Good morning!
I got up this morning around 5:45 because I have a few big orders to get out by noon today. I started my morning with an energizing fresh lemon juice. It is simply a juiced lemon and water. I have had this drink several times now and I think my taste buds are already adapting to the sour taste. Funny how that works! This ‘taste-bud adaptation’ has happened to me with other foods too!
I worked for a couple hours and I was strangely not very hungry this morning. When my hunger decided to show itself, I composed my Banana Soft Serve Vegan Overnight Oats!
Recipe is found here. I had it with a hidden layer of cacao nibs in the middle and then I sprinkled the top with a few chocolate covered raisins.
It occurred to me that this Thursday Eric and I are donating blood. I am going to amp up my green monsters over the next couple days! I’ll probably have a big one for an afternoon snack today.
Updates:
- Last week I meant to mention that the Read page is now up-to-date based on the emails you sent me! I think I have over 300-400 blogs on there now! I can’t promise when I will be updating it again because it was hugely time consuming and I spent many hours on it. Should I be placing another call for blogs, I will post about it on OSG!
- Eric’s Kick-the Pop habit update: STILL POP FREE! He told me he almost cracked yesterday because a coworker almost ‘slipped’ him one when they were working and he was super thirsty. He said he almost just opened the can and gulped it down without even thinking about what it was. But he caught himself just in time. GO ERIC (and all of you who are doing the same!!!). He now drinks juice when he wants something sweet and he is drinking more tea lately too.
- Don’t forget Thursday is the last day you can send in your Shop 4 A Cause 2 submissions! I am still looking for A LOT more so please take a look and see if there are any books, fitness gadgets, clothing, services, etc you can part with for a great cause! Thank you!
Today’s question- Have you ever experienced ‘taste-bud adaptation’ with certain foods? Foods/drinks that you used to hate but grew to love over time? or used to love but now hate?
A few that stand out for me:
I used to hate, but now I love…
- Tea without sweetener– I used to be the queen of putting artificial sweetener in my tea from green tea to black tea and any herbal tea in between. Now I love tea without sweetener and I find that my taste buds actually appreciate the taste of the tea more now.
- Beets– over time my taste buds got used to them
- Non-sweet Green Monster’s – I have cut down the amount of fruit I need to put in the GM to enjoy the taste.
- Lemon water – my taste buds adapted to the sour taste
- All veggie juices
- Tomato paste
- Hummus
- Guacamole/avocados
That Banana Soft Serve looks awesome! :) I’d have to say brussel sprouts… I used to put globs of butter and salt on them just to get through the plate, but now I can enjoy them plain. Oh and honey! I still can’t eat it ontop of something, but I’m trying to learn to enjoy its flavor in other foods. It usually makes me want to gag. :P
Brussel Sprouts is another one for me too. I still like a bit of S&P on them, but now I don’t mind the taste and I can eat them, unlike when I was younger!
My taste buds have fully adapted over the years…
My used to hate but now I love’s:
Tomatoes
Sweet potatoes (thank GOODNESS I adapted well!)
Hummus
Lettuce (I used to despise the earthy crunch of lettuce as a girl)
Plain yogurt/greek yogurt
Mango
Tea/coffee minus the sugar- this one took a LONG time to really work itself out
I drink warm lemon water every morning.sometimes I squeeze a lemn into a cup of strong black tea!
I used to hate the taste and texture of avocados but now I can’t get enough of them! Some others include celery,cabbage,beans..the usual culprits of your childhood!
I used to have A LOT of veggies! Growing up, my exposure to veggies pretty much consisted of cans of green beans, peas, and corn. It was up to me to find all the other delicious options out there, and now there’s hardly a vegetable that I DON’T like! :-D
Some other things I used to hate but now LOVE: hummus, oatmeal (texture & wasn’t making them “fun”), seafood, & coffee without cream & sugar (now I use skim milk and currently trying out PureVia)
I have a fairly lengthy list of things I used to hate but now adore. Avocados, parsnips, spinach, beets, peas, kale, balsamic vinegar, artichoke hearts, asparagus, and very dark chocolate. Things I still can’t stand include hummus (I want to like it…), vegetable juice, fresh tomatoes, non-sweet GM’s, and I now find most milk chocolates too sweet.
I used to hate sweet potatoes and asparagus. Now I love them! Though I only will eat asparagus if I have made it myself so that I know it wont have any bite to it :). I am hoping to start enjoying unsweet teas too. This month I have stopped eating sugar and I am missing my sweet tea!
