Monday, April 30, 2012

Quizzical

I'm sorry I've been MIA for a bit. I've been swamped and a bit under the weather. Today, I thought I'd do something fun--a little food quiz. I hope you'll play along in the comments.

1. What do you purchase during every trip to the grocery store?
Laughing cow cheese, Diet Coke, chicken breasts and, duh, cauliflower

2. What is one food you can't keep in your house for fear of overeating?
Crackers, bread and chips (OK, that's more than one, but...)

3. What would be your last meal if you were on death row?
Grilled cheese and tomato soup

4. What's a food you hated as a kid but love as an adult?
Asparagus

5. What's a food you loved as a kid but wouldn't touch as an adult?
Bologna, liverwurst (seriously) and sardines


6. What's a food you hated then and still hate now?
Cooked carrots

7. What's a food you loved then and still love?
Mashed potatoes (sadly) with corn

8. What's the one food you wish had no calories so you could eat as much as you wanted?
Pizza

9. What is the dish you make when you try to impress people?
Pork tenderloin

10. What was the meal your mom made you for special occasions (birthdays, etc.)?
Chicken Kiev

Your turn! Post your answers in the comment section. 

14 comments:

LT said...

Fun! I love quizzes!

1. Chicken breasts, spinach and strawberries
2. Chips...Sunchips and Baked Cheetos specifically
3. The calamari from Two Urban Licks, Fried Lobster Tail and Filet from Chops, and Chocolate Dream from Carrabbas
4. Cabbage
5. Spam (judge me)
6. Milk
7. Cheese
8. Tie between pizza and cheesecake
9. Lasagna
10. Chicken Casserole

Anonymous said...

1. What do you purchase during every trip to the grocery store?
Bananas, bread, chicken breasts, and ice cream treat.

2. What is one food you can't keep in your house for fear of overeating?
Crackers and brie cheese.

3. What would be your last meal if you were on death row?
Thanksgiving dinner

4. What's a food you hated as a kid but love as an adult?
Asparagus

5. What's a food you loved as a kid but wouldn't touch as an adult?
Cheese whiz


6. What's a food you hated then and still hate now?
Tuna

7. What's a food you loved then and still love?
Mashed potatoes (sadly) with corn (same here!!!)

8. What's the one food you wish had no calories so you could eat as much as you wanted?
Pizza

9. What is the dish you make when you try to impress people?
Lasagne

10. What was the meal your mom made you for special occasions (birthdays, etc.)?
Cube steak in spaghetti sauce

Anonymous said...

1. What do you purchase during every trip to the grocery store?
Lowfat Milk, Baby Carrots, Bananas.
2. What is one food you can't keep in your house for fear of overeating?
Potato Chips (except cheese flavor which my husband loves and I hate).
3. What would be your last meal if you were on death row?
The traditional Thanksgiving Turkey Dinner.
4. What's a food you hated as a kid but love as an adult?
Tomatoes
5. What's a food you loved as a kid but wouldn't touch as an adult?
Any sweet kid's Cereal.
6. What's a food you hated then and still hate now?
Brussel Sprouts
7. What's a food you loved then and still love?
Grilled Cheese Sandwiches
8. What's the one food you wish had no calories so you could eat as much as you wanted?
French Fries.
9. What is the dish you make when you try to impress people?
Chocolate Pecan Ripple Cake.
10. What was the meal your mom made you for special occasions (birthdays, etc.)?
The Tacos you assemble yourselves.
~Laura S.

Anonymous said...

I love this!!!

1. What do you purchase during every trip to the grocery store?
Diet Coke, salad fixings, apple slices, rice cakes

2. What is one food you can't keep in your house for fear of overeating? Chips of any kind, chocolate chip cookie dough (I literally can't sleep if it is in the fridge.)


3. What would be your last meal if you were on death row?
My mom's pot roast or filet mignon, medium rare, loaded baked potato and wedge salad with blue cheese dressing

4. What's a food you hated as a kid but love as an adult?
Tomatoes

5. What's a food you loved as a kid but wouldn't touch as an adult?
Bologna, veal but more for moral reasons

6. What's a food you hated then and still hate now?
Brussels Sprouts

7. What's a food you loved then and still love?
Chicken fried steak and mom's mac & cheese

8. What's the one food you wish had no calories so you could eat as much as you wanted? Garlic rolls soaked in butter and any Italian cheesy dish!


