One Day's Eating - Everything Mitch Ate or Drank in 24 Hours

I'm Mitch, and here's the project: Keep track of every food you eat and drink you drink in one day, because knowing is actually awesome and entertaining.

I did this a week or so ago. I spent the day tailgating at the Oakland Coliseum with my good friends, and partied with them again later that evening on the Rock Block. It was a solid Saturday, and it's one I'd gladly have again. Check out the video.

Mitch - 9/13/08                              Click here to watch Simon's video


Here's a rundown of everything involved that day:

One Day's Eating - Mitch - 9/13/08

1. Water - A bit hungover from the night before. Crucial.
2. Victory Garden Tomato - Started growing it to make good on our liberty.
3. Free Cheese - Creamy Beemster Gras at the grocery store.
   
4. Crazy Sugar Pastry - About all you can say.
5. Coffee - Black.
6. Mini-Brownie - Thank you sarahjean.
7. Rainier Ale - 7.3%. Snap.
8. Dry Roasted Edamame - Needed more salt.
   
9. Carne Asada - Cory's birthday and he did the grilling. A real kind of guy.
10. Hot Dog - Corn and pepper and mustard and too much bun bread.
11. Tecate - Shotgunning is a thing.
    
12. Miller Lite - Easy sippin'.
13. Red Bull - The security guard made us chug these.
14. Grapes - The second variety of grapes I'd had that day.
15. Fritos - Total classics.
    
16. Baby Carrots - How do they even make these?
17. A Walnut - Encrusted in cinnamon and sugar. Too bad.
    
18. Sunflower Seeds - Reduced Sodium.
    
19. Iced Tea - With lemon.
20. Cotton Candy - Some people say I don't know how to eat this.
21. Rialto Lager - Stole this from David.
    
22. Chardonnay - It was a nice mug.
23. Carne Asada - Still good, after an afternoon. Eso tiempo sin crema.
24. Milwaukee's Best - They get off on being withholding.
25. Cheese 'n Crackers - Clutch party snacks.
26. Limon Lays - Seriously, pretty dumb.
27. Veggie Burger - Sharing & Caring.
    
28. Chocolate Cake - UNEXPECTED MIDNIGHT DELIGHT.

If you'd like to see another video, you should really check out Simon's post.

Anyway, this idea is not exactly new. Tucker Shaw's Everything I Ate: A Year in the Life of My Mouth is a serious and commendable thing, but its scope is huge. Same with the more macro look Feltron takes with his Annual Reports. One day is just way easier [to swallow].

Something I really enjoyed about this project was that it gave me an opportunity to consider just how often I accidentally eat cool food. It seems like there are always some delicious random cupcakes lying around, or someone is grilling something, or there's a cooler stocked with beers and snacks. I feel super fortunate to be in this spot, where I'm afforded the luxury of choice, and am surrounded by friends and family who really understand the value of food. Eating is such a crucial interaction between people, and it provides us with a framework for sharing our lives with each other.

Another fresh thing about keeping this list, is that it's really easy to totally forget that you ate some utter nonsense the other day. I'm not the kind of guy that sweats the healthiness of everything I put into my body, so this isn't about calorie counting or whatever. It's more about being able to recall, from now on, that I had cotton candy at a ballgame after taking maybe a decade off from the stuff (still kind of gross).

I'm curious to see what other folks come up with, so do consider keeping an eye on your mouth for a day. See you around.