That I got a KERF mug 
Woke up at 6:25 this morning, and my alarm went off at 6:26 
After some electronic reading in bed, I rolled onto the floor for some much-needed YogaDownload. I did the 20 minute Sun Salutation Flow and loved every second. My quads are a little tired from the warriors, but I feel much more stretched out.
Then I came home to make this:
Ever since I made this breakfast last week, I’ve been craving it again. It was that good and unique!
I made the same combo as last time but used some of the Nasoya Silken Creation leftovers instead of soy milk and used the rest of that Vega Vanilla Chai packet. I liked the vanilla chai enough to buy it again – the flavor was that good.
The mix:
- 1/2 frozen banana
- 1 cup frozen berries (I used Cascadian Farms Organic from Costco that I’ve had for agggeees)
- 1/3 Vega packet
- ~1/3 cup Nasoya Silken Creation tofu
- 1/2 tbsp chia seeds soaked in 1/2 cup soy milk
- Splash skim milk when I needed more liquid
- Mix My Granola, enhanced!
- Futter Nutter Hazelnut Butter – the best thing ever on smoothies in a bowl
+ Bigelow vanilla chai tea
CHICAGO
Chicago readers – send me an email!!! KathEats at Gmail. I’ll be sending you one back later on about my trip schedule and trying to fit in a meet-up. If you have a preference for when and what day (Sat. night, Sat AM, Sun AM, PM breaktime), let me know!
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Too Many Good Books!
I finished Too Many Cooks on the plane yesterday and have a chance from Emily Franklin herself to give a copy away!! I wasn’t until after I finished the book and felt like I “knew” her that I realized we had actually emailed! She’s famous! I am going to hunt out some more of her books, including one I saw on her website about your 20s – with a big ol’ 26 in the title!! It’s a Wonderful Lie: 26 Truths about Life in Your 20s. I bet she’s got great wisdom.
Leave a comment telling me a “grown-up food” you liked from a very young age (or the worst kid food you lived on) to win a copy of the book!
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I’m off to get my ducks in a row.
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I’ve liked brie and spicy foods since I was a child.
I have ALWAYS loved beets.
Beets, bears, Battlestar Galactica.
I’ve always loved avocado. My parents feared I would turn green at one point!
Worst kid food was definitely the electric-yellow mac and cheese!
I LOVED spinach… loved it any way.. raw, cooked. whatever! I also loved beets, lima beans, and chickpeas! Weird kid!!
I liked fillet mingion (I know I spelled that wrong and can’t get the correct spelling on spell check! Oops). I called it fillet mingion-a when I was young though. I also loved shrimp when I was younger haha.
I loved eating croissants for breakfast as a child! I don’t remember how I got started on them, but once I tried them I was hooked on the buttery taste & flaky texture. I wasn’t a big breakfast eater, so my parents got them for me to convince me to have something in the morning!
I loved coffee! When I was 5-6 years old, my grandpa would put a tablespoon of his coffee into my milk at dinner time. It would turn my milk just into a light milky brown color and I felt so grown up! Like I was drinking coffee with him. I’ve loved coffee my entire life!
I don’t know what my worst kid food was that I loved….maybe sugar cereals? My mom never kept them in the house, so when we had the chance to eat them at a friend’s house I was in Heaven!
Thanks for another great giveaway!
Jean
I don’t know if I’d consider them “grown up” foods but I’ve always loved beets, cauliflower and brussels sprouts.
I always loved veggies – asparagus and parsnips were yummy favourites!
i’m not sure if this is grown up, but i ate whatever my grandmother ate or drank. coffee, chicken livers, cream of asparagus soup…yum
Hmm – worst food I lived on as a child would be hard to say (there were so many!) But probably fruit roll ups/fruit by the foots…there’s just no nutritional value to them what.so.ever!
Breakfast looks delish and I’m loving the KERF mug
I’ve always loved shellfish – lobster and shrimp since I was very young. My parents cursed the day they let me try it – because then that’s all I wanted to eat when we went out for dinner!
I always really liked salad – and not kid salad with like iceberg lettuce, pepperoni and croutons . . .but with every green, red and yellow vegetable I could get my hands on.
Of course, I can also remember being little and eating those little sausage/hotdog things in the jars (ewww) and my fair share of cheese slices (otherwise known and “processed cheese food”).
The worst kid food I lived on was Mac & Cheese – my mom couldn’t get me to eat much else for lunch until I started eating healthy in high school!
When I was little I lived on Chicken Fingers with French Fries and Coca-Cola. I didn’t even have to look at a menu when we ate out. haha.
Oh man, the worst kid food that we lived on (literally) was Hamburger Helper! No thanks, now! haha
My large Italian family and I were out to eat when I was about 7 and they ordered calamari. I had no idea what it was and started eating it and LOVED IT. My mom was laughing because I had no idea what it was and I kept eating it and eating it. Finally, I asked what calamari was to find out it was octopus! Did it stop me?? NO way. I kept right on eating it!
I always always always loved loved loved Brussels sprouts! YUM O!
I don’t remember liking any adult food as a kid, but I don’t remember eating much kid food (mac N cheese, hot dogs, fish sticks, etc) either! We just ate what we were served. We never had junk food in the house so it was just a meat, veggie, and grain for most meals.
The worst foods, which I loved at the time had to be twinkies and scooter pies!!!! You would never know today that I actually ate those things!
Being half Greek, I loved watermelon and feta cheese when I was young and even now. Now there are all sorts of salad combos using watermelon and feta which are fabulous.
I would so love to win a copy of this book.
Thanks for the chance!
When I was 3 my grandfather let me try a raw oyster and I’ve been hooked ever since!
I think I survived on bowls full of peanut butter and chocolate syrup mixed, fish sticks, pears and baby carrots dipped in ketchup (ew, I know) and plain couscous!
My parents were never big on giving us “kid” food. I remember mom would make pan-seared rainbow trout. I was the only 7 pr 8 year old I ever knew who would dutifully cut the head off the cooked fish, and take all the bones out and then eat dinner.
I love brussel sprouts! Even as a kid, I always wanted them with dinner!
Now that I’m old, I eat ice cream every single day. Its my one thing I absolutly cannot live without (I’ve even ordered it at bars! ha!)
I have always, always LOVEEED broccoli!
Oh yeah, and I forgot to comment how hilarious it was that the first thing you wrote when you got home was “only one dead bug so far!”
I HATe bugs too! On Sunday night, there was a spider on my ceiling and I needed to go to bed b/c I had work the next morning with a 6 am wakeup call, but I couldn’t reach the spider! Not to mention I’m so terrified of bugs. I had no one to help me though, and I was semi freaking out about the bug until I realized something. I could squish it with my swiffer!!! My swiffer was the perfect length to reach the ceiling and I love how the bottom is flat so it can just SQUASH it, rather than having the bug accidentalyl fall down, which would’ve freaked me out, esp. since my bed was right underneath. haha anyway, just had to add that I feel you on the bugs!
The grown up food that I’ve always liked ever since I was little was SARDINES!
I would love to win this!
Being very Irish, my favorite food as a child was corned beef and cabbage! I could not get enough!
Artichokes. They are reall easy for a small kid to eat, once he/she has gotten a few front upper and bottom teeth. This was the case with both myself and my older brother.
I have always loved lobster since I was about 1.5 years old…
I’ve always loved venison, ever since I was little it was one of my favorites. Esp. Venison Chili!
beets! pickled, boiled, juiced. yes, my mom gave me beet juice in a bottle!
Fish! Shrimp and lobster were my grown up foods.
Even though I was an INCREDIBLY picky eater as a child, I would always eat spinach.
I eat very differently now than I did as a kid. I didn’t like any “grown-up” foods. Instead, I was rather fond of eating Little Debbie Swiss Cake Rolls for breakfast every day…
the worst kid food I would eat was chicken fingers and fries dipped in ranch dressing. Probably explains why I was a chubby little kid!
Mmmmmmmmmm… fried chicken hearts and gizzards! Mom made a fried chicken every Sunday before we went to church, and I got to sneak the heart and gizzard. Still love them!
