Giving Foods a Second Try

krissyreminisce
krissyreminisce Posts: 284 Member
edited November 17 in Food and Nutrition
Have you given foods you previously thought you wouldn't like (though you never tried them) or foods you remember hating or disliking in your youth, only to give them another shot as an adult and discover they're delicious?

I've been doing a lot of this lately.

My foods:

Cauliflower (now I eat it raw for lunch and have tried all the colors except green)
Grapefruit (Just tried it today and it was delicious! I saw a grapefruit thread in here last week, that's what inspired me)
Plain Greek Yogurt (so far the Fage brand is my go-to)
Plain Cottage Cheese (I tried the full fat but the low fat one tastes better to me)
Zucchini/Yellow squash
Tofu

Those are all I can think of right now! The one failure was Blue Cheese. I still find that stuff repulsive. lol.

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  • KiwiAlexP
    KiwiAlexP Posts: 186 Member
    My new year's resolution at the beginning of 2014 was to try/re-try new foods every month. To name a few - cottage cheese and hummus were winners, smoked marlin not so much, the kiwano tasted fine but texture was off and fish pie is definitely staying off the menu
  • ForeverSunshine09
    ForeverSunshine09 Posts: 966 Member
    So far since February I have tried a few different cheeses like Farmers, Gouda, Havarti and Muenster all delicious. I have tried zucchini for the first time. It was fine raw but, sauteed too mushy. Still havent tried baked which I have heard helps the texture. I tried aspargus for the first time last week but, it was also too mushy. I used frozen. I have heard fresh is better. So I may try it again. I tried greek yogurt. It was good but, not something I really crave.
  • krissyreminisce
    krissyreminisce Posts: 284 Member
    Roasted Asparagus is delicious. I've also been spiralizing my squash. :grin: Also, grilling zucchini is good too. I like to cut it into spears, season them a bit, and grill them on my grill pan. :smile:
  • star1407
    star1407 Posts: 588 Member
    I tried almond butter and fell in love! I now like peanut butter which I used to hate!
  • adamitri
    adamitri Posts: 614 Member
    I bought an avocado, it's sitting in the fruit bowl staring at me menacingly. My friend tells me to cut it in half and bake it with an egg in the hollow where the pit is...
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,698 Member
    edited April 2015
    Hated mushrooms as a kid ... still hate mushrooms. The flavour is bad, but it's not so much the flavour as the texture. If I wanted to eat something with all the flavour and texture of a pencil eraser ...

    Sadly those things often turn up in vegetarian dishes. Mushrooms aren't vegetables ... they're a fungus. When I go to eat a vegetarian lasagne, I want vegetables, not fungus.
  • sandsofarabia
    sandsofarabia Posts: 95 Member
    Yeah I used to HATE pickles and mustard

    But as I live in Chicago I started just eating the Portillo's Chicago style hotdogs (which has relish mustard and an entire quarter slice of a pickle along the dog) and now I absolutely love it!
  • hgycta
    hgycta Posts: 3,013 Member
    Baby carrots used to make me gag, but now I love them :D
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,698 Member
    Fish ...

    Apparently when I was very young, I liked fish. My mother tells me she would feed it to me, and I had no problem eating it. Then from about the age of 6, I hated it. Wouldn't even touch a tuna sandwich.

    In my late teens, I had fish right out of a river in the Northwest Territories ... and discovered that it was quite good. A few years later, I started eating tuna sandwiches. Several years later I was at a restaurant in France and was asked if I wanted the beef or the salmon. My first thought was beef, but then it occurred to me that the beef was probably going to be half raw, so I ordered the salmon ... and it was really good! Then I had fish and chips ... loved them!

    I still don't like really strong fishy-fish, but there are some fish meals I like. :)
  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,423 Member
    sandsofarabia wrote: »
    Yeah I used to HATE pickles and mustard

    But as I live in Chicago I started just eating the Portillo's Chicago style hotdogs (which has relish mustard and an entire quarter slice of a pickle along the dog) and now I absolutely love it!

    I have always disliked hot dogs until I had a Chicago style hot dog. Those are great!
  • ForeverSunshine09
    ForeverSunshine09 Posts: 966 Member
    Machka9 wrote: »
    Hated mushrooms as a kid ... still hate mushrooms. The flavour is bad, but it's not so much the flavour as the texture. If I wanted to eat something with all the flavour and texture of a pencil eraser ...

