Food: Hypersensitive; Hyposensitive or somewhere in the middle?

Kitsune said:

What do you eat on what days?

Roast on sunday, Stovies on Monday if there was roast left, fried chicken on Tuesday, some form of braised beef or lamb Wednesday, BBQ chicken Thursday, fish on Friday, and chips pie and gravy Saturday. I deviate sometimes, but that's mainly what it is.

As for ordering, yes, I know the undecisive ones! It's not good!

Tomatoes were never eaten much in Europe at one point, the Solanine mixed with the metals they used to cook and eat, turning quite nasty.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-the-tomato-was-feared-in-europe-for-more-than-200-years-863735/

It's strange which plants are related to things we eat that are things we'd never consider eating!

Rice is OK. It just depends on how it's got to the packet! I won't elaborate!

Roswell said:

You really should give it a go.

Kim Chee is good too, fermented cabbage, but with a little spice. Great on a burger too.

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!

There's nothing wrong with a good crisp sandwich! I used to eat them a lot! Prawn cocktail flavour crisps worked best for me! I can't drink fizzy drinks though, never have been able to, they make me feel bloated!

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

Actually a hot desert with ice cream is the only way that I can really eat ice cream, because the heat from the desert melts it enough that I can eat it without killing my gums and getting brain freeze!

Sorry, all this talk about food is making me a bit hungry too!

I really like pineapple though, I'm eating it every day at the moment!

I do vary one meal a day, because despite liking to stick to the same foods for 2 out of 3 meals, I do also like to experiment with new recipes. At the moment I've got into cooking tagines, I'm going to do a lamb one this week and then I'll end up eating it for 4 days in a row because no one else in my house will touch it!

I never would have thought of squash as being something could be allergic to but I guess it depends on which one it is and what has been added to it! Those fields of yellow flowers play havoc with my hayfever but I can eat rapeseed oil without it causing a problem!

Is the problem with the beef or just the beef stock?

That must be annoying not being able to eat most fruit? Or chocolate!!!

I've never had skin on my coffee! How does that happen!

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!

I imagine that it must be difficult having to stick to a very restricted diet? What particular textures and tastes do have to avoid?

To be fair, you have got all the food groups in your diet just in limited varieties, so I guess that you are eating a balanced diet of sorts.

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! 

same my food shopping is pretty much the same every week unless I'm feeling adventurous. In the evening I'll have the same meals on each day for example in the summer Monday is Quiche and salad, Tuesday take away, Wednesday Haddock beans and mash, Thursday Omlette and so on Friday is probably my most adventurous day and for lunch at work it was always salad, at home its humus, carrot cut up and pitta bread with maybe some olives.

Do you have the one with bits? I can only have shredless.

Yes but that was stupidly hot and that was only my finger that id dipped in it, my tongue was on fire so I wasn't going to eat any more because god know what it would have done to my ring.... lol 

Yet you are known to eat Peshwari nan bread  but hate Chilli Garlic Masala Chicken   

Lumpy custard in school - Yeurgh

For me it is Squash or whatever chemicals they put in it.  Further is allergy to pollens (fields of those yellow flowers and Conifer are the big ones now) which compounds with Rape Seed/Canola Oil (cheap substitute for sunflower oil).

Since mid 40's it is anything from Beef (stock and cross contamination of juice - I can eat steak in France without a problem). Also around this time I cannot breakdown fresh fruit and vegetables - Structure of them although Bananas and Strawberries are OK.

Reflux acid with stale salad, milk and cream (Not gone off but stale due to bacteria).

Finally over the past few years I cannot eat chocolate - same petal position as with Beef and Canola Oil.

Also skin on coffee - yeurgh

Whoops!

The look, texture, smell and taste.of.a.lot.of.what.others.consider normal food I just.cannot.tolerate.

onions or.garlic.a.definite.no.  Curry - just the look sends me.running let alone the smell.  Pizzas - no way.  I eat a.lot.of.bread and restricted amounts.of.fruit.  Vegetables.are.restricted to raw watercress small radish and raw carrots.  And baked.potato with butter only, and chips.  Cod.or.haddock or plaice, kippers.and.sardines.  And breakfast.cereal, usually shreddies.or.shredded wheat.  And boiled.or poached egg.  And that.is my diet.  Usually my lunch is bread butter and a banana.  Not.many hot meals.at.all - fish and.chips, or a kipper or a piece of.smoked.haddock or a boiled.egg.

I have survived sixty four years on this diet so ir must contain something good.

Kitsune said:

are there any other good food texture combinations? 

I've done this a lot in the past without ever realising why! I don't really conform to what foods should be eaten with what etc. For lunch, as an adult, I used to have cheese spread on white soft bread with salt and vinegar crisps on - either walkers squares or chip sticks. The contrast in flavours and textures is amazing! So simple to make as well! Sometimes this is what life's all about! I also enjoy a nice ice cold glass of full sugar coke with this one. Wash a mouthful down with coke and it pleasantly fizzes in your mouth.

I mix a variety of cereals in my bowl sometimes. Coco pops, crunchy nut corn flakes and cheerios is nice.

Chips dipped in ice cream is a good one too. This has a difference in temperatures too.

And also whilst on a contrast of temperatures: hot chocolate fudge cake with ice cream! (Not that there's anything odd about that one!)

I'm suddenly very hungry!

Kitsune said:

I wonder what it is about the texture of pineapple that causes you to react like that, the crunchiness perhaps?

I honestly can't put it into words. It's just an unbearable feeling that shoots from my teeth throughout my body. I think it's the way my teeth slide through it, almost with a squeak... makes me shiver. 

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 :-)

Oh my goodness! You completely confused me by changing your name! I've spent the last hour wondering how your post had disappeared because I thought you couldn't have deleted it as Cloudy Mountains had already replied to it. I've only just cottenned on to the fact that you've changed your username and not actually deleted your post!!!