I'm interested in hearing other's strange food oddities and food rituals :-)

So we all have strange food habits and enjoy odd combinations of food. Feel free to share your food and eating oddities that are just normal habits in your life!

Let's see I like to refer to the term "food baby" when I've over eaten and am bloated and very full lol. I read the term used in OK Magazine once and died laughing and now I'm in love with the phrase! Also I love to put diet swiss miss on top of my oatmeal lol and also for a snack I like to put sugar free strawberry jam on top of a wedge of light l.c cheese and dip pretzels in it. Also I make egg salad sandwiches but uses steamed tofu instead of eggs or sometimes I'll used hard boiled egg whites but the tofu is more fun and odd :-). Also I put Frank's red hot on almost everything I consume from scrambled egg whites to taking reduced fat townhouse crackers and spreading light l.c cheese on it and then top it with hot sauce. Good snack I'm telling ya!!! I'm interested to hear others oddities that actually would turn out not so odd :-)

I eat canned tomato paste with a spoon or I dip cabbage (or spinach or kelp noodles) in the can

I love eating Nori plain 

I love salmon fat & grass-fed beef fat

Hamachi Collars are devine! 

Tar Tar of any grass-fed red meat makes my mouth water

I really like canned chicken, green beans & mushrooms

I eat spinach EVERY SINGLE DAY 

I used stevia to sweeten my coffee daily (not really weird I guess - ha ha). 

I love egg whites & rice bran mixed together 

dont do it now but i used to put sugar on my pb sandwiches.  liked the crunch.  potato chips and a carmello bar

Original Post by kindal:

I cannot eat an apple that has a hole in it. I bit into one one time and it had a worm. Yes I ate half the worm lol. Same with razzleberry pie for Marie Calendars or any berry pie I have problems eating because once there was maggots in my pie.

Oh my God. That would ruin apples for me forever.

I eat the big, kosher-dill pickles with straws.

I've done it since I was a kid. Bite the top off, then jam a straw in and suck all the innards out. It's a bit of a game for me, and, without a straw, I just can't eat a pickle.

Also: -I eat the skin off of grapes first.

-I eat the heads of goldfish crackers first, saving all the tails till the end

-If I want cheese, I cut it into tiny, itsy-bitsy cubes

-Pretzel sticks are systematically gnawed down to little nubs

-Cheesy, hull-less popcorn is never chewed, I wait for it to dissolve

-Garlic bread is eaten crust first

I think it helps to make a little game out of food. I don't eat so fast and I get a bit of amusement out of it.

Weird foods I eat:

- noodles with american cheese and milk (not much anymore)

- guacamole with tuna in it on a sandwich

- this weird hummus / guac mixture I found a recipe for.  With tuna.

- baked tortillas (I bake them...) or unbaked spinach tortillas plain

- i mix spinach / random other veggie / brown rice / random sauce or protein into a huge tupperware to have a healthy always-ready snack around.  There's ALWAYS some mixture of this in my fridge.

 

Weird things I do:

- used to eat sandwiches into perfect circles, but stopped that.

- if I'm alone I'll scrape the sauce off of things.  Every product has too much sauce these days.

- salads must be perfectly even dressing-wise.  Not one spot more or less covered.  Sometimes I do the fork tines thing, but with to-go salads that have lids or at home with a plate over the bowl I put a little dressing in and SHAKE WILDLY until it disperses to my satisfaction.

- something I feel weird about eating takes weeks to get eaten.  I had coldstone ice cream last week and it took me 4 spurts to eat it all.  1/4th got eaten each time.  And it was a small.  I never wanted it when I was hungry, and when I wasn't hungry I could justify eating it!

Not many unusual habits because I truly like most food...........has been my downfall for the last 15 or so years, and this is the reason CC is working for me..........eating some of most everything!  But......

I like food hot and unfortunately my wonderful husband really doesn't care whether it is hot or cold.  We like to share mealtime always and occasionally I find myself looking at my food as it cools while he is doing something that delays him!  He always says "go ahead" but we like to pray together, and he gets so much more food than I do these days, I would be finished and filling the dishwasher while he begins if I went ahead!

