Has your interest in some food changed during your lifetime?

@marguicha (215818)
Chile
May 30, 2011 6:01pm CST
Mine has. When I was little I used to love sweets and was not specially interested in salty or spicy food, except for a few dishes my grandmother made. Now I am much more interested in cheeses, hams, a lot of snacks I should eat if I don´t want to weigh more. Could it be that we want always what is forbidden? I stopped making cakes and the like when my husband had serious diabetic problems. I thought that after he died I would make lots of cakes again but it seems my taste buds have changed and I´m not interested in them anymore. What is your experience? Have your food cravings and likings changed with time? Share!
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21 responses
• Australia
30 May 11
I hated my veggies when I was a kid but what kids doesn't? I also didn't like silverside/corned beef but now I absolutely love it! I had it for dinner last night & it was great! I eat a heap more veggies & love them now that I'm older too.
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@marguicha (215818)
• Chile
31 May 11
I love veggies now, and meat, and you name it... When I was a child my mom had to heat my plate several times. I did not have that patience with my own children but it seems that children don´t like a lot of diferent foods.
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@cher913 (25782)
• Canada
30 May 11
i used to love sweet stuff but now i find most of the stuff that i used to like much to sweet. i like dark chocolate instead of milk now.
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@marguicha (215818)
• Chile
31 May 11
I know what you mean. Even though I´m addicted to chocolate, I´m on bitter chocolate now and can´t eat white chocolate as it´s too sweet.
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
31 May 11
I've pretty much always liked everything with a very few exceptions. Right now my favorites are Mexican and Indian food.
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
31 May 11
We would occasionally go out for Mexican food. Lucky for my brothers, they also had hotdogs and hamburgers. :D
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@marguicha (215818)
• Chile
31 May 11
When I was a kid, I didn´t even know that there was another kind of food different than the one they made at home
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• India
31 May 11
Sister I was and am so fond of spicy, deep fried foods, sweets, non veg items, but at 65 things have changed a lot, these days i eat food with much less spices, oils, intake of sweets is almost zero, and non-vegs may be once in a month lol.. Why eat and suffer, i have diabetes.. Thanks for sharing God bless you, have a nice day ahead. Professor ‘Bhuwan’. .
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@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
2 Jun 11
marguicha for me as a diabetid now the sweet stuff really does taste 'sickeningly sweet just as if its overdone. I have fou nd that life is ' more my wish than stuffing on forbidden and too sweet stuff that will make me horribly ill. I think maybe our body changes to accommodate our search for good healthy foods. I have high blood pressure so am not to eat salt and foods with salt in them now taste too salty to me. lol i still love lays potato chips but I bu the baked ones that have very little salt in them.they are lower in calories and oil too and do taste great to me.So I have change my food habits in some good ways too.
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• India
3 Jun 11
Mom Some times i feel so sad, how long keep controlling? This morning I ate 2 Indian sweets, my daughter in law brought ,she returned from attending wedding ceremony of her brother But the entire noon, my soles were burning, as if i was walking over fire. Bhuwan
@lajonez (477)
• Poland
30 May 11
When I was little I didn't like too many things, I eat just some chicken and cheese and not too many different things... but with time I started to like more and more things, but now I'm not fan of chicken anymore I prefer red meat :) Sorry to hear about your husband...
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• Ireland
2 Jun 11
Taste buds definitely change over time, children are unable to digest certain foods, so the body naturally rejects these foods until it is ready to handle them. After being vegetarian for a while, I now find even the idea of meat turns my stomach, but love sweets and cakes more than I ever did as a child. Food cravings change due to my level of tiredness as well, if i'm exhausted, it's all about the carbs, if i'm feeling energised, then a salad is what I crave.
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@marguicha (215818)
• Chile
2 Jun 11
I have a vegetarian friend who cannot even stand the sight of raw meat. So I invite her and her hubby for dinner and make her vegetarian food and he has the pleasure of eating meat for once. Today, I have two friends for lunch today: one is a vegetarian who eats seafood and the other has diabetes. I´ll have to think hard.
@yoyo1198 (3641)
• United States
31 May 11
Hi, marguicha.....I didn't eat many sweets as I was growing up. They weren't much allowed. So most of my adult life, I ate what was good for me. Over the past five years or so I've developed cravings for cakes, pies, brownies and all kinds of sweets. I buy Tootsie Roll Pops by the bags and I love the candy butterscotch discs. I bake a lot of the sweets that I like and am gaining a bit of weight. I can't afford a new wardrobe so I'm going to have to cut down on the cakes and such. After I make a poppy seed cake tonight that I just got a new recipe for.
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@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
31 May 11
I still love my favourites from childhood I call comfort foods such as pasta with butter and parmesan cheese as well as sweet biscuits in hot milk. When I was a child I was not a fan of chocolate, believe it or not. Back then when I could have eaten a ton without gaining any weight I used to refuse it and now that I love it I have to limit myself...Not fair...
