Food: Hypersensitive; Hyposensitive or somewhere in the middle?

Anything is mushy if you add enough gravy!!

We used to eat certain meals on set days when I was a child. But as I've mentioned elsewhere in the post, I like to keep two meals the same every day and then experiment with the 3rd. In reality I tend to go through phases, I'm just moving into a tagine phase at the moment so my 3rd meal of the day will be a tagine of some description most days for the next couple of months until I find something else that interests me!

It really isn't! I usually have an idea in my head of what I will order before I go out to eat. 

Thank you! I think that you may have inadvertently helped me with my 2 year old's eating habits!

You know what I thought of while I was doing the school run? You mentioned about needing a lot of meals to be blended until your late teens. I've mentioned elsewhere on this thread that my youngest is super sensitive to food. Honestly, the last few days we've been struggling to get her to eat anything other than bread! But she will quite reliably eat homemade soup with broken up pieces of bread in it. So what I am going to try is blending all her dinners, such as bolognese sauce; roast; stew; etc into a soup like consistency and then breaking up bits of bread to put in it. 

Hopefully this works and gets her diet a bit more varied. I'll let you know how she gets on with it :-)

Can you eat beef if it's been grilled or bbq'd on it's own, not touching other meat?

How annoying that you can't eat the fruit from your own orchard! You could sell the fruit though, I've seen people do that around here, they leave little bags of fruit (or sometimes eggs; I've even seen bags of horse manure sold like this!) on a small plastic table outside of their house with a sign saying something along the lines of '£1.50 per bag please help yourself' and people just put the money in the box which is also on the table and take a bag of fruit.

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?

Thank you for providing a really useful and informative article! Note to self not to eat tomatoes off of plates that contain lead! The stuff about the tropane alkaloids (I thought Solanine was a steroidal alkaloid but I could be wrong!) intrigued me though and it would explain a number of food sensitivities:

https://wowineverknewthat.wordpress.com/2013/11/29/tomatoes-the-silent-killer/

https://www.food.gov.uk/research/agricultural-contaminants/monitoring-of-tropane-alkaloids-in-food

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/tropane-alkaloid

My brain is now kick started for the day after reading those!!!

Can you eat liver? I can't! Apart from the fact that it tastes of bile! In fact it's like bile flavoured rubber! It's got to be the chewiest food in the world ever, I just can't chew it up enough to swallow it, no matter how long I chew it for! I just physically can't swallow it, It's made me gag when I've tried to swallow it in the past! don't even bother to try to eat it these days!

Mmm cheesecake is good, especially salted caramel cheesecake, I haven't had any for ages though :-( It sounds as though you needed all food to be the texture of thick soup when you were younger?

I prefer spices for flavour, I like a medium hot curry but not a really hot curry! I like a good combination of different flavour spices, cinnamon, cumin, throw in some garlic too and maybe a wedge of lemon and I'm happy :-)

Do you dislike chewing? I do. We have very similar tastes, so I was wondering if you find chewy stuff quite hard to swallow

My dad's parents were from there, well my grandad was Chinese but brought up by Scots. Not sure if he was born there. So on Monday growing up, I'd always have stovies. I usually have them with bread, oat cakes can be a bit dry. Meat and tatties was another thing I ate a lots as a kid, I still do, it suits me because it's mushy.

I used to hate the skin on custard too! It all reminds me of a superb trauma when I tried school dinners, everything was awful. The neat was tough, the mashed potatoes had lumps in it and the custard had a skin and the stewed apricots were hairy! When I took my pudding back as well as the dinner, the dinner lady yelled at me 'Ooooh you naughty girl!'

I ran away and a school ate chased me to tell me about what I should have done. After a couple of years I was persuaded to try school dinners again and was lucky, the dinner the next time was good, with chocolate crunch as a pudding! I was td I could turn down one item for each meal and I would not get into trouble again 

Holds fingers pinched to nose.....

Ring of fire, Not.... Johnny Cash, You are showing your age old man!

My Beef problem is any juice whatsoever - from the meat, soup/gravy made from beef stock as well as a barbecue that has beef cooking next to other meat.

With Fruit, yes, even more when I have enough apple/plum/pear trees to be classed as an orchard (5+).

Stovies, Are you in Scotland? Thats the only place I've had stories, do you eat it with oat cakes as well?

What is wrong with a bit of Johnny Cash, definitely clears out the system ?

Kitsune said:

I remember a boy at my primary school who used to eat his chips dipped in custard.

Primary school is the very reason why I can't eat custard. I used to as a boy, my mom used to make lovely custard. But, and I remember this vividly, one day at primary school for pudding the dinner lady poured me some custard and the thickest skin from the jug poured out and into my dish. I couldn't touch custard again! It's even making me feel uncomfortable today just typing about it! It was truly horrendous!

Isn't it weird how one bad experience can change your whole outlook for your entire life! Have you ever had a similar experience with food?

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

I can't pinpoint any textures I'm incredibly fond of except cheesecake, that has a great mouth-feel. It's mostly about what I dislike with texture. I like pasta sauces blended so they're very homogenous and that used to apply to almost every foodstuff; I had to blend all curries, chilli, stews, etc. until my late teens.

I use spices for both! I like strong flavour and heat combined. 

Eccentric1 said:

Peshwari nan bread

I remember speaking to you about that before! They are the best ones. They just mix well with a nice hot to medium curry so well!