Food Foraging
Last night, I stood in the dark kitchen my stocking feet, hair mussed, bathrobe askew, wild-eyed...with only the light of the refigerator coloring my skin a ghastly shade of pale...foraging furiously through the fridge...combining bits and bites of food and eating what can only be described as a poorly orchestrated mish-mosh of leftovers, with no thought to how things would taste in combination, or what the end result would be gastronomically or intestinally. I believe in my half-asleep and strangely ravenous frenzy I consumed the following: three slices of left-over mozzarella cheese ...a pickle....a handfull of shelled pistachios....the end piece of a loaf of slightly stale white bread....a slice of ham....two oatmeal raisin cookies....some salsa....3 spears of roasted asparagus....a sleeve of fig newtons...all washed down with a glass of sangria.
My husband came home from a late meeting and saw the destruction on the kitchen counter and looked at me strangely. I can't say I blame him.
Have you done this???
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7 Comments:
Oh gosh, yes! I get soooo hungry at night and I rarely am craving anything in particular. I'll eat whatever's not nailed down: popcorn, crackers, sandwich meat, cold leftovers, cheese, pickles, etc. Usually not sweets, but I can't rule them out entirely.
Junie at 10:22AM on 01/14/09
I never eat late at night unless I have been out clubbing and it is breakfast at a diner.
My digestion doesn't love a full stomach and sleeping. I usually cut off all food around 7 PM. If I get at all hungry after that I grab a piece of cheese and a hunk of bread. When we have good antipasto in the house I usually add a handful of olives to the mix.
I am a morning fridge raider. I get down in the kitchen and start making breakfasts (not everyday) when I wake hungry and you never know what is going to come from that.
JerzeeTomato at 10:42AM on 01/14/09
all the time. I slep better on a full stomach. usually it's salad, bread cold cuts, cheese, yogurt, tall glasses of milk (anything with a trace of tryptophan), leftover veggies...more often than not, washed down with a lot of gatorade.
mayoxqueen at 2:03AM on 01/15/09
@julie...you're not pregnant, are you? =)
akk328 at 1:05PM on 01/15/09
@akk328 ~ LOL! That was my first thought exactly! So, Julie?
izatryt at 1:25PM on 01/15/09
@akk & Izatryt: funny you should mention that....been wondering myself. I'll be sure to let you know...;o)
juliebugsmama at 9:57AM on 01/16/09
I do the same thing, but call it dinner (and sometimes after dinner when what I made wasn't what I wanted). My college roommates used to be horrified. I would start with broccoli, move to cheese, maybe a tuna melt, spoonfuls of nutella, carrots and hummus, handfuls of crackers, slices of cured meats, peanut butter sandwich and probably some chocolate.
cranberrycheese at 11:17AM on 01/16/09