I always loved EVERY type of vegetable as a kid. It helped that my grandpa had a huge garden and the samples were always free!
Hmm….my worst “kid” food would have to be sugar cereal. My dad loved to snack on in and we consistently had 7-10 different kinds in the house. I loved Captain Crunch the most, but never buy it now.
As for adult food I was never a picky kid. I usually ate what my parents made, which was typically pasta or steak. I did (and still do) love olives though!
Coffee! I started drinking it at age 8, not because I particularly liked it- but because I figured out that if I had a cup of coffee after holiday meals & family gatherings, I could sit around and hang out with the adults instead of having to go play with my bratty younger cousins! My little brother is still mad at me that I figured that out, and he always got stuck entertaining the little ones
The only drawback is that I’m kind of an addict now…
Cabbage !!! I still love it sauted, raw, and most of all Cabbage rolls!
Since I was a kid, I have always loved salsa, not just mild salsa, but spicey hot salsa. Oh, I’ve always been a sucker for steak and A-1 sauce too, pretty much since I’ve been able to chew.
I always loved shellfish. And something other kids wouldn’t touch with a 10 foot pole – turnip!
i loooved everything vegetables since i was a kid, but in particular cabbage and lima beans!
unfortunately, it was counter-balanced w/ little debbie snack cakes galore
I always loved it when my parents cooked veal scallopine (similar to chicken piccatta) when I was a kid, even after I figured out what veal really was. And to this day, even though I don’t eat that much meat anymore, I will still happily eat my mom’s veal scallopine when she makes it!
Worst kid food was probably cheetos! I loved to lick all the orange cheeto crumbs off my fingers, lol!
As a kid I loved almost every vegetable and almost every kind of seafood, but the oddest thing i enjoyed for a kid was probably cow tongue, crab and lobster
Ugh. The worst kid food I used to eat was Little Debbie Oatmeal Cream Pies. Loved those things!!! I think I would still enjoy one but never even think about buying them :>
Worst kid food I lived on would have to be spaghetti-os, the kind with the franks in it! I think I ate it daily for a while.
I used to love cauliflower!
I’m not sure if this is “grown up” but I have always loved spicy foods.
I ate ice cream for breakfast until I was thirteen years old. And it was the bad kind of ice cream…pretty much the worst of its kind. Full of fat, giant chocolate chips and soooo high in calories-I cannot believe I didn’t weigh 800 pounds! When I turned thirteen and got hips, I figured eating ice cream every morning was not the best idea in the world. Now I only eat it once a month (but for dessert, not breakfast!).
most Indian kids are fed a combination of white rice, boiled lentils, carrots with a bit of clarified butter.. love it..I ate it for lunch even this weekend
http://sandhiyakrish.blogspot.com/2009/07/my-day-07-18-2009-what-or-so-what.html
You’re just a traveling fool!
I’ve always loved raw broccoli. Possibly because it always came with a side of creamy onion dip at our house.
Shrimp Cocktail. Every christmas for as long as i can remember this was served, and i was known to devoure a huge plate! so yummy
I’ve always loved green olives!! When I was 8 years old I asked Santa (while sitting on his lap) to bring me a jar of green olives for Christmas and he did!!!
Brussels Sprouts. Have always eaten them.
I have loved beets since childhood, as soon as I learned to use a can opener I could be found sitting in the pantry eating them straight out of the can. While I wish I could still do that, I have progressed to putting them in a bowl or roasting the ones I get at the farmers market.
i loved honey bunches of oats–i called it “mommy’s cereal” because it was what my mom ate. i thought that was the actual name of the cereal for years!
when I was a kid I was the pickiest eater ever – I lived on french fries and ketchup!
I lived off Pop Tarts until 17. It was then that I realized things had to change.
I still was known to consume them up until the last two years…what? Yeah, health was not a priority for me until my late teens.
I loved, loved, loved fruits and veggies growing up. I’d hardly ever touch meat and apparently I hated oatmeal (which is funny since I really enjoy it now). My mom used to make me so happy with a big plate of broccoli or strawberries.
Well, the “adult” food I’ve always loved–even as a little girl–is brussel sprouts!
I used to bring them to school for lunch every day in grade school, and my friends were shocked and repulsed! I thought they were the best things ever, especially because my mom roasted them and then topped them with parmesan cheese–YUM!!!!
I still love them.
I’m not sure if I ever liked “grown up food” as a kid, but for 6 months I would ONLY eat fruit cocktail, apple juice, chicken noodle soup, saltines, and fruit roll-ups. I’m lucky I didn’t develop any nutritional deficiencies
I actually loved escargot
I tried it once at a “fancy dinner” that my parents took us out to, now I hate them!
my mom kept some artwork from each year of elementary school and i still have a pop up page from 1st grade that has a one of a kind Crayola funny shaped green tree, my favorite vegetable – broccoli… although i used to drown it in velvetta! i still love it.
I’ve always like broccoli and the way the florets soak up whatever sauce they’re in. That book sounds like so much fun!
Besides carrots as a child I did not like anything else remotely healthy, my most unhealthy thing I adored is poptarts, they really should not count as food at all.
Your breakfast looks so pretty with all the purple.
I’ve always liked bananas and most other fruits
I was raised in the Canal Zone and ever since I can remember loved the ceviche that my dad bought or made. The worst kid food that I still have cravings for once in awhile is Spagetti-o’s(old-school style with the meatballs) ,but instead of juice I pair it with a nice Chateau Neuf De Pap
I have always loved okra (although I’ll admit it was usually fried) and beets!
Does coffee count? I’ve loved coffee since I can remember. I wasn’t allowed to drink it until high school, but I loved the smell!
Must feel so good to be home! Fabulous looking breakfast. I really want this book- I will end up running out and purchasing it if I don’t win!! I was SUPER picky when I was a kid and didn’t like very many “grown up” foods. Its funny for me to look back now because I used to hate beans. I would pick every single kidney bean out of my moms chili before I ate it haha. Now I eat beans almost every day and love them
I have loved a huge bowl of romaine lettuce with EVOO, rice wine vinegar, and nutritional yeast sprinkled on top since I was 6 years old! I remember the first time my Aunt made it. My little sister and I ate all of her lettuce and begged for more!
I have always loved vegetables (good thing since I became a vegetarian when I was a junior in high school), especially asparagus.
I’ve always loved veggies…and the worst kid food I ate all the time: Toaster Strudels! YUCK! I don’t think I could choke one of those down now.
Probably the most grown up food I ate while growing up was my bowl of puffed rice in the mornings. I was such an unhealthy eater and this was the only cereal that I could agree on with my mom…I felt so cool to eat what she did. Yikes…no fiber at all and not filling. Sheesh…if I only knew then what I know now…..
Thanks for the giveaway!
Well, I think most “grown-up” thing I enjoyed as a child was Coffee. My mom let us try it thinking that there would be no way we would like it, and my brother and I loved it! How many six year olds request coffee ice cream for their birthdays parties (more than 20 years ago, before coffee was “the” thing)?
Otherwise, I enjoyed lots of grown-up good – veal marsala, chicken paprika, etc. My parents were great about challenging my palate.
Apparently I really liked marinated mushrooms when I was a kid.
Who knows?!!
My daughter is two, and she eats all kinds of spicy food–curries and other Indian food, likes tabasco on things.
I loved seafood and red onions from as long as I can remember….seafood salad was my favorite and second favorite was spinach
I looked up the book on amazon and I definitely want to read it
omg i would love to win Too Many Cooks, it looks fantastic!
I’ve ALWAYS loved vegetables – still do
You’re going to hate this but I’ve always loved onions! On anything savory.
I ate raw clams from a very young age–yum!
I was pretty good about eating veggies as a kid – I loved acorn squash especially! I also liked mussels and pretty much all fish from a very young age…
Your breakfast is so pretty!
Oddly enough, I always loved Cracklin Oat Bran Cereal. I need to get some of that and see if I still like it!
I loved mac and cheese when I was young, and every so often I still indulge.
I have always liked black tea!
