Food: Hypersensitive; Hyposensitive or somewhere in the middle?

I like mushy food, with strong flavours. I find it hard to eat early in my day, if I do eat breakfast, it will be a small bowl of porridge with syrup and salt. Kippers are nice too.

I do like eggs, one of my favourite foods. You can do pretty much what you like with them.

I like lots of foods with quite strong flavours after I'm past that point early in the day. The strongest cheese you can get. Cheese is a favourite. I like smoked foods too, lots of smoked fish. Most meals have a gravy, or sauce. Braised meat, curry, stews, are nice and soft. I eat pickles with most foods too, or things that resemble the flavour, like tamarind. If my plate is dripping with gravy, or sauce I'll eat every scrap. If there are dry things I can't swallow them without water, and lots.

When it comes to sweet stuff like cakes, biscuits, and chocolate I have to eat it with milk, Milo, Lassi, or Horchata. Things of that nature. Dairy-like drinks.

I can't eat liqourice, aniseed, fennel, or even some pears. Anything that has that aniseed-like flavour is a no-no. Maybe holy basil or basil at a push.

I can't drink coffee, it makes me feel ill.

Ice cream is just amazing, mushy, cold, and delicious.

Looking at this the biscuit thread needs a bump..........

What sort of mushy food with strong flavours? I think that a lot of people struggle to eat too soon after waking up, I can't within the first hour after waking but I never miss breakfast otherwise I start getting really faint!

omelettes are good, there are endless different variations of ingredients that can be added to an omelette!

To be fair, I don't think that I would eat spicy or strong flavoured food for breakfast, it would be a bit too much! What are your 3 best cheeses? Smoked fish is good, I don't really see the point in unsmoked fish to be honest! That's odd that you mention about drinking loads of water, because thinking about it I drink loads of water when I'm eating lunch or dinner, easily 2 litres sometimes!

You drink a lot of milk then?

I can't eat aniseed now either. What's holy basil? I've never heard of it before.

I love coffee! Too much!! I had done really well cutting down to two cups a day a little while back, then half term happened!! 

Ice cream tastes good but I can't eat it often as my gums are so sensitive to extremes of temperature. Me trying to eat Ice cream ends up being a really torturous slow drawn out process! You're lucky you can eat it!

Biscuit thread bumped ;-)

Kitsune said:

What sort of mushy food with strong flavours?

Loads of different types of curry, arrabiata, mofongo (the Panamainan style), meat and tatties, stovies, tagine, gumbo, chicken sofrito, brown stew chicken, run down chicken, and many more.......if it doesn't take much chewing, and is tasty, I'm good.

Kitsune said:

omelettes are good, there are endless different variations of ingredients that can be added to an omelette!

Goats cheese and chives is my favourite. Foo Yung is basically an omelette too, Foo Yung Dan is best.

Kitsune said:

What are your 3 best cheeses?

That is a very, very tough question. There's lots of cheeses like ricotta, and other cream cheese type cheeses that aren't so much cheeses that are for basic eating. I'll go with ones that are easy to find and cheeseboard type cheeses. Number one is one called Crackler, it's got big soduim lactate crystals in it, real mature. Number two would be Boursin, it's a classic and great to just whack in a lettuce leaf and eat. For number three I'd say Gorgonzola, it is the stench of cheese. So good melted onto a margarita in little bits, it just adds cheese to chesse there. I'm a big fan of cheese, I'll travel for some cheeses, there's a few farms by the roadside in the country near here, and they do unpasturised stuff. If I go to the West Country I put on a few pounds, it's cheese heaven. My cheese rankings change though!

Kitsune said:

You drink a lot of milk then?

Lots. Too much.

Kitsune said:

I can't eat aniseed now either. What's holy basil? I've never heard of it before.

Aniseed is evil. Holy basil is an asian basil, I use it in stuff like Thai Green Curry, sometimes Tamarind Duck.

Kitsune said:

I love coffee! Too much!! I had done really well cutting down to two cups a day a little while back, then half term happened!! 

If I drink coffee I feel like a tweaker or crackhead. It really hits me. Not sure why. I can eat coffee cake or ice cream, if I drink it though it makes me feel real weird.

