The Official Food Thread
 

Favorite food? Least favorite food? Eating disorders? Recipes? Everything food goes here~

i think i might have an eating disorder, but what teenage girl nowadays dosent.
today ive eaten lots of carrots and celary, and some raisins. mmmmm, i'd much rather be eating chocolate chip cookies and full fat milk.
my favourite food is probly fresh pasta with carbonara sauce and garlic bread.
My least favourite food is sushi.
tonight for dinner im having chicken with Nando's peri peri sauce in pita breads with salad and french dressing. that should be nice.

ive been a vegetarian since i was ten, so blegh, no meat or fish for me :D i adore vegetables, peppermint and sparkling water. i dont have any eating disorder, although people say i dont eat very much.. but i just eat till i feel like i've had enough, while most people just try to finish their plate :P

i'm trying to maintain vegetarianism.

i love pasta. i'll eat anything pasta.

I think we had a thread like this a few days ago...anyway. I really like Indian food, viva la tandoori.

Shouldnt someone write an eating disorder recipe book?Imagine the fun...........

Perhaps you should start one. What kind of recipes would this include though?

the next time you (& your significant other perhaps) are thinking of stopping at a fast-food crap-shack for dinner, i suggest you instead drop by a Kroger store(if there's one near you) for a quickie budget gourmet meal that requires little (or even no) cooking time:

-one mixed raw vegetable deli tray from Kroger
with baby carrots, celery, cherry tomatoes & one small head of fresh lettuce (all for around six bucks)...that's the quickie option & it makes many salads & is great to have around later for veggie snacking. if you're planning on having enough time to prepare salads during the week of course one can forego the deli tray & just buy a pkg of carrots, pkg of celery a couple of tomatoes of your choice. <I think in a more primitive society, I might've worshipped fresh tomatoes; when i moved to the house i'm in there's a patch for a garden out back & i lazily have not grown any tomatoes.> Also good with this if you feel like indulging is a pkg of Kroger brand shredded sharp cheddar.
-top with dressing of your choice although i recommend (for taste & economy) Kroger creamy italian which usually only runs a dollar per bottle as opposed to other brands costing upwards to 3 bucks or more (or if that's too fattening for ya go for some creamy balsamic). The deli tray comes with vegetable dip but it is a bit too heavy for even me.
Not a quickie option, but if you feel up to grilling some seafood or steak, then grilling raw vegetables & topping with creamy balsamic vinaigrette is a taste sensation.

-one pkg of Kroger imported Thai tiger shrimp (6.99/lb) ... a pack of it good for anywhere from 1-3 servings & costs only 3.50 or so... the shrimp is already steamed & ready to eat or you can debane it & saute it in a pan (i use fleischmann's olive oil margarine) or even microwave it very briefly (it only takes 20 seconds or less because the already steamed shrimp is filled with water) & it's delicious.

Serve with rice &/or vegetable of choice or just skip the side dishes if you are in a hurry.

So, in summary, you spent as much as you would have for a couple of combo "meals" & now you have enough salad left over to enjoy that for lunch or before dinner for the following week. I like steak too, so salad is a must to have on hand. I used to shop at a Harris Teeter more when I lived near one. I am not a vegetarian, but for health food I go to Whole Foods Market rather than the section at Kroger. As one can tell, now I live closer to a Kroger. Oh you don't like shrimp? I'm sorry for you. Substitute the shrimp for some orange roughy filets, mahi mahi, swordfish or fish of choice (all available at most grocery stores for cheap for a 1-2 serving size) <my favorite fish recipe = cajun blackened amberjack> or get some cheap steak. Even cheap steaks taste great if they're freshly cooked after you buy them & know how to cook a steak properly. Anyway, one can find comparable deals at just about any good grocery store.

I dunno.Stuff like:''Right,and now take 2 Mars bars,one portion of chips and then mix them with a 1/4 pounder and......''

We don't have Krogers in western PA. We have Bilos and Giant Eagles. As well as Costco, but we all know Costco is fascist. In being a department store as well as food store, they have managed to avoid accepting food stamps, even though their food is a great value for big families on food stamps. I think it is to maintain the elitist yuppie atmosphere of the place. They can't deal with us poor white folks, blacks, or hispanics.


I think I have an eating disorder. I'm not thin, and I'm not fat- it is just that I have really odd eating patterns. Yesterday all I ate was some crackers, a tiny bit of beef, some pita, a bag of combos (the singer from the last band didn't want anymore), and a tiny slice of burnt pizza. Oh and some pizelle cookies and a swig of milk. And beer. And cider. All in all, I probably got 1000 calories yesterday and I am starving now, but I will have a big dinner tonight.

