Is There Anything That Doesn't Taste Good Anymore?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 wrote: »

Burger King whoops McD's backside.

McDonald's has better chicken nuggets.

Salt
also POUTINE