In the interests of a New Year, new resolutions and new things, I thought it was about time to come clean on a few things about myself. Call it a 12 step for foodies. Since I feel I am among friends, which Dear Readers you are, I feel time is ripe to confess a few things. A foodie confessional of sorts. Let me start…
I am a notorious overfeeder. When I serve someone a piece of cake, it’s a gigantic slice, and second and third helping are always welcome at my place. But I did kill many goldfish and plants this way and my cats were obese.
If it’s dinner time on Monday, I have already thought of what I am going to have for breakfast, lunch and dinner on Tuesday.
I don’t understand when people push away the tray of baklava saying “Oh just one piece for me, it’s so sweet!”. I can literally eat half a tray of baklava, although it isn’t a pretty sight when I do. I can also eat multiple moon cakes.
I was convinced truffle oil was good – until I tried a truffle and realised that the oil tastes nothing like the truffle. Next time I’ll pour gasoline over my pasta for a similar effect.
I walked around for half a day without realising that I had icing on my dress.
I bring my own snacks to the movies. I smuggle in my own popcorn (not just plain but a special blend which I’ll share with you soon) as well as the chips I like that they don’t sell and the drinks I like that they don’t sell. I have nightmares of opening my bag while getting out my ticket and my bounty spilling out.
To maintain a normal weight, I’ll eat steamed vegetables for lunch so that I can eat what I want at dinner time.
When I’m on holidays, I only take pictures of the sights because I think I have to. Otherwise I’d just take photos of food. I’m forever thankful for digital cameras so that I don’t have to explain to the spotty youth at the photo store “Why are your holiday snaps just of food?”.
A shelf from my pantry: Pearl sugar, roasted & ground wattleseed, Elderflower jam from Austria, Italian Grissini, Fauchon lips chocolate etc
I love to look through people’s fridges and kitchen cupboards. Don’t worry I have no interest in your bedside cupboards, but I do want to know what you eat.
I know the calories of almost any kind of food. Try me!
I’m a fast eater, embarrassingly so, so I try to slow down when I eat or use chopsticks to inhibit the process.
I order for my husband who has given up on trying to have a say on what he wants.
Sometimes I just take a big hunk of cheese and melt it on a plate and eat it. And it’s damn good so don’t scoff until you’ve tried it.
If I am upset or worried I stop eating. So I hate to be upset or worried.
I used to dream of having a stomach with a drawer that I could empty out so that I could just keep eating. Sometimes I just keep eating knowing that I’m full.
If I know I’m going to be eating very tempting or fattening food, I wear a tight dress or a belt to stop me from making an utter pig of myself.
I am still smarting over the revamping of the Milo bar. I wish I had stockpiled boxes of the original Milo Bar *shakes fist at Milo company*
After a big meal out, I can still come home and eat more.
I hate to throw things out. Often I’ll have a single egg white in a container and a tablespoon of cream just because I might need them – maybe?
Yep, Bum Hummers aka Pickled Onions, a present from the lovely Kristy from Jetlagmama.
My kitchen cupboards are full of the bizarre and the unusual.
A dinner isn’t finished without dessert. Ever.
So tell me Dear Reader, what would you like to confess? Confess it anonymously if you feel you need to 
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How fantastic, Lorraine! Love this insight into someone I so admire, and we have a fair bit in common, too!
Completely with you on the travel photos – and very pertinent right now; my memory drive is pretty much “token shot of church, 15 shots of same chocolate bar from different angles, token shot of scenery, 20 shots of dinner”.
I’ve done the melted cheese trick (particularly good with parmesan, melted to the extent that it goes crispy again at the edges), yes to own snacks at movies, yes to spying through people’s pantries (and shopping carts), and yes to food after a big dinner out. In fact, I cannot come home from a dinner out and not eat something afterwards, no matter how rich and satisfying the meal was!
A few of my own: I get really, really cranky if I eat a bad meal out somewhere. I hate feeling like I’ve wasted a food opportunity, and it makes me irritable to be around, even though I know I can eat again soon.
My favourite meal is a huge bowl of steamed/raw vegetables and way too much dark chocolate.
I much prefer food I can eat out of bowl with a spoon or fork, no cutting required.
I am obsessed with the microwave, because I want my food to be super hot, and will microwave the bejesus out of everything to get it that way, even to the detriment of the “ideal” texture.
And I must stop hijacking your post now!
Oh my, I’m sorry, that really was far too long! That’s what you get for writing such an awesome post
Lovely. Lovely. Lovely!
I’ll confess that I think you’re a great dining companion for all the reasons above. I think you’re the best blogger for all the reasons above.
