WOMEN AGES 50+FOR MAY 2024

grandmallie wrote: »

Lisa- I know that it is only part of it,and ive made some good choices at the grocery store ,and I will be charting what I eat and trying to at least get out and start walking 10 min a day..its a start.

LisaInArkansas wrote: »

Tracey - I haven't shared all my food fussiness by any means. A short list:

• I like the taste of onions, but hate the texture, so Corey's learned when he's cooking for me to chop them up very small or very large so I can pick them out.
• You already know that green vegetables taste like bitter dirt to me.
• I despise green peppers in particular, they take over everything they get close to, and I don't like the flavor to begin with.
• If I eat lettuce or spaghetti they have to be chopped up very small so they don't stick and make me upchuck later (for those who are new, I had a gastric bypass in 2005).
• Any kind of meat I do eat has to have some kind of sauce with it, or I also have issues with them sticking.
• I do not like bone-in or skin on chicken, hate the tendons and bits and weird bones, they make me gag. Most of the time, I prefer not to know what the chicken used it for while they were alive. Pretty much the same with cows, too. Much prefer ground beef to any other kind of beef.
• Won't eat hot spices like peppers, but do like horseradish, especially in cocktail sauce.
• Cooked fruit is generally nasty. I've learned to put some in cookies for the moisture they bring, but will often pick them out as it's like biting into a blister. Urk.
• On the other hand, I crave salt, and can literally sprinkle it on my hand and lick it.
• I crave sugar, as well, but the gastric bypass left me with a bad reaction to it. Still eat it on occasion, but I do it knowing full well I'll pay for it in the end.
• I am also vividly and stinkily lactose intolerant, as well. Unfortunately, lactaid and beano and the like all make me feel like I have to fart and I can't, and it just gets horrible.

As a general rule, I tend to like my food plain, and I like the ability to taste the individual components. This frustrates my very chef-like husband, who loves to combine everything with everything else.
That's all I can think of at the moment.

Whoops, really didn't mean to write a book on that one. Any other fussy eaters?

Hopefully a more productive day ahead. Chillier outside than it was yesterday, so I need to get myself occupied inside this morning. The only excitement this week is my second Skyrizi infusion on Friday. Not sure if there's a third one coming or if I'll move to home injections starting in June. Should know before I leave there Friday. The gastro office is not good about making sure their patients know what happens next with their care, so I have to find out where I can.

Later, my punkins,
Lisa in AR

I like most fruit. I've never had durian, so I'm not sure about that one, but everything else I've had is all right. Prefer raw but cooked is OK.

I like most veggies except green peppers (and I'm not so fond of red or yellow or any other kinds of peppers either) and cooked tomatoes (raw is OK). Most other veggies are OK.

I do not like fungus (mushrooms). Nope. Nope. NOPE!

Grain products are good.

Love nuts, but my body isn't keen on them. They're a great way to speed up my digestive system to a mad sprint.

Dairy is similar ... I like certain kinds of hard cheese and yogurt, and they are OK. But not milk, cream, sour cream, butter, soft cheese, or real ice cream. I used to love going to Old Spaghetti Factory and getting the Fettuccine Alfredo followed by cheesecake with ice cream ... but I couldn't even leave the restaurant without the mad sprint. Oh and all milk smells and tastes sour to me. It could be the freshest milk available, but it still smells sour.

As for meat ... I try to avoid most of it. I'll eat a bit of chicken breast and chicken mince. Occasionally I'll have a bit of beef mince. Once in a while I'll have fresh fish at a fish and chips place. That's about it.

I am not keen on most sauces either ... hate BBQ sauce, tomato sauce (ketchup), sweet & sour sauce and that sort of thing. Most of those sort of sauces are too sweet for me. And I don't like it when people try to hide meat in a sauce. I want to see what I'm eating. If I'm faced with that sort of thing, I scrape the sauce off and cut the meat into tiny pieces so I can analyse it.

But I love Indian food because they have many vegetarian options, the sauces are good (not sweet), and they have the same opinion as I do about mushrooms. Mushrooms are considered a dirty fungus, so they're not included. Indian food is a safe food for me.

I also like vegetarian options of Mexican food - rice, refried beans, lots of veggies in a burrito.

I like salt ... but don't often crave sweet.

And I eat basically the same things each day.