What's the strangest diet you've heard/witnessed someone being on? (Not fad diets.)
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The 1200 calorie cardio diet4
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spiffychick85 wrote: »Ok I'll throw my quirk out there.
I do not eat the pointy ends of french fries. If a fry has one pointy end and one square/rounder end I'll hold it at the pointy end and eat down to the point. If the fry has two pointy sides I'll break one point off and then proceed as above
By the time I'm done an order of fries there's always a pile of pointy french fry ends in my plate...which my husband scoops up and eats because he hates waste lol.
My brother grew up on ketchup sandwiches...and my grandpa started putting peanut butter on his green beans, he managed to get my nanny to eat them that way too...but the rest of us are holding out
Lol I used to do this as a kid. Completely forgot about it. Something about the texture I didn't like. I only liked soft fries.
I'm the opposite and will only eat hard, crunchy fries. I can't eat them if they are big and soft. When I make them at home, I cut them as thin as possible and fry the heck out of them.1 -
court_alacarte wrote: »nevadavis1 wrote: »WayTooHonest wrote: »I have a friend who puts so many lemons in her diet coke, there is almost no room for the soda.
With cupcakes, I tear the bottom half of the cake off and throw it away. It significantly changes the frosting to cake ratio, as well as saves a few calories. Win-Win.
Funny, I was at a restaurant the other day and an older gentleman sat at the table right next to me. The waiter brought water. The gentleman asked "can I have a bunch of lemons with this?" So the waiter came back with a saucer with like 3 slices of lemon. The gentleman said "I need more than just that, bring me as many as you can." The waiter came back with a salad plate of lemon wedges. The man proceeded to then eat them like orange slices.
I often scrape frosting off of my cupcakes, not that I've eaten cupcakes for a long time now. I like more cake, less frosting and it seems to me that the trend lately is to put a huge tower of frosting on top.
i have known two separate people in my life who do this! each time i would go to a restaurant with them, they'd ask for a huge plate of lemons to eat until their meal came. one friend squeezes out all of the juice in her water, salts it, peels off the rind, and then eats it. i don't remember if the other one salted hers, but she would eat the whole thing, rind included! i have tried it (salted and sans rind) and it's honestly not too bad, but definitely nothing that became a habit.
each time there is leftover cornbread in my house, my dad and i will stick a slice in a glass and pour milk on it. it's an east texas thing my dad picked up and i am the only family member who carries it on. everyone i tell this to thinks it's absolutely gross (even native texans) but it's delicious LOL. my dad goes a step further and will scoop a little bit of butter on his spoon before diving into the milky cornbread. it's especially good if it's sweet cornbread
My grandfather did this with buttermilk! He was more from the Panhandle than East Texas, though.
My Father does this as well. He's also from the Panhandle.1 -
jelly_potato wrote: »My dad absolutely hated the way I ate meat as a kid. I would take each piece, inspect it for any bits of skin or cartilage, and only eat the meal after every chunk of meat had been made safe for consumption. He then started bringing bacon home - bad idea, I would take again each piece, patiently remove every bit of the white squishy stuff and then eat only the red bits.
I did that with fruit as well. When eating cherries I would carefully inspect the outside of each, split it open to check for worms and eat it only if it's safe. As a teenager I insisted on buying cherries in the house and I would take 10-15 minutes to pick a kilo one by one. The shop assistants were not amused.
I'd say in my case low quality kindergarten meals broke my trust in food. While I have grown out of most of my quirks, I still refuse to eat food that leaks fat, unless that fat is drained or removed with paper. This means having unhealthy take out food is a no no unless it's pizza (I remove the cheese fat with paper) or fries. I've stayed hungry quite a few times just because I was afraid of the oil leaking nastily from my food and forming pools.
I still do this! Drives my husband batty.
Edit to note - as a kid I would save the bacon pieces and suck on them. It probably took me 30min to eat one piece of bacon.0 -
I have a lot of weird food quirks. Some I've grown out of and other's I haven't. I used to split my green beans open and take out all the peas and save them for after dinner. I'd sit with them in my hand and eat them one by one as a treat. I would also eat corn one kernel at a time. I wouldn't eat meat when I was kid and like someone mentioned would sit at the table until bed time rather than eat the meat. I have texture issues due to an overdose on roasted marshmallows when younger. Now I can't eat anything mushy without gagging unless it has something crunchy mixed in. Mashed potatoes with fried okra, pudding dessert with a crust, yogurt with granola.