And then I’ll confess that last year when we ate at Icebergs I had too many strong flavours in one sitting, and wine too, that I was sure I was going to vomit. I ran to the bathroom and waited to vomit… but couldn’t. I went back to the table and waited. I felt so ill it almost ruined the experience.
We’re going back next week {armed with a $300 dining voucher} and I vow to do it differently. Or not. Who knows. x
This post was awesome! I can relate to your confessions like sneaking in snacks to the movies and eating melted cheese.
What a fun post. I’m excited to learn more about NQN with T5W in weeks to come
Brillant post. I was so inspired by yours that I decided to fess up as well and posted it at my blog.
http://theasianpear.blogspot.com/2010/01/confessions-of-foodaholic.html
You make me laugh!!! Great post and love the guilty pleasures and admissions! The plate of melted cheese is BRILLIANT!!!
Hahaha I used to know the calories of every food too…. and that was because I was on a calorie counting diet. Not anymore (as in not anymore do I know the calories of every food and not anymore am I on a diet).
Food confession? I haven’t thought of that yet… but will do a bit later.
Lorraine, this post is fabulous! I love everything about it. I have never tried melted cheese on a plate, but wow, I can totally get on board with that! (By the way, what type of cheese do you usually use for that?) Ok, so my confession…I NEED (lol!) to have some dark chocolate every day…even if it’s just a little nibble…
a lovely insight into NQN. Thankyou. Oh and my husband agrees with you on the milo bar front.
I’m still laughing at your fat cat
I relate to so many of your confessions. My confession is that nothing is too rich, too sweet or too salty for me. I too can eat lots of baklava (how I love it!) and the darkest chocolate dessert that others can eat only one mouthful of, I can eat mine and theirs with no trouble at all. It’s a gift….. of sorts. It’s lovely to see my friend and fellow tree-changer, Kristy here. I see you are saving your bum hummers for a special occasion….
Bwahahahaha! that’s hilarious! My confession? I can easily eat a whole block of lindt in one short sitting!
Oh I SO agree about he original Milo Bar! What is it with those BITS?
I always read the menu in this order – dessert, entrée and main. So I can determine if ‘emergency stomach’ needs to be activated or not!
You only sound a little disordered there
I like posting food pics because while they’re a little personal they’re not as personal to me as some of my words.
I also gym every day, only way!
My confession is a predilection towards insanity, with extra salt on top. Followed by chips dipped in soft serve ice cream.
Ha!! I got the bum hummers for Yaya’s birthday. I also confess to smuggling my own snacks to the movies from kebabs to sushi. With the cheese confession I tend to melt a chunk on the pan so it becomes a grilled cheese pancake-mmmmm!!
OMG,reading your confessions is soo funny… I do feel the same to most of them, is like reading my own confession. I love a slice of good bread with lots of butter and sugar and I especially love melted cheese…hehehehe…
‘After a big meal out, I can still come home and eat more.’
I know the feeling! I have also had the pleasure (or displeasure if you ask my wife), of a jar of Bum Hummers…they are delicious!
Hehe. Loved this post! I can eat multiple mooncakes at a time as well…
oooh what an awesome post! I too do the melted cheese on a plate!! hehe I thought I must be the only one
Hmmm my confession? I can probably out-eat my husband (who is much taller than me) but have to constantly remind myself that that is NOT a good thing hehe
We are quite alike! I like to overfeed people, love baklava, melted cheese, I never throw anything away and try to eat light food for lunch so that I can eat more in the evening ;-P!
Cheers,
Rosa
Wow what a post. I bring my own snacks to the movies too. Only because everything if so expensive and I like the taste of my own popcorn. My confession. I am obsessed with Pickles. I always buy a jar and eat it without anyone looking. The bigger the pickle the happier I am ehehe.
I hear you on the milo bar thing – I was so upset when they replaced the original milo bar with the abomination that they now call a milo bar
Very interesting post – I always make a point of looking in other people’s pantry’s (it’s one of the first things I do at my mum’s house). I like how everyone’s pantry smells different too.
love the post lorraine, brilliant read, except the melting cheese in a bowl & eating it – shivers haha!
I must confess some of my friends find the following strange (the understanding ones) or down right weird (those who just don’t get it).
I make special trips to Sydney to:
1. shop at Essential Ingredient – I know that place like the back of my hand, and in the year I have been in Brisbane I’ve found nothing to compare
2. buy up large on Brasserie Bread rustic Caramelised Garlic bread. I also learnt the hard way that if you are taking this on a plane as carry-on luggage, best to quadrule wrap in cling wrap, or else the entire plane smells like an italian kitchen within 10 minutes – fellow travellers not impressed!
