How to enjoy foods you don't enjoy right now...

I add extra ingredients which tend to alter the taste completely.
(i.e I don't eat fish without lemon spritzed on it!)

I really would not eat fods that I don't like. There are so many foods out there that you can eat. You could really eat anything as long as you watch portions.

I'm not trying to harsh on the OP, but I really don't understand why people force themselves to eat things they don't like? Surely there is another source of whatever vitamin/ mineral/ whatever benefits they think they are gaining from eating that food.

Don't eat what you don't like!

To all the people saying, "Don't eat things you don't like, DUH!" I have something to say.

I HATED veggies my whole life. It's only now at 36 that I eat them. AND I LOVE THEM!
I can't get enough of them, I swear!

It's ALL because I ate them when I "didn't like" them. Cutting way back on sugar and refined grains helped, too. I think it changed my palate quite a bit.
I ask for seconds on broccoli (my most hated veggie) now and my boyfriend says, "Who ARE you?!" because it's so shocking.

Sure, there are still some things I don't like (peppers, belch) but they are few and far between. I had to change my whole mindset. I was SO picky before and now I say, "yes" to trying any new veggie or fruit I see.

So my advice is make the food you are trying to like more palatable by cooking it with things you DO like (mashed sweet potatoes near my peas made me like them a lot!), cut back on things like refined grains and sugars, try many new things (different types of fish, maybe?) and make sure they are all FRESH. That helped me a lot. Canned peas are disgusting to me still but fresh peas? Heaven on a plate.

Good luck!

Not that it is any of your business, but the reason I am eating a food I don't like is because I have Crohn's Disease which severely limits my food choices. Fish has been proven to help the intestinal lining absorb more nutrients, and since I am so mal-nourished that is something I am interested in. My goodness the judgement I just got from some of these replies is staggering.

Thanks very much to the people answering my question.

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Yup, in the sauce or the way you make it. I made BBQ white fish and even my pre teen boys loved it. I happen to love fish but the sauces make it! Lemon & fresh pepper, mango salsa, pesto...get creative with tastes you like and add it to the fish. Also, if you don't care for the fish maybe figure out what bugs you (texture, smell and so on) and find types that are more mild.

Good luck! ~

Try preparing it different ways or try different kinds of fish. I don't know if you are limited as to what fish you can eat, but I was never a big fish eater because I hated that fishy smell. However I recently tried fish like cod, haddock and tilapia where they don't have much of a flavor on their own or smell too fishy. So whatever you use to season them is where the flavor comes from. Personally I like lemon, lemon grass, or sweetness added to my fish.

Not that it is any of your business, but the reason I am eating a food I don't like is because I have Crohn's Disease which severely limits my food choices. Fish has been proven to help the intestinal lining absorb more nutrients, and since I am so mal-nourished that is something I am interested in. My goodness the judgement I just got from some of these replies is staggering.

Thanks very much to the people answering my question.

No your lack of information is mind boggling. What did you honestly expect?

To answer your question, I think it depends on what sort of fish you are eating; what do you usually have? Some fish is VERY 'fishy' such as salmon, and can be hard to cover up. Some fish like Tilapia is very mild and doesn't have much of a fishy taste to it at all.

I would recommend Tilapia or Pollock if you can get it, and season it up with lemon and dill, or perhaps mix up some soy, garlic and ginger and marinade it in that before cooking. I also like the soy/ginger marinade for shrimp.

Try Orange Roughy too.... it's a mild fish

Why would you eat something you don't like?

^^^

It's not something that I would ever do. For every food I don't like, there's a food that I enjoy eating that would provide me with the same nutrients.

Halibut, the fresher the better. It's like the filet mignon of fish. The best fish I have ever had.

Whatever fish your eating try to get some fresh that has never been frozen. It makes heaps of difference.

What kind of fish are you eating? There are many kinds. I like fish a lot but not all kinds. You see tilapia all over the place, but that's one I don't really care for. The ones I've tried and like are cod, tuna steaks, salmon(not smoked), mahi, mahi, and lake perch. Since I do like fish I can deal with frozen but I would suggest getting fresh fish from a seafood center(not the grocery store one). I once asked the seafood guy at the grocery store about the freshness of the salmon and he said...."it was just thawed this morning". Excuse me?? A good fish monger can help you pick out something you might like too and help with preparation.

I didn't think I liked salmon because all I'd ever encountered was smoked apparently. I love it now since a friend told me to baked it in aluminum foil with sliced lemons and seasoned with dill. I also have tried it with maple syrup which is good. Fresh tuna steaks don't have the fishyness that is associated with the canned version....mmmm delish. Most often they say to prepare it with pink in the middle, but I like mine cooked through.

Fish is good with marinara sauce over pasta.
Fish tacos.