So I pretty much scavenge food and have a big meal now and then. My eating habits are very animalistic. I've been known to eat whole chickens after a full day of starving. I wouldn't really call it binge eating, because I don't starve for days and then eat a crapload, I just don't have regular meal patterns and will starve for 5-6 hours maximum.

i like everything, i'm a nonstop eating machine. and i like everything, espescially junk food!

well I ate Pasta cooked by non-italians and I H-ate it! I have to underline that pasta has to be cooked for not to much. 6/10 minutes, it depends, anyway it hasnt to be ultra cooked so, my advice is to taste it after 6/7 minutes on fire, then go with a good oil and then whateva you want. Here in italy we prefer Pasta cooked for not to much time instead the contrary.
then I like italian cheese called Grana that if you eat it everyday is okay for good sex performance!

Wowza!

yes exactly this one!

It's Italian.




In french : Pâtes à la carbonara

this it's what a my friend ate no more time ago...he feels still himself bad when I show him this picture! he ate everything, though.

Least favorite? Mayonnaise....I'll puke if it touches my lips.

Pizza is amazing. It can be shitty. It can be orgasmic. It can be 'Mmmm!'. It can have anything on it. It can have nothing on it. It is yin and yang. It's a sandwich derivative or italian origin. Sometimes it isn't?

Real men put Tabasco Sauce on everything.

I am a supertaster. Certain vegetables make me retch- just smelling them makes me wanna spew lung butter all over the place. Cold custard tastes great, but it looks horrible and feels horrible- food that quivers isn't so good.

And to quote Peter Kay, "Piccalilly? Whats that!? - Don't eat anything that's luminous."

For all you vegetarians: "Why don't you stuff it man, you plant eating pussy!"

I love meat. Steaks, hamburgers, yumm.
I like sushi, chinese food, homemade pizza (I don't like greasy ass pizza)


Damn, deja vu. Didn't we just have a thread about food?

Anybody visit those pro Ana sites? Seems to be popular with a lot of girls. I find it all disturbing myself, but I have a friend who is overweight and she is always in love with skinny boys and shit, and I guess its partly a jealously thing for her, and likes really skinny celebrities because she thinks thier like at the ideal weight. I try to tell her that thinking is bullshit but you can't really change people's perceptions of themselves I guess.

oh, gross!!! anorexics give me the fucking willies. and their self-obsession makes me wanna puke. why don't they just take a fucking flight to some famine-stricken region & relieve us of their presence? plus, those countries could benefit from their tourism dollars.
darfur awaits you!
or
choose your fucking destination!

when im home alone, i eat unhealthily.

I have horrible eating habits. I'd kill to lose weight, but those ana girls make me feel kind of happy to have a few extra pounds.

I put cayenne pepper on everything, save dessert-y foods and fruit.

I love Japanese food, especially sushi. Some people can't get over the fact that it's raw fish, but whatever. I also love pasta, noodles and rice (how Asian of me), steak and crepes. My least favourite food are peas. They taste horrible.

hah, women who love their food rule! down with frigid eaters!
ive heard of people who are grossed out with the *idea* of the raw fish but-- such fools! sushi is awesome.

now about the peas: if they aren't cooked right they taste awful.

here's a suggestion: cook them lightly, in only a bit of water, and put some lettuce leaves in the pot (they balance out the sweet i guess, lettuce being slightly bitter, you don't have to eat the lettuce, it's only for flavor). or steam them. you can actually steam them between lettuce leaves (no iceberg!). when ready add a little butter -- delicious!. you can cook w/ shallots too. anyway DO NOT OVERCOOK, or they will taste like... farts, hah
hah. overcooked boiled vegetables are the worst whatever vegetable they are.

i like toast.

i am toast

glad you like me

i toasted an "everything" bagel today & had cream cheese on it...

mmmmm bagel... miss those...

that and a lovely poutine in a drunken state...

i am a "plant-eating pussy," according to nomadicfollower. ironically my diet is MORE well-rounded since i became vegetarian since i knew i'd have to branch out so i wouldn't get sick of the same things. now i eat almost anything that is vegetarian . . . except brussels sprouts (how stereotypical of me). (check that . . . i'm not big on desserts, with the exception of the occasional italian ice or cookie -- i'm anal about health.)

i'm also a pasta nut, and i make tea almost every day when i'm home.

sushi gives you great energy & awareness

i love peas. ealry, sweet, canned or dried ones that are soaked

i really love split pea soup, but i do use a lot of salt & also add dried onion &/or minced onions, thyme & pepper, but i don't use ham in it at all

when i was younger i wouldn't like to eat brussel sprouts, broccoli or turnip or mustard greens, beets all that but i would eat it to "clean my plate" & now i actually like those foods...

what movie was that where a woman cries & says "my mother was a horrible cook"?

ah yes! i think it was BIG NIGHT. beautiful little film.

my mother used to overcook vegetables. she still does. hence i hated them. but since i learned to cook i love them. because i kick ass in the kitchen :D

ha ha, me too, for a long time now. It's the right choice, no question.