3. purchase as much Lemon Lentil soup as lovely Anthony at Naremburn Natural can have frozen and packed in eskies for me – best soup ever, but impossible for me to replicate at home. The strange looks at airport check-in are also regularly anticipated, as I explain that the huge eskies contain frozen lentil soup – they don’t share my appreciation!
These may not be as tragic as some, but they’re weird enough for my friends to not be far away from staging an intervention
If you ever decide to leave your husband, please let me know. It sounds that at least on the sensual gustatory side we have a lot in common. Like you I have a long history of loving to eat. I was a chef and worked in some very upscale places. I won’t bore you with the names. However, when you are cooking Veal Oscar for a large banquet those end pieces and trimmings just seem to good to throw away. Once I got in trouble for trying to steal some wonderful St. Andre cheese that was going to be trashed anyway. When I lived in the San Francisco Bay area I became a dim sum addict, driving to Chinatown just for some wonderful bao or steamed buns. Nowadays I have been trying to cut back (it’s hard to eat out all of the time). I love your site. One of these days I will travel to Sydney just to go to eat at that Peking duck restaurant you featured a while ago. Happy New Year 2010! Yours in foodie bliss! David
Ah a fellow disgruntled Milo Bar lover!! I too miss my much loved favourite choccy bar
Food confession: I always have in my car the latest edition of the Foodies guide to Sydney so when I am out and about and in a suburb I am not familiar with I can hunt down some more foodie treasures! I just love food, cooking , ingredients you name it! It is a real delight to know my passion has rubbed off on my kids (5,6) when they ask for their favoutie food: kahlua pork (smoked hawaiian dish) and creme brulee!
I love sweets and will always select a sweet dish over a savoury dish. At the end of a meal, no matter how full I am there’s always room for dessert! I’m an emotional eater so it doesn’t matter what I’m feeling, be it happy,sad, angry, overwhelmed. stressed……….food is my antidote. When I am invited to any function, my first thought is ” I wonder what they’ll be serving?” When we’re invited to dinner etc I always ask if I can bring dessert. (love the accolades
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Food is an integral part of my life and always will be , sometimes this can be a bad thing if you show no self-control, ( I’ve just signed myself up for a 10 week course at my local gym .) So just how many lunges, push-ups and running burns X amount of calories ??????
I must confess…..
when I was flatting…i had a pantry that looked like it could feed a family of five!….
I have over 40 condiments in our fridge…i cannot live without sauces and chutneys!
I like to buy really obscure packaged items from my fav asian grocer….for me its like a “lolly shop” fossicking around with all those ingredients
I indulge sometimes with late night tv and left overs from the fridge ( like Nigella! lol)
I am a cupcake stylist and have to taste my mixtures all the time…..its very hard
I have to have things in place in my fridge…..I am quite good at making tasty dishes from unlikely blends of ingredients
I am a passionate foodie and have been cooking and baking like my grandmother from the age of 7.
I look at food for its beauty,colour and love blending tastes together…
I love your website and have baked many treats from it or just taken inspiration.
Happy NY!
hehe that’s great. poor husbands about ordering hehe. i smuggle my own food into movies too otherwise it’s too expensive
I confess that I feel SO MUCH BETTER about my eating habits after reading this!!
Hahaha the melted cheese on a plate! I totally do that too! And I’ve walked around with all kinds of cake ingredients in my hair and on my clothes, it’s a hazard of being a baker!
Ha! The Bum Hummers!!!
OMG – i am also furious over the “revamp” of the milo chocolate bar. The old version was perfect in every way and did not need a “revamp”!!
wht a great and enlightening post lorraine! I would have never guessed half of your foodie habits, but now that you’ve revealed them, you truly deserve the title of being one of the top food bloggers around – you live, breathe, gobble, inhale and savour all things edible indeed!
You’ve pretty much covered all my secrets Lorraine. I’ve never had a milo bar though. Maybe I’ll try the new one. Love the bum hummers.
My confession is crisps with vanilla ice-cream. I see Joey has a similar weird weakness. I put it down to the salty-sweet combination and that it really needs sour to finish the combo off!
that bowl of melted cheese is just a little bit scary, Lorraine…
hahaha! I once got caught trying to smuggle a flask of freshly brewed coffee into the cinema – it was the pair of china mugs that gave us away (well, were were going to see The Queen and I thought she’d approve). I must confess that if I’ve made a special dessert for dinner, I will finish off whatever is left for breakfast the next day. xxx
What a post! Ah, that must have felt great to get those thoughts off your chest, no?
And you know that there are many of us readers who can agree to several points above. Like especially taking only pictures of food and being able to consume an absolutely abnormal amount of sweets without getting saturated or full or sugared out! For me the best is candy corn – I can take in a fair share (as long as it’s the good kind).
