Food Like That: Recipes your mouth will like

10 years ago today, I ate food from McDonald's for the last time. That makes today my 10 year McDonald's free anniversary.

I was driving back across Canada from a co-op term in Ottawa. 3 long days of a variety of different road food. We stopped at Kamloops for a refuel and some food, on the final stretch of the drive home. McDonald's, McChicken meal.

10 minutes after the meal, I felt bad. Stomache in knots, pasty mouth, and generally bad feeling. I put two and two together (finally) -- whenever I ate at McDonald's, I felt bad afterwards. That was it, I decided -- no more! I wouldn't eat anything from there, ever again.

Now, 10 years later, I haven't broken that rule. I've still gone on road trips, but I've opted out of McDonald's. That's not to say that I haven't eaten other "fast food". I tend to pick something like Tim Horton's -- where you can soup, and chilli, and sandwiches, all of which don't seem to induce the bad feeling that I got at the big "M" in the past.

Thinking about this as my 10 year anniversary, I got to thinking about what might be an appropriate meal to eat -- and the appropriate meal to eat at each yearly anniversary. Of course, I recently posted about The Omnivore's Hundred, so that's a likely place to look for inspiration.

I had joked about doing some sort of live action food event -- like duplicating a McDonald's meal out of "real" ingredients. Instead I'm hanging out on Bowen eating fresh plums and beans from the garden. The McPheasant will have to wait for next year...