So what kind of garbage would you consume then?
yea candies are like cocaine for me, at some point in my life I was truly addicted to candies. many types. chocolate, "brigadeiro" (the best brazilian candy you're gonna find), even zero lactose powdered milk tastes delicious tbh. depends on what's available. I once bought a gym "mass gainer" (hyper-caloric) that was basically candy (was maltodextrin with sucralose and very strong artificial flavors), good to make homemade milk-shake. I don't really know how to cook pizzas and things like that, but things like bacon with ketshup are easy to make.
once you know the basic recipe for making something addictive, it's not that hard. it's usually high fat + high carb + high energy density.
the most addictive foods tend to be these macros: 50% carbohydrates, 10% protein, 40% fat (by calories). also high energy density.
brigadeiro is a good example. Nutella is 45% CHO, 51% FAT, 4% PRO, so it's very close to the most obesogenic macros I just cited. they really studied the recipe to try to make it the most irresistible and hedonistic possible.
so if I'm making a junk milk shake, and I notice it has a lot of sugar but very little fat (whole milk has fat but it's far away from being a fat bomb), I'll find a way to add fat in there so I make this combination of carb bomb + fat bomb, then it becomes delicious (fat and oil are the same thing for this purpose).
high fat or high carb alone isn't enough to trigger a lot of dopamine, it has to be both. just like a donut. then you'll get your dopamine spike (and get closer to diabetes in the process!).
I prefer making things at home, I really think that a lot of things that are sold out there are over-rated. hot-dogs and Nutella are examples. just look at the image I'll post below. if you're like me you're gonna think "this company didn't deserve to get rich", because you could easily make this at home, and most of the product's weight is cheap sugar anyway (55% by weight), so they're selling it over-priced.
and that's exactly why, even in my "let's eat garbage" life phase, I always made stuff at home.
they're throwing sugar, flour and oil in everything simply because it's way too cheap and way too profitable. at home at least I'll choose higher-quality ingredients, which may even still end up being cheaper.
as an ex-addict I can tell you: if you're gonna eat a lot of crap, learn to cook it yourself. because by doing so you're gonna end up with a bigger amount of junk available to eat while lowering the expenses, so you can eat a lot without going bankrupt!
if you get obese or diabetic you'll probably be more depressed than before, so maybe this is even a technique to decrease SI, increase reasons to CTB and thus likelihood of actually CTBing, who knows...