My favorite food when I was little was Turkey, Stuffing and Mashed Potatoes. My mom has this written in my baby book that I loved this at age 2!
Artichokes! I have love love LOVED whole artichokes since I was like 5 and my mom made them for a dinner party. I asked to try part of one and I have loved them–cooked all different ways–since then!
I’ve always loved shell fish. I begged my mom to make shrimp every time she asked me what I wanted for dinner. My parents were shocked when my brother came along and wouldn’t touch it.
caviar! though i refuse to eat it anymore because it is not particularly environmentally sustainable at all.
This book looks so awesome.
Hmmm, I wasn’t very daring with food as a kid. So the main kid food staple I (horribly) lived on was Mac and Cheese from the blue box. But it tastes horrible to me now.
I have always liked fancy cheeses (the smellier the better), and i’ve also always liked brussel sprouts.
Best “grown-up” food would have to be turnips. And I am not going to lie, I enjoyed a lot of marshmellow fluff as a child.
That book looks like a great read!
Pesto…being Italian and Catholic…every Friday during Lent that is what we ate and it was full of garlic…but I always loved it! Still do.
Ooh, I really want to read that book! I was the only 10-year-old I knew that looooved hummus and vegepate sandwiches on pita bread. They’re still one of my favourites to this day!
I don’t think I started to like grown up foods until I was grown up! But my inner child still loves candy … and a lot of it!
That book looks great!
My mom and I used to have brie and figs and watch Saturday Night Live together. I have also been drinking coffee since a very young age because my father used to dunk toast with peanut butter in his coffee (trust me, it’s an acquired taste!). I thought that it was so cool that he did that. To this day, I take my coffee black, toast and PB optional.
I have always loved eggplant! Strange, but true!
Hi Kath! I’m so excited about this giveaway!
I think the best grown up food I enjoyed as a kid was spaghetti and clams – my mom would make it homemade all the time. The worst kid food would have to be my american cheese, mustard, and sweet pickle sandwiches. I loved them. It still kind of makes my mouth water…
There’s a greek dish that’s made with fish eggs that I loved to eat as a kid, definately not typical kid-fare.
The most “grown-up” food I liked as a child was garlic! I would eat whole cloves– gross I know.
When my mom would go to the grocery store every Saturday, she would buy THREE cans of Planters Cheeseballs, to last me the week! That’s right…1 can every 2 days. If we were traveling on the weekend, she would buy an extra one or two for the drive. This went on for literally a decade!
I will never, ever eat a cheeseball again!
I am embarrassed to say that I was a very picky eater as a kid, and I definitely didn’t eat any “grown up” food. Salads were iceburg lettuce, chinese noodles & ranch. Spaghetti was pasta with butter. Out to eat was pretty much chicken fingers. To this day, my mom is always so shocked to see what I eat (or will try!) – I love, love trying new foods & wish I had woken up & realized that way earlier!
I absolutely LOVED beets! Everyone in my family, including my parents, thought it was the weirdest thing. I still love em though
My worst kid food was poptarts. I would eat them breakfast or snack. Sometimes even for lunch! Lol
i have always loves steak, shrimp, and mushrooms. my parents thought it was so weird that I would get a bowl of sauteed mushrooms at the steak place or ask for steak and shrimp kabobs for birthday meals
I always loved broccoli.
There are more things that I used to hate and now I love: asparagus, avocado, celery, prunes (the sterotype made them hard to eat!), hard boiled eggs, cauliflower…
I loved broccoli!!!…and still do!
Well… I don’t know where to start…
As a kid, I loved andouillette, heart meat, bone marrow, snails and raw oysters… I guess growing up in France makes you love all kind of weird food.
the worst kid food eater I know is my husband. He survived college on cereal and milk. Literaly. He still does eat it for dinner when I am not around (along with whatever candy, chocolate or cookie he can find). When the cat’s away….
I always have loved saurkraut. I grew up on homemade, being from a german family!
I loved green onions and tomatoes right out of the garden. Yummy!
I always liked turnip, the way my Irish grandmother made it for us. I didn’t realize until much later that so many people don’t care for it.
Sounds like a wonderful book!
I always loved coffee, brussel sprouts, shrimp, and crab! yum o!
worst food i liked was poptarts definetly!
Besides my penchant for peanut butter sandwiches (which still remains), I had fairly adult tastes as a kid. I didn’t like Kraft Dinner or cheap milk chocolate. To my parents’ chagrin, my taste was pretty expensive; everytime we went camping, I insisted they bring paté, smoked salmon and dark chocolate, while my sister demanded brie cheese. Not exactly your typical camping-with-kids fare!
I also love, love, loved (and still do) asparagus!
I’ve always loved oatmeal and porridge when all my friends wanted to eat mac n cheese, still do!
The worst food I lived off of was cold spaghetti o’s straight out of the can. I use to eat them every day for lunch when I was in high school. Yuck!
I lived on cheerios and strawberries as a child, and they are still two of my favorite foods!
The worst kid food I’ve heard of is hot dog soup. My boyfriend’s dad used to make this for him when he ran out of chicken or other meat to put in soup!
One of my favourite foods as a kid was calamari. Strangely enough, I think I looked it more back then than I do now.
Kraft Mac & Cheese is definitely the worst food I lived on as a kid. I’ve switched to Annie’s since. My mother told me that she tried to get my brothers and I to eat Annie’s when we were younger but we hated it! How weird is that! Now it’s the other way around.
Oh, and I’ve always loved broccoli and spinach! Yum!
My all-time favourite food growing up was escargot (snails)- i used to get a kit every Christmas with a small can of the snails and a tube full of shells to make my own!
I’ve always loved shucked green beans that my grandmother grew out of her garden.
I loved goat cheese as a kid, but strangely can’t stand the stuff now, so weird!
Great giveaway Kath!
Frogs legs!!
As far as kid food, I loved Chocolate Malt o Meal with TONS of sugar, milk and margarine. and a few pieces of white toast to go with it. Thankfully I have grown up and into the world of oats
Thanks!
my sister and i used to live on velveeta shells and cheese!! still sounds appealing to me sometimes now too, lol but i know how nasty it really is!!
Unfortunately, I didn’t like anything very healthy until I got into my late teens. I remember living on Nestle drumsticks in the summers of my childhood and having a Snickers ice cream bar and a bag of chips for lunch every day in middle school! Pretty awful – luckily, my tastes have changed!!!
When I was little I loved sprimp cocktail…well I stilll do. Also I’m half mexican so I ate things like meneudo. The worst kid foods I ate were those snack pack puddings and happy meals!
My sister and I thought Top Ramen was the best food ever invented. I still enjoy an occasional bowl to this day!
Thanks for hosting the giveaway.
I’ve always been a fan of okra, eggplant,and squash since I was young… abnormal for a kid to actually ask her parents to make okra since the slime factor and texture can make it undesirable… but I think my parents Southern upbringing had lots to do with it.
The worst kid food I lived on was cereal. I still love it
I always loved steamed brussel sprouts. Nothing added… just plain! I actually still like them a lot!
I tried escargot once when i was about 4 and loved them. Must have been all that garlic butter! I’m sure i was unaware of what i was actually eating….
i liked escargot, artichokes, sushi, and every vegetable since i can remember!
To the disgust of my younger brothers, I’ve been a life-long greens lover – spinach, collards, beet greens, kale. So delicious!
HAHA I remember one summer I literally ate Bagel Bites for lunch every day. We got a gigantic box from Costco … thank god for my high metabolism as a child!!
I would LOVE to read that book!! Have you read Julie and Julia? That’s next on my to-read list!
Oh, the list is endless! My Dad is Israeli and my Mom is a gourmet cook, so I grew up eating:
assortment of olives
hummus
baba ganoush
Pesto
Artichokes (not just the hearts, the whole schebang!)
walnuts
…i could go on and on!
I have liked asparagus since I tried it when I was 8.
my favorite food when I was little was broccolli…and gefilte fish. I know..everyone judges the gefilte fish (it’s gross, let’s be real) but for whatever reason I love it! makes me look forward to passover all year!
