What can/can't you eat?

I'm doing a vegan/gluten free thing right now and have been for a little over 6 months. I do have a gluten intolerance but the vegan thing is new. It's not that bad. I had a piece of fish about 2 months in but I didn't feel bad about it. I eat constantly but it's usually nuts, fruits and raw vegetables. I do a daily vegan protein shake every morning. My energy levels are awesome!

OP: I have an oddly specific allergy: mussels. Nope, not shellfish. Just mussels. I can eat scallops, oysters, clams, shrimp to my heart's content. One mussel and I'm vomiting within 10 mins. The only other person I've met with this weirdly specific allergy - aside from my dad - was, funnily enough, my old boss. We couldn't believe we'd found another person with our weird allergy.

I can eat anything, but I choose not to eat animals or birds, as a matter of conscience -- fish are OK. I also refuse to eat string beans, lima beans, kidney beans, & beets because those things are disgusting.

I won't eat shit. Piss - very very sparingly. I don't like insects, snails, rabbit, squirrel, frog, snake, turtle, alligator

I can't eat onion or potato chips anymore. I can eat string beans and will eat R3's serving of same.

I can't eat the pussy

Oh, I gave-up on seafood almost completely. I'll eat tunafish salad. Maybe salmon. Not much else,

Shellfish and anything with Aspartame in it.

I'm allergic to seafood. Not just shellfish as is very common but all swimmy things. I'm vegetarian on the advice of my neurologist. I have MS and a vegetarian diet is better for the blood/brain barrier. I'm not a picky eater just aware of what is healthy for me - I cook seafood and meat for my partner.

I could eat anything until last year when I ate shrimp and a few minutes later broke out in hives all over my face and neck. I'm old so it was a surprise.

The wind blows through me like a summer storm after I eat red meat. It's just awful and getting worse as I get older. Hot, relentless, uncontrollable, putridly sulphuric. I went to a dinner party and had steak a few nights ago and the next morning, the bedroom smelled like a Louisiana swamp in July.

Otherwise, stomach of steel.

Cant eat: bananas, onions, mushrooms, peppers, chick peas. I reslly like them but i can't eat them.

I don't like tomatoes but will eat tomato sauces. Don't like avacados, artichokes, sardines, raw seafood, anchovies, fish sauce, gefilte fish, salmon. I like horseradish as a flavoring, but not alone.

I can eat food with a little garlic but a lot of garlic gives me instant reflux. Peppermint, butterscotch and wine also give me reflux. I once went out to eat with new friends to a place they really liked. I ordered Caesar salad and thought I was going to choke to death, therecwasxso much garlic in it. I had to go into the restroom and cough for 20 minutes.

Ice cream gives me terrible reflux

I can't eat more than a half a cup of pasta in a sitting, any more I woof. I also can't eat more than a small bowl of cereal and milk. Getting older blows.

I might add that I have serious intestinal problems, to the point where I needed emergency surgery and a temp colostomy. Six members of my family on my mother's side needed the same surgery and have the same food problems. It's probably a medical condition that hasnt been discovered yet.

Weirdly, we all have the same problem with water -- it gives us a stomach ache. We can drink sips but can't swig down 64 oz a day or anything like that. Doctors think we are crazy because water is not something that should upset our innards. We agree, but still can't drink more than little sips of water here and there

We were all underweight throughout childhood and our earlier adult years but developed very fat stomachs in middle age.

R10, have you had a cardiac stress test with radioactive dye? A friend did and can no longer eat shell fish. He had no problems prior to the test.

(R14) I also can't drink my beloved Diet Dr Pepper. I can't take the evening gas, even with only 1 serving a day. It took aboout 3 days for the gas to stop after I went cold turkey!

I can't eat anything over 15 years old.

Chickpeas, peas, peanuts, lentils.

This whole gluten free thing is so out of hand, less than 7% of people have Celiac Disease, everyone else , you need wheat and grains to prevent heat disease, lower cholesterol, fight cancer , it's so ridiculous, just like the Paleo Diet, Kale, and now the stupid cauliflower kraze, cray cray...

No I haven't R16. I read not long ago about someone having a reaction similar to mine on undercooked shrimp. That could have been it I guess. I haven't eaten any since because the rash was pretty severe and itchy - I had to take Benadryl. I think I'll have an allergy test performed because I like shellfish every now and then.

[quote]I also refuse to eat string beans, lima beans, kidney beans, & beets because those things are disgusting.

Are you 6?

Can't drink apple juice on an empty stomach. The malic acid makes my stomach hurt.

I can't eat sushi or rare meat because I'm on anti rejection meds because of a heart transplant. I hate sushi, so no big loss. But I do miss an occasional rare steak.

Cilantro (coriander)

Even a tiny amount in a dish make it inedible to me. If I have even a few small bites I know I'll have a stomach ache later.

I have always been able to eat or drink anything so am bummed to find that recently I have to be very careful about coffee--which I love and am used to drinking throughout the day. More than one cup in the morning and I have explosive diarrhea, horrible GERD or both. It also started giving me anxiety and tremors. Entering middle age sucks.

too much garlic gives me the runs

Apples ( stomach pain)

Polonium-210

I've been allergic to nuts all my life (born in 77), but sometime in November my lactose-intolerance light came on. At about the same time I became intolerant of raw bananas and pineapple. I can have cooked/processed foods containing them; otherwise I'll be groaning and writhing on the floor in front of the toilet for a couple of hours.

r26: COFFEE?!? NOOOOO!

