I love food.
1. What’s the last thing you ate?
a bowl of Cinnamon Grahams. I’ve been craving them for a few weeks, haven’t had them in ages and I made mum buy some today
2. What’s your favourite cheese?
plain old mature cheddar or wensleydale with cranberries (on Hovis biscuits)
3. What’s your favourite fish?
I’m not a massive fan of fish, I don’t really know why I eat it. I like prawns more than any other fishy thing
4. What’s your favourite fruit?
I love most fruits. I love to eat passion fruits, and lots of apples.
5. When, if ever, did you start liking olives?
I only like olives on pizza (mainly because most of the taste has been cooked away)
6. When, if ever, did you start liking beer?
I don’t remember…
7. When, if ever, did you start liking shellfish?
I’m from a fishing town, I don’t have much choice and we always went cockling when I was really tiny. I don’t remember not liking them
8. What was the best thing your mum/dad/guardian used to make?
Goulash. Oh man I wish I still ate meat so I could have my mum’s goulash or beef stew
9. What’s the native specialty of your hometown?
anything seafoody
10. What’s your comfort food?
crisps and couscous with cheese and mushrooms (not together)
11. What’s your favourite type of chocolate?
i don’t really like chocolate. I tolerate white chocolate
12. How do you like your steak?
vegetarian but i USED to like it VERY well done (perhaps so it didn’t look much like meat?)
13. How do you like your burger?
vegetarian with cheese and mushrooms on top and a dollop of ketchup to dip the bits I cut off in…no bun.
14. How do you like your eggs?
fried and ‘over-easy’
15. How do you like your potatoes?
any way you give me them. although my roasties can’t be crunchy – i don’t like crunchy food
16. How do you take your coffee?
strong, black and with a few sugars
17. How do you take your tea?
strong,with the tiniest bit of milk (because i don’t like the taste of milky tea but I don’t like the look of black tea) and with a few sugars
18. What’s your favourite mug?
at home, a tweety-pie one my best friend when I was 13 bought me (Tiffany) and at uni, my massive Alice in Wonderland mug Nikki bought me for my birthday
19. What’s your biscuit or cookie of choice?
I don’t like crunchy foods but, if any, ginger biscuits
20. What’s your ideal breakfast?
a vegetarian version of the english fried breakfast of course – beans, eggs, sausages, plum tomatoes, fried mushrooms, hash browns – beautiful
21. What’s your ideal sandwich?
lots of lettuce and lots of mayonnaise/salad cream on brown bread – that sounds so boring but I LOVE it
22. What’s your ideal pizza:
onion, mushroom and sweetcorn
23. What’s your ideal pie (sweet or savoury)?
well i don’t like pastry (I dont like crunchy food…) but I would have to say veggie version of mince beef and onion (i basically just eat the middle and the pastry that’s gone soggy)
24. What’s your ideal salad?
oh man I love making salads. lots of different types of lettuce and rocket, cucumber, cherry tomatoes, radishes, a couple of spring onions, raw peppers of all colours and most importantly LOTS of my nan’s legendary german salad dressing (failing that, lots of salad cream)
25. What food do you always like to have in the fridge?
cheese and mushrooms…can’t live without them (and also 2 of the foods my boyfriend hates the most)
26. What food do you always like to have in the freezer?
icecream and veggie cottage pies.
27. What food do you always like to have in the cupboard?
tins of new potatoes so I can fry them with garlic and put them with whatever I’m cooking for dinner…oh and couscous
28. What spices can you not live without?
i’m managing at the moment although my life would be a lot more fun if I did have spices
29. What sauces can you not live without?
salad cream – I’m addicted to the stuff
30. Where do you buy most of your food?
Morrisons and Tescos at home…Asda at uni beause they put on free buses. I think I’m going to do my shopping at uni in Tescos in a city that’s a couple of stops away on the train (it’s quicker to walk to and from train station that it is Asda)
31. How often do you go food shopping?
Only every fortnight at uni (with little trips through the weeks) but I’m going to go more now so I can have fresh stuff most days
33. What’s the most expensive piece of kitchen equipment you own?
I don’t personally own any, I guess.
