Food and drink related ideas

Try all the foods on Omnivore's Top 100
The Big Veg - 50 vegetarian things to eat before you die
100 Classic Cocktails Bobby Heugel Says You Should Try

Try different foods- different fauna and flora people eat, like squirrel and zucchini flowers
- unusual things, like insects
- different fruits
- different national dishes around the world
- different beverages, like yuanyang (half coffee, half tea, Hong Kong style) or Yerba Mate
- different flavors of a popular commercial product, like green tea kit kat or vanilla coke
- sweet dishes made of things we associate with savory, savory dishes made of things we associate with sweet; like tomatoes with sugar and cream and black bean brownies
- “nature’s pantry” – all the edible things growing wild in the local wilderness, foraged food, mushrooms, wild herbs, survival food
- food bucketlists


Avoid fast food

Bake ---
Bake a birthday cake for a special someone.
Bake a cake
Bake a cake for someone special
Bake a cherry pie on National Cherry Pie Day, February 20
Bake a giant cupcake
Bake a loaf of bread
Bake a pie and have people love it
Bake a soufflé
Bake bread
Bake bread from scratch
Bake cookies for your neighbors, co-workers, etc.
Bake my own bread.
Bake someone a cherry pie and tell them to go have sex

Be a vegan
Be a vegetarian for a week
Become / live a week / month / summer / year as vegetarian / vegan / pescetarian / fruitarian
Become vegetarian / vegan / pescetarian / fruitarian
Become vegetarian after I have tried all kinds of meat there is

Eat only organic / raw / fresh for a month
Eat better / healthier

Become a food critic
Build up a one-month food stockpile

Create food art
Create latte art
Create your own cocktail

Do a man vs food eating challenge
Drink a $1000 bottle of champagne / Dom Perignon with a bendy straw / a bottle of trendy champagne / a ridiculously expensive bottle of champagne
Drink a cocktail out of a coconut on a beach
Drink a vintage wine
Drink a yard of ale
Drink absinthe
Drink apple cider
Drink at a distillery
Drink at a dive bar
Drink at an ice bar
Drink from a coconut
Drink hot chocolate with true love
Drink milk from a fresh coconut
Drink moonshine
Drink only water for a week
Drink tea at a tea house
Drink vodka in an icebar

Eat Raclette
Eat 100% local for 1 month
Eat a cake without using my hands
Eat a candle lit meal
Eat a different breakfast for 7 days in a row
Eat a fish you caught yourself: get out your fishing pole, and go catch your lunch
Eat a food that I grew
Eat a fresh catch that I reeled in
Eat a hot dog from a street stand in New York
Eat a huge piece of cake (or candy bar or ice cream cone or whatever your favorite dessert is) and feel wonderful about it.
Eat a meal cooked by a celebrity chef
Eat a meal cooked by a famous chef
Eat a meal good enough to be my last
Eat a meal in a blanket fort
Eat a meal on a rooftop
Eat a meal overlooking the colosseum
Eat a molecular gastronomy dinner
Eat a pig in blanket wrapped in a blanket (on the national pig-in-blanket day, 24th of april)
Eat a raw diet for a day
Eat a scooby doo size burger
Eat a six-course meal that you prepared
Eat a slice of authentic New York pizza
Eat a traditional food from every country
Eat ahi poke
Eat all major ethnic cuisines
Eat all meals outside for one day
Eat alligator
Eat alone at a restaurant
Eat an apple straight from a tree
Eat an authentic --- meal with a --- family
Eat an authentic italian meal with an italian family
Eat an insect
Eat ants
Eat astronaut food
Eat at ---
Eat at a food truck
Eat at a mc donalds overpass (vinita, USA)
Eat at a michelin 3-star restaurant
Eat at a michelin star restaurant
Eat at a random place you come across
Eat at a vegetarian restaurant
Eat at alcatraz e.r. In tokyo (medical prison)
Eat at buns and guns in beirut
Eat at cannibalistic sushi in tokyo
Eat at different places one can eat, restaurant, food van, street café etc.
Eat at eternity in ukraina (coffin restaurant)
Eat at fortezza medicea in italy (prison)
Eat at giraffe manor, nairobi, kenya
Eat at 'marton' bathroom themed restaurant - taiwan
Eat at modern toilet restaurant in taiwan
Eat at naha harbor diner in okinawa, japan
Eat at ninja akasaka in tokyo
Eat at 'ninja New York restaurant'
Eat at opaque restaurant (United States) (dine in the dark)
Eat at 'signs' deaf restaurant (toronto)eat at the alice in wonderland restaurant in tokyo
Eat at the french laundry in california
Eat at the tree house restaurant (new zealand)
Eat at the waterfall restaurant in san pablo city, philippines
Eat baby eel
Eat beef tongue
Eat bird nest soup
Eat blood sausage
Eat bone marrow
Eat breakfast in bed
Eat cactus
Eat casu marzu
Eat caviar
Eat century egg
Eat cheeks
Eat chicken feet
Eat chips on the beach
Eat conch
Eat crickets
Eat crocodile meat
Eat dessert in the middle of a desert
Eat dim sum
Eat durian
Eat eel
Eat elk
Eat emu meat
Eat escargot
Eat every flavor of ice cream (even the nasty ones)
Eat fire
Eat FireEdge Walk at Toronto’s CN Tower
Eat flowers
Eat foie gras
Eat fondue
Eat fresh fruit straight from the tree
Eat frickles
Eat frog legs
Eat fugu
Eat gizzards
Eat green tuna fruit
Eat haggis
Eat head cheese
Eat healthier / become vegetarian or vegan
Eat heart
Eat herring
Eat in a pitch black restaurant
Eat in a revolving restaurant
Eat in the underwater hotel in maldives
Eat insects
Eat inside pirates of the caribbean ride (blue bayou)
Eat jelly fish
Eat jellyfish
Eat kim chee
Eat lamb tongue / brain / rump
Eat liver
Eat mealworm
Eat mochi
Eat mushy peas
Eat octopus
Eat ostrich
Eat outside your comfort zone.
Eat peni at guo-li-zhuang in chinaeat southern BBQ in the south
Eat pigeon
Eat pigs ear / feet (trotters) / head / tail
Eat rabbit
Eat raw oysters
Eat reindeer
Eat rocky mountain oysters
Eat sashimi
Eat scorpion
Eat scrapple
Eat sea slug
Eat sea urchin
Eat snails
Eat snake
Eat something extremely interesting and strange
Eat something really crazy
Eat spaghetti like lady and the tramp
Eat sushi
Eat tarantula
Eat tequila worm
Eat tripe
Eat ugli fruit
Eat wild boar
Eat with chopsticks
Eat worm cakes
Eat yak
Eat/dine at a specific restaurant
Enjoy a candle lit dinner with a loved one
Enjoy a Kahlua coffee drink
Enjoy an edible balloon
Enter something in a food competition

