Glad to hear you've fallen in love with the nooch!!! I put mountains of it on salads, potatoes, kale chips, EVERYTHING! Seriously, why eat cheese when you can have something that's healthy and tastes even better? Yay! :)

I used to hate mushrooms and would chime in with my grandfather in refusing to call them mushrooms. We would call them fugus. (Of course they are fungus but fungus just sounds...well you know)

I don't remember how it happened but I had mushrooms on something about a year and a half ago and now I love them! I put them in/on everything reasonable!

Girl I am so there with you on needing to learn that too about things unable to control controlling my mood. I am so bad about letting that happen. I have seriously been craving spaghetti squash lately so this looks so incredible to me right about now. Just fresh, clean, healthy.

I hope you have a good day!

That all makes perfect sense to me! One of my favorite quotes is something along the lines of you can't control what goes on in life, but you can control how you react to it. And hey, its normal to have to fight to make the changes we hope to see. You're doing awesome!

Positive outlook totally helps. One of the ways I achieve it is when something pisses me off, I try to recognize that I am allowing this to piss me off. I choose when I'm pissed off, therefore I can now choose to not be pissed off. (Yes, it's corny but it works for me.)

I have aspirations of learning to like mushrooms and eggplant but not strong enough to actually try them again.

I think it makes SUCH a difference...but it's really hard for me to do, too! I totally let things like weather, computer problems, etc. affect my mood, even though I know I shouldn't.

I'm a HUGE fan of nutritional yeast!

I love nutritional yeast. I could eat it with a spoon.

I still have a lingering food aversion to BBQ ribs. I ate them once almost 8 years ago and got a stomach bug afterward and have never looked back.

Sometimes the littlest things can set us off. No matter how hard we try. I hope today is a little better for you! And yes, sometimes I think it helps to "fake it until you make it" when it comes to starting your day off positively...

Eating seasonally is something I'd really like to do more of. I look forward to hearing more of your successes! :)

I loooooove nutritional yeast! I grew up hating beets and love them long time now. I still hate cottage cheese though, which is totally fine that I'm actively trying harder to cut dairy out of my life anyway! :)

I'm 50/50 on nutritional yeast, don't love it and don't hate it. The one food I've warmed up to over the years is the avocado. I hated them when I was a kid and now they're one of my most favorite foods!

Hey lady! I definitely agree that our attitudes have a big impact on our outlook. I have gotten into the habit of fighting a bad attitude by blasting fun music and dancing around my apartment like a crazy woman. I probably shouldn't tell anyone that, but it works! :)

Is it weird to tell you taht I love you even more knowing that you're not an avocado fan either? haha, probably - but I did. I've never been a fan and sometimes I feel like the only one!! I never knew you don't care for them, too.
I used to hate a lot of vegetables...but we know that's not the case anymore :P
And hoorah for a positive outlook. I'm not so sure it changes anything, either - but it at least feels like it can :)

I *hated* garlic as a kid. I think only because it looked like an onion (sort of?), and I hated onions. I would shun garlic bread, oh how stupid I was. I think I was finally tricked into eating garlic, and only then realized how awesome it was. I still loath onions, but garlic is my BFF.

Same thing happened to me with Nutritional Yeast!

I bought it last year and hated it....then it sat in my fridge for a very long time till I threw it out.

Just a month ago, I tried it again, and now I think it's just super great! I put it in pesto and on my spaghetti squash (and in salad, and in smoothies...).

I think the attitude thing is huge...I have training in mind-body skills, and I've seen pivoting one's thoughts (re-wording or re-framing) change people's lives!

~Lisa

Nutritional yeast has such a strong bold flavor that I imagine a bad batch could definitely be the cause of your initial distaste!

I had a traumatic experience with beets when I was younger and now I find it really hard to eat them even though they always look so good!

nooch is so one of my favorite foods now (especially after reading your blog!! haha) but i never thought to add it to spaghetti squash!!

i always find if I look for the positive in situations then it doesnt seem as bad. some things we just can't control.

i love nooch! it took a few times before I went from meh to LOVE. And my tolerance is wayyyy up. Like i could put 1/4 c on popcorn and not even notice. It used to be a scant 1 tbsp was " alot ". Glad you love the nooch now!

Okay, maybe I'll try it now that you've given it the thumbs up :)

I don't know if I believe in the power of positive thinking, but I do think that a change in attitude works - at least not dwelling on the bad. Anyway, this looks yummy.

I have nutritional yeast in my fridge and it's been there for awhile. I'm scared of it. Maybe I'll try it now.

I like to think a positive attitude has a strong effect on what can happen.

I used to hate chunks of tomatoes in my sauce-now I love it...weird how things change. I used to also hate any vegetable that wasn't corn or white potatoes and now all I survive on are any veggie you throw at me!

I used to hate goat cheese and now I love it! Not sure how that happened, but I'm glad it did.

I still won't eat brussels because of how my parents us to make me eat them when I was younger. I so need to get over that already. :)

I had a REALLY bad falafel experience in college and couldn't eat it for years after wards. My brother used to live right next door to the place that is actually in guidebooks as the best falafel in the world so I HAD to try it. Now, it was pretty good, but I haven't eaten it since then!

It took me three tries to like nutritional yeast, but being in the Adventist church, it's usually on the popcorn :) I now love it on popcorn, stuck on with some flax seed oil. I also love my melty cheese recipe. Growing up I didn't like avocados, I thought they were slimy nasty things, but then one day I tried one again, and I've liked them since. Good thing though, that was a month before I spend 8 months in Mexico, and they use a *ton* of avocado. I still can not stand cucumbers, for no reason I can figure out, though I do eat them, because they're good for me :) I'm also leery of eating oranges, from a childhood experience with a batch of dry ones, and it took me years to relearn to like almonds after eating a rotten one. It's amazing how one bad experience can make the thought of eating something, even something you had previously enjoyed, physically nauseating.

Ooo you make me so envious of spaghetti squash!! I'd give anything to find it where I live :(

I really loathed avocado's as a kid. Mum kept making me try them. Over time I adapted. Then I absolutely LOVED them (especially grilled with melted cheese on top!). Then somehow I became allergic to them and now I miss them terribly :( (probably payback for all those years of not eating them :P).

Pea's and green beans however have been on the hate list my entire life and will remain there for the rest of it.