34. What’s the last piece of equipment you bought for your kitchen?
I haven’t…well maybe I bought a whisk or tin opener
35. What piece of kitchen equipment could you not live without?
kettle…I’m so impatient boiling water (for pasta or couscous or whatever)
36. How many times a week/month do you cook from raw ingredients?
as often as I can but hardley ever at uni now…maybe once or twice a fortnight
37. What’s the last thing you cooked from raw ingredients?
roasted pepper stuffed with couscous and I made a tomato, garlic and mushroom sauce…that’s probably the last thing anyway – it’s my favourite thing to cook
38. What meats have you eaten besides cow, pig and poultry?
duck, rabbit, lamb…think that’s it. although I don’t eat any now
39. What’s the last time you ate something that had fallen on the floor?
I try to avoid that…
40. What’s the last time you ate something you’d picked in the wild?
We used to pick wild blackberries…probably then
41. Arrange the following in order of preference: Italian, Mexican, Chinese, Indian, Thai, Sushi
1. chinese absolutely first
2. italian
3. indian
4. mexican
5. thai
6. sushi
42. Arrange the following in order of preference: Vodka, Whiskey, Brandy, Rum
1. whiskey
2. rum
3. vodka
4. brandy
43. Arrange the following in order of preference: Garlic, Basil, Caramel, Lime, Mint, Ginger, Aniseed
1. garlic
2. basil
3. aniseed
4. mint
5. lime
6. caramel
7. ginger
44. Arrange the following in order of preference: Pineapple, Orange, Apple, Strawberry, Cherry, Watermelon, Banana.
1. cherry
2. banana
3. strawberry
4. apple
5. watermelon
6. orange
7. pineapple
45. Bread and spread:
pardon..?
46. What’s your fast food restaurant of choice, and what do you usually order?
erm…any chinese i guess
47. Pick a city. What are the best dining experiences you’ve had in that city?
oh man, Rome. Spinach and ricotta canneloni REAL italian style in a little tradition restaurant with the tables and chairs and umbrellas spilling out into the little italian road…drunk on strong italian cocktails with my best friend Ashley and lots of other friends. Beautiful place and BEAUTIFUL food.
48. What’s your choice of tipple at the end of a long day?
whiskey and diet coke or Southern Comfort and diet coke
49. What’s the next thing you’ll eat?
chinese tonight
50. Are you hungry now?
no, surprisingly after all this food talk. but I’ve been nibbling all day
51. Do you eat your breakfast everyday?
hardly ever – only when I’m forced to by Jordan/Jordan’s mum
52. At what time do you have breakfast?
whenever Jordan makes me get up when we’re in Swansea
53. At what time do you have lunch?
varies GREATLY 11.30 – 4
54. What do you have for lunch?
varies greatly, anything from a freshair sandwich (hold the bread) to a massive dinner
55. At what time do you have dinner?
anything from 5.30-10.30
56. What do you have for dinner?
as many fresh things as i can or frozen stuff
57. Do you light candles during dinner?
no…
58. How many chairs are there in your dining room and who sits in the main chair?
6 chairs. mum sits near the door because she gets hot and dad sits at the other top of the table…we only keep 4 chairs next to the table though
59. Do you eat and drink using your right hand or the left one?
drink with my right and swop over all the time when eating
61. Mention the veggies that you like most:
cabbage is my absolute favourite but i like everything but sprouts and i’m not too keen on parsnips. i love swede and cauliflower, brocolli, carrots, potatoes, runner beans, asparagus
62. What fruit and vegetable do you like the least?
sprouts and i hate kiwis
63. You like your fruit salad to have more:
banana and grapes
64. You prefer your vegetable salad to contain more:
anything you wanna give me
65. WhatÂ’s your favourite sandwich spread?
don’t really spread much on my sandwiches
66. WhatÂ’s your favourite chocolate bar?
don’t eat many…like Kinder Buenos though
67. WhatÂ’s your favourite dessert?
plain cheesecake with a raspberry sauce
68. WhatÂ’s your favourite drink?
apple squash
69. WhatÂ’s your favourite snack?
crisps
70. WhatÂ’s your favourite bubble gum flavour?
strawberry
71. WhatÂ’s your favourite ice cream flavour?
soft scoop vanilla
72. WhatÂ’s your favourite potato chip flavour?
cheese and onion
73. WhatÂ’s your favourite soup?
onion soup (with cheese in it and croutons) or cream of mushroom
74. WhatÂ’s your favourite pizza?
onion, sweetcorn and mushroom
75. WhatÂ’s your favourite type of dish?
I basically love food as long as it has vegetables or cheese
76. What food do you hate?
meat – ha…before i was a veggie i hated bacon.
77. WhatÂ’s your favourite restaurant?
pizza express or some of the local retaurants
78. Do you eat homemade food, food delivered from outside?
both…
80. Who cooks at home?
everyone except my brother
81. What kind of diet (e.g. low-fat, high-fiber, high-carbohydrate, balanced diet etc.) do you have?
vegetarian
82. How do you keep yourself fit?
erm…sometimes I take the stairs instead of the lift? erm…and I lift my arm a lot…bringing my fag to my mouth
this survey has made me sound not too unhealthy I think…and then the last question let me down. damn it.
Lauren xx