All hot cereals (oatmeal, Cream of Wheat, farina) must be lumpy. I love the clumps of cereal.

I love PUB GRUB - bangers and mash and all the rest. I always stop in Paddington station in London for some in the pub up the stairs. And even in Las Vegas we have a good british pub with Pub Grub.

Once in a blue moon, when at the supermarket, I grab a can of Vienna sausages and consume them before I even get to the car.

I was doing it with really really fresh corn from Food Connect - my mother thought I was crazy but if you steam the corn, then slather butter on it, and then smear vegimite in the cracks it tastes amazing.

how is this a food sin?

My sin is I'm a lazy chef sometimes and will use a store bought side to supplement the meal I've prepared. Examples, just the other day used pineapple fried rice from our local favorite Chinese place to go with our grilled lamb skewers with Korean bul go ki BBQ sauce. Turned out to be an incredible dish.^
I'll also buy Popeye's red beans & rice for our cajun influenced meals.

Totally get this one. I've been getting the tuna flatbread sandwiches at Starbucks for breakfast once in a while. They're great.

A tuna sandwich for breakfast beats pizza for breakfast, IMO.

When I lived in NY, my roommates enjoyed canned kippered herring for breakfast, and of course kippered herring are on the buffet menu in hotels in London. Good breakfast, especially with sliced tomatoes.

Once had stufed fish rolls at a hotel breakfast buffet in Cesky Krumlov. A rolled fish of some sort, still with skin on it--I think and hope it was cooked, as it was probably freshwater--stuffed with sauerkraut and onion. We were facing a train ride that day, and I shuddered momentarily at the thought of strangers having to endure our presence after that breakfast. But how many times does one get rolled fish, stuffed with sauerkraut, for breakfast?

Fish for breakfast is good. ^

(Well, occasionally--and actually, breakfast is a lot more often something like oatmeal with buttermilk, but whatever--)

I ***love*** anchovies on my pizza.

Mac & Cheese from Ryan's Steak Houses (low-end chain based in the Southeastern U.S. for those unfamiliar). It's probably been five years since I've been to one of these, but I still miss it.

My daughter also apparently inherited a form of the gene. She lives in London and also must have a box of Kraft Dinner in the house at all times "for emergency use". She brings back a few boxes every time she returns from a trip home. I'm a fan too...even though I only have the stuff once or twice a year. Also with ketchup...and a couple of drops of tobasco!

Foods that take you back to childhood... You can't beat a well-fired roll (1) and slice (2) with Irn Bru (3), or a roll (1) and pie (4). Both have arteries hardening faster than you can say "RAI" (5).

Notes for foreigners:

(1) a 'morning roll' is a white bread roll, topped with rice flour, and has a uniquely chewy consistency. Many bakers will separate the 'well-fired' (i.e. burnt) ones and sell them on request only, as some people prefer them. Or get them cheap.

(2) 'slice' aka 'square sausage' aka 'beef lorne' is a spiced sausage meat, cut into square slices and fried/griddled. You can use potato scones to soak up the grease from cooking. Last time I cooked these, I was wiping fat off the kitchen tiles for a week.

(3) 'made in Scotland, from girders'. It's bright orange, caffeinated, heavy in sugar and fizz, tastes a little like bubblegum, is fortified with ammonium ferric citrate, and is the most popular soft drink in Scotland. Peru is the only other place where Coca Cola is not the most popular soft drink - Inca Cola wins and, oddly, tastes almost the same as Irn Bru. Unsurprisingly, the only other foreigners I met in Peru who liked Inca Cola were Scots.

(4) 'pie' where I come from means only one thing: minced mutton, mace and nutmeg, in a thin, dense pastry that you could build houses out of. The roll may seem an odd addition, but it's useful to stop the fat dribbling down your chin while you're trying to eat it.

(5) the Royal Alexandria Infirmary. Paisley's finest hospital, well used to dealing with the effects of the local cuisine.

When I was 14, I was home alone a lot in the evenings. I had no culinary skills (and was apparently very Mowgli-esque), so I created my own nightly "dinner" out of stuff we had in the pantry: a concoction made of drained oriental-flavor ramen noodles, crunchy chinese noodles and a little Heinz 57 sauce. Toss together and enjoy!

I guess the sin is that even now, when I pass any of the ingredients in the grocery store, I have fleeting cravings for it.

Perhaps you're experiencing nostalgic feelings for things you were or could do when you were 14. Nothing about your pantry invention appeals to me. Hopefully your culinary skills have improved. To each his own, I suppose.

I used to do something like that, too. Add some dried peppers and vegetables, random seasoning, and an egg.

That is a more encouraging way of looking at it!

Vegetables and protein? Your version is starting to sound suspiciously healthy.

Maybe it's just a throwback to my college days, but I do occasionally enjoy going to Wendy's to eat french fries dipped into a Frosty.