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I'm lucky enough to have retired to SW France. And occasionally I think of foods I miss (Hienz baked beans! HP sauce, Walkers roast chicken crisps (weird as I have been Vege for 30 yrs). But the food that I would miss the most is a great big bucket of Fromage Blanc. Mange la gods.
Pinto beans, I couldn’t make refried beans without them and I love refried beans.
Cold hot cross buns and chocolate raisins, without this drug addiction I might have half a chance of dropping ~5+Kg and getting under the 75Kg I managed three years ago.
Pasta.
Eggs
Marmite on toast or Marmite & Cheese on toast
Actually IIRC Roast Chicken crisps are Vege? But Cheese & Onion are not?
Peanut Butter! or burgers.... or maybe pizza. Actually I think there's a lot I couldn't do without.
Give us this day our daily bread (homemade sourdough made with artisanal organic flour, obvs)
Probably pasta. Or tuna. Got a thing for tuna in many guises.
Cheese and pickle sandwiches.
Can I just have sandwiches?
Fresh Crusty bread with butter on.....
Milk chocolate. Ideally with nuts and or fruit in.
Cold hot cross buns is up there though.
Chilli
Black pudding. Got to eat it a couple of times a week to feel good.
I have cut down on meat for health reasons but the black pudding has to stay.
Back bacon, cost me a fortune when I lived in Canada
Bread.
Cheese, any kind. I loooooove the cheese!
Lavishly buttered bread.
Bit wet out today eh, Bianchi-Boy. 😉
Bananas.
Barbeque Beef Super Noodles
Anchovies, specifically the super salty brown ones in olive oil.
And ideally served on a homemade pizza with tomato paste, a mix of mozzarella and cheddar, a peppery pepperoni sausage, thinly sliced pepperami, n'duja paste, mushrooms, peppers and the aforementioned anchovies cut into 1/4 lengths and evenly spread.
That should then be served with an ice cold beer, something crisp, possibly the rare occasion a pilsner works for me.
Cake.
Muesli. I can quite happily eat the stuff for breakfast lunch and dinner!
Houmous.
None of your new-school namby pamby roasted artisan sun blushed red onion shit. No, straight up Houmous. Neat.
Nectar of the gods.
Crisp & cheese, can't beat a good crisp and cheese sarnie.
Potatoes
Peanut butter. Salted butter. Halloumi.
Peanut butter. Crisps
Rice, eggs, pork and chicken.
Boringly, it would have to be spuds or eggs...
Chipotle paste/sauce. Goes in most things I cook.
Beer. Seriously; nothing else comes close. I love whisky, wine and gin but would lose them all for beer. There is a beer for every occasion; cheap pub lager, craft ales, stouts, something new and weird in a foreign land...beer always wins.
Curry . //
Thia Indian Jamaican African Sri Lanka - aslong as its curry
Pizza. The perfect storm of all the foods I love.
Eggs and potatoes (particularly chips and crisps)
Vereneky, or what the Poles call pierogies.
No matter what the filling, they are so, so good.
My homemade spicy/chilli kimchi, I eat it with my scrambled eggs at breakfast and have it with my tea every night, I get through at least 500g a week and I even take a tub with me on the very rare/couple times I’ve ate out in the past few years.
Porridge
Potatoes. It is as simple as that. Whilst I adore beer so very much if it was a choice of losing spuds or beer I would keep the tatties every time.
Imagine a world without cheese?
What a living hell that would be
And crisps.
As John Lennon famously sang.. “Imagine there’s no Chipsticks, no Wotsits of French Fries....”
Potatoes for me too. Love them.
Cow.
Aside from screwing up my cycling and my life for six months, long Covid has given me an insatiable hunger for pistachio nuts - roast, unsalted, shelled ones. No idea if that reflects some weird nutritional need. otherwise, really good Dahl and garlic, lots of garlic.
Coffee if that’s classed as a food and mushrooms. I’d give up meat before I’d give up mushrooms.
I think it's been covered up above - probably many times - but I don't think I could live without (maybe a bit of an exaggeration) the following foods (in no particular order):
- Eggs (poached)
- Potatoes (mashed or roasted)
- Bread (warm crusty with seeds and grains)
- Cheese (all cheese but mostly and boringly mature cheddar)
- Sugar (demerara or honey or golden syrup)
Actually thinking about it, the above is probably about 90% of my diet 😳
Recently changed the way we eat so found it really easy to step back from bread, potatoes, rice and pasta.
