Approach the problemn from the other side - work out what you don't (won't/can't/don't like to) eat, as this is (IMHO) what people are usually meaning anyway.
For example, I hate baked beans, rice pudding and sprouts with a passion and won't touch them. I'm allergic to red wine + grapefruit, even food cooked with red wine (BAH!). I don't *like* most mash potato e(I'm funny about texture) but if presented with a plate full as a dinner guest, I'll endeavour to eat some if not all. I'm not a fan of baked potatoes for a similar reason, nor do I eat much veg given the choice, but I don't usually mention these are thy're the kind of thing you can eat a bit of or taste better than youe xpected or can eat round. That's a lot easier to type than what I *do* like :)
Er, sorry, have I missed something? At the start of my second paragraph I do mention that it's quick and easy to tell people what I really won't eat, but that sometimes people want to know more than that, and the rest of my post is concerned with those people. Are we at cross purposes somehow?
Ahh, possibly I ahve the wrong end fo the stick then. I don't think I know people who have asked that and actually meant that they wanted to know more. I think I would look really confused and say "anything that isn't in the previous list."
At least one person did insist rather strongly on knowing more, saying they had had bad experiences before with guests who said "oh, I can eat anything" and it had turned out the meal they cooked was entirely composed of things the guest only just tolerated.
For example, I'd feel somewhat unenthusiastic if someone served me a meal consisting entirely of courgettes, green lentils and white bread; but if any one of those ingredients cropped up in a meal that I otherwise liked, it probably wouldn't affect my enjoyment, so none of them would particularly occur to me as things to warn people to avoid.
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For example, I hate baked beans, rice pudding and sprouts with a passion and won't touch them. I'm allergic to red wine + grapefruit, even food cooked with red wine (BAH!). I don't *like* most mash potato e(I'm funny about texture) but if presented with a plate full as a dinner guest, I'll endeavour to eat some if not all. I'm not a fan of baked potatoes for a similar reason, nor do I eat much veg given the choice, but I don't usually mention these are thy're the kind of thing you can eat a bit of or taste better than youe xpected or can eat round. That's a lot easier to type than what I *do* like :)
Ignore me :) I never make sense anyway.
At least one person did insist rather strongly on knowing more, saying they had had bad experiences before with guests who said "oh, I can eat anything" and it had turned out the meal they cooked was entirely composed of things the guest only just tolerated.
For example, I'd feel somewhat unenthusiastic if someone served me a meal consisting entirely of courgettes, green lentils and white bread; but if any one of those ingredients cropped up in a meal that I otherwise liked, it probably wouldn't affect my enjoyment, so none of them would particularly occur to me as things to warn people to avoid.