if you could only eat 10 ingredients for the rest of your life

[Blarg]

I'm surprised the very first post mentioned peppers. With a really narrow range of ingredients for the rest of my life, I would need chili peppers in the mix to help add punch to stuff I would eventually being getting sick of. I like stuff hot, but don't go out of my way to eat hot stuff really. But spicy hot makes even the most bland food much more fun to eat.

Your ingredient breakdown for bread sounds funky. You list wheat and flour separately? Then you put in yeast, which is fine. But you leave out water. Milk is common in breads too, and you need salt in bread. By the way, wheat bread is commonly made with both whole wheat and white flour mixed together. I love bread, but the kind I like would take up too many ingredient slots by far. Wheat flour, yeast, salt, water is already 4 ingredients.

I'd have to have:

1. Chicken
2. Onions
3. Black pepper
4. Hot peppers
5. Grapefruit or oranges
6. Potatoes
7. Tomatoes
8. Eggs
9. Broccoli
10. Onions

I'd really like to fit garlic in there, but I've got to have something in the crunchy and/or veggie family, so I threw broccoli in. Eggs are the only thing I could throw out for garlic, but they're too versatile to go.

[BigBiceps]

Cow
Chicken
Tuna

Rice
Potato
Wheat

Banana
Tomato

Broccoli

Salt

Would like to have sugar on there, but I don't think it is worth it in the long run.

[Anacardo]

Blarg,

A little proofreading and you'll be able to wedge garlic in there.

[RunDownHouse]

Blarg,

Salt is about 100% more important than pepper. Next time you cook anything, set aside a couple small portions, and add salt to one and pepper to the other.

Also, you apparently love onions. Maybe try salt instead of one of the onion spots.

[Anacardo]

RDH,

When was the last time you hit us with a new Earl?

[RunDownHouse]

Ugh, I'm ashamed. Probably about the same time you drove through Nashville. I'll fix it when I can work up the motivation.

[kkcountry]

Cow
Chicken
Wheat
Corn
Yeast
Tomato
Bell Peppers
Salt
Potatoes
Red Pepper

[blackasthma]

birds
bats
cows
mexicans
fish
moose
mouse
kangaroo
beaver
caribou
apples

oops, thats 11 - scratch the apples...

[Blarg]

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Blarg,

A little proofreading and you'll be able to wedge garlic in there.

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Doh! You're right, I listed onions twice! Woo hoo, garlic is in!

[Blarg]

[ QUOTE ]
Blarg,

Salt is about 100% more important than pepper. Next time you cook anything, set aside a couple small portions, and add salt to one and pepper to the other.

Also, you apparently love onions. Maybe try salt instead of one of the onion spots.

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I'm with Alexander the Great, "I will not move my army without onions!"

I'm not that fond of salt really. I know it's supposed to be great everywhere, even in sweet stuff, but I'm very happy without it. I never salt anything. Pepper, though, I absolutely love. Especially freshly ground black pepper and also I like white pepper a lot on veggies.