Just the other day I posted about shame and how much it SUCKS! But sometimes, shame can also be good for a laugh. I thought I’d celebrate us being half way to the weekend with some laughter. They do say it’s the best medicine!
I rarely (if ever?) post What I Ate Wednesdays. I just don’t see the point – and when you are living with an Eating Disorder, why add to the obsession about what you eat? I’m sure they have their place though. Especially if you have cooked up something awesome to share!
I would say I have something unique, at least.
It scared the hell outta me.
This is why you should never, ever chat on the computer to someone when you are cooking. Never. Because after your eggs boil dry, they EXPLODE.
In fact, they pop like pop corn! One even hit the ceiling.
By the way, I just edited that image to make it smaller. The bigger it is, the scarier those eggs are.
Would anyone like to come over for dinner? 
Okay, that’s enough shame for me tonight! I thought I’d share it around. How funny and wonderful is this site on Tumblr - http://cat-shaming.tumblr.com/
Shalimar is going to have to be careful. She will have a starring role there, otherwise. I’m already plotting about catching her in the act of various transgressions and submitting the evidence. In the meantime,
You are NEVER going to be safe from my camera, Shalimar. NEVER.
Keep looking over your shoulder!
HA! Gross!!! Mind you, some stuff I see on WIAW looks just as inedible. I must admit I am very curious about your meal plan, but I totally support and agree with what you say about sharing and the ED mind. I find WIAW very voyeuristic, I don’t participate (not a HLB) but I do love knowing what people eat. I can’t help it. For some, I imagine the WIAW functions similar to a food diary, to make one more mindful of what they eat. However, I don’t think HLB or ED bloggers need anything more in the food mindfulness department.
Oh Shame on WordPress, it just lost my reply to you, argh
I said that I didn’t really have a meal plan as such! I tend to find it a bit too triggering for me in that I easily become obsessive and ritualistic and can end up spending hours over a meal because one thing was ‘wrong’. When I have rules, I tend to get very trapped by them. I do have specific things I eat though – and they are usually pretty much the same. Eggs, chicken or fish, with either bread or potato/pasta and lots of veggies for both my main meals, and fruit and milk/yoghurt for snacks. My hardest meal is brekky in terms of getting started eating for the day, and that can be a supplement drink and fruit or weetbix if I’m feeling more able to have it.
I’m with you on how gross a lot of WIAW foods are! Especially the frankenfoods masquerading as health foods. I think I’d be eternally constipated if I had as many protein powders and fake peanut butter substitutes as some of the so called healthy bloggers!!!
I love reading blogs lying in bed on my phone. I probably spend more time awake in bed than the average person due to IBS aches and pains, when that happens if I happen read a WIAW heavy with smoothies or oatmeal concoctions I tend to feel way more nauseous. For instance, KERF’s breakfasts. They are horrific. Just too many toppings a flavours for first thing in the morning.
After your ruined your eggs (and that pot), did you feel discouraged and not make them again? Or did you have something else? I hope you did. I hate thinking that you’re still purging, I just want to say, no, stop. But if it were all you needed to hear then you would have done it by now, you know? It’s the equivalent of someone saying to me, ‘you just need to relax’, or ‘do something fun’, when I am seriously depressed.
I’m sorry you have so much pain from IBS! It sucks. And I’m sure seeing those food pics would not help at all
I was a bit discouraged, but thankfully it’s easy to boil a couple of eggs (Ha..says Miss Disasterchef!) I just have to make sure I STAY there by the stove and not wander off back to the computer!
Purging is my biggest bugbear – it sucks. I just wish I never learnt it in the first place, it truly is like pandora’s box in that you can’t unlearn it, and you didn’t want to know it in the first place, but you don’t figure that out til it’s too late. It is something I wish was easy, yes… but actually ‘do something fun’ is not as ‘simple’ advice as it seems – distraction actually IS a big part of how to challenge it. Which means, getting out there and doing stuff rather than sitting around thinking “Oh no I can’t bear having that in my stomach!”. I’m sorry that it worries you – it worries me, it worries other friends too, and I hate doing that – but I am working on it best I can. I guess it’s one of those one meal at a time things.
People who say just do something fun or relax to people who are depressed need to be….. dangled over a pit of hungry crocodiles by their toes and told to ‘just enjoy the experience!’
Well..I’ve burnt a lot of things or let boil dry but never eggs….wasn’t funny at the time but it is I guess now..I’ve exploded eggs in the microwave though lol….Diane
Haha I think my grandparents did a bit of exploding things in the microwave too, I remember when they gave it to us (we don’t like this newfangled thing) it came with a LOT of food on the walls and the ceiling! Seriously, I’m a terrible cook, but I’m learning
My soup exploded in the microwave just now!!!!!!! I think we have a theme for the day! Haha!
Letting eggs boil dry is pretty impressive =D I’ve done it with cabbage, and wrecked a pan… my mum was not happy with me!
I agree with your point about WIAW, most people I know who do it either have some sort of eating disorder, are recovering from some sort of eating disorder or are in denial over the fact they have an eating disorder. Most normal people I know have no idea what they eat/ how many calories they consume daily/ how much they weigh. When you eat intuitively I don’t think you care about food enough to post pictures of it!
