Then, if you want others to eat it (i.e., you’re being surreptitiously healthy), make it flavorful (salsa’s always good,) bite-sized, and put it within arms’ reach.

If you want it to stay untouched, make your healthy food messy, require utensils the host doesn’t have, have to cut it and microwave it, set it out after the first round of snacks and then leave it covered in the kitchen.

Good rules for any kind of pot luck, really.
Properly prepared pot luck food almost always gets fully devoured.

OTOH, making sure there are options available, and choosing to excersise those options yourself is all you should need to do to encourage the same behavior in your group.

“Okay, and I’m gonna go with a fillet of fish sandwich, since that has less calories, ‘cuz it’s fish.”

He would then show up to the game with a giant bag of McDonalds including several cheeseburgers, fries, and the supposedly “healthy” fish sandwich. When it wasn’t McDonalds it was a large bag of Long John Silvers a.k.a. “bag-o-gutbomb,” with the fish content supposedly making it a healthy food choice.

Talk about a pot calling the kettle black. Reminds me of that Eddie Murphy movie where his dad or uncle says,” Don’t talk to me about healthy… I know what healthy is,” as he pours a gravy boat over his plate. It is rather ironic and somewhat hilarious to have a guy that weighs more than 350 pounds lecturing the gaming group on healthy choices when he is clueless about his own.

I’m at Gen Con now, and HOLY SHIT some of you guys need to watch yourselves. When you can’t walk, but have to frakking waddle from game to game, you might want to cut back on the sugar-coated fat bombs… It ain’t rocket surgery.

OTOH, pushing health food on others is a mortal sin.

The weeks when Starburst Jelly Beans make an appearance are particularly bad. Those things should really be regulated…

On the other hand, we all GM and we all interact as friends. If I’m going to learn from someone else’s example, I can do that in any of our interactions. Many of my friends provide positive examples in their life everyday… they don’t have to thrust their chest out on game day to bring it to my attention.

I consider gaming to be a social activity. Snacks and beverages are just part of the fun, especially when everyone brings things to share. People eat what they want to eat. I’m not going to be the food police and I certainly won’t inflict my notions of a healthy diet on others. I expect the same consideration in return.

Since I game twice a month on average, I consider gaming days to be something of a free day. Bring on the pizza, the subs, the chips and dips and/or the cookies. I’ll worry about what I consume on the rest of the days in the month.

If someone wants to bring apple wedges or celery sticks then that is great. It won’t stop me from offering them a slice of pizza or a snicker doodle though.

However, I do believe in taking breaks (especially in long session). It usually is coupled with my need to setup the next scenario.

And if its at my house, I expect to do the usual hosting things (clean play area, access to drinks/water, restrooms, quiet environment, etc.).