What 'healthy' foods did you ultimately give up on?

Bananas, as they don't play nice with my GI system.

Couscous. Has a million good qualities but lacks the most crucial one: taste.

Sweet potatoes instead of white potatoes
lettuce to use as bread for my sammiches
whole eggs vs white
whole milk/2% vs almond or cashew milk..
white rice for brown (not much difference)
kale (cooked is gross, okay mixed with other greens in salads but not my preference)
cauliflower is only good raw, not as a pizza crust (that is disgusting)
Halotop... tried and hated it.. I still use a protein ice cream like Enlightened, but found Halotop repulsive as an ice cream replacement

My thought on sweet potatoes, nasty as a french fry replacement and should only be eaten at Thanksgiving and a no go on the rest.

AnnofB wrote: »

Couscous. Has a million good qualities but lacks the most crucial one: taste.

Individuals are so fascinating - I feel that way about white rice, but loved couscous since the first time I tried it. (1990's) I didn't know it was supposed to be healthy tho, hmm.. off to google couscous.

I cut everything that affects your thyroid:
-Raw veggies (especially spinach, cauliflower & green smoothies)
-Soy of any kind (soybean oil, soy sauce, soy lecithin-which is in almost everything).
-Strawberries
-Peanuts & peanut butter (love PB but had to cut it)

Weird how many people hate chia seeds. I like them. They're fun like mini tapioca balls. Now I don't eat them often because they are too high in calories to be worth it often (I like other things more), but I do have some fun with them from time to time.

amusedmonkey wrote: »

Weird how many people hate chia seeds. I like them. They're fun like mini tapioca balls. Now I don't eat them often because they are too high in calories to be worth it often (I like other things more), but I do have some fun with them from time to time.

I like them in pudding, but I suppose if you thought they were miracle health seeds that should be forced into your diet they could seem disappointing. (I think the health benefits are overrated, as with a huge portion of these things that people seem to have been told are for health, like replacing potatoes with sweet potatoes.)

I realize I never decided there were healthy foods I had to eat that weren't already in my diet. I tried a few of them (hemp hearts, flaxseed) and decided they were fine but rarely worth the calories as they didn't add much taste, but I never thought they were important enough to work on including more. So many different foods are healthy that forcing it -- unless you are someone who struggles to get enough protein or to eat vegetables or something -- seems pointless to me.

Quinoa
Almond Butter
Brown Rice
Hemp Hearts
Artic Zero

lemurcat12 wrote: »

kokonani wrote: »

Coconut oil. I really tried to incorporate this because of all the hype, but it is the most disgusting taste for me to get used to. I tried the refined also, but I can't stand it!

Refined doesn't have any health benefits anyway (and even for the virgin coconut oil they are overrated -- I don't see any benefit to using coconut oil vs., say, olive oil or avocado oil, unless you like the taste). I love the taste personally, for cooking. The idea of eating it plain or in a beverage, no.

https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/24/ask-well-is-coconut-oil-a-healthy-fat/

Coconut oil - I don't use it often, but when I treat myself to popcorn, if I pop it in coconut oil it tastes just like at the movies. I would have to use far more butter calories on air popped popcorn for it to taste so good - so I keep the coconut oil around.

On the opposite side, I'm thrilled with the avocado oil inclusion in "healthy" food list. Now I never liked the taste of olive oil, but can't taste anything in avocado oil so things I used to avoid (hummus, pesto etc) are now foods I occasionally prepare and enjoy - but only because I substituted avocado oil for olive oil. If avocado oil had not been trendy, I doubt I'd have tried it.

I'm always up to trying the latest fad "healthy" food. Sometimes I find a new taste winner. More often it isn't to my liking, but I'm happy to have tried.