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Location: New Jersey

About: Female from New Jersey. Current student at Penn State University, majoring in Psychology with a Business minor. I'm planning to be a life coach after college, but who really knows what the future will bring.

Favorite foods: Veggie sushi rolls, mushroom risotto, tomato soup, skinny Mocha lattes from Starbucks, veggie burgers, veggie chick'n wings, avocados, black olives, roasted portabello mushroom burgers, bruschetta, pink lady apples, grapes

Last bite on earth: A salad of roasted portabellos and avocado with olive oil and balsamic dressing. Entree of veggie sushi rolls, inari, mushroom risotto and arancini. Dessert of raspberry sorbet and a cappuccino from my Dad's espresso machine.

The Ten Most Recent Comments By sweethunibabi

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Strange Eating Habits

I eat the "worst" first and then the "best".

I also put hot sauce on almost all of my food before tasting it. I go through so much, you'd think I drank the stuff.

I need everything to be almost extreme tasting--be it sweet or savory. I use too much of most condiments. And salad dressings.

There is never to be ANY mayonnaise on anything I eat. Or peanut butter. I will refund if I smell either one.

I also sniff EVERYTHING before I drink it...this year at college, I woke up parched (and BADLY hungover) from the night before, reached for a cup of water and took a big drink. No, it wasn't water. It was pee-warm, CHEAP vodka. Urghhh.

I eat/drink all my soup broth first, then I eat the bits.

Not quite a weird eating habit, but I adore Chinese takeout. I think I order it at least twice a week.

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Real Girls Eat Whatever They Want

As a vegetarian, I kind of resent the Kate Moss/Avril Lavigne comment. Not all of us ditch meat in hopes of being skinny.

On the other hand, I really, REALLY dislike PETA. They give vegetarians/vegans a bad name. But I guess it's like in politics...you have the extremists that go over the top and create stereotypes, and then you have the moderate/keep-to-oneself types that think what they want and let others do the same.

I suppose my philosophy is 'eat & let eat." The way I see it is the less meat I eat, the more for others. Also, there's plenty of people that dislike veggies, so hey! more for me!!

From Talk

Your Typical Breakfast: Weekday and Weekend

Depends.

When I'm at school (yay for summer vacation, but I still heart university), I'm up by 8:30 every morning. I usually don't have classes that begin before ten (or at all on Fridays) but I need to be up. I live above a Starbucks (the elevator actually goes INTO it) so needless to say, I spend a good deal of time there. I go just about every morning for a coffee fix. I also have nonfat yogurt, fruit and some granola most mornings.

On the weekends, I take the time to cook myself vegetable egg-white omelettes or fritattas. I was never really into waffles or pancakes, instead I stick with savory/salty things in the morning. My coffee is always sweet though, so I suppose it balances out.

I'm still on the college "two-meals-a-day" diet though. I eat my breakfast and become so busy during the day, I don't eat a single thing until dinner. So healthy, I know. :)

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Dining Desire Divulges Age

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WTF pita?

I stuff mine with salads, or roasted veggies, etc.

Anything you would put into a sandwich can go into pita.

If you slice it in wedges and bake at 350 for about 10 minutes, you'll have homemade, not fried pita chips.

I love to have a greek salad pita sandwich...quartered tomatoes, sweet onions, feta cheese, kalamata olives, a squirt of lemon juice and plenty of olive oil...toss together and then stuff into the pita. OMG, yum.

From Talk

How was your school's hot lunch?

I am so the outlier. I can say that most of what everyone describes was totally absent on my high school's lunch menu. I gruadted less than five years ago, so the whole "healthy lunch program" was just going into effect.

We had buffalo chicken sandwiches on Wednesday and chicken tenders on Thursdays. French fries, pizza and wraps too...sounds like standard fair, right? It was all air-fried, low fat and whole wheat. Mostly the least popular too...we had a sushi chef come in on Tuesdays, and we had a daily stir fry station. The salad bar was enormous, and they had a make-you-own smoothie bar. Grilled/roasted veggies were always an option and never soggy. The hamburgers, grilled chicken sandwiches and veggie burgers were also tasty. I do miss the make-your-own nacho bar with fresh salsa and avocado slices!!

I also went to public school, in case anyone was wondering. I've heard that they now accept credit and debit cards in the cafeteria and/or an ID card with stored dining dollars that's controlled online--and subsequently allows parents to SEE what their children are buying. Kinda Big Brother-ish.

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Favorite summer food- now and from childhood?

Watermelon with a teensy bit of salt
Jersey corn, I like it cooked directly on the grill...with some charred kernels, YUMM!!!
A jersey tomato and good buffalo mozzarella sandwich
Orange & white custard from Kohr brothers on the Boardwalk
Ditto a big, fat slice of Boardwalk pizza. (Sunburn required)

Ohh...and the smell of sausage and pepper sandwiches at S"l"easide! :)

From Talk

Do you eat a bed-time snack? What is it?

I love a good, cold pasta salad. Cold olive oil and feta cheese is like my weakness.

A huge cup of coffee before bed (I am impervious to caffeine, I swear.) and a piece (or three) of biscotti is nice too.