You need to make your way to Switzerland. You’d be in heaven with raclette- voila your melted cheese on a plate.
Happy New Year and may you have no upset/worried/non-eating moments in 2010
When i’m travelling i really like to spend inordinate amounts of time in foreign country supermarkets checking out all their foods!
it drives my travelling companions batty… “ooh look there is a supermarket lets go in!”
Sometimes I wish I would be brave enough to be bulimic.
But whyyy would anyone want to do such a thing?!
I guess it’s back to “eating in moderation”. HA!
Surely melted cheese on a plate could be swung as one-step fondue!
haha oh ho ho we have much in common. my stomach and my head have different ideas of what constitutes full…
and the waist belt is what i do too!! great minds… but so often i’ll eat too much anyway and just feel really uncomfortable for the rest of the night. arghhh!
We are totally the same person Lorraine. Really. I don’t eat when i’m upset, I loathe truffle oil, and I always bring my own popcorn (popped in rosemary olive oil!) to the movies. I hate the yellow grease topped packing peanuts they call popcorn!
As for my own confession…I spent the last 4 years as a chocolatier for a fine chocolate company in nyc, but sometimes I would sneak out to buy (and eat on the sidewalk!) those trashy almond m&ms. Terrible.
ps: I used to work for the nyc Fauchon. mmm
LOL – some great confessions there. My confession – I have so much food and such a small pantry that I really don’t know what I have, and end up with double ups of numerous things as a result.
Bonus confession: I LOVE eating hot salty french fries with ice cream. mmm and gross. Simultaneously.
I have taken to visiting food shops where ever I go and taking photos – it really confuses people. They really are my favourite things…
any by the way I work for the ‘Milo Bar Company’ and I dont understand what you dont like about the ‘new’ Milo bar? Do you all mean the new new one? We all think its totally yummy and much better than the old one (but we would of course). It isnt however better than the original that was just compressed Milo covered in Chocolate – now that was goodness!
Fab post – very funny. I love perving at what people are buying at the supermarkets, love checking out supermarkets in other countries and am devastated by the demise of the pollywaffle. Thanks for the mention – I notice the bum hummers look unopened – still working up the courage to test the promise on the label?
1. I always eat my ice cream out of the tub and with a fork.
2. I love eating cold chicken dipped straight into the Aioli jar – fairly sure this is Salmonella-City…
3. If my husband isn’t home, I will have dessert for dinner, followed by dessert for dessert.
4. I hate wasting food so each week we have “left over night” where I try and make something glamorous out of a weeks worth of tupperware dishes…
5. I have gourmet animals – Rex loves Cookies & Cream Icecream, Monkey loves Watermelon and Joey is a Celiac!!
Confession done and dusted!
xx
love the post! I do so much of the same things! I must confess – I love nothing better than ice cream in winter, eating just roast potatoes for dinner and not caring about how fattening something is. Ill just go to the gym later.
I love the confessions and oh how well do I relate to most of them! carting food from cities I am visiting (cramming stuff into my laptop bag as well as carrying lots of bags and boxes of stuff); always having the foodies guide to sydney in my car just in case I am in a new location; getting very cranky if I have a bad meal; checking out the dessert menu before I order….
hmmm. Good to see I have company in this madness!
great post, Lorraine… I have a couple of those confessions in common with you!
Baklava…there is no way you can have JUST one!!
My confession – I do NOT like eating alone. If I’m by myself, I turn on the radio or TV (if I’m home) so it feels like I’ve got company…or if I’m out and alone, I eat in a crowded food court, so I don’t feel like I’m a loner!
I adore these peeks into NQN. Hmmm, what should I fess up to. Food is my love language and I give it away freely and often. Once I was asked to participate in a going away party and they asked me to bring “paper plates.” I’ve never gotten over that. For another going away party I brought FIVE dishes and got my revenge. People fought over my cupcakes. I was vindicated. I can’t believe I married a non-food sharer. I will dig into his plate with my fork without asking. Took him years to tell me he eyes his favorite bite for last and I too often took that favorite bite. Now I ask “is that your favorite bite? No, Chomp. We had filet mignon with shrimp at our sit down dinner wedding reception. It cost plenty, but I couldn’t possibly get married if the food wasn’t top knotch. See what you started Lorraine! Happy New Year. Keep up the fabulous high energy. If I could, I would hand you a nice lemon tart to eat for breakfast.
Love it!
I have many confessions! I have eaten (and enjoyed a breakfast consisting of 3 pieces of buttered/jellied toast, a pan of macaroni and cheese, Coke Zero, and milk.
