I used to love Coke & Dr. Pepper pop, now the coke tastes like battery acid and the Dr. Pepper tastes sickly sweet - both are just yuck now and I can't stand even the smell.

Well, the other day I had ice cream (homemade cherry chocolate)- the first taste in a year and a half. It. Was. Amazing. Seriously, I felt like I was praying, no, worshiping, at the Church of Ice Cream. Most of the rest of the crap I left behind though without a backward glance.

Yes. Bread, even good french bread, is completely lost on me now. Even slathered on butter, its just meh.

Ice cream, however, is another story :)

Tomato-based pasta sauce from a jar or can tastes terrible to me now. It tastes sharply of chemicals. It's gross. I love fresh tomatoes raw, grilled, etc.

Corn oil tastes metallic and nasty.

Sodas taste too sweet to me. I used to be a pop-a-holic.

Most sweets are way, way too sweet for me. Homemade ice cream, with far less sugar than any recipe calls for, is much better than the stuff I can buy.

Yep! I used to love Little Debbie cosmic brownies. I had a bite of one the other day and it was so gross! It tasted like sugared plastic. I can't believe I used to binge on those things! I'm hoping eventually the same thing happens with french fries and ice cream, but so far they still taste delicious, so I try to stay far away from them.

Reeces peanut butter cups... My old favorite. Now I just don't like them at all.

My home made sugar free ice cream and my home made sugar free cheesecakes... those are my cheats. That and fruit. But I do allow myself a limited amount of dairy.

Remember, it's a way of life, not a cult... and there was never a cave baby that didn't get it's start with milk. :)

Definitely a paleo/primal food.

That said, I have an autoimmune condition that dairy is less than helpful for so I have to keep it very limited. :(

I wrote a post about chocolate a few days ago. I ate a couple squares of lower quality chocolate and was shocked at how crappy it tasted.

It is incredible what junk we were all used to eating.

Sometimes I walk down the street past a restaurant and I can just smell the soup powder and chemical smell wafting out the door.

If we plucked someone from the middle of the jungle - someone who eats pristine food - and started feeding him cheeze whiz, KFC and told him to wash it all down with Dr. Pepper (which I used to love), I wonder what he'd think and feel.

I used to like Kraft Mac and Cheese. The other day I was making some for my teenage daughter and I thought the smell was awful. No thoughts of tasting it. It smelled that bad. I now enjoy fruits and vegetables more than I ever did before though.

I used to love baklava which is a Greek (and Middle Eastern) dessert with filo pastry, nuts (usually pistachios, almonds or walnuts) and honey. For old time's sake, I had one on Saturday and it tasted awfully sweet. My palate has most definitely changed - I just don't crave sweets anymore except for some very subtly sweet homemade biscuits and chocolates.

What made the baklava experience worse was the anxiety, rebound hunger and heart palps after eating it - I'm a recovering hypoglycemic. That proved to me how careful I need to be with sugar.

After a year of cooking almost exclusively with pastured lard, tallow and coconut oil, anything cooked in vegetable oil tastes horrible. Desserts made with white sugar are cloyingly sweet, as well - my last dessert was fresh peaches and plums tossed with fresh thyme and shaved Manchego cheese, drizzled with dark chocolate balsamic vinegar. It was divine.

Just the thought of bread makes me queasy.

I don't crave sweets and empty carbs like I used to, but they still taste good to me if I have them. My son realllly wanted some Oreo's a while back and I said okay because I have always been an 80/20 guy, especially with my kids.

I dipped some Oreo's into some ice cold whole milk and I tell you what, my friends....that was blissful. I didn't crave them. But they were there and I was there. It just kinda happened. I sound like an a adulterer...

My taste hasn't changed at all.

Treats with sugar and fruit taste sweeter. I notice salt more in foods that I don't cook myself. And Hershey's milk chocolate all of a sudden has a waxy texture.

Although I eat fruit, it tastes way to sweet to me. Grapefruit it the only one that tastes normally sweet, instead of over the top. Oranges are off the menu. I used to be a cookie & chocolate milk fiend.

I have always had strong senses for some reason, now I can detect flavors and smells even more....sometimes thats a good thing, other times its a problem (as I go running out of a room gagging).

I'm the person who they always send the wine to for tasting!! yum!!

for some of you whose tastes did change, how long would you say it took? I went a week and some tortilla chips were still good at a mexican restaurant. I'm staying away from pretty much everything non-primal for a month (been two weeks other than the chips) in hopes it will cure my taste buds. I fear right now if I did try something naughty I would still enjoy it and crave it.

Almost every food I missed, just tastes empty and hollow without that "rush" of processed carbs that my body used to get.

The only food I still miss and still tastes good to me, is thick cut french fries when at a bar, and you know it's fried in crap oil.