I’ve become very lactose intolerant in my old age. Also peanut butter gives me terrible heartburn. I miss peanut butter.
I’m allergic to melons, watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew, etc. It tastes like the nectar of the gods. For many years I would occasionally eat some and endure the allergic symptoms, but over time they got worse and so I’m forever denied that sweet sweet heaven.
Chocolate ice cream.
The good stuff.
Not the so-called diabetic safe. It’s just not worth eating.
Artichoke leaves, the ones you scrape with your teeth. My dental geometry is now such that this eating technique is no longer possible.
Just grapefruit, due to the bp med restriction. I love all citrus, but grapefruit was one of my favs. We had a grapefruit tree in the backyard when I was growing up, and it was a prolific producer. I’d eat a ton of them.
Another one for milk products. Bad digestive results, although I can tolerate yogurt and ice cream in small amounts. I also have a very small amount of half & half in my coffee in the morning. Actually, cheese doesn’t bother me all that much. So I guess it’s mainly milk.
I like zucchini, but the skins cause gastric distress.
Luckily, I’m not full-on allergic to anything I know of.
Vinaigrette is one of those things that I had to give up because of GERD that I fortunately didn’t like much anyway.
Can’t eat ( any more )*
Red meat, deep fried foods, dairy ( cheese, milk, cream, eggs ), anything with added sugar.
*After a mild heart attack and stent installed. A surprise to me since my blood work numbers were historically good and I took good care of myself. Apparently not good enough.
I’ll eat those aforementioned foods quite rarely and far between…many months or even years apart.
wow if that happened to me id just give a DNR for next time …
Because of GERD, I’ve had to give up:
All citrus fruit and juice
Ice cream
Caffeinated coffee and tea
High acid tomato sauce, which means anything commercial. Homemade is OK.
Steel-cut oats, the Irish kind that are so yum when slow-cooked a long time
In addition, I’ve developed a bad reaction to raw oysters. The first time I got nausea and diarrhea a couple hours after eating them, I thought I just there was just maybe one bad one in the dozen. But it happened again the next couple of times, with the last time being particularly bad. And that last time, I only had one small one out of my husband’s half-dozen. So no more raw oysters for me.
Because of taking statin drugs, I gave up grapefruit a good fifteen years ago. And I love a big Texas ruby grapefruit, just peeled and eaten like an orange.
I love all these foods. Giving up citrus fruit was the worst, I think, because I love fruits with a nice acidic edge. God, do I miss a sweet, ripe California navel orange.
A friend of mine had the opportunity to “call in dead” from work this week… after finding out, the hard way, that she had a 100% blockage in a major coronary artery (she got better). She’s now sporting a stent.
She’s 10 years younger than I am, and was very active. No clue what her diet has been like but I expect she’ll be following much the same plan you are.
Well, fortunately for me, I’ve got a very very broad palate and that there are mounds of food I can eat, and these foods I enjoy immensely.
I do know some “meat and potatoes”, mac & cheese types that if given the same dietary habits I apply to myself, they’d hang themselves inside of a week, week and a half.
There’s a lot of stuff I have to avoid now that I’m older. Greasy fried foods, big bag of chips, pepperoni and sausage on pizza, spicy foods all give me heartburn.
And it’s not just what to eat, but when. If I eat too big of a dinner past, say, 7 pm, it feels like it all wants to come back up at bedtime. I told my wife awhile back “Now I understand why retirees go out to dinner at 4 pm! They need time to digest!”
Yep on the 4 p.m. dinnertime. Going to bed on too full a stomach means major acid reflux, even if I’ve eaten only inoffensive foods.
We’ve taken to eating larger lunches, and then having just a small snack at 4 p.m. to count as “dinner.”
There are a lot of foods I can no longer eat due to gluten intolerance.
Right, I really like grapefruit but supposedly it is forbidden because of one of the blood pressure meds, dammit. Haven’t had the guts to defy the rule and see what happens…
Then there’s bacon and egg: the only proper breakfast. But I’ve been yakked at about cholesterol so much by doctors that I only eat it maybe once a month.
Guess I should count myself fortunate that I don’t seem to have any actual allergies…
Tuna steak. I love tuna steak, but I am also prone to gout, which hurts like a bastard. The last time I had a yummy tuna steak for lunch, I followed lunch with a lawn mowing excercise. Halfway through the lawn mowing, my foot was in such pain that I could barely walk.
No more tuna steak, god fucking dammit.
Give up lawn mowing instead!
Oh the gout, It hurts like a bastard.
My husband gets gout, though he won’t alter what he eats or drinks. The first flare was in his big toe, and the second one (which he is just getting over) was in his ankle.
The list of stuff you should avoid if you’re prone to gout is so long that it would be more helpful just to publish a list of what you CAN consume.