so if you were on a deserted island...
Posted by pineappleprincess on Jan 11, 2007 · Member since Aug 2006 · 885 posts
What three foods would you like to have an unlimited supply of if you were stuck on a deserted island?
Purely taste-wise, I do believe I could live on fresh pinapple, avocados, and homemade mexican rice...
#1== Avocadoes
2. Blueberries, of course, and
3. Brown Rice,,, mmm,,,
Hmmm... ???or maybe
chick peas, red swiss chard and peaches
This is a tough one...
Single, solitary, lonely plant-based foods:
(1) Kiwi (would someone peel them for me, though? It would get tiring and tedious after eating them everyday)
(2) Sweet potato
(3) Brown rice
If I could have prepared dishes, I would definitely go this route:
(1) Sweet potatoes... seasoned/spiced and baked the way I like them
(2) Dhal with any number/variety of legumes
(3) Steamed veggies (broccoli, beets, carrots) sprinkled with nutritional yeast and served over coconut-lime brown rice.
I hope there would be tropical fruit on the island... and the water's okay to drink.
Oh, I forgot. I've got to change my vote.
1) Dragonfly's Uncheese sauce! :D :D :D
2) Really spicy lentil something-or-another
3) Oatmeal
I'm not really sure what I'd put the sauce on... I'd just hope my island had some decent veggies on it. Maybe I'd just eat it with a spoon. :P I guess I'd take w.w. bread instead of oats, then I could make sandwiches.
OK, now that I've seen many people pick chickpeas, I'm really wanting to bring homemade hummus to my island. Although I can't quite figure out which food to boot off my list. Maybe the rice. Or maybe avocados....I guess one could assume that avocados might grow wild on an island? I think there may actually be a greater liklihood of pineapple growing there, but I just wouldn't want to chance it! I think a life without pineapples would be very sad indeed.
There's so much amazing vegan food out there, it's fun to read what people pick when push comes to shove. Kind of like what you would save if your house were burning down. (and your family was safe, of course).
I can't make the quote thing work. Idioglossia said:
"(1) Kiwi (would someone peel them for me, though? It would get tiring and tedious after eating them everyday "
anna adds:
I may be from the planet Wierdo (and most likely am!) but I have never peeled a kiwi in my life. I wash them well, and cut off the hairy little button top and bottom, and snarf as is. The peel contains a pleasant acid flavour without which a peeled kiwi is definitely lacking something.
Having said that, as Spain swings into major kiwi production instead of importing them, I notice our local kiwis (lovely phrase "local kiwis") are hairier than their NZ counterparts. So I have been known to scrape the peel a bit with a serrated knife, sort of "shaving" it. But I eat the peel!
Shaving kiwis...yup, definitely from Planet Wierdo...
I prefer them unpeeled too. :)
wow, i've never thought about eating an UNPEELED kiwi.
Talking about ketchup....didn't the reagan administration list ketchup as a vegetable?...i think they did it to say they were providing kids a balanced diet in the federal lunch program in schools
any kind of nut
sweet potatoes (hopefully i could find some hot sauce on the island)
chickpeas
the reagan administration did say that ketchup was a vegetable----but it most certainly is not!!! It's derived from a vegetable..........talk about twisting the truth!!!
1. Black beans (preferably pre-cooked)
2. whole wheat pita bread with hummus (and, hopefully, lettuce, tomatoe and cucumber)
3. kale
It's hard to pick only 3 foods!!! :D
reading these posts made me giggle... i think that only vegetarians would spend so much time choosing three items that would make some semblence of a balanced diet for what is really a completely artbitrary question. and only vegetarians would "assume that avacados would grow wild on an island"
i would pick some kind of giant nut and seed filled behemoth of a bread loaf
spicy eggplant and chickpea spread
and mangoes! can't go anywhere with out mangoes
the reagan administration did say that ketchup was a vegetable----but it most certainly is not!!! It's derived from a vegetable..........talk about twisting the truth!!!
Actually tomatoes are a fruit, not a vegetable at all...so they were totally off base! ;DHaving said that, there is something called "mushroom ketchup" which I've never made because it seems to require a LOT of salt...Victorian recipe...
Tomatoes are indeed a fruit......but so are a LOT of "vegetables"---eggplant and bell peppers, for ex. (pretty much anything with seeds) ;) But they WERE totally off base. Ketchup as a vegetable....funny but disturbing at the same time!
In response to the kiwi conundrum: I cut mine in half and scoop the insides into my mouth with a spoon, same as what I do with a grapefruit.
1. miso
2. brown rice
3. beans
Wow, hard to choose just three!
Avocados
Mangos
Black Beans and Rice dish
1. tofu
2. avacado (for the fat)
3. organges
Totally relevent haha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMpHF2a-IJY&NR
I was reading this topic and noticed how many of the same fruits and vegetables were being posted by everyone. avacados, mangos and tomatoes were among the most common.
well, apparently that's not just coincidence.
http://www.shoutwire.com/viewstory/49875/The_29_Healthiest_Foods_on_The_Planet
we're so smart!
Yeah, eccept for the last five these are all my favorites.I would have to add apples to that list though.
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