My drink palate is very underdeveloped. I can't stand the taste of tea, coffee, alcohol.
I like to suck the flavoring off of chips before eating it. It takes me 4-5 bites to eat one chip.
My mother restricted my access to junk food to just once a week, therefore once I lived on my own I basically lived off of candy and junk food.....for a LOT of years. Thankfully, I'm pretty genetically predisposed to be small and healthy, so I never had any real issues, but I did have some vitamin deficiencies.
My cousin has only eaten fried chicken at every meal since he was a kid. He's in his 50's now. He had a lot of health issues (brain tumor, etc.), I think his parents initially just wanted to not fight over food when he was fighting for his life. But he still lives at home and still eats fried chicken every day.0 -
mom23mangos wrote: »I have a lot of weird food quirks. Some I've grown out of and other's I haven't. I used to split my green beans open and take out all the peas and save them for after dinner. I'd sit with them in my hand and eat them one by one as a treat. I would also eat corn one kernel at a time. I wouldn't eat meat when I was kid and like someone mentioned would sit at the table until bed time rather than eat the meat. I have texture issues due to an overdose on roasted marshmallows when younger. Now I can't eat anything mushy without gagging unless it has something crunchy mixed in. Mashed potatoes with fried okra, pudding dessert with a crust, yogurt with granola.
My drink palate is very underdeveloped. I can't stand the taste of tea, coffee, alcohol.
I like to suck the flavoring off of chips before eating it. It takes me 4-5 bites to eat one chip.
My mother restricted my access to junk food to just once a week, therefore once I lived on my own I basically lived off of candy and junk food.....for a LOT of years. Thankfully, I'm pretty genetically predisposed to be small and healthy, so I never had any real issues, but I did have some vitamin deficiencies.
My cousin has only eaten fried chicken at every meal since he was a kid. He's in his 50's now. He had a lot of health issues (brain tumor, etc.), I think his parents initially just wanted to not fight over food when he was fighting for his life. But he still lives at home and still eats fried chicken every day.
Now, I really want fried okra
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My cousin used to ONLY eat graham crackers and peanut butter until he was 18. At parties he would always whip them out.... it was so strange.0
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newheavensearth wrote: »This morning I remembered something I used to do as a kid that I don't think anyone else mentioned yet. With fruit on the bottom-type yogurt, I would eat the plain yogurt off the top and save the fruit for last. I knew full well that you're supposed to stir it all together, but I liked the little treat at the end.
I still do this. Saving the best for last.
I do this too!
Anybody know TimTam cookies? They're wafer cookies coated in chocolate. Seasonal in US I believe. I use them to suck up milk. Other weird cookie things: eating filling first out of Oreos and soaking the cookies, actually I soak all cookies.
I dig the core out of Ben and Jerry's ice cream.
I like cooked ramen with no broth, just noodles with seasoning stirred in.
Only eat fully rendered "no fat on it burnt bacon" as my kids call it. Don't like fatty meat.
Havent had Ramen in ages however I do this too, drain all the water and use the seasoning, I also dig the core out of ben & jerrys and then regret it because the rest of the ice cream isnt as good 0 -
Sharing quirks: grilled cheese sandwiches must be cut diagonally. I dig down as far as possible on one side of a jar of peanut butter, leaving the other half untouched as long as I can. No idea why.2
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Sharing quirks: grilled cheese sandwiches must be cut diagonally. I dig down as far as possible on one side of a jar of peanut butter, leaving the other half untouched as long as I can. No idea why.
I usually extract my peanut butter from the jar in vertical strips, too . . . but in my case, it's completely rational and easily explained : I prefer crunchy peanut butter, and this strategy best equalizes the peanut chunks between servings, since gravity slowly concentrates them in the bottom of the jar, despite my having refrigerated it. 0 -
newheavensearth wrote: »This morning I remembered something I used to do as a kid that I don't think anyone else mentioned yet. With fruit on the bottom-type yogurt, I would eat the plain yogurt off the top and save the fruit for last. I knew full well that you're supposed to stir it all together, but I liked the little treat at the end.
I still do this. Saving the best for last.
I do this too!
Anybody know TimTam cookies? They're wafer cookies coated in chocolate. Seasonal in US I believe. I use them to suck up milk. Other weird cookie things: eating filling first out of Oreos and soaking the cookies, actually I soak all cookies.
I dig the core out of Ben and Jerry's ice cream.
I like cooked ramen with no broth, just noodles with seasoning stirred in.
Only eat fully rendered "no fat on it burnt bacon" as my kids call it. Don't like fatty meat.
