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The woman who's eaten nearly 13,000 baked potatoes because she's scared of nearly all other foods
The Daily Mail ^ | March 22, 2013 | Anna Hodgekiss

Posted on 03/23/2013 11:17:29 AM PDT by EveningStar

A young woman has eaten her way through more than 13,000 jacket potatoes - because she has a phobia of almost all foods.

Claire Jones, 23, has panic attacks and is physically sick at the thought of eating proper meals.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: bakedpotatoes; eatingdisorders; halfbaked
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

Kids go through stages with their eating habits. When my son was five, he would only eat beets and cottage cheese, with my daughter at slightly younger it was Mr. Wiggle (jello) and hot dogs, one grandson only hot dogs, bananas and scrambled eggs, the other chicken nuggets and tater tots.

I made my son sit at the table one time until he ate one cooked green bean. Five hours later he was still there as was the green bean. Yes I let him get up from the table. He finally began slowly adding things to his diet like pasta dishes, as long as nothing was all mixed together. He’s now 50, very healthy, still eats beets and cottage cheese as well as a lot of other things. But he wouldn’t eat a green bean if his life depended on it.


41 posted on 03/23/2013 1:22:20 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: EveningStar

half baked.


42 posted on 03/23/2013 1:22:22 PM PDT by redreno (Americans don't go Gault. Americans go Postal.)
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To: EveningStar
If she would mix a few raisins in that coleslaw she would feel much better.

Or perhaps a vitamin powder?

43 posted on 03/23/2013 1:32:55 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Promotional Fee Paid for by "Ouchies" The Sharp, Prickly Toy You Bathe With!)
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To: EveningStar

Cute Tatoo! Looks like “Forever.” Is that in loveing memory of some past Mr Potato-head?


44 posted on 03/23/2013 1:58:33 PM PDT by Patriot365
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
I think it’s cruel that in 20 years I will be reading about a 23 year old man who can only eat chicken nuggets and tater tots.

It will pass for most. My mother tells me for a year I would only eat one thing. The threats to starve, sit at the table all night, etc., didn't work at all. I would only eat one thing. Now I go to the buffet occasionally when I can afford to and eat all kinds of things. Still no broccoli, though.

45 posted on 03/23/2013 2:05:52 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by Nature, not Nurture™)
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To: steve86

I get that, but look at what your mother did

“The threats to starve, sit at the table all night, etc”

Your mother fought the battle, and eventually won. It may have been hard fought, but she proved the victor after a long while.

I fear that by not pushing the point and fearing their son being upset more than healthy, their son is winning the long war.


46 posted on 03/23/2013 2:10:25 PM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius (www.wilsonharpbooks.com)
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47 posted on 03/23/2013 2:13:42 PM PDT by Daffynition (The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
Your mother fought the battle, and eventually won.

No, that isn't correct, except by happenstance. I (just like many other kids) exited that phase with the passage of time and lost the aversion to other foods. My mother at 95, however, still will ask me "what did you eat today?".

48 posted on 03/23/2013 2:14:58 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by Nature, not Nurture™)
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To: EveningStar

She’s gotta be Irish


49 posted on 03/23/2013 2:19:23 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Daffynition

I’d be impressed if she sate them all at one setting.


50 posted on 03/23/2013 2:19:51 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Daffynition

I’d be impressed if she ate them all at one setting.


51 posted on 03/23/2013 2:19:59 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: EveningStar

The Irish survived and I don’t think they even had coleslaw.......


52 posted on 03/23/2013 2:43:35 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: chris37

You don’t say.


53 posted on 03/23/2013 2:55:09 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge (Texas is a state of mind - Steinbeck)
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To: Hot Tabasco

54 posted on 03/23/2013 2:55:23 PM PDT by Daffynition (The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
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To: EveningStar

Well at least she’d be a cheap date. A potato for her and a porterhouse for me.


55 posted on 03/23/2013 4:13:52 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: Daffynition
I don't see a problem with this at all. As seen below, these baked potatos (vegetable) have cheese and sour cream (dairy), green onions (more vegetables), and most importantly - lots of bacon (meat). Most of the food groups. Sounds pretty healthy to me :)


56 posted on 03/23/2013 4:38:49 PM PDT by MCH
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To: MCH
Looks delish! Sure hope that isn't Cheez Whiz! LOL

The day they took the Cheese out of Cheez Whiz

Read it and weep! :)

57 posted on 03/23/2013 4:48:01 PM PDT by Daffynition (The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
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To: EveningStar

Looks like she is turning into a big white potato!


58 posted on 03/23/2013 4:51:12 PM PDT by miserare
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To: Daffynition

That is really racist! I didn’t know that Barack and Michelle are Irish.


59 posted on 03/23/2013 4:52:33 PM PDT by miserare
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To: EveningStar

Before I even look, lemmee guess.

She weighs 98 lbs!


60 posted on 03/23/2013 4:53:47 PM PDT by djf (I don't want to be safe. I want to be FREE!)
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