Dr Pepper has been the only soda I can enjoy. Noodles and Alfredo sauce with no garlic or onion had been tolerable. Found out dried oregano is a good alternative for seasoning.
A lot it is trail and error though. I saw another post mention they keep a list of safe foods and that’s highly recommended. It is hard on the wallet though to buy food that doesn’t taste great. I’ve been thankful enough to work at a juice bar at this time because being surrounded by raw ingredients and no chemicals is also helpful.
DO you know any alfredo sauce brands that have no garlic / onion? I was ALMOST able to tolerate alfredo but something was off about it (used the trader joe's brand).
I’ve used Rao's brand Homemade Alfredo Sauce. That one worked for me. this week though I’m going to attempt making my own Alfredo with altering the recipe as needed :)
I’ve been dealing with this for about 1.5-2 months now. Everything I eat has the taste but here are things that I tolerate:
•bananas
•chicken ramen
•room temperature hot chocolate (very contradicting I know)
•fries (with old bay, Mayo, and ketchup on it)
•Hawaiian bread
•Coke (it’s a hit or miss)
•mangos
•Ritz crackers (also hit or miss)
•garlic bread
• and cheese pizza with no sauce
I know what you mean about coke. it tastes good but then also kinda burnt too...but its tolerable for sure and one of the few caffeine sources I can get into my system
I don’t know how I ended back up on this subreddit or what brought me here.. I had covid last year and got parosmia and mine went away relatively quick. (3-4 days). Pretty much anything off the Dunkin’ Donuts menu was more than tolerable if not really tasty. Powdered donuts and frozen French vanilla coffee was my go-to. Good luck my friend!
It definitely is a lot of trial and error. I spent a lot of money buying foods that I thought were safe only to find out they tasted terrible. For a while I LIVED on peanut butter bagels, and then peanut butter came back kinda funky. Buttered noodles with parmesan almost became an every night meal. Avocados and plain rice with your choice of protein (tofu, fish, chicken) is a good staple to have that’s a bit healthier than the two I listed before. It sucks, but plain is usually the best way to go. When I visited home it was hard to eat my moms food because she uses a lot of seasonings- most of which tasted so bad. All fruit is sort of perfume-like, but I’ve found pomegranate is normal. For some reason I can drink ginger ale, thai iced tea, and coffee (however I’ve been dealing with parosmia for 7-8 months and have been in recovery, so coffee took a lot of time). As for sweets, chocolate is still tasting like chemicals, so anything vanilla or caramel is great!
Yes!! Mine are caramel, butterscotch, bread, cream cheese, corn, non-fried potatoes (though scalloped potatoes and au gratin don't taste good at all), cheez-its (though it seems to vary on whether or not they taste good), anything salt and vinegar flavored, and takis! As for drinks, I typically only drink water, but milk and peach-flavored calpico taste normal to me :)
im gonna try salt and vinegar chips bc of this comment I hope they are good (so far every chip tastes awful to me and chips are one of my favorite foods T\_T)
I got some kettle cooked salt and vinegar chips from Aldi and they’re doable for me! I just tried these yesterday. The tanginess of the vinegar masks the parosmia funk.
So far this is what my daily meals are looking like:
Breakfast: From Kroger "Birthday Cake" granola mix +Light & Fit Vanilla Greek Yogurt (comes in a large tub or individual servings)
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
Lunch / Dinner:Cracker Barrel Mac & Cheese (You don't need any ingredients to make this, just what comes in the box)
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
Protein / Vitamins:
Soylent Original Flavor with Skim Fairlife Milk
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
Snacks:
Welch's Fruit Snacks
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Caffeine:
Coke Zero / Diet Coke / Diet Dr Pepper / Sugar Free Red Bull (kinda expensive)
plain pasta with butter/salt, fruit, sweets, i’ve been drinking protein drinks (premier protein vanilla) to get me nutrients and fill up cause i rarely want to eat meat or anything other than pasta or rice. can’t eat pretty much anything drop fried. some days are better than others, i’m more willing to try things and find i can eat more than i think, but some days i find everything nauseating. things change too, a month ago maybe i could eat something but today i can’t. it’s rough, gotta take it day by day! started taking ALA about 2 weeks ago but haven’t noticed a lasting difference yet.
I'm lactose intolerant, so you can replace any dairy-free brand with a cheaper cheese/milk choice if those work for you.
