What trendy foods do you refuse to purchase?

Me? Hummus. Can't stand the stuff.

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I also saw people wondering why people eat turmeric. It tastes good, so it makes my food yummier. But, it was suggested by my Rheumatologist as a possible way to reduce inflammation. For people with inflammation pain disorders. To help avoid meds. We are keeping me off meds as long as we can because I only developed these problems from misdiagnoses and medical injury. It's harmless enough to be worth a try.

melaniedscott

Bacon. I don't eat pig anyway but the add bacon to everything craze seriously squicks me.

CooCooPuff

melaniedscott wrote: »

Bacon. I don't eat pig anyway but the add bacon to everything craze seriously squicks me.

I love bacon in sweets to be honest.

Crispy bacon by itself?

fishshark

melaniedscott wrote: »

Bacon. I don't eat pig anyway but the add bacon to everything craze seriously squicks me.

i dont eat pig anymore. i used to love bacon especially dipped in syrup with breakfast. It was so easy for me to give up and havent missed it once.

Noreenmarie1234

BinaryPulsar wrote: »

I also saw people wondering why people eat turmeric. It tastes good, so it makes my food yummier. But, it was suggested by my Rheumatologist as a possible way to reduce inflammation. For people with inflammation pain disorders. To help avoid meds. We are keeping me off meds as long as we can because I only developed these problems from misdiagnoses and medical injury. It's harmless enough to be worth a try.

My lab just released research on tumerics effect on reducing/halting alzheimers progression. It is definitely worth a try.

renae161

Omg when bacon was a huge trend and they started making bacon toothpaste, bacon soap, and bacon shampoo. No thank you, I don't want my hair to smell like bacon and get attack by animals on the trails haha

CooCooPuff

renae161 wrote: »

Omg when bacon was a huge trend and they started making bacon toothpaste, bacon soap, and bacon shampoo. No thank you, I don't want my hair to smell like bacon and get attack by animals on the trails haha

Hah, at least pumpkin spice soap makes sense.

kiwiapplepear

coconut water- No thanks.... oh CRONUTS lol are they still trendy? Stevia also tastes horrible... its in everything at the mo.

renae161

kiwiapplepear wrote: »

coconut water- No thanks.... oh CRONUTS lol are they still trendy? Stevia also tastes horrible... its in everything at the mo.

They don't sell cronuts anywhere near here, but someone told me about stevia as a replacement sugar I think though I can't really remember tbh. I was looking it up and then it said something about it could possibly mess with your fertility, but there isn't any studies on humans though....I don't think I will try it.

Machka9

I use stevia.

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Anyone remember the 'oat bran' days?

Many of these foods have been around forever, they just become popular because of some study or something ... or people attach a label to them ("organic" or "superfood" or whatever) ... and then a short time later, they lose popularity and something else comes along.

With the exception of manufactured things like almond milk (yummy!), most of these things have been around forever ... hummus, oatmeal, vegetables like kale and cauliflower, sushi, blueberries, etc. etc.

Even within the manufactured category, protein bars have been around since sometime in the 1990s, if not earlier. Because of the long distance cycling I do, and have done since the mid-1990s, I tried various bars - protein bars, power bars, cliff bars, etc. etc. to see if there was something that would work well to fuel me on the long rides. After several years of trying a wide variety of these things, I came to a conclusion. Good quality granola bars and oatmeal raisin cookies worked just as well and were a whole lot cheaper.

So give some of these things a try ... if you like them, great ... if you don't, move on.

Machka9

BinaryPulsar wrote: »

Now, I focus on a non-food related social life

Absolutely!! This is something I try to do most of the time.

michellemybelll

Coconut water literally makes me gag. It is disgusting. And I've never actually had kale that I'm aware of ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

michellemybelll

Oh, I've never had acai anything either. I've never actually said the word out loud and am unsure how to pronounce outside of my head lol.

lightenup2016

Queenmunchy wrote: »

RAinWA wrote: »

Any kind of nut "milk". And only because I don't believe for a minute it is "milk" of any sort. It's nut juice (which probably wouldn't sell as well).

And yes, I am aware I am being absurd, but for some reason this one has always irritated me.

LMAO so hard, now my eyes are peeing!

renae161

Oh man that pic and name is just wrong lol

lightenup2016

What is that supposed to be, anyway? A "nutt"?

Noreenmarie1234

lightenup2016 wrote: »

Queenmunchy wrote: »

RAinWA wrote: »

Any kind of nut "milk". And only because I don't believe for a minute it is "milk" of any sort. It's nut juice (which probably wouldn't sell as well).

And yes, I am aware I am being absurd, but for some reason this one has always irritated me.

LMAO so hard, now my eyes are peeing!

HAHHAHAAA thanks for the laugh

renae161

lightenup2016 wrote: »

What is that supposed to be, anyway? A "nutt"?

Lmao I think it's a foreign company trying to translate into English and as for the picture it was supposed to show cream swirling into coffee, but someone dented the bag to make it look like a penis hahaha

PaulaWallaDingDong

renae161 wrote: »

lightenup2016 wrote: »

What is that supposed to be, anyway? A "nutt"?

Lmao I think it's a foreign company trying to translate into English and as for the picture it was supposed to show cream swirling into coffee, but someone dented the bag to make it look like a penis hahaha

Actually, I wish I never googled it to show my friends, because it turns out it's an altered picture of a carton of buttermilk.

25lbsorbust

Soaked chia seeds. BLEH. Looking at them is enough to make me nauseous.

Need2Exerc1se

amusedmonkey wrote: »

Oh yeah, forgot one: meal replacement shakes. What a waste of money and calories to me.

I agree with this. Weirdest trend ever IMO.

girlgroves

All depends if I like it or not. I refuse to spiralise anything though - zoodles? squashetti? What?! Conversely, I'm quite liking the trend for anything salted caramel flavour - I love salted caramel ice-cream!

canadianlbs

girlgroves wrote: »

zoodles? squashetti? What?!

thank you for this. i don't get how that makes it better.

Need2Exerc1se

girlgroves wrote: »

zoodles? squashetti? What?!

I've never really understood the zoodles thing. I suppose it's promoted by the people selling spiralizers. Zucchini and spaghetti squash taste so similar and spaghetti squash is already noodle shaped. Why not just eat the spaghetti squash?

fitoverfortymom

I'm decidedly anti spiralizer, also. It's not fooling anyone.

Fitnessqt27

Soy milk and artificial sweeteners like Splenda. I do use Stevia occasionally, but I avoid things like Sucralose and Aspartame like the plague.

JSaus13

Kale anything. One of my favorite restaurants in my town ruined the Caesar salad by putting kale in it now. It's like chewing on plastic.

Oh and Starbucks. I refuse to spend $5+ on a coffee or latte or whatever it is that they want to call it just because of the cute names.

alexisslolypop

It's not a food but... Coconut water

Need2Exerc1se

fitoverfortymom wrote: »

I'm decidedly anti spiralizer, also. It's not fooling anyone.

I have one. It's awesome for making curly fries.

AngryViking1970

Need2Exerc1se wrote: »

fitoverfortymom wrote: »

I'm decidedly anti spiralizer, also. It's not fooling anyone.

I have one. It's awesome for making curly fries.

Oh my, why have I never even considered this?! I've been programmed to make zoodles. LOL