Is There Anything That Doesn't Taste Good Anymore?

surprisethekids

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

god i love captain crunch.. which apparently has NEVER BEEN CALLED CAPTAIN CRUNCH. blows my mind haha.

Francl27

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

Donuts and ice cream feel like a giant concrete block in my stomach and are way to sweet

HippySkoppy

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

Wagon wheels but they are so different now than when I was a kid (that wasn't yesterday)

pita7317

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

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

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

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

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

Milk bottle candies from Australia. The formula changed.

SugarySweetheart

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

Can't stand Oreos anymore, can't stand most fast food, period.

GaleHawkins

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

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

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.

snickerscharlie

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.

FrankieFrench1

Nope instead foods taste better! I appreciate the tastes and textures of food now, instead of shoveling them in like a hungry hungry hippo on steroids.

zoeysasha37

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

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.

queenliz99

My taste buds have not changed, in fact, everything tastes even better than before. I savor food instead of cramming it in my pie hole. I make the calories fit into my day. BTW, Cap'n Crunch is still delicious to me!

TheDevastator

I'd rather have eggs on toast with butter or a can of sardines than sweets anymore. Fresh fruit is also good.

Carlos_421

shank35l wrote: »

Can't stand Oreos anymore, can't stand most fast food, period.

You lie like a lying thing on Liar Street in Liarville.

ETA: and your lying, liar pants are on fire.

quiksylver296

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

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

Carlos_421 wrote: »

Burger King whoops McD's backside.

McDonald's has better chicken nuggets.

trina1049

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

Salt
also POUTINE