I hate vegetables

CherryOnionKiss

Drink V8 made with fruits and vedgies

gatorginger

I'm not a big veggie fan either, I prefer my veggies raw. I do however like salads with certain dressings. Do you hate all fruits and veggies or are there some you like, if so concentrate on eating those, there has got to be something you like out there

saintspoon

Geez lady!! that's a list of hang-ups!!

Good luck!

Debbe2

Cook them, steam them, grill them, broil them, blend, microwave, or eat veggies raw. Since you like pasta you can chop raw veggies up with a food chopper and add them to whatever the sauce is that you use and cook until they integrate with the sauce, in other words- they disappear basically in your sauce all soft and sweet. You can serve over the pasta dish.

DivaDiane

How about seeing a therapist to figure out how to retrain your palate? You are missing out on a lot of good food/nutrition.

BalenciaLynn

At first when i hated veggies the only way i could eat them was if they were covered in cheese

But now i love veggies so i dont have that issue

SofaKingRad

What about bacon? Nobody hates bacon. AmIright?

queenmolly68

My young daughter has begun to shun all fruit and veggies, so i am looking into buying a cookbook called "The Sneaky Chef." It's all about how to incorporate fruits and veggies into everyday meals so that you can't tell they are there. It might be something to look into.

fatboypup

i honestly became more fond of them when i learned i could get full on them with very little calories ....... my tastes changed alot as I lost weight

teeina

I make a homemade pasta sauce in which I puree veggies like eggplants and carrots, maybe something like that would help you. Make it with whole wheat pasta... Also maybe non traditional salads like an avocado, bean, corn and tomato salad w/ a balsamic vinaigrette might work for you?

Weighinginwithmy02

it's mental, get help. Not being snarky but it's all in your head.

HauteP1nk

I find it difficult to believe you don't like ANY fruits or ANY vegetables. There is a WORLD of veggies and fruits out there....keep experimenting until you find the ones you like.

It could be the way you are cooking them. Sometimes over cooked veggies taste awful! Boil, roast, sautee, grill, bake, fry, etc. There are so many ways to cook them...and so many things to put on them...soya sauce, salt, oil, vinegar, etc.

Or, start hiding them in foods you do like....casserole dishes, lasagna, stew, quiche, pasta sauce, smoothies, etc.

Start using dips when you use your veggies...dress them up so they aren't so boring and bland! You can always top your veggies with Cheese!!

And if worse comes to worse...mind over matter! Trick yourself into liking them.

WaterBunnie

This may sound really harsh, but perhaps its time to eat them whether you're enjoying them or not in the hope that as the months pass you find them more palatable? Without them it's going to be impossible to ever have a balanced diet and you could even find yourself with bowel problems later down the line.

Elzecat

@shoechick5 I have had this issue since I was a kid. My parents tried all kind of things with me since I was little. Cooking it different ways, hiding it in food, trying TONS of fruits and vegetables. I cant even put them in my mouth. I start chewing and I immediately start gagging. I dont know if its a mental thing or what but its that nasty texture of fruits and vegetables that I dont like. Some are slimey, chewy, rubbery, crunchy with skin. Just all gross. Even when I blend up the fruit, I cant stand strawberries because of the seeds. Its that bad. Ive considered seeing a hypnotist. I WANT to like vegetables. Trust me I do, it would be alot easier to loose weight.

Please don't take this the wrong way, but...I don't know about a hypnotist, but the food aversion you've described is something I saw frequently when I was teaching preschool special education--a lot of my students had been preemies and had feeding tubes until they were toddlers; it was very difficult to get them to learn to eat like typical children their age if/when they were taken off the feeding tubes. I had several students who attended feeding therapy to learn to deal with textures/tastes. It sounds like you were born with some significant food aversions for whatever reason...you might look into your insurance plan if you have one and see if nutrition therapy/occupational therapy visits are covered.

