Check out my progress on The Ick Factor
Yesterday after class, my lovely friend Allie and I were discussing certain foods that are aversive to us because of the negative memories associated with them. It’s not necessarily the taste that causes distaste; rather it is the mere recollection of a certain experience that often incites the ick factor. Thus is the nature of food aversions in my experience.
In accordance with this theory, there are a few foods that I will likely never consume ever again. Among them are chocolate éclairs, NutriGrain bars, and fat-free cheese slices. My aversion to the first is the result of a serious vom session I had after eating far too many of these confections on a cruise ship…almost 12 years ago. The latter two stir negative emotions due to their prominence in my diet during my struggles with anorexia.
How about you? Do you have any food aversions?
With all those icky foods aside, let’s move on to the foods I do enjoy, shall we?
Monday
As per usual, I had my dining committee meeting last night. We had a short break, so I seized the opportunity to grab some dinner. Despite my positive experience with the vegetarian station last week, I returned to old faithful and got a Hugh Jass salad.
Tuesday
As I tweeted earlier today, my walk back from the gym this morning was particularly arduous, thanks to a wintry mix of icy rain and snow. Needless to say, I was pretty anxious to get some warm food in mah belly.
After a sufficiently slushy walk to Whole Foods for groceries, I came home again in need of some soul-warming grub. Soup and salad it was!
I am now off to interview my mom as part of a class assignment…getting academic credit for chatting with Mumsy? Score! Ta-ta for now.
Filed under: Meals
Caroline Yoder, dietitian-to-be and all-around foodie.
This is so weird because in AP Psych I just had a test that included food adversion and why we associate food with negative memories and how they are often hard to get rid of. ick on the fat free sliced cheese – tried it once. never again.
you sure know how to make a fabulous huge jass salad caroline
YUM
No one told me at first what happens when you eat a lot of beets. As a result, I was convinced I was dying. Since then, I haven’t eaten any beets
Food aversion is such an interesting concept. I honestly don’t think I have any food aversions at all! Too bad about your eclair fiasco but the other two.. who needs em anyway!
Walking in a mad snow fest is NOT fun is it. Though hot food and sweatpants are twice as nice once you get home.
I really, really dislike eating sandwiches put together. I always pull the 2 pieces of bread apart and eat it like toast.
Definitely raspberry jam. When I was little and we were poor, my dad often made me sandwiches for school lunches with the stuff from the food bank box, raspberry jam and hot dog/hamburger buns. I cannot even try to eat the stuff it brings up way too many painful memories.
I will NOT eat mayo. I hate it so much…I refuse to eat it.
I can’t think of any aversions to food that I have! I do clearly remember throwing up a soft serve vanilla ice cream cone after my cousin made me ride on the spinny thing at the park. Luckily, I still love ice cream!
I can’t really eat shrimp anymore because of a bad experience I had eating it once. That Hugh Jass salad looks amazing!
I’m interviewing my Momma too!!! I wanted to interview someone our age because I don’t know if my mom remembers middle school so much but I can’t justify taking up 30-60 min. of someone’s precious time!! Except my Momma’s
Chocolate eclairs!?! Aw man! You didn’t mention that one. I love those guys….I think it’s the chocolate and pastry. The cream, I could do without.
LOL about the email you sent me
I hate eating blueberries. There is something about them that just freaks me out!
i don’t eat shrimp – also due to a vom session (that occurred just over 20 years ago)
Skinny Cow. NEVER AGAIN.
i respect your eating habits, and all of your eats look so delicious!!
gorgeous hugh jass salad! i have manyyy food aversions, and nutri grain bars is one of them too lol!
I’ll have to agree with you on the fat free cheese. Nasty, nasty, nasty. But I don’t mind eclairs.
Oh, my aversion….is RICE. Urgh!!
chicken wings are definitely my ICK foood!
food aversion? mmmm…. maybe cookies. I used to have sweet tooth and would finish a package of cookie in my sitting. I don’t know that I don’t eat cookies more because I don’t like sweets or because bad memories. hard to tell.
pd. I don’t have the whole collection of Rachel cookwares, just two pans.
Such an interesting topic.
I can’t drink egg nog because I also experienced a serious vom session after drinking too much of it at a Christmas party when I was small.
I also can’t eat little mini pizza bagel bites, because for some odd reason, that was *all* I had an appetite for during pneumonia about 10 years ago.
So crazy how foods and memories collide!
i should so be studying and not reading blogs… but anyway… I love your salad! and i hate gettin around in this icy mix! Can you walk to whole foods?!? that is awesome- i can from my campus, so I know how convienent that really is.
my aversion: hot dogs… school lunch, I was about 7 yrs. old, purple gummy pellet… haven’t eaten one since.. not even when I was starving! thus, I also stear clear from sausage in general.
my brother told me mustard was candy when I was 3, I hated it until i was about 25.
I hate nutrigrain bars for the same reason. Actually, most granola bars- especially chewy ones. Fiber 1 and light ‘n’ fit yogurts too.
When I was little, I had an aversion to bread. I would eat rolls or pitta bread, but refused square slices of bread. Spaghetti too- any other pasta shape was fine!
I think I’m lucky because I can’t think of any remaining food aversions. Ricotta cheese used to be my main one–it literally made me gag. But I’ve tried it a couple times in more recent years with no incident. Phew!
However, I can easily turn down booze if I take the time to think about my few alcohol-related vom sessions and the resulting day-long hangovers. UGH!
Have fun with your mommy assignment. I had one in college too–I had to write a long oral history of my mom, including the transcribed interview! It was happy work though.
That salad looks totally amazing girl
Yum yum!
i have an aversion to peanut butter. i know this is practically blasphemous in the food blog world! i got sick once after eating it when i was a toddler, so my parents were afraid i was allergic and never gave it to me again. i used to be super sensitive to even the smell…i would feel nauseous if i sat next to someone eating a peanut butter sandwich in elementary school. it doesn’t bother me to that extent anymore, but i still really don’t like the taste. all other nut butters are fine though!
Icky foods… granola remains one food I hate, not because of the taste, but because I had a terrible binging experience with a box of granola and I don’t think I’ve had granola since.
I also don’t like fat-free salad dressings/low fat dressings because of a similar association with restriction, like you & nutrigrain/fatfree cheese.
I’m not sure I’ll ever love those two items, but I can do kashi go lean which is as close to granola as one can get without actually having graonla
I have food aversions to foods that I literally ate EVERYDAY during my eating disorder, for example I was in treatment for close to 10 months and they NEVER me change my meal choices so for 10 months I ate a Turkey Burger on Bun with Cheese. I cannot eat Turkey Burgers and I tried to have one last night and felt so sick afterwards, no more turkey burgers for this girl! I also cannot eat Ice Cream because I had alot of bad eating disorder times with Ice Cream (Eat too much and then make myself sick, not a good time!)
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I think it is great that you have found foods that you love and allow you to remain healthy!