I love loved broccoli and ate it like crazy when I was growing up. I think I ate so much of it that I’m just done with it now.
As a child I would have (if allowed) lived on peanut butter and banana sandwiches. And, frankly, I still could!
have ALWAYS been an olive fan – green or black, out of the jar or the can. as a kid, i’d put the black olives (from a can – it was the ’80’s!) on the tips of my fingers and waggle them around before eating them. i never said i was normal!
I always have loved fruits and veggies! When I was really little I always preferred to have grapes, apple, carrots, or broccoli instead of all the chips other kids wanted!
I loved eating braised lamb shanks as a kid. My parents are big foodies and are always trying new and different things. Worst thing I ever had was probably tongue
I ate a lot of sardines as a kid.
I think my worst kid food would have to be chocolate frosted pop-tarts. I could go through an entire box of them in 2 days. I drank a lot of kool-aid too.
I think the strangest food I loved as a kid is probably Grape Nuts. I loved that cereal, and didn’t add extra sugar to it either, surprisingly. I don’t know many other 8 year olds that would!
When I was little I loved lima beans. And by loved, I mean that I actually requested them as a birthday dinner more than once. True story.
The worst food I loved was probably Froot Loops. And I’d be a liar if I said that I don’t still buy a box about once a year or so.
When I was about 5 or 6 my very favorite meal was shrimp cocktail, followed by medium rare strip steak and broccoli with bernaise sauce. I was very particular about the medium-rare piece and the bernaise sauce covering all the broc and for dipping the steak in. I remmeber ordering it out at my family’s then favorite restaurant Steve’s. I still love bernaise! Oh so bad, but oh so good.
shrimp cocktail – does that count? Love it!
Beets! My grandmother used to boil them for us straight from her garden. SO good.
Spinach, yum! My favorite since I was little.
I have always loved broccoli!!!
Does fried okra count as a grown up food? Loved it as a kid!! Or how bout “okra goulash”? Loved that too as a kid, but now the thought of it totally grosses me out!
I have loved both tofu and broccoli from a very very young age. Put tofu on some Health Nut bread with sprouts and a light smear of dressing (amy’s goddess or a dab of buttermilk) and you have a very happy me.
I’ve loved lobster since I was a kid!
I have always loved squash. Any kind and I would eat it up!
When I was young sometimes we would just eat a mayonnaise sandwich. It sounds so gross now, but I remember it being so good back then.
Escargot. Garlic, butter, what’s not to like?
The only vegetable I ever ate as a child was sweet potato. I ac tually ate so much of it that my skin (I’m very pale!) turned a soft shade of orange (carotenemia).
Still love the SPs now, although I try to mix them up with other veggies
I loved beets, asparagus and artichokes as a kid (and still do). I eat them all raw or steamed depending on my mood.
Remember Kid Cuisine? That was probably my worst kid food. Whenever I had a babysitter, my parents would let me have it… frozen mac ‘n cheese with a little brownie. All microwaved up… ick! I had a pretty broad palette, though… my other fave was shrimp cocktail!
I told my parents I wanted to be vegetarian when I was 6, so they fed me lima beans thinking I would hate them. They were wrong!
Liver and onions – I think I always enjoyed adult food – loved any type of fish also.
I’ve always loved tomatoes! I would have them as a snack afterschool, and my mom would have to limit me because I would get canker sores! ha
I don’t know if this qualifies as a grown up food, but one of my first understandable words was “cheese enchilada” and I loved them. I still remember how much I wanted them.
Shrimp cocktail and brie. When I was two years old my grandmother and mother took me with them to a little gourmet grocery store. Grandma asked what I wanted and I replied “shrimp and brie.” A woman near us turned around and said “my, she has good taste!”
It took me becoming a “grown up” to finally like grown up food!! As a kid I lived on fish sticks and mac n cheese (and tons of ketchup of course)!
i’ve always loved broc! but used to looooove little debbie swiss cake rolls….sooo bad but so good.
I have always liked broccoli! It is still one of my favorites.
I loved artichokes from early on, probably because my mom new just how to cook them.
I’ve always loved broccoli too! And plain yogurt. Yum, yum, yum
Worst kid food was probably the Entenmann’s donuts!
Yuck!
I’ve never minded potatoes or green beans
Growing up I was a pretty picky eater about some things, like onions, peppers, cucumbers, tomatoes, mushrooms, but loved seafood, brussel sprouts, oysters and cherry stones on the half shell.
I have always liked squid, clams, tomatoes, spinach (spinach sandwiches!!), and cottage cheese as long as I can remember.
We owned an ice cream stand when I was growing up, but we rarely had any junk food in the house. We lived on a small farm and grew a TON of vegetables.
Jenn
I loved creamed spinach… still do!! My grandma made creamed spinach with blackened onions in it, and put it crepes. We had it every single time we went to my grandparent’s house. It’s been one of my favorite meals since.
I also loved all kinds of seafood — especially a big ol’ bucket of clams. Yummy.
I was obsessed with whole grains as a child! I would only eat my PB and J on 11 grain and nut bread!
I have always loved broccoli and brussel sprouts. Still my two favorite vegetables.
i always loved beets – got them in my salad at the steak house all the time!
I’ve been waiting forever for my library to get that book in – pick me!
My mom routinely made us white bread open face sandwiches with bacon and mozzarella cheese under the broiler.
I don’t remember anything else being on the plate, no vegetable or fruit on the side – I just remember it was wonderful!
I have always loved vegetables, including butter beans, carrots, and sweet potatoes. However, I always ate pop-tarts with butter for breakfast and snacked on “lunchables” and oatmeal cream pies.
From a pretty young age, I liked all the vegetables kids aren’t “supposed” to like– broccoli, asparagus, etc.
I have LOVED sushi since I was a little kid. I also really loved lobster:)
I grew up on “grown-up” food. My Italian dad always cooked a lot of seafood: octopus, squid, eel. I loved it all (and it was the reason fish was the last thing to go when I effectively went vegan several years ago)!
I have always loved seafood. Even though it was a rare treat growing up, I loved it more and more every time we ate it
I enjoyed lobster and steamers from a very young age. Those books sound great – I will have to check them out.
I have always loved Artichokes even as a little kid.
I’ve been ogling that book everytime you’ve posted about it! I can’t think of an adult food I’ve always liked, but I definitely ate way too much buttered pasta as a kid.
PEAS! I have always loved peas…
Prunes. I was that kid who actually CHOSE them at lunch over chips!!! lol
I’ve always like coffee flavored things. I’d always want a sip of my mom’s “mocah” (aka anything flavored coffee).
Love the mug! Breakfast looks delish too!
Have a great day, Kath!
I have always loved steel cut oats. Even as a kid it was my breakfast of choice!
As a child, I loved to drink coffee. I didn’t add any milk or sugar to it either. I drank it black and I loved it that way.
Spinach, every fruit and vegetable imaginable, coffee (I used to drink “coffee milk”-milk with a splash of coffee). Oh, and carrots, i LOVED carrots and ate them constantly, it’s amazing I didn’t turn orange!
I don’t know how much of an adult food it is, but I loved dates when I was little. All the kids would give me weird looks when I packed them for lunch in elementary school!
I have always loved spinach and lima beans!! MMM MMM!
Ever since I was little, I loved eating Parmesan cheese – we always freshly grated our own for pasta, and that was my favorite “kitchen chore,” so I could sneak lots of bites of it!
I have loved artichokes since I was little. They’re so fun to eat!
I have always loved super spicy food, which everyone thought was odd when I was little
I ate any and everything when I was little. One of my favorite snacks was slightly cooked (crunchy) broccoli and water chestnuts wrapped up in a tortilla. yum!
I was the only kid who loved Brussels sprouts and actually looked forward to them at thanksgiving! I have also always been a banana and oatmeal lover since the beginning of solid foods
I loved brussel sprouts and asparagus as a kid. We weren’t big vegetable eaters in my house but I had them at a friend’s house and loved them!
