fish.. yuck!

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  • dwaterfield
    dwaterfield Posts: 34 Member
    lkpducky wrote: »
    dwaterfield wrote: »
    It's now a running gag in the family whenever we go somewhere that has salmon on the menu. :)

    Double meaning?

    I see what you did there.... ;)
  • frankiesgirl21
    frankiesgirl21 Posts: 235 Member
    lkpducky wrote: »
    dwaterfield wrote: »
    It's now a running gag in the family whenever we go somewhere that has salmon on the menu. :)

    Double meaning?



    LOL! But seriously I love Pacific salmon but am ambivalent about Atlantic salmon... lucky west coasters!
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    nic041mccoy wrote: »
    I can't be the only who HATES seafood? I know fish is important in healthy eating because it's considered "good fat" but I just can't eat the stuff! Does anyone think if I worked in some fish supplements into my diet I'll get the same benefits?

    There are other food sources of omega-3 fats if that is your concern. Ground flax seed or flax seed oil, walnuts or walnut oil, some eggs (should say on the pkg), butter from grass fed cows, canola oil.
  • TheLittleFangs
    TheLittleFangs Posts: 205 Member
    There are lots of ways to get in good fats - nuts etc and plant based. Life is too short my friend to eat what you don't like :D I for example will never ever ever eat swede... it's so random that I hate it. A friend did a curry with it in on a campsite...I had the windows down from 300ft away I could smell it and ..well..was sick. Everyone tries to convince me to try it. Life's too short. You're not missing out if you don't like something just eat something else in its place if you're concerned about nutrition. Enjoy your shrinking !!!
  • J_Kidd85
    J_Kidd85 Posts: 36 Member
    edited March 2016
    I will not eat fresh seafood shrimp crab legs, any of that stuff. But I LOVE canned tuna. Weird, right? And its a great source protein!
  • choppie70
    choppie70 Posts: 544 Member
    I do not like fish or shellfish. I am very sensitive to smells and have a hard time being near anything that has a fish smell. Makes it very hard to live near the coast of Maine where there are many seafood restaurants!

    I had a student who had a chef father. He came into class one day and made sushi for the students and talked about his time in Japan. He knew I did not like fish, so he made a special pineapple sushi for me, I was able to choke it down, but the smell of the seaweed almost made me gag!
  • celtikgirl
    celtikgirl Posts: 237 Member
    I've tried, but it isn't going to happen. I live near the Chesapeake Bay, I love to fish, and crab, but all my catch either goes back in the ocean, or to my neighbors because I don't like to eat any of it. I wish I did, because all of those recipes and pictures look delicious, but once the stuff is actually in my mouth, I can't stand the texture. I have the same reaction to skin, or fat or gristle in any kind of meat, and don't particularly care for meat on the bone either.

    How did I get so fat if I'm such a picky eater?
  • melonaulait
    melonaulait Posts: 769 Member
    Eat some flax seeds and leafy greens and you'll be fine without seafood. No need for expensive supplements.
  • ElizabethOakes2
    ElizabethOakes2 Posts: 1,038 Member
    It's taken five years and a lot of patience to find fish and fish recipes that my husband likes. I'm finally succeeding.
    Go for mild, meatier fish, like mahi-mahi, (I buy the fresh-frozen at Trader Joe's) and use good complimentary sauces that work with the fish, not against it. My most recent success was mahi mahi covered in a sauce made from balsamic vinegar, kumquats, red onions and basil.
    Tonight, I'm going for garlic butter baked cod and have leftover turkey-meatloaf on standby in case he hates it...
  • MalkinMagic71
    MalkinMagic71 Posts: 1,433 Member
    the only fish i eat is fried fish sandwiches... can't stand any other seafood. Wife loves the stuff.
  • CrabNebula
    CrabNebula Posts: 1,119 Member
    I can't relate. I'll eat most seafood except oysters. We've even had them fresh as you can get from visiting an oyster farm and it is still...yick, no. Their smoked clams, on the other hand, were awesome. But yeah, gimme squid, smoked salmon, pickled herring, razor clams, seaweed, baked cod, fried pollack, fried/baked rockfish, ahi jerky or in poke, hakral could have been worse, smoked eel...nom...
  • azulvioleta6
    azulvioleta6 Posts: 4,195 Member
    frankiesgirl21 wrote: »
    Rocknut53 wrote: »
    I used to be that way until a halibut fishing trip to Alaska. I love beer battered halibut. It's one of the few fish that doesn't taste (or smell) like fish. I can't even fathom eating sushi.

