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[graculus]

If there's ever been one area in my life where I'm pretty much a creature of habit, it's food. Although I can pretty much turn my hand to most things when it comes to cooking (given the limits of being a vegetarian, of course), I find that I often have the same meals and when it comes to certain items I'm even more obsessive-compulsive.

I see that Cadbury's have brought back the Wispa chocolate bar, by popular demand apparently. At one point they also produced other versions of it: the caramel one, which I found too sweet, and a mint one which I obsessed over for getting on for six months. I would literally, Monday to Friday, have a mint Wispa every day with my lunch. And then one day I just didn't want one any more.

My current obsessions are as follows:

Stony organic vanilla yoghurt (even if it means going to Tesco because Sainsburys seem to have stopped stocking it)

Innocent pineapple, banana and coconut smoothies

Quorn southern style pretend-chicken burgers (it doesn't say 'pretend-chicken' on the packet, btw!)

So, anyone else have foods they're addicted to? Not generally, but specific brands and items? Please don't ask me to believe I'm alone in this... ;)

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[cycnus39]

Wierdly, I had a terrible urge to eat a Wispa yesterday and lamented that they were no longer produced. Shows what I know. My brain must have registered some in a shop at one point and didn't tell me until yesterday. I'll have to go buy one now.

Btw, I'm in complete agreement about the Gold being too sweet and I quite liked the mint too. I had an obsession for Biscuit Boosts for about a week when I was at school but the three I scoffed a day soon put me off them ;-)

[graculus.livejournal.com]

I liked the biscuit Boosts as well, but I've never really been obsessive about any chocolate bars (heaven knows I've rarely met a chocolate bar I don't like!) the way I was about mint Wispas...

[rivier.livejournal.com]

Oh God yeah, so many.

Off the top of my head there's M&S macaroni cheese, which I still have to buy and eat once a month, even though the high cheese and milk content make me feel like shit for half a day afterwards. And Sweet & Sour Pot Noodles - no other flavour or make, though again I'm trying to be moderate and keep it to once a week.

I probably eat a dry bowl of Special K once a day at some point - I like to nibble through it while reading. My preferences vary between the various sorts with dried fruit in them - Peach & Apricot at the moment. Ideally, I'd like to buy a box of freeze-dried fruit pieces, but the 95% Special K part is kind of hard to avoid.

[graculus.livejournal.com]

Pot Noodle? Ewwww!

The other thing that should have been on my list was Sainsburys equivalent of Special K which has dried cherries, strawberries and raspberries in - like you, I'm more than happy to eat it dry!

[sg1scribe.livejournal.com]

Currently...

Asparagus dipped in butter (OK, that's not a brand thing, but I just want to eat it everyday at the moment)
Yeo Valley natural yoghurt (I add honey, museli and blueberries)
Tesco Vanilla and honey smoothie
Gu Little pots of chocolate

[graculus.livejournal.com]

Mmm. Chocolate. ;)

[alyse]

Like you, I go through stages of subsisting off one or two dishes. I tend to experiment, and if I like it, I then eat it for a while. So this summer, I had a lot of feta, lemon juice and pasta salads with avocado, cucumber and cherry tomatoes. The last couple of weeks it's been homemade glamorgan sausages. Last winter it was potato, red lentil and cheese soup with homemade garlic croutons or a potato fry thing with leek, red onion, mushrooms and veggie bacon. Yummy.

There's one thing that's always a favourite - the one thing I have to have in my fridge and where I have tins as well, just in case I run out. Mushrooms. I love them to wee little pieces and eat them by the bucket load. And Costco do big boxes in just my size ::g::

[graculus.livejournal.com]

I used to eat quite a bit of feta until one day I had a bad reaction after eating some and never could bring myself to devour the same quantities again... the current obsessions are pretend-chicken burger with avocado and a kind of mock-rice-&-peas (the real thing often has chicken livers in it, apparently) with whatever veg I have to hand.

I'm also with you on the mushrooms but not to the extent of the tinned variety. That's just weirdness! ;)

[alyse]

The tinned variety is just my emergency stock ::g:: No good for eating in anything but pasta sauce but better than nothing at all :)

[phantomas.livejournal.com]

Aero mint. I die for that stuff. The new package, with the small chocolate/mint balls? I cherish it as if it were gold.

