Boredom with food

[RealisticRobin]

I'm sorry if I have posted in the wrong place, but I did not know where else to post.

I am getting really bored with savoury food. But as I cannot eat sweet treats for every meal, I have had to resort to using sauces to liven everything up.

I have been through Brown sauce, ketchup, barbeque sauce, mayonnaise.. I am currently at salad cream which seems to be working.

Does anyone else have this issue? is there a name for it?

Please be kind, it's a serious question.

 

[Masked Man]

I get this sometimes so I use a lot of hot sauce. There's a brand here in the states called Frank's RedHot and I go through a lot of the buffalo sauce where I put it on just about everything.

I don't know that there's a name for it, I do know that I get an endorphin kick from it because some of the hotter sauces cause mild pain - especially the Nashville Hot one.

 

[RealisticRobin]

I like hot things too, Maybe my sense of taste is going through eating too much of it. I'm just bored with food but cannot think of anything new. So I change the sauce instead.

 

[Jumpinbare]

I'd be fine just having a substantial liquid like a milkshake with all the nutrients and minerals needed. Needing to eat has always been a big inconvenience to me. I guess I'm the exact opposite of a "foodie"

 

[Masked Man]

I like hot things too, Maybe my sense of taste is going through eating too much of it. I'm just bored with food but cannot think of anything new. So I change the sauce instead.

I do that too. Not only sauces but I will use different chili powders or cumin powder in things. Doesn't necessarily change the taste but adds something.

 

[RealisticRobin]

I'd be fine just having a substantial liquid like a milkshake with all the nutrients and minerals needed. Needing to eat has always been a big inconvenience to me. I guess I'm the exact opposite of a "foodie"

I'd be fine with that. But my husband would get annoyed and say I wasn't eating properly.

 

[Neonatal RRT]

I have similar situation... mainly from a poor sense of smell. The foods I tend to seek out are those with a lot of sweet and spicy... like spicy hot Chinese dishes, Mex-Tex chili, spicy ribs, hot n' spicy meaty pizzas, etc. Otherwise... most foods are neither good nor bad.

 

[Grondhammar]

@RealisticRobin, is it just flavour you're bored with? Could changing food texture help?

I'm on the opposite extreme personally... give me the same thing every meal because I know I won't have a bad experience. But there are other aspects of food to try if you need change.

 

[Judge]

I sometimes wonder if it's an aspect of depression. When the foods you've eaten for so long suddenly become unappealing. And without necessarily having anything to replace them.

AWKWARD! And frustrating...

 

[Grondhammar]

I've experienced depression pretty much nonstop for 40 years, with spikes downwards into major depression, and haven't experienced this. There may be a link somewhere there, but IME not a 1:1 universal causation link.

 

[RemyZee]

Try southern white BBQ sauce...it's horse radish, mayo, apple cider vinegar, worcestershire and hot sauce.

 

[the_tortoise]

is there a name for it?

Sensory-seeking with taste? ("gustatory hyposensitivity" i think?) That's not a name but if you like intense flavors and lots of them that might be one explanation - opposite is sensory avoidant with taste. ("gustatory hypersensitivity"?)

I am not either... as far as I can tell.

I tend to like the same things over and over but enjoy a variety of tastes...just the switches from one small collection of tastes to another are infrequent.

I have sensitive sense of taste and smell, though.....

People looked at me funny when I once was talking about how cats often like the smell of chickpeas but then lose interest after a single taste, and my theory is because they smell powerfully (among other things -- and from the cat's perspective smell "deceptively") of the b-vitamin thiamin, which is a component of some meats like chicken liver and gets added to cat foods.

I'm sorry I don't have any advice...except along the lines of what others have said: Maybe try to think about what it is you like about the things you already like and seek out new foods or sauces/dressings with similar attributes?