When I was little, I always ate whatever my Grandma ate. I never ordered–just always ate off of her plate. So, I guess I liked whatever adult food she ate!:)
Worst kid foods: sugary cereal, pop tarts, spaghetti with ketchup (weird, i know!). Can’t remember eating too many “grown up” foods but I loved eating carrots and pretending I was Bugs Bunny! : )
I LOVED and still absolutely love spinach! My favorite is a spinach tortilla/quiche with lots of onions and red peppers…delicious!
I’ve always loved asparagus! It seems grown up to me because my little brothers hated it when we were young so it would just be me eating it with my mom and dad. I also lived on Tyson chicken fingers and mac and cheese, ugh.
The grown-up food i loved as a kid (and still do) is olives.
My cousins were always so grossed out by it but when they came over they made me get the jar out of the fridge and watched me eat the pimento in the olive and then the olive itself . . . and then of course came the expected “eww” noises.
i still don’t understand the weird entertainment factor of watching me eat olives, but as a four year old i really didnt care since it meant i got to eat olives
crossing my fingers for the book . . . Thanks!
As a kid, I loved drinking V-8! I still like it, but I definitely don’t drink it as often as I did!!
I’ve always liked all veggie dishes with brussel sprouts in them since childhood!
Favorite grown up food as a kid: mushrooms! It took me a long time to realize other kids didn’t like them!
all vegetables…i would ask my mom to pack me a salad for my recess snack
I started drinking coffee at age 3 because my grandmother served it to my grandfather and me with pound cake after naptime.
I have loved guacamole my WHOLE life!
I guess I’m proud to say that from a young age my mom instilled healthy eating habits to me. I grew up loving all types of fruits and vegetables. So much so, that I was a vegetarian from a very young age. I couldn’t stand meat until I got older!
BEEF CARPACCIO! Now I rarely eat red meat, but I still kind of crave the stuff
I loved liver and onions when I was young. Even the adults thought that was odd. I can’t even stand the smell now, but I don’t remember when that shifted.
I don’t think I was ever hungry until I turned 18…in elementary school, I ate Honey Nut Cheerios, vanilla yogurt, apples, cucumbers, and milk.
Oh! And mustard sandwiches. Mustard on rye bread.
I’m so glad I’ve become a more diverse eater in my old age!
I have always liked Brussels Sprouts. Yum!
I’ve always loved lobster–does that count as a grownup food?
I also loved Frosted Flakes when I was a kid. I’ve outgrown that one.
Tomatoes! Even in elementary school, my favorite snack was a whole tomato, sprinkled with salt and eaten like an apple.
Lobster…my parents made the mistake of serving it to my brother and I young, and it stuck.
Your Breakfast looks amazing! I’m so jealous.
Broccoli! The only way my mom could get me to eat was to call it “little trees.” “Can I have some more little trees, Mom, please?”
Not sure if this is really grown up, but I still remember the first time I had scallops – I was 10, and with my aunt in Alexandria, VA. Worst kid food – every now and then I just crave some gummy worms!
Looks like a GREAT book!
When I was young, my aunt used to make Green Toast (ripe avocado spread on a piece of toast).
I have loved crabcakes my entire life. Growing up in Baltimore most kids my age would be ordering grilled cheese or hot dogs. I would ALWAYS want a crabcake and a salad.
I loved broccoli from a young age. My husband hardly knew what it was until we got married and I started cooking (healthy) for him last year!
I’ve loved brussel sprouts since I was a child. This sounds odd, but I’ve actually fought to get the last brussle sprouts=)
I have always loved spinach, broccoli, cottage cheese and shrimp…but I miss Rice Krispie Treats Cereal- what happened to that??!
I was never a picky eater as a child and ate pretty much all fruits and vegetables. My favorites were mushrooms, asparagus, tomatoes, spinach, kiwi, and cherries. The book sounds wonderful I have ready so many great reviews about it!
I ate fish sticks almost everyday for lunch, my mom thinking they are good for you because contains fish. Nothing about a piece of fried, breaded piece of fish is good for you at any age!
I’ve aaaalways loved sushi and pea soup. But I think the weirdest grown up food I loved when I was little was caviar. My waspy grandparents would give it to me and not my parents, probably just to drive them crazy.
My dad and I have always been fans of very spicy foods. He’d have to cook mild meals to accommodate my mom and brother, and then he and I would put a spice rack’s worth of jars between our place settings so we could “fix” our own bowls.
Mine was broccoli, in any way, shape, or form. It’s still on of my favorite foods.
BTW, I’ve been trying to locate this book in all of my local bookstores and they are sold out! Must be a good book!
Brussel Sprouts have always been my favorite vegetable. I love all things”cabbage”. My parents used to joke that I hate onions but would eat anything green…still will.
I always loved ALL veggies, even as a kid- especially broccoli. I actually think I liked it better then than I do now.
The books look great!
Grown up food: Scotch and Sodas (sips from my beloved Grandmother’s drink – loved the taste, what can I say?!?)
Kid food: Kraft Macaroni and Cheese – even though it’s been at least a year since I’ve had it, I’ll bet I could eat an entire box if I made it. Which I will not do.
seafood has always been a big love of mine. i know a lot of kids don’t seem to like it but shrimp, lobster, and especially raw oysters have always been some of my favorite foods!
i’ve heard a lot of great things about that book!
I have always demolished brocolli like it is going out of style. I was never the kid that would try to feed it to the dog, I was the kid offering to take it from the rest of the kids!
Sardines…straight out of the can!
I was the kid that refused to eat mac & cheese, but would eat an entire bowl of brussel sprouts or a plate of celery. I’ve liked almost all vegetables since I was little.
I have loved asparagus since I was a child! The book looks like a great read.
Can’t really think of a grown up food that I loved. But how about Lucky Charms for the worst kid food. Gulp…
I have a picture of me when I was 4 with a class project that listed clams as my favorite food. That didn’t last too long though and I only recently started liking them again even though I LOVE other seafood.
I love your funky bowl of oats!!!
I always loved my vegetables. My favorite food for awhile was carrots and lettuce (I believe I had some weird affinity with rabbits or something). My mom said I also reeeeally loved spinach and butternut squash soup. Plus living in Germany… I guess most of what people eat there are whole foods so is that grown up food?
I have loved champagne since I was in elementary school. My grandma let me have a glass mixed with iced tea at a wedding once and it has been my favourite ever since! It was also the only alcohol I had on my 21st.
When I was a kid I would coat everything in wheat germ – not sure what was up with that, since I don’t find it all the tasty now!
As a kid no one is allowed Coffee or Tea and I wanted them the most!!! My Mom would mix a small qty in my tall glass of milk and it gave me an illusion of drinking Tea/ Coffee!
I have always loved crabcakes. Growing up in Baltimore, most kids would be ordering grilled cheese or hot dogs… I would be asking my Mom if it was ok to order a crabcake and a side salad. Crabcakes continue to be one of my favorite lunch or dinner option today.
I’ve loved shrimp since I was very little. My mom said I used to beg for shrimp cocktail when I was two years old.
Still love it!
I have been obsessed with black olives since I was 2 years old!! I used to pick them out of my mom’s salads : )
I loveddd hummus! And broccoli haha(:
I loved sushi all my life and I love love cereal as well. And I still watch hocos pocos with a bowl of cereal of course.
I have always been a fan of brussel sprouts, even when I was a little tyke!
I have always loved pickles and olives. It runs in the family…I have been eating them since I was 2!
i’ve always loved my broccoli “trees” : )
Loved brussel sprouts, Lima beans and liverwurst (which I now find disgusting!).
I always liked boiled eggs, green beans, and squash as a child. Maybe these aren’t grown-up foods, but I know my brother and sister despised them.
I started my love for veggies and fruits very early on! I actually would opt for a plate of strawberries rather than ice cream–sorta strange for a 5 year old!
Basically every food!
Blue Cheese
Fish
Spinach
Mushrooms
I don’t know if this is a “kid” food, but I loved mayonnaise, and so my mom used to put mayo on banana slices and then sprinkle them with corn flakes. Ick.
