Foods that sound great but disappoint?
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I wish the following food fads would go away: quinoa & kale. I've really tried to give both a fair shot. Alas, no. They are both underwhelming. Also, pureed cauliflower CANNOT be made into delicious substitutes for the following: pizza crust, mashed potatoes or alfredo sauce. Stop "pinning" these lies, people!0
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This thread is hilarious. But a Mug Cake? What in the world is that? Cake is cake. And cauliflower pizza??? Only pizza is pizza, people. No wonder you guys are grossed out by these things.0
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Count me in as someone else who really wants to love oatmeal but can't no matter what. It's okay as granola or in a cookie, but the texture of cooked oatmeal (and I've tried dozens of kinds and multiple toppings) never tastes like anything but paste to me.
I don't care much for regular oatmeal either, because I don't care for sweet things and hardly ever eat them.. Yet, I ate it as a winter breakfast when I still lived at home in Germany, because supposedly it is good for you.
When I lived and worked in India for 18 month, I learned to cook ( and l-o-v-e-d ) spicy oat meal that is made with all kinds of vegetables. You can google " oatmeal upma " or just plain " upma " ( and replace the cream of wheat, bread or whatever is used as a main ingredient with oatmeal ) and find hundreds of recipes. I now really like oatmeal this way and eat it often as a main meal topped with cilantro and a few drops of lime juice and of course lots of vegetables cooked with the oats.
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Oh, and Golden Milk made with turmeric. I tried to make some the other night, yuck. I will have to find another way to use turmeric, I guess, since it is so good for you.
I take tumeric for years because I have RA and find it is easier ( if one can handle the color ) to just mix it with hot food. Scrambled eggs, all kinds of vegetables, I mix it with plain yogurt, chopped onion and cilantro as a potato topper, in hummus and many other things. Since it doesn't have much of a flavor, but is astringent, it works well with oriental foods also.
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cheap "chocolate" that's more sugar/corn syrup than actual chocolate. looks and smells wonderful but then...everything goes wrong, lol.
Agreed. Took me a while to realise why my kids never ate those cute, huge chocolate bunnies my parents bought them from Walmart every Easter. Then I tried one.
Also, skimmed milk. Looks and tastes like someone's just washed out their paintbrushes.
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Peeps.0
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Humus. . No taste if you ask me. Oatmeal and yogurt as well I can't eat it is so bland. .0
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I really wish I could love avocado the way other people do. I feel like my nutritional life would be so much easier.
Texture, taste...it just doesn't work for me.0 -
lesliekarp wrote: »I wish the following food fads would go away: quinoa & kale. I've really tried to give both a fair shot. Alas, no. They are both underwhelming. Also, pureed cauliflower CANNOT be made into delicious substitutes for the following: pizza crust, mashed potatoes or alfredo sauce. Stop "pinning" these lies, people!
I love mashed cauliflower, but yeah, if you're having some expecting it to be similar to mashed potatoes... nope. Same with zucchini or spaghetti squash for pasta. I wish people would just stop mentioning those as 'substitutes'... There's *never* a substitute for the real thing. Just other options.0 -
Little Caesar's Pretzel Crust Pepperoni Pizza.
Major disappointment....
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AllOutof_Bubblegum wrote: »
No, but I'd shoot it, gut it, fill it with cinnamon, roast it, and ice it.0 -
Lasmartchika wrote: »Hummus. People are always raving about how good and healthy it is... ugh!! I didn't like the taste or consistency of it. Never again.
I read this as "humans"...0 -
Now I can't think of anything except Cinnabon.0
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Grits. It would have been better for me to just ask for the oatmeal.0
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any cottage cheese variety other then w/ chives.0
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spacequiztime wrote: »Grits. It would have been better for me to just ask for the oatmeal.
so you cook those grits up with a little fresh sage, butter, parmesan, and bacon fat.
Then, you top those grits with grilled shrimp and fiddleheads, or lacking those, asparagus tops.
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Marzipan - sounds like it should be yum yum but oh my it just clings to your tongue and you can't get it off!!0
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dunnodunno wrote: »One time I decided to try plain cottage cheese with Chocolate PB2 & discovered it was very disgusting!
As for healthier food I would have to say Kale chips (Kale is so vile) & Star Fruit (just had a blah taste).
You're my hero for this.0
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