I used to dislike tomatoes a lot and now I can hardly get enough of them, when they’re in season of course. I’ve also taken a liking to celery a bit more lately and I’m slowly but surely adapting to coconut. :D
Also,
I really want to try your In a Jiffy Spelt Burgers but I haven’t been able to find spelt flour anywhere. Where do you purchase it? If I cant find it, what other flours do you think would work?
Hi Keri.
Not sure where you live but I get spelt flour at Whole Foods. They also have it at other health-food-type stores around where I live, like Sprouts and Henry’s Farmers Market. I would also check at little mom and pop health stores. I’ve seen lots of them that carry the Bob’s Red Mill brand of spelt flour (and every other flour you could ever want!). If you can’t find it anywhere, you could always order it from Bobsredmill.com :)
Yup you can use another flour for sure…you just may need to adjust the amount slightly.
PS- i buy spelt through my wholesaler so im not much help!
Kombucha, asparagus, wheat grass (it almost tastes sweet now!), kale and beets are some hates->loves
Loves->”hates” (ie don’t really have anymore) sugar&coffee (together and separate!) :)
Sweet potatoes. I couldn’t even stand the smell of them and now I’m eating them with (about) every other meal!
I’m with you on the tea! I used to be addicted to sugar (splenda) but now I enjoy my tea without anything!!
thats the funkiest looking glass ive seen in awhile! love it..all bendy and such hehe. and yay for donating blood! good on ya lady <3
im the same way with beets and avos! so glad i love them now!
Goooo Eric! Seriously, I haven’t drank soda in over 9 years, except for in absolute dire situations where there is NOTHING ELSE (how is that even possible?), and I actually got called a snob by my ex because I refused to drink soda. Sorry I don’t like guzzling sugar and chemicals several times a day!
I used to need to sweeten my tea and coffee, but in NIcaragua I got used to drinking unsweetened coffee, so I kind of just ditched the sugar for good. Also, my palate has adjusted to enjoy REALLY spicy food. I used to cry if it was even a little spicy, now I need it to hurt or I can’t taste it (exaggeration but still). I’m still adjusting to the lemon-water thing. Something about that first acid shock just makes my body nottt want it, even though I know it’s good.
Unsweetened tea FTW! I used to add milk AND sugar to tea, now I just like it plain and unsweetened. :) It’s goooood.
Tomatoes. I used to hate tomatoes with a passion. Now I’m actually okay with them (am currently munching away on gorgeous orange and red cherry tomatoes.)
I can’t think of anything else, but I’m sure there’s a lot! (There’s a lot of stuff I used to Love, but now Hate. :P)
Wei-Wei
I’m addicted to sweet n low :( I rarely drink coffee or tea, though.
I hate avocadoes and dates!! I don’t think I’ll ever be able to get over those 2. I hate veggies as a child and still hated asparagus, greenbeans, broccoli until not too long ago. I love ’em now :)
Ohh how my taste buds have refined over the years!! :-)
Foods that I used to HATE but now eat practically daily are:
Natural Peanut Butter
Olives
Green and Red Peppers
Raw Tomatoes
Walnuts and Pecans
I can’t imagine not liking those things now…all so yummy and good for me!!
I wonder if part of it is the tastebuds evolving as we get older too…I think kids have really sensitive tastebuds. But sensitive or not, the rule in this mean mommy’s house is they have to have a bite of everything at least nine times before they can deny! And usually by time nine they eat without complaint!
For me, foods I used to choke down but now I love:
Beets
cooked Cabbage
cooked carrots
coffee with no sugar
onions and garlic as a kid
asparagus
spinach!
avocados without “mix-ins” (vinegar; cilantro, etc.)
corn without butter (or marg or anything on it)
pancakes without butter (ditto above, we don’t use margarine in our house)
goat cheese
feta cheese
blue cheese
And as a switch….foods I used to LOVE but cannot stomach at all now:
Any canned veggies (this is what I grew up on!!)
Mayo
Mayo-based salad dressings, except for blue cheese although I really don’t eat it much anymore
milk chocolate; chocolate bars
chips
Also for me: non-sweet green monsters
Oats without sweetener (savory oats anyone??), super super dark chocolate (85% and up), plain yogurt, almond milk (I used to hate it!).
I must admit…I’m still on the fence with almond butter. I really want to like it and I just bought a big jar, but I always feel like it’s missing something.
Savoury oats- HOLLA!!!
The banana soft serve and oats looks so good layered in the glass!! Things I used to hate but now love:
-tomatoes
-asparagus (fresh only! Not canned)
-guacamole
-hummus
Good luck getting your orders out!
LOVE the glass!
