My interview on This Waif Cooks
Hey all, just wanted to let you know that WG reader/aspiring chef/blogger Hungry Waif contacted me to answer a few questions and she graciously posted them on her web site. You can see my answers here or here, at Nutritious Junk - the latter has lots of other interesting, food-related posts, too.
A couple of the quirky Qs she asked me:
Q: Do you have a favorite food product (for example, not "eggs" but rather "kashi go lean" or "garden burgers")?
A: "Are you asking me which items I'd like to be a corporate sponsor for? I have no shame, so here are a handful of namebrand items I eat almost everyday:
Honey Bunches of Oats Cereal
Progresso Lentil Soup
Luna Bars (lemon zest) and Kashi GoLean bars (chocolate pretzel)
Lifeway Low-fat Pomegranate Kefir
McDonalds Fruit and Yogurt Parfaits
Fake crab (brand unknown)
Diet A&W Root Beer; Sierra Mist Free
Cool Whip Lite
Cadbury Creme Eggs (once a year!)
Swiss Miss Hot Cocoa
Sour Patch Kids, Raisinettes"
Q: What's your food vice?
A: "Candy, chocolate, sugarsugarsugar. I am obsessed. It actually reached a point where, when working in an office environment a couple years ago, I would top off my healthy, oh-so-virtuous oatmeal and fruit breakfast with a handful of mini-Snickers and mini-1000 Grand bars. Just because they were there! My dentist has actually asked me to stop eating so much candy, which I kind of don't understand because doesn't that mean less work/money for him? Hmm...quandry."
PS - I JUST discovered Sugar Babies at Walgreens yesterday and can I just asked - what rock have I been living under? These things are insane! Why did no one inform me? Delicious, addictive...and very good for my molars, I'm sure.
Comments
Oh god yes sugar babies. yummmmm!!!!!11
but last year at Dylan's Candy bar in nyc i discovered sugar daddies oh heaven. the same chewy toffiness of the baby just chewier and harder and in a humungous lollipop form.
Sugar Babies?!? Okay Leslie - I thought we were soul sisters and after the sock thing I thought maybe soul siamese sisters (conjoined at the toes, duh) - but sugar babies?? I have some friends to introduce to you: Ms. Sweet & Ms. Tart (chewy). Who then will have a threesome with Mr. Nutroll. (Wow - that came out a lot dirtier than it sounded in my head!!)
Isn't Hungry Waif fun?? I loved doing my interview with her and loved even more reading yours and Mark Sisson's on her blog as well!
I shot some q's back at her though & am excited to post them tonight;) She's a talented chick for sure!
Arrrgh. How do you guys eat any amount of candy in moderation? I can't even keep ice cream in the house anymore, a pint lasts 48 hours max. Luckily the Coldstone's Creamery is pretty close. :)
Nikki, i cant have pints in the house without the intention of polishing them off. I couple of months ago i reviewed a chocolate ice cream that is all natural and sugar free (crazy, but i actually me the inventors and its true!) and only 128 for the pint! its called Arctic zero so google it or check it out on my site. also, get the chocolate flavor cause the vanilla one tastes like a protein shake
Char, you are tooo kind and many people in this world probably hate me cause i hog the tredmill at the gym (sorry, that 20 min limit just pisses me off). i love sugar babies! i used to trade them for mediocre candy when i went trick or treating as a kid! And remem
ber bottle caps! love those too!
Nikki - I have a really hard time with the whole "in moderation thing" too. If there is an open bag of Sour Patch Kids in the house it is gone by nightfall. Unless I get those little sore things in the corners of my mouth - and then next day for sure;)
Waif - Bottlecaps!!! Mmmm. I'm totally going to check out Arctic Zero. Also, when I was vegan, I used to eat "So Delicious" soy ice cream - it's all natural, organic and sweetened with only fruit juice. The chocolate and raspberry flavors were decent so that's worth a try too (although the carob peppermint made me want to kill someone for doing such a horrible job of approximating my fave flavor...)
Sometimes a girl just needs some Coldstone or Ben &Jerry's