As soon as i learned to cook mac n’ cheese from the blue box (around 12 w/ parent supervision) I was hooked!
when I was a kid I was supremely unpicky. I ate anything even when I had tried it before and didn’t like it I always wanted to try it again because someone told me that if you try something enough you’ll eventually like it. It worked for me and tomatoes! Hope my little girl is so unpicky!
The adult food that I liked from a young age (before I had teeth!) is also probably one of the worst foods I ate as well: fried okra!
I was making myself salads since before I was 10! Have always loved em.
When I was a kid, my favorite sandwich was cucumbers, sprouts, and cream cheese on whole wheat bread.
I have always loved stuffed olives since I was a kid…my dad used to incorporate them in a lot of dishes and they also were great as a snack! Still love them!!!
I’d say it was veggies! I remember eating (and enjoying) beets and cabbage as kid! YUM!
Broccoli!
my favorite food as a child was prime rib sandwiches…my dad was a chef in a fancy restaurant, so i ate them a lot. i couldnt understand why other kids at pb&j or turkey..i wouldnt touch the stuff. made for awkward times when i went to friends houses asking their parents for a prime rib sandwich…
I don’t remember ever NOT liking many foods. I grew up with adventurous eaters, so instead of pizza takeout on weekends I grew up eating Thia and Indian dishes. I remember having my friends over one weekend and they were disgusted, lol!
I liked kid food too though. Especially cream cheese and jelly sandwiches or wonder bread dipped in ranch
When I was a kid I hated so much “kid” food. I LOVED salad and almost every raw veggie I tried. Instead of a sandwich, I’d eat salad. At a restaurant, i’d order salad. It literally was my favorite thing to eat. It may not be real “grown up” food, but for a 6 year old, it’s pretty bizarre.
I have always loved any kind of fish, my mom said when I was little I would BEG her to make me fish prepared with pesto – something my two sisters definitely did NOT enjoy!
Bake stuffed lobster!
I put this book on my Amazon wish list but would love to win it! I guess I have always loved veggies as a kid, if that can be considered grown up!
I’ve always loved broccoli and peas (sad that it’s considered an “adult” food!)
ha! I actually had to grow up a *lot* to learn the value of good food. My first time in college, I went to design school, and I was up all hours. I lived on Pepperidge Farm Cookies, ice cream, and the horrific coffee from our cafeteria. Taking a quote from Castle, that coffee was like “A monkey peed in battery acid.” But it kept me going. And I never gained a pound, which is insanely hilarious since getting the right nutrition and working out are like my 2 PT jobs now.
I think my favourite adult food growing up was shellfish — lobster, crab legs, and shrimp. We didn’t have it very often, although I asked often enough!
My worst kid food? Roll-ups of mock chicken lunch meat (yes … mock chicken!) and a slice of processed cheese.
The “grown up” food I had as a child and have loved ever since is tofu!
I loved all kinds of veggies-broccoli, beets, beans, cauliflower…you name it! I think I went through a phase of “not liking” them anymore but I think that was upon realizing that most kids don’t actually like those foods. (Of course now I LOVE them again!) I also used to ask for sips of my mom’s coffee. She always said no but sometimes would let me have the last “drop” from the bottom of the mug.
I’ve always loved dark chocolate… case in point- when I was a baby I got into the pantry and ate bakeing cocoa from the box. Nice and bitter!!
i never liked meat and ALWAYS loved my veggies as a kid
Beets, I used to eat them all the time when I was a kid. That was my favorite afterschool snack too! I still love them. YUM!
My favorite adult food as a kid was broccoli! I couldn’t get enough of the stuff;
The worst kid food would have to be oreos or french fries; thankfully my parents limited my intake!
I grew up on tofu! I always preferred to eat it over any kind of meat, still do!
the kid food i was stuck on was definitely kraft mac n cheese, chili cheese fritos, and fresca!!! sad but true
Using chopsticks to eat vietnamese food when I was 3. I’m not vietnamese so I guess this is sorta “adult” like.
I loved Grape Nuts as a kid– weird, but better than being obsessed with Fruit Loops
I don’t think I liked a single “adult” food until I was in my 20’s! Or at least my teens… When I was a kid I pretty much lived on PB&J and Juicy Juice! (A combo I still break out occassionally!)
LOVE the mug, how cute!
I’ve always loved brussels sprouts!
i’ve loved stinky cheese ever since i was a kid.
I have always LOVED brussels sprouts!
I have always liked oatmeal, not sure of that
counts as a grown up food, but I know my friends always thought it was so gross! We called it “daddy’s cereal’ in my house, since my dad ate it every morning!
I’ve always loved eggplant! I don’t know that it’s ‘grownup’, but no matter. I <3 eggplant!
Definitely mushrooms. Even as a little kid, I craved sauteed mushrooms!
Not too sure if this is considered a “kid food”, but when I was a kid I lived off of chili-mac (boxed mac and cheese with a can of chili added), and top ramen. I look back and wonder how I was able to eat that all the time and actually enjoy it. Hmmmm
Have a great day!
i loved mashed potatoes with sauerkraut mixed in! but i always, always ate spaghettio’s with franks for lunch. EW!
The worst food I lived on as a kid…..When I was young I was always really skinny, so the doctors told my mom to give me Carnation Instant Breakfast like three times a day! I got addicted to it!
I would love a copy of the book. I am always looking for new ideas to get my 3 kids to eat healthy foods. Thanks for the chance to win it.
As kids we loved to put butter on Saltines and mayo on garden fresh tomatoes and cucumbers.
As a kid I always loved veggies, especially broccoli and peas (not together though!). The worst kid food I was hooked on was definately McDonald’s French Fries with BBQ sauce…not ketchup!
Love your blog and your style of writing, thanks for sharing your days with us!!!
I liked most vegetables and nearly all fruit as a kid – especially broccoli, since I thought I was eating mini-trees!
Thanks!
Ooh, I would love that book. Let’s see, this is going to sound super weird, but when I was little my grandpa would always used one of those fake butter sprays for his food because he has a bad heart and was avoiding real butter/cholesterol, and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. I started spraying it on everything you would think to put butter on (toast, baked potatoes) because I wanted to be like him and spray my butter.
Kath- just wondering, but what is the significance of the 26? I seem to have missed that..
I have always loved beets and started to eat shrimp at a very young age. But I’ve grown into an adult that will try just about anything!
Watercress. One memorable meal my parents ordered a seafood dish for me and all I ate was the watercress garnish. They still tell that story!
I have always liked tofu!
Woohoo, that looks like a great book!
This isn’t exactly grown-up food, but I just started liking oatmeal again after seeing it all over the blogs for so long – but I LOVED it when I was little! My mom has a story that one day she decided to give me as many bowls as I asked for and it was some ridiculously big number for a toddler or whatever I was. Then I was oatmeal-free from probably age 8 to age 23! What a loss! Ha.
I have always loved most vegetables, but simply ADORED Rutebegas. I could eat them by the plateful as a child.
I always loved broccoli! With cheese sauce of course! haha!
Diana
Spinach!! I used to beg my mom to make me steamed spinach when I was little and I still love it.
My grown-up food when I was little was puffed wheat cereal – I saw my Grandpa eating it all the time and got hooked!
I always used to eat a big steak for supper when I was little and it seems like no little kids in my family now will even take one bite!
I absolutely loved green beans as a kid. My grandpa would take them away from me at the table and kid me that I was going to turn green.
I have been reading your blog for over a year and this is my first time commenting…. Anyhow, this isn’t really just a grown up food but as a kid I love apples over any kind of sweet. I also never liked the taste of any of the processed sweets like ho ho’s and twinkies. Happy travels. Meryl
steamers! i think i was the only 4 year old in the world who loved steamed clams (and i still love ‘em!)
Calamari and fried clams! And I love them both to this day.
My secret shame throughout my childhood was that the only component I ate of the lunch my mom lovingly packed for me was the dessert (usually a homemade cookie.) The rest of it – sandwich, carrots, apple, chips- went to the other kids at my table or (this is the worst!) the garbage. I still feel guilty, but what can I say? I’ve always favored sweets!
I have always loved super hot spicy salsa!!
