this list is getting longer.
Yogurt- quality changed and with a milk sensitivity well it just did not set well.
Bagels - too heavy
English muffins - too heavy
Juices - too expensive and I would rather eat a piece of fruit. I do buy apple juice in small serving containers for making cooked cereal and quinoa
Cranberry juice- not the same flavor as the 60s
Orange juice - oh how it quenches thirst- but too acidic
Soy Protein powder - wow this stuff got expensive So I went back to eating bread and just a little more at meals. It sure as hell was not making me more muscular!
Apples - why are they so hard and tasteless or taste green.
Grape Nut cereal - wow I depended upon this as an additive to all meals to make it more hearty or thicken a soup or stew. But around Christmas time it was to be found no where. So now I depend upon Kashi's Harvest wheat biscuits.
Acorn squash - what is with this vegetable to all of a sudden be full of "fish bones"- hard sinewy strings all through it. screw that. I will stick with buttercup, butter nut or if I can ever find it Hubbard squash
Catsup - egads I put it on everything! but too acid.
Raisins - yikes I used to love them - now they are like hard stones and difficult to chew
Dried apricots - same issue- tough as shoe leather. no more! Dates are almost making the list we will see with this bunch.
well the dried dates have made the list. Should I blame covid?
Dates - so tough even soaking them they are hard to cut up.
Bananas - ugh last week all the selections were too green but I was "off" buying bagged small oranges because so many were soggy and tasteless. Maybe I will switch to banana chips.
V-8 juice - stopped buying this. Was my own fault. I loved it so much I drank it at lunch and added it to my cooked supper. Too much acid. Also eek I see the ingredients now are not that friendly. ha ha
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Well the dates have been forgiven and are back off the list. Made this for lunch today. They were a bit tough to cut up but run under hot water they softened.
2 tablespoons of red quinoa, 1 carrot cut up, 3 dates cut up, 2 tablespoons of Grape Nuts to thicken, Smart Balance and a sprinkle of Mrs Dash. Liquid was one cup of mint tea left over from taking supplements in the morning.
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DATES- back on the list.
Mini chocolate chips or any size- an unnecessary extravagance . I have my Dark Chocolate kisses. That should suffice as a treat.
Asparagus- and not for the normal reason of smelly pee. This last batch when I cut off the ends it took a lot of cutting before I got to the tender part. Actually the very tips were the only satisfying part. the stem part was tough on the outside and inside a strangle worthy mass of slimy fiber.
Turnips- any size shape or form. I love the flavor of the large orange turnips- referred to many times as rutabagas
ah a definition that makes sense now.
"Although they are both members of the brassica family, the rutabaga is believed to be a hybrid of a turnip and a cabbage; whereas a turnip is, well, just a turnip. ... Flavour-wise, rutabagas are sweeter than turnips, which have a sharper flavour."
Reason for dropping them from my diet- too hard to cut the rutabagas and the smaller purple ones taste like a radish. Both are wicked gassy.
Dried beans- oh how I love black beans, red kidney beans, black eye peas, navy beans, small white beans, dried ford hook lima beans. All of them. But as it turns out it is either me or the beans grown these days have very thick tough skins and are wicked gassy- almost painfully so. So that leaves me with garbanzo ( chick peas), lentils and green split peas. Which is fine. Those 3 are enough variety. add chickpeas to the list-too heavy.
Green Giant No Sauce Green Peas- oh how I loved these. I was forced to buy them when the store did not have Bird's Eye peas in bags for a very long time in 2020. So I bought these and break open the package and loosen them and store in another zip bag. They tasted just like a fresh pea from your own garden. Sadly when I went to open the last package I noticed it said "Profuct of USA & Mexico" I am keeping that typo. :)
Red Beets - Just spent over an hour preparing and cooking a 1 lb beet. It looked so good. But took forever to soften enough to cut in half and shorten the cooking time. I tried to eat a slice and it is impossible to chew :'( to the compost pile it goes. It was like biting into a poker chip
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Any squashes after January- I swear the last butternut squash was 100 years old. The seeds were not black but they were dark grey. And the cooked flesh that was from the seed area was so tough and sinewy I almost choked on it.
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Here is the asparagus that was so tough- I see it was "gourmet" and grown in Mexico
then the turnip
now imagine this for lunch. That asparagus, beets and that turnip.
ha ha ha
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That cooking LOL and not the one pound beet.
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found a bunch of very small beets and cooked those- delicious! So just no big one pounders.
well fuck it!
even small beets are on this list now
Small red beets- I got brave and bought a bunch of organic ones that were small and boiled them.They were hard then all of a sudden mushy. They were tasty but not worth the time and trouble. I MAY try the orange organic ones again some day.
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April 29
lunch prepared with the beets and quinoa it was delish!
May 31
YOGURT-Giving yogurt another chance. Just wish they would NOT make them so sweet. Cannot Activia make a plain yogurt that is NOT Greek. I hate thick yogurt and it hates me. So will come back here after I finish the 4 small ones I bought.
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June 10
KALE - any shape or form. I like the taste and texture but it clings to my teeth mouth forever.
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June 12
Pepino melon- Never bought one before- it is slow to ripen as a fruit so I will likely roast it like they say you can. It is pretty.
Strawberries-
I was hankering for some . Apparently I had forgetten two things- one they are usually too fucking tart and they usually make me feel funny and forearms bumpy so. Read on google that wild animals love them. Well even the wild animals did not like these. Berries do not ripen after being picked
June 14
next day they were relegated to the compost pile.
and to stop buying grape or cherry tomatoes. on rotten moldy one in this batch. When I hunger for them I am better off buying a larger vine ripened one and skinning it.
