PMS snacks help when struggling with premenstrual existential issues. Below is a list to add and hang on the refrigerator.

Menstruation can come: French fries with mayonnaise and ketchup are waiting to be devoured Photo: Wolfgang Maria Weber/imago

Why do I exist? Why does something exist? Currently it seems to me as if I exist to despair once a month over this inexplicable existence. As if he existed to question the meaning of his continued existence once a month.

I don't have a bad time! And my husband should know how hard it is for me too! He can help me, although he doesn't have answers, but I hope he has fries soon. With French fries, the suffering of the being is much easier to bear. Even if not, at least I'm eating fries while dealing with questions I'll never get answers to. The answer probably doesn't even exist.

“Please, can you bring me some fries?” I struggle with existential questions before menstruation. But two servings, the portions there are always very small, with mayonnaise, but if you love me, you know it anyway. And you love me, don't you?

I reached the perfection of my effectiveness as an existence the day the salt-seasoned potato chips ended up in my shopping cart.

Because little is more frustrating than finally having a large portion of French fries in front of you – or even two small ones combined into one large one – and then they are not salty enough.

This is also a real reason to despair, especially a few days before the start of your period. If I had children, one of my existential pieces of advice would be: “I can't protect you from life's disappointments, but let me tell you: always have salted French fries at home.”

Salted herrings, children's and special bars

So! No more existential considerations, here comes my list of snacks for PMS:

French fries (it is better to have too many and not be able to finish them all than to have too few and greed is left unsatisfied)

Salted herrings (divided into several small bowls so they can be accessed in every room)

Children's bars (alternatively: Kinder-Schoko-Bons, Kinder Bueno or Kinder Happy Hippo. Here too it is a good idea to distribute the chocolate delicacies around the apartment)

Spezi (that belongs to French fries, actually they always go together, not everyone knows that)

Foam waffles (sometimes offered in cubes at Aldi or Lidl, so worth buying)

Salty French Fries (The Late Night Alternative to French Fries)

Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes and Gravy (These Culinary Tools Will Help You Reconnect with Your Five-Year-Old Self)

Licorice candies (but don't chew the last bite, as a middle-aged person I know exactly why I give this advice)

Spelled Kaiserschmarrn from the ready-made package (thank me later and don't forget the applesauce and powdered sugar)

Chocolate Ice Cream with Chocolate Chips (emphasis on the chocolate chips!)

I have one more tip: make a list of your PMS snacks! Hang it on the fridge! Inform your friends and associates about its existence. Also ask about their list of favorite PMS snacks! Oh no, throw a Tupper party, but with PMS snacks!

For my part, I will now leave the existential questions to the philosophers and devote myself to my double helping of French fries with Spezi and French fries seasoned with salt.