Are there foods you force yourself to eat because ''nutrition''

magicpickles
magicpickles Posts: 286 Member
edited December 2 in Food and Nutrition
If I did, it would be stuff like spinach, eggs, yoghurt, carrots, beans, chickpeas and fruit.
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  • Serah87
    Serah87 Posts: 5,481 Member
    edited June 2016
    I eat foods I like. Why force yourself to eat things you don't like.
  • magicpickles
    magicpickles Posts: 286 Member
    They have this nasty thing in New Zealand called Silverbeet. We used to have it all the time as kids. It hasn't appeared on the table for many years, hmm. Maybe we can afford spinach now. I don't mind it with other things, but I wouldn't eat it by itself.
  • Chef_Barbell
    Chef_Barbell Posts: 6,644 Member
    Nope, I enjoy all the things that I eat.
  • VintageFeline
    VintageFeline Posts: 6,771 Member
    Nope. But I'm not a fussy eater either so it's pretty easy to meet all my nutritional needs with things I like.
  • besaro
    besaro Posts: 1,858 Member
    no
  • fr33sia12
    fr33sia12 Posts: 1,258 Member
    No. If I needed a certain nutrient from food I'd pick a food I like. I don't think there's any nutrient that only comes from one type of food.
  • cecsav1
    cecsav1 Posts: 714 Member
    I don't like liver. There's no way I'm eating liver for any reason. I can't think of anything else I don't like... maybe that's my problem. I love all the foods!
  • Carlos_421
    Carlos_421 Posts: 5,132 Member
    Nope. I don't force myself to eat anything. If I don't like it, I don't eat it.
    There's never only one food that has a particular nutrient. I can get what I need from sources I actually enjoy.
  • dlkfox
    dlkfox Posts: 463 Member
    Absolutely not. Rutabaga will never hit my plate. My husband hates peas, and I don't think he has to eat them.

    Now with Brussels sprouts, I always hated them until a friend served them in a way I had never had them prepared...and now they are a bona fide favorite!
  • dmariet116
    dmariet116 Posts: 530 Member
    I love all foods but organ meats. I definitely won't even eat them even for health benefits.
  • Galadrial60
    Galadrial60 Posts: 19 Member
    Nope...keep balanced. Love most things...will NOT touch Kale...rather have spinach.
  • frando
    frando Posts: 583 Member
    Have you tried cooking it differently? Or eating them raw? I hate cooked carrot but love them raw :smiley:

    As I live by myself if there's something I don't want to eat- I don't buy it to begin with. The same goes with food I'd know I'd binge on, like artisan breads, crisps, blocks of cheese (I buy the little proportioned ones to stop myself from pigging)
  • ponycyndi
    ponycyndi Posts: 858 Member
    Only in the sense that I'd rather have a cupcake than eat something with protein in it.
  • magicpickles
    magicpickles Posts: 286 Member
    frando wrote: »
    Have you tried cooking it differently? Or eating them raw? I hate cooked carrot but love them raw :smiley:

    As I live by myself if there's something I don't want to eat- I don't buy it to begin with. The same goes with food I'd know I'd binge on, like artisan breads, crisps, blocks of cheese (I buy the little proportioned ones to stop myself from pigging)

    I like carrots if they are cooked
  • MakePeasNotWar
    MakePeasNotWar Posts: 1,329 Member
    I eat a lot of foods I don't particularly like, but there are also lots that I simply won't touch, ever. I've learned to like stuff like beans, oats, bananas and tomatoes, and I can tolerate most fruit and some raw veggies, but I just can't bring myself to eat mushrooms, kale, zucchini, and a lot of other "healthy" foods. I'd rather be hungry.
  • frando
    frando Posts: 583 Member
    magicpickles wrote: »
    frando wrote: »
    Have you tried cooking it differently? Or eating them raw? I hate cooked carrot but love them raw :smiley:

    As I live by myself if there's something I don't want to eat- I don't buy it to begin with. The same goes with food I'd know I'd binge on, like artisan breads, crisps, blocks of cheese (I buy the little proportioned ones to stop myself from pigging)

