Skirt! quiz: What kind of (Food) Lover are You?

Do you feel as though your relationship with Food is in a rut?  Do you wish that Food were more exciting, gave you more satisfaction, let you experiment?  Well, maybe it’s not Food.  Maybe You need to examine your approach to Food to see if you can spice up the relationship.  Take this quiz and find out:

When I go out for Food, I:

a. Check at all the possibilities.  Everything sounds so delicious.

b. Have a specific eating plan, and I demand to know the caloric and nutritional values of all of my choices

c. Will eat anything.  It all looks the same on the inside.

d. Will only eat chicken

e. Look for my one true Food love.

When Food is in front of me, I:

a. Keep casting furtive glances at other people’s Food.

b. Pick up my fork and eat until I am full - but no more

c. Vacuum every scrap off my plate - then ask my companions if they plan to finish theirs

d. Check to make sure it’s chicken, then eat quickly so no one else can have any

e. Take in the appearance of my Food, breathe in my Food’s aroma, then, slowly, gently, take a forkful in my mouth.

When I dream about Food:

a. I am surrounded by lots of different Food, in every color, shape, texture and taste, and I love it all

b. I’m bored and I wake up hungry.

c. Who dreams about Food?

d. I dream about chicken, refrigerators packed with chicken, frying pans and ovens packed with chicken, plates of chicken, all for me.

e. I am with Food in an exotic locale, listening to beautiful music in front of a golden sunset

When I am at home, my Food:

a. Comes from one of a dozen catalogs or food of the month clubs

b. Is prepared with very specific proportions of proteins, vegetables, grains and dairy,  conforming to strict dietary guidelines

c. Is whatever is quickest to microwave.

d. Is chicken.

e. Is lovingly prepared from organic and local ingredients, cooked to perfection, then served in a visually pleasing manner and consumed slowly and sensuously.

For you, Food is:

a. Fabulous, beautiful, delicious.

b. necessary to sustain life.

c. for eating.

d. chicken, only chicken.

e. my life.

If your answers were mostly:

a: You like to play the field with Food.  You like to experiment, and you are afraid of commitment.  Enjoy it while you can, but you might be missing out on the complexities and subtleties that a deeply committed relationship with Food can provide.  Try studying Food and getting to know Food better.

b. For you, Food is for nutrition and nothing more.  While your baser needs are satisfied by this relationship, there is little joy and connection in the consumption. To spice up your relationship with Food, you might try experimenting, taking risks, even (gasp) digressing from established guidelines.  Make your relationship less about numbers and proportions and more about love.  You’ll be glad you did.

c. You don’t appreciate Food, don’t care much about its appearance or the work required to prepare it.  Your objective is to eat quickly and go.  Why not slow down and take time to appreciate the aromas and flavors?  You might discover a whole new dimension of food that you didn’t realize existed

d. You are a Food stalker.  You only want chicken, and you are obsessed with making sure no one else can have your Food.  Let it go!  Your relationship with Food will be much healthier if you can stop obsessing about chicken and see the possibilities in other Foods.

e. Ok, so you appreciate your Food.  But what you do is a little creepy.  It is just Food you know.