[Pongi]

There is no doubt that the level of food culture and creativity here is incredibly high, and that Cheftalk people could be described as "the aristocracy of cooking world"
BUT, apart from the theory and the best of intentions...what do you REALLY eat in your everyday life? So, if you like you can take part in this small inquiry...if possible without CHEATING!

What did you eat (and drank) yesterday?


As for me:

Breakfast:
-1 cappuccino
-2 pears

Lunch:
-2 slices roasted turkey breast
-boiled green beans (an enormous amount!)
-1 banana
-mineral water

Dinner
-1 slice of spinach frittata
-1 piece of Pecorino cheese
-Tomato salad with EVOO and balsamic
-bread
-mixed fruit salad
-mineral water
-1 glass white wine
then I gave in to two handfuls of dried raisins...

Add to this a number of expresso cups (I never count them...) and a cup of japanese green tea before going to bed

If you're thinking that I want to create a good impression, consider that I'm on a preventive, before-Christmas diet

Just for fun!

Pongi

[phoebe]

Breakfast:
black tea with milk
1 slice whole wheat toast

Snack:
1 cup decaf
the crusty top of a cappucino muffin

late Lunch:
some slices of left-over roast chicken

Dinner:
1 glass of white wine
salad with vinaigrette
leftover Cincinnati Chile (made with ground turkey) over pasta
with grated cheddar cheese

[kokopuffs]

BREAKFAST:
One-egg omelet
2 slices of homemade dill bread with blueberry preserves
Bowl of cornflakes with wheatgerm
One slice of bacon from Alabama

LUNCH:
Peanutbutter sandwich on homemade dill bread
Celery
Hot peppers
Sweet pickles
Homemade yogurt with wheat germ

SUPPER:
Pozole with pork
Mixture of basmati and wild rices

DESSERT:
Screwdrivers made with fresh squeezed grapefruit and orange juices.

Oh yes, I eat pozole using chopsticks. I have a lot of class.

[Pongi]

I had no doubt you have a lot of class, k., but WHAT IS pozole?

Pongi

[phoebe]

Koko,

You do have class, but you also must have an iron stomach I for one envy:

Peanutbutter AND
Hot peppers AND
Sweet pickles AND
yogurt !!!!!!!!!!

All at the same time?


I couldn't eat those items individually within a few HOURS of
one another!

Awesome

[kokopuffs]

Phoebe:

The portions for lunch are small.

Pongi:

Pozole is a mexican dish consisting of either goat or pork meat with hominy (white corn) - all cooked in broth with "mexican" spices.

Thanks for the compliments. HA!

[phatch]

Breakfast:
Juice
Toast

Lunch
Fried Halibut and tartar sauce
Apple

Dinner
Turkey Pot Pie
Cheesecake

Not my best day ever, but it tasted good.

phil

[phoebe]

Koko,

I wasn't referring to amounts; it was the combinations that made my stomach cringe
I'm a real weak sister.

[Pongi]

kokopuffs:
Oh. I thought it was something like Gorgonzola, and was wondering how could you eat it with chopsticks. Definitely I have less class than you

Pongi

[chrose]

I've been hitting the gym pretty hard for the last few months and keep a daily diary of my foods, but as a typical day:

Breakfast: 1 glass water, tea- plain, 2 egg white omelet, 2 sl whole wheat toast 1 t butter sub

snack: water, fist size portion of either tuna in water, lf cottage cheese and a piece of fruit or something similar.

lunch: water, usually a portion of leftover from the night before.
today was gumbo with b/l chix and turkey brst.

snack: water, apple/banana

dinner: water, protein supplement, creatine monohydrate (weight lifting supp) usually low fat and balanced between protein, carb and fat. But normal stuff. Plain burger, b/l chix brst, small amount of pasta, salad and vegetable. No extra salt.

dessert: tea-plain, small bowl of sherbert or dry cereal or rice cracker w/ 1 T peanut butter.

Believe it or not it's not a bad diet at all. I don't suffer and I'm rarely hungry, not to mention I am getting stronger and losing body fat!

[Anneke]

Ooo! This is fun!

Ok. Yesterday, I had:

Breakfast:
Coffee, 1 cup.
A tuile that I accidentally broke when picking them up from the bake shop.

Lunch:
Who has time for it?

Dinner:
Steel cut Irish oatmeal with leftover orange-stewed prunes purée and lavander honey
Green salad with cured olives, shaved peccorino, balsamic vinaigrette
4 clementines
1 banana
Chamomille tea


Pathetic, isn't it? Keep in mind that I get up at 4AM because of my weird work schedule. I am currently underweight and not liking it. On my days off, I try to make up for it...

[panini]

3am... bkfast .... coffee
morning snack..... more coffee
brunch ...... double coffee ... carrot muffin
lunch ...... coffee ...piece of gingerbread from 1 of the
many houses. dessert... diet coke
afternoon snack.... iced coffee....biscotti
5pm appit..... ceviche...shark,scallops,shrimp,,spark h2o
8pm dinner... veal chop,red pot,asparagas. red wine
10pm snack.... coconut sorbet...3 rolaids 2 ibuprophin

Gosh, thanks for the reality check, I should have checked out by now.

[kokopuffs]

Panini:
Unsure if I'm overstepping my bounds but alot of my students got their "reality" check when I assigned a nutrition project where they inventoried all - and I mean all - food intake for an entire week. The effort required a caloric, mineral, fat and vitamin breakdown. Did THAT assignment change their eating habits or what?!?!?

[Mezzaluna]

Breakfast: Egg whites and bits of cream cheese, scrambled; few strips of bacon (the kosher type, of course....NOT ; cup of Alterra's Blue Heeler with mulling spices and half and half

rest of the morning: commuter mug of more coffee; 2 Jolly Rancher candies

Lunch: A leftover turkey sausage, a little hummus with a few rice crackers, sugar-free jello, diet root beer

Dinner: Latkes (potato pancakes) with applesauce and sour cream; tastes of various pot luck items, too numberous to mention- but only a bite or two of each! We had a Chanukah pot luck dinner before our regular Sabbath worship service. Challah and a very small bite of apple cake after Sabbath services. Oh, yeah, a slug of sweet wine to bless it all!

[Isa]

Breakfast:

1 glass grapefruit juice
1 pear
1 kiwi
1 apple
1/2 grapefruit


Lunch

Smoked salmon sandwich on baguette with light cream cheese, red onions and capers

1 truffle (they were giving sample at the store how could I refuse)

Snack

1 clementine
1 rice cake
1 glass milk


Dinner

Turkey, dark meat with sauce
1 baked potato
1 salad with apple
1 clementine

Later....

1 clementine
1 glass milk
1 cinnamon cookie.... or 2