Kickas.org Forums Ankylosing Spondylitis General Discussion #1 AS Web Support Group food-craving survey!!

Hi Bridgett,
My favorite food has always been the potatoe. I would eat french fries with catsup, gravy, the best is dipped in a chocolate milkshake. (all from teenager days, now it's usually just catsup and only once a week in moderation) Before, if there was no potatoe it was not a meal. Of course I have shaken that habit. I'm eating lower carbs now.
Lately I've been craving peanut butter and honey on Raisin Toast. Mmmm...doesn't that sound good? I've never had it, but I heard someone else mention it. One of these days...Wanda

Well Bridge,
I was picturing a pickles and ice cream post here.. But I guess I was off a tad, must be the drugs.

What do I eat?? Well I think the easier question is what don't I eat..

Like most country folks, my staple is meat, taters, beans and bread. Its what I was raised on and still eat. I know John and all the NSDers just flipped. Honestly I have tried the NSD, and variations of the NSD with no relief. But I am in no way dissing those that it has works for. I respect whatever works for each of us. But I would say that My diet is pretty much laden with carbs, and starch.

I can start each day with a nice big 3 egg western omlet with habenero salsa, home fries and gravy, wheat toast and plenty of butter and jam.

Lunch is usually taken on the fly, whatever we can throw together fast. Or maybe a chicken salad wrap in a corn and jalepeno tortilla from the deli up town.

Dinner is meat of some kind. I am not a big fish eater, but love most wild game, potatoes of some sort, beans, bread and butter.

I eat anything and everything hot/spicy. Love almost all spicy cooking, especially Mexican, and TexMex. "Real" blackened foods are a favorite also. Not the stuff found in most chain restaurants, but the good stuff, rolled in spices and seered..MMMmmm If it's not made from habs it isn't warm enough to bother with. There are always 2 or 3 bottles of various habenero hot sauces on my table, as well as hab pepper instead of black pepper. I have always eaten what most people would think of as ridiculously spicy foods, with not the first speck of gut trouble, other than it being too large.. The only one close to me for eating fire, is my miniture schnauzer, she loves habenros too, and will eat salsa and chips with me anytime that salsa jar opens she is right there wanting some. She doean't have anygut trouble either..

I am a big ol' boy. Even in firefighting condition I still kept my 6'5" frame at around 320#. The weight went up with the Meds, and the height has gone down 1" since having AS.

OK now with all of the food talk, I need to go fix a samich.

Keep Kickin'AS
Chris

Thanks Wanda. I haven't tried it but I will only I will use blueberries since I don't know what your berries are. We must not have them in OK. )

How are you? I hope things are well with you. Hope to catch up on my visiting soon. I need to just schedule a certain time each day to come to the computer. Some days I have been so busy I haven't even turned it on. I never would have believed that of me.

Hope to visit with you soon. Thanks for the tip. I go to the store later today. I will get some.

Hugs.

Possi

Wanda, I love peanut butter and honey on raisen toast sometimes sprinkling some extra raisens on it. This is a good place to sprinkle the flax see too. My hubby likes this for breakfast also. We don't cook breakfast per se just whatever each of us wants which is usually something like this.

Try it and you will be hooked I guarantee! We try to buy local honey to get the benefits to help our allergies.

Hugs.
Possi

Pasta!!!!! I love pasta. One of my favourite quickie meals was spaghetti noodles cooked with garlic, onion and oregano/basil, then tossed with olive oil and parmesan.

And sandwiches - pretty much any kind, especially fresh field tomatoes with Canadian cheddar, butter, a touch of mayo, salt/pepper, on a Kaiser roll. Oh dear god I miss those sandwiches in the summer.

Cinnamon toast - toast with peanut butter and honey.

Pizza - I miss being able to just buy a slice because it smelled so good. Now, if I want pizza I have to order a gluten free crust, which brings a medium pizza with 4 toppings (tomato, onion, mushroom and green pepper) to about $45 delivered from the Magic Oven. Il Fornello sells them as well in their restaurant and it's a little cheaper than that.

Because I'm low rather than no starch, I can still have this stuff, but gluten free bread isn't the best for sandwiches and now that Brian and I are cooking for two, I don't do my spaghetti tossed in olive oil anymore. I wanted to make it for him as a light supper the other night and the next thing I no he's added chicken and tomatoe sauce to it. Totally missed the point.

Many hugs,

Hi Bridget,
My favorite food before NSD was pasta. Any kind of noodles...I used to live on them....when I ate that is. I used to be small too...5'6", 95 lbs. Potatoes and salad and veggies of any kind would come in second. I have never been a chocolate eater...I have never had a sweet tooth, no cakes, cookies or baking of any kind. A loaf of bread in my house would last a week, even with 4 kids.

Sherri

I am a sucker for fresk baked bread of any kind. I love the cheddar bay bisquits that Red Lobster serves before your meal. I love Italian food as well as Mexican food. My husband is half hispanic and I learned alot from his stepmom. My sister-in-law is from Italy and they eat pasta almost every night! and she and my brother have both lost wieght doing this? Of course all of my eating habits have changed drastically since I have gained wieght while on disability. Lots of salads and chicken and fish now.

my biggest and most things i crave for is cheesecake(anykind) and chocolate, chocolate, and more chocolate, if it wasnt for my triglycerides and cholesterol levels being a bit high id be eating them.......but i love my meat and spuds......oak

Hi Possi,
I had never heard of Goji berries either until I saw them in Costco. These are dried with pomegranate somehow mixed in. I think maybe the juice or something was soaked in. It's high in antioxidants, 6 g fiber per serving, 3g. protein. these are packaged by Pacific Tropical. Go to -
http://altmedicine.about.com/od/completeazindex/a/goji.htm

I noticed they said you can get a trail mix at Trader Joes. Do you have a Costco or Trader Joes?

Hugs, Wanda

Nonnie, I SO agree - it just ISN'T a meal without a potato. (I come from an Irish-Canadian family . . .) lol. Did you know, the human body can survive on potatoes and milk for up to 8 years? It's a super-special food . . .

It seems to me that most of the people who've responded crave carbs . . . hmm . . .

This is cool! Please keep it up, my interest is quite peaky! (bad pun, I know . . .)

*hugs*

*potatoes*

-Bridget