food dare - day 9

Maybe this blog should be titled "quite possibly the worst picture of me (i've ever posted on the internet)" and that's after a wee bit of retouching... yikes.

Hey, what can I say? I'm not a proud girl... well, that's not true, I just mean I'm not too proud to show y'all that I'm real

I kinda got out of the food challenge ritual... but alas, I did indeed have two days left in the challenge. And while I thought it could not get worse than chocolate + hummus or apple juice and hummus... I was wrong.

As some form of punishment for being delinquent with the challenge for so many days, Jim decided to set before me not one mix-in but TWO.

relish+hummus+BANANA



BARF.

This picture is reflective of my feelings about this particular combination.

The last day of my challenge has been reserved for something extra sick. I mean, sick in the worst way.

hummus + mayo.

If I complete the challenge however, I will officially be more of a man than Jim (since he wimped out of the cottage cheese + mayo challenge)... do I want to be a man? I think he's messing with my mind now...

food dare - day 8

Hummus + apple juice.

a match made in hell.

only reserved for the fiercest of stomachs...

before I ate this, i was jonesin for a snack.



not even a twinge of hunger left now...

food dare - day 7

I liked the contrast in today's challenge...

The actual challenge was for "any type of berry" and I originally thought I would do a strawberry... but wouldn't ya know, they didn't have any strawberries at the walmart here in rocky mount...

So blueberries it was :)



Only three more days to go!

food dare - day 6

Not gonna lie, I'm more than a little bored with this...

Today was hot sauce, and in lieu of any real hot sauce, I just used salsa juice... that sounds nasty... in fact, any word with "juice" tacked on the end sounds pretty gross...



This face is more out of disdain than disgust.

in fact, this hot sauce wasn't so bad. not the heat factor, but the taste factor. went together pretty well... but i'm afraid this challenge is definitely giving me a slight aversion to hummus... :(

food dare - day 5

today we entered for the second time the world of solids... the first being the vegetable, the second:

chocolate.



I tried to melt it, but it didn't melt all the way and there was a big chunk in there...



it was nasty

food dare - day 4

Today, I made the what i thought would be an easy 4ish hour trip to Rocky Mount, NC. However, what my gps said, and what my car actualld did was another story.

Just south of washington was some of the worst mid-day traffic I've ever encountered. It took me about an hour to go about 2 miles. things picked up a bit after that, but set me back to what I thought would turn this 4ish hour trip to a 7-8ish hour trip. UGH. seems to be a common word... especially when I'm thinking about the hummus dare...

Thankfully though, I made it to Rachel and her family's house in just under 6 hours. I wasn't mentally prepared for more than that ;)

Neither was i mentally prepared for soy sauce mixed with hummus.



And wouldn't ya know it, whilst posing for this picture, I accidentally poured a bit more than i originally intended.



It was sick.

UGH.

Maybe tomorrow i'll post something other than the food dare... :)

food dare - day 3

Today I thought... No problem. I'll down this hummus and ranch dressing with ease. The problem is that I left the hummus at the house I'm sleeping at, but was at another house all day long.

By the time I got back at almost 9:30pm, the last thing on my mind was eating more... esp after going to Chilis and having a black bean burger, with a side of mashed potatoes... mmmmm

As I readied myself for bed, like most people, i partook in the age-old ritual of brushing my teeth.

BIG mistake.

you see, i still had not completed my food challenge for the day. please imagine with me if you will what a strong garlic creamy substance mixed with a horrifying buttermilk ranch flavored dressing would taste like. Then add toothpaste.

(as a sidenote, I used to think that buttermilk, was butteryER than normal milk, it wasn't until recently that I learned it's true nature and i've been unable to eat it without being painfully aware of what it is since then)

I was so disturbed at the thought of downing such a substance this evening that I began preparing an email to Jim letting him know that it was just not possible today. But then I thought, gee, the point of a dare is to make people do things they don't want to or wouldn't normally do. UGH.

Down the stairs I went. Prepared myself this close to mid-night snack and downed it as quickly as possible.



with that combo settling into my stomach i'm off to bed now... ugh...

food dare - day 2

For today, jelly+hummus.

I chose strawberry jelly. Mainly because that was the only jelly in the house. I am not a huge fan of jelly, but I've been known to enjoy the occasional pb+j sandwich.

As I mixed the combo, I also reached for a tall glass of water... knowing that after I had consumed so much food beforehand (not remembering that I still had to do this!) I wasn't sure it would all make it down.



But down it went...



gagmatostic. That's about all I have to say...

ps mad props to my cellphone for being available to take fairly decent pictures when I just couldn't muster the energy to get my big one ;)

food dare - day 1

There are 3 foods that I categorize as so utterly disgusting, I absolutely will not eat them.

They are:
Mushrooms
Oatmeal (the cooked breakfast mushy kind, not like when it's in cookies and stuff)
Cottage cheese

I hate these foods.

HATE THEM.

With that said, the story continues. A couple months ago, i was at my friend Jim and Melissa's apartment when jim pulls out his trusty rusty container of cottage cheese and starts mauing away. nomnomnomnom. I am tolerant of other's decisions to eat these foods, although for the life of me I cannot figure out WHY anyone would eat them... but I had to let Jim know just how much i despise the curdy substance.

He insisted that cottage cheese was an amazing food, such a treat! And I said sarcastically, bet you couldn't eat it every day for (insert ANY number in here) days. And he said he could.

So i was all like, oh yah? well i bet you couldn't eat it MIXED with something for (so many) days.

And he said he could.

The challenge was on:

To eat cottage cheese for 10 consecutive days mixing it with any substance of my choosing. Bwahaha!

Oh the things I made him eat... my favorite mix-in was the mayonaisse. He tried so hard to get out of that one... and I eventually gave in, allowing him to only eat a portion of the egg-based goo + curdly cheesy milk substance and substituting the rest of his portion to be mixed with Gushers.

If you'd like to see all the other things Jim ate for those 10 days, go to his blog here to read all about it.

Anyways, since this challenge took place, there has been talk of a food dare tailored to my liking. And it has begun.

The base food:

HUMMUS

Oh how I love hummus...

I just hope I still like it after this...

Day 1 of the food dare:

mix hummus with any veggie (not-so-disgusting right? don't worry, i'm sure it will get worse...)



I found this hummus at Whole Foods in Annapolis, and while it was exorbitantly expensive as far as hummus goes, it was quite tasty. Better than most i've had.



So far, day 1, not so bad. But i'm under no delusions that the rest of this dare will not be so easy peasy... in fact i'm kinda worried.

Come back tomorrow for day 2:

jelly+hummus