Nothing.
There are so many healthy things I like to eat that I have no reason to eat things I don’t like.
Like a lot of posters I really avoid foods I don’t like. But I don’t like a lot of foods and don’t have much of an appetite so it’s not that hard.
However, I have switched from plain sandwich bread to “light” bread for sandwiches which is mostly air and half (or more than half) the carbs of most other regular sandwich bread. It also has less sugar. Nickels bakery makes a very nice white light bread but it’s hard to find so I just suck it up and eat the wheat Sara Lee or Peppridge Farms. I find them to be bitter and not terribly delicious but it does save me a lot of carbs (I’m diabetic) and gets my sandwich insides to me with little hassle. So annoying bitter light wheat bread is my bugaboo.
I don’t do much of this, but one thing that I discipline myself to eat is yogurt. I don’t really like it, but it’s the healthiest option that is readily available.
There were a few things that I tried to eat while I was pregnant/breastfeeding for health reasons (fish oil, fennel tea)… and I couldn’t bring myself to stick with any of them. The kid is five now, so it seems to have worked itself out.
All you yogurt-haters…have you tried putting STUFF in it?
We had tzatziki with our evening meal tonight. About noon I took a cup and a half of nonfat Greek yogurt and mixed in a shredded cucumber, a minced clove of garlic, a touch of olive oil and vinegar, some fresh dill, and salt & pepper. Stuck it in the fridge to meld until dinnertime. We used it as a relish with our grilled eggplant and roasted peppers and fresh bread.
Currently, almost everything.
I’m taking part in a clinical trial, which involves a reduced calorie intake for 16 weeks. To try and ensure compliance, the study provides Nutrisystem food. Or “food,” rather. Most of it tastes like paste and pepper. The textures, especially of the carby things, are AWFUL. I’m supposed to supplement with a protein, four serves of veggies, and a starchy carb, which has been difficult - I love to cook, but have no motivation to make side dishes. So my proteins have mostly been ham and salmon, and my veggies have been green beans and tomatoes from the garden. And pickles.
I think one thing it has been good for is resetting my idea of portion size. When I have a “cheat” meal now, I find it hard to go over my calorie limit.
I’ve lost 20lbs in 5 weeks, so I suppose it’s working. But I miss real food!
Yoplait low-fat yogurt. A while ago they decided to do away with some of the artificial sweeteners and many of the flavors went from okay to blah. I choke down one every morning for breakfast with my low sodium V-8 juice.
Artificial sweeteners. I have reactive hypoglycemia, soft enamel on my teeth, and adult onset Type 1 diabetes in my family. Real sugar is bad for me. When I do eat it, I have to eat it on a full stomach.
But I love suger. I still eat the occasional piece of cake on the holidays, but mostly sweets have to be made with Splenda. That’s that main thing I like. I like candy made from maltodextrin, but too much gives me bad gas. Some things baked with saccharin or Stevia are OK, but not enough to ask for seconds. I detest candies with saccharine or Stevia.
I only eat food i dislike if a friend cooked it for me. There’s plenty of tasty food, why eat stuff i don’t enjoy?
Speaking of adding stuff to yogurt, plain yogurt with a little make syrup is fabulous.
Yes.
If it’s a minor component of something like a sauce I’ll eat it because essentially I can’t taste it, but by itself it’s absolutely revolting to me. From my viewpoint it’s decayed milk.
In 2005 after a week of literally no food, when I was starting to go into genuine starvation mode and a lot of things I normally don’t like tasted wonderful my GI doc encouraged me to give yogurt another try. I got down a spoon and a half before I started to retch. In other words, even when I am starving I can’t stand yogurt. The doc said fine, not everyone likes yogurt, here, we have probiotics in pill form for folks like you.
Yogurt is not essential for health. If you like it good for you - you can have my share, too. Fact is billions of people have lived healthy lives without eating yogurt, or any dairy product past their mama’s breast milk. There’s nothing in it you can’t get from somewhere else.
Maple syrup, not make syrup. 
Hey, I approve of not eating foods you hate. I’ll happily take your share of yogurt.
Nothing. There are things I avoid for health reasons, but I don’t eat anything that I have to force myself to eat.
Maltodextrin is a mixture of starch and glucose, obtained by partial hydrolysis of starch (starches are glucose polymers). Be careful with it.
Put me in the “I ain’t eating anything I don’t like” category. No one food is so healthy that one has to eat it.
Nothing. I like pretty much everything, and do not consider the health aspects of the food I eat.
Non-food: Water. I drink a ton of water every day to decrease the damage to my gout situation caused by my beer drinking.
Protip: V8 tastes better if you add a splash of Tabasco, a little Worcester, and a shot of vodka.
Green salads in general. Once in awhile I’ll have a chef salad, which at least has something besides greens in it, but I generally avoid all of them.
Eh, the stuff doesn’t really change my dislike of the yogurt overly much. I would usually rather just eat the stuff, not in the yogurt, so that brings me back to square one.
When I do eat yogurt, it’s usually in situations like at work, where the choices provided to me are yogurt or a doughnut. I try not to eat a doughnut every day, so yogurt it is. If I was actually going out to purchase ingredients to prepare something I like, I’d prepare something I like more than yogurt.
Yogurt tastes like sour cream that’s a few weeks past the sell-by. I have tried it many ways. With stuff, without stuff. Sweet and plain as a sour cream replacement. Even the frozen yogurt has that sour aftertaste. Both my daughters love it and eat it every day, any flavor, any brand. Especially if it’s got stuff in it. Maybe it’s like cilantro and beer.
Interesting to hear from another person with adult onset type I in their family. I have discovered the only way I can eat sugar is when it is balanced with plenty of protein and fat, like you it has to be on a full stomach. I absolutely cannot handle lots of carbs in the morning. Breakfast has to have plenty of protein and fat. My doctor has been on top of my blood sugar and A1C, my blood sugar has been low at times but the A1C is still ok.
With regards to the genetics, it seems that somewhere in their 40’s or so several of my relatives have developed insulin dependent diabetes. Sometimes it is set off by a trauma, but the vast majority of those that develop it also have alcohol abuse issues. I joke with my doc that as long as I stay away from the booze, I should be ok. She still insists on doing blood tests.
I used to eat bran in some form or other for the same reason. Then I started using ground flaxseed meal. Bran can feel and taste like ground-up broom bristles, but flaxseed meal is way better-tasting. Not great-tasting, mind you, but way better than bran. It tastes like finely ground nuts.
I put it in cereal and into my homemade whole wheat pancakes. I’ll try your way and put some in yogurt, too.
As far as what I eat that I hate, nothing. I’m not wildly enthusiastic about salad, but that’s only because I ate salad every day for four or five years to keep weight off. It worked, but I sure got sick of salad.
In an effort to eat more vegetables, I eat lots of potatoes (McDonald’s fries in particular…dipped in mayonnaise). Granted, they don’t taste quite as good as my butter-fried bacon & egg-yolk fricassee, but I take my health seriously—pulmonary emboli be damned!