What 'healthy' foods did you ultimately give up on?
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I cannot believe how many people hate kale! Personally, that has been a veggie I discovered that I enjoy (although I have been eating it before my calorie counting days).
I do agree that oatmeal is horrible. I don't know how people eat it. It's bland and doesn't fill me up and just uck. I'd rather eat eggs and toast or whatever for breakfast.2 -
Hmm, capers and overnight oatmeal made with, well, oats. I quite love the alternative "oatmeal" made with hemp seeds.0
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kale
seaweed crackers/wraps
overnight oats
avocado
tofu
green smoothies
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amandacalories wrote: »I cannot believe how many people hate kale! Personally, that has been a veggie I discovered that I enjoy (although I have been eating it before my calorie counting days).
I love kale and eat it every week. However, if you don't cook until soft it tastes like a rubber vegetable.0 -
When I was a kid, my mom threw a container of cottage cheese at me -- and missed. It splattered all over the wall and I had to clean it up. Until about a year ago, I'd never even tried it because I thought it looked gross. Not a huge fan, but it's edible.
I won't eat carrots, celery, cheese cake or pot roast.2 -
I like a lot of the foods people mention not liking, like kale and sweet potatoes and cottage cheese.
I can't say that I've "given up" on anything healthful, because I've never forced myself to eat anything. I like a wide enough variety of nutritious foods that I don't worry about the foods I don't eat (I'm a vegetarian, so I don't eat meat, and I dislike beets and anything that tastes like them like Swiss chard.)
There are foods I can't eat due to intolerance issues. I have celiac disease. That leaves out a lot of foods. I'm soy intolerant. I also can't tolerate xanthan gum well, so any protein powder or salad dressing or anything really that has that in it is out.1 -
When I was a kid, my mom threw a container of cottage cheese at me -- and missed. It splattered all over the wall and I had to clean it up. Until about a year ago, I'd never even tried it because I thought it looked gross. Not a huge fan, but it's edible.
Yikes, I don't blame you. We toured a cottage cheese factory when I was in 3rd grade and it smelled horrible. One of my fellow students dropped his paper hat into the cottage cheese and they had to toss gallons of it and we all wrote letters of apology to the dairy company. Due to the smell, I didn't eat it again until my late twenties. I like it now though.
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seltzermint555 wrote: »This hasn't really been any one big thing for me, but I tried to learn to like a few meat substitutes and ultimately said forget it. Seitan, tempeh, Boca burgers, Gardein "chicken" and the like. gag. I'd rather just have beans, lentils, or more veggies instead of those! Seitan is the worst to me. I've tried it several ways. Just no.
I really do like tofu, Morningstar veggie patties, and TVP, though!
(I'm not vegetarian or vegan, maybe "flexitarian" which I think sounds silly...but my husband is pescetarian and cooks all of our meals)
Early in my years on MFP, I made an effort to eat WAY more salads. I don't really love salad, it's just okay. Now I'm more likely to just eat a ton of different vegetables (different ways) than putting them together raw in a salad.
Have you tried Beyond Meat? I tried the meat crumbles (found at Wal-Mart) & thought it was one of the better tasting meat substitutes I've tried yet (can't eat beef due to intestinal issues).3 -
kellyjellybellyjelly wrote: »Overnight oatmeal.
Yes. That stuff is kind of stupid. I've tried several different recipes, and it's so blah. No matter how long you "soak" it, it still tastes like raw oats to me. I'd rather spend a few extra minutes and cook it.
Even with added sweetener it tasted straight up nasty.
I had tried the Overnight Brownie Oatmeal the food blogger Dashing Dish made. Disgusting.2 -
Quinoa. God I hate it.3
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Vegetti. No time for making that
Steak. Not interested
Potatoes and sweet potatoes. Finding a fly and maggot infested batch got me out of them real fast.
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If something is sold as a "superfood", I won't buy it.
Kale, chia, acai, flaxseed, etc.
These appeal to people's neophilia - their obsession with novelty.
We're expected to believe the addition of a few milligrams of these products are going to make us burst out of our skin with a transcendentally radiant glow of health and a halo like a pre-Renaissance saint. Bollocks.17 -
kellyjellybellyjelly wrote: »seltzermint555 wrote: »This hasn't really been any one big thing for me, but I tried to learn to like a few meat substitutes and ultimately said forget it. Seitan, tempeh, Boca burgers, Gardein "chicken" and the like. gag. I'd rather just have beans, lentils, or more veggies instead of those! Seitan is the worst to me. I've tried it several ways. Just no.
