The Art of Eating

[cacian]

How do you eat?

I enjoy all sorts of food and like to eat things from different countries especially seafood and fish I love.
One thing I cannot stand is cold food. I like my food hot when served.

[Helga]

like a pig

[Emil Miller]

How do you eat?

I use a knife and fork or chopsticks but just enough to keep body and soul together.

[cacian]

like a pig
:shocked:
No way!! haha but why Helga? Table manners are crucial in a civilised society hence the invention of tables and chairs and cuttleries and cookery books :D

I use a knife and fork or chopsticks but just enough to keep body and soul together.

Chopsticks I am impressed!! they are not the easiest to handle I admit they are interesting but yeah not the easiest of instruments.

[Emil Miller]

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Chopsticks I am impressed!! they are not the easiest to handle I admit they are interesting but yeah not the easiest of instruments.

I have eaten in a lot of Chinese restaurants over a long time so it would be strange if I couldn't use chopsticks now.

[LitNetIsGreat]

I eat like someone is going to take it off me.

[cacian]

I eat like someone is going to take it off me.

Weee haha well you know what to do eat with plenty and with no one around.
That someone won't be there to take it off you.

[LitNetIsGreat]

Weee haha well you know what to do eat with plenty and with no one around.
That someone won't be there to take it off you.

It doesn't matter I still munch it down. :santasmil

[cafolini]

To me, balance is the key. If I do juicing, I would balance with a tbsp of almond butter, for example. There is a very good product called Essential Greens; the best tasting of it's kind; check it out.
Not necessarily vegan, I also take protein from meat; a good 5 oz. prime rib, or a 6 oz. wild salmon.
Low salt, combined with some potassium chloride, or no salt at all with a good mixture of herbs that act as substitute.
Cantaloupe, Watermelon, and Pineapple spears are very good for you. They have the solids their juices don't and are so necessary for good digestion. Best juices: Tangerine, Pineapple, Carrot; very gentle. Eggs? Liquid Eggs are great; no chol, no salt, etc.
Buy toasted onion from The Spice House and try Argentine Fugaza.
Eat chocolate in the form of Dutch Processed cocoa, perhaps sweetened with dark grape molasses and rum or cognac, inside Post Grapenuts or Minute Oatmeal. Always fatfree milk for this.
It's up to you. Have fun.

[cacian]

Wow cafolini you are one well informed eater.
I just go with my taste and needs.
I tend to enjoy all sorts of different foods available and shy not of different food. I like all sorts as long as it is ethical.

[Helga]

:shocked:
No way!! haha but why Helga? Table manners are crucial in a civilised society hence the invention of tables and chairs and cuttleries and cookery books :D


I tend to stuff my mouth until I can't get anymore. It may be bad manners but when it's just me and my boy it's very funny...

[Alexander III]

I am quite sure that if it were not for my remarkable metabolism I would be obese, in a just world were people actually became what they ate, I would be like one of those 200 kilo beasts in macdonalds.

[JuniperWoolf]

My friends say I eat strangely, like that weird chick from The Breakfast Club. I don't think I'm that bad, but I can see the argument. I usually eat normally, but I have a few food idiosyncrasies. I can think of only four right now:

-I like filling a plate with quite a bit of that powdered Kraft parmesan cheese, then getting a box of cherry tomatoes. I chew a hole in the cherry tomato, drain the seeds into the parmesan, then eat the husk of said tomato (generally I eat the skin first). After I'm through all of the tomatoes, I stir the cheese and tomato seeds together to make a kind of tomato-cheese paste. Then I squish it flat on the plate so that it's like a giant patty, and eat it very slowly, cutting off one tiny square of cheese paste at a time with a fork. I did this once while watching a movie with my friend Steve, four years ago. He still goes on about it.

-If I'm eating homemade nachos and cheese, I pull the cheese off of nachos, then I dip the cheese bits in sour cream and eat them, and I dip the chips in sour cream and eat them, but never together.

