Monofoodists — like Keith Sorrell — obsess on eating one food and one food only:
Keith said: “My love of Mars Bars started at school with one or two between meals.
“All my pocket money went on them and one day I realised I couldn’t get by without them.
“Now I can easily polish off 12 a day, more at weekends. I’m totally addicted.”
I’ve known only one other long-term monofoodist: a young man who ate nothing but canned Chef Boyardee spaghetti for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
His fiancee knew this about him when they got engaged. After they married, though, what seemed at first an endearing quirk became fodder for domestic disputes as his new wife grew weary of having her home filled with the odor of canned spaghetti three times a day. (She also tried to force him to eat other foods — including her own homemade spaghetti — and took it very personally when he refused.)
Worried, she did force him to see a doctor, who found that the young man had the healthiest blood chemistry of any patient in memory.
The best I can recall, the young man’s monofoodism played a significant role on the divorce proceedings that came later.
During my college years, I had one brief foray into monofoodism: for almost two months, I ate nothing but thin crust pepperoni pizza for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I gave it up only because it made my friends nervous.
How about you: if you were going to become a monofoodist … what would your food of choice be?
link: BARMY Keith Sorrell eats nothing but Mars bars | The Sun |HomePage|News|Weird
Hi Mark,I’ve had two brief forays into monofoodism, both brought about by extreme poverty during high school – one time our whole household ate nothing but top ramen, which we had in boxes in the basement. For a long time in high school I ate a box of macaroni & cheese every day, and often did that in college when needed (you could buy 5/$1 then, and there was more in the box!!). Thing is, I LOVE macaroni & cheese, then and to this day . I even wrote a blog in its praise: http://shadowmeteresa.wordpress.com/2007/02/02/in-praise-of-macaroni-and-cheese/
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Great name “monofoodist.” That is my daughter – top ramon!!!
1.cottage cheese for one year at 4yrs2.baked potato college3.ramen grad school4.butterfinger diet (3/day)– lost 25# and was happy5.these days it’s not one food, but one type of food– finger foods. Drives DH crazy, but he only eats 4 foods so has little room on which to stand.kel