My parents have urged me to capitalize on my eating habits. If I eat 1,000 calorie meals already, why not start winning cash, T-shirts, and pictures on the wall of fame at restaurants all over? Truth is, while I know I can do it, I don't really want that kind of attention. I'd rather completely my "eating challenges" at home which are regular meals to me. I know eating 3 pounds of game along with two bowls of vegetables is not someone's average meal, but it's mine and I'm proud of it. 

I still like to test myself sometimes by eating even more just to push my limits. The most recent self eating challenge was to eat as many apples off my apple tree as possible. The freeze ended killed all of the apples, and in an attempt to not waste them, I ate 25 with an entire jar of peanut butter in an hour. They're small apples. Each apple off the tree is about half the size of the apples you get from the store, but I didn't know that each apple had the fiber equivalent of 5-7 prunes until later. So I spent that weekend sick and clearing my system while my mom made fun of me for it. To be honest, I regret nothing. 

I'm a very adventurous and daring eater beyond eating 25 over-ripe apples with an entire 1.5 pound jar of peanut butter. I've always been adventurous and daring, but it really took off when I watched a guy on youtube eat a couple raw rocky mountain oysters in front of a bull, and then proceed to ride that bull. That same youtuber inspired me as I shoved 5,000 calories of food down my throat everyday, and now it's not that much of a challenge for me to do that anymore.

There's a restaurant in Denver called the Buckhorn Exchange. Every time I go there, I order two plates of rocky mountain oysters, a plate of rattlesnake nachos, and then I top it all off with an elk steak that comes with a side of two quails and a large baked potato with extra sour cream. It ends up being around $80, but my parents don't really care. They're just proud and happy to see me eat so much. I've only had to take a box home once, and that's because I had eaten just before we left, so I wasn't hungry enough to finish off the quails right away. 

I also like going to any given sushi restaurant and ordering $20 worth in plain, raw salmon and tuna rolls, along with some eel, octopus, and flying fish sushi, and some miso soup which has seaweed in it. It's expensive, but as always, I eat it all. Sometimes I'll go to Whole Foods just to buy $100 worth in sushi-grade full salmon and tuna steaks. I'll go home, defrost a couple, and have them eaten within the hour. 

I regularly eat beef liver, and just recently I added pronghorn liver, beef heart, and beef tongue to my menu. I've also had alligator, crawfish, mutton, escargot, raw sea oysters, full octopuses covered in teriyaki sauce, sea urchin, and more. I actually love the raw sea oysters and the alligator, but I wasn't a fan of the sea urchin because it has a really weird texture that I can't really explain, and I just couldn't get over it. 

Other than that, I've enjoyed the taste of almost everything I've ever tried. It's the aftermath that I have to worry about. I wish I could enjoy richer, spicier foods without the later consequences, but that's just the life I live, and I have to be thankful for what I have.