Chocolate fountains maybe?

In truth, I try not to avoid anything. Poor willpower, I guess :(

White rice..... chocolate fountain.... could we make a chocolate rice pudding??? And serve it with a really good garlic bread as a dipper? I'm in!! LOL!!!

There is no food that I love that I avoid. The only food I avoid is due to health issues, otherwise, I eat whatever I want.

I have two triggers. Potato chips and sour cream. I went an entire year without allowing potato chips into the house. One day DH brought home a family sized bag because it was on sale. I ate the entire thing that night. I wanted to strangle him. I just have no willpower. He'll do the same thing with sour cream. Another can't resist for me. I think he does it just to get on my last nerve.

If that's the case, he wins.

I very rarely eat fried foods.... and I totally avoid coconut, cause I am allergic to it.

I should avoid garlic as it makes my stomach hurt,but I just can't do it. I HATE all fish/seafood,so I avoid it. I do try to stick to a low carb diet most of the time,though it doesn't always stick to me.......

Wheat. I love it but it causes my skin to break out. If you know anyone who suffers with acne, they might try avoiding wheat and excessive refined sugar as a solution. I can never completely avoid it, but if I did, I know my skin would be much better.

Cabbage in any form. Especially in sauerkraut.

I steer myself away from the nacho chips and salt and vinegar chips bc I love them but I know they are unhealthy. I have tried to make salt and vinegar potatoes but they're just not the same. I have bought healthy chips. Yuck. They are waiting in my freezer to feed birds this winter.

I hear that leftover chilled and reheated potatoes and rice are much easier on blood sugar and other carb issues people may have.

The fried chicken under the dome at the grocery store, the extra crispy kind. It should be super fresh; you must check to see when they put it out there. And it is at the beginning of the aisles so I don't put in in the cart, and then forget about it. And if there are only a few you know they are spoiling, but I crave it, just don't buy it. I buy fresh healthy chicken and make it myself. Don't deep fry it, but it's good enough.

Foods I avoid:

1. Watermelon. I was about 5 yr old when I got very ill after eating 1/2 of a small watermelon. I do not know if it was contamination from something in the field dirt, or the melon itself. Whatever the cause, after that for many years, I could not tolerate watermelon. As an adult, I am able to eat a little. I can eat more of muskmelon, but i do limit myself and it is not enjoyable to me.

2. Grapefruit: Yum, I do like but should not have any. It reacts with the release rate of one of my meds making it off limit. Bummer - I like grapefruit.

Meat of any kind. Processed foods.

The list is getting longer and longer, due to my GERD. Having a test on Fri - hope they come up with something as meds no longer are working.

Pork. I like the taste but it makes me deathly ill. I have a sensitivity to the homones/steroids/antibiotics etc. that are given to pigs.

Processed meats like hot dogs, sausages. I do love bacon however and will eat a couple of slices now and then. We don’t eat much pork in general. And limit carbs to a few times a week.

Almost anything starchy, including starchy vegetables. I am supposed to limit my carbohydrate consumption because of my diabetes. Also I avoid anything breaded and/or fried. I must admit I have cheated a couple times this week and last week, but cheating for me involves more than one granola bar.

I love potato chips but haven't eaten them in three months because I am low-carb dieting. Foods I would never eat: Fish, shellfish, liver, hummus.

You have asked two questions.....in title, foods you avoid.....and....foods you love but avoid. For me the list would be entirely different for each.

Right now, cookies. This weekend I made oatmeal cookies and I was home alone. I ate about 10 of them. When I talked to my husband on the phone I told him I felt punky and thought I was getting sick. Then I remembered all the cookies I ate. Arghh!

I don't avoid any food that I really like, although, I don't eat a lot of sweets because it makes me feel bad. I don't drink milk because I don't think it is good for you and it makes me gag to try. The last time I drank milk was 55 years ago, when I was 16 and drank a glass of warm milk to please my sister-in-law. I do cook with it and butter and cream, but drink it....no. I will add cheese to a recipe that calls for it but I seldom eat it on a sandwich. I seldom eat bread and I never eat cereal. Don't drink coffee or beer. But if I like something, I eat a lot of it.

Coconut and cilantro are two tastes I dislike tremendously.

And I am not fond of organ meat.

The only foods I avoid are those I do not like. Such as shell fish, shrimp, Avocado, cilantro, olive oil and a few more things. Other than that I eat what I want.

Sue

I don't love them....cheerios & potato chips. I think they smell. I avoid my DH if he's eating either. :0)

Interesting to read these comments. I cannot eat berries - except for blueberries - because the seeds get "stuck" in me and cause a lot of pain.

Also, since finishing chemo for breast cancer many years ago I have an aversion to any kind of smoke flavored food. My stomach clenches. Smoked sausage, ham, bacon, anything chipotle, smoked fish, smoked cheese, BBQ...I read menus and labels closely. My oncologist is puzzled why this is a problem for me so many years out (9) but the aversion persists.

For safety reasons I avoid some foods that have sat out too long at gatherings, especially the ones with mayo or the warm but not hot casseroles.

I should have added cilantro, too. I can't stand it. Other people love it. I think it smells like cat pee.

For my fellow cilantro dislikers, here is a piece from HuffPo on why science tells us we don't care for the herb:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/24/why-does-cilantro-taste-bad-like-soap_n_7653808.html

I love cilantro! I use it frequently - the more, the better. 3 things I absolutely won't eat under any circumstances: meat, bell peppers and raw tomatoes.

I avoid gluten, as I have a severe sensitivity to it. By choice, I avoid anything teriyaki flavored (it's gross), veal (it's sad), lamb (it's also sad), organ meats (gross), and bean sprouts (germs).

I don't drink milk (gross), or soda (poison in a bottle/can).

I hate cilantro raw, to me it tastes like a barnyard smells, a very "ripe" barnyard! But in cooked foods, it is okay.

I avoid hot dogs. A very long time ago, when I was about 10 YO, I loved them, and literally ate myself sick on them. (My mother never again told me I could eat as much as I wanted to of anything.) To this day I can tolerate them only if they are charred black on a stick over an outdoor fire.

Other than those two things, I only avoid foods for medical reasons. And even then, if it is something I really like, I will treat myself with a small amount occasionally.

Rusty

Two things. Instant mashed potatoes and PBJ. Both stem from being fed them as a child. Incessantly.

I try to avoid french fries.......but not very successfully :-) I am not big on chocolate and eat it rarely and I dislike okra and parsnips and the taste of both fresh cilantro and fresh basil. Otherwise, everything else is fair game - no allergies, no medical restrictions........just an unfortunately increasing waistline and a very broad palette of foods to choose from.

I agree the title and then the post was sorta confusing...are you asking what food do you love but try to avoid?

I'm a rather picky eater so there's too many to list. Usually I don't avoid foods that i probably should.

I won't eat fish and I hate the part of Sam's Club that has the sushi bar. I can't shop anywhere near it. Stinks so bad. I avoid buying M&Ms because I can't resist them.