Changing food dates as you get older

Ive gone off chicken big time. Most meats too but love cheese more than I used too.

I used to enjoy a bacon sarnie, but not these days.
I tried changing from smoked to unsmoked, but still didn't enjoy it.

mrsba what a strange lot we are .I never drank tea, coffee yes, until in my fifties when following gyno surgery and later back in the ward was offered a cup of tea.Still my favourite brew.

I eat the same huge amounts as always and I get very hungry about three to four hourly. I don't eat meat, eggs, dairy or fish, just loads of vegan food and lots of desserts (still have a sweet tooth). I haven't noticed any changes - yet.

My tastes have changed a lot as I've got older, I used to dislike smoked bacon, now I prefer it to unsmoked. I never ate ginger or ginger biscuits /chocolates now I love them. I used to love a bar of cadbury milk chocolate but now it seems to give me a headache so only eat wee bits to satisfy a craving then leave it alone.
I also get cravings for my favourite childhood foods and so now and again I'll indulge and have something like fish fingers with spaghetti hoops & either crinkle cut chips or potato waffles, followed by strawberry jelly and vanilla ice cream or jam tart and custard. Daft as it sounds it still gives me that happy feeling that I used to get as a wee girl when this was on the menu for Friday tea so why not!

My tastes have changed and portion sizes too,an example being i have one sausage,one egg and five chips,i should not be a size 12.
And that`s been since going through the menopause.

Gosh, I eat everything and probably too much of it! Don’t snack much though so all eaten at mealtimes when I’m hungry. Still think eating good food is one of life’s greatest pleasures - not the only one of course!

Chocolate. Used to love it. Indifferent to it now.

Like amalegra I used to eat typical English food when I was younger e.g. pies, fish and chips, etc.

I rarely eat food like this nowadays and prefer rice and pasta based dishes.

I cook from scratch and never had a sweet tooth. I do like good food though.

Based on what I eat I should be a lot slimmer than I am I think our portion sizes are too big. Hopefully, as I get older my appetite will decrease as other have said previously

I'm still waiting! I eat everything I did, in my usual portion sizes and am constantly hungry, and looking at the clock to see how long to go before meal time. My husband hasn't really changed his eating habits either although on reflection he may be eating slightly less of the good veg, which is a shame.

No longer eat red meat..

Portion size smaller.
This gradually decreased after DH retired.
We always ate large evening meal, after having been out all day.
DH worked 12 hour days and had usually eaten packed lunch by 11am.
So by late evening was starving!

Now we eat much smaller meals at an earlier time (nursery tea).
An evening meal may for example consist of a baked potato with tuna and salad, rather than a heavier meal of potatoes, meat and veg etc.

The earlier time helps with my 18 /6 hr fast.

I can't stand tea now. I had my last cup the night before my hysterectomy 12 years ago and was offered one after my op. I found I couldn't bear the smell. Funny what hormones do!

Tastes absolutely can change with aging. The senses of taste and smell decrease with age. Medications, living alone, and changes to metabolism can also affect eating patterns.

I like simpler fare these days, things which don't require too much preparation. Our family used to eat Christmas cake/pudding, mince pies, roasts and the like. I can't remember the last time I made pastry. I loved cooking when I was younger but since DH passed away after being unable to eat normally during his illness I've totally gone off it.

I make simple things and eat just two meals each day but sadly haven't lost very much menopausal weight.

In the last couple of years there have been quite a few things I used to like that I no longer like. I was never a big fan of smoked things but liked smoked salmon or haddock but no longer. I have gone off ham, pork and duck. I like beef but find it very heavy. I cannot tolerate spices - they make my mouth burn. I have never eaten a lot of processed food but really dislike it now. My appetite has also decreased.

Strange isn’t it. I can no longer eat big meals, and don’t really enjoy meat anymore could quite happily live on veg, fruit and salad plus carbs of course. My mum always says to me don’t worry about your weight when you get older you’ll be slim like me.I have lost a stone over the past year without trying, although I’ve still two to go yet.

I have found over the last 2 years, I've lost all sense of taste and smell. All food is tasteless so I need to have some texture. I used to love cooking and baking but not now. It has become a chore. It's nothing to do with Covid. It's more the effect of age and prolonged inhalers used to control Asthma. It has seemed worse since my type 2 diabetes was cured and I can eat things I didn't eat for years. I don't enjoy food at all now.

I’m like you grandtante. I find I can’t eat any dairy, fruit, cucumber, very little bread, pulses or sugar. I’m aware that I come across as a very picky eater and I’d love to eat many of the things that disagree with me but it’s not worth the pain and inconvenience that comes later.

I've found that I'm reverting to the sort of foods I liked as a child.

No, my tastes haven't changed but things like cucumber and wholemeal bread give me hurtburn, and other things like onions upset my stomach unless they are very well fried or parboiled before frying.

So there are things I used to love that I no longer eat, or don't eat very often.

Interesting! I ate many foods for years out of habit, I think, as my mother chose the family meals, the rest of the family loved her choices so I went along with that! As I grew older I realised that many of these staples were/are not to my taste. Take chips. My family loved them and we ate a great deal of them, although they were proper home made ones. Pork pies, pancakes, battered cod, broad beans, butter beans, pizza, eggs (apart from scrambled!), sausages, the list goes on. I dutifully ate them then but later realised I didn’t really want to eat them anymore so I don’t. (My worst nightmare is raspberries and NO ONE ever could force me to eat them!) My parents, both gone now, thought my tastes odd as does my sister. She and her family have more refined tastes now and are in fact real ‘foodies’ whilst I plough along on a more limited but reasonably enjoyable diet. I have come to the conclusion that I am a ‘eat to live type’ rather than a ‘live to eat’ person!

I'm definitely eating smaller portions. Just because l can't eat big meals anymore. If l eat out can't do 3 courses, and sometimes l just have a main. I think savoury food is what l like to eat now, rather than sweet. Can't even eat my beloved chocolate so much anymore

I don't like being faced with a plate of food, much prefer the tapas or meze approach to food when I can have little bits of different things, luckily our lovely local pub is quite happy for DH and I to share three or four starters, rather than have a main course each, it is a lovely way to eat. Not that easy to sort out just for two at home though! I have gone right off desserts, chiefly because they are nearly always disappointing, the reality is never as good as the description, but I do enjoy a good chunk or two of Aldi fruit and nut chocolate when I crave something sweet.

Yes I've found that my appetite decreased, food i use to love no longer enjoy. I use to live to eat now I eat to live! Still at least I've lost weight so that's a bonus lol

me, like similar thread about ageing since the pandemic,, I have just gone off food... and I have always had a healthy appetite. always told dh that if I lose my appetite, I am really ill.. so I pick at this and don`t enjoy food,,, so not losing weight, unfortunately.