Fast for 72 hours/ three days / at least 2 days / one day / at Ramadan / a few days
Find out how many maltesers can fit into my mouth
Find real fritos & make frito pie

Toss pizza dough in the air
Tropical fruit world

Try 10 different honey
Try 10 new fruits/berries/veggies
Try 10 new local restaurants
Try 10 new restaurants
Try 15 types of ethnic cuisine
Try 25 different smoothie recipes
Try 25 new recipes
Try a different type of coffee, tea, soft drink, beer, or mixed drink
Try a food that I can’t pronounce
Try a food you can't pronounce
Try a fried peanut butter and jelly sandwich
Try a Krispy Kreme Donut
Try a MRE meal
Try a really, really good bottle of wine.
Try a reindeer burger
Try a vegan diet for 30 days
Try a weird flavor of Kit-Kat
Try alcoholic egg nog
Try all types of food
Try an avocado black bean omelet
Try an unknown meal in a restaurant
Try astronaut food
Try at least 5 different kinds of egg
Try bubble tea
Try caribou meat
Try chicken and waffles

Try Danica cafe's color changing tea
Try deep fried cookie dough
Try deep fried cookie dough
Try deep-fried Twinkies
Try each type of pickled food
Try escargot
Try every --- flavor /at ---
Try every kind of vitamin water
Try everything on a single menu
Try everything on the McDonald’s menu once
Try food eaten by astronauts
Try food from all over the world
Try food from another planet
Try food from every country and region for which you can find a restaurant within 25 miles of my home
Try foods I normally wouldn't
Try fried mac & cheese
Try frozen yogurt with fresh fruits
Try hot chocolate with peppermint schnapps
Try hot soup in bread bowls
Try Indian food in India
Try juicing or make smoothies
Try kombucha tea or kefir
Try Korean BBQ
Try more than 300 different kinds of candy
Try mulberries
Try mulled wine
Try new food every day for a month
Try new food every month
Try new foods. Especially ones you thought you'd hate.
Try not eating meat on Mondays
Try one exotic food a day for a month / new food every month / every day for a month
Try peanut oil and make a stir fry
Try pickled food. Every last one
Try rattlesnake in Texas
Try raw veganism
Try savory oatmeal recipe
Try something different from the grocery store every time I go
Try tang
Try the raw food diet for two weeks
Try two new cookie recipes this Christmas
Try vegetarian haggis
Turn vegetarian

I've got faith...

