Losing taste for meat?

[Access]

Is it normal to lose taste for meat as one gets older?
As background, I know I've used this site mainly for pig questions in the past, but I've recently started to feel this way.

I never considered myself vegetarian or anything, but I do eat less meat than the typical american diet. Part of this is I cook all my own meals except lunch.

And meals I cook myself, I never use meat. To be honest, I just lack the patience to prepare the meat (proper temperature, keeping implements seperate, etc) safely, and it's gotten too expensive. The ready-to-eat products like the burgers or chicken/steak sandwiches that you can toss in the microwave for a few minutes, lately they've been getting more expensive so I've avoided them in favor of just cooking my own food.

But my reason for posting here -- when I go to restaurants and go out from lunch, I often order the typical dishes and lately they just haven't been tasting that good. Meat tastes kinda sick, bitter, not bitter like beer or coffee but some other kind I can't quite describe. But not a good taste or one I like. I know taste has changed as I have got older, for instance as a kid I loved candy and other sweet things, now, not so much and will actively avoid anything that is 'too sweet'. So often times, by the end of eating the meal, I don't really like the food anymore.

There's still some meals with meat that taste good, and places I like to eat, but I rarely go to those places due to expense. The garden variety places I eat lunch at, burritos, burgers, sandwiches, not so good anymore.

[Petlovr]

I had a terrible case of gastritis years ago, and ever since, my taste for meat has really died down. My mother says the same thing-the older she gets, she can't even cook meat without getting sick. Most of my meals are grain based, not meat based.

[pinky]

As we get older, our taste buds diminish. Maybe your taste buds that detect bitter are working better than the other ones.

[charliespet]

yeah I don't prefer to eat meat unless it is organic. I miss my dad's farm raised meat. It is soooo different. I do use chix tenderloins a lot in stir fry tho and I make meatballs and tacos with ground beef...but it's hard for me to eat a varity of meats, I was never raised to eat meat everyday. we have it about 3 times a week.

[wheekmau5]

I might swap some Morningstar veggie burgers for my regular dose of meat. I heard they are really good.