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can you lose the taste for processed food?
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i just got my girl scout cookies and i ate 2 of the Carmel Delights (which were always my favorites!) But they tasted weird and chemically to me. I scanned the ingrediants in the boxes and the Thin Mints and the Shortbreads appear to have less ingrediants, so maybe they will still taste good to me??? Carmel Delights have HFC... 
Re: can you lose the taste for processed food?
Oh for sure! I grew up super healthy, then ate much more 'normal' when I was married, and now have gotten back to eating really healthy, and I just don't like processed stuff. People think I'm crazy for not liking GS cookies, but they're really fakey tasting to me. I'd rather have homemade.
I had a Samoa last night at a friends and it was okay, but not great, and a little fake tasting (don't know a better way to say that!). And then we read the ingredients...yikes!
And they have palm oil.
I was just thinking about this. Our GS cookies just came in and I was thinking that I shouldn't read the ingredients. My family already thinks I'm "fanatical" (it's true so I don't know why I should care), and I didn't feel like dealing with the fallout if we didn't order any from my niece.
Anywho....I definitely think you can lose the taste for it. I don't really eat processed food and I haven't had fast food in over a year. I drive by the golden arches and have zero desire for anything. Except maybe coffee once in a blue moon.
The girl scouts got me with their cuteness at the grocery store last night too. I used to be a girl scout, so I feel obligated to buy the cookies, even though I know how much awful stuff is in them (DH is eating them for me).
I definitely think I've lost the taste for processed food, and I also now often feel sick afterwards if I eat processed junk. If I want sweets, I make it myself.
Yes. I've eaten GS cookies, but never actually ordered any, and I'm reminded of why each time I look at the ingredients. No, thanks!
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We just got ours. We ended up with a total of 6 boxes because of all the girl scouts in our neighborhood. I'm going to pack them up and ship them to my deployed friend because otherwise I'd try to kid myself about them and would end up eating 1/2 of them
I try to remember Michael Pollan's food rule any time I'm tempted by crap:
Eat as much junk food as you want, as long as you make it yourself.
I never thought I'd loose my taste for processed food, but it's going. Slowly but surely.
I want to still love GS cookies, but they're just not that tasty anymore. I really wish they would green them up, you'd think there would be more of a backlash against all the HFCS and hydrogenated oils in them. With as much as they charge, they should be able to find some better ingredients.
I guess i'm the lucky one! I don't really have any young relatives (at least none in this state), we're the youngest ones on my block--heck, we're the youngest in our neighborhood, and most of my co-workers have boys! Oh, and I generally food shop afterwork on Monday nights so I miss them at the grocery store too. No temptations for me.
But yes, I totally think you can lose the taste. I made some very fake, out of a box pudding--I had a bunch of milk I wanted to use before it went bad--and 6 months ago DH and I would have been ALL OVER it. Now, we both agreed it just tasted...so....fake. Bleh. I'm glad we're starting to turn that corner, because we both had REALLY big sweet teeth (? or should it be toothes?).
Haha, I've been trying to remember that rule too!
Thin Mints, Do-Si-Dos, Trifoils (sp?), Samoas, etc all taste freakin' good to me too!!
After living abroad and eating healthier here, loads of things taste different now. Even things I used to love.
I prefer my own homemade junk foods
For former thin mint fans:
http://bakingbites.com/2005/10/thin-minties/
I haven't yet made these, but I've had them bookmarked for a while. Maybe it's time now that it's GS cookie season again.
ETA: She also links to her own recipes for a few other girl scout cookies.
I've never liked GS cookies, I don't think I've ever ordered them. To be honest, the little girls all screaming in unison "WOULD YOU LIKE TO BUY SOME GIRL SCOUT COOKIES?!?" creeps me out. But they've always tasted fake to me when my friends get them. If I need some sweets I either make candied walnuts (yummy!) or buy Green & Black organic chocolate. I just tried their milk chocolate with caramelized peanuts, OMG it's delicious.
DH and I have lost our taste for processed foods. When we bought snacks on a long roadtrip a few weeks ago, we were like "this stuff tastes terrible" and neither of us finished our Chex Mix and Cheese-Its, respectively. Bread is especially hard for us. After being spoiled by the farmer's market (the bread vendor doesn't come in the winter
) burger rolls from the grocery store taste like cardboard.
I also try to remember another of his Food Rules:
If it's a plant, eat it. If it was made in a plant, don't.
It's not like the GS are actually making those cookies, some plant run by a corporation does.
I agree that you can definitely lose your taste for processed foods. A few years ago I really got more into baking and started making everything from scratch.. and I can totally taste the difference between a homemade cake with frosting and a boxed cake with canned frosting. The box/canned cake tastes plasticy.
I had to buy gs cookies because my niece sells them, but I was not happy to see that many of the flavors have hydrogenated oils. boo!
And I'm definitely going to try to remember that rule about not eating what you didn't make!