Crazy food

My husband has told me that, if I ever got pregnant, he would know immediately, because I'd start eating like a normal person. I have very creative tastes in food, mainly centering around condiments. Of course, most of my foods make people a little nauseous; a soup made of cottage cheese and salsa, mashed potatoes and mustard, cheddar slices dipped in tomato juice, spaghetti and pickles...you get the idea. But a few of my snacks have actually won rather universal popularity, so I figured I would share them with you. They're simple enough that you don't need to make it into an 'official' recipe format.

For the first, all you have to do is combine cottage cheese with a fair amount of pitted green olives (try to estimate 1 per bite). Mix well, then eat with Ritz crackers (Ritz crackers are crucial; don't try generic Ritz or anything crazy like that). This can actually replace a meal, and it's quite healthy; be careful though, because it's low in calories, but high in salt.

The second is my favorite, for a couple reasons, not least that this is a filling, practically zero calorie alternative to chips and dip. Peel and slice a small cucumber (crosswise, so you get little disks). Then, either put salsa into a bowl on the side and use the slices to dip, or arrange the cukes on a plate and pour salsa over them. For an additional flavor twist (but keep in mind, it'll raise the amount of calories in this snack) mix feta cheese into the salsa.
Hope you enjoy my strange snacks!


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Interesting food choices

Does anyone watch Corner Gas? Our cable is out so we get like 10 channels and this show was on one of them, WGN? I think...all I know is I live in Cali and I'm watching the news in Chicago at 5pm on this channel...hmm. In any case it's ok, it's Canadian and while I didn't bust out laughing I did chuckle a moment or two. The thing that struck me most was this food thing they were doing. So there is this diner who has a regular customer named Brent, well he eats at the diner every day and basically pays the light bill with as much as he eats. Well the diner owner names a customer of the month...and it's not him. So he decides to brown bag it to work (he owns the gas station, I think). So, since he ALWAYS eats at the diner, he has no food in his refrigerator so he is taking a pickle and jam sandwich and then he takes a cream cheese and olive sandwich. Uh, um...those sound HELLA good to me!! Seriously, cream cheese and olives? I don't like pickles or jam (I don't have a taste for sweets) but together it sounds delish!! I like weird food, or actually weird combinations...like cottage cheese, sunflower seeds (with out the seed) chocolate pudding dipped up with a cucumber slice! That is da bomb diggity!!! Mmm...now I'm hungry for chili fritos and cottage cheese...mmmm!