Your staple food

Philippines
February 14, 2010 7:35pm CST
I'm a rice person so if I don't eat at least a half cup every meal I'd end up hungry later. I can even finish off a platter of noodles and feel satiated, but after a few minutes I'd start feeling hungry again. Thankfully, I have been always lean so I I find it hard to gain weight. You ever have that kind of food you can't leave without? I can live on rice forever. I can pair even pair it with salt if there's nothing else to eat.
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@kyel_11 (1069)
• Philippines
15 Feb 10
rice is still the best. i can't live without it. there are times when i'm really looking for a rice meal even though i already ate something like bread or noodles. it feels like my meal is not complete without it. diet is not in my vocabulary. i can eat at most 5 rices a meal and it can still increase depends on my mood. hahaha! thank God i don't get fat even though i eat lots of carbs and rice! haha
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@kyel_11 (1069)
• Philippines
17 Feb 10
correct! hahaha! so lucky that i do not have any food allergy so i'm very free to eat anything i want. hahahaha!
• Philippines
20 Feb 10
I could almost imagine you saying koreek!!!
• Philippines
16 Feb 10
Yep no diet for us people in a crisis. As long as there aren't health issues it would be okay to eat as much as we want.
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
16 Feb 10
chocolate? I grew up on potatoes, but we eat noodles more. The children aren't fond of potatoes. Sometimes I think they were switched at birth and they aren't my real children.
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
17 Feb 10
They ought to like potatoes. Potatoes on their dad's side, potatoes on mine... But nope. It's not as if the chocolate stays in my mouth up against my teeth!
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• Philippines
17 Feb 10
maybe you passed on potato cravings. It's in your genes or something. I'm worried for your teeth if your really live on chocolates
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• Philippines
20 Feb 10
But we do find ways to satiate our cravings even in our sleep. Woke up this morning with an apple core in my hand Too bad I like mashed potatoes with steak even that they don't like?
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@vathsala30 (3732)
• India
15 Feb 10
Hi Like you, I too am a rice person. What ever I eat for lunch or diner finally I must eat atleast a handful of rice in the form of curd rice atleast. So that i feel like my stomach is full
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• Philippines
16 Feb 10
what is curd rice? is it different from steamed rice (of course the answer might be obvious but I ask anyway)
@kaylachan (58425)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
15 Feb 10
Not really I try to eat often because it doesn't matter really usually within a couple of hours I'm hungry again, that's just how i work I guess. I don't know if its crazy, healthy, or what it is, but I can't live on any one food. Some I can go longer without feeling others not so much.
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• Philippines
16 Feb 10
light meals for you, then? Oh I'm not picky with what I eat. My stomach's the one that just complains and grumble a lot.
@warvial (1146)
• Singapore
15 Feb 10
In the past, I think I will need fried food and MEAT for every meal. Anything fried will do (of course it has got to be edible stuffs), such as fried chicken, fries etc. But after a terrible sickness that got me on light foods (such as porridge, soup noodles) for around 3 months, I now only need at least meat! for every meal.
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@warvial (1146)
• Singapore
16 Feb 10
Nothing that serious but it's a prolonged cough (with a lots of on and off illness such as fever, flu sore throat) and visits to the doctors didn't help and whatever medicine I took, it just didn't go away. Thus, the only thing that I could do was to avoid all fried food, and if possible, oily stuffs and cold/sweet drinks because fried food, chicken, oily and cold stuffs makes me cough very badly which caused me to suffer from lack of sleep because I just wake up coughing and coughing whereas sweet stuffs will cause phlegm. Thus, now my diet is once or twice a week fried foods because the cough just came back again (and gone) not that long ago so I don't want to go through the agony again... But no worries, now every thing is all well but still, I need at least MEAT for my meals...! Cheers :)
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• Philippines
17 Feb 10
You got me worried there. I'm glad everything is fine now.
• Philippines
16 Feb 10
Why what happened? or is that too personal? I hate it when I'm sick, everything tastes bland and I'm crabby. BUt that is me being trivial. I hope you're well and being healthy again.
@KylaDilla (137)
• Malaysia
15 Feb 10
Hi abitcurious I am a rice person. However, I love pasta and can eat them for days! I love to eat rice with soy sause. It has that salty taste, maybe you could try it too :) Have a nice day!
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• Philippines
16 Feb 10
Yes I have tried soysauce with rice. I like it with pork oil. Yuuummy.
@ersmommy1 (12588)
• United States
15 Feb 10
I can't say I actually have a staple food. But I do have a drink. That would be coffee. I can't seem to get started without it. I have two cups each morning.
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• Philippines
16 Feb 10
I like the smell of freshly brewed coffee too. Though, my system can't seem to take it. I get hyperactive in just one cup. I can't seem to stop talking and I can't sit in one place. My brother says I'm like a gunned up motorcycle, he thinks I'll roar.
@ladym33 (10979)
• United States
15 Feb 10
The only thing I ever had to have was orange juice at breakfast time in the morning. I used to always be really crabby until I got my juice in the morning. I try to eat with a good amount of balance I always have some kind of grain or starch, vegetables or fruit and meat at every meal. As long as my diet is balanced then I am happy.
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• Philippines
16 Feb 10
Orange juice. That's one way to sweeten your day.
@sweetie1026 (1718)
• Philippines
15 Feb 10
I am a rice person too. But because i have gained weight through the years, i now limit my rice intake into just a cup for lunch and half a cup for dinner. i eat noodlels but i am not really into it. You mentioned that you can even eat rice with salt if there is nothing else to eat. I have my own combinaiton, i can eat rice with brown sugar or the "panutsa" if you are from the Philippines. Or another one is "panutsa" with fresh carabao's milk, so yummy!