Yes. Tim Tams are Australian.
Sucking up milk with them is not a weird thing, actually... I've been using them to suck up hot coffee for many, many years. So so good!0 -
lemurcat12 wrote: »I never thought this was strange, but I guess to some it is -- I cannot eat anything (except maybe a piece of fruit) without having a beverage, ideally water, at hand. I never knew people actually ate meals without beverages pre MFP, but since I've seen a number of people asking if it's bad to drink with meals or saying they read that.
I recall back in the day when they'd serve meals on planes that they'd serve the meal and then come around with the drink service afterwards and sitting there annoyed with my useless meal on my tray waiting for a beverage so I could eat. (This does sound a bit extreme, now that I write it, but I still find a meal non-pleasurable if I don't have water or some other beverage too.)
I often don't drink with meals. We did have water with meals when I was a kid, so I was thinking back to when this started, and assume it was boot camp - we had a very short amount of time in which to eat and had to finish two glasses of water before we could leave the table, so I often had to drink it too quickly, which was unpleasant. So I guess when I had a choice in the matter again I chose to mostly not drink with meals. I consume plenty of fluids, but the vast majority of it is outside meal times. Sip, sip, sip, all day long.0 -
My husband when he was growing up with his brothers used to put butter on saltine crackers. He said this started at restaurants where they gave you bread before your meal, but his parents wouldn't let them "spoil their appetite" with the bread so they switched to the soup crackers. It baffles me. I cannot even comprehend doing this. But I've never liked butter much soo.
I also can't get through a whole sandwich intact. I can eat like half of it as a sandwich and then I eat it layer by layer. No idea why. Burgers too. Anything with layers.0 -
erienneb66 wrote: »My husband when he was growing up with his brothers used to put butter on saltine crackers. He said this started at restaurants where they gave you bread before your meal, but his parents wouldn't let them "spoil their appetite" with the bread so they switched to the soup crackers. It baffles me. I cannot even comprehend doing this. But I've never liked butter much soo.
I also can't get through a whole sandwich intact. I can eat like half of it as a sandwich and then I eat it layer by layer. No idea why. Burgers too. Anything with layers.
Some elderly neighbors used to do the saltine crackers and butter every day as their afternoon snack.0 -
Some elderly neighbors used to do the saltine crackers and butter every day as their afternoon snack. [/quote]
Saltine crackers and peanut butter is delicious! I probably couldn't do just butter.0 -
cerise_noir wrote: »newheavensearth wrote: »This morning I remembered something I used to do as a kid that I don't think anyone else mentioned yet. With fruit on the bottom-type yogurt, I would eat the plain yogurt off the top and save the fruit for last. I knew full well that you're supposed to stir it all together, but I liked the little treat at the end.
I still do this. Saving the best for last.
I do this too!
Anybody know TimTam cookies? They're wafer cookies coated in chocolate. Seasonal in US I believe. I use them to suck up milk. Other weird cookie things: eating filling first out of Oreos and soaking the cookies, actually I soak all cookies.
I dig the core out of Ben and Jerry's ice cream.
I like cooked ramen with no broth, just noodles with seasoning stirred in.
Only eat fully rendered "no fat on it burnt bacon" as my kids call it. Don't like fatty meat.
Yes. Tim Tams are Australian.
Sucking up milk with them is not a weird thing, actually... I've been using them to suck up hot coffee for many, many years. So so good!
TimTam slam.
I had an ex who would literally eat just two starches (potato in most forms, white bread/pizza dough) and very lean meat other than burgers. Pizza had to be just sauce and cheese. Burgers just the bun, patty and ketchup. Maddening because a fast food burger was never fast, they had to make this order just for him. Um. Bacon, which thankfully in the UK is largely back because he too is a fat peeler regardless how crispy it is. I think that's it, but yeah, meat, potatoes, ketchup. Candy and soda.
I have a friend who always eats burgers with a knife and fork.
I don't have too many. I'm kind of obsessed with getting a bit of everything onto each forkful. Unless it's something like a cooked breakfast that has more than 1 type of meat. In that scenario for the most part I won't double meat. But it's no biggie if I go off piste. I'm a very easy going eater.
Edit: Thought of another. I like nuts of most kinds. But I will not entertain them being whole in my food. Satay sauce? Fine. Nutella/praline? Fine. Chicken and cashew? GTFO.2 -
Due to being raised on lower middle class dinners and on public school breakfasts/lunches until middle school when broke into solidly middle class and lost the school meals, in a household of "Eat what you are served or wait until the next meal.", I cannot stomach any canned tuber, legumes, citrus, vegetable or fruit beyond: some beans, tomatoes, pineapple, pumpkin, yams, and artichoke hearts.
