Does anyone else feel as though their taste in foods they want to eat...

[Laffy Kat]

Is becoming narrower as they age? I think it should be the other way around, that we'd want to try new flavors and textures as we spiral down the great coil. I've always been a little picky but now it's so much worse.

[dchill]

1. I'm 71 and trying new things.

Not always liking them, but trying.

[Laffy Kat]

4. Good. I wish I could at least try new foods, but I can't.

Part of it is that food has never been that important to me. At times I even resent feeling hungry, although I remain well-nourished, even--the first time in my life-- a touch too well-nourished. Up until recently I've worn sizes six or eight and now wearing tens. It's the carbs, they comfort me, I guess. I wonder if my food thing is pathological.

[BigOleDummy]

2. I'm the same

Same here. Much narrower in fact. I've read that this is because of changes in our taste buds as we age.

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A funny look at things like this.........

[elleng]

5. My taste buds have changed drastically, the WORST part of aging process for me.

[Laffy Kat]

9. One thing that I've noticed, though, is that I do have a greater tolerance for spicy-hot things.

I read that it's because our taste buds are less sensitive as we age. Makes sense.

[elleng]

12. I DON'T have greater tolerance for spicy things, which is sad

as I still can't share with my good friend who craves spice.

[Laffy Kat]

14. Being incompatible like that is sad and inconvenient.

Maybe just share desserts!

[elleng]

17. But he can't eat sweets, as pre-diabetic!

OH DEAR, what's a friend to DO???

[Laffy Kat]

18. Not even occasional sweets?

Tell him to drink loads of water afterwards. One of the physicians I used to work for told me that to avoid diabetes, just follow every carb serving with a protein--or was it eat a serving of protein BEFORE eating a carb? Can't really remember now, and I have no idea if it's even true.

[Laffy Kat]

6. OMG, that is a riot and I absolutely identify with almost everything!

[BigOleDummy]

19. The same guy does a whole series of short

The same guy does a whole series of these as "Roger Horton" along the lines of " If ______ were honest." "If credit card companies were honest", " If big box stores were honest" etc. While some are of course better than others they are worth looking for. The vast majority will have you laughing so hard while being 100% dead on explaining whats going on with our culture that their message really sinks in.

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As an example. Highly recommended.

[Conjuay]

33. we're hoarders?

if you ever want to die of boredom, check out a ‘‘youngster’s” phone. There’s pictures of the most inane stuff, videos of inane stuff, inane stuff from their inane tiktok ‘heroes’, and don’t get me started on their texting bullshit. We might horde stuff, but shit, they collect absolutely nothing of possible interest.

[NJCher]

3. No

Not at all. Especially with vegetables, I am always trying new combos with herbs.

Just bought a jar of coffee rub and look forward to trying it with pork tenderloin.

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

7. I find I can no longer eat really hot spices

My tongue just can’t tolerate really hot curries or Thai foods, something I always loved.

[Laffy Kat]

11. I'm the opposite. I can handle hotter foods now.

I don't necessarily enjoy them, yet I can tolerate more.

[electric_blue68]

8. No (Not yet?) I'm 69...

I was a very picky eater until my early tweens. Drove my poor parents crazy.
It was slow change at first but when I got to College really started changing pretty exponentially. I still try new things. Little me would be horrified and what Adult Me eats.

I might have "super" taste buds (not sure). They're people who have a higher count of taste buds than your average human. Scientists found this out by staining a bunch of people's tounges blue! 😄
Idk if it was a special blue - like having ultraviolet and seen under special lamps, and lens for counting!

IF I have super taste buds maybe losing some won't be dot bad since I had more to start with.

[Laffy Kat]

10. I noticed that very thing with my youngest son.

He was incredibly picky until college. Now eats almost everything in front of him and loves to try new foods. He is still thin as a rail, though. I don't know where it goes.

[electric_blue68]

13. Good for him! Yeah, mine goes to my hips, and later...

belly as well.

But because of 1 1/2 major changes I've lost about ?25-30 lbs since April.👍

[Laffy Kat]

15. That is AWESOME (I think)!

What are the changes?

[electric_blue68]

21. I was diagnosed with...

the -very lowest end- of pre diabetes. I certainly didn't want to get worst, and get the full blown disease.

