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Old 08-24-2007, 09:06 AM   #1  
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I was just thinking about how my tastes have changed since I've been eating healthy for the past few years, and I realized some foods I used to love, well, now I just think they're gross. So I thought I'd ask everyone else what foods are like that for them! Here aresome of my "foods I used to love but now think are gross":

- those mini blueberry muffins that come in a five-pack
- cheese danishes
- donuts at breakfast time
- Grandma's cookies (those two-pack kind)
- those vending machine sixpacks of chocolate donuts

I'm sure there are more, these are just off the top of my head...
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Old 08-24-2007, 09:20 AM   #2  
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I dont think my tastes have changed all that much. I got fat on portions more than poor foods.

There are LOTS of foods that I think are gross, but I always would have...such as the one meal my freezer coop made this month. They took perfectly good chicken broccoli and brown rice and drowned it in cream of mushroom soup, cheese and MAYO...oh ick. The soup and cheese I maybe could tolerate but mayo belongs on sandwiches in teaspoon quantities, not in casseroles in cup quantities. My tongue felt like an oil slick.
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Old 08-24-2007, 09:31 AM   #3  
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I wouldn't say gross, but I have no desire for them at all, even when held in front of me:

-hamburgers
-mr noodles
-kraft dinner
-cookies
-chocolate milk
- too much dressing on a salad (the veggies just don't thrive that way!)
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Old 08-24-2007, 09:47 AM   #4  
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Wow. I just don't know! The thought of most of the foods I used to love is still appealing... I just don't eat them and luckily have foods I love to eat to replace them. I haven't actually tried a food I used to love and found it gross...
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Old 08-24-2007, 10:00 AM   #5  
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Most of the foods I used to love I still do. I think it's mostly all the pre-packaged processed foods I eat that I find gross now. In fact, it's mostly packaged muffins that do it. I used to LOVE packaged muffins and ate them all the time. Now they just taste like chemicals to me.

Of course, I used to be able to eat and drink stuff made with artificial sweeteners and couldn't tell the difference, but now they taste like chemicals too.
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Old 08-24-2007, 10:18 AM   #6  
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Although I don't eat them anymore and am absolutely truly enjoying and loving what I'm eating now, there's not too much I would actually call gross. I would call gross the sheer VOLUME of food I ate previously. Butter and mayonaise and cream cheese ALWAYS grossed me out.

The mere "thought" of eating some of my old stuff does send me into a panic though. I don't think I will ever be able to eat fried foods again. Just the thought of not knowing how much oil is in there frightens me. Same goes with cream sauces. And I've still yet to let myself go (fortunately) while eating out. When I do eat out, it's always baked fish, or grilled chicken or an undressed salad. Food in its most natural state. The less additives the better, less calories therefore.

I don't eat ice cream anymore or my favorite peanut M & M's or pasta or bread, rice and on and on. Though they still appeal to me. How I wish they DID seem gross to me.
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Old 08-24-2007, 10:40 AM   #7  
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Fast food burgers
Any kind of candy bar except Lindt 70% dark chocolate or almond M&Ms...
Jax (Cheese doodle type things)
Packaged meals like hamburger helper, instant potatoes, etc
Sweet and sour chicken
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Old 08-24-2007, 10:46 AM   #8  
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Regular peanut butter - it tastes disgustingly sweet and has a waxy consistency

Most everything else (loaded nachos, Bloomin' Onion, biggie McDonald's fries, giant muffins, peanut M&Ms etc) - well, I'm sure I would still love the taste of it, but it would probably make me pretty sick the next day.

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Old 08-24-2007, 11:02 AM   #9  
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It's early days for me, and I am a long way off maintaining, but I thought this was a great thread for accounting to myself!

I still crave pizza, and haven't had the strength yet to have a slice in case I eat the whole thing! I can't imagine NOT liking pizza... so for now - only healthy options

I can't imagine eating fast food burgers now, though I ate them regularly before. I don't know if I would dislike them, I just find the thought of putting that into my body now a waste of calories and not sensible. I haven't tried them, and I don't want to.

Aside from that, not much. I am VERY aware that moderation in all things is the keystone for me... so I do avoid things that I would likely eat too much of now - like tortilla chips, say. I just don't have them in the house in case the whole bag evaporated into my mouth!

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Old 08-24-2007, 11:20 AM   #10  
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I didn't eat much fast food before, but I would occasionally get something called "Super Potato Oles" from Taco Johns, last time I tried them they were so gross! Oily and so much salt it felt like it was burning my tongue. I just looked up the nutritional info for “fun”. I would order them without the beef so it that would slightly alter this I imagine, but they’re 1060 calories, 70 g of fat (20 sat, 15 trans) and 3200 mg sodium! Holy crap, no wonder they taste gross. Also, I can no longer stomach anything from Taco Bell.

I don’t like Doritos or any of the usual flavored chips/snacks. But I will still eat small portions of the “healthy” versions of junk food, mostly Robert's Gourmet stuff. Tings are awesome!
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Old 08-24-2007, 11:34 AM   #11  
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Unfortunately, there's nothing I really find gross... However, my tastes have definitely changed in that I now like more things than before, and especially more healthy things, so I most often turn to those now rather than to my old pizza & fast-food. I've also become a little 'difficult' in terms of junk food: for instance, I don't have the same liking to, say, industrial, packaged cookies than I had before--instead, I will really enjoy them if I go over my leg to bake them (with whole-wheat flour, dark chocolate, etc.), and their prepackaged versions won't appeal to me that much. Of course, since I'm lazy and don't like baking, it all evens out in the end. (I've simply adopted the mindset of "if I'm to have a less healthy food, then I at least want it to be the BEST I can find, the one kind that will trigger a series of mini-orgasms in my mouth, and not some cheap version that doesn't even taste that great". Again, no need to say that it's easier said than found. )
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Well, I'm just starting to lose weight but I thought this was an interesting thread. I have a reverse observation: most of my life, at a more normal weight, I thought fatty sauces and dishes were disgusting eg mayonaise, guacamole, butter sauces, etc. I would always emphasize that I don't want any "stuff" on my food - just plain. Well, somewhere along the way, I picked up those habits and a lot of weight. Hmmm, maybe there's a connection....
I don't know yet if I will find these foods gross. I certainly hope so.
DH did bring home a couple of 12 oz strip steaks for dinner. I open up the package & they were covered in fat. It was gross. I cut mine in half & gave half to the dog. The other half, I still ate only about half of that because of all the fat. I told him don't buy steaks again. I really was flipped out - I can't blow my whole days calorie allotment on a piece of meat!!!
Anyway, I hope I find all the old foods disgusting at some point.
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Glory87, try Smucker's Organic peanut butter. Only peanuts. Many other brands add sugar to the peanut butter, which I think is criminal!

One of the foods I now find gross: fast food french fries, from ANY fast food place. They are not worth eating under any circumstances.

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Old 08-24-2007, 12:23 PM   #14  
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Oh, I love natural peanut butter, I get the stuff from whole foods, nothing but peanuts and salt. I eat natural peanut butter every day for breakfast!

I just hate "regular" peanut butter which I used to eat by the spoonful right out of the jar. It has the weirdest consistency to me now.
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Pringles!

I like the crunch and the salt, but they leave a greasy taste in my mouth, even just one. I never liked "regular" chips for the same reason, but now don't want any. Yippee!

Not at maintenance yet but I've found this nonetheless.

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