BY NOW, my food journaling has gone to crazy, neurotic levels.
Even at social events where they serve hors d’oeuvre, I gather everything I want to eat on a plate, and photograph them.
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Sometimes, photographing is easy; sometimes, I take a couple of minutes as I also want to capture a perfect photo.
If it ain’t pretty, it’s not getting into my tummy!
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Running joke of some of my most familiar friends: They’re finished eating before I finish my photography.
Only a little part of it is a joke; the greater part is the truth.
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Not a few people have been asking how to be brilliant like me.
Or healthy looking, if not outrightly healthy.
I say, it’s also in everything that I eat.
Here’s a sampling of my food journal/ diary.
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October 1:
Banana, and lomi.
Watermelon.
Bangus inasal, and mango.
Hopia, and chocolate crinkles, with more coffee.
19hr 2min fasting.
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October 2:
One meal: Batchoy.
17hr 41min fasting.
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October 3:
Spanish roll, and chocolate crinkles, with coffee.
Tinolang manok.
Crabs.
Alimusan adobado, fried fish, and rice.
21hr 55min fasting.
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October 4:
Ensaymada, and strawberry smoothie.
Pancit canton.
Kikiro in sour soup.
20hr 1mn fasting.
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October 5:
Shrimp, hotdog, tomatoes, rice.
Bread toast, with coffee.
Nachos.
13hr 1min fasting.
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October 6:
Hotdog, fried fish, ibus with brown sugar.
KBL soup.
Spaghetti, and bread.
21 hr fasting.
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October 7:
Laswa, alogbate with carne.
Tinolang manok.
Noodles with patola, and fried fish.
17hr 29min fasting.
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October 8:
Salisbury steak, rice, and ensaymada.
Dinuguan, rice, caldereta.
Carbonara, callos, garden salad.
14hr 33min fasting.
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October 9:
Fish soup, shrimp, rice.
Single-double.
Fried fish, broiled fish, crabs, fish in vegetable soup.
10hr 48min fasting.
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October 10:
Valenciana rice, sotanghon guisado, shrimp, crab, fried chicken.
Sotanghon (repeat), shrimp, chicken adobo, buko salad.
18hr 22min fasting.
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October 11:
Kangkong adobo, laswa, rice.
Buko salad.
Lomi, and nachos.
Fried chicken, lechon kawali, rice.
17hr 6min fasting.
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October 12:
Squid adobo, pinakbet, takway adobo.
Assorted bread: pandan bar, ube bar, half moon, chocolate crinkle.
Fried chicken feet, carbonara.
19hr 14min fasting.
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October 13:
Crabs, rice.
Bangsilog, ginatan.
Assorted JD pastry.
17hr 12min fasting.
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October 14:
Talaba.
Halo-buko.
Calamari, fried chicken skin.
Rotisserie chicken, pork adobo, rice.
20hr 13min fasting.
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October 15:
Chicken inasal, pineapple juice.
Papaya, assorted Felicia’s pastry with coffee.
Spaghetti, pizza, assorted pastries including napoleones.
Pizza, kikiam, cheese sticks.
16hr 19min fasting.
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So yeah, when no rice is mentioned, no rice is eaten.
I say again, rice is poor people.
Rich people can afford more viands./PN
