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I find I 'go off' certain foods for a while, and prefer others, then go back. As long as over a couple of weeks it averages out and the diet is broadly balanced I don't worry about it. Sometimes I feel the need for saltier things, for example, it's usually when it's hot. As my normal diet is low in salt I think it's probably just the body asking for what it needs.
Likewise I sometimes just want to drink water, again mostly in the summer. Sometimes I like veg, sometimes I grit my teeth and eat it because it's good for me.
Sometimes I crave chocolate for a week or two, then I don't fancy it for a while.

But if this this with you is absolute and has been going on for a while, it might be worth a word with your GP if they are the sensible sort.

Here's another reason to have a good long think about whether you want to go on eating meat...

661-Pete wrote:Here's another reason to have a good long think about whether you want to go on eating meat...

OTOH, the majority of cases of food poisoning are to do with veg or salad.
To pays your money and you chooses your poison.

Flinders wrote:OTOH, the majority of cases of food poisoning are to do with veg or salad.

Really?!

Flinders wrote:OTOH, the majority of cases of food poisoning are to do with veg or salad.
To pays your money and you chooses your poison.

The majority of cases of food poisoning arise out of poor hygiene, lack of knowledge of basic rules of food management, preparation and storage, and wilful disregard for regulations, especially in the catering industry. Whether the food affected is meat, fish, salad or vegetables, is immaterial.

The worst-ever outbreak of food poisoning in Britain, occurred 18 years ago at Wishaw in Lanarkshire, when 21 people died from E coli poisoning traced to a butcher's shop which sold cooked and raw meats off the same counter, without any precautions against cross-contamination. One hopes that lessons were learnt from that, although as far as I know the butcher concerned escaped prosecution (in my view a custodial sentence would have been appropriate).

A much less severe outbreak occurred within my own experience, at a wedding reception I attended in 1979. A dish of cooked rice was left uncovered in a warm room for several hours: several guests including myself became violently sick: a bus which had been chartered to take several of the guests to and from the wedding had to divert into a motorway service area where the driver called out ambulances, and some elderly guests ended up hospitalised for several days. Fortunately everyone made a complete recovery. I don't know whether the caterers were prosecuted, but they certainly paid a substantial settlement to the hosts.

Having said that, I think most people are a lot more careful nowadays.

661-Pete wrote:A much less severe outbreak occurred within my own experience, at a wedding reception I attended in 1979. A dish of cooked rice was left uncovered in a warm room for several hours: several guests including myself became violently sick: a bus which had been chartered to take several of the guests to and from the wedding had to divert into a motorway service area where the driver called out ambulances, and some elderly guests ended up hospitalised for several days. Fortunately everyone made a complete recovery. I don't know whether the caterers were prosecuted, but they certainly paid a substantial settlement to the hosts.

A good saying I heard recently was "Salmonella had not been invented in the 70s".
Times have changed.

I can sort of understand no meat or a vegan diet, but no Cake. How can a real cyclist even think such a thing.

661-Pete wrote:A much less severe outbreak occurred within my own experience, at a wedding reception I attended in 1979. A dish of cooked rice was left uncovered in a warm room for several hours: several guests including myself became violently sick: a bus which had been chartered to take several of the guests to and from the wedding had to divert into a motorway service area where the driver called out ambulances, and some elderly guests ended up hospitalised for several days.

I have a friend who was on a transatlantic flight that got food poisoned. And the toilets on a 747 are just not able to cope with a plane load of vomiting passengers with the runs. Apparently the plane and the passengers were in a pretty dire state by the time it landed.

Edwards wrote:I can sort of understand no meat or a vegan diet, but no Cake. How can a real cyclist even think such a thing.

Try being wheat intolerant. It works for me

Edwards wrote:A good saying I heard recently was "Salmonella had not been invented in the 70s".
Times have changed.

I think Salmonella was known about back then, but the outbreak I referred to was IIRC put down to Staphylococcus, which is normally less serious though very unpleasant.

I think food hygiene had not been invented in my schooldays, at any rate. When I recall the outrages served up to us, supposedly passing for school dinners.... a more recent generation of kids that subsisted on Turkey Twizzlers or whatever, don't know how lucky they were....