# What food item has your family eating considerably more of in this past year? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 27, 2017, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-item-has-your-family-eating-considerably-more-of-in-this-past-year/780921 "2017-02-27T03:29:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mixolydian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Mixolydian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mixolydian)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-item-has-your-family-eating-considerably-more-of-in-this-past-year/780921/1 "2017-02-27T03:29:52Z")
For us, it’s greek yogurt…and honey. The four of us go through two large tubs of greek yogurt in a week nowadays. if you’d like to share, what has disappeared from your pantry/fridge? ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-item-has-your-family-eating-considerably-more-of-in-this-past-year/780921/2 "2017-02-27T03:32:11Z")
Brussels sprouts. Home Chef must have gotten a deal on them, because they’ve been in half our meals lately. No complaints, really. I’m enjoying learning new ways to cook Brussels sprouts, and they really are tasty. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-item-has-your-family-eating-considerably-more-of-in-this-past-year/780921/3 "2017-02-27T03:58:04Z")
Salads. Eating at different times we just found that one of the easier choices to make. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-item-has-your-family-eating-considerably-more-of-in-this-past-year/780921/4 "2017-02-27T04:10:38Z")
Pork. Turns out it’s the easiest meat to buy just a meal’s worth of. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-item-has-your-family-eating-considerably-more-of-in-this-past-year/780921/5 "2017-02-27T04:24:12Z")
Apples. New varieties of applies are much better in the offseason now than they were a few decades ago. Then, about the only apple you could get (except in fall) was warehoused McIntoshes, which were very mealy out of season. Now, I eat a half an apple a day, which I only started doing in the past year. To save a partially eaten apple, just cut in half with a straight cut, and place it in the fridge cut side down, on a plastic lid, it locks the air out and it won’t turn brown for many days. Wrapping not needed. That works for almost all fruits and veggies. I’ve also learned to enjoy a pot of tea once in a while, after visitors left a box of tea bags behind. ---
**Author:** ![Fruitbat2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5e9695/32.png) [@Fruitbat2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fruitbat2)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-item-has-your-family-eating-considerably-more-of-in-this-past-year/780921/6 "2017-02-27T04:28:01Z")
Low cal substitutes for rice, potatoes, pasta, bread, etc.- Mashed turnips, mashed cauliflower, mashed rutabaga, mashed kohlrabi, spaghetti squash, stir-fry broccoli slaw mix, etc. About 25% of the calories. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-item-has-your-family-eating-considerably-more-of-in-this-past-year/780921/7 "2017-02-27T06:59:22Z")
> [@Fruitbat2](#): > > Low cal substitutes for rice, potatoes, pasta, bread, etc.- Mashed turnips, mashed cauliflower, mashed rutabaga, mashed kohlrabi, spaghetti squash, stir-fry broccoli slaw mix, etc. About 25% of the calories. If you relax the requirement for it to look a bit like rice (i.e. whitish and granular), a mix of raw beetroot, apple and onion, blitzed in the food processor until finely chopped, makes a very good foil for spicy things like curry. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-item-has-your-family-eating-considerably-more-of-in-this-past-year/780921/8 "2017-02-27T07:01:35Z")
We’ve been eating more kale - either finely shredded and added into noodle dishes near the end of cooking, or tossed in soy sauce and baked in the oven for 10 minutes - it turns into the ‘crispy seaweed’ side dish that we get from the Chinese takeaway (which is not seaweed - it’s usually cabbage or kale) ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-item-has-your-family-eating-considerably-more-of-in-this-past-year/780921/9 "2017-02-27T08:47:07Z")
As snacks, chunks of cucumber and tomato. I dip them in soysauce with wasabi paste, you know, the standard sushi condiment. Probably too much salt, but a tasty and easy way to snack on veggies. ---
**Author:** ![Fruitbat2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5e9695/32.png) [@Fruitbat2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fruitbat2)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-item-has-your-family-eating-considerably-more-of-in-this-past-year/780921/10 "2017-02-27T08:49:05Z")
> [@Maastricht](#): > > As snacks, chunks of cucumber and tomato. I dip them in soysauce with wasabi paste, you know, the standard sushi condiment. Probably too much salt, but a tasty and easy way to snack on veggies. Ooh. Great idea! ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-item-has-your-family-eating-considerably-more-of-in-this-past-year/780921/11 "2017-02-27T09:12:29Z")
My husband is mad for turkey sticks. Easier to eat than jerky, and many fewer calories per stick than a Slim Jim. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-item-has-your-family-eating-considerably-more-of-in-this-past-year/780921/12 "2017-02-27T12:34:35Z")
Eggs. We bought seven chicks last spring to add to our flock of mostly post menopausal hens. Our egg consumption had fallen when few eggs were being laid. Now we cannot eat them fast enough, even with the dogs and parrot helping. Golden Comets, it turns out, are amazing layers. We do not supplement lighting and our hens usually stop laying come winter. These girls haven’t slowed at all. ---
**Author:** ![Totenfeier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@Totenfeier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Totenfeier)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-item-has-your-family-eating-considerably-more-of-in-this-past-year/780921/13 "2017-02-27T15:38:52Z")
Our graham cracker consumption has noticeably spiked. I have no idea why. ---
**Author:** ![Magicicada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c67d28/32.png) [@Magicicada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magicicada)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-item-has-your-family-eating-considerably-more-of-in-this-past-year/780921/14 "2017-02-27T17:50:33Z")
High fiber dry cat food. (Well, for 50% of the household, anyway.) ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-item-has-your-family-eating-considerably-more-of-in-this-past-year/780921/15 "2017-02-27T18:49:35Z")
Hummus. The stuff just flies out of the fridge all of a sudden. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-item-has-your-family-eating-considerably-more-of-in-this-past-year/780921/16 "2017-02-27T19:59:06Z")
Yoghurt. Hubby’s become hooked on fruit, muesli, yogurt, for breakfast. I never liked the stuff but am coming around now. Not plain yoghurt though. Ick. Dragon fruit. I’m kinda going through a phase right now. I can’t eat as much citrus as I once did, so why not dragon fruit? I keep it in the fridge, cut it in half and eat it with a spoon, like it comes with its own bowl. Yery handy AND very yummy! ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-item-has-your-family-eating-considerably-more-of-in-this-past-year/780921/17 "2017-02-27T20:20:47Z")
Salmon. We moved to the PNW, enjoy local smoked and fresh salmon, discovered salmon candy, joined Costco and found their excellent lox, and I decided I’m actually a bear. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-item-has-your-family-eating-considerably-more-of-in-this-past-year/780921/18 "2017-02-27T21:26:37Z")
Steelhead Salmon, and since I’m at the seafood counter I’ll pick up a bunch of shrimp for boiling w/ Zatarains too. Ditto on the brussel sprouts, steamed for me and baked for the wife and kid. Specialty breads, the new supermarket has a great bakery and I almost always keep fresh sourdough, foccasia, chibata and the like on hand. [Heartland Cereal](https://www.google.com/search?q=heartland+cereal&biw=1624&bih=860&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwjNt8-ymrHSAhULBMAKHTVfBOsQ_AUIBygC&dpr=1#imgrc=7rwrqH_43AZn6M:). I loved it as a teen, forgot about it for a couple of decades and recently found it in our store again. We’re killin’ it, the stock price must be soaring.