Food: Hypersensitive; Hyposensitive or somewhere in the middle?

Mmmm yes I just read your comment i too have habits. I'm on toast and marmalade again at the moment. That's my regular again. I dont particularly enjoy it so not sure why I have to have it

I can eat anything pretty much but I know as a child I didnt like bits in my yogurts, drinks etc. Foods an odd one for me as i dont enjoy food i eat as quickly as i can as i find it tedious. I was wondering why just the other day

Interesting subject.

As a kid I was a really fussy eater and at one point apparently would only eat chocolate. As I've grown up my pallet seems to have evolved, for example couldn't stand the taste of chilli or garlic, I love it now. One thing that hasn't changed is my sensitivity to textures, I hate rice pudding the mix of lumpy and sloppy together is just wrong to me, I love the flavour of both coconut and almonds but cant stand the texture of either coconut or marzipan, processed peas or marrowfat peas make me gag because of the skin. Now excluding alll the above mentioned textures I can eat pretty much anything, except gerkins... I do seem to be a habitual eater though in that I will eat the same thing for breakfast or lunch for weeks without going off it.

That baby food just wasn't up to standards was it? To be fair though, I've tried my daughter's baby food when they were little and wondered 'how on earth do baby's actually like this?' Although I made the majority of their baby food myself, they only had the odd shop bought jar, it's pretty minging though!

That must be annoying, liking spicy flavours but not being able to eat them? Actually I do know what you mean about having particular ideas of how things should be, with me it's about what vegetables go in certain dishes, so although I would eat it I would get very thrown if I was given a chicken korma with chunks or carrot and parsnip in it, because I don't think they belong in a korma. 

Oh no! Sorry to hear that you have food allergies/intolerances! What foods do you have issues with? 

Yeah I've literally just said to someone else this evening, I hate it when someone is wearing enough perfume to gas a small nation! There's just no need for it!! Peppermint is ok though, in chewing gum! I like ginger and pretty much any spice!

I don't mind Custard/Rice pudding but if I had to eat a desert I prefer something with a bit more flavour, either something super chocolatey or really fruity fruit cake.

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 ;-)

Oh and I'm quite lactose-intolerant, though I sometimes eat cheese anyway because it's cheese.

People drink vast amounts of alcohol all the time knowing they'll feel like death in the morning, so I figure "what's the difference"? XD Cheese hangover!

I'm very sensitive when it comes to textures. I can't stand multiple highly-contrasting textures in the same dish (raw tomatoes are a personal pet-hate; flakey peel, crunchy flesh, slimy innards full of tiny hard seeds!) or slimy textures at all.

Flavour wise, I can't abide vinegar but I think that's more my smell hypersensitivity than anything. I adore very very hot (as in spicy) foods and mostly live on spicy, highly-flavoured curries/stews/etc.

Roswell said:

I drink sauerkraut juice too.

Sauerkraut is so good!

Roswell said:

I'm trying to re-introduce carbs but am convinced potatoes are not much good for me. They give my body the shakes, even when cooked super healthily like boiled. I'm going to try some boiled white rice soon.

Potatoes are actually quite a common intolerance, especially when you don't eat them much. They share the same family as tomatoes which can have the same effect. Both belong to the Nightshade family, they contain Solanine which you can build a tolerance to, they are bad for any inflammatory illnesses. In sections of Chinese society they aren't eaten. You can build tolerance but if you have arthiritis or IBS try to avoid them.

I'm really sensitive to what I eat.

At the moment I feel a lot better when I eat no carbs such as potatoes and wheat. I eat mostly vegetables and organic meats and also have a probiotic food like yogurt or kefir, quite a bit of it every day. Just started mixing a bit of raw honey in with the yogurt or kefir too, so yummy! I drink sauerkraut juice too. I eat fruit quite regularly too, mostly apples and grapes. I like to juice my own oranges too using an old-fashioned hand-operated orange press where you squeeze the chopped-in-half fruit onto the press and the liquid gathers in the tray around it.

The probiotics seem to make it easier to digest everything else. 

I almost never eat out at the moment though hopefully I'll be able to one day not too far away without getting great digestive upsets. 

I mostly drink water.

I tend to avoid sugar at the moment as in the past I noticed things like Coca Cola or ice cream made me very sleepy and feeling overwhelming urges to have more sugar. I do have maple syrup though, for example in a sauce mixed with cider vinegar and thyme with pork steak.

I'm trying to re-introduce carbs but am convinced potatoes are not much good for me. They give my body the shakes, even when cooked super healthily like boiled. I'm going to try some boiled white rice soon.

I prefer strong flavours (my mum's always said when I was a baby they thought I was going to be fussy until she started feeding me the stuff they were eating-which was a lot of tomatoes and garlic and stuff, and they realised I just didn't like the bland jars of baby food). Unfortunately, I have GERD so whilst I like spicy things, my stomach does not. There's a very wide range of stuff I like and very little I completely dislike, but I have very particular opinions about how things should be and what things shouldn't mix (like, coleslaw is an abomination because of the mixture of textures). I hate when things aren't quite the texture I expect.

Oh yes

From existing allergic reactions to some foods/drinks through to finding effects from other food more recently - intolerances and digestive issues.  I cannot stand some strong things (perfume especially Lynx, peppermint, ginger) to having a high tolerance to spicy food (Garlic Chilli, Black Pepper Masala, spicy Jalfrezi, Nando's spicy sauces) and loving them.

I hate skin on gravy/custard but have no problem with rice pudding, Creme Brûlée and custard tart.

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..........