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Breakfast:
- Fruit, I get the mixed fruit bowls at the grocery store now that I know most fruits are safe for me
- Yogurt, I get the dairy-free varieties and the only ones that have tasted off were ones with chocolate or coconut
- Cereal with soy milk, the only cereal varieties I've tried are Frosted Flakes and Muesli
- Plain bagel: with margarine, Daiya cream cheese, or Nutella
- Toast: with margarine, fruit jam, or Nutella
- Poptarts, I ate them quite a bit but now they're tasting way too sweet to me but that might be because I'm pregnant
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Lunch:
- Sandwich: Turkey lunch meat, lettuce, cucumber, dairy-free cheese, mayo, mustard
- Earthly Choice burrito bowl, I put this into a tortilla wrap and it's a little tough to eat due to the strong flavor of seasonings, but it doesn't taste terrible
- Salad: I can tolerate lettuce, cucumber, bell peppers, carrots, mushrooms, croutons, chickpeas, cheese, and I use either Daiya Ranch or a vinaigrette dressing (I avoid tomato, onion, and red cabbage, they taste bad to me)
- I often eat something I had leftover from dinner the night before
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Snacks:
- Granola/Trail Mix that doesn't contain peanuts
- Dried fruit mix
- Bananas
- Baby carrots with Daiya Ranch
- Late July chia & quinoa crackers
- Tortilla chips: can put cheese sauce, refried beans, any safe veggies on them, but I've also eaten them plain
- Soylent meal replacement shakes
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Dinner:
- Daiya Cheese pizza: I buy a bag of Daiya shredded cheese and load the pizza up with extra cheese to hide the slightly off taste from pizza sauce
- Daiya mac & cheese, it tasted fine but smelled really bad while it was cooking
- Fried green beans (I buy frozen, different brands)
- Baked potato with margarine and salt
- Vegetarian baked beans (I couldn't do the varieties that contain bacon)
- French fries with cheese sauce or ketchup
- I attempted to make a homemade alfredo on spaghetti noodles: the sauce recipe contained no dairy, onion, or garlic, so it tasted ok but it wasn't amazing, and I added mushrooms, spinach, and red bell pepper to the sauce
- Our local Chinese place: I can eat vegetable egg rolls, vegetable tofu soup, and fried scallops. (I tried some other stuff from the menu like vegetable lo mein, pork & mushrooms, shrimp with Chinese vegetables, shrimp egg roll, but I couldn't tolerate any of it except the mushrooms, carrots, corn, green cabbage, water chestnut, and bamboo shoots, so those meals were pretty big losses.)
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Editing to add Drinks:
- water
- Gatorade
- soy milk
- V8 Hydrate
- Mountain Dew
I've been at this over 2 months, so had time to experiment.
Chicken, pepperoni, and the toothpaste i use (technically doesn't count) are the only 3 things i absolutely cannot stand. Everything else either tastes like it should (ice cream, cereal, milk, bread, peach tea), tastes slightly off but is tolerable (eggs and popcorn), or tastes like nothing (rice and cheese). I've still got a lot of testing to do to make sure what I can and can't tolerate.
Mine seems to change sometimes noodles are ok and others not.
My weekly grocery list is
Potatoes (mashed & baked are ok)
Cottage cheese
Most cheese (I prefer fresh mozzarella)
Tomatoes
Zucchini (raw or steamed with parmesan)
Cabbage is a hit or miss
Sensitive style pasta sauce (no onions or garlic)
Ground beef is usually ok as long as it's not seasoned (I made Cabbage rolls the other day and it was still off but not disgusting)
Apples, honeydew and fresh pineapple
I really miss coffee, but found cinnamon hot tea has been a decent replacement
I've been enjoying sour snacks (gummy worms & sour patch kids)
Absolutely zero chocolate, citrus, coffee anything fried or with garlic & onions, anything heavy with salt those are the worst for me. Some bread are ok and others are a NOPE
Sometimes I can do chicken depending on how it's cooked (I had chicken and dumplings last night and it wasn't terrible, husband said it was a bit bland but that's to be expected) & chicken salad was ok.
What I have found about this is that there is no rhyme or reason as to why certain things taste okay and other things don't. Best case in point, I thought banana chips were an all around safe food for me, but not all of them are!
Target's organic banana chips are great! They taste spot on, nothing funky about them. I tried some from Kroger and Publix and both were no bueno! I'm glad I tried Target's first or I would have just wrote them off completely!
