Food: Hypersensitive; Hyposensitive or somewhere in the middle?

Some things I like but my stupid gut doesn't. That includes wheat-nased things. Too much chocolate, certain nuts, ditto. 

I enjoy food on the whole. But the smell and texture of eggs, especially egg white, makes me feel sick, they always have done. So cafes that do a full English with fried eggs are a no-no for me!

I also can't stand the smell of cooking fat, lard, butter and the like: I have retched and nearly thrown up altogether in certain places that cook meat here! 

That must be irritating if you want to eat certain foods but can't because they disagree with your gut?

I like eating eggs but I get really funny about the little blood spot or bit that looks like the beginning of a chick growing which you seem to get in all eggs! I have to remove it before I cook and eat the egg otherwise I wouldn't be able to eat it! I end up gagging loads while I'm trying to get it out of the egg because raw eggs are so slimy that it always takes ages!

I don't eat lard or butter and I use the 1cal per spray cooking spray when I have to use a fat in cooking, otherwise my waistline wouldn't thank me!

Lunch is always the worst because sometimes it can be very difficult to find something will agree with me. I don't like a full meal at lunch  because I hate to be chased by work, or in pressure to rush because of impending appointments

Cloudy Mountains, you've converted 2 people to Pho! :-)

Me too! 

I’ve put ‘trying Pho!’ on my ‘to do’ list!

Peas and sweetcorn work well. You get a little crunch and pop with the noodles. Yeah, noodles are great for leftovers!

Pho is sort of like that, but you put all the ingredients aside from the broth, and people add what they want. Everyone ends up with a bowl tailored to them. Which can be useful!

nexus9 said:

Pho? No, not really heard of it. But there are many new types of restaurants muchrooming in the city centre here now, began and so on, so I may encounter it soon enough

It's worth a try, because you basically get the bowl you want. We have a restaurant here that does Vietnamese, and it really only sells Pho. It's called Pho!

Pho? No, not really heard of it. But there are many new types of restaurants muchrooming in the city centre here now, began and so on, so I may encounter it soon enough

That sounds good actually, might have to try it at some point! Hopefully it doesn’t make you cough if you try it again! 

Won Ton! Thai soups, with rice flakes. I used to put in some prawns. They are very hot though and would probably make me cough now

I just use Aldi's medium egg noodles cooked in vegetable or chicken stock, As a baseline I'd add frozen peas and sweetcorn and soy sauce but if there was leftover chicken or prawns or anything else that was suitable, in the fridge, then I'd add that too. It's my go-to quick and easy lunch when I haven't got much time. No I haven't ever tasted Pho, it seems a bit like a noodle version of special fried rice?

I just use Aldi's medium egg noodles cooked in vegetable or chicken stock, As a baseline I'd add frozen peas and sweetcorn and soy sauce but if there was leftover chicken or prawns or anything else that was suitable, in the fridge, then I'd add that too. It's my go-to quick and easy lunch when I haven't got much time. No I haven't ever tasted Pho, it seems a bit like a noodle version of special fried rice?

Cloudy Mountains, you've converted 2 people to Pho! :-)

Me too! 

I’ve put ‘trying Pho!’ on my ‘to do’ list!

Peas and sweetcorn work well. You get a little crunch and pop with the noodles. Yeah, noodles are great for leftovers!

Pho is sort of like that, but you put all the ingredients aside from the broth, and people add what they want. Everyone ends up with a bowl tailored to them. Which can be useful!

nexus9 said:

Pho? No, not really heard of it. But there are many new types of restaurants muchrooming in the city centre here now, began and so on, so I may encounter it soon enough

It's worth a try, because you basically get the bowl you want. We have a restaurant here that does Vietnamese, and it really only sells Pho. It's called Pho!