9. What is the dish you make when you try to impress people? Baked brie in pastry appetizer,
chicken picatta, twice baked potatoes, caesar salad w/homemade dressing.

10. What was the meal your mom made you for special occasions (birthdays, etc.)?
Steak that we called Grandaddy Steak after my grandfather. It's thin flank steak cooked in garlic, butter and lemon juice served with thin cut homemade french fries. My grandfather was a chef at the Peabody hotel in Memphis and the famous baseball player, Babe Ruth, would request this dish every time he stayed there. Can only have it once a year, as it is a heart attack on a plate, but oh so wonderful!

CML

Anonymous said...

1. What do you purchase during (almost) every trip to the grocery store?
Bread, milk

2. What is one food you can't keep in your house for fear of overeating?
Double Stuf Oreos (OMG)

3. What would be your last meal if you were on death row?
Creamed spinach on top of boiled/salted potatoes, scrambled eggs

4. What's a food you hated as a kid but love as an adult?
ONIONS

5. What's a food you loved as a kid but wouldn't touch as an adult?
Most candy, Hostess snowballs

6. What's a food you hated then and still hate now?
Hmm... I don't hate much. Maybe liver? (Although guess what, I still like liverwurst.)

7. What's a food you loved then and still love?
Pizza

8. What's the one food you wish had no calories so you could eat as much as you wanted?
Double Stuf Oreos (OMG)

9. What is the dish you make when you try to impress people?
Uh....? I dunno, I never have to impress anyone. My favorite meal lately is lime chicken soft tacos w/ black bean/corn/red onion salad.

10. What was the meal your mom made you for special occasions (birthdays, etc.)?
Rouladen, or the aforementioned spinach dish.

(This is Tiff)

Anonymous said...

Yeah...a quiz I don't get a grade on!
1. Every Grocery Trip: Milk, Bread, Bananas (I have monkeys...I mean kids), diet coke

2. Can't keep chips! Can't eat just one or 20! Or sweets. :(

3. Chicken Marsala from Carrabba's. mmmm...butter

4. mushrooms

5. I guess nothing.

6. Not a huge fan of yogurt still. I try.

7 . french fries, chicken and dumplings, mashed potatoes, anything made by chef boyardee (I know...I grew up on it), and on and on and on.... I like food.

8. pizza and french fries

9. standing rib roast

10. make your own pizza....every birthday. or chicken noodle soup with a soda on the side. :)

--MB

Anonymous said...

OH! I need to edit my "last meal"... I meant to say margaritas, guac and tortilla chips. Yes, definitely that. Also, that could really be filled in for questions 2, 3 and 8. It's really the answer to any question.

(Tiff)

Anonymous said...

1. What do you purchase during every trip to the grocery store?
Gluten free pancakes, nut thins, jose cuervo, tylenol PM and warm milk

2. What is one food you can't keep in your house for fear of overeating? various cakes, chips, candy bars, ice cream, doritos, those "special" brownies

3. What would be your last meal if you were on death row?
zaxbys zensation salad, their wings, an enormous order of their fries and the birthday cake milkshake. ok, the ENTIRE zaxby's menu

4. What's a food you hated as a kid but love as an adult?
salmon

5. What's a food you loved as a kid but wouldn't touch as an adult?
I touch all foods. I like to touch foods. I touch my food, i want you to love me. hey thats a song!!

6. What's a food you hated then and still hate now?
quinoa

7. What's a food you loved then and still love?
PIZZA!!!!

8. What's the one food you wish had no calories so you could eat as much as you wanted?
Chinese food. me love it long time

9. What is the dish you make when you try to impress people?
Hungry Man dinner. 2lbs of food baby!!!

10. What was the meal your mom made you for special occasions (birthdays, etc.)?
a giant slice of guilt. and not just on special occasions!!!

These answers brought to you by Girl on the Phone :-)

Christa Davis said...