Can't eat lobster or scallops, but all other shellfish are fine. It's weird because I'm not allergic, or at least I don't think so, because I don't have an anaphylactic reaction (no itching, hives, swollen throat, etc.), just a horrible stomach ache. Someone once told me it could be related to iodine, but he wasn't a doctor.

I'm also mildly lactose intolerant. Small amounts of dairy are fine. If I have one glass of milk, no problem. If I have a second, then I have a wonky stomach and here come the silent farts that are hot on the way out and singe the sphincter. Beef also tends to give me the same kind of gas. And I cannot eat a lot of greasy food. My family has gallbladder problems. If I eat a greasy meal, I'm uncomfortable for hours afterward, so it's just not worth even trying.

Lastly, I cannot drink coffee. It feels like someone lit a match just under my heart and burns for 2 or more hours. I drink black tea instead, which I love, so I don't feel like I'm missing out on too much, but boy do I love the smell of coffee!

Onions have started giving me gas like nobody's business

I'm lactose intolerant but for years I took lactase pills that only did a little to reduce the gas and diarrhea.

One of the best decisions I ever made was to just stop drinking milk. My digestive system thanks me.

Slight lactose intolerance to milk. I'm okay with cheese and other dairy but one small glass of milk and I'm in the bathroom for 30 minutes. I use a splash of half and half in my coffee though and that's fine. Other than that, I can eat anything.

I can eat shrimp and bacon without a problem but if I eat them together in the same dish I break out in a bad case of hives.

I can't process casein, the main dairy protein. Many people who think they are lactose intolerant are not; their problem is with casein. That's probably true for both R33 and R34. For a time, I was so sensitive to casein I couldn't eat any dairy. I abstained for a couple of years but I've gradually been able to add in a little more and now I can have grated parmesan, that kind of thing.

I love watermelon, but I can't eat the kind that has seeds. After I ended up in the ER, my doctor told me I can't digest the white strings in seeded watermelons. Last summer I bought one of those tiny seedless melons and made a pig of myself.

Green pepper hated me until I began hating it back. It gives me the nastiest tasting burps that go on for hours.

Bi-valves. mussels, oysters, scallops, clams. Major puking with in an hour. Some one gave me a bloody mary at a party made with clam juice and it got really embarrassing. I got into a fight with a friend I was traveling with once because they wanted to go to seafood restaurants and I couldn't because of possible cross contamination issues. Excuse me for not wanting to be puking every afternoon and evening while on vacation.

Oranges give me the runs. Damn. I love oranges.

Probiotics help a little.

Can't eat liver. Have tried various types in many ways but as I chew it seems to get bigger in my mouth. It just won't go down. My mom told me I loved it as a kid. Beets ARE disgusting. No way on sushi, although if you batter it and deep-fry it I'll gladly eat it.

Shrimp / Crab / Lobster / Crawfish. I break out in hives .

I'm not partial to olives. Also, I detest spearmint. If someone is chewing wrigley's and I smell it, I want to vom. I'm ok with peppermint although it isn't a favourite. The best thing that happened to my mornings was finding cinnamon toothpaste.

Milk gives me the squirts, but otherwise I'm not "sensitive" to anything.

I didn't care for beets until I began roasting them. Now I love them.

Serve beets at my wake, and I'm going claw my way out of the ground just to smack you.

Pork and shellfish and I live in the South so I am kind of a pariah.

Are you guys making this stuff up? How on earth would someone know they get hives from Shrimp and bacon together, but not separately? What dish includes shrimp and bacon??

A lot of you seem like such delicate flowers - and would not be fun at dinner parties.

Last May, was sick (entero(sp?) virus, my doctor thought; half the people in my building (senior/disabled "project", in a small town) had it. I was super-sick for c. 3 days; less so for the next couple of weeks, but those first 3 days: you do NOT want to know (LOTS of time in the bathroom, ahem.) Sorry; TMI. ANYway: some things that, ahem, "repeated" when I was sick, I STILL cannot look at/eat:

TI dressing Deli sliced roast beef Hamburg Soft-boiled eggs Green peppers

(ANd no, was NOT food poisoning; the various other people in my building eat/ate a WIDE variety of foods.)

ANd I find, being "old", that fats and greasy food bother me more; used to have a cast-iron stomach. Oh, well...

R46 Butterfly shrimp with bacon made me break out in hives, it was one of my favorite dishes at one time. Eating shrimp in any form doesn't do it neither does bacon in any dish.

Uh, R48, you do realize that "butterfly shrimp" isn't a specific kind of shrimp, right? That's a cutting method.

Violently allergic to fresh-water fish (why just those I have no idea)

Have never been able to eat raw peppers--when included in small amounts in cooked foods (like Asian or Mexican) they don't bother me, but I don't enjoy them. After bariatric surgery, I found tuna salad (which I used to love) nauseated me--though I can still eat other fish and seafood. Tuna now tastes too dark and oily (even very good tuna).

finally, there is someone else like me! i'm also ovo-vegetarian, because i'm lactose intolerant. so can't eat any meat or dairy other than eggs and ghee (clarified butter)

I do not digest beef well at all. Guaranteed diarrhea. My ancestors where Indian so I think they punish me from beyond the grave if I eat it.

I can only have coffee and chocolate in small portions, they cause my psoriasis to flare up if I have too much. Its sucks because I love both.

I also like avocados but they give me horrible acid reflux.