Food Jag
 

I get on food jags...I know, it's just another symptom of my many, MANY faults. I was wondering if anyone else has them? Fer instance: I was on a taco jag from May to August--I HAD to have taco's, even from Taco Bell, a place I'd never paid any attention to--I think it was triggered by my Mom having taco's for the Memorial Day picnic. Then I (shamefully) went on to apple dumplings--who craves apple dumplings? NO ONE! Why should I? I've also had an unnatural thing for chocolate covered cherries, mashed potates and pasta salad. Are you a freak too? Or, am I, sadly, alone?

*so hoping I'm not alone!*

Not at all. Our household is currently on an ice cream sandwich jag, which started back in August...so they are now a staple item kept in supply. I suspect we'll be over it around December or so...

Oh noooooooooooooo. You are not alone!

For a while, I couldn't live without those Mike-sell's Cheese Doodles. It's just some puffy chemical infused substance fried and covered in a cheese-like powder. They gum up in your teeth and you spend an hour making "false teeth" noises trying to clear them out. Then you put on about 5 lbs per bag. But could I stop? No! Could I eat a thousand rice cakes instead? No!

This is why I ride out my "I don't want to eat a thing" binges. Not healthy in the slightest, either way...but you gotta do what you gotta do.

mmm...ice cream sandwiches...I had an ice cream sandwich EVERY day for luch during my 8th grade year--an ice cream sandwich and NOTHING else. I weighed 100 at 5'6". All hail the ice cream sandwich!

During High School I routinely ate two pretzel rods and a milk. I weighed 118.
I was 5' 7"

I'd say having a thing for choc covered cherries, mashed potatoes and pasta salad *is* unnatural. Any one individually, sure, but combined, that's just not right.

OH! *embarrassed* I assure you they were sequential! I'm no foodophile! IOW--one at a time!

are you, maggieL, trying to see the worst in me?

My high school lunch was often a Little Debbie jelly-creme cookie-thing, and that's it! Thank goodness mom always cooked good, healthy dinners.

No, I'm just kidding. I did not actually suspect you of such a dietary collation.

I do lunch food-jags for weeks to months on end. Until I get tired of it and switch to something else...

Baloney (beef) sandwiches.
Baked potato w/ sour cream.
PB&Js.
Tunafish w/ sweet pickles.
Subway sandwiches' Chicken Terriyaki w/ sweet onion sauce. (this jag was spendy!)
Fish sticks.
Grilled cheese w/ tomato soup.
Currently, the jag is mini ravioli's. This one has lasted about 5 weeks, so far...I just bought another 6 cans tonight.

A couple of years ago, I was hooked on tomato and cheddar cheese sandwiches. I ate one for dinner every single night for over a month. Then, poof, I was done, and I haven't had one since then.

Any suspicion that these are caused by some nutritional lack, best covered by really eating a variety of salads and vegetables?

jinx is like that, b.

I can jag with the best of them I assure you.

My current craving is unusually healthy - Extra Light Philedelphia on Multi Grain Ryvitas (rye based crackers). I've eaten them every day for the last two weeks, although sadly they are an addition to my diet, not a substitution for anything else.

I ate chicken chilli for dinner for about 8 months once. With two slices of toast. I just never saw the reason to have anything else.

I also have cereal jags, although these move more slowly. At the moment I have Kelloggs Cornflakes and nothing else. I've thrown away my Special K and Sugar Puffs - I probably won't be back on those for another 10 months.

I am the anti-jag queen then. I can't eat something more than 3 times in a row. Leftover dinner is had for lunch the next day and then anything left is thrown out. Unless it's candy. I guess that's where I 'jag'. Currently it's Kit Kats. That's the only sweet thing I crave right now. In fact, last night after my run, I had 4 snack size Kit Kat bars and a huge bottle of water for dinner. :yum:

Before that it was What-cha-ma-callits. Crunchy caramel-ly goodness. Had one every day.

I know that part of my 'jag' for specific items is due to my medication. I am taking light chemo and steroids and the chemo leaves a 'taste' in my mouth that I try to get rid of with strong flavors like mustard or pink lemonade.

I have a good breakfast, take vitamins and eat a healthy, well-rounded dinner. I think I can jag at lunch and not hurt myself.