Re: -Re: Martha eating - was New poll for CHARGE

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I'm back. I asked Di if she ever met a food she didn't like. hehe. (and she

didn't

even throw anything at me)

Eating as an intramural sport interests her. lol.

Seriously, eating is a part of her schedule-so it's important for that

reason.

It's something to do-an activity-so it's important for that.

The past couple of years she's taken up cooking, watches the food channel,

gets Ray's bi-monthly mag, analyzes recipes, and at school she had

to find a recipe, prepare a shopping list, buy the ingredients, and prepare

her dinner twice weekly.

So, she enjoys it for many reasons.

She's very brave about trying new things. She had steamers the other night.

I asked her if shrimp, lobster and clams taste different to her. They don't

seem

to. She perceives them all as sweet.

She can tell the difference between steak or roast beef and pork, and pork or

chicken. She perceived pork as fatty on her tongue-there's no fat on the

pork here.

We use lots of different sauces and dips for flavor, and she prefers that to

plain.

She likes different vegies-again most seem sweet to her.

She can eat a lemon straight-only some will make her pucker.

She is aware if things are too spicy. She does have acid reflux

occasionally.

She was on previcid (or the other one) for 6 months 2 years ago. It gave her

headaches,

which we didn't connect till she stopped taking it, and so did the

headaches.

She said eating something too spicy makes her feel as if her throat is

constricting,

and she knows right away it's apt to bother her stomach.

She can tell the taste difference between vanilla yoguart and cottage cheese.

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Textures don't faze her any more. When younger, she found meat tedious to

chew,

but burgers were great.

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She described seafood as fresh and watery, vegetables as fresh tasting.

She'll add tumeric to soup and stew, but can't taste it. I don't know as

that's

described as bitter or pungent. She feels it gives it more body, but it

doesn't.

So, that may be a taste perceived as a texture.

That was how she described most everything-she couldn't give much

description for the

tastes-but could describe the textures.

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She does like spicy-picked out a spicy guacamole (thought of you) and a

black bean dip at the store,

and likes jalapeno poppers. (Makes one wonder just when the reflux kicks in)

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Loves garlic, onions, orange and yellow peppers (the 4.00 a lb. not the

2.00-boring green

peppers, all salads.

Does NOT salt things up.

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So, really the things she doesn't like are those she associates with some

problem

she had. (pepparoni and reflux, corn and choking-but she got over that.)

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LOVES pasta, but is willingly trading it in for Mom " s " let's get healthy "

campaign.

It's macintosh only cuz she can chew that skin. Peaches, pears, plums too

juicy.

Berries are good.

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Di said she feels she probably doesn't taste things fully, and expects that,

knowing that

smell adds to flavor.

As a baby, she had a wonderful nurse, and maybe Di reached the 1st time for

the syringe

as if it were a bottle, or maybe the nurse put it to her mouth. (Di was

sitting by then.)

So, it was a game, made people smile and rave, and it was always an option

for her

if she wanted to put it in her mouth. This nurse was so in love with Di

that when her

hubby decided they should move to Texas, she REALLY almost didn't go.

Of course we loved her (the rn) too, but it was hard sometimes sharing that

much of my baby girl.

But we had a grand time. She was an angel.

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I wonder if in all this, I've answered your query. ;-)

in Ma.

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