Otherwise, fresh? Bring it on. Frozen? Meh, if no fresh is available/if it's cheaper. Canned? NO.
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My older sister would put brown sugar in her food and never used white sugar. Upon asking her why she said "because brown sugar is healthier and not bleached like white sugar." Once I finished laughing and was able to compose myself I asked her if she ever read the ingredients. That's the day she learned brown sugar is simply sugar with added molasses. Delicious, YES! Healthier, not even slightly. Apparently brown = healthy in her world.
Look up nutrition information for molasses. The minerals and elements found in molasses are not by law required to be shown on the Nutrition Facts label, but they are present and of use to a body, thus, healthier than white sugar which does not have them.0 -
erienneb66 wrote: »My husband when he was growing up with his brothers used to put butter on saltine crackers. He said this started at restaurants where they gave you bread before your meal, but his parents wouldn't let them "spoil their appetite" with the bread so they switched to the soup crackers. It baffles me. I cannot even comprehend doing this. But I've never liked butter much soo.
I also can't get through a whole sandwich intact. I can eat like half of it as a sandwich and then I eat it layer by layer. No idea why. Burgers too. Anything with layers.
Some elderly neighbors used to do the saltine crackers and butter every day as their afternoon snack.
My mother does it for breakfast.0 -
amymoreorless wrote: »I met someone who claimed to be a Fruitiarian. SO restrictive! I can't even imagine! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruitarianism
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JeromeBarry1 wrote: »My older sister would put brown sugar in her food and never used white sugar. Upon asking her why she said "because brown sugar is healthier and not bleached like white sugar." Once I finished laughing and was able to compose myself I asked her if she ever read the ingredients. That's the day she learned brown sugar is simply sugar with added molasses. Delicious, YES! Healthier, not even slightly. Apparently brown = healthy in her world.
Look up nutrition information for molasses. The minerals and elements found in molasses are not by law required to be shown on the Nutrition Facts label, but they are present and of use to a body, thus, healthier than white sugar which does not have them.
There is a reason they aren't shown on the label. It takes so little molasses to make brown sugar that it's basically negligible. You're getting more nutrition than that from licking a your fingers after a finger food meal and thus, finger licking is healthier. (note some of these trace nutrients come from sugar itself).
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nutmegoreo wrote: »Okay, I haven't seen this one yet, so here's one of my oddities. I've read most of my other one's in here to one degree or another (smarties must be eaten in colour pairs chewed one on each side of the mouth and then the oddballs are eaten last with their closest related colour, that's a little different from the previously mentioned small candies in two).
I do this as well. I have to eat things in even numbers, and they have to be the same shape/size/color, and there has to be an equal amount on both sides of my mouth. If there are singles leftover I usually just don't eat them, or I'll break or cut them in half.0 -
As a kid, I loved making scrambled eggs and putting Miracle Whip on them. It makes my stomach turn now. Also used to love ketchup on rice. I still like it though.
Nowadays I just eat chicken breast and ribeyes.0 -
Oh geez. Well, when I was a kid I used to eat melted mozerella cheese in a bowl, nothing else. That was my lunch when I was home alone from school. I would also put corn flakes in Kraft Mac & Cheese for crunch. Sometimes I still want to eat that. Hahaha.
I used to loathe onions, now I eat them with everything. I can't stand apples. My grandmother makes the best apple pie in the world, apparently, but I have to choke it down every year and exclaim how much I love it, when in reality, the apples make my mouth crawl.
Lastly, I eat my foods one at a time. If I have roasted chicken, mac and cheese, and mashed potatoes, I'll eat the chicken first, and then the sides, probably the potatoes first cause cold mashed potatoes are vile.0 -
erienneb66 wrote: »My husband when he was growing up with his brothers used to put butter on saltine crackers. He said this started at restaurants where they gave you bread before your meal, but his parents wouldn't let them "spoil their appetite" with the bread so they switched to the soup crackers. It baffles me. I cannot even comprehend doing this. But I've never liked butter much soo.
Saltines with butter = yummy. Even more yummy = saltines, butter, and jelly.
Carnivor0us wrote: »Also used to love ketchup on rice. I still like it though.
I love buttered noodles with ketchup. And someone mentioned bread and butter or bread and ketchup. Also good.