-If I'm eating store bought nachos and cheese, I lick the cheese powder off before I eat the chip.

-If I'm eating chips and dip, I dip the chip then I spread the dip with my finger so that the entire chip is completely and evenly covered.

[Helga]

My friends say I eat strangely, like that weird chick from The Breakfast Club.

-If I'm eating store bought nachos and cheese, I lick the cheese powder off before I eat the chip.


I loved how she ate in Breakfast Club, love that movie

I do that too with the nachos, usually one side is 'powdier' than the other so I lick that one.

One thing is not very pig eating about me, my food can't touch on the plate and I eat one thing at a time. I finish all my salad before I try the potato. If there is sauce it can only touch the main course not the salad or potato's.

[cacian]

I tend to stuff my mouth until I can't get anymore. It may be bad manners but when it's just me and my boy it's very funny...
Hehe I guess food is for eating.

I am quite sure that if it were not for my remarkable metabolism I would be obese, in a just world were people actually became what they ate, I would be like one of those 200 kilo beasts in macdonalds.
Is it a competition then is it? LOL

My friends say I eat strangely, like that weird chick from The Breakfast Club. I don't think I'm that bad, but I can see the argument. I usually eat normally, but I have a few food idiosyncrasies. I can think of only four right now:

-I like filling a plate with quite a bit of that powdered Kraft parmesan cheese, then getting a box of cherry tomatoes. I chew a hole in the cherry tomato, drain the seeds into the parmesan, then eat the husk of said tomato (generally I eat the skin first). After I'm through all of the tomatoes, I stir the cheese and tomato seeds together to make a kind of tomato-cheese paste. Then I squish it flat on the plate so that it's like a giant patty, and eat it very slowly, cutting off one tiny square of cheese paste at a time with a fork. I did this once while watching a movie with my friend Steve, four years ago. He still goes on about it.

-If I'm eating homemade nachos and cheese, I pull the cheese off of nachos, then I dip the cheese bits in sour cream and eat them, and I dip the chips in sour cream and eat them, but never together.

-If I'm eating store bought nachos and cheese, I lick the cheese powder off before I eat the chip.

-If I'm eating chips and dip, I dip the chip then I spread the dip with my finger so that the entire chip is completely and evenly covered.

Well what can I say this very intricate indeed :p
One thing I could not stand is cold food. Once it is served it must be hot for me to eat it. Doesn't your food get old whilst you are redesigning food to eat it?

[blazeofglory]

My eating habit is polar opposites from the majority of you. Personally I love to eat lot of fatty things, drink creamed milk, and lots of vegan gravy. I take sugared tea and lots of sweets and chocklet and you may think I am obese. No I am trim and fit. The mantra I have is exercise and I am a jogger and I love walking and running and on weekends I choose to go to the countryside and talk with countrymen and eat their simple foods. I love nature and that is why I at times pass hours in greeneries. I love animals, birds, insects and I keep company with them and that is why I am not stressed out. Though I read serious books like philosophy, economics and psychology and commerce my life style is so simple.

That is why though I gulp proteins and highly fatty food stuffs I am robust physically and happy spiritually. Foods are not a problem and it is all our ways of living and attitude that calls for adjusting

[Alexander III]

Our eating habit is polar opposites from the majority of you. Personally I love to eat lot of fatty things, drink creamed milk, and lots of vegan gravy. I take sugared tea and lots of sweets and chocklet and you may think I am obese. No I am trim and fit. The mantra I have is exercise and I am a jogger and I love walking and running and on weekends I choose to go to the countryside and talk with countrymen and eat their simple foods. I love nature and that is why I at times pass hours in greeneries. I love animals, birds, insects and I keep company with them and that is why I am not stressed out. Though I read serious books like philosophy, economics and psychology and commerce my life style is so simple.