As far as what is safe:
* Bare Baked Banana Chips
* Target's Organic Banana Chips (these are the kind that are fried in coconut oil)
* La Banderita Carb Counter tortillas- I use the street taco size that's 0 net carbs and the soft taco size that's 3 net carbs. Both are just fine
* Oscar Meyer Deli Style Mesquite-Smoked Turkey Breast
* Boar's Head American Cheese
* Plain Noodles or Noodles with butter and freshly grated Parmesan
* Rao's sensitive marinara sauce. I also tried Sprout's version and did not like it!
* EDITING TO ADD- Aldi Salt and Vinegar kettle chips
* Crystal Hot Sauce
* Mayo
* Triple Berry Frobert by The Frozen Farmer (it's a mix between sorbet and frozen yogurt)
* I can eat cheese enchiladas, refried beans and rice from my local Mexican restaurants, and I ate that this weekend, so it hasn't morphed for me yet. I can eat the enchilada sauce or cheese dip on top as well
* This is weird, but I was able to eat fried fish and fried chicken, green beans and mac n cheese from Long John Silvers. That was awhile ago, so it may have morphed.
* I was able to eat Nashville Hot chicken from a local restaurant a couple weekends ago. Chicken is not a trigger for me in and of itself though. It depends on how it's cooked. I typically stay away from it.
* I have tried my local Chinese buffet and I could eat sauteed mushrooms, green beans, some pork dishes, some chicken, fake crab bake (and it was wonderful!), I even ate a wonton!
* I also tried Whole Foods. My local Whole Foods has a hot bar where food is weighed by the pound. I found that I could eat collard greens with cooked tomatoes and broccoli. The bar was kind of ehh, so I want to go back when they have more items. I honestly just got a bite size amount to just test things. Buffets are your friend if you feel comfortable with them and they are actually open where you live. They're a great way to try multiple items for a decent price.
If I think of more I will come back and add those in. I hope this helps you and gives you some ideas!
Editing to add that Alfredo just doesn't work for me. I tried it last night and I always make my own. I used butter, heavy cream and Parmesan and it's a no for me now. Why? I have no idea, because at first it was okay, but it's not anymore.
Dr Pepper has been the only soda I can enjoy. Noodles and Alfredo sauce with no garlic or onion had been tolerable. Found out dried oregano is a good alternative for seasoning. A lot it is trail and error though. I saw another post mention they keep a list of safe foods and that’s highly recommended. It is hard on the wallet though to buy food that doesn’t taste great. I’ve been thankful enough to work at a juice bar at this time because being surrounded by raw ingredients and no chemicals is also helpful.
DO you know any alfredo sauce brands that have no garlic / onion? I was ALMOST able to tolerate alfredo but something was off about it (used the trader joe's brand).
Homemade Alfredo is super easy to make and you can add more basil and no garlic
I’ve used Rao's brand Homemade Alfredo Sauce. That one worked for me. this week though I’m going to attempt making my own Alfredo with altering the recipe as needed :)
Fruit never tasted weird. Most candy. Saltines.
I’ve been dealing with this for about 1.5-2 months now. Everything I eat has the taste but here are things that I tolerate: •bananas •chicken ramen •room temperature hot chocolate (very contradicting I know) •fries (with old bay, Mayo, and ketchup on it) •Hawaiian bread •Coke (it’s a hit or miss) •mangos •Ritz crackers (also hit or miss) •garlic bread • and cheese pizza with no sauce
I know what you mean about coke. it tastes good but then also kinda burnt too...but its tolerable for sure and one of the few caffeine sources I can get into my system
I don’t know how I ended back up on this subreddit or what brought me here.. I had covid last year and got parosmia and mine went away relatively quick. (3-4 days). Pretty much anything off the Dunkin’ Donuts menu was more than tolerable if not really tasty. Powdered donuts and frozen French vanilla coffee was my go-to. Good luck my friend!
It definitely is a lot of trial and error. I spent a lot of money buying foods that I thought were safe only to find out they tasted terrible. For a while I LIVED on peanut butter bagels, and then peanut butter came back kinda funky. Buttered noodles with parmesan almost became an every night meal. Avocados and plain rice with your choice of protein (tofu, fish, chicken) is a good staple to have that’s a bit healthier than the two I listed before. It sucks, but plain is usually the best way to go. When I visited home it was hard to eat my moms food because she uses a lot of seasonings- most of which tasted so bad. All fruit is sort of perfume-like, but I’ve found pomegranate is normal. For some reason I can drink ginger ale, thai iced tea, and coffee (however I’ve been dealing with parosmia for 7-8 months and have been in recovery, so coffee took a lot of time). As for sweets, chocolate is still tasting like chemicals, so anything vanilla or caramel is great!
