Do you have any "banned" foods that you won't allow in your diet?

Do you have any "banned" foods that you won't allow in your diet?

Just foods I don't like ... like mushrooms.

Or foods that don't like me ... like peanuts.

tbullucks2006 wrote: »

Even though I know I can have anything I want in moderation, I have some foods that I've just banned in my head all together. It's so weird because I seriously don't deprive myself of anything. However there are some foods that I've heard along the way that were some of the worst choices that could be made at a meal so I don't touch them. For instance - Pasta Alfredo. I mean who doesn't love this stuff? With dieting though, I feel like i have committed a sin eating it. Even when I am not dieting I avoid Pasta Alfredo sauce because somewhere I've heard it's one of the worst things in life you can eat. I also no longer eat bagels for breakfast because I heard they are just empty calories. The weird thing is that I eat all other kinds of crap foods just fine. Does anyone else do this or am I just crazy? Well I know I'm crazy but does anyone else do this????

Yes. Food that I am intolerant to, or those that I just don't like.

No, I don't ban any items but when I'm trying to drop some pounds I do get very picky about high calorie foods. I aim to only eat the ones I really love. And if I didn't love it, it goes on my *kitten* list for wasting my calories and I avoid it in the future. So in effect that's somewhat like a ban. To paraphrase an epically old Seinfeld reference, the foods have to be calorie worthy.

Alatariel75 wrote: »

Cheap chocolate, no brand candy, subpar baked goods... basically the stuff that isn't worth the calories because it tastes like crap.

Yes ... I did quit eating that stuff too. Traded it in for good quality chocolate and baked goods. I figure if I've only got a certain number of calories to work with, what I eat had better be really good.

Marmite because it's bloody disgusting lol

Only the vile, hateful foods that I loathe. All others welcome!

I take my cue from Michael Pollan.

If my great grandmother would not have recognized it as food, I don't eat it.

If it has a) more than 5 ingredients, b) unfamiliar or unpronounceable ingredients, or c) high-fructose corn syrup, I don't eat it.

I avoid products that make 'health claims'.

I stay out of the supermarket whenever possible, and buy from farmers' markets as much as I can. When I do visit the supermarket, I shop around the edges - produce, seafood, meat, dairy, bakery, deli - and only venture into the center aisles for staples like oils, certain condiments, and minimally processed products.

I choose meats that have been fed a natural diet - grassfed beef and lamb, pasture-raised pork and poultry, wild-caught seafood, and free-range wild game meats.

I eat well-grown food from healthy soil...organic!

I eat seasonally and locally as much as possible.

I eat wild foods when I can.

I pay more, but eat less.

The only foods I banned are the high calorie foods that I didn't care for in the first place, like donuts. I used to eat them like you would eat any random thing not caring what it is or what it tastes like.

Some foods I haven't banned outright but I find myself not consuming them for some reason, and even though I like them I find other choices to be more deserving of the calories. Example, last time I had peanut butter was about 3 weeks ago, but before that I spent two whole years without having it.

Some foods I don't outright ban, but I just don't like them in the house, so I end up not having them often. When I have access to them (like last Tuesday), this happens...

I'm with the group of people who don't necessarily ban the food, just ban it from being kept in the house. I have tried to have peanut butter in my house, and I might be able to control myself around it for like a week tops, but eventually I will cave and that whole jar will be gone in two days. It's awful. When there's peanut butter in the house I am constantly and always aware of it. If I even go near the kitchen it calls to me. If I have a spoon in my hand for whatever reason I HAVE to have a couple spoons of peanut butter before I put it down. There are other things - we generally don't keep chips, cookies, etc in the house because they'll just be finished really quickly.