Loving cat shaming =D
Hahaha that’s hilarious!! I wonder if this month should be declared ‘burnt’ or ‘exploded’ WIAW (you know how it usually has a theme?)
You are right about people who aren’t ED or obsessed with their food don’t bother with that sort of stuff, they just eat and LIVE. I actually feel like shrivelling up inside and crying when I try to imagine what life would be like, if it was important to me to document every single bite I ate and then blog about it. I can’t imagine it would be a very good, happy or healthy life.
Cabbage… oh dear. I’m STILL addicted to cabbage, but I don’t burn it now that I don’t have a microwave. I’ve ruined a couple of them because of the dang cabbage. I used to be addicted to the way that it cooks if you put it in there with only a little bit of water and nuke it for an hour or more – it shrunk and became soft and sort of caramelised.. oh what a flavour. But it wrecked the microwaves! They just gave up!
I was reading through your blog and I heard a ‘pop’ so ran to the kitchen. The walls of the microwave were coated in soup and the bowl was empty! Gutted!
I was cooking the cabbage for our dinner, got bored and so went to go use the computer. Forgot about it, my parents came home to find the mess, the pan had even melted slightly… I think we need to start our own series =)
When my ED was at it’s worse I’ve been tempted to do a WIAW, ya know, just for the lulz =D
I do sometimes think about blogging stuff I eat, when I’ve eaten something new/ exciting or tackled a ‘fear food’, I know a few bloggers who do WIAW that way! I’m less obsessed by food now I’m a healthy weight, but still, I would like to get to a place where I don’t care about food at all, and could eat what I liked…
Ah we’ll get there!
I noticed what you said above about meal plans. Interesting, I’m the same. I just find them overwhelming as I get obsessive, and it has to be right. I’m still all or nothing about food, which sucks. I’m doing ‘meal times’ now, which is working a little better
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Hahaha I totally think we should do WIAWs with all our disasters and burnt offerings! Cause let’s face it, WIAW gets a bit boring otherwise. And I’ve heard people complain that they aren’t always very realistic, I’m sure many people would relate to ours
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It’s too funny that reading my blog on my cooking disaster, you exploded your soup!
We do eat some really weird things though, don’t we?
I hope some day we do get tothat place where food isn’t everything any more. I like ‘meal times’ like you say – that’s a bit better I think… and for me it tends to help if I think in terms of “I need protein, I need carbohydrates, I need vegies and little fat.” It helps me remember that my meals have a purpose beyond being something I put in my mouth. Hope things get better, keep up the good work
OMG, Fi! This is truly hilarious.
I should submit my five completely burned pots of rice into your WIBW series. Don’t ask me why it’s always the rice. I guess I’m just cursed.
And Shalimar is just something – I bet you’re never bored with her company.
xoxo
No, it’s sure never boring here indeed! I’m sure the Russian Mafia give you a lot of “Laugh or cry” moments too
xxx
Rice is another one that I can never get right – I gave up! Between the two of us, we should be able to produce a completely cooked dinner
Not to sound too arrogant here, but I can cook! Not as good as Kath, and as long as it’s not rice.Haha.
And yes, sometimes I wonder who’s crazier me or the cats. We compliment each other.
You can cook – thinking of your beautiful food photos
xxx
Argh! I’m the same with rice! I’ve given up on it! lol
well i can’t say that i want to come for dinner but i can say you gave me a good laugh!
A laugh can be as nourishing as a good dinner
xxx
sure can!
That picture of your burnt eggs makes me giggle. Hehe.
I think laughing at myself is what gets me through the day – if I took myself seriously I don’t think I would make it out of bed!!
Give shamilar a cuddle for me
I love your sense of humour, you always make me giggle. Just opening an email from you gets me ready to giggle! I totally agree that laughing is that important – it gets me through too. Otherwise I’d just never stop crying! I also think that because we are searching for the good or the reasons to laugh, we find more positives than most people would – it’s almost like you need to be positive to see a lot of the positive things in life.
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One more day til you start your yoga challenge!!!! Yippee!! You’ll love it
It ‘s good to see your sense of humor. Great photos too. I’ve never done that to eggs before but I’ve burned plenty of food. I agree that one should never do other things while cooking….At least for me that’s true. No matter how long I’ve been cooking and tried to get away with it, I still end up burning stuff. Actually I just remembered that I’ve had some luck with setting a timer when I need to go do something else. That works.
I have had a few interesting discoveries from forgetting something on the stove. And that is that some pots of food that got cooked WAY longer than I had intended actually turned out fantastic. Once a pot of rice to which I had added big chunks of root vegetables. I left on very low over night, so it cooked slowly for 6 hours instead of 1.5 hours. But it was incredibly yummy and even more digestible. Yeah for unintended improvements in life.
They often say that mistakes can be the next big discovery! There are some really interesting and even strange food combinations out there that I’m sure people only could have stumbled across by mistake.
I love slow cooked things – it really does make things tender and yummy
Hahahaha, this is hilarious! Even I have never gotten eggs to explode (although I’ve manage to elicit the smoke alarm three times, burn my cutting board, and melt countless dishes into the bottoms of my pots and pans while “cooking”).
Haha Kath!!! I feel so much better now!!! If you, an amazing cook, have your disasters too, then it’ can’t be as bad as I thought
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