Food cravings in later life

Cravings would be overstating the case for me. I get 'fads'. When I particularly enjoy something, I have it until the phase wears off. Don't see anything strange or wrong with that. A kind of self indulgence I guess. And.... why not?

Guava Halva - could eat it all day everyday - as a matter of fact, I did, one week last month, and paid the price.

I wish it was things like carrots that I crave. Unfortunately it's chocolate.

AGAA4

I wish it was things like carrots that I crave. Unfortunately it's chocolate.

Same here AGAA4 I did manage to give it up for a while but its crept back to get me.

Mine is cauliflower cheese, cannot get enough.
I also love salad sandwiches this time of year, no meat/protein just lettuce, tomato, cucumber, beetroot with salad cream

I eat pickled veg sauerkraut gherkins beetroots onions usually late at night. Whole lemons and limes not good for my teeth I know!
I think it's just my body craving certain vitamins or minerals.

Bread and butter, or buttered toast - with plenty of salted butter.
Now and then I get a craving for something sweet so I’ll add jam, but it has to be blackcurrant - I find other jams just a bit
over sweet.

GrannyGravy13, dh and I love cauliflower cheese! It’s a regular in this house, often with just a baked potato for dinner.

Shame you can so rarely get a good version out, though. Not enough cheese in the sauce, or they’ve used a too-mild one - cauliflower overcooked and/or not drained properly, so it makes the dish all watery, etc…..

Crisps!! Plain heavily salted crisps - the Co-ops own hand cooked ones and I add extra salt.

i have been craving pickled red cabbage, pickled onions and bananas (not at the same time..lol) i was on water tablets and they had reduced my potassium and salt levels to a level that was making me ill, my doctor said that was why i was craving those items, she also did say that sometimes when the body needs something it comes as a craving.

Celery and grapefruit juice, buttered toast and . . . Ritter’s rum and raisin chocolate. Thank heavens it only comes in small bars.

I crave Jersey Royals at the moment.

It's always been crisps. Although I don't indulge that often.

A tiny bit of sea salt, I've learned of late, sprinkled on certain things like really tiny tasty tomatoes, plus a drizzle of chilli oil is my go to for staving off hunger pangs until dinner these days, I figure the tomatoes are quite a healthy food, but I guess the salt cancels any benefits out. I'm sparing with it though.

I also love crisps, so salty, so bad, so moreish though!

Im glad you started this thread because for years I have chosen savoury over sweet, then in the last couple of years the reverse has happened! It hasn't been suddenly, just a gradual thing. Weird, but there you go !

AGAA4

I wish it was things like carrots that I crave. Unfortunately it's chocolate.

But don't you think thatchocolate cravings come on with cold weather? I crave it in winter but can't bear the sight of it in the summer.

By the way, did you know that Ferrero remove all their chocolate from the shops in the summer and announce its return in September?

Is the Ferrero thing something to do with their Easter Egg thing, where there was the risk of salmonella? Still waiting for my refund.

My 5 month puppy has a definite craving for gravel and loo paper at the moment - if anyone knows what nutrients would fix this, please share!

Snap Witzend I love blackcurrant jam as well, I had some on Saturday, DH hates it. Crisps for me as well GagaJo, usually ready salted, preferably crinkled and only on a Saturday which is my treat day.

valdali

My 5 month puppy has a definite craving for gravel and loo paper at the moment - if anyone knows what nutrients would fix this, please share!

Ours had, and still has a craving for the slate chips from the garden and toilet roll. I don’t know if it’s lack of nutrients, though a pet health video I watched said that if your dog chews grass, it’s trying to tell you that it’s food is lacking something. (Turned out to be an advert for a dog food supplement @£50 for a smallish jar.)
Our pup also loves the lettuce, tomato, bean sprouts and cucumber I put out for the tortoise, so now we include that in an extra food bowl for her, and give her carrots to chew on. One toilet roll solution is to put it on increasingly higher shelves as our pup’s jumping ability increases.

Mollygo, our dog adored raw carrots! She was equally keen on hard crunchy other veg, e.g. the stalk base of a cauliflower.
Even when she was very old her teeth were still good. Mind you she’d never been keen on dog biscuits, which probably had something to do with it.