Cheese and eggs would leave a big gap in terms of flavour if they suddenly went. Chilli flakes are the new condiment of choice, those would be sorely missed.
Coffee, olive oil, dark chocolate
Curry with cashews to follow.
Ride-fuel of choice has always been a peanut-butter sandwich. It travels well.
oatibix. love em. always wait for the offers and then fill the cupboard. last time i did it was during the initial corona madness of stockpiling toilet roll. felt a right nob going to the checkout with about 20 packets of oatibix...... "no, its nowt to do with corona, i always do this 😀
It it were one food type, then chocolate.
If we're allowed a few: Porridge, cheese, most fruits and bread.
I always though it woukd be bacon, bur I've cut that right down the last year or so. Rarely habe it nowadays.
Bread though. Any kind, seeded is my fave but life without any kind of bread just wouldn't be worth living.
Although would need cheese, eggs or butter to go with it....
Porridge with dried fruit
Cheese with smoked salmon sandwiches
Custard Creams.
Saffron, I put it in everything darling.
Beer.
Bread. And Pasta. And potato. Any carbs really.
I also like rice now. I didn't care much oneway or the other, but after living in Thailand and eating it twice a day I learned to love it. I miss it if I go a few days without it.
I suspect I could live without any one of my favourites if I really had to, providing I still have all the others.
Dark chocolate or parmesan cheese.
Proper strong farmhouse cheddar, cheshire, wensleydale etc. Love all the soft cheeses and smoked, Edam and the like, but on the odd holiday in Europe they don't seem to have strong cheddar type cheese in the shops.
I get that beer is a thing no woman or man should be without; but that means a world with no wine... I am conflicted, this is probably the last unanswerable question for me.
Steak & Kidney Fray Bentos pie. With mash or chips and a tin of processed peas.
The whole pie, natch.
There's plenty of other foods I'd miss. But this is my twice-yearly, filthy comfort food when I'm home alone.
Chicken or tatties for me... Boring I know, but given how partial I am to sooooooo many different foods, I think either of these would be the only two I'd really stuggle with given how much I depend on them (in many different guises, not literally just straight up grilled chicken and boiled tatties!).
If pushed... Well I've survived a week without potatoes before, but I can't think of a week without chicken! It's not even that I particularly love chicken, I just kinda rely on it really for the variety of meals that it affords and the huge number of other things that go well with it! I like Beef but could give it up easily, not particularly partial to fish, I'd miss Bacon and ham but I'd get over it, I'm not a fan of lamb etc. But Chicken I'd miss dearly.
Shortbread. And bread.
Quinoa and kale.
😂🤣😂🤣 almost kept a straight face typing that. Cheese and pasta/noodles for me.
Life would not be the same for me without cream!
Right now it's Aldi Salted Caramel Cookies, but that's comfort eating for you.
On the bright side, I have discovered what my future holds when I stop Keto...
...Fat. My future is fat. :'(
Pease pudding. Hot, cold or three days old but ideally in a white stottie with butcher's ham, English mustard and pickled beetroot.
I love a steak, burger, pork, lamb etc., but I could eat a whole roast chicken with a bottle of Chalula hot sauce every day and be perfectly happy.
Bush meat.
Yorkshire puddings and gravy, I seem to have an almost bottomless capacity to eat them. A roast dinner is just not a proper roast dinner without them.
I managed 47 years without peanut butter passing my lips but for 12 months it's become a cupboard staple. The good shit mind - none of your sunpat nonsense. Meridian crunchy made from 100% peanuts bought in 1kg tubs.
Probably chocolate to be honest...
It's interesting. Since becoming Vegan this year I've kinda lost interest in food and seen it more as a necessity i.e. eat to live rather than live to eat. Although oddly I don't really miss any non-vegan food or drink, weird.
That being said I do really like beer, so although not technically food, I'd say beer.
Edit: Peanut butter.
Cherry tomatoes.
Lidl vine ones, eat loads every day.
Even the tinned ones.
There's nothing else I couldn't replace!
Funnily enough, I popped back to say I've changed my mind and it's tomatoes generally for me.
Specifically the plum ones used for pasta and pizza sauces.
Cheese, then cake (especially fruit cake with strong cheddar), then chocolate (dark), then spuds in all their variety. I'd be unhealthy but happy.
The only correct answer is cheese.
If you think that you could live without cheese then you are not really living anyway.
I love the cheese.
Cheese despite being lactose intolerant. It's the one thing i persist with
Siracha sauce. I get through an awful lot of this
Mayonnaise - My Belgian genetics running strong with this choice
Probably chillies, or garlic.