What is your favorite food...

[colormist]

What is your favorite food(s) that you CAN'T eat?

(I thought I'd torture everyone).

Mine is strawberries and bananas. I love strawberries and love banana flavored things.

[Tammy]

You are evil, evil, evil. ;D
Regina can't really answer this since she's been on the diet since a baby and has never tried other things. She doesn't want to try them, either, since she knows she'll get sick, and turns her off right away. And she doesn't like fruit flavors anyway.

BUT we often play that game for her. IF she could have one day of free eating, what would we give her. My dad always wanted her to go pick an apple and eat it. My son would feed her strawberries. My Mom has an orange tree in the backyard of her winter home. Her dad would give her all the different flavors of ice cream. I think I would probably go with corn on the cob roasted on an open fire. She would probably just go with anything chocolate that wouldn't give her the poopies when she ate too much of it.

It's actually a good thing that it's only ourselves we are torturing when we play this. She really doesn't mind. I have a lot of respect for all you guys out there. I don't think I could do it as well as you all do.

[julienc]

Hmmm, it's tough to answer this since I don't particularly like or crave anything sweet. I guess I'd have to say tomatoes. That's the one thing I've completely cut from my diet since learning of HFI that I used to eat fairly often. I do love fresh tomatoes with mozzarella and basil. Yummy!

If we're talking in general terms, I would like to be able to eat bananas. It's such an interesting fruit, the way it's peeled and all. I think I would enjoy the taste, too, since I do love banana flavored Runts (the candy).

As a side note, having my son has really opened a whole new world to me. I try to feed him a wide variety of fresh fruit, but I really have no clue what to do with it. I bought some plums for him the other day but wasn't sure if I was supposed to peel them. I'm so clumsy with them, too. I think I've peeled maybe one orange my entire life. ;D

[colormist]

There's just something about bananas. They're so enticing. It has to be the peel. I used to try to eat those little threads inside the peel of my mom's bananas. Of course, she thought I was a weirdo.

I loved plums. You just wash them (might want to use FIT or something to wash the wax off) and eat. No peeling required.

Banana-flavored runts are the best!

[sarahk]

I totally agree about the banana runts and peeling a banana.

I enjoy opening soda cans-and buy water (regular and club soda) in cans for fun sometimes.

I’d love to eat melon so I could use a melon baller-b/c it looks like melon would taste good in the shape of little balls.

On a funny note- I recently baked an apple pie for a party and didn’t realize you had to peel the apples-like I know how apples taste...

[Tammy]

Maybe you could just start a new trend. Why peel the apples after all? Would just make it a little chewy-er. Thanks for the smile.

[sarahk]

It made the pie MUCH chewier--as Mike told me, but he still ate it

[julienc]

sarahk said:

I enjoy opening soda cans-and buy water (regular and club soda) in cans for fun sometimes.

This made me laugh. I was soooo excited when I was old enough to drink and enjoy beer. It was the first beverage I ever drank out of a can. I was always jealous of everyone who would pop open the top of a can and drink from it. Ah, the simple things in life.

I lived in Japan briefly, and they sell all kinds of chilled green teas (with no sugar or sweeteners) in cans in vending machines. I'd buy one almost daily just for the novelty of it.

Yes, I'm a dork.

[sarahk]

I've found some green teas in cans-but none that I really like.

[Tammy]

You mean you've never even drank diet soda from a can? I don't care that much for it, I think it tastes like the can. But you could pop the top.

[sarahk]

Mike: sarah can NOT stand the taste of diet soda-never drank it. Tammy-have you tried Coke ZERO--it taste SOOO much better than diet coke/pepsi. There is also that new Pepsi Jazz (diet too)-carmel-which taste like cream soda--very tasty, after 12 years I've never seen Sarah's mom drink soda, until she tried the diet Pepsi Jazz carmel--now I make sure I have plenty in the fridge when she babysits.

