FUN FOOD SURVEY!

My favourites change all the time, but currently they are:

Fruit: This was a hard one, but I’d have to say…avocado. However it was a very hard decision and I feel I may have hurt white fleshed peach and fresh fig's feelings!

Veggie: Fennel

Meat: Buffalo steak (sirloin or rump)

Cheese: Arran cheese shop’s smoky garlic cheddar

Bread: Falko Konditorei’s spelt and honey bread

Candy: Not a huge candy fan (I’m more a savoury person except when it comes to fruit or natural sweeteners like honey and agave) but I am partial to dried fruit (figs are a current favourite, but also soft dried apricots and dried cranberries) - I am also partial to the freeze dried fruit they sell in harbey Nicks - mmm...freeze dried strawberries and epaches!!

Fast food joint : I don’t really eat fast food, but my boyfriend and I usually get a takeaway from the Thai restaurant near our house once a fortnight. I usually get prawn tom yum soup and tiger prawns on a bed of glass noodles.

Family meal often made: Roast pork with crackling (rubbed with fennel seeds) with a cider and apple gravy, roast fennel with parmesan, roast potatoes, steamed veg

Thanksgiving food: I live in Scotland, we don’t do Thanksgiving!

Christmas cookie: Shortbread!!

Chinese food: My mum’s spring cake (nain gao – a glutinous rice cake) with shredded chicken, Chinese greens and Chinese mushrooms – possibly my favourite food in the world…she still soaks the nian gao in anticipation of me coming to visit.

Italian food: Tagliatelle Vittoria – it’s basically tagliatelle pasta with mushrooms, peas onions, spicy Italian sausage, tomatoes, garlic and a splash of cream. Just enough cream to be tasty, but not too rich. I’m a fan of any kind of pasta though, so I’d be pretty happy with any pasta with any sauce.

Mexican food: Nachos with fresh guacamole, salsa and sour cream - and anything with mexican rice!

American food: Buffalo wings

Drink: Watermelon juice. My mum gets a few watermelons whenever I visit and blitzes them in her juicer, so we have fresh juice all the time. I was totally spoilt for fruit and veg as a child.

Ice cream flavor: Belhaven fruit’s gooseberry! It’s dairy and fat free, just a tiny bit tart and very refreshing. I love their ice creams, as I’m not a huge dairy person and they’re not too sweet like some sorbets.

Cake: Japanese baked cheesecake

Potato topper: Turkey, tomato and avocado and crème fraiche at the moment. I made this a few weeks ago as a sandwich filling and am a total convert. If I’m feeling totally lazy though I have been known to leave out the turkey, tomato and avocado.

Cookout food: Chicken drumsticks or wings (skin on) with some kind of sticky marinade and corn on the cob (I can’t have one without the other so I am counting these as 1!)

Sit-down restaurant: Hashimoto in Toronto - possibly the best restaurant I have ever been to. Proper Kaiseki, insanely expenseive, and you don't feel uncomfortably stuffed at the end of it. I couldn't afford to eat there without my parents, so more realistically I like Oishii in Edinburgh, which is Japanese. Freshest sushi in the city IMO.

OTHER Japanese food! Sushi, soba, udon...

What do you eat when your sick (cold)? Pasta or noodles – pure carby comfort food! I usually keep it quite healthy so maybe udon with spinach and dashi, or spaghetti. My boyfriend makes a mean vegetable and haggis soup which is just the thing for a cold or flu though!

In your opinion, what food is the least healthy that you wouldn't even splurge on?

Do you eat quickly or slowly? Quickly

Do you stop eating when you start to feel fullness? No, I have been known to eat until stuffed, but that’s something |’m trying to work on!

What’s your favourite snack food? Snapz apple crisps – dried apple pieces in crisp form.

Do you like milk? Not really, although I get the urge to drink some every so often.

Do you often eat between meals? Oh yes, most definitely yes! I’m a perpetual snacker!




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If you only ONE day to live:( and you could care less of what you ate, what would you eat for....

Breakfast? My homemade ricotta pancakes (they're more like griddle cakes) adapted from a Bill Grainger recipe, with blueberries, a couple slices of Puddledub Pork reduced salt bacon, and maple syrup

Lunch? Unagi sushi, softshell crab hand roll, yellowtail sushi, zaru soba, tempura udon, oyako don

Dinner? Beef carpaccio, tortellini in brodo, Spaghetti carbonara, my mum's nian gao and cabbage with glass noodles and dried scallop

Dessert? Strawberries in balsamic or rosewater and freshly whipped jersey double cream

Fruit: watermelon

Veggie: spinach

Meat: chicken breast

Cheese: cheddar

Bread: sour dough (but don't eat it anymore)

Candy: hmm not really a candy fan

Fast food joint : MCDONALDS,love it, try to avoid it,lol.