I made garlic bread from scratch tonight, the first time I've done so. It was fantastic.

My favourite foods are: curries, rice, mushrooms and cheese. And anyhting (veggie) from the chippy of course.

I use a lot of fresh vegetables, and quite a lot of soya, tofu and red lentils.

why did you become vegetarian? i did because the idea of chewing on a dead animal grossed me out since i was a kid, and at the age of ten my parents were finally convinced that it isnt unhealthy :D

I became vegetarian nearly 23 years ago (I was 12). It was a variety of reasons, including yours, and the fact that our farming methods are so unfair, and that it's just not very healthy. But basically, I think I realised that I don't need to eat animals - I come from a pretty wealthy country, and I've never been so desperate for food that something else has had to die just to fill my stomach.

I hope you stick with it, because if you're anything like me then you'll be glad you did when you're older. I was the only veggie in my family, and I'm kind of proud that I stuck at it, especially since back then I could actually eat very little - even things like plain biscuits had animal fat in. Vegetarian food is much more available and affordable now, which is a good thing. I thonk there were relatively few vegetarians for a long time, but it really picked up around the time that I changed to it. I'm sure that the 'movement' (for want of a better term) was a part of the reason too - at least in the sense of making me aware of things more.

don't you hate the incessant questions about what you do for protein?

it drives me insane when things that look perfectly innocent have something non-vegetarian 7/8 of the way down the ingredient list. i dread finding out something like that when someone is cooking for me.

i've been doing it for almost 3 years now, though i continued eating fish until about a year ago, when it occured to me that if you eat fish you're NOT vegetarian. (that's another one of my pet peeves . . . i tell people i'm vegetarian and their immediate question is "do you eat fish?" uuh . . . last i checked fish were animals.)

Sushi is indeed awesome.

Thanks for the peas cooking suggestion! I suck at cooking, but I'll try it out anyway. Or I can get my mum to do it, haha.

fish tacos bitch!

It's quiet in work this morning, so you get a proper split-quote response! Hurrah!


It depends - if it's people just being a pain (and usually it is) then yes. If it's people who are considering vegetarianism or worrying about their child becoming vegetarian then I'm happy to help, as I'm sure you are.

The people who irritate me the most in fact, are the veggiefascists, the vegetairans who check you out with questions to see if you're a proper veggie, like they are. They assume that you don't actually understand what the word 'vegetarian' means. They give vegetarianism a bad reputation, when it in fact deserves to have the best reputation.


The main one where I have to be very careful is oriental chutneys and the like - there was a very nice looking Thai coconut and chilli paste recently, but it contained fish oil. I've learned to look at everything in advance.

And Walkers crisps. I can understand chicken flavour crisps containing somethig derived from chicken, but quite why sour cream and sweet pepper flavour has to be unsuitable for vegetarians is a mystery to me. Especially when the offending ingredient is available in animal and vegetable form. And especially when other crisp manufacturers manage quite happily. But to be honest I don't like Walkers much anyway, they're kind of on my boycott list.


'I'm vegetarian'
'Right. Do you eat fish?'
'No - I'm vegetarian'
'Oh. I know some vegetarians who eat fish'
'No, you don't'
'Yes I do'
'No you don't'
'What do you mean?'
'THe're not vegetarians'
'Why not?'
'BECAUSE THEY EAT FISH!'

Then I usually have to explain why fish count as animals. Which seems strange, given that it's fairly obvious.

It used to annoy me when cafes and the like would have fish as a vegetarian option! But things are much better nowadays - I very rarely hve any problem anywhere. Vegetarian food is more widespread, accessible, tasty and cheaper too.

I sometimes wonder why people think veggie food has to be bland. Changing the meat in a curry to soya or tofu or vegetables doesn't ruin the enjoyment. In fact the knowledge that you're making the right choice should enhance the enjoyment. I know a few people who aren't vegetarian, but who choose more and more vegetarian options because they've tried and preferred them in the past. The taste of exotic vegetables and fruit is just as interesting as meat, and once you stop eating meat, I think you actually start to taste the other things more.

i´m vegetarian, too

once i had an interesting conversation with my girlfriend. She didn´t believe me that fish have feelings and she couldn´t understand why i don´t eat fish.
Then we went into a bookstore and found this really nice book "sex fish and cod"
that was fun
haha

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cooking:
i put cheese in everything i cook