I went from ?4-5 single cans of Coke-a-cola a week to one every 2- 3 weeks. Within a few days once I found out.
I missed it way less than I thought I would!

Now I was eating a whole lot of Indian Food from June - early Sept; so yeah I had plain white nan bread, and white basmatti rice (I don't know if any India restaurants offer brown basmatti rice as a choice). Trader Joe's carries it to cook up.👍

But I also ate about 20% Cineese take out. THAT I switched right over to brown rice. I cooked and ate a lot of it in my late 20's to early 40s.


Will get a new A1C test in a 2 weeks or so. IF I've returned to normal YAAAAY - I'll keep the soda changes. I am eating more pasta and regular rice for now (complicated reason), but hope to change that as well over a few months. 👍

Altho reviewing this... I'm Not eating any more of the white rice and pasta than I was eating the nan & reg basmatti before. I'm pretty sure at times I'm eating less.

[NJCher]

30. Just an aside

Be sure you soak that rice to lower the lead content.

[electric_blue68]

32. Ty

[Laffy Kat]

39. Drink a lot of water right before your A1C lab. nt

[electric_blue68]

41. Why? ...

If I have too little water in will it give like a false positive?

Where as if I have regular size water bottle and drink, say, 2/3rds it would mimic more what my average water intake is in general.

[Laffy Kat]

42. Because it increases your blood volume and assists your kidney function.

Here, watch this when you have a minute.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=can+drinking+drinking+water+lower+a1c+test&docid=607990249456499967&mid=C02F684E5869041D1565C02F684E5869041D1565&view=detail&FORM=VIRE

[Tetrachloride]

44. he may need a pancreas check

[Laffy Kat]

45. He has a physical coming up.

Hopefully, they'll do labs. Truly, though, his dad was the same way until he hit 40 and so is his older brother. I was also kind of like that until I started having babies. From middle age and over it's way too easy to gain weight.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

16. It's a mixed bag for me.

I'm 74, and I cannot tolerate spicy foods as much as I used to. But overall I eat a greater variety of foods than I did when young. I grew up with a very limited diet. My mother was not a good cook, only made a very few things, most of which were pretty bland. I started cooking for myself at a very early age, and was doing most of the family cooking by the time I was in high school. But I hadn't discovered any spices beyond salt and pepper. That took a few more years.

In my early twenties, I'd look at the spice jars in the grocery store, read what they said the spice should be used for, then buy it and use it. Over time I got a lot better at putting flavor in my food. I do happen to love my own cooking.

[Laffy Kat]

20. You overcame your childhood palate and became an adventurous cook!

I cooked as expected when I was raising my kids, but now that they are grown and I'm divorced, I realized I never really enjoyed cooking; it truly became a chore while I was married. My mother was a wonderful southern cook, and my sister is great in the kitchen.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

22. When I was married and raising children, I generally enjoyed cooking.

I also had the good fortune to be a stay-at-home mom, so I wasn't coming home after a day at work to put dinner on the table. My then husband (we are now divorced) had several wonderful traits. Sometimes, when I just didn't feel like making dinner, I'd call him at work and ask if we could please eat out that night. I NEVER surprised him when he got home by saying we'd be going out. He ALWAYS said yes. I pretty much had the best of all possible worlds. I'd cook most nights, but when I didn't want to, we'd go to a restaurant. Especially in the early years of my marriage, I often thought that it must be hard for men, who'd grown up with their mother's cooking, or whatever food was consumed at home, then have to eat whatever their wife cooked. My husband also did a fair amount of cooking on his own, both before we were married in in the first years thereafter. He was always encouraging and complimentary to me.

I still enjoy cooking, and I'm also glad I can afford to eat out reasonably often.

Oh, here's something else. In those years when the boys were at home, I originally decided a meal was successful and repeatable if three of the four of us liked it. After a while, I decided two of the four was good enough, so long as I was one of the two. I also NEVER required my sons eat whatever I'd fixed. If they didn't want it, there was always a peanut butter and jelly sandwich to be had. Or cereal. They wouldn't go hungry, but I was never going to fix separate meals for each person.