For me it’s pop. I used to drink the stuff by the gallon! Now? Half a can later and I’m done, finding it far too sweet and if it’s a cola I can actually taste the cola flavour and it’s gross!
Something I didn’t like but do now is tofu. I used to hate it but when I lived in Japan I quickly grew accustomed to it! I even went to an all-tofu restaurant! Everything I had, down to my drink and dessert had tofu in it. I was fine after that! :D
Black coffee – I gave up dairy and sugar but still like to have my coffee and it took a while to adapt to black coffee.
Question Angela – is there any reason you drink lemon water in the morning?
Not really, I just find it very refreshing first thing in the AM. :) Lemon is also a great natural detoxifying agent.
Bananas. I used to hate bananas. Now I can barely go two days without having one.
And peanut butter. PB is not really a staple in continental Europe, and the first time I tried it I was 13 years old and I hated it!
I used to only enjoy vegetables such as green peppers, broccoli, & spinach on pizza, but now I’ve adapted to eating & enjoying them in any form!
Hmmm…I used to hate beer, but now I love it, lol! :-) Tomatoes, too!
When I was little – I hated strawberries. I don’t know why exactly, but we grew them in our backyard and I can distinctly remember being 4 or 5…trying one and spitting it out. Maybe texture? Maybe seeds? Maybe not sweet enough? Who knows. I also used to hate mushrooms and tomatoes – both due to texture – but I’ve discovered that I enjoy them (but only certain ways – still..a texture thing.
Seriously – your overnight oats are just gorgeouuus.
I used to hate tomatoes, I like them now (the fleshy part, not the guts though!).
I used to hate vegetable pizza, but now it’s my FAVORITE.
I used to hate soy milk, but now I love it.
I will try everything again now that I’m eating healthier, I think everything tastes different now, in a good way. :)
My dad always told me that your tastebuds change every 7 years. So I sporadically re-try things I hate. Now, some of my favorite foods are things I couldn’t stand as a child- sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, Brussels sprouts, dark chocolate, oatmeal, and yogurt. I also have developed a tendency to try to acquire a taste for things that I don’t initially like- that’s pretty much why I love Bleu Cheese- I kept trying it until I developed an appreciation for it!
I really think that over the years, everything has just started tasting sweeter to me- I don’t use a great deal of sweetener anymore and I often think that things are too sweet.
I still dislike celery, raisins, and cantaloupes though.
I still can’t get my taste buds to adapt to beets. I’ve tried so many times!
I wrote about it here:
http://gamereviewwiki.com/bikinibirthday/2010/03/25/day-58-2/
There are a TON of foods I used to hate but now like – one of them being pasta! However, I still hate veggies…
As I get older I find that I love foods I hated as a kid. For example, only 5 years ago olives made me gag. Now I LOVE them! I also now like onions, green beans, brussels sprouts, and black coffee!
I love how your breakfasts look like cocktails :D so cute! I used to be so iffy about trying tea without something sweet added in, now I find that if I add anything to it, it just tastes so off! And you can’t get any hints of the real tea flavor. I love it plain :)
Unsweetened tea is a definite for me. I am also enjoying my first bowl of VOO with almond butter as we speak! I was a little skeptical but it is delicious!! Thanks Angela!
Let’s see….
Beer
Tea
Beans
Mushrooms…. still working on raw tomatoes. I’ve been working on that for a long time and my taste buds still don’t care for raw tomatoes.
I used to hate hate hate onions, mushrooms, olives and tomatoes but now I munch my way through them like you wouldn’t believe!
When I was really little (as in under 10) I couldn’t stand ice cream, chips (aka fries), baked beans or anything fried – sadly it all went wrong when I hit the teen years!
Fun question!
In general I don’t use as much or any sugar in my eats/drinks anymore and my taste buds have developed to really dislike anything overly sweet now. And I am the same with GMs, less fruit because I have grown to love the more ‘earthy’ taste.
Oh…. and I used to not like the taste of coffee, but that is unimaginable to me now :)
Strangely enough, since I went vegan I’ve come to love most of the foods I hated as an omnivore. This includes onions, peppers, tomatoes, mustard, mangoes, and more! I’ve also tried many foods that I never would have before and have grown to love them.
Do you think the banana soft serve would hold up for about an hour or so? I’d love to make this breakfast tomorrow but I’ll be taking it with me and eating it on the way to the airport, so I don’t know if it’ll just turn to a sloppy mess or not.
It does melt very fast, so I’m not sure. It would probably be a sloppy mess!
I’d love to try that banana soft serve!!! I’ve been thinking about it for days, LOL.
