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[CLKD]

I love cauliflower but it upsets my bowel
Onions cause dreadful problems
Yam - which I love upset my bowel last night 

Peas from the pod or frozen, fresh beans of all types [not baked in tins], tomatoes, celery, sweet corn, potatoes in any form.

Bananas, fresh plums, raspberries, whitecurrants …… yummy
Pakistani mangoes when in season - a bath and large bib required 

[honeybun]

It's a case of finding what your tummy can tolerate .....and what it can't .

Lots and lots to choose from.
As long as you are getting a good variety then it's fine.
Potatoes are not that good unless baked and you eat the skin. Otherwise they are pretty fibre free.
If you google, then all the information is there to be read.


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[CLKD]

What won't you eat, ever?

I love onions but they don't like me unless boiled for hours …….

[honeybun]

Oysters.....the last time I had them.....many years ago I had a huge case of the shakes.
I was working on a full blown allergic reaction, so never again.

Apart from that, there are things I don't like but nothing much that really upsets me. I always have a grumbly tummy due to IBS but if I avoided everything that made me faintly queasy off and on I wouldnt eat much at all. I just try and enjoy and then deal with the consequences after 


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[CLKD]

  oysters    - no way!  though I used to eat cockles, mussels, whelks, winkles years ago, don't fancy them these days.

Anything with 8 legs won't get through our front door. 

Can't be bothered with much salad apart from radishes, red beet - lettuce not tasteful enough

[Hurdity]

Boiled onions    (never used that emoticon before!). Oo-ee I love onions... (wasn't that a song?)

Short answer - yes of course we should ( eat fruit and veg!!!) as much and as great a variety as you can - along with plenty of exercise and part of a balanced diet.

If you are seriously wanting to stablise blood sugar levels and lose weight (fat) then too much fruit and especially fruit juice is a bad idea - but this one I find really difficult because I love fruit and it has always been my snack of choice when trying to lose a few pounds! My son has been telling me that I should have no more than 2 pieces of fruit a day and I usually have about 5!

Eating pounds of tomatoes at the moment as we have a surfeit from the greenhouse and outside ... delicious. Today had them for breakfast lunch and evening meal (fried to a mush with omelette for brek, as sald for lunch, and cooked in ratatouille this eve). 

Hurdity x

[CLKD]

You have time to make an omelette for breakfast 
I cna't tolerate eggs unless in cakes ……. they 'lay heavy' and try to come up the way they went down 

Our tomatoes even when against a reflective hot wall haven't done well - again.  The body uses up fruit sugars differently to 'hidden' sugars  .  I can tolerate grapefruit but not oranges …… too fiddly to peel anyway 

Pickles anyone?

[Hurdity]

What do you mean - do I have time - it takes a couple of minutes?! Quicker than boiling them. Anyway I don't have to rush off to work as I'm self employed but when I do work away (from the house) I get up in plenty of time to do everything including good breakfast - before I leave. I have to have good brekka to avoid low blood sugar mid morning - which only started probably in my 40's. Could survive happily on a piece of toast when younger - which is weird as you would think it was the other way round! Oops that's not about fruit and veg   

Yes I know about the fruit sugars but it is still ultimately sugar - they are metabolised differently. I haven't looked into the biochemistry of it but apparently this is what is recommended re weight loss/muscle build-up... ie cut down fruit (and all carbs)

Hurdity x

[Dulciana]

Can't think of any fruit or veg that I don't like.  I just love to have a riot of vegetables in all different colours with any meal.  I love onions, especially red ones, which I particularly like as part of a wok meal, or mixed into a pickle with tarragon and balsamic vinegar.  Mmmm!  Peppers in all colours are probably my favourite veg. though.

My Dad called an enormous courgette that he once grew, a courgione; a normal-sized one, a courge; and a mini one, a courgette.  That's Dad's sense of humour......

Last October in Malaysia, I fell in love with jackfruit (or nangka, as I think they call them).  I suppose I'm not a great fan of lemon as a flavour, though.

[Joyce]

I pretty much like most fruit & veg, but don't necessarily have enough daily. My hubby hates veg!!! He will eat it, but in very small quantities, except peas & beans. Think his mum only served up tinned peas & beans as she couldn't cook much. I know I always ate tinned peas at theirs. Hate the blooming things, give me fresh or frozen any day.

[honeybun]

I didn't used to like Kale until we grew it ourselves. Steamed with some crispy bacon and it's really nice. Or again steamed with a spoonful of creme freshe. Yummy.
I love courgettes but my daughter says the taste of teabags  .

One flavour I don't like is aniseed.


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[Dulciana]

Sorry you don't like aubergine, Prajna.  I love it.

[honeybun]

I hate greasy aubergine. The only way I like it as if it's been salted and drained before cooking.

Marrow is not great unless it's in soup.

Now there is something I do like...homemade soup that you can stand your spoon up in. Lentil or  Scotch Broth....very Scottish 


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[Dulciana]

I always feel blown up after eating lentil soup, so I avoid it.   Pity, 'cos it's Hubby's favourite soup and he likes making it.

[Limpy]

Like most fruit and veg, except I loathe cucumbers.