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Just thought it's worth mentioning..

I used to be a really fussy eater - since my childhood I'd have a list of things in my head that I "don't like"..
You know the sort of thing - "is there anything Swimmer doesn't eat ?" would be the question, followed by a long and varied list of anything green, leafy, foreign sounding or vaguely fishy.

Almost chief amongst these and guaranteed to produce a gurney face if mentioned in my presence, was Cauliflower !

I bought one on Saturday .

It's actually quite nice . Will make a nice alternative to Broccoli.

So the point of this post - well, there are lots of things we can't eat, but there are many things we can and it would be foolish to avoid things that a 10 year old version of yourself rejected (probably in preference for a sherbert dib-dab at the time).

S
 
Well I still can't abide melon, hated it as a kid, I do keep trying it cos it looks so juicy but yuk yuk yuk, its vile.
My son was a fussy eater, at 22 he will eat anything that is good for him, he's into fitness, judo etc. Why couldn't he be like that as kid and make life easier.
 
Yes. I think that on a low-carb diet your palate changes. I've never eaten cheese or salad, but now they are an absolutely central part of my diet, to the extent that cheese has a big red "fuel" sign hanging over it and I can't pass up the opportunity of eating some.
 
Raw Tomatoes - loathed them since I was very small. The only thing worse than a raw tomato is tomato ketchup. I can't stand the smell of it let alone the taste. Don't mind tomato if its chopped up and cooked.
 
Liver eughhhh - though I did used to love the gravy from liver and I always put a kidney in my beef stew to flavour it and help thicken it. don't like white meat from poultry - tasteless and dryer than dark meat - always use chicken thigh and love Christmas cause no one fights over the turkey leg!

Eggs I am a bit funny about - can't eat them on their own couldn't face a plate of scrambled egg or an omelet on its own - oh I I just cannot bear the thought of an hard boiled egg on a chicken salad - make me gyp :sick:
 
Kidney, skin on meat/poultry and yes, that includes the low carbers delight..pork scratchings..ewww!! :sick: On the rare occasions I used to have KFC, I would pick the coating off the skin, eat that, then remove the skin and eat the meat underneath.
I also have a pathological loathing of fat on meat, every last morsel has to be trimmed off as it makes me feel ill. Don't eat game, black pudding, haggis or anything of that ilk. Funnily enough, I love lambs liver done with bacon and onions..as long as hubby cooks it and I don't have to see the stuff raw!! Yep, I am indeed a bit of a wuss!

Skin on milk, skin on custard but that little problem doesn't occur anymore. Can't eat fish/shellfish but that is because of allergy not fussiness.
 
I was brought up on veg and salad and wasn't allowed to leave the table unless the plate was cleared, I've never liked celery and never use to like beetroot .....although I love beetroot now.
 
Celery, Figs and Okra. Yuk yuk and treble YUK. Never liked any of them and still can't even think about them without feeling sick. :sick:

Wouldn't eat a Tomato when I was a child because of the seeds and jelly, since I discovered Beef Tomatoes I can't get enough.
 
Mealtimes were a misery when I was younger. My mother is a fabulous cook, but only cooked adventurously for grown ups. We had plain unseasoned nursery food, cooked to within an inch of it's life. When I started to cook at about 10 yrs old, the larder cupboard was a place of wonder - Mum had every conceivable flavouring and spice. I went to town and discovered I had a palette - but I won't touch offal, fatty meat or overcooked veggies, I also have a severe seafood allergy. I craved different flavours, my older brother is incredibly fussy having passed the age where he was open to new things.

I watched loads of cookery programs, took cookery to A Level school and loved every minute. If anyone had said to my child self 'One day you will crave cabbage' I would have laughed at them - but since I've discovered that it doesn't have to be boiled to a mush, I do crave it. The same goes for many vegetables, although I still don't eat enough varieties. Meat doesn't have to be roasted until it's dry as sand paper, sausages DO contain meat, potatoes come in other varieties not just boiled or chipped....there's a whole world of food out there - it isn't 'foreign muck'

I always laughed at my mother's 'foreign muck' bit as they have lived all over the world and Mum has taken recipes and techniques with her from every place they've lived - spectacular chinese food from Singapore and Malaysia, French cuisine, hearty German recipes............but if a suggestion was made that she didn't like it was 'foreign'. I think recipes became 'naturalised' as she learned to cook them!

Since we started low carbing our tastes have changed. I no longer crave sweet things, everything tastes better.

Ju
 
noblehead said:
I was brought up on veg and salad and wasn't allowed to leave the table unless the plate was cleared, .
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This was the rule in out house too noblehead - I blame this for my past eating habits of eating past full - though now I realise the size of the plates and meals I had whilst a child and young adult with my parents where probalby 1/4 of the size of a "normal meal" this day and age. I still find it difficult to leave anything on my plate - but my plate is now a teaplate - same size as my parents still use from their wedding present "teaset" which is over 60 years old!
 
I would say I'm a very fussy eater. I don't like that much veg and it has to be cooked until soft, I don't like hard veg. The only friut i like is grapes, strawberries, bananas and clementines and I don't eat much either. I tried to eat salad to try low carbing but after eating that twice in a week I can't face that again for a long time!
 
I used to absolutely hate peppers, I would pick them out of a meal or off pizzas etc.
Now I love them and add them in my cooking since being diagnosed.

Seems to me when you stop eating the sweet things you like more spicy stuff :lol:

Regards
Angie
 
Spice is the Diabetics friend!! :wink: It's great what you can liven up with it!
 
great thread swimmer

Good to remember to try new things, especially with the restrictions we have.

There are loads of things I like now which I didn't use to - I keep trying olives and prawns and on occasion find them passable but usually not.

Newly into Raddishes and green beans - still dont like celery much but doesn't make me gip.

it absolutely does mine and my oh's nut in when people say they don't like something and you ask if they've tried it. No- comes the answer. grrrrr how do you know then?

Mary x
 
My mother too used to boil vegetables into submission, we had to eat a bit of everything, like it or not . . . Food fads were not allowed and there was none of this "leave a little for Mr Manners". Rather - "some starving child in Africa/India would be glad of that"! :shock:

It seemed to work, though. Now I can eat pretty well everything. My fish is restricted to a few species, always cooked - and I loathe and detest cheesecake. It's the texture! Otherwise I'll try most things. Even sprouts, now they're not boiled to death! :D

Viv 8)
 
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