RAISINS

Ants on a log! Yummm

celery sticks with peanut butter and few raisins on top! yum

Have you tried the Sunmaid brand Mixed Jumbo Raisins? They are much softer/bigger/tastier than the plain, icky brown ones. They are in a red zip vinyl pack with the dried fruit - NOT in a canister or cardboard box.

Why do you have to eat raisins? I am sure there are other options that would be better since you hate raisins?

If you can find these Mixed Jumbo Raisins (not sure where you live, I am in the central USA), I think you'll find them nothing like what you've been trying to eat. I store them in a second zip lock bag around the zip pack to keep them from drying out.

They are a mixture of many kinds of grapes and soooo much better than the boring dark ones.

I also like to sink raisins in oatmeal. If the oatmeal is warm, they get extra soft and they add some sweetness to the oatmeal.

I'll put a small amount in a Ziploc bag and then a few almonds in a second Ziploc bag for my drive home power snack- prevents pantry wandering when i get home.

Good luck.

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Iron-Rich Foods
Spinach may not give you superhuman strength to fight off villains like Popeye's nemesis Bluto, but this leafy green and other foods containing iron can help you fight a different type of enemy -- iron-deficiency anemia.

Iron-deficiency anemia, the most common form of anemia, is a decrease in the number of red blood cells caused by too little iron. Without sufficient iron, your body can't produce enough hemoglobin, a substance in red blood cells that makes it possible for them to carry oxygen to the body's tissues. As a result, you may feel weak, tired, and irritable.

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About 20% of women, 50% of pregnant women, and 3% of men do not have enough iron in their body. The solution, in many cases, is to consume more foods high in iron.

How Your Body Uses Iron in Food

When you eat food with iron, iron is absorbed into your body mainly through the upper part of your small intestine.

There are two forms of dietary iron: heme and nonheme. Heme iron is derived from hemoglobin. It is found in animal foods that originally contained hemoglobin, such as red meats, fish, and poultry. Your body absorbs the most iron from heme sources.

 

High-in-Iron Food Sources

 Very good sources of heme iron, with 3.5 milligrams or more per serving, include:

3 ounces of beef or chicken liver
3 ounces of clams or mollusks
3 ounces of oysters
Good sources of heme iron, with 2.1 milligrams or more per serving, include:

3 ounces of cooked beef
3 ounces of canned sardines, canned in oil
3 ounces of cooked turkey
Other sources of heme iron, with 0.7 milligrams or more per serving, include:

3 ounces of chicken
3 ounces of halibut, haddock, perch, salmon, or tuna
3 ounces of ham
3 ounces of veal
Iron in plant foods such as lentils, beans, and spinach is nonheme iron. This is the form of iron added to iron-enriched and iron-fortified foods. Our bodies are less efficient at absorbing nonheme iron, but most dietary iron is nonheme iron.

Very good sources of nonheme iron, with 3.5 milligrams or more per serving, include:

Breakfast cereals enriched with iron
One cup of cooked beans
One-half cup of tofu
1 ounce of pumpkin, sesame, or squash seeds
Good sources of nonheme iron, with 2.1 milligrams or more per serving, include:

One-half cup of canned lima beans, red kidney beans, chickpeas, or split peas
One cup of dried apricots
One medium baked potato
One medium stalk of broccoli
One cup of cooked enriched egg noodles
One-fourth cup of wheat germ
Other sources of nonheme iron, with 0.7 milligrams or more, include:

1 ounce of peanuts, pecans, walnuts, pistachios, roasted almonds, roasted cashews, or sunflower seeds
One-half  cup of dried seedless raisins, peaches, or prunes
One cup of spinach
One medium green pepper
One cup of pasta
One slice of bread, pumpernickel bagel, or bran muffin
One cup of rice
 

cinnamon raisin oatmeal....crap, now I have to go buy some raisins

I love a handful of raisins on a salad, yum!

But, as others have said, if you detest them THAT much, there's other options - no need to force yourself to eat something that nauseates you!

Dried apricots are amazing...