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crabbybrianna wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »Okay, I haven't seen this one yet, so here's one of my oddities. I've read most of my other one's in here to one degree or another (smarties must be eaten in colour pairs chewed one on each side of the mouth and then the oddballs are eaten last with their closest related colour, that's a little different from the previously mentioned small candies in two).
I do this as well. I have to eat things in even numbers, and they have to be the same shape/size/color, and there has to be an equal amount on both sides of my mouth. If there are singles leftover I usually just don't eat them, or I'll break or cut them in half.
I'm okay with using my teeth to cut the final oddball into an approximate half. I'm completely off the chain that way. I primarily do this with Smarties. Fortunately, they are mostly uniform in size and shape.SiegfriedXXL wrote: »Oh geez. Well, when I was a kid I used to eat melted mozerella cheese in a bowl, nothing else. That was my lunch when I was home alone from school. I would also put corn flakes in Kraft Mac & Cheese for crunch. Sometimes I still want to eat that. Hahaha.
I used to loathe onions, now I eat them with everything. I can't stand apples. My grandmother makes the best apple pie in the world, apparently, but I have to choke it down every year and exclaim how much I love it, when in reality, the apples make my mouth crawl.
Lastly, I eat my foods one at a time. If I have roasted chicken, mac and cheese, and mashed potatoes, I'll eat the chicken first, and then the sides, probably the potatoes first cause cold mashed potatoes are vile.
I still do that! But now I weight it before throwing it in the microwave. Love gooey melted cheese!0 -
Oh god, I've had so many weird nonsense food habits throughout my life, where would I start?!
In my first year of uni, March/April 2009, I ate nothing but hot cross buns for about a month, partially because I was obsessed with them because I'd never had them prior then and partially because they were on a constant offer at the indoor market underneath my flat (8 for £1!). I haven't touched one since.
Mysteriously, I don't think I lost much weight on that... 3 -
livingleanlivingclean wrote: »A very informed and well knowledged gentlemen on our senior staff will not eat any macros together. He completely separates any and all carbs, proteins, fats and does not drink with meals. This diet goes back to the 1800s and repeatedly debunked. He knows all this, but has convinced himself that eating this way has helped him.
Even he admits how strange this is and has acknowledge the placebo effect.
He eats each macro separately at the same meal or each meal has it's own macro? How does he manage that? How do you have fats as a completely separate component of food, pure fats being things like butter or oil, etc. Does he just drink them?
Each meal is it's own macro, which makes for interesting conversation at business dinners. There's at least 30 mins between each macro, so he would eat the meat, then wait 30 min (no beverage mind you) then eat the carbs, wait 30 mins...
The micros he's not as concerned with, so he will eat butter on his potatoes for example, but never adds anything to his food.
I'm confused... Butter is fat. Which is a macronutrient.
Don't tell him. It's probably the only joy he takes in eating 1 -
When I eat Doritos I lick the orange powder off before eating the chip.... I only do this with Doritos and not other chips,
We also used to eat "mayonnaise sandwiches" growing up.... spread mayo on white bread and eat.1 -
Poisonedpawn78 wrote: »
if it makes you feel better, there is more water in diet coke than the diuretic will draw out. She couldnt get dehydrated from drinking it.sunfastrose wrote: »
Hi! I'm like that kid, only grown up. I live on Diet Mountain Dew - massive quantities of it. I am also a runner, so a lot of fluid loss. No medical problems, no dehydration issues. It's not something I would recommend, but it's not as drastic as you appear to think it is.
The concern wasn't that the coke would dehydrate her as such, but more that she would be rationing her sole source of water and thus not drinking enough. I mean, this was 14 hours of activity a day, constant walking, climbing, scoutcraft, cooking, cleanup, etc, all outdoors, temperatures commonly reaching 35C and at times higher. We wanted those kids going through, say, five liters a day at a bare minimum, and she was limited to, like, ten a week. There was nowhere in the vicinity to acquire more diet coke, and it was her total refusal to drink anything else had us concerned - not the coke in itself. If the supply of coke had been everlasting, we probably wouldn't have blinked, or even noticed. (Frankly, the lot of us together had the nutritional awareness of a stale cupcake. This was my anarcho-marxist commune days - I was myself coming off a summer where at one point I spent two weeks living on nothing but half a tray of the cheapest pizza the local bus station had to offer and a 1.5 liter bottle of a coca-cola knockoff, per day. And this was all consumed in a single meal at 9 pm. But I did drink plenty of water.)
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