Does anyone know if I can make the banana soft serve using a regular blender? I don’t have a food processor.
Yep, I always use my regular blender and it turns out great!
Thank you!!! How many bananas do you do at once? Do you feel you need to blend more at once so they don’t get ‘stuck’?
Reading that back to myself, that first question sounds much worse that I intended.
I’m a 3rd grader at heart.
omg that made me so happy.
I usually just use one and deal with it being a bit softer than I’d like. I would recommend using 2 or more if you really want an ice creamy consistency, but if you’re cool with melty soft serve, one is a-ok.
Thanks! And congrats on completing the half on THE Great Wall! How awesome is that?!
I’m a ridiculously picky eater, so most of the foods I now eat I used to hate. Beets are a recent addition. I can’t believe I like them so much. I used to hate grapefruit’s bitterness, but I like it now, though I do use sweetener on it. Oh, and fish. I’ve liked it for a few years, but when I was in college and earlier, I couldn’t stand the taste.
The lemon drink sounds good. I *love* sour foods, though.
I used to severely dislike:
all bell peppers
whole wheat bread!
brown rice
and
greek yogurt
I was just thinking about this yesterday as I was watering my garden. I planted beets. ME? BEETS? I love them now! I used to cry if my grandma put one on my plate. Hahah! Same thing with green beans. Last year’s harvest was pretty paltry so this year I put in a ton more. My mother laughed and laughed over that. She said I used to run and hide when I found out we were having green beans for dinner. I was a difficult child, no? And at 37 years old, I’ve discovered that I like zucchini. What? I never had it growing up and a recipe I made called for a half of a one and last night, I found myself munching the rest of it, wondering why I’d never had it before. Obviously, I lived under a rock.
hahah this cracked me up! GO YOU!
i used to hate onions and garlic, now i can’t cook without them! i also used to hate bananas, but recently (thanks to Green Monsters!) I decided I like them again!
I used to hate bananas too! I think it was because when I was a kid they would give me fake banana flavored fluoride gel treatments. Now I love bananas.
Mushrooms are another one for me. I never ate them and now I can’t get enough! I still don’t care for them raw. Sauteed or roasted is my favorite.
I am trying my very first VOO’s thanks to you! I didnt think I would like having oatmeal cold, but its delicious! I just did the plain version with some chocolate protein mix this time, but next time I am definitely going to try the banana soft serve version. (My husband saw me looking at your site last night for the recipe and peeked curiously at the screen. Anything that looks like ice cream or a banana split for breakfast and he is sold!) :)
Thanks for the awesome recipe! Have a wonderful day!
I used to HATE oatmeal- even hot oatmeal, so I have come a long way too! Glad you like the VOO!
I used to hate olives and peppers but now actually enjoy both! I am working on trying to like bananas and beets next.
Like a lot of kids, I hated broccoli, asparagus, sweet potatoes, onions… The list goes on. Now, I love all of those foods. I can’t wrap my taste buds around beets or olives, though–ugh!
For the first 18 years of my life I HATED with a passion anything that contained Peanut Butter. I wouldn’t even go near a PB&J sandwich or even a peanut butter candy… then one day I tried a Reese’s Pieces on a whim and discovered that not only do I love peanut butter candy, but I just love peanut butter in general!
This is definitely a good thing, but I used to LOVE splenda, low calorie bread, low fat everything. Basically anything no matter what was in it as long as it had minimal calories. HATE all that stuff now!! Yay!
I have been drinking lemon water every morning and have last two pounds without really trying. I don’t know if the two are connected, but I am glad that my digestion has already improved!
Adding those chocolate-covered raisins to the oats sounds fantastic!
I used to hate hummus too, but now I LOVE it. The lemon water took me awhile to get used to, too. And of green monsters, thanks to you! But not liking it was mostly in my head, when I started having them regularly I realized I love them.
I’ve definitely grown accustomed to non-sweet things instead of having to put artificial sweetener in EVERYTHING!! And I used to hate coconut, hummus, carrots, beans, peas,… but now I love them!
Go Eric! I’m now 6 weeks Diet Coke free. Ugh, even admitting that I used to put that chemical ridden junk in my body is hard for me to say now.
I used to hate raw spinach in my salads and would opt for iceberg. Now, I wouldn’t have my salads any other way. I just bought a giant container of organic spinach at Costco and I’m pretty sure between my Green Monsters and salads its going to go fast.
I’ve been making myself like black beans lately. I even made black bean hummus last week. Still a work in progress.
But no matter how hard I try…I still HATE the taste, smell, and texture of any type of onions.