    I like carrots if they are cooked

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  • nvmomketo
    nvmomketo Posts: 12,019 Member
    Liver. I tend to get low in vitamin A and my doctor pushes liver. I'll tolerate a bit of liver pate but that's it.
  • oxers
    oxers Posts: 259 Member
    Nope. I eat an absurd amount of fruit and veg, but I do it because I like it. When I'm lifting, I'll sometimes grab a good vegan protein powder and toss it into almond milk, which I don't LOVE but it makes me feel steady after a work out, where a bowl of blueberries probably won't. That's about it, though.
  • BinaryPulsar
    BinaryPulsar Posts: 8,927 Member
    If a food makes you feel repulsed, sick, forced it actually probably isn't healthy for you to be eating it. Digestion is an entire process which includes the feeling of being appetized by the food and feeling positive from the experience. If your body is rejecting the food, that's not a healthy state to be in. You could prepare a food differently to make it more palatable, though.
  • RodaRose
    RodaRose Posts: 9,562 Member
    No. I choose foods I love :)
  • teetertatertango
    teetertatertango Posts: 229 Member
    If I ate only what I really liked, I might easily end up eating meat, bread, and cheese and nothing else. That is not a healthy or sustainable system, so I force a lot of things that I do not actively hate but would rarely to never choose over a cheeseburger. They make my cheeseburger taste better in contrast. o:)
  • BinaryPulsar
    BinaryPulsar Posts: 8,927 Member
    edited June 2016
    Yeah, I didn't mean eating candy because it tastes better than vegetables. But, if a food actually makes your gut cease up and gag and feel nauseated. I have a malabsorption disorder. So, I am on a strict diet. I have to carefully pay attention to and track my reactions to food.
  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,423 Member
    Yes and no. I never eat food I actually hate. I do eat food I like. I like a great many foods. I do eat some foods more for nutrition than great liking.
    Sometimes I eat eggs or carrots. I don't hate them but they are not foods I love. I would never eat 10 eggs a day.
  • pomegranatecloud
    pomegranatecloud Posts: 812 Member
    No. I don't eat foods that I don't like.
  • Rushbrook60
    Rushbrook60 Posts: 95 Member
    You shouldn't force yourself to eat anything you don't like. That'll just make the whole experience totally unbearable and you'll be less likely to stick with your dietary alterations and make them life long.

    It's easier for people who have a wide palette/range of taste. I'm lucky that there's very little I don't like, but my partner is the complete opposite. Cooking in our household is literally like cooking two completely different meals every dinner time. But it means I get all the foods I love and I can reap the benefits from whereas my partner doesn't have to suffer eating them. There are little tricks though...homemade tomato sauce is a very clever way of fitting in extra veggies. I can fit peppers, onions, Celery, butternut squash and a number of other vegetables into mine and by the time the tastes mould together, you'd never know they were in there because the tomatoes overpower the flavour. Other ideas...smoothies, curries, pasta sauces, casseroles, even stuffed chicken breasts. If you put cheese into stuffed chicken breasts, you'll find that the other flavours, while there, aren't so intense so could be easier to digest.

    But end result is, never force yourself to eat something you just can't stomach.

    Good luck
  • BinaryPulsar
    BinaryPulsar Posts: 8,927 Member
    Oops. In my post I intended to write seize up. Not cease. Lol
  • bvff35
    bvff35 Posts: 74 Member
    dlkfox wrote: »
    Absolutely not. Rutabaga will never hit my plate. My husband hates peas, and I don't think he has to eat them.

    Now with Brussels sprouts, I always hated them until a friend served them in a way I had never had them prepared...and now they are a bona fide favorite!

    How were they prepared?? I dont like brussel sprouts but maybe I just don't like how I have tried them.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    I don't eat anything I don't like. I do make myself eat veggies I don't love though, or I would rarely eat veggies...
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    I don't force myself to eat anything. I used to be a picky eater - or, I perceived myself picky. Nobody is totally omnivorous. Over the years I've been introduced to more foods, and I'm more inclined to try new things. Some of them just don't agree with me: Avocado, olives, eggplant, tomatoes (unless pureed). Some are just a silly aversion, stemming from associations: "chickpeas" sound almost like "whooping cough" in my language, hummus sounds like humus (dirt), and I've only recently tasted Pink Lady apples, I struggled coming over the "unnatural" color. Some have to be prepared right: Corn, peppers, mushrooms, brussel sprouts, peas, asparagus, chicken, eggs.

    Some of the foods mentioned here are among my staples: spinach, eggs, yoghurt, carrots, beans, fruit (don't you like ANY fruit?? They are so diverse!), liver (I eat lots of liver pate, I've even made my own!), rutabaga, kale and zucchini.

    I'd like to repeat what I said in your other thread: Your comfort zone grows whenever you step out of it. Try something new from time to time. You may like it. But don't force yourself. And something I forgot to say: Find food you like that doesn't hurt you. Steer away from food without brakes.
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