i’m not a foodie

I’m so NOT a foodie.  My friends and family can attest.  Particularly Travis, since he gets to witness my non-creative food creations.  Rice cakes with peanut butter 10 days in a row for dinner??  Sounds about right.

I’m not even sure that non-blog readers will know what the term “foodie” means.  Let’s consult Urban Dictionary, the Mr. Know-It-All of online dictionaries.  Nearly as credible as Wikipedia.  …so…not at all.

I snipped the top three definitions (there were a lot!).  I swear I didn’t submit the second one – but I did laugh a wee bit.

So foodies are basically people who love food.  They love talking about it, eating it, creating new ways to eat it.  Actually I only know of the one way – through your mouth, but I’m sure that somewhere out there, a foodie is thinking up a solution to this problem.  (<-Some wise crack is thinking that I forgot intravenous delivery – I DID think of that, but it didn’t play well with the joke.  So there.)

Anyways….I’m not a foodie.

I don’t really cook.  I don’t love spending time in the kitchen.  I’d usually just rather have brownies out of a box and use that time I would have spent in the kitchen for doing pushups or reading or cleaning. 

I like eating food, but I don’t find joy in CREATING food. 

I have MAJOR respect for those of you who create and dream up food combinations.  I think that is a GREAT quality – having that passion for something and finding freedom in the creative process.

I’m just not that girl. 

And that’s ok.

There’s a post brewing in my head about this topic…but it all boils down to this: 

You make time and create space for things that are important to you.  If it’s a struggle to create the time for something, you probably shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.

Aka…Travis, you’re getting another “Lindsay Casserole” tonight.  And some boxed brownies.

I wouldn’t complain.

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Foodie Penpals

While I’m not a foodie, I do enjoy eating food (a newish concept, as I spent most of my high school and college years AVOIDING food). 

For more info on WHAT Foodie Penpals is, go here.  In a nutshell, you send someone a package of food gifts and you receive a package (from a different person), then you blog about it.  Fun.

I was paired with Kristi from Life Sprinkles.  I think she “gets” me. 

 

Kristi’s Easy Salad Dressing: 1 tbsp olive oil + 1 tbsp ACV + 1 tsp cinnamon!  Easy peasy.

I told her that I like peanut butter and chocolate.  So that’s what she sent! 

The kinda sad thing:  that Dark Chocolate Truffle bar MELTED all over everything.  Dang Summer heat!!

Wah wah.

I’m used to messes (I think their names are Henry & Clara), so I just rinsed the chocolate off in the sink and called it good.

Gotta say – that Luna bar flavor beat Chocolate Peppermint Stick out and is now my favorite! 

Along with the chocolate, Kristi sent manna/the Holy Grail/Sex In A Jar.  Some people call it Speculoos.  Which is just as it says – Cookie Butter.  As in ground up cookies in a jar.  Plus some oil and more sugar and some more cookies for good measure.

Ways To Enjoy Speculoos (via Lindsay’s Test Lab)

• On ice cream.
• Straight out of the jar. 
• As frosting for Teddy Grahams.
• On bananas.
• On apples.
• On any and every flat or non-flat surface ever made.

To balance out the chocolate and cookies, I also got this awesome JUICE SWEETENED strawberry jam!! 

….That I honestly haven’t tried yet because I’ve been too busy eating Speculoos.

It’s on my radar though. 

To do – Make Speculoos and Strawberry Jam Sandwiches.

A foodie would do that, right??

Totally.

**A big thank you to Lindsay for hosting Foodie Penpals & to Kristi for sending an amazing package!!**

QUESTION:  Do you consider yourself a “foodie”??  Have you ever tried Speculoos?

splendid…lindsay