Anyway, there were a lot of great suggestions on this thread. I love most fruits and vegetables and I can't think of anything new that someone hasn't already suggested--I hope you can find some things that work for you

katiex905

Have you tried fresh, organic fruits and vegetables? I try replacing a little pasta with some steamed fresh broccoli or zucchini. I love carbs too, and for my stomach, there's no such thing as enough pasta. But fresh blueberries, strawberries, and bananas in some low-sugar cereal is really awesome. And a spinach salad with strawberries and a bit of feta cheese is my favorite meal in the world. I can almost guarantee that if you approach fresh veggies with a open mind, you will see results.

jazzie2421

What's interesting to me is that you can eat salad, but you can't eat vegetables. My first response would be to suck it up, put your big girl panties on and choke those veggies down. But then, I hesitate because there are some things I don't eat because I don't like the texture. I personally LOVE fruits and veggies and would totally be vegetarian if I didn't love meat too. Perhaps finding vegetarian protein alternatives - nuts, tofu, etc. would help you out. PB&J is a good sourceof protein, use honey instead of jelly if you need to, but peanut butter is a good source of protein. I totally concur with the getting a juicer recommendation. My juicer is awesome. I love it. Maybe you can go to Jamba Juice, or whatever juice bar you have near you and try a couple recipes before you make that investment. Soups are also a great way to sneak in veggies.

One thing I've read over and over is that cauliflower can be swapped for potatoes for mashed potatoes. Try it. Add some garlic and have faux garlic mashed potatoes. Try swapping zuchini/eggplant for noodles in lasagna (if you don't like the texture, just scrape the cheese/sauce/etc off and eat that - still excellent. Just some thoughts.

Elzecat

bumping for all the great alternative ideas I saw here--even though I like fruits and veggies, I'm always looking for new things to try. Yum!

dunlunicor

I had the exact same problem. I still do, but it's getting better. It sucks, because people think you're being dramatic, or faking, or just being a baby and making excuses, but certain foods literally just make you gag. I couldn't (and still can't to some degree) stand the smell of certain foods. I still gag, for example, every time I smell eggs.

Honestly, you just have to force yourself to eat something a few times until you're used to it. I couldn't stand celery or raw carrots or any kind of lettuce, but now I can get them down without gagging. Start with just one bite. Then, maybe a week later, try two bites. Eventually, you get used to them. I wouldn't say I LIKE any veggies now, but I can get them past my lips, which is more than I could say a while back.

Try sneaking mushrooms into some lasagna. They don't have a very strong flavor, and the texture sort of melts into the texture of the sauce.

ArtemisMoon

Do you possibly have a mild form of Asperger's? My brother has had severe texture problems with food all his life. I can literally name all the things he would eat as a child because the list is so short. He wouldn't even eat pasta or mac & cheese. He liked very crunchy things, so he would eat a lot of toast, pizza, waffles...and he would burn them often in his quest for crunchy, hard foods. Tomato sauce on his pizza and green beans were about the only veggie exceptions.

I also had lesser troubles that made me a picky eater. I hated strawberries for the seeds, every single raw veggie, most cooked veggies, I dislike and eat little of most meats. But guess what? My brother and I are both changing. I started out by cooking things in a way that made them much more palatable, and it snowballed. I have a broccoli casserole recipe that isn't really good for you (has cheese, eggs, mayo, etc), but the fluffy cheesy texture really allowed me to start to learn to love broccoli. You can also use it with spinach, and both are AWESOME. Every little kid I know will eat that recipe! You can do similar with a lot of veggies and make quiches, etc.

So really, you have to find what works for you and DON'T GIVE UP! I went from being embarrassed and miserable when eating at other people's houses because I wouldn't eat anything, to being able to at least eat something offered, if not everything. I even eat salads now which is amazing! YOU CAN DO IT!!!!

Even my brother is eating hamburgers and pasta and a few other things now. If he can expand his food choices, seriously, ANYONE can!

Coyla

I agree with everyone here, well most everyone, but I just want to add my pennies to the conversation.

If you hate vegetables, don't eat them. You can lose weight without the things.

Now, I think you should try all the suggestions here, the Low Sodium V-8, the smoothies, etc. But if that doesn't work, why punish yourself? You can eat healthy things that are not fruits or vegetables, and you CAN lose weight without immersing yourself in the odious Veggies Are Fun mentality.

Call me crazy, but I also think we sometimes have a strong aversion to foods that may NOT be good for us. I don't mean disliking vegetables because they're boring. I mean the fact that you're gagging on them. It could be psychological, but it also could be that your body is--for some reason--registering the vegetables as a poison.