[Tammy]

I'm a diet pepsi girl myself. I did try the new Diet Jazz Caramel. Has flavor, tastes like caramel, but a little goes a long way with me. It's nice for a change when I'm looking for something different, but back to diet pepsi for me. When I'm somewhere that they only have Coke products, I reluctantly choke down diet Coke, Coke Zero, or whatever they happen to have, but my family hates it when I have to. I go YUCK after every sip. I'll order my beloved Diet Pepsi, and the waitress askes if Coke is ok, I always say no, but it never gets me anywhere. And for some reason, they always just laugh when I tell them that there is a market on the next corner - they could just run over there for me. ;D

Actually, someone gave me a can of Diet White Birch Beer (It's a soda, not beer) today. It was really good. I may have to broaden my drinking limitations a little, although they still don't have Birch beer in restaurants very often around here.

[julienc]

I definitely can't drink a diet soda, either. Anything that tastes sweet is just awful to me, except for the Wonka candies or Smarties. But I guess those are more tart than sweet.

[millan]

I would eat all the blueberries and strawberries I could.
Other than that, I don't think I'd like anything else. Maybe water melon. I like that if I can nibble just on the edge of the rim where the red becomes whiteish-green.

Bananas would make me hurl. Before I got my daughter, I had to move if someone ate a banana beside me on the town. Now I'm proud to say I have learned not to make a face when I peel one for her (she loves bananas).

julienec: That's exactly my experience! My daughter is 3 and she loves all kinds of fruit and vegetables and I try very hard to give her a wide variety of them all - while having no idea what I'm giving her! :-D

[colormist]

Back to the pop-cans, my brother and I used to pour milk into pop cans or rootbeer bottles after rinsing them out just to shock my mom. She'd walk in, see us drinking out of a pop can and go, "WHAT? You don't drink pop! What are you doing??" Then of course we'd laugh and say it was milk.

My brother STILL pours milk into rootbeer bottles just to drink from them. We'd also ask to open pop cans for people. I think it's the noise the can makes that's so attractive.

(pop = soda/soda pop)

[sarahk]

That's sooo funny, I offer to open my husband's cans for him. It's defenitely all about the noise. Now that seltzer is so readily availble in cans for me, I do it less often. I think he misses the "good littl' wife" aspect of it

Switching the bottles-sneaky. I just had a bad experience with something like that-except the joke was on me. We went out Saturday night to a club, and I grabbed what I thought was my Corona, in the glass bottle, turns out it was a Smirnoff Ice Tea-malt beverage–SUPER SWEET. I know I made what must have been the most disgusting face and spit it out right there on the floor. Luckily it was dark, and I think only my friends saw me, who all understood.

[colormist]

LMAO. I usually try to regurgitate the drink back into the glass--which is not very nice when you've accidentally grabbed another's drink.

[julienc]

Too funny. When I first moved out here I spit up many a drink. I always order iced tea, and here it is often served sweet by default (even though they brew both kinds). Blech. Even now they sometimes accidentally refill with sweet. I have to be really careful of that.

[sarahk]

Usually it goes back into the glass, but it was a big sip-had a very stressful week-and it was a glass beer bottle, with a small opening-I couldn't get that drink out of my mouth fast enough-in the panic of the moment, I swallowed a little, but didn't get sick.

[betsy]

My favorite food is bread. I love going into a new store and finding breads that don't contain any sugar or sweeteners. As an adult, many friends have used a loaf of French bread with candles for my b'day cake. As a child, my mother always had a cake which I couldn't eat...guess it was for everyone else. At times I will nibble on a good ripe tomato slice but can tell quickly when I have had too much.

So often people think we ought to be able to eat tomatoes thinking they aren't "sweet". There are so many dishes that have some form of tomato in them; usually at pot lucks.

I can identify with the milk in the cola can, Colormist As a child, I would take 7-UP bottles (don't think they even had aluminum cans back then) and fill them with lime cool-aid (before the time of sugar being added) to make me feel like everyone else. When dating as a teen, my standard order after the movies was french fries and milk. Yes, I love milk, especially the new organic ones. They are my special treat! Milk seems to settle my stomach when I have eaten some hidden sugars and feel sick. Also something salty like potato chips; I eat my share. Several times I have taken ginger tablets which seem to help.

I do have some cavities but good enamel. It could be from all of the starches I consume...love pastas with white sauces, without wine. Sometimes hard to find.

Has anyone every sucked on Malt tablets? I did as a child but haven't even looked for them as an adult.