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What foods have you only started to eat in later life?

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Sazz1006 Thu 03-May-18 14:44:44

At the tender age of 61, I have started to eat beetroot for the first time in my life! I think I was put off by the vinegary stuff being put on our school dinner plates with mashed potatoes that stained the potatoes pink and have never eaten it until recently.
The other things I really would like to like and am revving myself up for trying are boiled or poached eggs. They look so tempting but I just can’t bring myself to eat egg white! I quite enjoy scrambled egg or the occasional omelette.
Anyone else liking a type of food for the first time?

petra Sun 06-May-18 21:46:11

SueDonim
Your right. I bought a stater kit and couldn't wait to taste this 'miraculous food'
Its yogurt

SueDonim Sun 06-May-18 23:32:35

I'm sensing the Emperor's new clothes here, Petra!

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Craicon Mon 07-May-18 15:25:13

Re: goats cheese. My friend keeps goats and makes her own soft goats cheese that is creamy and delicious. One thing she’s told me is that the strong ‘goaty’ flavoured goats cheese is due to the male goats being allowed to mix with the female goats and their odour permeates they milk.
My friend only keeps the female goats and so borrows the males from other farmers just for breeding. They don’t stay out in the fields with the ladies.
I used to buy Rosary goats cheese in Waitrose when in the UK as this is similar to my friend’s goat cheese and has a slight fresh lemony tang to it.

Blondiescot Mon 07-May-18 20:43:22

Liver! I loathed it with a passion as a child - my mother used to try to force me to eat it and I avoided it like the plague for years until we went on holiday to Turkey and I was persuaded to try some there. I loved it - the way they cook it is so different - and now I even do it that way sometimes at home (when I can find really fresh lambs' liver, not an easy task now that there are so few "proper" butchers around now).

Jalima1108 Mon 07-May-18 20:55:40

I ate liver when I was a child and when a young adult - but I cannot eat it now.

SueDonim Mon 07-May-18 21:46:45

I tried fresh turmeric root this weekend. I have to say, it didn't have the flavour of dried turmeric but maybe I didn't use enough.

I do have indelibly yellow-stained finger nails, though, from preparing it without wearing gloves. Good thing I'm going to get my nails painted on Wednesday! grin

icanhandthemback Mon 07-May-18 22:43:47

I've just started enjoying ginger as long as it's not too strong. I am finding that I am not enjoying mushrooms as much as I used to, nor tomatoes.

Lovetopaint037 Tue 08-May-18 08:03:53

Swiss chard from M &S. dark green leaves and coloured stalks. Really lovely.

annodomini Tue 08-May-18 08:39:37

I've always disliked beetroot, but recently I had some in a salad with goats cheese and thought it was a perfect partnership. However, I still can't face the pickled variety.