Troublesome picky eater

snowflakesav

Well, enjoy your new adventure in learning to cook! It could be fun.

From time to time I check out the food diaries of succesful people and I have some really good role models. They tend to plan ahead and prepare the same things and eat them repeatedly. They might cook up 5 chicken breasts at a time and put them in individual containers with chopped tomatoes or salsa. They prepare containers of berries and yummy chopped pineapple and nonfat Greek yogurt or strawberries with a splash of balsamic.

One of my friends stocks her fridge with all her portion controlled containers of healthy food. It is a thing of beauty and I know she is on the go a lot. She has maintained weight loss for over 6 years...and just recently taken it to the next level of getting her body fat into the teens.

Find someone who is successful and follow what they do.. You don't need to reinvent how to cook.

crazyjerseygirl

KechiiCoo wrote: »

aggelikik wrote: »

Uhm, stop being afraid of the kitchen? Cheap, healthy, and something you like, and not cooking it, this is hard to solve. Start by things you like, google recipes with these ingedients, then choose what looks like a beginner could handle, and experiment. And by cooking, I do not mean preparing a 5 course meal with 20 different complicated sauces. Boiling or grilling things, using a microwave, mixing a salad, preparing a sandwich, slicing up some fruit, these are simple steps everyone can complete.
If in a recipe there are ingredients you do not eat, if they are not an important part of the recipe, just skip them or exchange them for things you eat. If for example a recipe for chicken calls for a sliced onion, and you hate onions, skip the onion, ti will still work.
Build meals based on the things you eat. If you hate entire food groups, like all vegetables, then there is a problem. For your health, not for weight loss. But if you like just 2 or 3, then eat these. If you hate oatmeal, then who cares, just do nto eat oatmeal.

Well, kitchen scares me like what if I burn something or the entire house,or cut myself, or mix the wrong ingredient, or possibly just poison myself to death. BUT I think I'm slowly overcoming that fear (well, I have to or more like forced to since I live by myself). The problem is that if I see a recipe that I like and has my favorite ingredient and then I see something else with it that I do not like, I either discard the entire recipe or discard the ingredient but it wound't be healthy at all.

With regards to veggies, I like lettuce and cabbage. Carrots, raw. Cooked carrots, nope. Scratch that, I eat most of leafy veggies that you usually see in a salad. But that's it.

Have to follow your advice and just work on the foods that I like for now, then slowly

rabbitjb wrote: »

Learn to cook

It's a skill every adult should have

Try something new with each meal

Don't revel in the "I'm special! I'm a picky eater" mentality - work at it

My mom cooks for me or our former house helper cooked for us so I haven't had the chance to cook. I used to when I was in high school, but I always either mess up the food or hurt myself or both. So I had some kind of mini-trauma, I guess?

And I didn't think of it as special, I'm thinking of it as a burden but still I can't let go of this picky-eating habit of mine. My issue is that it's just not healthy. Sorry, I'm a whiner. yeah.

We all have to get over fears, it's part of adulthood, and if you ever have kids you don't want to pass on fears to them.

Vomiting after eating might be more than pickiness. Could you have texture issues? Many smoothies will make me gag for the texture. If that's the case you can try the same foods, different texture.

Oatmeal in milk (like cereal), whole fruits, raw veggies. If it's just the taste try 4 bites. 1 to get over it, 2 to taste it and 1 to savor it. If you still hate it, don't eat it! (This is me and mangos)

Cooking, just cook. Keep a pack of band aids nearby, you'll survive. Buy an oven mitt, wear short sleeves, take a class (most community colleges have one)

Look, I'm a fat 35yo lazy-bum and I woke up at 430 this morning to go work out. If I can do that, you can cook a chicken.

KBurkhardt08

You can easily change recipes. If you find something that sounds good but there is something in there you dont like...dont use it. Most recipes call for onions...but I hate onions so I never use them. My boyfriend is even pickier about vegetables...if the recipe calls for a bunch of vegetables he doesnt like I replace them with ones he does like. It can be done.

melimomTARDIS

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Liftng4Lis wrote: »

Eat what you did before, only in moderation.

this. You can get slim on cold cereals, peanut butter sammies, and frozen dinners.

jgnatca

Who you are today is not a permanent condition. With practice, you will develop confidence in the kitchen. With cautious experimentation, you will learn to enjoy new foods. Introduce one new food a month. I'd start with the vegetables. Experiment with different preparations and textures. You can grate or mince, for instance. One of my favourite tools in the kitchen is the mandoline.

All food is healthy in proportion so if one ingredient in a recipe turns you off, skip it or replace it with something else. List of food substitutions.

For kitchen education, start with the knife.
http://culinaryarts.about.com/od/knifeskills/ss/knifegrips.htm#step-heading

26 Foods You Should Learn to Cook in your Twenties

When you succeed at a new recipe or food, stop to celebrate and revel in the moment. Diarize the success. Post a picture on instagram. This will help to re-script your inner voice from all the things you can't do to the things you can.

snowflakesav

Well, enjoy your new adventure in learning to cook! It could be fun.

From time to time I check out the food diaries of succesful people and I have some really good role models. They tend to plan ahead and prepare the same things and eat them repeatedly. They might cook up 5 chicken breasts at a time and put them in individual containers with chopped tomatoes or salsa. They prepare containers of berries and yummy chopped pineapple and nonfat Greek yogurt or strawberries with a splash of balsamic.

One of my friends stocks her fridge with all her portion controlled containers of healthy food. It is a thing of beauty and I know she is on the go a lot. She has maintained weight loss for over 6 years...and just recently taken it to the next level of getting her body fat into the teens.

Find someone who is successful and follow what they do.. You don't need to reinvent how to cook.

bookworm_847

KechiiCoo wrote: »

My mom cooks for me or our former house helper cooked for us so I haven't had the chance to cook. I used to when I was in high school, but I always either mess up the food or hurt myself or both. So I had some kind of mini-trauma, I guess?

And I didn't think of it as special, I'm thinking of it as a burden but still I can't let go of this picky-eating habit of mine. My issue is that it's just not healthy. Sorry, I'm a whiner. yeah.

I was the same way... I hated to cook and messed up everything I tried to make. Eventually, I figured I couldn't spend my life just eating cereal, mac & cheese, and hamburger helper. So, I found some easy recipes (I started with the kraft website) and went from there. Just get in the kitchen and start working on your skill. No one gets everything perfect on the first try-- you'll learn and maybe you'll even find some new things you like.

Lounmoun

Cooking takes practice. You'll get better at it.
Baking tends to need more precision in ingredients and temperature than other cooking so I wouldn't start a beginner there on their own.
I've been cooking for decades and still mess things up occasionally.