Omnivores Dilemna

1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
4) Optional extra: Post a comment here at www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.

The VGT Omnivore’s Hundred:

1. Venison (yum, venison)
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros (Homemade, from a Betty Crocker Recipe)
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari (Greek Restaurante)
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich (Had one for Supper Last Night)
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart (the best kind of hotdog there is!)
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries (Field Work, Spent an hour, getting scratched up, eating raspberries, with a tape measure. Yum!)
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans (not my favorite)
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl (clam chowder, but not in a sourdough bowl)
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut (No. Awful stuff. Will not try it. One of the few things I won't try)
35. Root beer float (Of course, and Orange Floats, and Raspberry Floats)
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O (Jello shots? Best use of Jello I can com up with)
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut (there a bit over rated. I can get better doughnuts at the bakery)
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal (No. Cheeseburger, Chicken Nuggets Meal, but Never a Big Mac)
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV (I'm sure I have - beer is good, but I just don't know!)
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores (Campfire Favorites)
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake (Fried Dough, covered in sugar and cinnamon, yum!)
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain (Friend Banana, but not plantain)
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers (Pansys are good - there is a seller at the Winona Farmers Market that would sell lettuce mix with Flowers.)
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam (Yup. Just wouldn't be Minnesotan If I didn't)
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish (Blackened Catfish)
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

So my vet said...

... that wet cat food is absolutely no good for cats. It makes them fat, and causes gingivitis. This is all well and good, except my two have come to love their wet cat food each night. Each cat gets 1/2 can of it, and it makes them happy, so to keep happy cats, but not feed wet cat food, I've decided to institute a real, non processed bit of meat instead of full-of-calories and preservatives but yet tasty wet cat food.

Last night, my meal was turkey hamburger helper, the cats meal: turkey hamburger (no helper) with egg. Of course Bentley sniffed it and walked away- and the kitten stuck her paw out, touched it, jumped back, sniffed it, touched it again, and then grabbed a piece and ran, leaving a nice trail of turkey hamburger and egg.

My meal tonight was: broiled fish. Yum! Their meal: the leftover broiled cod I didn't eat. Again, Bentley sniffed it, and ate the dry kibble. The kitten seemed to think it was newly dead, and went through the paw it, jump backwards from it, and then the grab and run technique she perfected with the previous meal. Now I have bits of fish all over my kitchen floor.

For those of you who are worried about the cat's nutrition: It's replacing 1/4 of their total food. Cats require a large amount of taurine to function, and I don't have the skills to completely replace their food with something a little bit more non-processed. I also don't have the time, not the inclination. As to why do I do this? well, cat food is only there to make people's life easier, not cats. That brown kibble they eat might be nutritious, but also not found in the wild. Happy cats = a variety of foods, and in mostly original shapes.