My mom always tells me about how, right from my first cry on earth, I’ve always been a picky eater. She even tells stories of me rejecting baby food when it wasn’t at a particular temperature. And anytime she says those things, I get very amazed because, trust me, as I type today, I’m not even close to the word picky.
One of the reasons why my relatives like me is how I never say no to food, whether healthy or junk. I just eat whatever I’m given. There’s no way I’ll pay a visit to someone and they’ll give me junk food and I’ll say, Oh, I’m so sorry, I’m on a diet, or bring up an excuse. This is even funny to me because I’ve never been on a diet.
Anyway, that’s for when I visit people, so what about myself? Do I prefer to cook healthy food or get myself some junk? I wish I had a lot to say about this, but I am like an open book when it comes to food. The thing with me is that I just eat what I have available. I just eat what I am craving. I just eat what I can afford.
Writing this, I realized that I had a very busy schedule last week, and throughout, I only resorted to assorted noodles, French fries, pizza, or whatever I could order. The week before was different. I had some foodstuff available, so I cooked yam with egg stew just so they wouldn’t go bad.
As I said earlier, I didn’t order any of that or cook that food because I had a specific reason for choosing them; I was just hungry, and they were at my disposal.
Okay, so what if I have both junk and healthy food available? I go for the one I can just swallow or eat faster. Several times when people see me eating food that I have to chew, they ask if everything is alright because it always looks like I have a problem with the food.
The biggest example is rice with chicken. There’s no way you’ll give me rice and I’ll be able to finish it in one sitting. I always save some for later because along the line I just get tired. I don’t know how. And that’s because I am just so lazy when it comes to eating chewy foods, except meat. Hold on, does this make a picky eater? Mmm.
Well, there it is about the type of food I like. If you’re hosting me, I really don’t mind eating junk or healthy foods, but whatever you give me, just make sure I can just swallow and eat faster.
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