When Your Favorite Take-Out Tastes Gross

Tonight I ran into an unfortunately, although semi-common, problem.  I ran out of leftovers earlier than I had planned.  So, I decided to order Chinese food for dinner.  I hadn't ordered any take-out in about five weeks and figured, since what I order isn't fried, it'd be ok to have for dinner tonight so long as I kept my portions in check.

Well, wasn't I surprised to find that the food I used to crave and order at least once a week no longer tasted good to me!  I didn't even finish 1/3 of what I ordered and I threw out the leftovers instead of saving them for lunch tomorrow (I know, Mom, I wasted food, but really, it wasn't "real" food anyway).  And not only did I not enjoy the taste, I immediately felt kind of gross.  I guess I won't be ordering Chinese food again any time soon.  I was really surprised, but kind of happy to know that all my clean eating has changed my tastes buds, making junk taste bad to me.  That's pretty cool!  And, luckily, I should get out early enough from work tomorrow to come home and just make some eggs for lunch.

So, while my dinner wasn't as clean as I would have liked, I learned an important lesson about myself.  In the future, I'll make sure I have easy stuff I can make if I run out of leftovers.  I probably should have made an egg sandwich for dinner instead, but now I know!

Stay healthy everyone!  And feel free to post a comment about a food you used to love but you no longer enjoy now that you're eating healthy.