Kitsune said:

Ice cream tastes good but I can't eat it often as my gums are so sensitive to extremes of temperature. Me trying to eat Ice cream ends up being a really torturous slow drawn out process! You're lucky you can eat it!

Oh I get those Sensodyne moments! It's just so good I ignore it though!

Kitsune said:

Biscuit thread bumped ;-)

Biscuits are a thing of beauty, only with milk though! Apart from digestives, which should be eaten with cheese!

Kitsune said:

What sort of mushy food with strong flavours?

Loads of different types of curry, arrabiata, mofongo (the Panamainan style), meat and tatties, stovies, tagine, gumbo, chicken sofrito, brown stew chicken, run down chicken, and many more.......if it doesn't take much chewing, and is tasty, I'm good.

Kitsune said:

omelettes are good, there are endless different variations of ingredients that can be added to an omelette!

Goats cheese and chives is my favourite. Foo Yung is basically an omelette too, Foo Yung Dan is best.

Kitsune said:

What are your 3 best cheeses?

That is a very, very tough question. There's lots of cheeses like ricotta, and other cream cheese type cheeses that aren't so much cheeses that are for basic eating. I'll go with ones that are easy to find and cheeseboard type cheeses. Number one is one called Crackler, it's got big soduim lactate crystals in it, real mature. Number two would be Boursin, it's a classic and great to just whack in a lettuce leaf and eat. For number three I'd say Gorgonzola, it is the stench of cheese. So good melted onto a margarita in little bits, it just adds cheese to chesse there. I'm a big fan of cheese, I'll travel for some cheeses, there's a few farms by the roadside in the country near here, and they do unpasturised stuff. If I go to the West Country I put on a few pounds, it's cheese heaven. My cheese rankings change though!

Kitsune said:

You drink a lot of milk then?

Lots. Too much.

Kitsune said:

I can't eat aniseed now either. What's holy basil? I've never heard of it before.

Aniseed is evil. Holy basil is an asian basil, I use it in stuff like Thai Green Curry, sometimes Tamarind Duck.

Kitsune said:

I love coffee! Too much!! I had done really well cutting down to two cups a day a little while back, then half term happened!! 

If I drink coffee I feel like a tweaker or crackhead. It really hits me. Not sure why. I can eat coffee cake or ice cream, if I drink it though it makes me feel real weird.

Kitsune said:

Ice cream tastes good but I can't eat it often as my gums are so sensitive to extremes of temperature. Me trying to eat Ice cream ends up being a really torturous slow drawn out process! You're lucky you can eat it!

Oh I get those Sensodyne moments! It's just so good I ignore it though!

Kitsune said:

Biscuit thread bumped ;-)

Biscuits are a thing of beauty, only with milk though! Apart from digestives, which should be eaten with cheese!

I tried the goats cheese and chive omelette this morning, because I sometimes do an omelette on a Saturday so I thought I’d see if I liked it and if I could get it past my kids. I liked it. My 5 year old is now a goats cheese convert! She loved the goats cheese and loved the omelette, although she did spend a good 5 minutes picking the chives out before eating it ♀️Litlun though was having none of it! The omelette didn’t even make it as far as the sniff test! She sat and looked at it for a couple of minutes then got down from the table. My attempts at passing her pieces of it were met by her promptly pushing my hand away. She also refused to eat a new cereal and then her usual cereal in a different bowl so she eventually ate her usual Cheerios in her usual bowl. I’m guessing the massive meltdown that she had after all that was probably due to me messing about with her breakfast. I think I’d best just stick to her usual Cheerios in her usual purple bowl from now on! 

You've just reminded me of a recipe for soup that I made the other year. Squash, sweet potato and cumin I think it was. I'm going to have to did that out and make it again as it was very tasty. Thanks for the reminder :-)

I'm going to make a goats cheese and chives omelette this weekend and see if it gets past litlun's super sensitive taste buds! It does sound good! I might go to that little roadside farm shop to get some of their goats cheese! 

There's an Asian mini market in town that might sell Asian basil but other than that they don't seem to sell it around here!

