What foods do you hate?

[chefmate]

[chefmate]

Jan 9, 2009 3:04:36 GMT @whitedove said:

I don't like liver......gross! Or deer meat either! Lima beans.

Had liver and mashed potatoes last evening; liver takes getting used to and is something I don't have to often and I actually like chicken livers better

[sadie1263]

White Chocolate......it's fine. I'll eat that occasionally. It's not something I seek out.

Escargot........if it's done well is really lovely. Even my 15 year old eats it. Course he likes squid, crocodile, crab claws.....that child will eat his weight in those.......oh well....he'll eat anything. Oh wait....he won't eat raw oysters but my two older children and I love them.

Ok...the red/new potatoes (I really don't know what to call the suckers anymore)...definitely have to cook them with a bunch of other stuff too......I agree.....a little too earthy otherwise.

Liver.....hubby loves it.....I have a friend that cooks it (really well) and I can manage to eat it once a year or so.....don't think I could do it anymore than that. Hubby loves chicken livers.

[everso]

I'm can't stand offal: liver, kidney, hearts, tripe, yuk yuk yuk!

I'm very allergic to kiwi fruit so never eat that (but I do like the taste unfortunately)

I love all vegetables, and pretty much all fish - although I cannot stand prawns and lobster (not the taste but the texture)

Now you've got me thinking about food, I'd better go and start preparing dinner!

[whitedove]

Jan 12, 2009 14:35:00 GMT @chefmate said:

Jan 9, 2009 3:04:36 GMT @whitedove said:

I don't like liver......gross! Or deer meat either! Lima beans.

Had liver and mashed potatoes last evening; liver takes getting used to and is something I don't have to often and I actually like chicken livers better

Oh Chef you like chicken livers yuk!!

[drewsmom595]

Jan 12, 2009 14:45:28 GMT sadie1263 said:

White Chocolate......it's fine. I'll eat that occasionally. It's not something I seek out.

Escargot........if it's done well is really lovely. Even my 15 year old eats it. Course he likes squid, crocodile, crab claws.....that child will eat his weight in those.......oh well....he'll eat anything. Oh wait....he won't eat raw oysters but my two older children and I love them.

Ok...the red/new potatoes (I really don't know what to call the suckers anymore)...definitely have to cook them with a bunch of other stuff too......I agree.....a little too earthy otherwise.

Liver.....hubby loves it.....I have a friend that cooks it (really well) and I can manage to eat it once a year or so.....don't think I could do it anymore than that. Hubby loves chicken livers.

Who is your child, Sadie...Huck Finn? Eating snails, squid, crocodile, etc? Wow! You have one adventurous eater on your hands.

My son doesn't eat anything out of the sea...not even fish sticks. And we live in Florida...where there's seafood everywhere (sigh).

[sadie1263]

Jan 13, 2009 2:41:57 GMT drewsmom595 said:

Who is your child, Sadie...Huck Finn? Eating snails, squid, crocodile, etc? Wow! You have one adventurous eater on your hands.

My son doesn't eat anything out of the sea...not even fish sticks. And we live in Florida...where there's seafood everywhere (sigh).

I know....he's a riot!!! Child loves seafood and we're in the middle of the friggin' desert. I don't know....the stranger it is the more willing he is to try it. Of course....it did take me forever to get him to eat broccoli.

[beth]

Jan 13, 2009 15:56:02 GMT sadie1263 said:

Jan 13, 2009 2:41:57 GMT drewsmom595 said:

Who is your child, Sadie...Huck Finn? Eating snails, squid, crocodile, etc? Wow! You have one adventurous eater on your hands.

My son doesn't eat anything out of the sea...not even fish sticks. And we live in Florida...where there's seafood everywhere (sigh).

I know....he's a riot!!! Child loves seafood and we're in the middle of the friggin' desert. I don't know....the stranger it is the more willing he is to try it. Of course....it did take me forever to get him to eat broccoli.

Speaking of kids' likes and dislikes, does anyone have suggestions about how to get a pre-schooler to acquire better eating habits?

My little nephew is 4 and just terrible. His pediatrician says that, with the vitamin supplements he takes, he's fine as long as he gets some fiber and meat. *But* , he doesn't like meat except for chicken nuggets, the rare slice of bacon and, occasionally, breaded fish.