I ate mayonnaise sandwiches as a child and think I’d still enjoy one if I weren’t so ashamed!
Sometimes after a huge dinner out, I’ll make Mike accompany me to the grocery bakery to find an extra dessert.
For the longest time, I’d go to salad bars and “accidentally” spill “too much” salad dressing on my salad — making sure to say a small, “Oops!” so people wouldn’t think I MEANT to put that much dressing on. Now I’ve given up on hiding the truth… I like more dressing than salad. HA.
Loved the Confession, brilliant.
I too share your pain regarding milo bars, what is the world coming to? It is also sad that pollywaffles are now gone along with Toscas that vanished years ago (not sure if anyone remembers those, but they were fantastic.
I have a thing for the bread at Sizzler, which I never go to these days, and was thrilled to find a substitute called pan bread in the supermarkets. So evil for you but yum.
@Vita – thanks for clearing up re Milo bars…I’ve mourned the original ones for many years
I love this post!
Now that you mention it, I think melted cheese is perfect on anything, so why not melted cheese on a plate?
I’m with you on the Milo bar. Maybe you can find a way to compact milo and cover it in chocolate.
Love your Post!
Truffle – My thoughts exactly! Last year, I went to a Truffle Farm via Urban Graze Cooking School and we got to dig up Truffles with the help of the trained dogs
Here are some photos from the Truffle Weekend http://bit.ly/7HM1il
Urban Graze : http://www.urbangraze.com.au -> Choose Tours for more details on the tour
Cheese – Yum! I had this awesome Baked Camembert at a cafe outside of Harrod’s once and I still dream abt it!
Milo – Me too!! I must admit I was secretly happy that they did change the recipe as I couldn’t break my one a day milo bar addiction!!
When my friends and I meet up especially for Seafood buffet food – Dress code : babydoll tops/dresses, empire dresses or anything that does not cling to our body!
My secret food confession is mashed potatoes, cooked and push through a ricer and back into the saucepan to remove any moisture and then lashings of cream and butter! YUm! And Cranberry and Wild Rice Stuffing – cooked and uncooked!
I convince myself that I am in shape – Round is a shape! haha. I am going steal your idea of steamed vegies for lunch!
Haha! I love it.. A few of your confessions reminded me of some of the things I do!
I cut normal size cake slices for others, but will cut slither upon slither for myself and tell myself each time, ‘Ok, this is the last piece’. It annoys the heck out of my hubby who keeps telling me to have a normal size piece and be done with it!
I too am a fan of wearing a figure hugging outfit to prevent myself from overindulging…
My other confessions involve Green & Blacks milk chocolate… Half a block in a bowl with a slosh of cream and microwave.. Pour over vanilla ice-cream…. Mmmmmm
But Lorraine, what is confession without penance?! Going to the gym – ughhhhh
always having a supply of lollies (sweets) which must include jelly beans and liquorice, in the cupboard for those ‘sugar fix’ moments and my husbands vice (is it bad to confess someone’s else’s sins for them?) is to always have a couple of blocks of dark chocolate in the cupboard
My confession:
I am a Slurpee addict. I have been known to get them at 05:30 a.m., and on days where the temperature dips to -30. I have been known to get 2 of the largest size at a time just for myself (hoping the Clerk mistakenly thinks I’m buying one for me, one for someone else). I like taking red licorice, biting off each end, and then using the licorice as a straw for my Slurpee. A 7-11 style Slurpee machine is #1 on my list of “What I will buy when I win the lotto”.
I consider ketchup a “flavour enhancer” that makes everything taste better (including buttered bread).
Most Moms will cut up their kids’ meat for them at mealtime. I made my Mom pulverize/chop my meat in a food processor … UNTIL I WAS ELEVEN YEARS OLD!
I pick onions out of EVERYTHING, but I love French Onion soup.
I can only cook “one dish” meals. I have no clue how to barbecue and have never started up a BBQ (I’m almost 40).
Although a terrible cook, I adore grocery shopping (but detest any other type of shopping).
Chocolate & raspberry is probably my favourite flavour combo.
I never tried sushi until I was in my mid 30s, and only the kind you buy from the grocery store. I love it!
When I was a kid I would have 3 cookies packed in my lunch for school. I would eat the first one only using my “left side teeth”. Second one was eaten with my “front teeth”. Third one was eaten with “right side teeth”. (No, I don’t have OCD)
My first experience with mushrooms was on pizzas and I used to think mushrooms were “meat” or “fish” (ala anchovies????)
I mentally calculate the exact price of a meal that I prepare myself.
I consider Cheez Whiz a staple. Toast with Cheez Whiz is the first thing I can eat after being ill.
