My husband grew up eating only restaurant food or things that came out of boxes, so it’s been very hard for him. When I cook fresh foods without additives he still feels like he needs to drown it in salt. We did have some major success though–he now asks for me to make whole wheat pancakes and waffles! He tasted his old favorites, Pillsbury cinnamon rolls, and he thought they tasted so fake he couldn’t eat more than one bite.

We have about 30 chickens in our backyard and so we enjoy lots of fresh eggs. Over the winter when they stopped laying we had to buy store eggs. We thought they tasted watery or something, no flavor at all. I guess once you get used to the good stuff it’s shocking to go back and taste what you used to like.
.-= Amy´s last blog post …Rosie-isms. =-.

It sounds like you had a lot of the same kinds of foods my mom served growing up. I don’t usually struggle with craving the food of my childhood. But on the occasion that I am served it, it still tastes so good to me. Like the other night we were at someone’s house for dinner and they served a chicken casserole filled with cheese, cream of chicken soup and crescent rolls. I could have eaten the whole pan! (But I refrained ) Perhaps the day will come when I’ll break free entirely.

Don’t get me wrong, it was GREAT that we actually cooked instead of opening up boxes of Tuna Helper or other such silliness. That went a long way towards making me the kind of cook that I am today! And, I am very thankful for it.

My biggest point in those few sentences is just what you said “Maybe not with the best of products, but we were following what we were told was best for us.” We had been training our taste buds to like certain things based on the advice of a government and a society that were just plain WRONG. And as an adult, I had to work to re-train my taste buds to like traditional foods.

Nowadays our local burger joint uses fresh beef from a local producer, and cuts their own fries. Sadly, some people don’t like their fries because they don’t taste like McDonald’s.

I always make stock from a holiday turkey (from my brother’s organic farm!), and sometimes from chicken bones. A few weeks ago I made my first-ever brown beef bone broth. I thought it smelled a little weird, so I never had the nerve to try it, but the dogs have been LOVING it on their food! And I figure it’s great for them, as they are both breeds prone to joint problems (St Bernard & Basset) I think there is/was nothing wrong with the stock, I’m just not accustomed to that smell. I finally realized it smelled like French Onion Soup, which is *delicious*, and I meant to make some (Husband’s favorite!), but suddenly it was almost all “gone to the dogs”, LOL. Guess it’s time to go buy more bones!

Thanks for the encouragement! – And the calcium info – bizarrely, that aspect hadn’t occurred to me, and I’m not eating/drinking much dairy right now.
.-= Gigi´s last blog post …Mrs. Economides’s Yogurt Recipe =-.

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