    The fish part Ian fine with.... Nori.....eeee please! Who said seaweed was a good idea? Thanks to sushi I believe in healthy enough! Pass the sushimi tuna with wasabi please........

    I grew up in an area with a LOT of Asian food, and I always felt the same way. Recently tried sushi again and found that the nori did not bother me at all.

    Point being...tastes change over time. It's not a bad idea to try things again every couple of years.

    I LOVE seafood. More for the rest of us!

    Taking fish oil supplements is a good idea, even for those who do enjoy seafood.
  • endlessfall16
    endlessfall16 Posts: 932 Member
    I love seafood. I can skip pork and beef altogether for months but will miss fish and shellfish. Mind and reasoning is a wonderful thing to have. Pigs and cows are dirty and too close to human, ie mammals, if you look closely and want to gross yourself out to reduce eating them. :)

    Fish and shellfish are many species removed. The smells, textures, tastes, looks are wildly different and creative. There's a "clean" feeling about fish.
  • melonaulait
    melonaulait Posts: 769 Member
    endlessfall16 wrote: »
    Pigs and cows are dirty and too close to human, ie mammals, if you look closely and want to gross yourself out to reduce eating them. :)

    Fish and shellfish are many species removed. The smells, textures, tastes, looks are wildly different and creative. There's a "clean" feeling about fish.

    Land mammals and sea creatures are animals all the same, some find them more gross or more palatable than others. All living animals have equally gross features about them.
  • successgal1
    successgal1 Posts: 996 Member
    I hate fish. All seafood. Can't stand the smell in the grocery store. I did just buy some krill oil capsules to get something down me, they're smaller. I have to hold my breath opening the container.
  • ElizabethOakes2
    ElizabethOakes2 Posts: 1,038 Member
    CrabNebula wrote: »
    I can't relate. I'll eat most seafood except oysters. We've even had them fresh as you can get from visiting an oyster farm and it is still...yick, no. Their smoked clams, on the other hand, were awesome. But yeah, gimme squid, smoked salmon, pickled herring, razor clams, seaweed, baked cod, fried pollack, fried/baked rockfish, ahi jerky or in poke, hakral could have been worse, smoked eel...nom...

    Oysters aren't food. Oysters belong in the ocean, making little baby oysters, not on my plate!
  • endlessfall16
    endlessfall16 Posts: 932 Member
    melonaulait wrote: »
    endlessfall16 wrote: »
    Pigs and cows are dirty and too close to human, ie mammals, if you look closely and want to gross yourself out to reduce eating them. :)

    Fish and shellfish are many species removed. The smells, textures, tastes, looks are wildly different and creative. There's a "clean" feeling about fish.

    Land mammals and sea creatures are animals all the same, some find them more gross or more palatable than others. All living animals have equally gross features about them.

    Most meat eaters, me included, are hypocrites. We only want to approach pork and beef as they come nicely wrapped in a clean container. Somebody else done the killing for us. 9 out of 10 cannot witness the killing, gutting and chopping, sawing of these animals. I saw only a documentary of the process and lost my appetite for weeks.

    OTOH, I have no problem clubbing dead a big catfish, filleting it or boiling hundreds of live clams and shrimps.
  • MommyL2015
    MommyL2015 Posts: 1,411 Member
    endlessfall16 wrote: »
    melonaulait wrote: »
    endlessfall16 wrote: »
    Pigs and cows are dirty and too close to human, ie mammals, if you look closely and want to gross yourself out to reduce eating them. :)

    Fish and shellfish are many species removed. The smells, textures, tastes, looks are wildly different and creative. There's a "clean" feeling about fish.

    Land mammals and sea creatures are animals all the same, some find them more gross or more palatable than others. All living animals have equally gross features about them.

    Most meat eaters, me included, are hypocrites. We only want to approach pork and beef as they come nicely wrapped in a clean container. Somebody else done the killing for us. 9 out of 10 cannot witness the killing, gutting and chopping, sawing of these animals. I saw only a documentary of the process and lost my appetite for weeks.

    OTOH, I have no problem clubbing dead a big catfish, filleting it or boiling hundreds of live clams and shrimps.

    You can if most of your family and friends are hunters. I've helped clean my share of deer, fish and other wildlife. I grew up and lived amongst hunters for most of my life, so I know perfectly well that juicy steak didn't start out all clean and pretty and packaged.
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