That is why though I gulp proteins and highly fatty food stuffs I am robust physically and happy spiritually. Foods are not a problem and it is all our ways of living and attitude that calls for adjusting


Actually you bring up a good point, the thing is the amount of food you eat is not the determining factor in whether you become fat or not. In the beginning of the 19th century the average gentleman would consume 4000 calories a day, yet lo and behold obesity was rarely a problem, though at middle age some of them started to grow plump. They ate 4000 calories a day because they needed them, there were no cars and televisions and internet, so they spent their entire days actually using their bodies. Nowadays our bodies spend such a radical amount of time in a state of semi-hibernation that we have to drastically adjust our diets and calories intake compared to all history before us just to stay at a respectable wait. This is why I hate it when people say "I am fat because it is genetic", no you are fat because if you were in a wheelchair your life would hardly be affected you lazy and amoeba like blob. No one before 1950 was obese because of genetics.

[LitNetIsGreat]

Actually you bring up a good point, the thing is the amount of food you eat is not the determining factor in whether you become fat or not. In the beginning of the 19th century the average gentleman would consume 4000 calories a day, yet lo and behold obesity was rarely a problem, though at middle age some of them started to grow plump. They ate 4000 calories a day because they needed them, there were no cars and televisions and internet, so they spent their entire days actually using their bodies. Nowadays our bodies spend such a radical amount of time in a state of semi-hibernation that we have to drastically adjust our diets and calories intake compared to all history before us just to stay at a respectable wait. This is why I hate it when people say "I am fat because it is genetic", no you are fat because if you were in a wheelchair your life would hardly be affected you lazy and amoeba like blob. No one before 1950 was obese because of genetics.

I agree, lack of exercise is a major factor. Cyclists in the Tour de France consume around 8000 calories a day and at the end of the tour they still lose weight, they simply cannot eat enough to maintain their weight. This is why many of these fad diets that have you counting how many calories are in half a biscuit and so on are ridiculous, just get off your arse.

[cacian]

Actually you bring up a good point, the thing is the amount of food you eat is not the determining factor in whether you become fat or not. In the beginning of the 19th century the average gentleman would consume 4000 calories a day, yet lo and behold obesity was rarely a problem, though at middle age some of them started to grow plump. They ate 4000 calories a day because they needed them, there were no cars and televisions and internet, so they spent their entire days actually using their bodies. Nowadays our bodies spend such a radical amount of time in a state of semi-hibernation that we have to drastically adjust our diets and calories intake compared to all history before us just to stay at a respectable wait. This is why I hate it when people say "I am fat because it is genetic", no you are fat because if you were in a wheelchair your life would hardly be affected you lazy and amoeba like blob. No one before 1950 was obese because of genetics.

oh oh!!! no need! I am sure there is more to obesity then meets the eyes.
Fat is an accumulation of food and other factors.
It is a state of body and mind where the two shut down in disfunctionement and so very hard to undo unless proper remedie is given.

[JuniperWoolf]

"Calories" is a word that's overused and most people don't know what it means. It has something to do with heat energy and water, the amount of energy needed to raise a litre of water by one degrees celsius or something. Anyway, food composition is more important than calories. Even people who never have to worry about their weight still have to worry about the composition of their food or they could die, you can't just exercise and not worry about diet. Ask Brock Lesnar.

[Buckthorn]

I tend to eat slowly, so that I can enjoy the food and it helps me realise when I am full. If I don't I tend to eat everything in sight and feel stuffed.


"Calories" is a word that's overused and most people don't know what it means

I thought calories were little creatures that sneak into your wardrobe at night and make your clothes smaller?:smilewinkgrin:

[cacian]

I tend to eat slowly, so that I can enjoy the food and it helps me realise when I am full. If I don't I tend to eat everything in sight and feel stuffed.



I thought calories were little creatures that sneak into your wardrobe at night and make your clothes smaller?:smilewinkgrin:

Hehe that is it you are right whoever thought differently :rolleyes5: :p

Interesting to see that no one mentioned that they ate with their eyes.