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

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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).

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.

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

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

I've just today tried kefir. It tastes exactly the same as my home made yogurt!

Tomatoes. As a child i never liked them. But as i got older i tried tinned ones and liked those. Then i graduated to cooked fresh ones and i still to this day cook them, leave them to go cold and eat them with salads.Yesterday for the first time ever i ate three cherry tomatoes.I disguised them with salad cream but i ate them. I hope to go on to larger ones this summer as i grow them every year in the greenhouse.

Asparagus, lettuce, green beans - not very adventurous am I?

NonnaW
If you liked the raw oysters try cooking them. Make a tempura batter and deep fry.
Another favourite of ours is Octopus stew. Cooked very very slowly, delicious.

There is such a huge increase in foods available these days - but these days I really like

- the huge variety of grains - quinoa, bulgur, giant cous cous

- Japanese food like sushi and yakiniku

- Thai food

- different types of pickled herring (after moving to Scandinavia)

Well I tried chickpeas a couple of days ago. I spent all of yesterday in the loo. Won’t be doing that again?

Lots of things that were not available when I was a child. I’ll try most things. The main thing I eat now that I hated as a child are salad items , lettuce, radish, cucumber etc.

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Please help I am beginning to feel stupid. I am having difficulty with all these initials for words. It takes me longer to work out what some of them mean than it would for me to read the actual words. I always thought I was fairly good at the English language.

my diet has become much more limited as I've got older .I became vegetarian in my early 30's and didn't eat any meat until I hit 50 ,then I found most meats difficult to digest so have very small amounts but only rarely.Never eat fowl ..never have ..of any kind .Dont eat goats cheese and only limited cheese maybe once every couple of weeks.Little dairy though I do make an effort as my late mum avoided it for weight reasons all her life and had crippling osteoporosis in later years .I find my diet is quite limited now through choice though it has not made a difference to my weight though I'm doing the 16/8 diet plan .I'm losing very little very slowly ,I do need to lose weight because of a herniated disc.All advice welcomed

There are lots of foods I DON'T like... offal, rabbit, any pork products (pork pie, ham, pork, bacon), shellfish, lamb, avocado, olives, Feta cheese, burgers, sausages, margarines, chips, liquorice.

G&T - discovered it about 12 months ago!

I’ve boiled many an egg for husbands 1 and 2 and 2 sons but just never eaten them! When I was a very little girl (about 3) I was at an ‘auntie’s’ as we always called our parent’s friends and was offered a fried egg. I politely refused saying ‘no thank you, I don’t like eggs flat on a plate’ and since then fried eggs have always been known as ‘eggs flat on a plate’

At the age of 61, you've never had a boiled egg?! What a sheltered life! I'm 59 and I've tried most foods, but I recently ate Kangeroo steak for the first time. Not bad, but I prefer beef.