Would love to win the book, esp. since her name is EMILY too!
My favorite “grown up food” I have had throughout my life and LOVED is my grandmothers rum cake! Oh she has this cake recipe down to a science and I enjoy every fattening bite when I visit her. I can remember my dad packing a little sliver in my lunch as a kid whenever we came back from her house and everyone at the lunch table looking at me like, “Did your dad really pack rum cake in your lunch box?!?” : )
alas, i was that “weird girl” who loovvvved brussels sprouts
I LOVED LOVED LOVED goat cheese and brie when I was younger, but I also ate a lot of Ramen Noodles (worst kid food). We would crush up the dry noodles, put the flavour packet in, shake, and eat…now the amount of sodium is enough to scare me! I would love to read that book!
I’ve always loved mushrooms, even when I was a little kid!! I would love to win that book and the book about being in your 20’s sounds like something I would love to read!
Hi Kath,
It looks like you have had some exciting travels recently
I always loved artichokes dipped in melted butter…
Have a great day!
worst kid food that I loved: Ham and Cheese Sandwiches on white wonder bread crammed with a handful of Doritos. LOVED it.
When I was little, I loved expensive food – steak and lobster, which is funny since now I’m a vegetarian – and I also loved dolmades (Greek stuff grape leaves) which is kind of a weird food for a kid to like!
I remember always being annoyed that the kid menus had such unappealing items on them! I have always loved proscuitto. It was good plain, but even better in fettucine alfredo with young peas and cream sauce.
I had a very unsophisticated palate as a child – I pretty much lived on Chef Boyardee, fish sticks, and macaroni and cheese!
The only grownup-ish thing I loved were pickles – especially half sour pickles. I’d eat the entire jar in a sitting!
I loved mussels with tomato sauce, even though my sisters were grossed out by the thought of “eating sea shells”
I really liked fish — broiled with a bit of salt and pepper. Mmm! I guess the worst kid food was all those sugary cereals, which I can’t stand anymore!
Black olives
I’ve always loved fruit and vegetables. When I was 11, my grandmother tried to have an “intervention” with me about how I was turning orange from eating too many carrots. What kid eats too many vegetables?
I loved liver and onions as a kid!
I ate tons of fruit as a kid…mangos, pears, cantelope – I loved it all!
I loved lobster – adored it! My Mom thought it was amusing.
ugh I was a gross little kid! I lived on Coco Puffs and would eat white bread and ketchup sandwiches! Yuck!
I have always loved shellfish…
a favorite kid food was definitely kraft mac and cheese…I still get my fix every once in awhile (but with annie’s organic now!)
I liked mushrooms as a kid. Thought they were the perfect vegetarian food when I was playing with being vegetarian. I’m vegetarian now but I still love mushrooms!
My mom never let these into our kitchen… but I lived for Spaghetti O’s when I was staying over at my cousins house.
I was the pickiest kid ever. I wouldn’t eat a thing, yet alone a “grown up” food. I eat everything now and love trying new foods–go figure. Can I be entered anyway!? I really want to read that book.
Avocados – Yum!!!
The most adult food I ate as a kid was asparagus and calamari!
As a kid, I loved sardines and brussel sprouts. One of my family’s favorite stories is how I chose sardines and crackers over vanilla ice cream for dessert when I was three.
I have always loved coffee. I remember dipping cookies into my grandparents’ coffee when I was just a toddler. The worst foods were probably poptarts or toaster strudels.
While a picky eater as a kid, I always loved broccoli. It was my favorite veggie.
oh geez, everytime we went out to dinner til like 6th grade I ate chicken fingers with tarter sauce (what?) and french fries with blue cheese or ranch, talk about a heart attack, I can’t believe my parents let me eat that, I can’t even imagine any of those foods now!
I’ve always loved asparagus! When the rest of the family was busy with other things my mom and I would treat ourselves to a dinner that included asparagus because no one else like it! YUM!
I was a big fan of roquefort blue cheese dressing as a little kid!
I loved olives of all types as a kid, and I loved spicy stuff. I would literally drink hot sauce.
I loved artichokes as a kid (and still do)! I always felt very grown-up knowing how to slide the leaves through your teeth to get the good part of the ‘choke. Mmmmm…..
That book looks adorable! And I should go on the hunt for the book about your 20s as well!!
My gosh, I’ve always loved ‘adult foods’…I’ve loved broccoli, cauliflower, etc.. all my life!
Sushi! My parents introduced it to all 3 of us and we were hooked. It took me a bit to add wasabi, but now I love it and am so glad that my parents bombarded us with different foods.
Thanks for the contest!
I’ve always loved red bell peppers. I still can’t get enough of them!!!
I’ve always loved alfalfa sprouts and broccoli!
Thanks for the contest! The book sounds great and I would love to read it.
I’ve always loved red bell peppers. I still can’t get enough of them!!!
sorry, I accidentally posted two comments!
LOVED meatloaf. My momma put lots of ritz crackers and KETCHUP in it… plus I lived on a beef farm, so we like had beef EVERY DAY. oh my……….
I also lived on Hostess cupcakes, fruit pies, twinkies and bowls of ice cream with CHIPS crushed on top. Heavens to betsy!! My mom was a GREAT cook, but we had a LOT Of junk all the time to fill in the gaps.
Good thing I had a great metabolism!!!! 
Love you, Kath!!! XOXOXOXOOXOXOXOXOOXOXO
i was TOO picky when I was a kid. BUT I’ve always LOVED fresh fruits! I have always loved apple.
I’ve always liked smoked fish, particularly on bagels w/cream cheese, tomato (though, not when I was a kid), and red onion. Mmmm, delicious!
I wasn’t allowed much junk food, but my absolute FAVORITE was Jax Cheese Curls. I think they were made with “real” cheese, which was the only reason my mom would buy them. Every Friday night, I would eat a bowl with a Coke while I watched TGIF. Every 8-year-olds’ dream.
OMG. my mother and I had a dicussion about this the other day about my eating habits as a child….
She says I ate A LOT OF SPINACH and MILK! (whoo hoo) She says it is no wonder you have such strong bones.. (never broke one)!
I was never a picky eater. I was good. I ate my veggies!
Thanks for the Giveaway Kath!
I loved brussels spouts, grapefruit and shrimp (not together). Your mug is kewl.
I have always loved Lima beans! I remember being little and being the only kid I knew that liked them.
ironically, even though i was a picky kid, i’ve always LOVED onions. i would steal slices from my mom while she was cutting them up for dinner and eat the raw. i would only eat eggs if they were scrambled with sauteed onions in them!
I loved beets & brussels sprouts!
I loved raw corn and raw peas. Growing up in SoCal we had farm stands in the country. Guess mom and dad were locavores.
I practically lived on dairy queen blizzards. ew right? hahaha
definitely ate a LOT of lucky charms, pixie stix, grape kool-aid, giant soft pretzels, etc…
however, lots of fresh fruit my whole life as well!
i’ve always loved seafood! mussels, clams, shrimp, crab, fish…yum!
Would love to win this book, I’ve tried to rent it at the library but it’s been out!
When I was little I used to eat sushi with my parents, my mom said I liked it at 3!! lol
I lived off of instant mashed potatoes. I even wrote a “recipe” in kindergarten for mashed potatoes the consisted of pouring the potato flakes into the boiling milk/water! Actually kind of sad now that I think about it!
My senior year of college I pretty much survived on Rice Krispie bars. I ate them breakfast, lunch and dinner. Once my pan would run out, I would simply make more!!
I was a horrible eater as a child, and actually wouldn’t eat anything other than mac & cheese and hot dogs…lol. My how our palates change as we age – now I’ll eat anything.
I’ve always loved crab legs!
When I was a kid I used to eat escargot (snails!). Can you imagine?? Thanks dad!
I was not a picky kid, and basically ate anything! Plenty of veggies!
Gross kid food? My sister and I used o make a dip with mayo mustard and ketchup, and use cheetos to eat it!!! Gross! Hamburger grosses me out too – except the Amy’s Organic brand I’m dying to try!
