EDIT: After typing this I realized it's long.and rambling so read at your own risk... lol
Some 10 years or so ago, I quit smoking cigarettes. I used to really like fried chicken with mashed potatoes and gravy. Turkey too, especially a day or two old as a sandwich with mayo, lettuce and pico. I used to hunt quail, pheasant and doves and had no problem eating any fowl... Didn't particularly like duck, but I'd eat it.
One day my taste for chicken or all fowl for that matter, just disappeared. Now the smell of raw chicken just nauseates me. I can't stand the smell, can't eat it either, taste is funky... You can even try to hide it in a green chili chicken enchilada and I get the smell and won't eat it.
I attributed it to my taste and olfactory senses going thru some kind of transformation because of no longer smoking. All I could think of was that could be the cause.
OK, well now, I am losing my taste for meat. To me, the cheaper cuts, or roasts or hamburger... I can't get past the smell, even when I know it's fresh.. Not sitting around in the fridge for a week.. I loved pot roast with potatoes and carrots, now I can't be in the same room when it's cooking, much less eat it. We make tacos once a week or so and I'm getting to where I can't stand the smell of hamburger being cooked. This is food I've eaten my whole life, I don't get it.. How it could change all of a sudden? .
I seem to do much better with pork... Grilled Chops, brats, posole mostly on the bar b que or a good ribeye goes down pretty easy. I love Ruth's Chris or Morton's but I recently ate the the new Ruth's here in Albq and it was border line with the smell. I usually eat mine and half of my wife's but I couldn't even get mine down. Bacon is becoming borderline too. Bacon, eggs was a staple, now not so much,
I do still like fish in moderation and either boiled or grilled shrimp. The vegetables I eat have remained fairly constant, radishes, carrots, celery, ásparagas, coleslaw, peppers, onions, sauerkraut, lettuce, but all those are just a vehicle for ranch dressing... lol.
I take a hard boiled egg, carton of yogurt that I mix with granola, banana, cottage cheese mixed with pinapple and an apple which I eat with those little cheese thingies you find at Costco. This is what I've taken to work every morning for years. I spread it throughout the day. Somehow I don't get tired of it.
Doesn't help that my wife is in some body toxin woo woo program and our food choices rarely intersect.
She doesn't eat eggs, bread, pasta..
I will say I've lost 10-12 lbs. by just eating the twigs and stems she makes for dinner. The mainstay of my picky-food-itis has been bean tostadas with red chili, spaghetti or hard salami.
After all this, does anyone else have the experience losing their taste for chicken/meat?
Gracias en antemano
Some 10 years or so ago, I quit smoking cigarettes. I used to really like fried chicken with mashed potatoes and gravy. Turkey too, especially a day or two old as a sandwich with mayo, lettuce and pico. I used to hunt quail, pheasant and doves and had no problem eating any fowl... Didn't particularly like duck, but I'd eat it.
One day my taste for chicken or all fowl for that matter, just disappeared. Now the smell of raw chicken just nauseates me. I can't stand the smell, can't eat it either, taste is funky... You can even try to hide it in a green chili chicken enchilada and I get the smell and won't eat it.
I attributed it to my taste and olfactory senses going thru some kind of transformation because of no longer smoking. All I could think of was that could be the cause.
OK, well now, I am losing my taste for meat. To me, the cheaper cuts, or roasts or hamburger... I can't get past the smell, even when I know it's fresh.. Not sitting around in the fridge for a week.. I loved pot roast with potatoes and carrots, now I can't be in the same room when it's cooking, much less eat it. We make tacos once a week or so and I'm getting to where I can't stand the smell of hamburger being cooked. This is food I've eaten my whole life, I don't get it.. How it could change all of a sudden? .
I seem to do much better with pork... Grilled Chops, brats, posole mostly on the bar b que or a good ribeye goes down pretty easy. I love Ruth's Chris or Morton's but I recently ate the the new Ruth's here in Albq and it was border line with the smell. I usually eat mine and half of my wife's but I couldn't even get mine down. Bacon is becoming borderline too. Bacon, eggs was a staple, now not so much,
I do still like fish in moderation and either boiled or grilled shrimp. The vegetables I eat have remained fairly constant, radishes, carrots, celery, ásparagas, coleslaw, peppers, onions, sauerkraut, lettuce, but all those are just a vehicle for ranch dressing... lol.
I take a hard boiled egg, carton of yogurt that I mix with granola, banana, cottage cheese mixed with pinapple and an apple which I eat with those little cheese thingies you find at Costco. This is what I've taken to work every morning for years. I spread it throughout the day. Somehow I don't get tired of it.
Doesn't help that my wife is in some body toxin woo woo program and our food choices rarely intersect.
She doesn't eat eggs, bread, pasta..
I will say I've lost 10-12 lbs. by just eating the twigs and stems she makes for dinner. The mainstay of my picky-food-itis has been bean tostadas with red chili, spaghetti or hard salami.
After all this, does anyone else have the experience losing their taste for chicken/meat?
Gracias en antemano