Swirl 100% whole wheat-
very tasty and I am glad they had it since they were out of regular 100% whole wheat bread in the Pepperidge section BUT it is chewy and tough. Hope they have the regular back this week.
picky picky I know.
Greek yogurt
I keep going back & forth on this one. It is too thick and too rich and fills me up. Got the Fage ones that are no lactose and plain. so that is good. Maybe I will eat them once a month
Thought the pattern in the yogurt was like boobs
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They did not have my bread had to buy the extra thin sliced version ho hum.
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Preparing a pepino melon. Big reason to not buy and found that they are almost 4 bucks a piece!
tastes like a Bartlett pear. not as soft, but same subtle flavor.
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July 11
Kettle Corn
would I ever buy or eat it ? no but seeing the craft fair open again and that stand- well...
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August 2
Raw Onions - bought one on Saturday a nice solid white onion. I have been using powdered onion for years as onions seem to always be rotten or black in the seams inside. First night I sliced it thinly and had it with broccoli and soba noodles. I sauteed it well before. Just so so on flavor it was tangy but at the same time a weird bitter after taste and oh the farts!
Next day I chopped it up and cooked it with my vegetables and that same weird after taste. So it went in the trash this morning.
Coffee Dannon Yogurt- had a hankering for it and went online looking for where they sell it as I haven't seen it in stores for a very long time. It was in Star market! had half on Sunday and the other half Monday. tastes off at first not a true coffee flavor a little better the second day. But now I know to stick with Activia.
August 2 2021
CANNED ANYTHING ESPECIALLY LeSUEUR PEAS.
I hope birds and raccoons like canned LeSueur peas. They had no frozen peas again. I know poor me tough titty and all that. But hey I love peas. So bought a small ( not small enough) can and was ready to open it for part of tonight's supper. Only can opener in the drawer I could find was a new one I really was unaware I owned! I tried to open the can the conventional way then thought oh I bet this is the kind that slices through the side. well that was a just this side of impossible for my hands. but it squirted pea juice everywhere and the lid finally came off. The peas smell just like I remembered.. ugh but I am hungry. BUT the deal breaker is the edge is jagged and as with all canned goods I wondered is there were shards of metal in there to slice my insides into ribbons. so no peas. Last thing I bought in a can was tomato paste.
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August 4
Sweet potato fries
I was hankering for roasted sweet potatoes but did not want to mess up the inside of the oven OR use the new toaster oven and splatter that either. So when food shopping on Saturday since they didn't have peas I was wandering in the frozen section and saw Alexia Crinkle Cut sweet potato fires with sea salt and black pepper. On thew bag it says 7 servings- 12 fries each serving. I am counting! LOL 425 oven for 20 minutes and they were so so. a tad burnt on some ends but that's okay. They just were not "fresh" tasting like if I roasted a sweet myself. I will finish the bag- it may take a while though. Very filling.
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I love Yukon Gold potatoes but they do make me feel like my bones ache- like asparagus and some other foods. But I roasted these and used them in the 4 servings of lentils I froze. Glad that is gone because it was too fucking hot
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September
yeah back to the tomatoes. I wanted ONE and there were none that were decent in Orleans.. So went to Harwich Star and the only appealing looking ones were organic and 4 in a package.. I peeled one and ate that raw and the other 3 I peeled and roasted. They were so tough!
so no more
KALE- no more kale- the purple was tasty but tough and hard to chew.
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RADISHES- egads. they were so tough I ended up cooking them each night and then the farts wow. so no more radishes. This was the first time it was a relatively small bunch but still.
Commercially made cookies- just too sweet. Thank goodness the weather is cooler but I need more space in the freezer to store something I make. And need that room for a lentil soup I hope to make soon as well.
English or regular cucumbers- egads they were out of the mini cucumbers I like and had to buy an English one. Granted there are less seeds but they are tough! I did find a recipe to saute them, that was tasty but too much work here it is
October
Concord Grape Juice
Although it was a great idea in the heat of the Summer and cooled me off and quenched my thirst- after that it is awful. I mean really awful. So I hope I remember this and do not make frozen cups of Concord Grape juice again. It also expands more than normally and makes a mess in the freezer. so there is that. ha ha
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October 22
going to buy some Swiss Chard tomorrow we will see if that is a satisfactory replacement for spinach & kale LOL
AND please stop buying apple juice. It makes my quinoa NOT cook!
grrrr.
Swiss chard was awful- turns into a mass in my mouth almost choke worthy. grrr.
APPLES- oh please stop buying apples. I know the aroma in the aisle is tempting but they are so tough. Bought a Mac a week ago and this morning sliced it thinly in the hopes of roasting the slices in 250 oven to make chips like I used to. These stuck to the parchment paper and would NOT crisp up.. I took pix but will add later.
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Dara gave me some macoun apples and they were great! None when I shopped. so for 2 weeks I have been buying McIntosh until those suck. No more hard apples though.
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December
Shallots. thought I would give them a try it has been decades since I used them now I know why- hard to peel and too fucking HOT!
Activia yogurts. the dates have been too close and when they do not have vanilla it is fruit. Not a fan of fruit in my yogurt. so for the time being I am buying 2 Dannon coffee yogurts and 2 Yoplait French vanilla. I eat half of a container each day
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