In general, nothing wont stop me eating if I'm hungry...but I have certain dislikes and habits that I can now afford that I would try to make happen as much as possible, especially if in a restaurant.
I love wholemeal seeded, granary, rich bread when buying a sliced loaf, but nothing beats a french white bread how from the oven...I just can't do it because of not the weight gain but the sugar levels in my body make my health behave badly...
I don't think of me as a picky eater and in the end of the day, as I said, I would eat anything if I am hungry, but reading you guys I realized I have more "particulars" than I thought.... things I will try to avoid, but if there is now way out, I may eat/drink anyway, for example:
I've realized that the older I get, the weirder I am.
Yeah, I'm sure you guys are thinking
we already knew that.
yes, I think me too, but , like
@cookingmylife says: living all around the world and especially on a very low budget for long periods in my life has taught me to eat whatever it is if I am hungry.
if I'm having pizza then I really want a can of Coke. We try not to keep pop in the house, so I don't usually get my Coke... but I dream about it while I chew lol.
this is me: pizza & coke go together, only I prefer bottles to cans, but if no way out, I drink the can. I also dislike Seven Up and Sprite, if there is no coke or pepsi, I wont drink the fizzy stuff, not even too keen on the orange ones
We quit having big bottles of Coke in the house because both of us would down a liter or more in a day...
If I'm at a restaurant I can't have mac and cheese without chicken on top or on the side (cuz who doesn't want a slab of chicken as a "side" to their meal?), which I then cut up and add to the mac. It started when I was pregnant with DD. We went to a fave place and I was like "Listen, I love your mac and cheese. But can I have a chicken breast on top of it, or on the side? And a side of fries?" No wonder I gained like 60lbs rotfl.
see this is one of my definite avoidance... if I am in a restaurant, unless there is no way out, I wont eat pasta, or generally anything I can cook at home, if I am paying I would pay to eat stuff that is almost impossible for me to make at home.... like Chinese food, I have tried gazillions of recipes but nothing taste like the restaurants or take outs, or go to Belge restaurants to eat mussels in a big pot with fries (used to go at least once a month) we go a lot to Sushi places when we can afford, and there is an American innovative kitchen here called Giraffe, love their food too...Wagamamma is another of our favorites.... but pizza and pasta, unless is from an Italian restaurant run by an Italian family we go a lot to ...no way. Even when we go there, they have some meat dishes I LOVE , so if we have money, I'll have the meat, if not, their pizzas are this gorgeous think crust, amazingly delicious ones... or when we get food delivered.... but don't much like Pizza Hut and Pizza Express here does not deliver....
The only thing I have noticed is that while I love bread, my body only turns it into big, ole fat. So I am trying to cut it out. Sigh. I do like a nice wheat bread.
not only the weight, but your sugar levels...that was why I had to almost stop eating white bread...though I love French bread, I was borderline diabetic so... no much white, nice crusty bread for me
I do tend to cook the same things together, like I almost always make potatoes and green beans if I also make meatloaf. Probably what my mom put together.
yes, I have this kind of thing inherited from my mum too, only she cooked a lot of Arabic food, so is on that that I follow through...we have become very creative in our kitchen...Sarita even did Food Technology when she was in High school, we are always saying we should open a restaurant LOL
I will say that my current food interest is in roasting veggies -- turn them a bit black and salt them - they all suddenly taste good. We are eating Brussels sprouts for the first time but only if I roast them. Dog likes them too.
oh LOVE roast veggies!!! I think we even had a whole thread about it? Brussels sprouts...that is one thing I am not too sure about liking....unless fried with bacon and some interesting spicing
If I see the tomato while I'm eating a sandwich or burger, I have to take it out immediately.
oh , FIRST thing I see we are total opposites!!!!! I kinda NEED tomato in my sandwich for it to be complete...even though I'm not too keen on tomato in salads, sandwiches unless is prawn or coronation chi8cken, needs to have a tomato slice or two!!!!
I eat anything and everything, unfortunately. My daughter has a strange/interesting habit in that she will only eat things in order, for example, finishing off the meat, before taking one bite of vegetables, and then eating every bite of vegetables before eating her salad, etc.
oh gosh.....this was Andy all the way!!! (Sarita's dad) he did that to a point of being really really annoying, especially with bounty chocolate bars, he would suck all the chocolate first, then eat the coconut filling....
I am a WICKED picky eater. So bad. If I don't like the way it looks, smells or the texture I won't try it or eat it.
Sarita has a problem with textures, huge one, wont eat tomatoes or grapes unless they are very firm, and anything with a grainy consistency, like the wheat used for tabbouleh or couscous... she wont eat, unless there is no way out...
My food on my plate cannot touch (except for Thanksgiving. That's the one day a year I allow it...lol). I am a name brand whore. There are very few foods I will buy store brand of. There are also a lot of foods that I like, but will not eat unless I'm the one who made them. Like tuna, egg salad, green bean casserole, etc...lol I am very weird...lol
I used to be like that... now I have realized some (only some) store's own are better than the more expensive ones, but I usually buy Hellman's for Mayonnaise and Heinz for ketchup even though I rarely eat ketchup, Sarita is the one who loves it.
Oh I'm afraid I'm an omnivore for the most part. And the scale confirms it.
If I ever had a tendency to be picky,
living all around the world cured me of that.
You learn to eat what's available or go hungry.
same here, as I said before... but now I can afford certain things, why not do it, right?
However...I will not eat mayo in anything! I loved it as a child and around 4 or so I ate a whole jar. Never again...never again. Both of my husbands cannot believe i will eat a sandwich with neither mustard or mayo. I do like that spread of chopped hot peppers on a sandwich though. The only mustard I like is the spicy very grainy German kind and I find the yellow stuff appalling. I also like my butter hard - a preference from my maternal grandfather who used to eat sticks of butter.
ohhh boy.. I remember when in England the first time, we weren't married yet, and we were shopping in a market, there was this caravan that sold hot dogs and burgers... I see mustard, same color and consistency as the one I ate all my life in South America....took one bite...my eyes cried for an hour!!!! LOL
I love the whole grain mustard, mainly in meat or chicken, sometimes sausages ..but can't eat the English one!!!
so, yes Kim....even though in the end of the day I will eat pretty much anything...I think now I can list a VERY long list of "particulars"
but this is already too long
