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If you had to pick just one food (or two) to eat, to the exclusion of all others for a whole month, what would you choose?
For me, no question. I'd pick soup. In particular, soup of the day (or soup du jour, if we are having French food). That way, I'd get a different flavor each day. I'd be happy to eat soup for breakfast, lunch and supper, plus snacks. There is nothing as good.
If I had to pick two foods, I'd pick soup and buttered bread. Fresh-baked, crusty bread with fresh creamy butter.
If those were my two foods, I might sign on for a second month as well.
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If you get to count soup as one food, I'm going to count pork as one food. Ribs, bacon, ham, carnitas tacos, pork chops, pork roast, sausage... dang, now I'm hungry.
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also because I feel like tongue in cheek nitpickery, isn't choosing something like the 'soup of the day' in this particular query either cheating or making the limitations hopelessly vague?
Similar categories of 'foods' you could select under vague categorical classification:
quote:Originally posted by Tante Shvester: You'd prefer that over cake?
Huh.
You're lucky I'm Church of England.
If we're going with relatively large categories, can I get salad and pizza? I think there's enough variety in each that I could eat for a long time without getting bored. That, and I'd be less likely to get scurvy.
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Apple Sauce for breakfast, apple for lunch, and salads with apples in them for dinner, with apple crisp or other apple sweet things for a dessert of apples.
I could get my variety of apple foods in what kind of apple salad I have.
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Definitely. You can do whatever you like with your food choice -- sauteed apple, baked apple, dried apple. You can have Granny Smith, Golden Delicious, Gala, Fuji, or whatever kind of apple you like.
Vadon is signed up for apples for the next month.
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I know this may seriously gross everyone out, eggs.
Eggs were just about all I could stomach when I was pregnant with Aubree'. They just really make me feel good. I need that protein.
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quote:Originally posted by Vadon: Could I do apples?
Apple Sauce for breakfast, apple for lunch, and salads with apples in them for dinner, with apple crisp or other apple sweet things for a dessert of apples.
I could get my variety of apple foods in what kind of apple salad I have.
I like apples.
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Apple.
Ugh. Apples, though I like them, always make me feel hungrier.
I'd have to go with spinach and... Hmm. Well, spinach at least.
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I suspect a lot of phrases in all languages sound funny in other languages. Thats why at least in my experience, there are a non-trivial number of kids in grade school that enjoyed "mimicking" other languages. *shrug*
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quote:Originally posted by Paul Goldner: "Bah, I'm having dim sum for a month. "
More shenanigans! This whole thread is shenanigans! I declare a mis-thread!
I agree, this thread is cheating the "one food" game. We are in a one large and vague food catagory for a month thread.
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One of these days I'm going to open a restaurant named "All Dat and Dim Sum"
I pick Sandwiches.
And soup.
The beauty about sandwiches is the fact that so many things qualify... Burgers... black eyed peas on bread... even a pizza. When you think about it, it's an open faced Italian sandwich, right?
Even Pie is a sandwich when you cut the side crusts off.
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If I have to pick one specific type of sushi, then salmon nigiri. But I like having the whole sushi category available, cause there's enough variety within it that I might not get scurvy even if I eat nothing outside it for a month.
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Jon -- that's what I almost posted. Because it's what I made two days ago and I've been eating it ever since. But then I read the rest of Tante's post and thought, yeah, soup, that pretty much covers it.
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Rice. It's the only food that would be possible to survive on exclusively for that long. Just sayin'.
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Unless it's a food that has a variety of ingredients like omelettes, don't forget! Omelettes are nature's perfect food.
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I'll even specify the stirfry, if you want: chicken or tofu as the main protein a little bit of olive oil a large quantity of spices, including black pepper, salt, red chilli powder, turmeric, garlic, ginger, and then something else depending on my mood that first day. zucchini carrots broccoli water chestnuts okra mushrooms green, yellow, and red peppers whatever other vegis I have in the fridge or freezer that sound good.
I think this is the healthiest thing (that follows the actual rule) suggested thus far. I'd have absolutely no problem eating it for a month, although I'd probably just have rice with a little sauce from the stirfry for breakfast.
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NOT together though. Wow that would be gross now that i think of it, broccoli sushi! but they're so awesome separate.
and call shenanigans all you want, I'm counting raw sushi, vegetable sushi, and cooked eel sushi as one foodish. And different types of broccoli too, like with Garlic sauce or just steamed with salt and pepper or whatever. I wish I coud so go on this diet! Great Idea for a thread even if it is nonspecific!
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