Is There Anything That Doesn't Taste Good Anymore?

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  • surprisethekids
    surprisethekids Posts: 23 Member
    I'm pretty much eating everything (in moderation), but I have discovered that regular colas are way to sweet for me now. I was really psyched to have a Jimmy John's sandwich last month, but couldn't eat it - it was too salty. Pizza makes me sick to my stomach for days. I still love the taste, but it doesn't love me.
  • fishshark
    fishshark Posts: 1,886 Member
    god i love captain crunch.. which apparently has NEVER BEEN CALLED CAPTAIN CRUNCH. blows my mind haha.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    Yeah, and it actually makes me really sad.

    Most pizzas... too salty. The last one I had was such a let down (from a place I used to like, too) that I think I'm just completely over pizza now (unless it's from one of those local places that do Italian style pizza). French fries too. Most fast food is just way too salty for me now... Popeyes fried chicken burned my mouth! Mc Donald's chicken nuggets don't even appeal to me anymore (nor do most fried foods, frankly). Heck I got a hazelnut milkshake a year ago from Cheeburger Cheeburger after I got my wisdom teeth removed and all I could think was 'just not worth the calories'.

    Ice cream cones (like Good Humor). I mean, maybe they changed the formula? But it was just extremely disappointing. Boston Market mac'n cheese (I used to love the stuff).

    Ditto on processed foods - canned soup especially... yuck! Or grocery stores baked goods - even Wegmans disappointed me last time. I think I'm just a food snob now.

    And juice. I hadn't drunk any juice/soda for 3 years and had some Bai a couple weeks ago and it was way too sweet. Ugh.

    But I still like most packaged cookies (Chips Ahoy being the exception), still liked the filet-o-fish I ordered a few months back even though it was like eating air so I'll never order one again... So I guess it depends, lol.

  • kirstinethornburg
    kirstinethornburg Posts: 300 Member
    Donuts and ice cream feel like a giant concrete block in my stomach and are way to sweet
  • HippySkoppy
    HippySkoppy Posts: 725 Member
    Really good question OP.

    I have had to change my food intake radically due to health reasons and initially was keen to find suitable substitutes for my favourite foods. Sadly, pretty much without exception they were all big disappointments.

    Cauliflower pizza crust - Oh my!!! Only time I have ever thrown food away. Paleo biscuits made with coconut flour *Le sigh* It didn't really matter whether I made them myself or they were store bought.

    My biggest 'sad' is bread. I can't eat gluten and damn it I have tried just about everything. It may just be my poor baking skills but the homemade versions were just an exercise in deep shame and frustration and even now the loaf that I have on the very odd occasion just isn't the same as the wonderful texture and flavour of wheat based products.

    Such is life. ;)
  • singingflutelady
    singingflutelady Posts: 8,736 Member
    Wagon wheels but they are so different now than when I was a kid (that wasn't yesterday)
  • pita7317
    pita7317 Posts: 1,437 Member
    Salty/sodium here too. I bought a box of cheezit grooves crackers recently, ate one and thought...eww these are really nasty.
    In the garbage can the box went. And fried/breaded stuff.
  • CooCooPuff
    CooCooPuff Posts: 4,374 Member
    rakowskidp wrote: »
    chimaerandi wrote: »
    The Little Debbie Oatmeal Cream Pies, though honestly I'm convinced it's because they changed something, and not that my palate has changed, since I still love pretty much everything I had before.

    I think you're right - they must've changed something. They're sickeningly sweet and taste like chemicals. Nasty!
    I like some other Little Debbie products, but the cream pies were really disappointing. I tried them when I fell in love with oatmeal cookies.

    Speaking of changing the formula, Cadbury creme eggs. Chocolate creme eggs and their solid milk chocolate eggs are still good though.


  • sliminby60
    sliminby60 Posts: 52 Member
    the unsweet tea mixed with diet lemonaid i buy at chickfilet i used to put 4 to 5 splenda packets in it now i need none it taste sweet enough without it
  • Linzon
    Linzon Posts: 294 Member
    I still enjoy the taste of pretty much everything I ate before I lost weight, because I've still been eating it all along. These days I've more cut back on a lot of things because they're not currently worth it calories-wise. Like, while I stil think a Coffee Crisp tastes great, I get more chocolate bang for my calorie buck if I have a square of dark chocolate instead (although sometimes the Coffee Crisp wins).
  • jlc102980
    jlc102980 Posts: 137 Member
    French fries taste terrible to me now.

    Foods flavored with artificial sweeteners to keep them low-cal. Taste sickly sweet to me.