You've also just reminded me that I've only had one coffee this morning! Need to go and make another one! brb

I now have my cup of caffeine so all is well in my world now :-)

When I've made coffee cake in the past, there's not that much coffee that actually goes into it, maybe 1 or 2 teaspoons of coffee powder. Given that is then 'diluted' throughout the cake, there really isn't that much caffeine per slice of cake, or even in the whole cake! I'd imagine that it's the same situation with ice cream.

Red bull and other energy drinks give me the caffeine shakes after only a couple of cans though! I haven't drunk them for years though, dangerous things they are!

Honestly, you do not want to watch me attempting to eat an ice lolly. It's not pretty or clever!

What biscuits did you eat last night?

Kitsune said:

Thanks for explaining. So basically as long as food is both spicy and/or mushy then you're happy?

Yeah, pretty much! Mainly both, but it has to be mushy more so.

Kitsune said:

Goats cheese and chives omelette sounds good! I would like to be more experimental with omelettes when I make them but as I am usually making them for my children I tend to limited to adding lots of cheddar cheese and tomatoes chopped up small enough that litlun doesn't notice them! I've done breakfast omelettes for myself before, with fried bacon cubes and mushrooms etc, they're quite good!

Trust me, the goats cheese and chives combo isn't too over the top, very subtle. The kids won't notice! Give it a try! Chives work well because they don't go slimy like onions. Your breakfast omelettes sound good!

Kitsune said:

I don't think that they sell holy basil around here, I've never seen it before! Do you get it in a supermarket or a little speciality shop?

Yeah, I get it from an asian supermarket near my house.

Kitsune said:

I do sometimes get the 'caffeine shakes' if I drink too much coffee in a short space of time, I try not to drink too much though. I guess that the amount of caffeine in a coffee cake or coffee ice cream is negligible and not enough to affect you?

It really makes me bad. Im not sure why coffee in food is different, I'd imagine there is far less though. I can eat a lot of coffee cake!

Kitsune said:

If I eat an icecream in a cone or an ice lolly, it takes me so long that I end up with ice cream/ice lolly running down all over my hand! Unnecessary hassle!!

If somethings not worth the payoff, don't do it! I understand!

Kitsune said:

You and your biscuits! I'm going to go and take a look at that biscuit thread :-)

I'm going to take a look (and a bite) of some biscuits!

Thanks for explaining. So basically as long as food is both spicy and/or mushy then you're happy?

Goats cheese and chives omelette sounds good! I would like to be more experimental with omelettes when I make them but as I am usually making them for my children I tend to limited to adding lots of cheddar cheese and tomatoes chopped up small enough that litlun doesn't notice them! I've done breakfast omelettes for myself before, with fried bacon cubes and mushrooms etc, they're quite good!

It made me smile that the longest section of your reply is dedicated to cheese :-) I don't think I've ever Crackler (or seen it in the shops) or Boursin, I might have to try them at some point. Gorgonzola is good in sauces, especially with Gnocchi. There's a roadside farm shop near me that sells goats cheese, I might have to stop off there at some point soon. I'll have to ask you for your cheese rankings again at some point in the future to see whats changed, you might have discovered a new cheese by then!!

I guess that the calcium in all the milk is good for your bones!

I don't think that they sell holy basil around here, I've never seen it before! Do you get it in a supermarket or a little speciality shop?

I do sometimes get the 'caffeine shakes' if I drink too much coffee in a short space of time, I try not to drink too much though. I guess that the amount of caffeine in a coffee cake or coffee ice cream is negligible and not enough to affect you?

I literally can not bite ice cream, if I do bite into it the pain is so intense, I couldn't ignore it! On the rare occasion that I do eat a bowl of ice cream the only way I can achieve it is to let the ice cream melt a bit and then but really small spoonfuls of it onto the centre of my tongue, well away from my teeth and let it melt on my tongue, it's so ridiculously time consuming that I don'y usually bother. If I eat an icecream in a cone or an ice lolly, it takes me so long that I end up with ice cream/ice lolly running down all over my hand! Unnecessary hassle!!

You and your biscuits! I'm going to go and take a look at that biscuit thread :-)