I like to eat pizza in stages. First all the toppings, then the crust.
Aww, thanks for sharing your confessions! I especially love the tight dress and waist belt one as I always do that too! And it works as there’s no bigger nightmare than the vision of me bursting out of a dress :-\
I confess that melted cheese thing on a place is goign to stay with me until I’ve tried it.
Any suggestions on what cheese is best for that?
I have Bum Hummers in my fridge and often take a hunk of cheese just to melt it and eat the gooey goodness.
We are totally now BFF.
Okay I’ll bite…my weird foodie confession is that sometimes I’ll go to the supermarket just to browse the way someone might go to the library:-)
I have to eat italian beef everytime I travel back home to visit my parents. Eat a huge meal, like Christmas Dinner, but driving back to our state, I have to stop and get italian beef
I’m fascinated with vegan and vegetarian foods and will try all sorts of things that I barely know what’s in them, but I think I’d never become vegetarian because of bacon.
I like going to markets that sell foreign foods and buying and trying things that I can’t read the label at all.
haha I am so getting you on the photos.. me too… snap , snap ,snap…
When I do have cheese in the house.. it is sharp but white and I keep going back to the fridge and taking handfuls… then I look on the back and see the calories.. and think that if I take bites here and there it was be so bad or so high in calories.. sort of like the big boned notion of the cat…. hahah
I had a friend in high-school that said she still had baby fat at the age of 16 hahha
I’m in LOVE with those Fauchon Lips. Must get my hands on a tin.
I haven’t tried a Milo bar in years (delicious) but now am going out to try one to see what everyone is talking about. LOL.
I too bring my own snacks to the movies…I eat steamed vegetables or a salad as a meal just to balance out the eating I’ll be doing later on…I also cannot eat when I’m upset or in some cases over excited and anxious…and finally I too melt cheese on a plate and eat it just like that…my favourite though is melting mozzarella on a plate just till it browns and is pliable…yum!!
Love this post and reading everyones foodie confessions. I have perfected my own version of Bill’s choc-chip cookies and have to confess that every time I make them, I end up feeling a little ill because I ‘test’ the mixture quite a bit before it makes it to the oven. I have now taken to making a batch and freezing some left over wrapped up in a log so i can cut a thin slice of dough and have it as a sweet treat! DELISH!!!
I confess, I am totally with you with regards to the original Milo bars! I miss them so. They are not right, anymore…
I also confess that I only tried fresh cherries tis year! I always thought they were too sweet. I only ever tried morello cherries before that. I think it was glace cherries that ruined me!
Love this!
My confessions:
1. Once made myself sick in a Cypriot restaurant, because I was so full and we were only half way through our meze meal (25 small meals…hmmm!)
2. Eat a tin of condensed milk in one sitting.
3. Love anchovies with turkey and cranberry sandwiches (turkish bread, not boring white)
4. Melt Mars bars in the microwave and eat them with a spoon, but can’t wait to try the cheese idea.
5. Would rather go without food than eat boring food and hate pre-cooked packaged meals (especially in a tin).
what a great piece! glad u put it all out there
Still enjoying your posts every day. I am also a fast eater- survival of the fittest they say!
Love the post. I’m guilty of planning the next day’s dinner when I’ve barely finished tonight’s dinner! I hide special chocolates from my husband as I like to savour them slowly while he would finish them at one sitting. I do these for my special junk foods as well. I buy exotic ingredients in the hope of using them like pomegranate molasses and maybe use them once! I also overfeed people. I don’t know how to cook small portion. I usually cook so much food that there’s enough for dinner, lunch the next day and dinner again and then a little bit over. ( and we’re not small eaters either).
Oh, were all those confessions meant to make you sound highly abnormal? Guess I must be abnormal too!
Particularly with you on the steamed veg for lunch/whatever I want for dinner; food travel photos and notorious overserving of food to guests (surely if I serve them a giant amount, they won’t notice if I am eating double what I should be as well?!).
You are not alone. (That is one fat cat, though – just, wow!) And when I saw that plate of melted cheese, well, it validated me on so many levels. I dip(vegies, bread, nuts, whatever), thus transforming its status from decadent/over the top to healthy snack – which leads to why it’s so worthwhile and important for foodies to develop their rationalizion skills.
Ohmigod! My hubby and I are forever lamenting the demise of the original milo bar – like super compacted milo…. I miss you my milo friend
Also, did you know polly waffles are gone!? GONE! My favourite!!
weep.
Haha, this is golden =) It reads like, ‘you know you love food when…’ and I’m definitely the same! I always cook too much food when I have guests AND I eat too much baklava =D
haha, I got a bottle of bum hummers pickled onions too – am too scared to try one cause it guarantees 1000 farts – oops, am I allowed to say that on your blog? I have to confess I really like buying those instant fondues in a bag and nuking a bit (never the whole bag) every now and again for a snack with fresh bread!
