This might seem a contradiction to my "exercise" thread, but how about a thread where we just talk about lovely food. I bloody love food, of virtually every kind.

Today after swimming I had quite a healthy lunch - 4 cream crackers with cheese... BUT also adorned with slices of baby tomato, lettuce leaves and a peeled carrot. Dessert was a banana and a Kit Kat (a surprisingly decent chocolate bar - or 'biscuit?' A great debate there).

I really love chocolate bars; I like investigating different varieties, like the recently mentioned Raisin and Biscuit Yorkies. All-time top choice is probably Snickers, but I also regularly go for Double Deckers and Lion bars (both highly underrated). Oh, also try out Boosts if you haven't before, they are totally prime.

I would really like to be able to cook better, but I have no real incentive while I'm living at home - it must be cool to rustle up pastry or pasta dishes you've half-invented, for example. I am a big fan of pastry related things, and I probably visit Baker's Oven a bit too much when I'm in town. Steak and Ale pie from a good pub is hard to beat though.

I also really like mushrooms now, unlike in my youth. One of the few childhood hatreds I haven't abandoned though is olives - VILE!

Also, lovely traditional puddings are a whole other realm of nice - fruit crumble is classic, but we also sometimes have this dessert at home called Plumb Slump, which is amazing - it is basically cooked plumbs underneath a thick topping of sweet-dumpling style dough and also that really creamy italian "cheese" which I've forgotten the name of.

I really love chocolate bars though, I like investigating different varieties.

James...

Bacon on toast is possibly the best thing to exist. I usually have a few of them in the mornings each week. I dont usually really enjoy food unless its bacon on toast, but i like food, its just i enjoy bacon. Theres also this place to get ice creams near college and they are the best ever.

I'm currently trying to eat more fish, as all I seem to be eating whilst in my student digs is chicken and shit. Morrison's Value frozen fish and butter sauce is very nice, especially with mashed tatties and peas!

Much of Morrison's value food isn't that bad. I recently found out I can afford to buy more luxurious food, but there is still some Value stuff I'd rather buy, like yoghurts, juice, biscuits (taste no bloody different to the standard range) and chips. I wouldn't buy Value sausages though, God knows what's in them!

Over the winter I've been having warm bacon and sausage rolls from the shop on Colchester station after work, really nice when it's freezing and you have to wait 10 minutes on a cold platform

The only food I can't stand is baked beans - I've never, ever liked them - otherwise I'll eat pretty much anything.

James wrote:olives - VILE!

Olives are brilliant, I can (and have) eaten a small jar of them just as a snack. Another such snack is cold (cooked) sausages, such a brilliantly filling snack.

Food and exercise James? Food and exercise?!?

I got a free compet on saturday in front of Asda, best day ever.

Ha ha, James, you're such a nerd..

Not sure if food or music is the biggest love of my life!!

I can cook, and even living on my own i will cook a proper meal every day. often twice a day!! I can eat loads too, but not as much as i used to eat ( in a local "big steak" pub, i was only the second person to order and eat completely a 50oz rump with the trimmings about 15 years ago, but unlike the other bloke, i had had a starter too !!! ). I am a big meat eater, although my fave is chicken. There is so much you can do with chicken. I also use my slow cooker lots, just chuck everything in it, then go back 8 hours later and eat it all!!!

I challenge you to an eat off - I'll win!

zykloned wrote:I challenge you to an eat off - I'll win!

Yeah you probably would now, but when i was in my twenties, it was done and i never lost!!!!

Oh come on, wheres the fight in ya?

You've seen Rocky 6, right? Next Bloodstock, You cook the food, I'll eat it!

bing bing bing

On the topic of food, I watched an eating contest at Uni yesterday evening...
and they ate the following:
4 dry weetabix, followed by a pint of milk
cold tinned sausages and beans with a head of orange juice in a pint glass
a whole onion
4 slices of bread with a stick of liver pate
a pint of orange juice with chocolate sauce in the bottom
basics tuna with peach halves topped with curry powder in a glass
sweetcorn, gherkins and ryvita with chocolate sauce on
a whole victoria sponge topped with onion chutney, peach halves and pepper
followed by a 3 course meal (the final round) consisting of:
a tin of condensed chicken soup (cold)
a whole uncooked pizza
a pint of belgian chocolate custard....... with a sardine in it

and lots of vomiting
Do you think you could do that eat off faraz?!

I love Italian food. Lasagne is my favourite. I've also started trying to eat more fish and seafood, but the fanny smell puts me off.

Katze wrote:On the topic of food, I watched an eating contest at Uni yesterday evening...
and they ate the following:
4 dry weetabix, followed by a pint of milk
cold tinned sausages and beans with a head of orange juice in a pint glass
a whole onion
4 slices of bread with a stick of liver pate
a pint of orange juice with chocolate sauce in the bottom
basics tuna with peach halves topped with curry powder in a glass
sweetcorn, gherkins and ryvita with chocolate sauce on
a whole victoria sponge topped with onion chutney, peach halves and pepper
followed by a 3 course meal (the final round) consisting of:
a tin of condensed chicken soup (cold)
a whole uncooked pizza
a pint of belgian chocolate custard....... with a sardine in it

and lots of vomiting
Do you think you could do that eat off faraz?!

..what!

...that's not even real food!!!

ha ha ha

poor bastards.