    Sadly those things often turn up in vegetarian dishes. Mushrooms aren't vegetables ... they're a fungus. When I go to eat a vegetarian lasagne, I want vegetables, not fungus.
    Mushrooms are the grossest! When they are cooked they are slimy. Just ewwww!
  • ruthie3110
    ruthie3110 Posts: 160 Member
    Broccoli and hummus!
    Could only ever eat frozen broccoli not fresh, now we go through loads of fresh a week because SO loves it too!
  • LKArgh
    LKArgh Posts: 5,178 Member
    Used to hate tomatoes as a kid, now I am ok with them but it is more a case of getting used to them over time as part of salads, sandwiches etc because it seemed ridiculous to try and take them out. They were just everywhere and I compromised.
    I always hated with a passion fried eggs and at some point decided to give them a second try and they were not as horrible as I thought they would be. They did not become my favourite food, still prefer an omelette, but they are ok. Still refuse to try hard boiled eggs though, it is the one food I just cannot bring myself to eat, the smell is horrible.
    Snails, I tried them at some point because a friend ordered them and I was like "why haven't I tried this earlier, it is so good!". Same with avocados, I tried them as an adult and they became one of my favourite foods. Also all sorts of dips, never tried them as a kid, they all looked disgusting, now I love them all with some carrot sticks or bread sticks.
  • WanderlustBritni
    WanderlustBritni Posts: 16 Member
    I recently tried hummus, which I thought I wouldn't like because of the texture, and I love it! I eat it most days with my packed lunch now. I also tried salmon and it was pretty good. I thought I wouldn't like any fish because we never had it at home when I was a kid because my brother is very allergic and I thought it was an acquired taste.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    edited April 2015
    I didn't like steak and most veggies, but I remember the steak being tough and my mom used to mostly buy canned veggies, so... Probably because of my mom's cooking.

    I still hate the foods I hated then - celery, artichoke hearts, olives. Still don't like mushrooms enough to order or make anything with them either.

    I used to hate clams, but I haven't actually tried those since...
  • krissyreminisce
    krissyreminisce Posts: 284 Member
    edited April 2015
    aggelikik wrote: »
    Still refuse to try hard boiled eggs though, it is the one food I just cannot bring myself to eat, the smell is horrible.

    One way to get around the smell is to bake them. :smile: Pop them in the oven I'm the rack at 325f for around 30 minutes, drop them in some ice water, and peel!
  • CM9178
    CM9178 Posts: 1,251 Member
    I've tried forcing myself to retry different foods and for me, it never works. I end up hating what I'm eating, so then I just eat more later because I'm still not satisfied.
    There are a lot of healthy things that I simply cannot stand to eat.
    Basically most raw vegetables repulse me. I can stand baby carrots if they are dipped in hummus, but other than that, no celery, no raw broccoli or cauliflower, no raw peppers, no raw mushrooms. I'll eat them all cooked but that makes things a little more difficult as far as bringing snacks to work goes.

    I won't eat zucchini cooked or raw, no asparagus, no cucumbers at all either. And definitely NO SPINACH. YUCKKKKKKKK
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    I tried wasabi peas again the other day. Still...nope.
  • CooCooPuff
    CooCooPuff Posts: 4,374 Member
    I hated carrots for the longest time but one day they just kinda "clicked". I can't really think of anything I still can't stand because I haven't tried any of those foods in a while.
  • peachyfuzzle
    peachyfuzzle Posts: 1,122 Member
    I'm not really a finicky eater, and like an extremely wide array of food, so there isn't much I have never liked (other than olives because they are ****ing nasty), but I used to HATE spinach as a kid. It just tasted absolutely horrendous regardless of what kind it was, i.e. canned, fresh, creamed, etc.

    Then, six years ago, or so, I was at a steakhouse in Vegas with my family. The steak was served on a bed of cooked spinach. I didn't realize this, and thought it was just some other green, but I put it in my mouth, automatically knee-jerk reacted like I wanted to spit it out as soon as I tasted it, then continued eating.

    I absolutely love spinach now. I have it with just about everything whenever I can.
  • Naley2322
    Naley2322 Posts: 181 Member
    Berries! I could never eat them because the texture of them but I re-tried blueberries, strawberries and blackberries last month after 20 some years of avoidance...and now I LOVE them!
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