The "Rules"

I meant to talk about the rules two days ago, but I was really busy getting ready for a trip to England. Which reminds me...

I will not be able to actually start my food-eating adventure until at least September because I will be away for two weeks in England.

And just as an aside, I discovered that same day that Neopets will delete accounts if they haven't been played on in forever...Another new annoying thing about Neopets, I guess...I don't recall that they would do that before 2007. Maybe that is why I can't log in to my first account. They probably deleted it. Oh well...

...Right. On to business. The rules, in no specific order of importance (the numbers mean which order I remembered them in):

1. I am eating all Active Neopets food items. This is explained better than I ever could here: http://www.neoitems.net/faq.php I am also eating the food in order of ID Number, which can often be equated with its release date. It just gives me a place to start from rather than doing it random, which may be fun but too chaotic for me. By the way, it helps that I am not allergic to any food.
2. I am eating no more than one food item a day. I may not be able to do it every day as schoolwork and such may keep me busy, but I will try.
3. Here is what I am not eating: snot/mucus, dung, mud, dirt, grass (maybe), rotten or rancid or mouldy food, wool, slime, hair, toenails/fingernails, lint, scabs, metal, sinks, some invertebrates such as leeches, lice, flies, maggots, possibly worms, etc., or anything that would be detrimental to my health. However, for those foods, I will probably make some substitutions, stuff that will make it look like dung or snot or some insect so that at least I sort of come close to eating it.
4. Things that have sugar I also have to be careful with, so if something has a lot of sugar I will probably use Splenda in place of the sugar.
5. I am buying it if it is something simple like Grapes, but for other things I will be home making with my father. If something is not kosher, then I will make it at my cottage rather than at home.
6. These are the categories of food I will be eating: Food, Baked, Candy, Healthy Food, Pizza, Special (only the items that used to be under the Food category), Hot Dog, Smoothie, Gross Food (if my stomach can handle it), Tropical Food, Space Food, Aquatic Food, Spooky Food (if my stomach can handle it), Mystic Mushroom (probably, though still haven't decided yet if they should be considered a category of food or not), Coffee (only the teas in it, I think, since I also cannot have coffee), Slushie, Snow Food, Faerie Food, Tyrannian Food, Desert Food, Medieval Food, Brightvale Fruit, Altadorian Food, Exotic Food, Jelly Food, Kiko Lake Food, Kreludan Food, Neovian Pastries, Qasalan Food, Molten Morsels, and any new category of food that may come out during the time it takes for me to complete my adventure (which will not be soon).
7. I realize that many of these foods do not exist. That is one of the challenges of this quest. Using other foods to try to make it look like the nonexistent food as much as possible is the only solution. We'll see how well I do with that, but we don't have to worry about that until we get there. We're starting off easy. How much easier can it be to find and eat an apple?
8. There will be a picture of the item with all its information, such as its description and category, and then there will be a picture of a real life image of the item, taken by me just before I eat it.
9. I am not making the old versions of food items. I am making the food look like its current look. I will place an image of its older incarnations, though, if there are any and I can find it.
10. This blog chronicles my experiences and experimentations with making/buying and eating the food, how I attempted it and how it tasted. I may be stuck with what to do for some of the impossible foods, so suggestions are welcome.

If you are still confused about the blog and what I am doing, it will be clearer when I actually start.

So it's off to England and Iceland for two weeks, then I come back so I will begin the adventure early in September. Until then...have a good rest of your summer.