    And I no longer enjoy cheap chocolate, regular or dark. Hershey's, etc. Tastes like plastic. Only the expensive stuff now.
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  • cerise_noir
    cerise_noir Posts: 5,468 Member
    Milk bottle candies from Australia. The formula changed.
  • SugarySweetheart
    SugarySweetheart Posts: 154 Member
    I'm on the fence about yogurt. I used to think it was sour because I was eating so much sugar. Now I feel it's way too sweet.
  • shank35l
    shank35l Posts: 102 Member
    Can't stand Oreos anymore, can't stand most fast food, period.
  • GaleHawkins
    GaleHawkins Posts: 8,159 Member
    Being off processed foods/drinks for nearly two years I find now even raw carrots and celery taste sweet and items with any added sugar are over the top sweet. I read over time our taste buds replace themselves but I know my work better now.
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    Nah.. I haven't really had lots of what I used to live on, for a long time now, I just don't want it that much, for the calorie expense, and because I have started to like "real" food - I can pick up the flavors and nuances, I try out new varieties for fun, and I love to cook from scratch; I salivate in the produce section... But I think everything would taste like before and that I'd be just as hooked as before. That's my number one reason for sticking to "real" food.
  • hassankarimi82
    hassankarimi82 Posts: 153 Member
    For me its sweets. They used to taste awesome as a kid, now they just taste bloody aweful! They make my brain swirl. I used to hate cheese also, now I love it, even though....it gives me nightmares! I think its all to do with how we mature - our tastes change, opinions change, we change.
  • zoeysasha37
    zoeysasha37 Posts: 7,088 Member
    snickerscharlie wrote: »
    Nope, I still love the taste of everything I ate before. My taste buds didn't suddenly become discerning and self-righteous just because I lost weight. I wish that brownies and salty fries tasted like doo-doo to me, but they don't, so I just eat them in moderation instead.

    This 100%

    I enjoy whatever foods I like but in moderation
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    hassankarimi82 wrote: »
    For me its sweets. They used to taste awesome as a kid, now they just taste bloody aweful! They make my brain swirl. I used to hate cheese also, now I love it, even though....it gives me nightmares! I think its all to do with how we mature - our tastes change, opinions change, we change.

    Yeah, taste buds changing as we get older makes sense. I used to hate spicy food, now I love it. I like lots more bitter foods. I like many cheeses I didn't or wouldn't have before. I stopped liking most of the fast food I enjoyed as a kid. I'm much more open to trying new things. My sister adored sugary cereal as a kid (I've never gotten the cold cereal thing) and now really doesn't like super sweet foods.

    It's also true that laying off the salt with make you more sensitive to salt so you don't need so much.

    I find the idea that we start eating healthfully and automatically cannot tolerate the foods we used to enjoy a little odd. Personally I'd be bummed if eating healthfully made me not like homemade apple pie with ice cream. But again I haven't really changed the foods I eat that much, just made them lower cal through changing my cooking, and eat more sensible portions.
  • TheDevastator
    TheDevastator Posts: 1,626 Member
    edited May 2016
    I'd rather have eggs on toast with butter or a can of sardines than sweets anymore. Fresh fruit is also good.
  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    I'm not a food snob, at all. But it had been a couple of years since I had eaten McDonald's burgers and fries. I had both this last weekend, and they were not good. Bland, boring yuckiness that totally wasn't worth the calories. Even my 12-year-old agreed.
  • Carlos_421
    Carlos_421 Posts: 5,132 Member
    quiksylver296 wrote: »
    I'm not a food snob, at all. But it had been a couple of years since I had eaten McDonald's burgers and fries. I had both this last weekend, and they were not good. Bland, boring yuckiness that totally wasn't worth the calories. Even my 12-year-old agreed.

    Burger King whoops McD's backside. So does Wendy's.
  • TheDevastator
    TheDevastator Posts: 1,626 Member
    Carlos_421 wrote: »

    Burger King whoops McD's backside.

    McDonald's has better chicken nuggets.
  • trina1049
    trina1049 Posts: 593 Member
    I find all restaurant food, and fast food too salty now. Sad that pizza is way too salty also because it was always my favorite. Can't stand any commercial baked goods as they taste too cloyingly sweet. Love the spicy stuff if it's homemade without the salt. I can still go for a few potato chips occasionally though. Love those but have to watch the you-know (salt).
  • Holly_Wood_888
    Holly_Wood_888 Posts: 268 Member
    Salt
    also POUTINE

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