[Laffy Kat]

24. Smart! It's a poor precedent to set by cooking different things for each kid.

I can remember doing that while my youngest was a toddler because I was so worried about his calorie intake. Big mistake. You will eventually become your kids' short-order cook. I finally stopped that because I felt the kids were using it to control me. Ex-hubby would happily eat anything I cooked. I worked outside the home almost the entire time I was raising my kids and I would have loved some cooking help from ex, but he could barely boil water. It wasn't so much the cooking I dreaded it was the decision about what to have each night.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

27. I sympathize.

Not sure exactly how I came to it, but I figured out early on I wasn't going to be a short order cook. Maybe it was because I was one of six children growing up -- third, very much a middle child -- and we never got separate meals. Mind you, what Mom cooked, or what I later on cooked for us, was very basic and pretty bland. Which helped, somewhat. And perhaps because the variety was extremely limited, no one was about to object or not want to eat what was offered.

I was always sensitive to the possibility of my kids not wanting to eat what I'd fixed, but as stated above, there was always the PB&J or cereal alternative. I was never going to insist they eat something they said they didn't like, even if they'd eaten it the week before.

[SheltieLover]

23. Pretty much

My method of weight loss is to only eat some of whatever I'm really craving (usually protein & veggies).

Still willing to try new things, but I don't think my taste buds are as sensitive anymore.

[Laffy Kat]

25. That's a good way to eat.

Consume what you enjoy, just don't eat a lot of it.

[SheltieLover]

26. It is, really

I've lost around 30 lbs, critical to recent dxs.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

28. My appetite more or less went away over two years ago.

I've lost some 40 pounds since then, and it's stayed off.

For some reason, I find I'm filled and willing to stop eating after a few mouthfuls. It's almost bizarre, how little I eat and am satisfied. I spent several decades weighing much more than I wanted to. This is nice. It's also saving me a ton of money on food.

[SheltieLover]

29. Congrats on your weight loss!

[NJCher]

31. That surprises me, too

How just a little can satisfy me. I am always putting food back, but lately I’ve just been using small bowls and plates. I give a lot of what I make away. I like to experiment and I want something different at every meal.

I have to exercise discipline about meals because I get so involved in my work that I don’t want to stop for anything. My work now is gardening and I have a lot to take care of. Earlier this gardening season I would get carried away with the great outdoors and get light headed and dizzy from not eating. This would also make me tired and then I couldn’t garden anymore. Had to take time.

Even now it is 4:35 am and I am dreaming about putting in little kale plants. If it wasn’t raining I’d probably be doing it using my car headlights.

[Laffy Kat]

38. Wow. That is devotion. nt

[AnnaLee]

34. Old lady lazy except for this favorite chop, chop

celery, green onion, tomato, bell pepper, cucumber, feta cheese, bacon bits, shredded carrots, dried cranberries, chopped walnut, chopped pecan, spring greens. add salad dressing of choice (zesty Italian, Catalina, or blue cheese in my case). The perfect lonely old lady's lunch with enough leftover (stored without dressing) for a side at dinner and lunch tomorrow.

[Laffy Kat]

36. Sounds yummy except for the tomatoes.

I've never liked raw tomatoes, although tomato sauce is fine.

[NJCher]

43. You're not

A lonely lad lady—you’ve got us! 😊

[AnnaLee]

47. Awww

[frogmarch]

35. I'm almost 79 and no edible sounds good anymore

except for chocolate.

[Laffy Kat]

37. Yep, I get it.

Chocolate will be the last thing to go in my life.

[Trailrider1951]

40. Not me. I'm just the opposite: I feel like I cannot get enough variety

in my meals. I get so tired of eating the same old dishes and I constantly hunt for new flavors and new recipes to try. I am hampered by the fact that I don't eat beef or pork, so seafood, chicken and turkey are about all I have to work with, along with a myriad of veggies and cheese. I've found that the spices make the difference in whether the dish is mundane and boring, or an adventure for my taste buds. Live a little! Put some wine in that stew!

[Duppers]

46. Here.

I kept trying a few pieces of a Hersheys' miniature variety pack just last night. I hated them all -was a first for me.

[Laffy Kat]

48. Hershey's pretty much sucks now.

A few years back they reduced the amount of cocoa down to 30% because that is the lowest they could go and still be considered chocolate. They also stopped using milk solids and replaced it with some sort of flour. I've mostly stopped buying Hershey's now except in a pinch.