Dear Beth,

that menu made my mouth water!

Dear Donna,

changing food choices is hard. some things are acquired tastes, and some people have a narrower range of foods they like than others.

one thing you might try is perhaps making modifications to foods you already like. for instance, one modification we have made is on mashed potatoes - instant or real. we used to use a lot of milk and some butter. now we use very little milk, and little or no butter. also for things like this you could use skim milk.

speaking of which, at one point in my life i drank skim milk. (not now because - don't laugh - we can't get it here, not fresh anyway.) even though i was already used to 2%, switching to skim i thought it tasted like water. however after a couple of weeks i got used to it and then it tasted quite ordinary to me. i would get 2% or whole as a treat sometime - and they tasted like cream!

i don't know if this is helpful. maybe you already do this stuff.

~ waves ~