Childish Food Habits

My only food habit is that I have to have even numbers. If they're not even, I have to cut/break something in half. I feel like an idiot each time I realize I'm doing it! This is something that started to really develop in adulthood and it's just so much fun. LOL My mom likes to mess with me and put odd numbers of things on my plate when I eat at their house. It makes me a bit batty!

I will not let my food touch and I also eat one thing at a time. I have divided plates at home to assure that my food doesn't touch lol waitresses love me!

Me Too!

I still open an Oreo and lick the middle first. Once that's all gone I dunk one half of the cookie with milk and eat it part soggy/part crunchy. Then the final piece I put whole into my mouth and let it get soggy on my tongue and roof of my mouth before eating it.

As a result I still love Oreos as much as when I was a kid.

I only do this to check and make sure there's no spiders.

When I see this, I always think "ooh unexpected protein!" I think it's safe to say I'm not picky.

I am glad other people think my habit is awesome.

OMG, I'm gonna stop eating my Oreos whole and start checking for spiders.

I still open an Oreo and lick the middle first. Once that's all gone I dunk one half of the cookie with milk and eat it part soggy/part crunchy. Then the final piece I put whole into my mouth and let it get soggy on my tongue and roof of my mouth before eating it.

As a result I still love Oreos as much as when I was a kid.

I only do this to check and make sure there's no spiders.

When I see this, I always think "ooh unexpected protein!" I think it's safe to say I'm not picky.

I am glad other people think my habit is awesome.

OMG, I'm gonna stop eating my Oreos whole and start checking for spiders.

Crap, how do you check on both sides of the cream? You can only check one side:sad:

I'm the opposite - I need all my food to be mushy. Unless it's something that's supposed to be crispy. But I prefer all my vegetables to have the crap cooked out of them. It just ruins the entire meal for me if the veggies aren't all the way cooked and some are still kind of firm and crispy. I HATE crunchy things in my mushy food. This is why I won't eat water chestnuts. They don't taste like anything so just why? What is their point? They are just being crunchy in my mushy food and I hate them for it.

For you, though, I suggest you don't cook your veggies quite as long if you don't want them mushy.

I thought I was the ONLY person who felt this way about water chestnuts! LOL - yuck! :sick:

I cannot eat cottage cheese, to me it looks gross and the feeling in my mouth is even worse.

I still open an Oreo and lick the middle first. Once that's all gone I dunk one half of the cookie with milk and eat it part soggy/part crunchy. Then the final piece I put whole into my mouth and let it get soggy on my tongue and roof of my mouth before eating it.

As a result I still love Oreos as much as when I was a kid.

I only do this to check and make sure there's no spiders.

I thought I was the ONLY person who felt this way about water chestnuts! LOL - yuck! :sick:

Trust me, you're not alone! I've always hated water chestnuts too. They are completely pointless. They have no taste and it literally feels like trying to crunch on air. It's so gross.

I will not let my food touch and I also eat one thing at a time. I have divided plates at home to assure that my food doesn't touch lol waitresses love me!

My wife and kids constantly tease me how I don't let my foods touch and eat one food at a time. It pretty much runs in my family. Many of us have this hangup. I can now use your post as proof that there's nothing wrong with me

My family has this tendency too. I'm one of the few odd ones who won't throw a fit if two dishes touch. You can imagine how pleasant and relaxing meal times are with the blood relatives. <eye roll>

My hangups tend to be around texture and smells. I can tell after 1 or 2 chews if seafood, mushrooms or some other hated food is mixed into what I'm eating. People think they are so clever hiding things in sauces. My tongue and palate know.

If I even smell bell peppers, my appetite flies out the window. Unless I have a fan or some other moving air blowing the stench away. God forbid stuffed peppers are being served for lunch at work. I can plan on spending at least 15 minutes on the toilet. I don't know what it is about the smell of bell peppers that loosens my bowels. Especially since I can eat it in very small doses if part of a tomato sauce. My stomach is gurgling right now thinking of the smell of bell peppers.

Mayo is disgusting and it ruins everything it touches. It adds no flavor to anything. It's just slime. 'Oh, this sandwich isn't slimy enough for you? Let's put some mayo on it!' No . . . let's not. Every creamy sauce that is made with mayo is fail.

Oh yeah, how could I forget the evilness also known as mayonnaise? The #1, top of the list, item that people try to feed you without letting you know it's there. Every year, throw out at least $50 worth of food that someone added mayo to without asking or listing it on the ingredients. If I had $5 for every time I heard, "Well everyone loves mayo." I could pay off my debts.

Once, I ordered a fast food hamburger without mayo from Carl's Jr. drive thru. I bit into it and discovered the asshats had put at least a 1/4 cup blob of mayo in there. I almost crashed trying to get it out of my mouth and car. Bad, bad, people.

I have a cousin that can't eat leftovers, even if you make something in the afternoon for lunch, she won't eat it later in the day. If you touch her glass she won't drink from it. It's great when she brings out a beer and you're too lazy to get up, you just have to touch hers and it's yours.

Lazy/Genius level +1000

Well I am recovering from anorexia so I have weird food habits galore....and I've had a disorder since I was 6 years old and was raised by an anorexic mom. Didn't even know my behaviors were weird till I went to college.

If things are different colors I eat by color.

After I toast things I seal them in plastic bags.

I don't like using silverware and eat most things with fingers.

I tear/cut things to small sizes

I won't eat the banana nipples as I call them (the ends)

I won't bite into fruit, have to cut it.

I will eat part of my meal and leave other part in the other room and walk to it to eat it.

I pull sandwiches apart and eat them piece by piece. Like protein, then veg, then bread.

And I'm sure I have others I am not even aware of lol

I don't mind the taste of onion but hate the texture and if there are big bits of Onion in something I still pick them out like when I was a little kid and feel a little bit foolish, If we have anything with onion in it even if my partner is doing the cooking I will chop the onion because I have become an expert at chopping onion fine enough that I cant see it.

My real food phobia though is Baked Beans there is nothing good about them the textue taste and smell just makes me feel a bit sick, I don't even like it when someone else eats them, they are evil!

I feel a bit silly that I am fussy about these things but considering when I was a kid I wouldn't eat anything that was even slightly squishy (my poor Mum had a terrible time trying to get me to eat anything that wasn't cheese sandwiches) I do quite well.

I like to mix all my food together when I eat it. Naturally, most dinners at my house are one-dish style meals - stir fry, casseroles, salads, etc. I am a very slow eater, thorough chewer, and always the last one finished. Sometimes I catch myself dancing a little and/or humming when I'm eating something particularly delightful. :bigsmile:

I like to dip my Dinosaur chicken nuggets in honey, and pretend they're stuck in a tar pit.

I think I love you.