People often ask other people what that persons favourite food is.
For me this has always been a difficult to impossible questions, perhaps because I have not seriously pondered the answer as I have to the question of my favourite band or song (I have divided that answer into three categories - long term favourite (years), medium term favourite (months), short term favourite (weeks). I will expand another day).
Since moving to Sweden I have modified my diet in the direction towards the classification of vegetarian. Thanks to the quality of fresh produce available in Sweden - which in my opinion is far greater than that experienced in an average Australian supermarket - I have come to really enjoy a far greater number of vegetables and fruits, compared to my previous life when they were consumed as a necessity for my general wellbeing.
A second contributing factor of note is my great reduction in the consumption of processed sugars. After reading a little online about the positive effects of a no artificial sugar diet, I decided my sugar consumption was having greater effects than just eating too much sugar. After dinner or lunch when I was a little hungry I would consume all the processed sugar delights I could find, and as they are addictive would eat too much and not feel the greatest. Now instead, as there is none of these such items (chocolate, biscuits, etc.) in my household I eat fruit or cheese on hard bread or more of my dinner. Granted I now consume a fair quantity of cheese, I believe it is not too much and the effects of over consumption are surely better than that of the over consumption of chocolate.
When asked this question I have always immediately thought in terms of pizza, ice cream, cheese burger, steak, chocolate, nutella, biscuits, those unhealthy, "treat" type food. As my tastes have developed and matured in recent months I have come to reaslise this was not the answer and a mere distraction from the actual answer.
My favourite foods, in rough order, include but are not limited to:
- raw baby spinach leaves #1
- nuts (almonds, pistachios, walnuts, cashews)
- halloumi cheese
- avocado
- yogurt (though my stomach often disagrees)
- cheese
- bread
- hard bread
- muesli
- sweat potato
Food I have eaten most commonly throughout my life up to present day:
- weet-bix
- broccoli
- pasta
(Not necessarily my favourites but worth an honourable mention).
Less healthy favourites:
- sorbet ice-cream
- homemade cheese cake
- high quality chocolate
- sugar coated nuts (almond and cashew)
(More of a secondary, alternative list that wins when my will power has taken a defeat).
Now that I have a prepared answer, I long for the day the next person asks me.
Listening to:
Future Islands - Singles Album
Glass Animals - ZABA Album