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• Philippines
16 Feb 10
When I was a kid I used to eat it with powdered milk. I will try panutsa if I can find one somewhere here.
@lelin1123 (15595)
• Puerto Rico
15 Feb 10
I love my pasta. I have to have pasta at least 3 or 4 times a week. Like you I don't gain weight and have been thin all my life. However, everyone always says how is it with all that pasta you eat that your not fat. I dont' know why but that is the way it is. I can eat pasta with sauce, pasta with vegetables, pasta with the olive oil and garlic.
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• Philippines
16 Feb 10
My housemate and I have pasta at least twice a week. It fills me up but about midnight I'd start looking for rice. I like it with white sauce sometimes with prawns and fresh basil or mint. Yum.
• Australia
15 Feb 10
Pasta is my staple. Any type I could live off, in fact I have lived off pasta before. But speaking of staple foods for a country, Believe it or not Australias top staple food is actually Vegemite. For those of you who don't know what Vegemite is it is a Spread for sandwiches that is made from vegetable yeast extract. Has a tangy flavour and is in almost every austraian home!
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• Malaysia
15 Feb 10
Hi the bradmeister I LOVE vegemite. I also love something similar called Marmite, I grew up in UK and had marmite everyday!
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• Indonesia
15 Feb 10
rice person eh? indonesiankah? :) well me too, but i think my stomach is a little bit different. i ever only eat rice average 4 times in a week, because in others day i only eat bread, cereals. but still there is a feel of missing, and i already know what it is.
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• Philippines
16 Feb 10
nope Filipina, but hey I think we almost have the same culture (and skintone for that). We are all descendants of the malay race. Although ours is a melting pot of races because historically we've had too many "conquerors". Wow you can live without rice for a few days? You seem very brave to me.
• China
15 Feb 10
I am chinese,so veryday I eat rice.yeah.I can't leave it.I eat rice for 20 years.If I have not rice for somedays,maybe I will uncomfortable.I love rice.
• Philippines
16 Feb 10
I once visited a friend who had an American husband. They didn't eat rice that much so I'd end up going out just to get my fix of rice. They were a nice couple.
@jbaunillo (254)
• Philippines
15 Feb 10
same here, im a rice person. I cant live without it. No matter how delish the foods being served, if rice is not on the list, id still end up hungry.
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• Philippines
16 Feb 10
aha a fellow rice monster! nice to meet you!
@cher913 (25782)
• Canada
15 Feb 10
i also like rice. we have it quite a bit but i would have to say for me the most verstile staple that we eat is pasta. we even eat a lot of raman noodles too!
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@bucketkid (237)
• Australia
15 Feb 10
i love fresh fruit and veg. i could live without anything else but i could not live without it and it is probably the only thing i could solely live on forever. my parents brought me up to eat all foods and its done me well. i love some nice fresh lettuce and tomato or some steamed carrot and brocolli. yum. yum. yum.
• Australia
16 Feb 10
eating vegetables wasnt an option. you sat at the dinner table until you ate them. and if it was bed time and you still hadnt eaten them, they went in the fridge and were heated up for you for breakfast. you soon learnt to eat them while they were still fresh.
• Philippines
17 Feb 10
I actually thought you honestly liked them. But to be fair I read somewhere that children hate vegetables so much because their instincts are guarding them against poisoning. Must be part of those instincts that we're born with: stepping, thumb sucking, grasping etc. So if you ever have kids you'll know they're really not being stubborn.
• Philippines
16 Feb 10
Your parents must be good. They were able to make you eat broccoli! I hated vegetables when I was a kid. But I love fruits. I like the tangy and sour foods. Mango, guava, dalanghita (a version of orange or line here) you name it and I can show you a scar I got from climbing its tree.
@Ritchelle (3790)
• Philippines
26 Feb 10
am also a rice person but i try to stick by the half a cup of it everytime i eat it and i really do that every four hours. otherwise i'd be eating a small sack of sweet potatoes then end up hungry again the next hour. besides, if i don't eat rice i find myself, yes, eating and eating other foods that end up only on my waistline. so better to eat carbs like rice with protein if that would make me feel satisfied enough to say no to other foods that are processed and worthless, right ?
@kaylayoe (293)
• United States
15 Feb 10
I love rice! I'm having fried rice for dinner! But I've never had it where I have to eat something for sure to feel full. I've never even heard of that! And your lucky it's hard to gain weight. I'm pretty thin but if I eat all day I would gain weight so quick! It's a bit irritating! I love food and if I had the option to just eat and eat and eat I would in an instant!
• Philippines
15 Feb 10
My friends say I have a farm inside my stomach. Maybe I'm feeding pigs in there.. Don't worry if you have a pretty active lifestyle you can still eat and eat and eat.
@sunyskies (126)
• United States
15 Feb 10
I like rice a lot, too. I like to find different ways of serving it, like adding different ingredients or sauces to change things up a bit. I made fried rice to go with dinner tonight. Rice with salt is something I never thought of before, but it makes sense because I love rice with soy sauce and soy sauce has a salty flavor. What is your favorite way to eat rice?
• Philippines
15 Feb 10
you haven't tried salt with rice? goes well with pork oil (but not so healthy for some). favorite would be curried chicken with steaming rice. Yum. Yours?
• Philippines
15 Feb 10
i do agree with you. rice completes my meal..without it in my meal i dont feel satisfied.
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