Post by unanimous on May 23, 2010 3:53:39 GMT 3
I have always been a junk food eater. i despised veggies. i have given my parents a hard time trying to feed me. if it's green and it does not spout some grease the moment it hits the pan...it cannot join my plate - my stomach is a bigot like that.
Fruits? it was a pain in the butt to eat. My mom was a neat freak when it comes to clothes. she loved dressing me up in white or other pastel colors and she wants it to remain the same color throughout the day. no stains. on a kid. So if you mess your shirt/dress with a fruit stain, you get the death stare and off to the bath you go..and a bath is like what..30-40 minutes out of your potential play time, and come with a really really rough sponge...sooo rough that to this day, i think those baths exfoliated my arms and legs for life (for which i would like to thank her of course).
so yeah, if i am not eating pork, beef or chicken - i would be having potato chips. not a fan of french fries or burgers though thank gawd! just salty potato chips and other junk foods.
fast forward to 2010...or roughly maybe when i got married two years earlier. since i got married, my husband would slice apples for me each morning and stuff a bunch of leaves (which i later come to recognize as spinach and/or oakleaf salad) instead of potato chips in a sandwhich bag for my lunch...and since i cant usually leave to get the food that i like...it is that or starve.... slowly weaning me off of the 'bad stuff'....laying out the ground work....sneaky bastid!
then i saw that documentary Food Inc that made me scrutinize more what i eat...and left me feeling like: omg, theres nothing left for me to eat! i usually operate on a whim when it comes to food. i dont eat because im hungry, but rather i eat coz i crave - and since my cravings come in 3-hour intervals, if not shorter, i dont really have to suffer hunger before the next craving takes effect. But anyways, after watching food inc, it kinda turned me off from most foods ...for a while. then i realized that for the past 3 years that ive been here, ive really only been eating chicken and beef everyday.....no pork. then it got me thinking.....what's the point of being a carnivore if i cant have roast pork!?!
so on my last two simultaneous holidays, it was pork festival! it was revenge of the pork! i was hoarding pork on my constitution like noah was gathering passengers for his boat.
when i returned to doha though, i dunno what actually happened, it's like i just bored my appetite vegetarian. sort of. it's been nothing but salad, fruits, mushroom, salad, fruit, salad for the past two months now. ive suddenly developed a craving for salads! No, i am not pregnant....it's just that i really like salads these days and dont miss other foods.....well except maybe pork. I like the combination of roccolla, boston leaf or other greens with walnuts, golden raisin and slices of orange. no dressing. i hate dressings, they make the veggies all soggy and yuck. it is just so refreshing to eat...and i dont feel sluggish the rest of the day either..or weak. i would have a big bowl of salad at around 8 in the morning then just fruits for the rest of the day, until i have another salad for dinner. Then i discovered this spicy papaya salad from Far East resto and tweaked the recipe a bit. ( i swear that resto and the asian resto in W are the only places right now worth hiking out to if we ever get the need to eat out!). Have you tasted the combination of sweet basil and coriander? i think it's awesome and whoever started that should have a nobel prize! have you roasted sweet potatoes with marjoram and olive oil...these are like really lazy food, and it did not make me gag...at all! and i used to think sweet potatoes are....well...doorstops. if you open our fridge right now....it's like the rain forest in there! and ive only bothered the people in la cigale once this past two months for an ice cream....and walking back to our apartment it was so humid and hot, i was practically sweating spinal fluids so the ice cream evaporated with that!
i had a momentarily lapse of insanity when i actually thought i wanna give myself a gift of a healthy...intestines at least if i reach the age of 40. the thing with me though is ive this nasty trait of eating something til i get sick of it, then when i get sick of it, it takes years for me to eat it again. im worried that when these cravings pass, i just might become a junkfood ho again or a mcdonalds slut. i really hope this holds up, it's like ive checked myself into a food rehab. yay!
Fruits? it was a pain in the butt to eat. My mom was a neat freak when it comes to clothes. she loved dressing me up in white or other pastel colors and she wants it to remain the same color throughout the day. no stains. on a kid. So if you mess your shirt/dress with a fruit stain, you get the death stare and off to the bath you go..and a bath is like what..30-40 minutes out of your potential play time, and come with a really really rough sponge...sooo rough that to this day, i think those baths exfoliated my arms and legs for life (for which i would like to thank her of course).
so yeah, if i am not eating pork, beef or chicken - i would be having potato chips. not a fan of french fries or burgers though thank gawd! just salty potato chips and other junk foods.
fast forward to 2010...or roughly maybe when i got married two years earlier. since i got married, my husband would slice apples for me each morning and stuff a bunch of leaves (which i later come to recognize as spinach and/or oakleaf salad) instead of potato chips in a sandwhich bag for my lunch...and since i cant usually leave to get the food that i like...it is that or starve.... slowly weaning me off of the 'bad stuff'....laying out the ground work....sneaky bastid!
then i saw that documentary Food Inc that made me scrutinize more what i eat...and left me feeling like: omg, theres nothing left for me to eat! i usually operate on a whim when it comes to food. i dont eat because im hungry, but rather i eat coz i crave - and since my cravings come in 3-hour intervals, if not shorter, i dont really have to suffer hunger before the next craving takes effect. But anyways, after watching food inc, it kinda turned me off from most foods ...for a while. then i realized that for the past 3 years that ive been here, ive really only been eating chicken and beef everyday.....no pork. then it got me thinking.....what's the point of being a carnivore if i cant have roast pork!?!
so on my last two simultaneous holidays, it was pork festival! it was revenge of the pork! i was hoarding pork on my constitution like noah was gathering passengers for his boat.
when i returned to doha though, i dunno what actually happened, it's like i just bored my appetite vegetarian. sort of. it's been nothing but salad, fruits, mushroom, salad, fruit, salad for the past two months now. ive suddenly developed a craving for salads! No, i am not pregnant....it's just that i really like salads these days and dont miss other foods.....well except maybe pork. I like the combination of roccolla, boston leaf or other greens with walnuts, golden raisin and slices of orange. no dressing. i hate dressings, they make the veggies all soggy and yuck. it is just so refreshing to eat...and i dont feel sluggish the rest of the day either..or weak. i would have a big bowl of salad at around 8 in the morning then just fruits for the rest of the day, until i have another salad for dinner. Then i discovered this spicy papaya salad from Far East resto and tweaked the recipe a bit. ( i swear that resto and the asian resto in W are the only places right now worth hiking out to if we ever get the need to eat out!). Have you tasted the combination of sweet basil and coriander? i think it's awesome and whoever started that should have a nobel prize! have you roasted sweet potatoes with marjoram and olive oil...these are like really lazy food, and it did not make me gag...at all! and i used to think sweet potatoes are....well...doorstops. if you open our fridge right now....it's like the rain forest in there! and ive only bothered the people in la cigale once this past two months for an ice cream....and walking back to our apartment it was so humid and hot, i was practically sweating spinal fluids so the ice cream evaporated with that!
i had a momentarily lapse of insanity when i actually thought i wanna give myself a gift of a healthy...intestines at least if i reach the age of 40. the thing with me though is ive this nasty trait of eating something til i get sick of it, then when i get sick of it, it takes years for me to eat it again. im worried that when these cravings pass, i just might become a junkfood ho again or a mcdonalds slut. i really hope this holds up, it's like ive checked myself into a food rehab. yay!