His mom gives him the V8 fusion drink in which one cup is supposed to equal a serving of fruit or vegetables. He will eat buttered corn a couple of times a week, and the random serving of g. beans and/or carrots, maybe once a month. No other veggies, though.

On the plus side, he does like most fruit, and has apples, banana, canned peaches or mandarin oranges usually once a day.

He likes (and makes a steady diet of) garlic bread, cheese pizza, chicken nuggets (Wendy's or home prepared in the over), grilled cheese sandwiches, spighetti with tomato sause (no meat) . . . and, of course, loves nabs and chips and almost any sweet.

As I type this, it doesn't seem too bad, but in real time, it's worrying. For thanksgiving dinner - where a large variety was available, he ate a buttered ear of corn and a serving of banana pudding. For Christmas, he had a yeast roll and pumpkin pie.

We worry . . .

[Big Lin]

I know from experience that (unless there are genuine allergic problems which you should of course have checked out) kids just try it on and it's a battle of wills to make Mum back down.

Of course sometimes you do but basically most of the time you have to plough on and just keep forcing them to eat stuff they don't like.

I know that's what my Mum did with all her kids if we wouldn't eat our greens or stuff like that.

[everso]

When I was little (well, in fact right up into my mid teens) I ate very few vegetables, certainly no greens, and not much meat. Potatoes featured high on my list, with baked beans, sweetcorn, peas and broad beans. I was a very fussy eater and skinny as a rake (as you'd imagine). However, as I got older my taste in food changed and now I eat virtually anything (with a few exceptions, as above)

I'm no longer skinny as a rake.

[drewsmom595]

My child is one of the most unadventurous eaters...period. He's been that way since he started eating solid foods. My husband is the same way. My husband doesn't eat salad or any vegetables, unless they're in stews or soups. My mother in law tried everything to get him to be a better eater and nothing worked.


I've tried various strategies with my son, and I've firmly come to the conclusion that my son's pickiness is mostly inherited, and reinforced by my husband. I've found that the less I push and the less I promote a food, the better. He can eat what we're having for dinner or he can fix himself a PBJ sandwich. The only thing that's "worked" in trying new foods is our rule that he has to try one "new" food a week. I don't even care if he likes it or not, I just want to get his taste buds exposed to different tastes.

For me, I've found that my son needs to try a food several times before he likes anything new. Over time, I've been able to expand his repertoire of foods that he'll eat. For many years, however, I feared that we'd be serving chicken nuggets and PBJ sandwiches at his wedding reception.

[sadie1263]

Jan 14, 2009 0:30:26 GMT everso said:

When I was little (well, in fact right up into my mid teens) I ate very few vegetables, certainly no greens, and not much meat. Potatoes featured high on my list, with baked beans, sweetcorn, peas and broad beans. I was a very fussy eater and skinny as a rake (as you'd imagine). However, as I got older my taste in food changed and now I eat virtually anything (with a few exceptions, as above)

I'm no longer skinny as a rake.

Don't you hate that not as skinny stuff. Turning 40 (a few years ago) killed that. Used to be able to eat ANYTHING and as much as I wanted........now......I think I can look at something fattening and feel it.

[mikemarshall]

It is a sad reflection on our image-obsessed world that anorexia and dieting are fashionable while people in the Third World starve.

If I absolutely had to choose I would vastly prefer an overweight person to an anorexic.

[chefmate]

They both have mental problems so there is no worse or better with either; both will have maniy medical problems that can be solved with losing weight or gaining weight but the mind needs attention first.

[cammie]

I don't care for beef tongue, even a trace of fat on meats. nor hot hot peppers. Beer looks like (horse pizz) gross to me, so I don't drink beer.

[iamjumbo]

Jan 12, 2009 14:35:00 GMT @chefmate said:

Jan 9, 2009 3:04:36 GMT @whitedove said:

I don't like liver......gross! Or deer meat either! Lima beans.

Had liver and mashed potatoes last evening; liver takes getting used to and is something I don't have to often and I actually like chicken livers better

i LOVE liver, but unfortunately, it is so high in cholesterol that i seldom get to eat it. when i do, i eat a pound at a time. of course, i have to buy two pounds so the kids get their share

[iamjumbo]

Jan 13, 2009 19:59:37 GMT beth said:

Jan 13, 2009 15:56:02 GMT sadie1263 said:

I know....he's a riot!!! Child loves seafood and we're in the middle of the friggin' desert. I don't know....the stranger it is the more willing he is to try it. Of course....it did take me forever to get him to eat broccoli.