I confess: I actually posted my own list of foodie confessions on my blog!
I can really identify with the kitchen cupboard full of unusual things and melting cheese to eat on its own!
Awesome post!!!
OMG that’s a hilarious post, couldn’t stop giggling if only for the fact that I could totally relate to it! My friends know that I stuff my rucksack with any and all types of pastries so that if you stopped me on the street or at any given point in time, I will surely have a bag overflowing with some kind of yummy treats =)
Haha Happy New Year Lorraine!
I completely do the same when it comes to ordering for my partner at a restaurant. I’m not sure why I feel like I’d make a better choice for him than he would himself! and the whole stomach drawer thing is so much more efficient than my idea of having 2 stomachs
xxx
Fascinating insight NQN! The melted cheese … interesting! Any particular cheese? And I am totally with you re: the Milo bar. Can we write them a threatening letter??
love these, I can relate to many.
My terrible confession …. I like instant coffee (two teaspoons thanks).
the melted cheese – i’m definitely gonna give that a go! my confession would be that i get cranky when i have to share a kitchen with someone, it just doesn’t happen!
Love this post! I see so much of myself in you! Completely agree that dessert is NEEDED! Heck, I’d forgo dinner but not dessert!
lorraine – i’m awarding you with the over the top award. I love your blog to bits!!! i’m sure others have nominated you but i think you really deserve this one! anyway, you can find details of how to pass the award along on my blog.
I’ve done the melted cheese thing only I add salsa & eat it with tortilla chips. Yum! That’s not really a confession that’s just a regular appetizer where I’m from. My confession is that I love this very same blend in canned tomato soup of all things. Yum!
I sooo hear you about the Milo bar! *joins in fist shaking*
I recently got all excited because I saw that there was a “new improved” Milo bar, and my first thought was that they had reverted to the original and the best… alas it was not to be
It was a bugger for sticking to your teeth but mmmmmmm
My secret shame/confession is that I’m a sucker for devon and tomato sauce sandwiches on white bread!
I feel like 1 of those melted cheese now… love this post!!
are we the same person?
-i could easily put away half a tray of baklava.
-even as i’m eating a meal, i’m already thinking about my next one.
-even if i’ve eaten my weight in mexican food, i still find myself reaching for the chips and salsa until they’re gone.
-i eat faster than anyone who’s ever eaten with me.
-dessert = required.
Great post. I so relate to you and your food habits. One of my bad habits is bloating myself with loads of food on vacation, so much so that i dont care to see the wonderful sites.
Fun post! I too take my own treats into a movie, but generally it’s because I’m too frugal to pay the ridiculous prices for a box of candy. xoxo Mum
Oh Lorraine thank you so much for this post, I can relate to so many of your confessions! This must mean I actually am normal, woo! Or, at least, I’m not alone in my abnormality.
I KNOW that I have more confessions to make but my brain isn’t giving any up right now. Self preservation I guess.
* I always have Macdonald’s after dining at “Award-winning” restaurants because I never feel “fed”[even after a 10 course degustation].
* I fry parmesan in a pan until it NEARLY burns, then finish it under the grill. Leave it to cool and break it into parmesan “biscuits”. It is then imperative to pretend that I will not eat them all in one sitting.
* I love beyond words heavily salted Potato Scallops cooked in smoking, dark, cardiac-infarction-inducing oil.
I bring my own snacks to the movies too! and yes, I can understand the food pix part while on holidays, my mum always complain about how I don’t appear in pictures.
Inspiring.
Food = Life = Happy Dance.
I love posts like this! It’s such a good insight into the author. I’m going to have to adopt some of your diet tricks too!
A very entertaining post.
I never tried sushi, and I do not think anyone can make me try it.. one of mine.
I have instant noodles in my pantry. It is reserved for drinking nights.
And ermm… I do like spam
Hiya, I eat dessert before a main or entree, I have snuck in a whole family sized pizza into the cinema – I still don’t know how, he, he…. I get cranky when I don’t eat and I love chocolate soooo much that I even have to eat the crumbs or sticky bits remaining on the foil, no wastage!!
Best post! I bookmarked it separately even tho I have it on google reader.
Sugar addict – great response and thanks everyone for sharing too.
mine;
1. can of condensed milk – rules supreme and makes my eyelids sweat from sugar OD.