I really do like tofu, Morningstar veggie patties, and TVP, though!
(I'm not vegetarian or vegan, maybe "flexitarian" which I think sounds silly...but my husband is pescetarian and cooks all of our meals)
Early in my years on MFP, I made an effort to eat WAY more salads. I don't really love salad, it's just okay. Now I'm more likely to just eat a ton of different vegetables (different ways) than putting them together raw in a salad.
Have you tried Beyond Meat? I tried the meat crumbles (found at Wal-Mart) & thought it was one of the better tasting meat substitutes I've tried yet (can't eat beef due to intestinal issues).
I haven't tried it yet but my husband tells me it was developed in our area and he wants to try it. Thanks!1 -
green smoothies.. i will fight u if u offer me one!!
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cwolfman13 wrote: »Do you have any foods that you started eating when you started your weight loss efforts because you thought that they were 'healthy' or helpful but then ultimately abandoned once you realized that you didn't really have to eat any specific kinds of food to lose weight?
For me:
Carrot sticks (I struggled with raw carrots and the carrots won)
Brown rice (especially when I learned that it's not all that much healthier than white)
Sweet potatoes (just give me a good old russet or yukon gold instead)
Packaged breakfast bars (I realized that I'd rather take 10 minutes and make an egg sandwich for not that many additional calories)
Ironically, there's not much difference nutritionally speaking between a sweet potato and regular potato either...not sure why the sweet potato is such a darling. I like them from time to time, but much prefer a regular baked potato most of the time. The nutritional difference is negligible at best...
I just like the taste way better. I love sweet potatos. Regular potatos however, I could never stand.
I'll eat regular or sweet potatoes, and like both. When it comes to eating a baked potato, though, I'd really rather have the sweet potato. I can add a TINY bit of butter and brown sugar (like less than tsp of each) and love the flavor. For me to eat a normal baked potato and enjoy it, I need sour cream, chives, and/or cheese and usually feel a need to reapply the toppings to finish up the entire potato...which kind of defeats the purpose.5 -
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Beets. I bought a shredded veg mix and put it in my stir fry. Made the whole stir fry taste like dirt.4
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I guess I already had a list of foods I didn't like before I started to watch my calories. So for the most part I love just about everything I eat. I'm not wasting precious calories on stuff I don't like. The few things I won't eat that others seem to enjoy are Brussels sprouts and okra. Vile to me. Hated them as a kid, tried them as an adult, still hated them.
I do not care for Brussels sprouts cooked, but I really like it raw. I make an awesome Brussels Sprouts salad that has cranberries, candied pecans, a vinegar dressing. A couple of other things too.
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Any powdered shake mix or protein powder
Kefir..... my husband keeps buying it I keep throwing it out once it has lived in the fridge longer than anything should.
Healthy things I just have never liked:
Brussels sprouts
Kale
Couscous
Internal organs
Fat free anything
Ground chicken/turkey
Oatmeal, cooked or overnight0 -
Cucumbers, yuck! I love pickles tho, so it's weird.
Sweet potatoes aren't my thang either.
Salmon, omg I do not like salmon!0 -
Brown rice...I can never get it to the sticky consistency of Jasmine rice, which I love.0
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Chia seeds (make me constipated no matter how much water I soak them in/drink).
Bananas (just not worth the calories/sugar).1 -
Cucumbers (apparently some people can taste an enzyme in them)
Porridge/oatmeal
Kale
Cottage cheese
Peanut butter0 -
kale!1
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Wow. I can believe all the hate for sweet potatoes. I eat them at least 3-4 times per week. Love them cold with salt and cinnamon.6
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Wow. I can believe all the hate for sweet potatoes. I eat them at least 3-4 times per week. Love them cold with salt and cinnamon.
Sweet potatos with adobo sauce ( from canned chipotle peppers) mmmmmmm my favorite! Actually I like sweet potatoes any which way except with butter and sugar. When prepared the traditional "sweet" way I grew up with I find them disgusting.
As for superfood status- doesn't sway me one bit. I know it is hype so I ignore it. I hate kale ( superfood) b/c it tastes awful to me. I love my spinach and love my oatmeal because they taste good to me. I'll try anything- superfood status is irrelevant.3 -
I'm glad to see so many people have realized the truth about kale. Relegate it back to covering ice at the Pizza Hut salad bar, where it belongs.5
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My username says it all
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ruby red grapefruit. Favorite fruit ever! 
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