Favorite food you'd never admit to eating

[drewsmom595]

What's a food or food combination that you enjoy, but would never admit to eating because others might think it's gross?

I have a few.

One is cheeseburger flavored Hamburger Helper from a box. I don't eat it often...probably a couple of times a year. But I feel ashamed just buying the stuff in the grocery store. In the grocery store, I go down the aisle really quickly, look around to make sure no one's watching, and then quickly grab a box off the shelf and stuff it under my fresh produce.

[chefmate]

mustard, mayo, peanut butter and salami sandwich and damn proud of it and besides, I don't have to share!!!!

[chefmate]

I hide nothing in my cart; if someone doesn't like it they can look in someone else's cart

[beth]

Gotta be Little Debbies.

We all love home baked sweets, but not the calories. I get at least one box of LD snack cakes/cookies weekly, pour them into a tupperware container and set it on top of the fridge. If we want a sweet during the week, they are there to grab. The nice thing is that they are good enough to satisfy, but not good enough to tempt us to eat more than one. lol

I know the Kroger/Buskin bakery has much better things, but they are expensive and, as with home baked, too good to keep around.

[drewsmom595]

Feb 21, 2009 19:54:13 GMT beth said:

Gotta be Little Debbies.

We all love home baked sweets, but not the calories. I get at least one box of LD snack cakes/cookies weekly, pour them into a tupperware container and set it on top of the fridge. If we want a sweet during the week, they are there to grab. The nice thing is that they are good enough to satisfy, but not good enough to tempt us to eat more than one. lol

I know the Kroger/Buskin bakery has much better things, but they are expensive and, as with home baked, too good to keep around.

We love Little Debbies in our house..I'm not ashamed to admit that.

Here's another food I would have to hide in the back of my pantry: spaghetti sauce. When my father-in-law was alive, he would've never let me live it down if he knew I ever used jarred spaghetti sauce. He was from Venice and was a gourmet Italian chef.

[drewsmom595]

Feb 21, 2009 14:10:21 GMT @chefmate said:

mustard, mayo, peanut butter and salami sandwich and damn proud of it and besides, I don't have to share!!!!

I've had a mustard, mayo and salami sandwich...but never had peanut butter with it. Was this something that you started eating when you were pregnant?

[beth]

Feb 22, 2009 23:35:30 GMT drewsmom595 said:

Feb 21, 2009 19:54:13 GMT beth said:

Gotta be Little Debbies.

We all love home baked sweets, but not the calories. I get at least one box of LD snack cakes/cookies weekly, pour them into a tupperware container and set it on top of the fridge. If we want a sweet during the week, they are there to grab. The nice thing is that they are good enough to satisfy, but not good enough to tempt us to eat more than one. lol

I know the Kroger/Buskin bakery has much better things, but they are expensive and, as with home baked, too good to keep around.

We love Little Debbies in our house..I'm not ashamed to admit that.

Here's another food I would have to hide in the back of my pantry: spaghetti sauce. When my father-in-law was alive, he would've never let me live it down if he knew I ever used jarred spaghetti sauce. He was from Venice and was a gourmet Italian chef.

oh my . . . . did he leave you recipes? I'll bet your family eats VERY well.

I sometimes make my own, but often use Paul Newman Marinara alone or as a base.

The Ragu with garlic and onion is close to the homemade my mom used to make. No shame necessary.

[drewsmom595]

I have a few of his recipes...but only because my husband or I watched him while he was in the kitchen. He never followed a written recipe...he was one of those intuitive cooks who threw in a handful of this or that.

I miss his lasagna and his gnocchi so much...almost as much as I miss him. He was an incredibly wonderful man.

[chefmate]

Feb 22, 2009 23:37:04 GMT drewsmom595 said:

Feb 21, 2009 14:10:21 GMT @chefmate said:

mustard, mayo, peanut butter and salami sandwich and damn proud of it and besides, I don't have to share!!!!

I've had a mustard, mayo and salami sandwich...but never had peanut butter with it. Was this something that you started eating when you were pregnant?

No, it just sounded good and tried it one day

[mindy]

I eat peanut butter and honey sandwiches most days for lunch. Some might find that weird, but it's really a good combination.

[drewsmom595]

Peanut butter and honey are good...nothing to be ashamed of there. My son loves those too...occasionally I'll also throw in some sliced bananas in there as well.

OK...I'll confess to another food oddity. I still eat my candy corn in stages...first I bite off the white tips, then I'll eat the yellow part, and finally the orange. I've been doing that since, oh...maybe three years old.

I bet candy corn would taste good on a peanut butter & honey sandwich...lol!

[sandra]

I eat my Oreo cookies this way: First I take it apart, I take out the filling, I eat the cookies. When all the cookies are gone, I eat the filling.

[sandra]

I have way more gross foods I eat than you guys!

I like mixing fruit fresh powder with baking powder and lick it off my finger. Tastes like the old fountain candy with the liquorish stick for licking.

Cream cheese canned icing from a can on digestive cookies.

My homemade spaghetti sauce with meat and mushrooms used as a dip for potato chips.

Jello pudding powder - no added water.

[drewsmom595]

I've never heard of fresh fruit powder, Sandra. Or digestive cookies. I had to Google them to find out what they were!!!

I make jello pudding a lot...but I've never tried the powder. Next time I make it, I'll try a teaspoon or two...in your honor.

[Liberator]

Marmite and honey toast. Sometimes with peanut butter.

[chefmate]

I am NOT, repeat, am not eating at Sandra's

[chefmate]

here's how I eat my pie: first off, eat the top layer of crust, then the filling, then the bottom layer of crust.

When I eat my meal, I have it all worked out that there is a bit of everything left and one drink of milk left.......guess a little ocd here

[lonewolf]

I don’t think I'm ashamed of anything that I eat; although, I do love Durian which most Westerners abhor because of its strong smell.

Also, when I was in Thailand I became addicted to a certain type of green mango.

[Big Lin]

What is Durian, Lonewolf? I've never heard of it before.

[lonewolf]

Jan 14, 2010 16:04:50 GMT Big Lin said:

What is Durian, Lonewolf? I've never heard of it before.

It's a large tropical fruit that smells horrible but tastes great.

asiancuisine.suite101.com/article.cfm/durian__the_king_of_fruit

[beth]

Thanks for the link, Lone. Says it has a taste similar to vanilla pudding.

If it's so good, yet smells so bad, I'd think some enterprising group would preserve the fruit part in jars for selling and pitch out the smelly part.

[DAS (formerly BushAdmirer)]

There are some things I like that others in my family won't eat.

Snails in garlic butter are delicious. I can't get anyone else to try them. More for me.

I like really fiery foods. Mexican food (in Mexico) is often hot enough to make you sweat. We have a lot of Mexican restaurants here in Texas but their foods are mild to suit American tastes. I love really good Mexican food from interior Mexico, and I want it hot hot hot. I like heat too in Asian foods.

Baby octopus are great in pasta but impossible to find in most cities. When in the Basque region of France or Spain at the right time of year they have a great dish made with whole baby eels.

Stinky cheese like Limburger is also OK in my book but will cause others to run for cover.

On the other hand, there are some foods that I simply can't stand. Bananas are at the top of the list. Even the smell is repulsive. It can't be disguised. Even banana nut cake is repugnant.

The English paint remover known as Marmite isn't far behind. Fresh barnacles are also awful. I've never been able to develop a taste for Sherry wine. We stopped at a top bodega when driving through a Sherry wine region in Spain -- every sample they served us was horrid.