It's been a long road
Getting from there to here
It's been a long time
But my time is finally near

And I can feel the change in the wind right now
Nothing's in my way
And they're not gonna hold me down no more
No they're not gonna hold me down

'Cause I've got faith of the heart
I'm going where my heart will take me
I've got faith to believe, I can do anything

I've got strength of the soul
And no one's gonna bend or break me
I can reach any star, I've got faith
I've got faith, faith of the heart

It's been a long night
Trying to find my way
Been through the darkness
Now I finally have my day

And I will see my dream come alive at last
I will touch the sky
And they're not gonna hold me down no more
No they're not gonna change my mind

'Cause I've got faith of the heart
I'm going where my heart will take me
I've got faith to believe, I can do anything

I've got strength of the soul
And no one's gonna bend or break me
I can reach any star, I've got faith
Faith of the heart

I've known a wind so cold and seen the darkest days
But now the winds I feel are only winds of change
I've been through the fire and I've been through the rain but I'll be fine

'Cause I've got faith of the heart
I'm going where my heart will take me
I've got faith to believe, I can do anything

I've got strength of the soul
And no one's gonna bend or break me
I can reach any star, I've got faith
Faith of the

Faith of the heart
I'm going where my heart will take me
I've got faith to believe
That no one's gonna bend or break me

I can reach any star
'Cause I've got faith
'Cause I've got faith
Faith of the heart

It's been a long road

I love this. This is the best about Star Trek Enterprise. Because they start with the ancient people crossing oceans with their reed boats and rafts, and go through all the explorers, people who just had to know what was on the other side, what was "there", where are the limits... and there are no limits. People went to the moon! Can you realize that! Not even the sky is the limit! We CAN do anything!

Money, money, money...

That's one of the main concerns when it comes to bucket list. In the movie, one of they guys was very, very rich, and that's how they could do the things on the bucket list.
For me, half of the things I haven't done because of lack of money.

So - how to get the money?

1) There is a lot you can do without money.
Try to find the alternative, cheaper or free ways of doing things.
There is tons of tutorials and instructional videos on-line. Quite a lot of things can be self-taught. There are people who have taught themselves to sing and dance ballet. So "anyone" can do it.

This is Amira Willighagen. 

She is 9 years old and she taught herself to sing opera, by watching YouTube videos.

"Sylvia Townsend spent her childhood practicing the dance routines of some of her favorite ballet dancers. At the age of 7, Sylvia began to search for all of the ballet books she could find on the Bookmobile. Townsend taught herself ballet, even going so far as to creating a barre from two chairs and a broomstick."
- Art of Ballet School Thrives in Richmond

But be aware of the risk.
On their toes and asking for trouble

Also, don't think you can teach yourself as well as a trained teacher would. There will be some holes in your knowledge, and you might not even be doing what ever it is you're doing right, but for most people being able to do something is good enough. One doesn't need to be GOOD at what one is doing.

That is one thing that I have noticed. I just assume that to be able to say I can do something, I must be good at it.
But I can read. I could read already when I was 6.
Was I "good" at it? I doubt that.
Right now I read in about 300 words a minute. It's a nice, average speed. Am I "good" at it? I don't know. And, frankly, I don't care.
I still think I can read, and so does everyone else, because I CAN read.
I can write.
I know English. Well enough to be here yapping in English. Am I good at it? Good enough. Confident enough to be yapping in public in English :-D I'm sure there's a lot room for improvement, but I have never claimed I'm expert in English language, or good at spelling and grammar. But I do know English, and I say I'm fluent in English.
I know Swedish. My Swedish is worse than my English, but I'm still fluent in Swedish, too.
I can walk, I can run, I can dance, I can cook and bake, I can... a lot of things. I don't put myself as an example, I don't claim I'm good at any of that (except baking. I am really good at baking :-D), I wouldn't teach any of that to anyone. But I can do all those things.
So - lower your standards.

2) Benny the Irish Polyglot has written a lot about how to travel cheap.

3) It's not a question of how much money you earn, it's how little you use, that makes you rich. Rich people don't waste their money on things and services they don't need. Quite a lot of the expenses of average people are such that could be cut out. We buy a lot of stuff to satisfy the "got to have" addiction. We live in a consumption society, where we are bombarded with the "got to have" everywhere. 
Stop watching television for a month. You'll be surprised of how much time you get and how little you want and need.

Have a "need only" month. Every penny not used is a penny saved.

And start saving the pennies. 
Start using real money, in stead of cards. Then you'll get change, which you can put in a jar, and in the end of the month, put that money in an account, and you'll be surprised of how much money has passed through your fingers you haven't even noticed!

There are lots of blogs, sites and articles online to help you saving more. Use them.
Like Get Rich Slowly

Like 52 weeks money challenge.

It's not too late to take that. It's only week 4.

 4) But it doesn't hurt to increase your income as well.
- ask a raise
-- could you increase your value as resource? Could you get better education, study, read, get skills and/or knowledge that would make you more valuable for your employer?
- consider changing work
- consider getting extra work
- do you have property you can sell?
- do you have skills you can turn into an income?

