forgotten foodstuffs

Here's a few things I've almost stopped or reduced eating/drinking unrealizing

• Bread:  I realized that I've not been eating any bread for breakfast ever since I changed my workout timings. earlier my breakfast would usually have a piece of bread along with other fixings, but ever since I've started working out during mornings my breakfast has since become a lot less elaborate and more focused. usually consisting of eggs and banana or overnight oatmeal with bananas, soy milk and peanut butter or a whole wheat parantha. bread is mostly consumed not more than twice a week. Mmphh.. I love carbs.

• Chocolate: I love chocolates and almost every day after dinner I'd satiate my sweet tooth with a piece of dark chocolate. Somehow for the past month I've not had these urges and a chocolate bar I'd opened weeks back still stays wrapped in its aluminum wrappings, often staring at me with a reproachful reminder to be consumed. I think it's just a phase, I'll soon be craving for it, but until then.. sigh. I love chocolates

• Almond milk: As a lactose intolerant almond milk was one of my more favoured go to drinks since I felt like it tasted a lot better than soy milk and also because it felt lighter on the stomach. But for the past few months I've not been drinking it at all because somehow soy milk machine made making soy milk a lot more convenient than almond milk. I need to rectify this problem and make some fresh almond milk.. but the process is too long and meh.

• Chillies: Bothe green chillies and red chillies are a staple in every Indian home but for whatever reason I always forget to buy them while vegetable shopping. This probably happened due to my year long sickness last year which didn't allow me to ingest anything spicy. Those habits still cling and I don't bother with buying them, though I do love spicy food..gotta buy chillies 

• Brinjal/eggplant: I've consciously stopped eating this wonderful purple vegetable most in part because I have a slight allergy towards it and my greed and love for this backfired when last year in July my mom cooked a gorgeous stuffed brinjal dish and I indulged a little too freely and it reacted so violently with my system that not only did I suffer two days of agonizing belly ache but also a swollen face. I have since stopped eating this vegetable. I'll probably eat a bit this year in July.. one year eggplant hiatus 

• Oranges: I do like oranges and freshly squeezed orange juice is most definitely among the better accompaniments with breakfast but for the past few months my taste buds do not appreciate oranges like they used to. I do include oranges along with their zest often in my cooking, but if you talk about peeling an orange and consuming it, I've not done in quite a while. Maybe it's just a phase, or perhaps a winter thing..I'll have an orange soon.

• Nutella: All things chocolate I passionately love and this chocolate hazelnut paste is no exception except that I get too greedy with it and oftentimes stick a spoon into a nutella jar and spend afternoons binge watching series and scooping this silky wonder into my mouth. A habit I didn't like and it definitely didn't like me back. Putting back calories into my body which I'd worked so hard to get rid off. Almost one year and no nutella.. it's an achievement for me.

• Hummus: I love making it, eating it and smearing it on every edible thing. Heck I'd even eat a piece of furniture if it was dipped in hummus, but why then haven't I made it in almost two months? No reason except there came no occasion as such to make it. Also because there's been a great reduction in bread eating habits of this house and bread of every kind was what found itself usually dipped into this gorgeous chickpeas dip.. perhaps this weekend.

I will update on this list or make a new one as and when there's been a certain change.