If not rice, then what?

I am a total rice person. Just cannot do without it! Even though I do not like brown rice much I am trying to switch to it for health reasons. In India we have variety of rice with variety of rice recipes. So its rice all the way!

haha i'm just like you! rice is our staple food. i love rice, especially fried rice with garlic (i just had it for dinner). when i was younger i would consume around 2 plates a meal and i even ate is with pasta and noodles (yeah weird i know hehehe i got this from my dad), but i gradually cut back until i started dieting and stopped eating rice. you know, before i dieted i thought i would die if i didn't get to eat rice, but i guess i was just so determined to lose weight that i sort of just stopped "cold turkey". i ate 1 piece of wheat bread in place of rice with breakfast and with lunch. i'm not big on snacks, so with rice, i don't get hungry until dinnertime. with bread however (and i guess since i only ate 1 piece and not 2) by around mid-afternoon, my stomach would be growling. actually, i don't really like wheat bread, especially the type we buy, but we don't buy white bread :( so i just endure wheat bread. my mom didn't approve of my dieting and so now i'm required to eat at least a half cup of rice with every meal. i recently switched to red rice, because my dad needs it to help lower cholesterol, but it's sooo course, i can't imagine how course brown or even black rice is.

Well I live in Pakistan and the world's best rice are produced here in Pakistan and India. In market near you try for the rice called "Basmati Rice". They are very famous and long rice which you will love more. I think you didn't eat such rice like Basmati Rice. I am also fond of rice but not as much as you are.

Hi I am from Malaysia and rice is also the staple food in my country. I eat rice everyday. My husband and I both work from home so I will cook rice with dishes and we would eat it for lunch. We are both rice eaters and we love to eat rice. That's why we gotta limit ourselves to eating rice only during the day lunch time. If we eat rice for dinner also then we would gain weight. So for dinner we would have wheat biscuits fiber meal with milk that's all. Unless for special occasions like family dinners, family celebrations and the dinner consist of rice with dishes then we would eat. If we are on our own then its rice for lunch only.

In my country the most appropriate alternative of rice is chapattis or roti's made out of flour.They are also good weight losers.

I love beans and I do crave them. I also enjoy white rice

Well, now we are on the same page! Hubby and I both love rice, too, and I put ramen in mine, too, and rice in the turkey stuffing, and rice pudding, and the list goes on. Usually I mix the brown and white rice half and half, because 100% brown rice is overwhelming, even though it is more nutritious. I came from a meat and potatoes culture, and yes, I love potatoes, but the first time I ever had rice I fell in absolute love with it and must have it frequently. The time of day makes no difference, either, if I am hungry, I can always eat rice.

I live in the US, and I would have potato than rice. I do not like plain rice with butter. I MUST have rice drowned in gravy, in order to eat it, or any kind of flavoring. Now, my husband on the other hand is like you, only he wouldn't eat rice in the morning. I have to fix everything he eats with rice, he will eat steak and rice, chicken and rice, but he will not eat doctored up rice like I like it.