Totally love this quiz!!
1. every trip, I buy organic milk, turkey bacon, shredded cheese, yogurt
2. I can't keep brownies or cookies (homemade)
3. Last meal on death row would be a juicy burger with bacon and lots of cheese and a spinach salad with strawberries, gorgonzola and basalmic vin.
4. HATED asparagus (like you, Erika!) because we ate it out of a jar - i love it now when it's roasted
5. I LOVED bologna (why doesn't it have a "Y" at the end?) and cheese in a can
6. Hated cooked carrots and lima beans and I hate them now... ew. gross
7. Chipped Beef on Toast - my mom used to make it - it was gravy with little bits of corned beef over toast - i love it now but never make it..
8. Bread
9. A smoked Boston Butt on the Big Green Egg - spinach salad and twice baked potato casserole
10. special occasions.. I can't remember - my mom cooked a delicious hot meal every day of the week my entire childhood - and served it family style - it was awesome.

cd said...

Oh and one more thing... I HATED anchovies and raw beef as a kid but LOVE LOVE LOVE them both now - I love anchovies on crackers - on a Casesar (totally ruins it for me if I order a Caesar at a restaurant and they don't have fresh anchovies) - and raw beef (carpaccio) is just such a treat - I allow myself once a year to indluge - haven't gotten sick yet!

EAV said...

So fun! Love a good quiz :)

1- Oranges, apples, bananas, soy coffee creamer, beans, canned tomatoes, flavored almonds, veggie burgers/tvp/or other varietal.

2- cake and candy (can eat my weight in both)

3- cake with a strong, earthy cup of french pressed coffee. mmmmm

4- brussel sprouts (whoever thought they would be so good fried!?)

5- steak

6- velveta or american cheeze, ick

7- frozen squash (the block of orange kind). So good with garlic salt, pepper and butter.

8- cake

9- cake (so I can justifly "trying" it over and over to make sure its good)

10- when I was sick she made cream of wheat with applesauce. good stuff.

Anonymous said...

1. What do you purchase during every trip to the grocery store?
dt mt dew, chicken, bef, cereal

2. What is one food you can't keep in your house for fear of overeating?
CAKE

3. What would be your last meal if you were on death row?
deep fried green beans APP olive garden salad, Eljinette strawberry picher margarita, vini vidi veci moz risotto, coldstone confetti cake batter

4. What's a food you hated as a kid but love as an adult?
spinach

5. What's a food you loved as a kid but wouldn't touch as an adult?
twinkies


6. What's a food you hated then and still hate now?
brussel sprouts lima beans

7. What's a food you loved then and still love?
pizza

8. What's the one food you wish had no calories so you could eat as much as you wanted?
Peanut butter

9. What is the dish you make when you try to impress people?
lasagna

10. What was the meal your mom made you for special occasions (birthdays, etc.)?
chicken stuffed shells

Anonymous said...

1. What do you purchase during every trip to the grocery store?
Bananas, apples, spinach, fresh veggies for salads, unsweetened almond milk

2. What is one food you can't keep in your house for fear of overeating?
Cereal! It becomes a never-ending cycle of adding more milk, then more cereal....

3. What would be your last meal if you were on death row?
My friend Tori's homemade gnocchi with truffle mushroom cream sauce that she learned to make in Italy. AMAZING. Followed by frozen yogurt with granola and fruit.

4. What's a food you hated as a kid but love as an adult?
peanut butter!

5. What's a food you loved as a kid but wouldn't touch as an adult?
I agree with several people's choice of bologna (I'm vegetarian now), American cheese, Lunchables!

6. What's a food you hated then and still hate now?
olives


7. What's a food you loved then and still love?
grilled cheese - with better cheese and bread now!

8. What's the one food you wish had no calories so you could eat as much as you wanted?
peanut butter, frozen yogurt

9. What is the dish you make when you try to impress people?
Its been a while since I've cooked for anyone -- my family thinks my meals are too healthy!

10. What was the meal your mom made you for special occasions (birthdays, etc.)?
I used to request homemade sweet & sour pork. My mom only made it on bdays since it took hours to make

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