Cheese straws. Any brand.

Marmite.

I'm sure there others that I can't think of right now.

[graculus.livejournal.com]

I was wondering when the dreaded M word would make an appearance. Bleurgh. *shudders*

[phantomas.livejournal.com]

AH AH AH!

I can claim being a foreigner as an excuse? I also ate sand when i was a toddler, that might explain something ;)

[graculus.livejournal.com]

They ran an ad recently which basically said people either love Marmite or hate it, and apparently quite a lot of people over here love it as well, so I doubt you can play the nationality card! ;)

[phantomas.livejournal.com]

Damn. *G*

I like Oxo, too. Used to snack on Knorr cubes when I was younger.

Also used to eat the corner of the pages of the books I was reading...erm.

[lachli.livejournal.com]

At the moment weetabix with hot milk and a sprinkling of sugar! Have had it for breakfast and tea today, just adoring it and want it every meal, it's so filling and warming and so reminds me of me being young again!

Other than that I could cheerfully live on thick, white, buttered toast for the rest of my natural life and never be sad *g*

[klo-the-hobbit.livejournal.com]

Frank Coopers Oxford Coarse Cut Orange Marmalade. I eat that stuff with a spoon.
Twinings Vanilla, Chamomile and Honey infusion
Nutrigrain Blackberry and Apple bars
Tropicana Sanguinello juice
Tescos Finest Piccolo Cherry Tomatoes
Those are a couple of things that are on my shopping list EVERY WEEK.
YYUUUUUUUM.

[wildcard-sej.livejournal.com]

Couscous! Can't get enough of it at the moment. Current favourite is the 'Moroccan' style one from Waitrose, although I've been experimenting with my own concoctions 'cos it's unnecessarily expensive to buy the ready-made stuff always. Last year it was hummus. With everything, anything, or nothing at all - just straight out of the pot. *g*

Also, peppered salami and onion marmalade - together! In jacket potatoes, bread rolls, and even in risotto. With some brie too if I've got any.

The rhubarb-flavoured Muller Rice which is a special edition at the moment. Last year they had plum and that was rather good too.

Rice crackers - crack black pepper or sweet chilli flavours.

[mer1973.livejournal.com]

Clementines are in season for us. So, I'll buy a crate and devour the whole thing.

[siluria]

Oooh, I like those Southern Style burgers too, and the quorn (non-meat) balls are actually pretty good in a rich tomato sauce :) I adore Innocent smoothies, although I quite like the kids ones as they're not as thick and don't have the strawberry pips that get in the teeth. I won't leave a supermarket without at least one carton of Tropicana Smooth orange juice and a loaf of Warbutons Thick Toastie bread, which is definitely a must with Heinz Tomato soup :) I also seem to be addicted to Dorset Cereals porridge at the moment, and Marks and Sparks have the carrot chutney that they put in their Wensleydale sandwiches available in little pots now - yummy.

[rhade-rad.livejournal.com]

Cherries, especially the dark red ones.
M&S freshly squeezed clementine juice.
Those are my Christmas Day breakfast treats.
Really good black coffee - essential for everyday
Caerphilly, Wensleydale and Red Cheshire cheeses - the proper farmhouse not plastic packet stuff
Fresh blackcurrants simmered with a little sugar - then you can either eat them with cream or make pie or crumble or put them on porridge with honey and cream, that's summer in the middle of winter
Currently manuka honey on the local bread shop's sourdough bread toasted.
M&S salt caramel chocolate balls - oh my! and organic fairtrade chocolate too [Ad anything from Hotel Chocolate. Actually I usually have bars of their fairtrade milk chocolate in my fridge.
Bill Granger's French Toast - with or without maple syrup

But toast and honey and porridge with brown sugar - the dark brown kind which melts into pools of sweetness - and cream are my standby foods for coping with colds and flu. Along with hot Ribena.

Think I'll stop now.

[innocent-lex.livejournal.com]

Frazzles, but only when they've been made properly and aren't too fluffy. Frazzles in multi-packs are always the too fluffy versions, so I have to get single packs from the petrol station down the road which is the only place I can get them. Also, ricicles in ice cold skimmed milk. I go through phases of different cereals, and at the moment it's ricicles. And peanut butter on fresh white bread that I can slice into doorstops. Yummy!