involved mountains of utter crap.  But when you’re a young teenager, what else is there to do? And junk food goes so well with hanging around carparks at nighttime drinking cans of scrumpy, or crying in your bedroom.

So to our female readers, do you remember your teenage eating habits? Were you subsisting on chips or getting your five fruit and veg a day like a good girl?