my eating habits: what I don't eat at all, what I generally avoid, favorite meals & ingredients

[belenen]

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I told Anika that I'd compile a list of my dietary restrictions, avoidances, and preferences, and figured I might as well share.

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[call_me_katya]

Oooh, this is so interesting to read! As you've asked me for my preferences I think I'll follow your basic template.

Never
Tomatoes. I don't know why, there's just... something about them. They would be at the top of my dislike list.
I also don't really like cucumber, mayonnaise or lettuce, so salads are usually out!
I'm allergic to bananas. Not hugely allergic. A house doesn't have to be banana-free for me to enter it, and I'm happy if people eat them around me, but I can't eat them. I get this reaction [itchy, sore throat] to some extent with quite a lot of fruits, oddly.
Custard, but that's not something I see very often so it rarely comes up!
Yoghurt, margarine, cream cheese.

Things I have no real interest in, but will have at someone's house, or if there is no other option
Coffee
Black/traditional Tea
Alcohol
Fizzy drinks

Difficult things
My IBS dictates that I can't eat potatoes too often. I'm starting to introduce them back into my diet. Perhaps once a week. Sweet potatoes seem to be a good substitute as they don't bother my stomach at all.
I love cow's milk, but I've been told that oat milk helps my digestion more. If I'm somewhere where I can't find oat milk, I would leave in a bottle of prune juice.

Likes
Pasta. Usually with mushrooms, basil, pesto, olives, garlic. I also quite like filled ravioli.
I'm not vegetarian so I like most meats but I can happily do without them.
Sunday roast type of dinner. Can be with chicken or but roast, with gravy, parsnips, carrots, broccoli...
Pizza with tomato passata/paste. No tomato seeds or skin. On a pizza... mushrooms, olives, sweetcorn, artichokes. You mention broccoli up there. I've never had it on a pizza but that sounds nice!
Cheeses usually only as a topping, like mozzarella, parmesan or cheddar. I wouldn't really eat cheese on its own!
Bread! Any kind. Usually with seeds. Toasted, with unsalted butter. Untoasted with tapenade, or a little cheese. I tend to use soup as something to dip my bread in so don't have it often, but I like carrot, sweet potato, parsnip, noodle soup.
Cereal of most kinds in the mornings. Oat, bran, wheat with cold oat milk if possible.
Eggs, all kinds of beans, pulses, lentils, etc. Hummous, usually with pitta or crackers.
Rice.
Sauces like korma, curry, coconut curry, dansak. Nothing too spicy, just interesting flavours.
Sushi, mainly salmon, eel, spicy tuna, crab roe nigiri or sushi rolls.

Drinks
Herbal teas.
Fruit juices. I find smoothies very thick [and they often contain banana] so I like single fruit juices, like orange, apple, cranberry.
Water!

Desserts
I don't usually eat ice cream here but I do when on holiday, when it's warm and when there's a much wider selection than you can get here!
Cake. Maybe chocolate if there was a bit of cream or ice-cream to balance it out. Lemon drizzle cake.
Traybakes like rocky roads, fifteens, Rice Krispie buns, the occasional cupcake. I usually can't eat dessert in the same sitting as dinner so would have these things as a separate treat, maybe mid-afternoon if hungry enough. Thesewould all be rare treats though. If I eat a full dinner I can't eat any of this.
I sound so unhealthy...

That's all I can think of!