Just ate a slice of bread...

[SedonaSun]

...and boy was it nasty! I'm amazed at how my taste buds have changed. I just made my hubby some toast and fried eggs and so I grabbed the heel from the loaf because nothing really sounds good, but that did. So I start eating it and mind you, it's a 12-grain "healthy" loaf...but all I can taste is the sugar in it. It was so sweet--and it isn't a "sweet" bread. Blech, the taste is still in my mouth. I ended up sharing most of it with the dogs.

Man, oh man, if there's really that much sugar in our "unsweet" foods... how much of that crap have we really been eating all these years??

Double blech!

[sweetgoddess]

Great experience! Last time I tried eating a piece of bread it tasted like mold and pinesol...it disgusted me to no end, and yet before raw I ate bread every single day without fail.

Last night when I brushed my teeth with my regular toothpaste, an organic, natural toothpaste.....it suddenly tasted sickeningly sweet...like I had just brushed my teeth with sugar. Ack.

It's rather neat how our tastes change isnt it? Though the mold and pinesol one I could do without...ugh.

[Cinnamon]

The last bite of bread I had seemed like paste to me once it was chewed up! So strange, I chewed and chewed and couldn't bring myself to swallow it, very interesting how our body reacts to the old foods we used to eat all the time!

[mattiem]

Hi guys,

This doesn't make any sense to me. I've eaten raw food that is way sweeter than bread is. Granted I haven't gone raw yet, but I don't see how bread could taste more sweet than say a ripe strawberry or mango, or raisins or dates.

[siempresam]

I am thinking it might be the difference between refined and natural sugars. Natural sugars just taste better - and different - than the mass-produced kind.

Maybe I'm wrong?

[siempresam]

Oh and this reminds me of the time that I didn't eat eggs for a year or two. Somebody gave me some bread one time that had a lot of eggs in it, and normally I wouldn't have noticed, but for the life of me all I could taste were eggs. Interesting how your tastebuds start to differentiate between various ingredients!

[SedonaSun]

Hi guys,

This doesn't make any sense to me. I've eaten raw food that is way sweeter than bread is. Granted I haven't gone raw yet, but I don't see how bread could taste more sweet than say a ripe strawberry or mango, or raisins or dates.

Mattiem, it's not that the bread was sweeter than fruits, it wasn't. But it was a 12-grain bread that normally doesn't taste sweet--or never did to me before--but last night the main thing I tasted was sugar in a bread that isn't supposed to taste like sugar. It tasted sweeter than Hawaiian Sweet Bread used to taste when I was eating SAD. It was just gross.

[DotfromOz]

...how quickly a person's tastes can change once you go raw.

I was fixing hubby's dinner tonight and put some whipped butter in the pan. I used to lick off the spoon (sometimes would even dip out a spoonful and just eat it!), but tonight I thought it looked and smelled yukky. Just to test my reaction, I took a tiny little bit of it on my tongue. Felt and tasted as though I'd sucked up half a can of lard mixed with spoiled milk. EEEEEWWWW!

That was the best motivator I could have had to stop craving a crusty piece of bread spread with butter!

[misslinda]

Sedona, thanks for the reminder of our sensitivity of senses. I ran around my apartment thinking some strange toxic chemical was leaking from somewhere--when all it was,was my ability to smell the chemicals releasing from my computer!!! :eek:

This really happened: ONe nite I was extrememly thirsty and the only thing I drink is water......that nite I had none!!! I was panicking cause I was beyond thirsty----out of desperation, I went to the kitchen sink and grabbed a glass. Took a sip of the water and YUCK---tasted just like it reads: chemicals to the MAX. It didn't even have the watery texture it was thick tasting and toxic.

Feel like a K9

Linda :rolleyes:

[Fuzzball]

Hi guys,

This doesn't make any sense to me. I've eaten raw food that is way sweeter than bread is. Granted I haven't gone raw yet, but I don't see how bread could taste more sweet than say a ripe strawberry or mango, or raisins or dates.

And I couldn't imagine just how bad a smoker smelled until I was a former smoker.....when you can get into an elevator 15 minutes after a smoker and their smell lingers, you then know.

The key comment here, and I'm not saying this to be negative, is "Granted I haven't gone raw yet".

Mattiem, once you've been 100% raw for a month, I'll bet you have a lot of things that make you go . . . . hmmmmmmmmm......

[Fuzzball]

Another thing to remember, the bread you get at the store is so refined that they have to put flavorings in it so you taste what you expect. They pull out something like 11 minerals just to "Enrich" it with 7.

Just remember, it's giant tobacco companies running our packaged food companies now...the one thing they know how to do is increase the useage of existing customers.

[mattiem]

Thanks for the replies to me. I suppose maybe my tastes will change a lot when I go raw. I hope so, because right now I love bread and cheese and chinese food.

I think I'm going to go raw after I go on a cruise in the first week of June.