As a kid I always had frozen juice (we made our own popsicles) or Grandma's hot chocolate (a chocolate bar melted, with cream added and cinnamon.)

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My favorite kind of pizza is ___

Well. I've rediscovered my love of New Jersey pizza since going to school in PA. Correction: WESTERN Pennsylvania.

I'm all about: thin, WELL DONE crust, heavy on the sauce, fresh buffalo mozz with whole olives, mushrooms and roasted gaaaaahlic. hot pepper seeds and parm cheese is a must.

For a spectacular plain pie? I'm all about DeLorenzo's.

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Top 10 EVERYBODY else has had---but me...

- A peanut butter and jelly sandwich (I'm an American--a die hard Jersey girl, in fact!)
- Arby's, Taco Bell, Burger King
- Broccoli cheese soup
- A hot pocket
- Cinnabons
- A burrito
- A belgian waffle
- Crab legs
- Real, Southern fried chicken
- Grits

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From Talk

WTF pita?

My three favorite things to eat in/on pita are: #1: cheese, #2: hummus, and #3: pizza (on top of the pita instead of high-calorie pizza dough). I've also substituted it instead of Naan sometimes when I've eaten Indian at home.

Enjoy!
Elizabeth (yummydietfood.com)

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Strange Eating Habits

My mom always said anything eaten at the sink has no calories :-)

But I would have to say my favorite eating spot is in front of the computer - probably need to disinfect it if you listen to all the news stories about eating at your desk. At least I'm the only one that uses it so it's my own germs!

That way I don't rush through my food. The other thing is I'm not satisfied with a lunch unless it has everything your mom would pack for you. I can get away with half a reasonable sandwich if I have chips or pickles and a fat-free pudding; compared with a Dagwood sadwich, and I'm still "hungry."

It works for my husband, too but in front of the TV - he snarfs his food otherwise.

Oh, and I too pick my meat apart and feed "the ickies" to the cats, dog or my husband!

From Required Eating

Real Girls Eat Whatever They Want

Alas, PETA's response didn't have the saving grace of being funny. What a shame to miss a chance to show that they're smarter...

From Talk

Your Typical Breakfast: Weekday and Weekend

Weekdays and weekends for me are pretty much the same: either Nature's Path Kamut Puffs or pumpkin spice french toast with cranberry sauce. Odd, but tasty!

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Your Typical Breakfast: Weekday and Weekend

During the week I try to set a good example for the kids, I'm big on having some protein for breakfast so I always try to get an egg, in some form, down their little gullets. I also have, at any given time, 6-7 tupperware containers full of washed, cut-up fruit in the fridge, which makes it easy to toss some on our plates in the morning. I love cheese omelets, oatmeal, chocolate malt-o-meal, hotcakes and turkey bacon...those are our weekday staples.

On weekends we usually head to out to eat for breakfast and we eat a lot heartier foods, corned beef hash, hash browns, eggs, turkey sausage. Sunday is always hotcake day with either turkey sausage or turkey bacon....I like to try a different hotcake every Sunday....last Sunday we had strawberry hotcakes, next Sunday we'll be having buckwheat with apple topping (or chocolate chip, pumpkin, sweet potato, blueberry, peach, whole wheat hotcakes, hotcakes made with cornmeal, banana pecan, german, pb&j hotcakes, buttermilk hotcakes....we are a family obsessed with our Sunday hotcakes.)

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Your Typical Breakfast: Weekday and Weekend

@Josdean - I'm from the Pgh area and I never knew that EnP was a family owned gig! Since there were so many around the way Denny's was (my first job :P), I just assumed that they weren't a regional chain.

From Required Eating

Real Girls Eat Whatever They Want

@holdthemayo

Damn, you're correct. They are still together. :(


From Required Eating

Real Girls Eat Whatever They Want

Screw PETA. screw them and their sexist anti-badonkadonk ways. I'm not sure that there's an organization out there that I *wished* so much I could get in line with that has *ever* pissed me off as much as PETA has over the years.

I'm "real".

I love animals.

I was a vegetarian for years.

I'm not anymore.

Still love animals.

I eat meat and I like it. I try and buy the most local humanely raised/slaughtered meat I can find.

Yeah, the shirt's pretty silly, but so are most of the tees in my collection.

The whole "skinny bitch" thing also saddens me greatly. But, If eating meat guarantees me a tuchus like Jessica Simpson's, then pass the chops.

(Unrelated: in my opinion, Oreos took a big downturn flavor-wise when they took out the lard. Sorry, but it's true.)

From Required Eating

Real Girls Eat Whatever They Want

Real girls can eat steaks or tofu, or both, depending on their mood.

You couldn't find examples of more than alleged Hollywood vegetarians? Really? There are high-profile vegetarian athletes, too. Tell me that they all look like Kate Moss.

I eat vegetarian, and I have to say that I've yet to meet a vegetarian or vegan who agrees with PETA anti-feminist, hyperbolic tactics. I hate the recent idea, perpetuated by books like "Skinny Bitch," that vegetarianism/ veganism is some sort of weight loss plan. Oreos are vegan. That should say it all.