Hated is Favorite

Hated is Favorite is a food ideology to which I wholeheartedly subscribe. This is how it works: I have a Hated Favorite, and it is called chocolate bars that are so bitter I am the only one who can stand them. They are Lindt 85% cocoa bars. Here's a picture: Now, I like eating these bars o.k., but I love them because my family hates them. I can leave a stack of these chocolate bars sitting out on the counter for weeks at a time and no one touches them. (Just try that with a snack bag of Snickers!) For me, this is the biggest selling point in a food I like; rejection by others. I have other hated favorites:

These.....

And especially this:

This pizza is the mother load of things I like which my family does not,

goat cheese......red onions.....artichoke hearts.......maybe some olives, just to be extra cautious.

(Handy tip: I find that putting goat cheese on anything makes it all mine, all the time--especially important when I've brought home the rest of something I ordered at a restaurant.)

Acquiring a taste for foods men and kids typically hate is a type of eating self defense we women can learn to develop. It can be exhausting, hiding food all over the house. (Not to mention frustrating, when you can hear those M&M's calling your name but can't remember where you hid them.) But when you cultivate a taste for candied ginger you can leave the whole package in plain sight. No more skulking around eating yummy things while locked in the loo--that is the real beauty of the Hated is Favorite food system!

(note: This system is not intended to completely replace the practice of locking ones self in the bathroom on occasion with a package of Cadbury Mini Eggs, etc.,)