One of our real likes while traveling was splitting a Wendy's combo.  It is fast and usually the same quality.  Well it is not as much fun anymore since I found the fast food calorie site. But we still do it when traveling in the car.  I will have to try the french fry dipping!

I love taking bananas and splitting them in threes. If you squish the sides of them a little you can usually find were it splits naturally and peel it.

Also i only only only eat healthy food. wheat bread, all natural peanut butter etc. etc.

I also know someone who rips apart ALL of her food. The only thing she actually eats is meatballs.

Original Post by oreopuppies:

dont do it now but i used to put sugar on my pb sandwiches.  liked the crunch.  potato chips and a carmello bar

 Oh! My ex-fried used to always put pb+sugar on white bread. He loved the sugar-y-ness. >P<

Others I remember ---

• I peel grapes skin and then eat it. (+Skin)
• I love the smell of tofu and tempeh.
• Japanese bean candies aree' good.
• Dark chocolate dipped in peanut butter -- OMG! So good!
• Dark chocolate banana spinach smoothie.

Haha I eat the skin off my grapes too! 

I also eat carrots from the middle. My mom said I look like a rabbit when I do it.

I can't stand the smell of bacon. It makes me nauseous.

I don't like the taste of coffee, but I love the smell of it.

When I have a sandwich - I like it cut in half (its nostalgic!) and eat the crust first. Or when I eat fruit, I eat all the skin first, then the innards. Now that I think more about it, I eat the outside of a lot of things (like cookies, brownies, muffins, around the reeses cups) first and then the inside.

Sometimes, if I want a quick snack - I'll grab a handful of raw oats.

As for pizza, I like to eat the toppings first dipped in hot sauce, then the dough dipped in hot sauce, and then the crust...yep...dipped in hot sauce.

I love yogurt & granoly & nuts. I like to try to eat the yogurt around the granoly & nuts, leaving them for the end. It's like a game. Same with when I used to eat lucky charms, I would eat all of the oats first, and eat the marshmallows last. Whatever kind had the most (red balloons or whatever) I would eat first, until I made them all even. Then finish them off.

If a cookie or cracker is shaped like an animal (ie a bear, goldfish, honey bee) I eat the head off first. I'm a sad, strange, twisted individual. :)

That's all I can think of right now.

LOL I thought of a new one that I did today

Apple dipped in some bbq sauce...yum

Oh I just thought of a new one(s)!

• You know Perkins and Bob evans? Well there biscuits, the smell and taste of them make me sick (Like car sick, sick). I mean, they taste good but gross --- at the same time. It's pretty weird. o_o
• I like eating spinach from the bag or dipping it in hummus.
• I like eating spicy jalepeno peppers raw, too.
• I hate raw carrots but love cooked carrots in soup.
• I like putting hot sauce on ANYTHING! Unless maybe soy ice cream... 

• no matter what, the first meal i eat must be breakfast food, even if i have procrastinated eating until 4 p.m.
• i seem to like all my food undercooked: my toast is basically warmed-up bread, i like my chicken breasts on the rare side, i like very rare steak, i like the soft mushy french fries not the crispy ones, etc
• i smell my food before i eat it
• i know this is really gross, but when i was young, i would chew up a ritz cracker till it was the  consistency of peanut butter, then i would spit it out on another ritz cracker, cover it with another, to make a sandwich. i was teased mercilessly by my older siblings for being so disgusting, but i kept doing it
• chicken breasts are my favorite food, and i eat chicken at least once every day

maybe not so wierd, but perhaps slightly odd.

Original Post by kalliainen:

• i know this is really gross, but when i was young, i would chew up a ritz cracker till it was the  consistency of peanut butter, then i would spit it out on another ritz cracker, cover it with another, to make a sandwich. i was teased mercilessly by my older siblings for being so disgusting, but i kept doing it

Haha, me and my sister used to chew up pretzle sticks, then spit it out onto another pretzle stick and eat it like that. 

Whenever I'm eating a sandwich I try to cut it into as many pieces as possible, at least 9 normally.

I have to get every last bit of food from the plate, I hate my plate to be dirty- always have done

I can't eat an apple unless it's been cut up into little slices.

