Food enjoyed, now disliked alot

[alexis_the_tiny]

i have problems with people trying to push garbage on my son. they act like he is being deprived because we give him whole foods to eat but at almost 3 he loves vegetables and is willing to try any new food we offer him and loves healthy foods. the grandmothers tend to get a bit freaked out by the lack of junk food in his diet though.

I don't understand that reaction in people regarding kids who prefer real food to junk food. Is it REALLY so terrible if a kid willingly picks carrot sticks over potato chips?

I've noticed that as I get older, my tolerance for sugar gets lower. Its not just for chocolate or other junk food but for soymilk and juices as well. Most of my junk food is homemade now, just so I can control the sugar and salt content and do weird things like adding flaxseeds to cracker sticks and brownies.

[Owlie]

Frosting. I stopped liking it when I was about 13--just too sickly sweet. There are a couple types I like, but I can't seem to get them consistently. (So it annoys the heck out of me when my parents would go ahead and get a birthday cake for me, with no input from me...I don't want the thing custom-decorated! I want to be able to eat it!) Root beer too. I find most brands taste vaguely like cough syrup. Virgil's is pretty good, though. Sausage is another one. I just can't eat the sausage that shows up in most breakfast buffets any more. I stick with bacon!

The too-sweet thing, I guess, would apply to half the candy my grandmother would send in a giant box from the UK.

I have a lot that went the other way, though. Walnuts (puked after eating too many of them when I was five and I didn't touch them for 10 years!), fish, tea, salt and vinegar chips.

[FlyingScot]

Twinkies! Only ever got them when I was at someone else's house because I was deprived by a mother who made homemade cookies instead. Thought they were to die for. Bought some as an adult...what was I thinking?! ICK!

Can't eat Tapioca pudding. Just the sight of it makes me start to salivate and not in the good way. Mom (yep, her again) fed it to me after I had sustained a concussion. Needless to say after projectile vomiting the stuff it lost its appeal.

Oddly I HATED pancakes and french toast as a kid. Now I love them but can't have them. Life is sooo unfair.

[OakLeaf]

Oh man, I have always loved tapioca pudding. Should we start another thread for lifetime favorites?

I am a total sucker for starchy sweets. I really don't like candy either, but baked goods, tapioca, cobblers...


Oh yeah, and I still will not do shots of tequila since that time when I was 17. I'm finally a little old for that now, I suppose, so I have another excuse.

[bmccasland]

Deviled Ham. Used to like it when I was a kid. Bought some for field food, and it was WAY too salty. Dumped it out off the side of the road where I had stopped for lunch, checked the site a couple of days later, and even the skunks didn't eat it.


* field food - I used to work as a field biologist - needed food that didn't need refrigeration for my lunches and wanted a change from PB&J. I would drive from one study site to another, then hike in.