Community Chat

[september]

I used to hate most foods as a child, but that was due to the way my mom prepared them!

I avoided cooking some veggies like brussel sprouts and sweet potatoes.   I've now learned ways to cook them that are so much better. 

[threecees]

@Kachina624 Then I won't send you any of our leftover Halloween candy😊

[Moonchilde]

Brussels sprouts and asparagus, as well as lima beans, I still don’t eat. In a pinch, if I must, a bite or two, but that’s it. For me, for those items, time and cooking prep don’t matter.

LOL I never, ever drank any type of whisky or Scotch my entire life because I don’t really like the taste, but gradually, because the household are whisky drinkers, I will drink it with 7-Up.

[Kachina624]

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@threecees wrote:

@Kachina624 Then I won't send you any of our leftover Halloween candy😊

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@threecees. Rats!  I was hoping for a care package but would prefer steaks.

[rrpell]

I was never fond of peas.  One year, I decided to grow them in my garden.  I couldn't believe they were the same mushy, icky green colored vegetable that my mother heated up from a can.  I have been a fan ever since. 

[Financialgrl]

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@lulu1 wrote:

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@Bri36 wrote:

As a kid, I couldn’t stand the smell or the taste of Parmesan cheese.  Now love it and couldn’t eat pasta without it 

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@Bri36

It still smells like dirty feet!:smileyha

 @lulu1  @Bri36  - What Bri said is hilarious and true - but I love it too!

[chiclet]

I have always hated onions and will always hate them.  The biggest change for me came after menopause.  I loved vegetables before menopause and now I could live happily without them.  I used to love breakfast and now I don't.  I am fatter but a lot more picky and eat less.  Life is not fair.

[Financialgrl]

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@chiclet wrote:

I have always hated onions and will always hate them.  The biggest change for me came after menopause.  I loved vegetables before menopause and now I could live happily without them.  I used to love breakfast and now I don't.  I am fatter but a lot more picky and eat less.  Life is not fair.

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@chiclet  Isn't that the truth!  Not fair was always that BF who was much older ate whatever he wanted but bc he was taller he could distribute it better and I swear after menopause I'd gain weight just looking at or smelling food!  The struggle is real so at this point I'm just trying to walk and be more active to get healthier and whatever will be will be!  I think I've had 25-30 lbs to lose for the last 20 years - it comes, it goes but always returns.

As far as taste buds go, I'm a picky eater, I've always been a picky eater and none of that's changed and guessing at this point it never will!

[ID2]

Oh yes I had a taste change right after menopause! There are a few foods I really hated that I now crave and love. Weird. 

[BirdieGal]

I didn’t like peanut butter as a kid, at all. Love it now. Don’t eat it often.

I also could not STAND breakfast foods like eggs, bacon, sausage. My dad loved to go out to breakfast and we traveled quite a bit so we did go out a lot. I could not even tolerate the smell of those foods. 

I like them okay now, but when DH and I go out for breakfast, most times I still order a lunch item. He still makes fun of me! The smell doesn’t bother me now. I DO LOVE biscuits and gravy though.

I also didn’t like red pasta sauce and it is still not my favorite. I make great sauce and DH loves mine. I usually make a different sauce for me if I eat. DD is the same as me.

I didn’t eat much when I was a kid. My mom was so afraid of food she literally cooked everything to death. Pork chops and steaks came out looking like boats they were so dry they curled up. 

One of my dads favorite things she would make was fried hamburger patties with sautéed onions. She cooked them sooooo long they were like a rubber ball. I almost never ate. My parents always complained that I ate like a bird. 

Probably that is when I have steak or red meat now I like it no more than mid rare. I am very particular to not make overcooked pork. DH likes his overcooked. I won’t eat it.