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@jak2010 (1550)
• Papua New Guinea
31 May 11
I used like a lot of meat in my young days, but I amn tired of these I want to eat a lot of poultry and diary products, I like white of chicken, butter, milk, cheese butter, etc.
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@bretay61 (722)
• United States
31 May 11
Same here.It seems we change as we get older.I used to love the sweets and still make them for certain occasions.But I don't eat as much of them as I used to.And vegetables,no way when I was a kid was I gonna eat them.Now,That's all I eat.I actually planted a garden for the first time this year.My granddaughters are waiting for the tomatoes,cucumbers,corn and the melons.They said they were not eating any squash,peppers,or onions.We sometimes make a meal out of peppers and onions.
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@marguicha (215818)
• Chile
31 May 11
I am also much more into vegetable soups than before. I think I started to like soups quite late in my life. Now I love them and I´m always discovering new soups.
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@thatgirl13 (7294)
• South Korea
31 May 11
I remember never eating my vegetables and hating the taste of it a lot. I seem to eat it pretty well these days and the taste don't bother me too, actually I love the taste these days . As a kid, I always loved candies and sweet stuffs. I do eat them these days but I don't seem to crave them and I'm ok if I don't get one for a long time too!! The only food I have hated and still do are mushrooms. I still don't understand why I never liked the taste of it!!!
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@marguicha (215818)
• Chile
31 May 11
I think veggies have changed since my childhood days. Not the veggies, but the way we cook them. I was given overcooked veggies when I was a hild. Now I stir fry or steam them so they are al dente. Even the spices and herbs are different. Soy sauce was not part of my grandma´s cooking helpers.
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@jenggai (19)
• Philippines
31 May 11
Definitely. I only eat pork and chicken when I was younger. Now, I prefer fish and vegetables over meat. I have also stopped eating a lot of candies and chocolates.
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@amitgune (877)
• India
31 May 11
Well, I have changed a bit. I know as a kid, I used to really freak out on mangoes. I used to wait for the summmer season, when mangoes are readily available. But nowadays I don't eat mangoes at all.
• India
31 May 11
Yes, my interest too has changed for quite a few dishes. In my childhood days I used to dislike lot of vegetables, yogurt etc. But now they have become part of my daily intake. I think our taste buds also gain knowledge with age and start acting according to what is good and what is bad for our health. Earlier I used to avoid most of the green vegetables now I like them the most.
• United States
1 Jun 11
Yes, I have had some interests in food change for me. Before I got pregnant I used to love cottage cheese with fruit. Now I can't eat cottage cheese at all cause it just makes me want to get sick. I can't stand it now for some reason. And while I was pregnant I could not eat pizza cause it would make me sick everytime. I can eat it now but don't eat it very often.
@marguicha (215818)
• Chile
1 Jun 11
Pregnancy is one of the times in life where you experience more changes in eating habits. But many of those changes disappear when you have the baby.
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@akangirl (2436)
• India
29 Jun 11
yes my taste bud has changed a lot now, there were lots of things i used to like but now i just don't like them .I still crave for cakes though but instead of chocolate cakes i prefer the pineapple or the fruit ones.
@marguicha (215818)
• Chile
16 Aug 11
I used to be a 2 pieces of cake person. Now I just want a thin slice unless it is spcially good and the I ask for a second very thin one.
• Philippines
4 Jun 11
yeah, i am more interested to eat spicy food and sometimes sweet, sour and spicy combines. it is appetizing and makes me eat more. though some say spicy food is bad when consume too much but only in moderation. i also like marinated food when the taste seep through the meat especially of chicken , fish and beef then combine with different mixture of herbs makes the food more delicious.
@marguicha (215818)
• Chile
11 Jun 11
I love spicy food too. And I also like hot dishes and don´t care for moderation.
• United States
31 May 11
Hi marguicha I have found that in the last few years I am more into the lighter side and easy meals more so now then ever before. I am an old fashion Puerto Rican food cook, though I love it still, just not so into how heavy and the various many left overs that always arises from cooking them these days. I have not been much of a dessert eater and still to date not really into them so much.
@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
31 May 11
When i was younger, i love eating raw mangoes and would dip them in salty sauce before i chew on them. But now that i am older, i prefer eating them ripe. In addition, when i was younger , i don't like to eat vegetables. But after i have given birth to our only child, i cannot eat my lunch and dinner, without a vegetable as side dish. Whenever there is no available cooked vegetable, i would make any vegetable salad to go with my dish.
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@asliah (11137)
• Philippines
26 Jun 11
hi, actually the interest of food are adding and adding,when i was a kid i like sweet and sour only but now even the salty and and hot spicy,and now my favorite is sea food since when i was a kid was not.
@marguicha (215818)
• Chile
26 Jun 11
I remember that when I was a kid I only liked sweets. Now I´m not as happy with sweets but love spicy food.