You could take the 52 weeks money challenge with EARNED money. First week earn 1 dollar, next 2 dollars and so on... How would you get the money if you HAD to find 1000 dollars in a month?

The most difficult thing in achieving goals

“The brick walls are there for a reason. 

The brick walls are not there to keep us out. 

The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. 

Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. 

They’re there to stop the other people.”

― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

The obstacles are there to stop the other people...
Think about that a little.

So... are you "the other people"?

Terry Pratchett talked about the village smith who could shoe anything. Once he shoes a flee, or some other insect.
The secret of being able to shoe anything is TO SHOE ANYTHING.
You find a way, and while doing that, you learn how to do it.

So - the only REAL obstacle is in your head. The little voice telling you you can't. You need to replace it with the Little Engine That Could. "I think I can, I know I can, I knew I could..."

And break it into small steps. Chart the road and take it in tiny steps, and remember to enjoy the view on the road :-D

And here's how to get from no splits to splits :-) Millions of people do it every day. You can, too.

Plan for a productive year

Make a 1 year plan.

Break it into 12 part plans and assign each for each month.

Break every month plan into 4 week plans.

Write them down in your calendar.

At the end of every week, review your progress, make a note of the weaknesses, mistakes etc. that made you not reach the goal, and make necessary corrections to the rest of the year's plan.

Do this at the end of every month as well.

Move the necessary steps to next month's plan.

Don't forget to have free days, when you are just to have fun and do nothing.

It's ok to change the plan as year passes.
Most people go through plans A-Z, and it's OK. There's an ocean of letters in the world :-D You might want to create plans alpha to omega next, and a to ja (Russian alphabet :-D). And if you run out of letters, you can always use numbers and signs. :-D

It's ok to change the goals, take on new one(s), ditch an old goal (or goals).

You will nevertheless have done more during the year than if you didn't have the plan and review meetings with yourself!

Reward yourself for excellent planning and work to fulfill your dreams at the end of the year by having the best New Year's Party you can imagine :-D

Become a connoisseur

One becomes a connoisseur of any "nautintoaine" in the same manner.

("Nautintoaine" is a Finnish word, compound of the words "enjoyment", "pleasure" and "substance". These are substances that are not enjoyed - drank or eaten - due to their nutritional value; like coffee, tea, chocolate, wine, beer and other alcoholic beverages, and sweets. Tobacco and drugs are also counted as a "pleasure substance".) 

9 Steps to Becoming a Wine Expert

1) Learn as much as you can about the subject. There are books about wines, beer, tobacco... practically everything. The most popular substances have a lot of material to study; magazines, web sites, guides, even classes, societies and clubs.

2) Test as much of different varieties as one possibly can. Experiment, experiment, experiment. Try out different combinations. Try the substance during different times of the day, in combination with different situations and events, like which tea suits best for breakfast and which after a meal.
The most important thing here is that this is subjective discipline. You are the only person who knows what you like, you are the only person who knows what you think, the only person who associates the way you do, and your subjective experience of the pleasurable substance is as valid as anyone else's. The difference between an expert and a layman is experience.
(Well... you DO have to be able to smell and taste, remember flavors and so on. But your experience is not less valuable than anyone else's.)

3) Ask advice and counceling from specialists, like the staff of a specialized shop. Try what they recommend, and something you have chosen yourself and experience the differences.

4) Train your senses. Use your tongue, nose, eyes and lips, your hands, even your ears, to collect as much impact as you can. I find the sensory evaluation science interesting. You can read this article to know more about that. (It also reminds us of that there are more than 5 senses that impact our experience... Take them into account as well, and train them, too.)

5) Join a group of like-minded people. Find your tribe, and discuss with them. Learn from them. 
6) Visit a place where your chosen substance is made. Learn how it is made, learn about the plants or animals where your chosen substance comes from, learn the proper, best way to prepare and enjoy your substance,

7) Try making your own. Most of these "pleasurable substances" can be made at home, like wine, cheese and tobacco. (Yes. That's the way they did it in the beginning of smoking :-D)

8) Keep a journal. Write down what you have tasted and your notes. You can collect there other people's reviews and experiences too.

Take the Walk of Faith in China

The Walk of Faith is "a glass plank path that meanders around a portion of the cliff face at 4,690 feet above Tianmen Mountain National Forest Park".

How to do it?

1) Find out how to travel to China, to Changjiajie and Tianmen mountain national forest park, and how much it will cost.
2) Get the money.
3) Go :-)

Sometimes it's really simple. Not easy, but simple.

One very important thing you must do before traveling to China is to find out their travel restrictions! The rules change quickly, like the ban on people with HIV.