Which food could you not live without?

United States
June 22, 2008 5:30pm CST
We had a rice dish for dinner tonight, which got me thinking about the rice rations around the globe recently. Now my family could live just fine if there were no rice in our part of the world, as we have it very rarely, once a month or less usually. But I began thinking about what would happen if there was a potato famine today. My family eats potatoes 4 times a week if not more. We love them, and are always looking for new recipes or new ways to cook them. Sure we could survive without potatoes, but it would be difficult for us, as it's a constant in our meals. Which food do you think your family could not live without?
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• United States
23 Jun 08
It has to be rice for me.I love me a bowl rice and gravy! I could eat that for ever and ever and not get tried of it. Same with chicken. Those are my two foods.
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• United States
23 Jun 08
cheese or potatoes.big eaters of both. coffee though a beverage would cause some major problems too-it would get ugly real fast in this house if they didn't have that.
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• United States
23 Jun 08
That's funny, but I bet it's oh so true. We are not big coffee drinkers, but my friends that are couldn't function without it.
@subha12 (18441)
• India
23 Jun 08
in our case also its mainly rice. ion this part of world in our community we also take fish everyday. so I think what would have been if these were not there. we also take potato each day.
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• India
23 Jun 08
In my case it would be mainly rice and also bread to quite an extent. Here are some delicious rice recipes that I love. http://www.ifood.tv/network/rice/recipes
@jillhill (37354)
• United States
23 Jun 08
Probably bread. It's quick and easy to make a sandwich and we all enjoy breadsticks...or biscuits etc. So anything to do with bread would be hard to live without.
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• United States
23 Jun 08
I agree, bread is something else we have frequently, a few times a day at least. It's versatile and would be difficult to work around. Thanks for responding.
• United States
23 Jun 08
Certainly I could not live without potatos. We love to have baked potatos and french fries. It is a very nutritious food and could sustain us for many days. If I had to pick other things that I could not live without, then I would say, chicken or onions and carrots. I use those ingredients often in all my recipes and they are much favored in my home!
• United States
27 Jun 08
mac/cheese! I can eat a whole box of it every other day if I could...lol.
@clowdine (1402)
• Philippines
23 Jun 08
We are a rice eating country and we have 3 serious meals in a day that involves rice. It feels a little weakening if we won't have rice at all. But talking about survival, I know we can live eating bread or fruits wihtout rice but we're just used to eating it with at least one viand.
• United States
23 Jun 08
I didn't mean as in survival, "can't live without" is just sort of a phrase, such as "I can't live without my computer" well I know I can, I'd just rather not, LOL. Thanks for your response.
@toddsarm (766)
• Canada
25 Jun 08
for me its chinese food for me
@GreenMoo (11834)
22 Jun 08
Pasta would probably be the thing I would miss the most, although I suppose it could be substituted with rice quite easily. We also eat allot of potatoes, but we grow them ourselves which at least means we have some control over the crop. We've just harvested this years, which have been abit disappointing actually. Thankfully our neighbours have done as well as ever though, and have given us quite allot for helping them out.
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@teka44 (3420)
• Brazil
22 Jun 08
Hi Katsmeow. In my country we eat rice every day and most of the people beens too. Rice and been is the base of our meals. But I don't eat been every day. My family eat rice most of the days and we like very much rice. I think that will be hard if we don't have rice any more but we can eat potatoes as well since we like them very much too. What we really cannot live without is vegetables. We can change rice for another thing but vegetables how you can replace it?
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@jillhill (37354)
• United States
23 Jun 08
I like and eat alot of veggies too....they would be hard to live without.
• United States
25 Jun 08
I don't think we could live without snack foods. Ice cream is really big in the house. And so are cakes and cookies. And you better grab some fast. We're not the healthiest bunch, but we're working on it. As for real food, we all eat different things. But turkey burgers are essential. So I guess it would be the turkey burgers as the choice we could never live without.
@rhane7315 (5649)
• Philippines
24 Jun 08
well i guess aside from rice, i can also not live without eating some pizza and pasta dishes. those are really my favorite and i crave for them most of the times
@kenzie45230 (3560)
• United States
23 Jun 08
Peanut butter! I could not live without peanut butter. I like peanut butter on or with almost anything and everything. :-) As a kid, I took peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to school every day from first grade through 12th grade. For snacks in the evening, I would eat peanut butter and pickle sandwiches. Or I would eat ice cream with peanut butter and chocolate on top. I even make salad dressing by mixing ranch or bleu cheese dressing with peanut butter!
• United States
23 Jun 08
That's a lot of peanut butter, and can I just say some of it sounds really gross. PB and pickles? Thanks for responding! I hope you never run out of peanut butter.
@hellcowboy (7374)
• United States
23 Jun 08
I do not eat rice or beans,but my fiance likes rice and eats it at least a couple times a week,and my parents eat a lot of beans,a couple of foods I could not live without would be pizza,macaroni and cheese,spaghetti, and tacos.
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27 Jun 08
Well, I love eating food but the food for which i couldn't live without it is pizza, I love pizza and you wouldn't believe and I usually eat pizza in twice a day , I know making pizza every day is very difficult for my mom but she is so sweet, she never argues and she alwayz make for me pizza every day. luv u mom
@laglen (19759)
• United States
23 Jun 08
Grow your own potatoes! We grow everything we possibly can. I just don't trust that the food will be there.
@underdogtoo (9579)
• Philippines
23 Jun 08
We would not be able to live without rice. This is our main staple and I cannot imagine having a meal without rice. I like bananas and sometimes when I cannot eat bananas for a week I would feel like I could not survive for another week without it but bananas are not rice. Without rice we would probably die.
• Philippines
23 Jun 08
i cannot live without rice for every meal.. here in the Philippines, rice is very much special for our every meal.. it becomes necessary to have a serving of rice so that we can be full.. we eat rice with viand.. one cup of rice gives us enough energy for one whole day, that's why we may not eat lunch and dinner as long as we had a full breakfast.. rice is really a part of our lives as Filipinos, and rice is one of the necessities in our country today..
• Belgium
23 Jun 08
Haha, easy question: French fries. It's what we belgians are famous for! I don't know why they call it "french" fries though, they should change the name :) I (and my family to) definitely could not live without these fries. They're so good and tasty, despite of the high fat percentage they contain and that they're not so very healthy to eat.. But eating them once in a week won't be very harmfull I think. What I like the most about it is the fact that we have so many sauces to put on it: andalouse, mayonaise, ketchup, pickles, mammoth sauce, pickles, joppy, sweet mayonaise, stewed meat sauce, tartare, and so on.. I bet there are a couple between them you've never heard of before, aren't they? Greetz.
• China
23 Jun 08
oneday can't eat rice
• Australia
23 Jun 08
In my country,,the main dish is rice,,life incomplete without rice.