"Good for you" foods you just can't stand?

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  • deniseblossoms
    deniseblossoms Posts: 373 Member
    Cauliflower and broccoli - bland boringness. I do force them down from time to time, but have never liked them from childhood. Even my mother calling them "trees" didn't make them any more appealing to me.

    These are mine/: I do not want them smothered in cheese, I do not want them lightly steamed, boiled, raw, roasted or sauteed and in my mouth.
    And green peppers, they ruin anything they come in contact with.
  • da1128
    da1128 Posts: 212 Member
    Fish
    Chicken
    Turkey

    Of course, to be fair, none of the above has ever passed my lips. True that! I am 62 years old and have never once tasted fish, chicken, or turkey, and I have no plans to start now. I also eat very little meat; pork, beef, etc. If food ever had a face or a mother, I can't bring myself to eat it...and if I 'do,' it has to be so well done that it doesn't even resemble meat. Basically, it has to 'crunch,' like crispy bacon. :bigsmile:

    I do love my fruit and veggies, although someone once tried to talk me into tasting durian. Ugh, just thinking about the smell of that vile fruit gives me palpitations. :sick:
  • black_cats
    black_cats Posts: 29 Member
    I'm surprised nobody has said this...SPIRULINA

    :sick: :sick: :sick:
  • RotterdamNL
    RotterdamNL Posts: 509 Member
    I am suprised that your suprised because first of all i had to google it and second who would ever had that growing up or in a normal food pattern
  • iansmama3
    iansmama3 Posts: 2
    Avocado! And Jillian Michaels must love it. I'm doing the Body Revolution and she's got the nasty green stuff EVERYWHERE....sigh.
  • bdeezy3396
    bdeezy3396 Posts: 89 Member
    Squash - and it doesn't matter how you dress it up!!!!
  • strickland8052
    strickland8052 Posts: 105 Member
    Cauliflower and broccoli - bland boringness. I do force them down from time to time, but have never liked them from childhood. Even my mother calling them "trees" didn't make them any more appealing to me.

    My 10th grade health teacher saying that STDs look like cauliflower didn't help either....

    Try mashed cauliflower with some laughing cow cheese... yum yum!

    Or broccoli steamed for a REALLY long time with lemon pepper and red pepper flakes.
  • strickland8052
    strickland8052 Posts: 105 Member
    Humus. yuckkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!
  • purplecharm
    purplecharm Posts: 446 Member
    bananas - I just can't understand how anyone can eat them

    raw tomatoes - I don't like the texture...too wet and juicy

    cottage cheese- I have never eaten it actually but it looks nasty

    oatmeal - I have to add tons of fresh fruits and applesauce just to get it down. It's so bland and I don't like the texture.

    melons(honeydew, watermelon, cantaloupe) - I just don't like the taste of it
  • Im_NotPerfect
    Im_NotPerfect Posts: 2,181 Member
    Cottage Cheese....BLEH!!!! :sick:
  • plynn54
    plynn54 Posts: 912 Member
    I hate bannanas, peppers, red, yellow, and the most evil of all food green peppers. I really wish I did like them because they look so nice and colorful :)
  • cubsgirlinny
    cubsgirlinny Posts: 282 Member
    Salmon. I've tried it pepared many ways and can't stand the stuff. It makes me gag at best.
  • PixieGoddess
    PixieGoddess Posts: 1,833 Member
    Hummus. I don't know why, since I LOOOOVE chickpeas, but I keep trying different brands/flavors and I just don't like it. :ohwell:
  • justal313
    justal313 Posts: 1,375 Member
    Mushrooms - They grow them in poo
    Cauliflower - Tastes too sour for my liking, however in vegetable bryani it's fine.
    Beef liver - smells great when cooking, tastes awful..

    That's about it. I love all manner of vegetables as long as they are (generallly speaking) not over cooked or really cooked much at all. All fruits are generally yummy, oh except grapefruit.
  • Hellbent_Heidi
    Hellbent_Heidi Posts: 3,669 Member
    Tuna fish :sick:
  • Bookaholic88
    Bookaholic88 Posts: 106 Member
    Celery... hate it, it tastes like stagnant water... barf
  • justmyalias
    justmyalias Posts: 153 Member
    Fruit. I will eat any vegetable under the sun (except the fruits that masquerade as veg, deceptive little ****ers) but even the thought of eating fresh fruit makes me queasy.

    funny...
    I will eat almost any fruit,all day long (usually not papaya, mango or guava though)
    but not a huge veggie fan...
    of course, love the starchy ones, and salad stuff - most of the raw finger foods that you can adulterate too easily

    but no peas, greens, cooked carrots (EWWWWW!!), okra, squash,...
  • lilv711
    lilv711 Posts: 24 Member
    Cabbage, raw onions, mushrooms (I hate the smell of it cooking) & sweet potatoes. Especially sweet potato fries... I want regular fries damn it! lol.
  • cmadsen1970
    cmadsen1970 Posts: 3 Member
    zucchini & squash. Also cooked carrots, love them raw but if you cook them they are ruined.
  • raecork
    raecork Posts: 34 Member
    Fish any and all Fish... I keep trying Salmon, thinking that one day, one recipe will change the way I feel, but alas no. I don't mind halibut, but I think the batter and deep frying probably ruins any health benefits of eating the fish.
  • jomtois
    jomtois Posts: 22 Member
    *Any* seafood, mushrooms, cottage cheese makes me gag just smelling it, asparagus.

