What do you eat because it is good for you but you don’t actually like it?

[Notagain25]

I’m not a big fruit lover but just looked in the fridge and thought, I must buy some raspberries and strawberries but I don’t actually like them so I eat a few then they go off within a day or two and I end up throwing them out. Teen dc doesn’t like them either!

I do like bananas and avocados and lots of veg just not fruit particularly.

What do you buy and make yourself eat because it’s good for you but you don’t actually like it?!

Nothing, eating something you don't like is absolute stupidity.

How are you eating them and do you mean fresh or tinned?
I use the tinned ones a lot as they're so handy and just keep in the cupboard. I like them in a tomato sauce for pasta, with chilli flakes or a bit of paprika.

@smallglassbottle - if you cook up boneless tinned sardines with fried onion, garlic, herbs, chilli flakes and chopped tomatoes on a long, slow heat, the sardines melt into the sauce. Add olives, parsley, maybe capers (and pine-nuts if you have any – shockingly expensive if you are on a budget though) and it makes a brilliant puttanesca sauce. It takes the edge off the sardine-ness of the sardines iyswim. There is something about them I find a bit off-putting unless they are cooked to melting.

Nothing. Why on earth would you eat things you don’t like?

I agree with fish oil. Horrible. Or animal fat. Other than that, I’m not a fussy person and I’m not keen on fussiness as an attribute. I’ve seen too many people astounded by it, from poorer societies.

I’m really surprised too, I genuinely never thought people do this, there are so many multiple sources of any given mineral or vitamin, that I cannot get my head round why anyone is sitting forcing down food stuffs they don’t like.

This sounds delicious, but it's not puttanesca; puttanesca typically uses anchovies, and no nuts.

It’s bonkers isn’t it? There are people on here saying they force food down and eat things that make them
feel sick - just, why?! I genuinely don’t get it 🫣

Nothing. There’s always an alternative that I do like!

Why not eat one of the many other foods that contains potassium then, rather than forcing yourself to eat something you hate?

The absolute ONLY thing I eat that I'm not overfond of (because I'm over 60, single and live alone and think I've earned my preferences being honoured after years of bringing up kids and eating what they would tolerate) is beans on toast. And that's only because some evenings I can't be bothered to cook when I get in from work and I'm always being told beans are good for you. I'd rather have cheese on toast absolutely dripping with loads of lovely cheese. But then I think of the calories and just have beans instead.

She has 300g of yoghurt which gives her 30g of protein.

@tobee have you tried making porridge with oat bran? It has a very different texture to porridge oats, has a slightly sweet flavour and is higher in fibre. I make it with milk and add honey or fruit and seeds. I also fry it in suet, mixed with onions and lots of seasoning, then bake it to make a stuffing for chicken.

My healthy but disliked food is avocado. Ok in salads but such a meh food.

Avocado. Don't like them but eat 2 daily. Part of weight loss plan. It's working so I'll eat them but bleh.

I do like and eat some of the foods people on here don’t like eg salmon.

For me it’s not a case of forcing food down, just trying to have a balanced diet that’s not too unhealthy so including fruit I’m not keen on for the health benefits. I suppose it depends how varied and nutritious your overall diet is. If it’s my teen dc then something other than peas is a bonus!

Yes me too. Don’t like it but eat it.

The nurse told me to eat the banana a few times each week as my potassium was low so I did as I was told.

But surely that was just an example? You could just have another high- potassium food instead.

@warmapplepies , it was probably more user-friendly advice than eat an avocado or a handful of nuts or apricots very few days.

Eggs
Tomatoes, tomatoey stuff
carrots

I hate ‘tomatoey stuff’

I don’t eat it

I don't eat anything I know I don't like! I have learned to like foods though - and some things I just will never like so I don't bother trying anymore.

Its never entered my head to eat something I don't like because its good for me!

Sadly, I like food that’s good for me-AND-food that’s bad for me!

Kimchi