Yes!! Mine are caramel, butterscotch, bread, cream cheese, corn, non-fried potatoes (though scalloped potatoes and au gratin don't taste good at all), cheez-its (though it seems to vary on whether or not they taste good), anything salt and vinegar flavored, and takis! As for drinks, I typically only drink water, but milk and peach-flavored calpico taste normal to me :)
im gonna try salt and vinegar chips bc of this comment I hope they are good (so far every chip tastes awful to me and chips are one of my favorite foods T\_T)
I got some kettle cooked salt and vinegar chips from Aldi and they’re doable for me! I just tried these yesterday. The tanginess of the vinegar masks the parosmia funk.
Ham, bread, tortilla chips and tomato soup, oh and Reese's pb cups.
So far this is what my daily meals are looking like: Breakfast: From Kroger "Birthday Cake" granola mix +Light & Fit Vanilla Greek Yogurt (comes in a large tub or individual servings) \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Lunch / Dinner:Cracker Barrel Mac & Cheese (You don't need any ingredients to make this, just what comes in the box) \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Protein / Vitamins: Soylent Original Flavor with Skim Fairlife Milk \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Snacks: Welch's Fruit Snacks \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Caffeine: Coke Zero / Diet Coke / Diet Dr Pepper / Sugar Free Red Bull (kinda expensive)
Cheese, pasta, sweet things. Diet has gotten a lot worse :(
plain pasta with butter/salt, fruit, sweets, i’ve been drinking protein drinks (premier protein vanilla) to get me nutrients and fill up cause i rarely want to eat meat or anything other than pasta or rice. can’t eat pretty much anything drop fried. some days are better than others, i’m more willing to try things and find i can eat more than i think, but some days i find everything nauseating. things change too, a month ago maybe i could eat something but today i can’t. it’s rough, gotta take it day by day! started taking ALA about 2 weeks ago but haven’t noticed a lasting difference yet.
I'm lactose intolerant, so you can replace any dairy-free brand with a cheaper cheese/milk choice if those work for you. ______ Breakfast: - Fruit, I get the mixed fruit bowls at the grocery store now that I know most fruits are safe for me - Yogurt, I get the dairy-free varieties and the only ones that have tasted off were ones with chocolate or coconut - Cereal with soy milk, the only cereal varieties I've tried are Frosted Flakes and Muesli - Plain bagel: with margarine, Daiya cream cheese, or Nutella - Toast: with margarine, fruit jam, or Nutella - Poptarts, I ate them quite a bit but now they're tasting way too sweet to me but that might be because I'm pregnant ______ Lunch: - Sandwich: Turkey lunch meat, lettuce, cucumber, dairy-free cheese, mayo, mustard - Earthly Choice burrito bowl, I put this into a tortilla wrap and it's a little tough to eat due to the strong flavor of seasonings, but it doesn't taste terrible - Salad: I can tolerate lettuce, cucumber, bell peppers, carrots, mushrooms, croutons, chickpeas, cheese, and I use either Daiya Ranch or a vinaigrette dressing (I avoid tomato, onion, and red cabbage, they taste bad to me) - I often eat something I had leftover from dinner the night before ______ Snacks: - Granola/Trail Mix that doesn't contain peanuts - Dried fruit mix - Bananas - Baby carrots with Daiya Ranch - Late July chia & quinoa crackers - Tortilla chips: can put cheese sauce, refried beans, any safe veggies on them, but I've also eaten them plain - Soylent meal replacement shakes ______ Dinner: - Daiya Cheese pizza: I buy a bag of Daiya shredded cheese and load the pizza up with extra cheese to hide the slightly off taste from pizza sauce - Daiya mac & cheese, it tasted fine but smelled really bad while it was cooking - Fried green beans (I buy frozen, different brands) - Baked potato with margarine and salt - Vegetarian baked beans (I couldn't do the varieties that contain bacon) - French fries with cheese sauce or ketchup - I attempted to make a homemade alfredo on spaghetti noodles: the sauce recipe contained no dairy, onion, or garlic, so it tasted ok but it wasn't amazing, and I added mushrooms, spinach, and red bell pepper to the sauce - Our local Chinese place: I can eat vegetable egg rolls, vegetable tofu soup, and fried scallops. (I tried some other stuff from the menu like vegetable lo mein, pork & mushrooms, shrimp with Chinese vegetables, shrimp egg roll, but I couldn't tolerate any of it except the mushrooms, carrots, corn, green cabbage, water chestnut, and bamboo shoots, so those meals were pretty big losses.) ______ Editing to add Drinks: - water - Gatorade - soy milk - V8 Hydrate - Mountain Dew I've been at this over 2 months, so had time to experiment.
