Hello!! Again I'm here answering a topic proposed by Galen for this weekend engagement.
What is the one food you hate but were made to eat as child?
As soon as I read the question an unpleasant memory invaded my mind and my stomach 🤮😂.
When I was a little girl, I was a very thin child. In fact, I still am...the skinny part, not so much the little girl part 😜.
Erroneously, sometimes, thinness is seen as a symptom of illness. And for my mother and maternal grandparents, with whom I lived at the time, it was a problem to be eradicated.
I don't remember being sickly growing up, and by all accounts my close relatives don't say I was. So my thinness must have been a genetic issue. I was a very active child, everyone remembers that, and apparently that was the problem. Despite my activity, I wasn't eating enough to replenish the calories I was expending, so my mother worked hard to increase my appetite at all costs.
Every morning (as a satanic ritual 😆) I had to eat a raw egg with honey. I remember that mixture with such distaste that just thinking about it turns my stomach. It was like that for years, so much suffering for nothing. I remained active, not too sickly and very thin!!!!! 🤣
I don't know from which recipe book my mother got that mixture to stimulate the appetite. At that time there was no Google to look for magic recipes and I imagine they were remedies that were passed down through the generations. The truth is that without knowing it my mom helped me with that concoction, not exactly achieving its purpose of adding a few pounds to my body 😁, but to keep me a little healthier. Luckily none of the eggs I ate raw were contaminated with salmonella....and there were a lot of them!!!!
Unfortunately my current thinness does have an underlying disease, I am celiac, so my consumption of wheat flour in any form is...zero. I'm not as healthy, nor as active anymore, but I sure do eat a healthy diet (out of necessity 🤭). Sometimes I long for a good pizza, or some good spaghetti and especially... some delicious bread 😋.
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