HRT has altered my food cravings significantly. I can't stand anything sweet any more. I have to be careful with sweets because they throw my blood sugar out of whack. Now I crave vegetarian protein of all sorts--cheese not so much, but I go for eggs and yogurt more than ever. I also crave vegetable curry to an extreme degree, vegetarian biryani, vegetarian Thai food, any sort of Asian noodles with tofu, miso soup, veggie-lover pizza with broccoli, minestrone, chili, salsa, gazpacho, green salads--anything savory and not sweet. Spicy vegetables are my favorite food in the world.
Currently my strongest food craving has become hot chili peppers, the hotter the better--preferably habañero. But that's probably less a result of HRT and more a matter of my own sensuousness. Although hot chili peppers have a macho reputation, the two hottest eaters I know, who have influenced me to turn up the heat to blazing, are both women. One woman is trans, makes her own habañero purée that is strong enough to eat through concrete, and she gobbles it like ice cream. The other woman is cisgender, and really goes for the extreme heat--she gave me a bottle of Dave's Insanity Sauce which is made with essential extract of Capsicum. She's just a shy little woman but reduces strong men to gasping and crying for mercy with her ability to consume extreme chilis.
I read in Julia Serano's book Whipping Girl that HRT gave her a strong craving for eggs. I got that too. But when I see her name, all I can think of is she has the same name as a variety of hot chili pepper! Huevos rancheros... mmm....