I have to eat a cereal bar by tearing off tiny amounts and nibbling them so it takes me about 20mins to finish it.

I nibble round the edges of biscuits so they get eaten in circles.

I have to take small bites of things or cut them into little amounts, even with things like nuts.

I'm sure there are loads of other but I can't think of them...

Original Post by tonyrocks922:

Original Post by kalliainen:

• i know this is really gross, but when i was young, i would chew up a ritz cracker till it was the  consistency of peanut butter, then i would spit it out on another ritz cracker, cover it with another, to make a sandwich. i was teased mercilessly by my older siblings for being so disgusting, but i kept doing it

Haha, me and my sister used to chew up pretzle sticks, then spit it out onto another pretzle stick and eat it like that. 

 I try to eat the outside darker brown part with the salt before I eat the inside. :) ( & BTW That chewing and spitting thing out is really nasty! )

i dont like my food too hot or too cold. 

some things just taste like mold, talapia and cat fish for instance. disgusting! 

i love halibut for breakfast lunch dinner. I cook a lb steak of it, then eat it in 3 oz servings for the next however many meals. usually cold after the first round. omg it makes me happy. 

i slice a banana and put my p-nut butter in there. three stripes of banana, two of p-butter. 

i eat cold left over oat meal for lunch, and enjoy it. 

sometimes, i like to eat salad with my fingers, which doesn't go over very well with civilized people. 

 

They say spices speed up your metabolism a itsy bitsy bit, so when I'm hungry I'll get a lil fork and have some of that insanely hot Indian pickle, it tastes really good (if you can notice it through the agony and burning pain of your tongue), it's high in oils yet such a small serving doesn't affect my fat intake too much.

Bedekar's Indian Pickle, try it :D

Ohh I have more!  XD

• The smell of buttered popcorn or a biscuit from like Bob Evan's give me a headache.
• Sour cream or cottage cheese freaks me out.
• I HAVE TO SMELL FOOD! Seriously, right before my dad eats his food I ask him if I can smell it. :]
• I like fried potaters or french fries dipped in hummus.
• I only like the pie crusts, not the filling. (Though, i'm vegan can't eat it anymoreee)
• One time when I was little I went to a summer camp and I ate saurkraut and apple juice, my dad came to pick me up to take me to a kid party thing with my friend and I have >O< gas and stomache cramps all day and night. I hate saurkraut or cabbage now.
• I'm addicted to food. I think about it day & night.

Alright..now I think that's it. Lol.

I too like to take my food apart!

-If i eat freshly toasted bread, i HAVE to peel the crusts off, split the two sides then pull out all the soft bread innards from the toasted sides. Then i squish the soft parts together into a ball and eat that seperately. This includes burger buns. Then i use the toasted parts to sandwich the fillings, meat or jam.

-When i eat any sandwich cookies ( oreos, cheese ritz etc) i twist all of them apart then eat all the plain sides first, then the sides with the fillings. I also like to suck on the cookies till they get all soft and mushy before swallowing.

-I think the crust is the best part of a pizza, especially the parts slightly soggy from the ingredients. Sometimes i pick off the ingredients and just eat the crust.

-I hate the feel of oil on my lips. When it's butter incorperated into baked goods, or the cocao butter in chocolate it doesn't matter, but i hate it when my lips feel greasy. 

-I don't mind my food touching each other, but i will still pick out the different components and eat them individually.

-I used to dip cheezels in butter but now i have weird cravings for cheezels dipped in cottage cheese.

-I love love love nuts, well.. except for brazil nuts.

-My favourite parts of an airplane ride are mealtimes. I don't even think the food tastes good, but for some reason i just like the idea of airplane food. I think it's how it's compartmentalised and all.

-I hate any signs of veins and tendons in my meat and will take great care to pick them all out, even from pieces of ham. Same goes for any signs of egg whites in my omelettes; omelettes should be uniformly yellow.

-When i eat chocolate i have to smell it first! I'm actually trying to detect the woody/grass/tangy/etc notes that people always talk about, but the only thing chocolate ever smells like to me is... chocolate. I don't get it! Still keep trying though.