after reading the peanut butter thread it made me realize that maybe I’m not so weird with my obsession. Mine is oranges. I eat anywhere from 15-36 oranges a day. Just sliced in wedges and eaten while I watch TV. Anyone else eat an inordinate amount of any one food?
What?!? :eek:
That’s amazing. I can’t match that, but I read somewhere that New Englanders eat more ice cream per capita than anyone else in the world - it’s something like 10 gallons per persone per year. Me? Probably about 2-3 gallons a year. Even that sounds like a lot, but I think it’s accurate.
Goodness! It’s a sure thing you’ll never come down with scurvy!
I don’t have any food obsessions I can think of, really. Although during my youth I probably drank way too much orange juice. I just could not get enough and went through gallons of it.
Well, you must have seen my answer already on the Peanut Butter thread. Jars and jars of it, I would eat it non-stop if it didn’t have so many calories.
Cheese. Love, love love cheese! For breakfast almost every morning, I eat a small chunk of cheddar. One of my favorite things to have for dinner is Gruyere melted over a good, solid toasted bagel (My husband hates it- he thinks it smells like feet). I keep cheese in my fridge at work to have for a late-afternoon snack. My idea of heaven is fondue. My husband finally quit buying me candy for Valentine’s Day- I would eat one or two pieces of it and then sort of get tired of it. This year, he finally wised up and got me some primo goat cheese. Mmmmm.
I don't like blue cheese, though. It's the only kind I don't like.Didn’t see the peanut butter thread, but coincidentally for me, it’s peanuts and peanut butter.
I will make and eat peanut butter-on-toast continuously for hours if I don’t control myself. I now have to make it a special treat, once or twice a month or so, or I’ll go through most of a jar in one sitting, and the good shit is 52% fat, a lot of it saturated, with sugars and hydogenated palm oil, which is apparently the worst fat of all for hardening the arteries.
Peanuts themselves, well I’ve eaten 500 grams (more than a pound) in a single sitting, and can happily go through 250g in my 16-mile car journey from work if I don’t control myself. If there are peanuts on the table in a social setting, I have to exercise all my willpower not to be impolite and guzzle the entire lot.
I’ve been like this ever since I was a kid. I simply never grow tired of the taste and texture, and I have no idea why.
Hummus. No one eats hummus like I eat hummus. I could eat an entire container of it in one sitting, with some carrots and herbed pita bread. I only let myself buy it once a week, or else it’s really all I’d eat. I think I’ll make some curried cashew hummus for dinner, in fact. With tomato chutney. And pita bread. Yum.
It’s an obsession, for sure.
Raspberry yogurt. I’ve been through two tubs at one sitting. Two rather large tubs.
sighs happily at the memory
Carrots. Eat a lot of them every day, but they’ve gotta be good carrots.
Top and tail them, then eat the outside to get to the ‘core’, which is much sweeter and jucier. Hate it when it’s a rubbish core though because you can waste a good 10 minutes carefully getting to it!
Night vision is OK, but I’m a former smoker so I think the two have probably just cancelled each other out!
With me, it’s salsa. I don’t make my own – I really ought to try that some time – but I go through jarred salsa like it’s going out of style. It’s the only thing that tempts me to buy chips anymore, but I’ll just as soon dip the low-fat Ritz or Club crackers into the jar, or celery sticks, or pour it over chicken or on burgers or toasted tortillas or pita or flatbread or even eggs. I’ve even been known to go after the stuff with a spoon. I like medium heat salsa the best – with a good kick, but nothing to make my nose run or upset my stomach. My favorites have some kind of fruit to counterbalance the spice, like peaches, mangoes, or pineapple, and I also love the smokiness from chipotle peppers. Even at Fuddrucker’s, I’ll pile the fresh, uncooked pico de gallo high over my burger, and then pinch up any that falls off with onion rings. Salsa is fat-free, full of lycopene from tomatoes and vitamin C from jalapenos, and soooo delicious. If anyone can recommend any good brands or easy recipes, I’m always taking notes!
That is a LOT of oranges! (According to this link) The RDA of vitamin C is 100-200 mg daily, with each orange (medium size) having 70mg - which means you’re having 1,050 - 2,520 mg of Vit C a day?! 10-20x the RDA? Please check out this link which details the effects of taking too much Vit C - I think too much could potentially be as bad as not enough - take care!