2. indo mee noodles
3. about 100 sauces, vinegars, oils, powders in the pantry and fridge
4. having to live on steamed sweet potato and leek broth because i’ve upset my tummy so much from eating complicated food and probably not chewing it properly
5. I am a culprit of saying when out for dinner or at someone’s house, “no i’m not hungry, I’ll just have a little bit.” and then having a full size amount.
6. resorting to mantras to remind me that more is just more.
7. make my own cinema snacks too.
8. i always like to try other’s food even if I hardly know them. I have to remind myself to back off.
Love this tongue in cheek post. I read every word and cracked up when I saw the photo of your obese cat – and I don’t even like cats!
Goodness, I didn’t know there was such a melted cheese movement going on
Personally, I have a secret love of White Crow tomato sauce (ketchup), a love so strong I buy the catering sized red bottle from our local Asian Grocer. So guilty about opening my pantry & seeing it’s glowing red plasticness, I hide it by standing up a pack of roasted nori sheets in front of it.
It’s always a great read when someone let’s you in on secrets. A problem shared and all that. The best way to avoid overeating (if you really want to!) is to buy a very small kitchen with a very small fridge. 3 years ago I did this with my new house in Devon and now I never have to much food. I still find onion marmalade and morello cherry jam at the back of the fridge that I haven’t touched in years, but it’s less wasteful at least. My own guilty food pleasure is eating baked beans straight from the can and cheese – I don’t care what form the cheese takes (well, not those plastic slices) I can easily get through a packet on my own in a sitting. It’s only the size of my butt that keeps me from doing this on a daily basis.
lovely intimate post and so much foodie love
I also love to look through people’s cupboards and fridges in their kitchen – and their cookbooks – and their supermarket trolleys – so much fun
I always have more plans for cooking and baking than I ever have time to execute – shame!
Hahaha oh you make me laugh NQN! Love this list! I have not yet reached your heights of foodie yet, but am working on it! At the moment, my main foodie trait is my willingness to trek all over the city at lunch time to try something new and delicious – sausage rolls at Plan B are currently a favourite, and I tell myself that walking there practically negates all the calories
Ah you could almost have made my list for me!
Notorious overfeeder? You should see the quantity of food I prepare when we have guests over! And dinner for the 4 of us? I make enough for about 4 meals for 4 people! I pack a bag full of snacks to bring along if we go on a drive, a trip, a walk in the woods with the dog. Always.
And boy do I think of meals ahead of time. And snacks. I am always eating all the time. And baking. Non stop.
I go absolutely nuts when my men say “uh, no dessert for me, I’m not hungry.” or “no thanks, no cake this afternoon, I’m not hungry.” Hunger? What does hunger have to do with it?! And you go half a day with icing on your clothes? I usually have it or something similar in my hair.
I excercise one hour a day so I can eat more cake.
When we go on vacation, I pack a suitcase full of restaurant guides and pages upon pages of food/market/restaurant info downloaded from internet.
Want more?
Oh, and no, I do not bring my own snacks to the movies. I love love love movie popcorn and sometimes go see movies just so I can eat a huge box of it. I also get the extra large size and don’t let my son eat any of it before the movie starts then I watch that he doesn’t eat more than his fair share. Oink oink!
Dear Lorraine,
I am going to have to get myself a web page so u can all see them. I think face book would overload and crash if I put them all on there! 
Are you my long lost twin sister or something?! We arrived back from 3 weeks in Europe at 10pm on Tuesday and already had friends over for dinner on Wednesday so I could cook some of the things I had while over there for them. My cameras digital card was full 3 times with a token shot of the snow (well it was minus 20!) and token shot of front of museum but the rest was of EVERY breakfast, lunch, dinner and cup of coffee and glass of wine and close-ups of menus, including the meals on board my 30 hours of flights! Wana see them?
Ahhh i also wear tight fitted clothing when going out for a big dinner to stop me from over eating and bloating up – love that u do that too!
Only recently got into this blog and i love it, i love the way you word things and the pix are great – keep it up
Dear Lorraine,
I don’t mean to sound like a copycat, but I am so happy to find someone else who thinks of all the things you wrote about up there.
From now on I no longer care if people think of me as being weird, since I know one of the coolest blogger ever (aka Lorraine of NQN) also thinks similarly. Awesome, Lorraine!
LOL, my confessions are so much like yours! Actually they are the same!
The melted cheese scenario, I do that too!
Hahaha I love this post!! The cheese things was something that shocked me, many of the others, I do.. such as sneaking food into movies.. Oh, EVERY SINGLE TIME! Lol.. I just don’t like what they serve there.
I hate when I’ve eaten a bad meal somewhere, it’s just a waste of my precious food eating lifetime. LOL
P.S – Awaiting the popcorn recipe, love making all kinds of popcorn at home!
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