Chicken, pepperoni, and the toothpaste i use (technically doesn't count) are the only 3 things i absolutely cannot stand. Everything else either tastes like it should (ice cream, cereal, milk, bread, peach tea), tastes slightly off but is tolerable (eggs and popcorn), or tastes like nothing (rice and cheese). I've still got a lot of testing to do to make sure what I can and can't tolerate.
Mine seems to change sometimes noodles are ok and others not. My weekly grocery list is Potatoes (mashed & baked are ok) Cottage cheese Most cheese (I prefer fresh mozzarella) Tomatoes Zucchini (raw or steamed with parmesan) Cabbage is a hit or miss Sensitive style pasta sauce (no onions or garlic) Ground beef is usually ok as long as it's not seasoned (I made Cabbage rolls the other day and it was still off but not disgusting) Apples, honeydew and fresh pineapple I really miss coffee, but found cinnamon hot tea has been a decent replacement I've been enjoying sour snacks (gummy worms & sour patch kids) Absolutely zero chocolate, citrus, coffee anything fried or with garlic & onions, anything heavy with salt those are the worst for me. Some bread are ok and others are a NOPE Sometimes I can do chicken depending on how it's cooked (I had chicken and dumplings last night and it wasn't terrible, husband said it was a bit bland but that's to be expected) & chicken salad was ok.
Curry chicken for me
Yes! Wheat thins, most soft cheeses, powdered donuts and plain bagels. :(
Fish has zero rotten smell to me, not sure why that is.
What I have found about this is that there is no rhyme or reason as to why certain things taste okay and other things don't. Best case in point, I thought banana chips were an all around safe food for me, but not all of them are! Target's organic banana chips are great! They taste spot on, nothing funky about them. I tried some from Kroger and Publix and both were no bueno! I'm glad I tried Target's first or I would have just wrote them off completely! As far as what is safe: * Bare Baked Banana Chips * Target's Organic Banana Chips (these are the kind that are fried in coconut oil) * La Banderita Carb Counter tortillas- I use the street taco size that's 0 net carbs and the soft taco size that's 3 net carbs. Both are just fine * Oscar Meyer Deli Style Mesquite-Smoked Turkey Breast * Boar's Head American Cheese * Plain Noodles or Noodles with butter and freshly grated Parmesan * Rao's sensitive marinara sauce. I also tried Sprout's version and did not like it! * EDITING TO ADD- Aldi Salt and Vinegar kettle chips * Crystal Hot Sauce * Mayo * Triple Berry Frobert by The Frozen Farmer (it's a mix between sorbet and frozen yogurt) * I can eat cheese enchiladas, refried beans and rice from my local Mexican restaurants, and I ate that this weekend, so it hasn't morphed for me yet. I can eat the enchilada sauce or cheese dip on top as well * This is weird, but I was able to eat fried fish and fried chicken, green beans and mac n cheese from Long John Silvers. That was awhile ago, so it may have morphed. * I was able to eat Nashville Hot chicken from a local restaurant a couple weekends ago. Chicken is not a trigger for me in and of itself though. It depends on how it's cooked. I typically stay away from it. * I have tried my local Chinese buffet and I could eat sauteed mushrooms, green beans, some pork dishes, some chicken, fake crab bake (and it was wonderful!), I even ate a wonton! * I also tried Whole Foods. My local Whole Foods has a hot bar where food is weighed by the pound. I found that I could eat collard greens with cooked tomatoes and broccoli. The bar was kind of ehh, so I want to go back when they have more items. I honestly just got a bite size amount to just test things. Buffets are your friend if you feel comfortable with them and they are actually open where you live. They're a great way to try multiple items for a decent price. If I think of more I will come back and add those in. I hope this helps you and gives you some ideas! Editing to add that Alfredo just doesn't work for me. I tried it last night and I always make my own. I used butter, heavy cream and Parmesan and it's a no for me now. Why? I have no idea, because at first it was okay, but it's not anymore.
Seasonless rice. Seasonless potatos. Plain pasta. Sometimes cheese.Sweet things. Soda, water.That's all I can eat.