midnight snacking
Late-night fridge raids
Midnight snacking is eating late at night, typically after going to bed or well past dinner—raiding the refrigerator at 2 a.m., finishing leftovers while everyone else sleeps.
The term carries connotations of guilty pleasure or poor self-control: I've been trying to cut back on midnight snacking.
The snacking needn't occur precisely at midnight.
- fridgeCold storage appliance
- cravingsIntense desires for something
- leftoversUneaten food kept afterward
- cheeseFermented milk solid
- crackersCrispy flat biscuits
ice cream · cookies · hunger · can't sleep · kitchen · darkness · guilty · guilty pleasure · munchies · pantry · cold pizza · binge · empty calories · insomnia · restless · chips · spoon · microwave
- bad habitssmoking, drinking, lying, swearing, gossiping
- nocturnal activityprowling, stalking, owl calls, cricket chirping, frog calls
- excessexcess, too much, excessive, excessiveness, overabundance
- Hunger-Relatedeating, appetite, food craving, stomach growling, hunger pains
- overeatingovereating, binge eating, gorging, gluttony, overindulgence
midnight snackingformal dining
Structured, ceremonial eating
sit-down dinner · family meal · Sunday dinner · three-course meal · dinner party
midnight snackingfasting
Deliberate food avoidance
intermittent fasting · mindful eating · eating window · calorie restriction · clean eating
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