Family meal often made: Pasta and sauce, my kids love it!

Thanksgiving food: Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, ceaser salad, mixed veggies, buns and butter, perogies layered with cheese and real bacon with loads of sour cream, pumpkin pie with whip cream!!

Christmas cookie: short bread

Chinese food: ANY, lol, love it! Curry chicken is one of my favs.

Italian food: Lasagna

Mexican food: Burritos and refried beans with cheese melted on them,mmm!

American food: Hmmm good question.

Drink: water

Ice cream flavor: black licorice or blue bubble gum

Cake: oreo cheesecake

Potato topper: sour cream

Cookout food: bbq chicken

Sit-down restraunt: white spot

OTHER

What do you eat when your sick (cold)? pretty much eat normal

In your opinion, what food is the least healthy that you wouldn't even splurge on? whitespot burger!!

Do you eat quickly or slowly? quick, I have to keep up with my kids!!

Do you stop eating when you start to feel fullness? I do now ,but never did before!

What’s your favourite snack food? Now it is baked cheetos 100 cal bags of cheesies

Do you like milk? no

Do you often eat between meals? now I do yes because my meal portions are small and I don't want to get to that TOO hungry stage!




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If you only ONE day to live:( and you could care less of what you ate, what would you eat for....

Breakfast? Bacon,cheese and mushroom omelette with sour dough toast and shredded hashbrowns with a side of hollondaise sauce!!

Lunch? Whitespots zoo sticks, monty mushroom burger and fries with a side of triple o sauce, mmmm!!!

Dinner? Chinese smorg!!!

Dessert? Not a huge desert fan but I'd have cheesecake:)

Only have 1 answer to each question please.


FAVORITES

Fruit: Watermelon

Veggie: Green Beans

Meat: Shrimp

Cheese: Provolone

Bread: Honey Wheat

Candy: Sour Watermelons

Fast food joint : Betos (I know...it's very much not good for me!)

Family meal often made: usually something with grilled chicken

Thanksgiving food: mashed potatoes

Christmas cookie: sugar

Chinese food: wontons

Italian food: anything Alfredo

Mexican food: enchiladas

American food: Hamburgers

Drink: Water

Ice cream flavor: Cake Batter

Cake: Strawberry

Potato topper: Salt & Pepper

Cookout food: Chicken

OTHER

What do you eat when your sick (cold)? Soup

In your opinion, what food is the least healthy that you wouldn't even splurge on? French Fries

Do you eat quickly or slowly? I try to eat slow now..used to eat quick though.

Do you stop eating when you start to feel fullness? I try to!

What’s your favourite snack food? Fresh fruit

Do you like milk? If my calories allow it.

Do you often eat between meals? something small and healthy




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If you only ONE day to live:( and you could care less of what you ate, what would you eat for....

Breakfast? French toast, fruit, eggs and sausage

Lunch? any type of sandwich

Dinner? Enchiladas

Dessert? Ice Cream

Only have 1 answer to each question please.


FAVORITES

Fruit: Oranges

Veggie: Cabbage

Meat: Steak

Cheese: Pepperjack

Bread: Sara Lee

Candy: Reese's Peanut Butter Cups

Fast food joint : Chick Fila

Family meal often made: Pigs in a blanket using Johnsonville Turkey Cheddar Brats

Thanksgiving food: Honey Spiral Ham

Christmas cookie: Lebkuchin (German Gingerbread Cookie)

Chinese food: Lo-Mein (Yum)

Italian food: Stuffed Shells

Mexican food: Tacos

American food: Cheeseburgers and Fries

Drink: Coffee

Ice cream flavor: Vanilla

Cake: Red Velvet

Potato topper: Butter

Cookout food: Chili Dogs

Sit-down restraunt: California Dreaming

OTHER

What do you eat when your sick (cold)? The usual

In your opinion, what food is the least healthy that you wouldn't even splurge on? Umm, fried twinkies

Do you eat quickly or slowly? Very quick

Do you stop eating when you start to feel fullness? Unfortunately not

What’s your favourite snack food? Potato Chips

Do you like milk? Yes in moderation

Do you often eat between meals? Snacks twice a day




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If you only ONE day to live:( and you could care less of what you ate, what would you eat for....

Breakfast? Pancakes, Bacon, Egg in a hole, Coffee

Lunch? Cheeseburgers and Fries, Milkshake

Dinner? Steak, Fetuccini Alfredo

Dessert? Rich chocolate cake with fudge icing