Speaking of kids' likes and dislikes, does anyone have suggestions about how to get a pre-schooler to acquire better eating habits?

My little nephew is 4 and just terrible. His pediatrician says that, with the vitamin supplements he takes, he's fine as long as he gets some fiber and meat. *But* , he doesn't like meat except for chicken nuggets, the rare slice of bacon and, occasionally, breaded fish.

His mom gives him the V8 fusion drink in which one cup is supposed to equal a serving of fruit or vegetables. He will eat buttered corn a couple of times a week, and the random serving of g. beans and/or carrots, maybe once a month. No other veggies, though.

On the plus side, he does like most fruit, and has apples, banana, canned peaches or mandarin oranges usually once a day.

He likes (and makes a steady diet of) garlic bread, cheese pizza, chicken nuggets (Wendy's or home prepared in the over), grilled cheese sandwiches, spighetti with tomato sause (no meat) . . . and, of course, loves nabs and chips and almost any sweet.

As I type this, it doesn't seem too bad, but in real time, it's worrying. For thanksgiving dinner - where a large variety was available, he ate a buttered ear of corn and a serving of banana pudding. For Christmas, he had a yeast roll and pumpkin pie.

We worry . . .

if he's not given anything but what he should have, he'll eat it.

[iamjumbo]

as long as someone else cooks it, i can't think of ANYTHING that i won't eat

[sadie1263]

Jan 15, 2009 5:57:39 GMT cammie said:

I don't care for beef tongue, even a trace of fat on meats. nor hot hot peppers. Beer looks like (horse pizz) gross to me, so I don't drink beer.

Ok...the tongue thing is just too creepy....can't go there either.

On the subject of animals.....I think it was Johnny Carson that said that the first person to drink cow milk had to be the bravest in the world......who would look at an animal and say "I'm going to squeeze those things and drink whatever comes out of it"

[chefmate]

Jan 15, 2009 5:57:39 GMT cammie said:

I don't care for beef tongue, even a trace of fat on meats. nor hot hot peppers. Beer looks like (horse pizz) gross to me, so I don't drink beer.

So you have spent an extra amount of time analyzing the color of horse pee? ;D

[sadie1263]

Jan 15, 2009 17:27:41 GMT @chefmate said:

Jan 15, 2009 5:57:39 GMT cammie said:

I don't care for beef tongue, even a trace of fat on meats. nor hot hot peppers. Beer looks like (horse pizz) gross to me, so I don't drink beer.

So you have spent an extra amount of time analyzing the color of horse pee? ;D

You know....my husband has the saying "that's shinier than a diamond up a gophers butt" I never even get around to ask what is so shiny......because I'm wondering where exactly he's seeing gopher's butts and why he is studying them.........

[chefmate]

Jan 15, 2009 17:39:48 GMT sadie1263 said:

Jan 15, 2009 17:27:41 GMT @chefmate said:

So you have spent an extra amount of time analyzing the color of horse pee? ;D

You know....my husband has the saying "that's shinier than a diamond up a gophers butt" I never even get around to ask what is so shiny......because I'm wondering where exactly he's seeing gopher's butts and why he is studying them.........

Do you really want your questions answered?

I love the " is a frog's azz watertight?" Now, has anyone ever checked to see if this is really true or is there some sort of leakage we aren't aware of?

[chefmate]

I'm not fond of lamb; it just doesn't get my jumper jumping

[iamjumbo]

Jan 15, 2009 18:02:35 GMT @chefmate said:

I'm not fond of lamb; it just doesn't get my jumper jumping

it tastes okay, but it's greasy as hell

[iamjumbo]

Jan 15, 2009 18:01:53 GMT @chefmate said:

Jan 15, 2009 17:39:48 GMT sadie1263 said:

You know....my husband has the saying "that's shinier than a diamond up a gophers butt" I never even get around to ask what is so shiny......because I'm wondering where exactly he's seeing gopher's butts and why he is studying them.........

Do you really want your questions answered?

I love the " is a frog's azz watertight?" Now, has anyone ever checked to see if this is really true or is there some sort of leakage we aren't aware of?

sometimes, i feel finer than frog's hair. just not often enough. back when i was drinking, there were times i got higher than a georgia pine, but i've never seen one to know if it's really true