Food is my best friend and my worst enemy. I love to eat. It takes up a lot of my energy and time. I love going out to eat and enjoying a nice dinner at restaurants with family or friends, but I also love cooking dinner, then having the pleasure of eating food that I have worked hard to prepare. My favorite food is noodles, any type of noodles too really. I love spaghetti and pasta, udon, pad thai noodles, top ramen, yakisoba, etc. Basically anything with noodles in it I will probably be quite fond of. Of course food is my best friend for these obvious reasons. It tastes good, it keeps me energized, and it’s often time to socialize as well when I eat. I love certain dishes from all types of cuisines. Classic American, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Italian, Indian, etc. I can pretty much find a way to eat even when I’m in places where I don’t like what is being offered. For example at some gatherings if there are only hamburgers and other dishes filled with beef or pork or sausage, I will eat buns and cheese with ketchup, which I actually think tastes really good. When I was abroad in Madrid and a lot of there food contained pork and other unknown substances to me, I went to the store and bought crackers, cheese, dip, vegetables, fruits, etc. So I never seem to have a problem with finding some way to eat. However it is my worst enemy because I can never stop. I will eat a meal until I can’t breathe. Then soon after I will be eating dessert, whether its ice cream or candy, or frozen yogurt. I am an emotional eater so when I am really stressed or even bored I will find myself eating everything in my cabinet even when I’m not hungry. It is uncommon that I forgot to eat a meal or pretty rare that I will go very long without eating, but if it doest happen and I go for an extended period of time without eat I get really lightheaded and grouchy. Also, I spend more money on food than anything else. I will look through my statements and see that way too many dollars are spent on groceries and eating out every week. So I would say I definitely have a love-hate relationship with food.
Trela, Christopher. "Dining out and Eating Healthy." OC Metro Business. Spring (2008): p. 18
1 comment:
i feel your pain on the love hate relationship thing with food. I used to look at my bills too and see that there was way too much being spent on food. I think an easy way to fix this is to plan meals throughout the week. If you go shopping on a sunday, plan meals through saturday, and then just cross them off as you go through each meal. It sounds like a lot of work, but really all it takes is twenty minutes or so before your weekly trip, and it will help keep you from subconsiously spending too much on random trips to the store. For the emotional eating issue, i never have experienced that, i just love eating whether i am happy or sad. But i think that is something many Americans deal with. We have designated food as a comfort rather than just a necessity to have energy for daily life. Good thoughts!
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