how does the smell of good food affect you?

On the American food programme, the host always claims that he gets an ache in his jaw and his saliva flows when he sees/smells something particularly toothsome, and my son agrees, he also says his jaw aches. Whilst for me, I get really growly rumbling aches in my 'belly' (not tummy, belly).

For instance although we are having plaice with creamed pots and petit pois tonight, I can smell that someone in the flats has cooked a corned beef pie, and the smell is driving me nuts, with really strong cramps. In fact am thinking maybe tomorrow?

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Since I have been dieting bread has been smelling wonderful and makes my stomach really growl sometimes, the carrot sticks I then munch on just don't seem quite as good as the bread would have done

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Same as you Daisy - I end up cooking it the next day

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The smell of food cooking really stirs my taste buds!!! and I start to salivate. The 'Indian' family on the corner of the road where I live (approx 60 yards away) cook their own curries, and when the wind is in the right direction (it frequently is) I get the smell of curry wafting through my flat - its delicious!!!

I have already mentioned the pie shop down the bottom of the hill from me - walking past this place is delightful due to all the different smells of pastry and the contents inside the pies as they're cooked on the premises. In the same street is a Fish 'n chip restaurant and that too can be a delightful smell and set the mouth watering.

Further into town, one of the supermarkets also has large ovens and a 'spit' on which they roast chickens. The smell at the 'deli' counter of these roasting chickens is truly delightful!!!

I also have a 'Greggs' bakery not too far away from me and they too heat some of their pies and pasties and walking past without calling in can be very difficult. A few doors away from 'Greggs' we have another bakery chain store - Forfars - which apart from selling bakery products is also a restaurant too and the smell emanating from here can sometimes stir the taste buds.

In a part of the town entitled 'North Laines' there is a shop that roasts and sells coffee beans or ground coffee - the smell of coffee beans roasting is truly delightful.

Brighton is well served with pubs, restaurants and take-aways all of which serve cooked food and of course walking past can be difficult if one happens to be hungry (in my case most of the time)

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can you just walk past a chip shop?????

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Imagine living in my flat then lavender, in one direction I overlook an excellent Indian take away, an award winning chippy, and a kebab/pizza place, plus three hundred yards directly up the road is superb Chinese take away, and about the same distance to the left is a combination Chinese/chippy, which whilst maybe not quite as good as the others is ok in a pinch. Some nights the combined aromas are quite overwhelming.

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that must put paid to any diet then daisymay.....

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Lisa darlin' - what's a diet???

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oh uj it's just a word i heard ...somewhere...in the distant past...

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Once a month, payday, we have a take-away, usually we rotate, although have to admit I personally am not a kebab fan and so my son has those when he has worked late, or visited friends in Cardiff and arrived home especially late.

Actually because he works until 8pm (arrives home 8.15) four nights a week and therefore takes a dinner to work with him, we only have a big cooked dinner on the nights he is home between 5 and 6.15. So it sort of evens out over the week.