    I enjoy quinoa.
  • vettle
    vettle Posts: 621 Member
    oh this is funny - so weird how things just turn us all off in some way but for others it's the best thing ever.

    I have a couple most things I actually like:

    I too can't stand quinoa or couscous... it reminds me of potpourri.
    lentils - blech my mom used to make dahl and I haaaated it!
    eggplant - seriously why is this still legal?
    Okra - *holds mouth*
    most internal organs, though not sure if they are considered "good for you" necessarily
  • missismonty
    missismonty Posts: 41 Member
    Cottage cheese and celery - No need
  • deb3129
    deb3129 Posts: 1,294 Member
    Kale. I eat a plant based diet, and the other people I know who eat plant based LOVE kale, and I know it's really good for you. But I have tried and tried, and just can't like it!
  • NinjaJinja
    NinjaJinja Posts: 147 Member
    Lettuce. I can SMELL lettuce. Everyone always thinks that is totally bizarre but I can. And anything it touches it contaminates with it's lettuce taint. I dislike broccoli for a similar reason - the smell is awful and once I was at a restaurant and both of the people I was with got the standard side of broccoli.. the smell kept wafting over my food and put me off. Also papaya for the same reason. I bought one for my rabbit and when I was cutting it up and portioning it - ugh. Was so glad i didn't have to eat it.

    I don't like mushrooms or eggs for the texture. I waver between refusing to eat bell peppers and sucking it up when they're put in. I actually don't seem to be able to digest them considering they come out completely whole and undigested, and since I don't love them I don't see the point in eating them.

    I also dislike most nuts. Not sure why because it isn't like they taste horrible. I think it's because people like to put nuts IN other things (like cookies, brownie, etc etc) and that interrupts the texture of the thing. I don't like crunchy bits in things that are otherwise not crunchy. This is also why I don't like water chestnuts.

    Also I hate sushi and everybody else in the world is ape**** in love with it. Gag.
  • raspberryblonde
    raspberryblonde Posts: 40
    Raw celery (love cooked celery), dark chocolate (prefer milk chocolate), broccoli tops (perfectly happy to eat the stems), green peppers, kale, mangoes (the skins smell terrible). Iceberg lettuce!

    And I don't know who the heck looked at a pumpkin, or a squash, or a sweet potato and decided they were edible. They are not food, people! I get my my beta-carotene from carrots!

    And I'm violently allergic to strawberries, so my body can't stand them, regardless of my taste buds' opinion on the subject.
  • cococa
    cococa Posts: 122 Member
    This was like a list of everything I love...until I got to beef liver. I hate liver. I'm also not a big fan of cottage cheese.
  • sbbhbm
    sbbhbm Posts: 1,312 Member
    Chicken breasts and green beans. I can eat the dark meat no problem, but I can no longer stomach chicken breast meat. When I was in high school, my mom and I went on the Cybergenics CyberTrim diet. For six weeks, every single dinner was boiled skinless chicken breasts and green beans. I liked them up until then, but four weeks into the diet, I started puking them back up I was so sick of them. I get nauseous just thinking about eating either one. That and fish. Never liked fish, tried many kinds cooked many ways, I can get it down, but it comes right back up. I've been trying for over 30 years, and have finally decided to stop trying.
  • bertabird
    bertabird Posts: 52
    I WOULD RATHER PUMMEL MY EYE WITH A BIG, FAT STICK THAN DRINK GREEN TEA. I DON'T CARE HOW AWESOME IT IS FOR YOU. I DON'T CARE THAT IT IS CHOCK FULL OF ANTIOXIDANTS OR HELPS WITH MY METABOLISM. I DRINK IT BECAUSE OF THOSE REASONS, HOWEVER, WHEN I DRINK IT IT IS MEASURED (1 CUP THREE TIMES DAILY) AND AFTER I PLUG MY NOSE, DOWN THE HATCH IT GOES AS FAST AS I CAN GET IT IN ME. I DON'T CARE WHAT FLAVOR YOU PUT IN IT. IT DOESN'T MATTER. GREEN TEA IS NASTY STUFF (TO ME).
  • RotterdamNL
    RotterdamNL Posts: 509 Member
    capslock stuck?

    Anyways, try rooibos tea, has more antioxidants and no caffine and tastes totally different

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