Favorite kid food that I still love today-homemade Mac and Cheese and an adult food that I ate as a kid- gnocchi.
I’ve always loved asparagus! At 5 no other kids were eating it, but I thought it was great.
The most adult food that I loved as a little kid was spinach! I would always beg for it, fresh from our garden, with vinegar sprinkled on top.
I have always loved broccoli!
I ate a lot of veggies as a kid and spicy food as well. My favorite – spinach and fenugreek. I still cannot to this day eat snake gourd (found in Asia only – TG).
I loved butter when I was little. In fact, my younger brother and I used to eat butter straight from the container. How horrible, right?!
I love all vegtables from an early age. Kinda weird, but I always made my Mom and Grandma happy when I ate all my veggies! What a great giveaway!
I’ve always loved shrimp, beets, and carrots! My mom said that when I was a baby my skin started to develop a slight orange tinge to it …
I LOVED artichokes as a kid…my mom used to pack them in my lunch and my friends thought they were just the most disgusting thing in the world but I loved them anyway and I still do!
I have always loved asparagus, even from a young age. Now that I am thinking about it, I can’t even remember a vegetable that I wouldn’t eat as a kid.
I have always loved REALLY spicy foods since I was a youngin’
My mom always tells me I liked to eat veggies, fruit, chicken — but they couldn’t convince me to try pie or pizza!
I’ve loved tofu ever since I was a kid! The worst part would be when I squished an entire block of tofu in my hand and then eat it like that. Luckily, that particular hobby didn’t stick with me into my adult years.
I always love parsley and lettuce- plain. When I was little, me and my Mom would sit there and snack on romaine lettuce leaves together.. it was such a weird bonding time for us.
I loved tea..well I still do. I need my 2 cups everyday!
I’ve always loved ethnic foods. Most kids stayed away from them, but I couldn’t get enough of that spice!
I always ate asparagus and broccoli as a kid with gusto!
Paté!
My parents took me to France when I was almost one year old (born in August), and suddenly I decided I didn’t want breastmilk anymore, or that silly babyfood in jars.
The only thing they could get me to eat was French bread, and paté – liver paté, mostly.
I still like it a lot!
i love fillet mignon when i was a kid! i called it fillet mignon-a though haha.
I’ve always been a HUGE fan of greens – kale, collards you name them, I ate them! Also, okra. LOVED it as a little girl!
I hope I win!
I have always loved calamari! I’m not sure how my family got me to try eating squid when I was young, but it sure is tasty!
i used to eat green onions raw when i was little. i just loved them. kids never like onions (neither do some adults lol
i was an odd one!
when i was very young, I LOVED fish, which all the adults thought was weird
kid food = kraft mac and cheese, until about 2 years ago!!
Chocolate, but now it has to be dark choc!
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I loved all seafood.
I used to eat mushrooms out of the can, and loved that chow mein in a can. eeewww!
My mom and I used to eat canned oysters and eel with a sleeve of crackers for snacks or a meal. My brother and sister thought we were nuts! I also loved sushi from a young age and requested it for every birthday dinner. Green tea ice cream!!! The best!
Fried green tomatoes! My grandpa would cook them and make me eat them when I was little – I cried at the table many hours as a child b/c I didn’t want to try them. Finally one time I tried them and couldn’t get enough of them – I love them today thanks for my Grandpa.
I loved Brussels sprouts!
I’ve always loved fruits and veggies. I know that seems odd, but we were very poor and didn’t have any fruits and veggies for weeks on end. We lived on PB on toast.
That being said I’ve always loved the foods that kids don’t like: Brussel Sprouts, Asparagus, Beets…..ect.
I ate EVERYTHING as a kid, probably the best example is olives…i think every kid hates olives! but I loved them!
I LOVED salads as a kid. When my family would go out to the local piza place, I would always order salad. My parents had to bribe me to even take a bite of pizza. Other parents were always in awe.
I was fed tofu as a baby and apparently it was my absolute favorite food. I still eat it all the time!
Also, I am a Chicago reader, so let me know if you finalize a time for the get together – I’d love the opportunity to actually meet you!
i think i was one of the few children who got hummus and veggie sandwiches with sprouts (and loved them) and knew what jicama was
my mom always kept pretty healthy stuff around and could make chicken into anything :p this book looks great!
the little kid food I live off of is boxes of macaroni and cheese! when you fancy it up with veggies and canned tuna or salmon it actually becomes a pretty (cheap!) grown up meal.
I have always loved my mom’s spinach pie! It is VERY green but I still gobbled it up.
Omigosh my (crazy) grandmother used to let me drink coffee when I was at her house… she lived in a different country though so it was only a few times a yr but still YUM
according to my mom, i was OBSESSED with cocktail shrimp when i was younger. at any party that she took me to, i would sit my self down infront of the shrimp and go to town!
I as SOO picky as a kid… all I’d eat was kraft macaroni and cheese (had to be kraft!) and cheese sandwiches with the crust cut off.
It’s pretty crazy that now I’m the most explorative as far as food goes in my family (within vegetarian limits, that is
A food I have always LOVED (since age 4) is escargot! Yum! Yum!
I have always loved roasted brussel sprouts and all the kids in my family always made fun of me cause they thought they were icky. And apparently I used to eat onions like apples when I was really little. I don’t remember this and DEFINITELY would not do this now haha.
The worst kid food that I lived on and STILL like is Kraft Mac and Cheese…the blue box! What a great giveaway
Ive always loved spinach
Breakfast at my health-conscious grandma’s house always involved the most delicious toast–yes, toast. Even as a kid I was trying to figure out how toast could be that special, but as I grew older realized that it was whole wheat toast, which made all the difference!
I really liked fish (especially salmon) and most vegetables even as a child, but I also loved any kind of the Little Debbie snack cakes!
my favorite worst kid food was twinkies!
I’ve always loved brussels sprouts – I crave them if I don’t eat them often enough!
Pate! My love for this goes back to the age of 8. Particularly when paired with extra sharp chedder cheese and some fresh bagette
I’ve always loved extremely spicy food. When I was little, my parents used to feed me jalapenos as party entertainment – sounds cruel, but I seriously have always been addicted to spicy heat!
I always loved Brussels sprouts–even the boiled ones! Now that I’m a grown-up, I eat them roasted with EVOO, pepper, and sea salt…mmm…
The worst food I ever loved were definitely ramen noodles! I ate waaayyy too many during college…
Kraft Mac and Cheese — I didn’t love it, but we ate a lot of it growing up — yuck…my sisters still love it, but I turn my nose up at it.
mmmmmmm that looks soooo yummy! i love blueish breakfasts. they are awesome!
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I have always loved asparagus! My parens used to tell me it was green beans, and I would dip it in ketchup…
my favorite food has been raw bar since I was 8… as in raw oysters and little necks served with cocktail sauce and lemon juice. I’ve always loved calamari, pesto sauce, and beets to name a few other foods that my friends always found weird. I wasn’t allowed to eat junk food so I actually bribed friends to bring me extra fruit rollups in their lunch boxes!! lol
Definitely Extra sharp cheddar and liverwerst (is that even how you spell it?)
Lox…I think I thought it was bacon! haha
I don’t really have a food that I can think of that I eat that my mom labeled as a “grown up” food. She just encouraged us to eat whatever she made. Although people always found it hilarious when my brothers and I chowed down on seafoods like scallops and clams when all my cousins would turn up their nose and prefer a grilled cheese or hot dogs.
i always liked feta cheese!
asparagus… always loved them!
I pretty much survived on cottage cheese and green olives (not together) when I was a kid. Luckily things have changed since then!
i loved grape nuts cereal as a kid…i loved how it was so crunchy!
I was such an unpicky child eater growing up… I never loved any weird grown-up food, but I heartily ate all my vegetables at every meal. I’ve always liked cooked/sauteed mushrooms!
Steamed mussell in white wine sauce since I was three and a half — still order them for an appetizer and share them with my Dad!
P.S. Not a commentor, but am an avid KERF reader. Also, we live in VT and have a Great Harvest — it’s awesome.