Anyway, good luck! You're not a weirdo or a freak, and you CAN do this, vegetable phobia or not. :flowerforyou:

susanswan

I lOVE my smoothies! I put 7 oz of romaine lettuce in my morning smoothie! + Banana, berries, LOTS of cocoa powder, stevia, and soy milk! You can sub many veggies if you like fruit flavors, too. The goal is to like veggies & fruit, so you do need to practice eating them to acquire that taste for them. If I can get used to eating without salt, you can get used to veggies. Try them from other people's plates first. You are bound to come up with something you will like. Lots of great spice blends out there, to use. Keep trying! Experiment with small bites of everything, raw, cooked, salads, soups, juices. You can do it!

cmurray234

Smoothies may work well for you if it's the texture that bothers you. You can hide all sorts of greens in there.

I've used spinach, kale, escarole. You can hide carrots and cucumers in there too. Basically what I do is combine spinach (or other green leafy) with orange juice and water. Then I add frozen fruits (pineapples, mangoes and peaches work really well because there are no seeds) a few carrots or cukes and a half a banana.

If it gets too thick, add a little more juice or water. It tastes REALLY good and there is no offensive texture to worry about. My kids like them too, and they're PICKY.

Bevans1307

I'm not a huge fan of veggies either but I'm trying to eat healthier and make some changes for the whole family - a couple soups you can try on the skinnytaste website are the baked potato soup (mostly cauliflower - which I don't even like) and the split pea soup. You could blend them both til they're smooth.

The weelicious website has a good veggie lasagna you could try. I put the veggies in the food processor and chop them up really fine, especially if it's cauliflower and/or zucchini which none of us really like but taste great in this lasagna. My youngest, who eats almost nothing, loves this lasagna. There are also recipes on this site with veggies in breads and muffins - not that you should eat them all the time but at least you'll be getting some veggies/fruit when you do have them which would be a good start I think.

smoothieweb is a great place to go for smoothie ideas.

hope this helps.

peace_pigeon

Some really great ideas!

Do you have a local Farmer's Market or Community Farm? One way that I get my family to try new things is to go to the Farmer's Market and just start exploring. Meeting the folks who grow the local produce, learning about it, trying samples- it becomes so much more appealing than the cold grocery store enviroment. A local, organic strawberry tastes nothing like a grocery store strawberry. The blueberries that I pick on top of a local mountian taste NOTHING like grocery store blueberries (seriously!!)! Micro greens, sorrel, ramps, new asparagus, fiddleheads are all things that can be found by the season and locale that you probably won't find in your grocery store. I really hope that you can discover some things that you love :flowerforyou:

GasMasterFlash

My wife hates them too. She has me insert them when she's fast asleep.

dunlunicor

Now that another poster mentioned it, it might be pertinent to note that I do have Asperger's syndrome. So if you don't, your food issues might not be the same as mine. But it's a possible explanation. I wasn't diagnosed until college - my parents just thought I was a shy, freaky eater with a hair-trigger temper, and since I was "brilliant," they didn't think I could possibly have a mental/developmental handicap. So, they force-fed me on occasion, which made my phobias of food worse, and eventually triggered an eating disorder.

Whatever the cause, finding it is the first step to fixing it.

yummy♥

this recipe is great, you can chop up some extra veggies real tiny and 'hide' them in the nom nom sauce!

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/360696-if-you-re-a-fan-of-crockpot-cheeseburgers

lolcatftw

I just commented on someone else's topic about bolognese. Do you like pasta bolognese? Surprise! It's 20 - 40% minced veggies by volume. Want to make a killer bolognese? Try this as a base recipe:

http://culinariaitalia.wordpress.com/2008/06/29/ragu-alla-bolognese-authentic-recipe/

EDIT: I used to think I hated food in general. Meats, fishes, veggies, fruit. When I moved out on my own I learned that I was a repressed foodie--just that my parents didn't know or care to cook worth a damn. I rarely go out to eat (and never, ever to fast food or places that I deem do not cook with love), but I digress. As soon as I took in interest in cooking, my food palate began to expand. Now, I have an herb garden and for the first time I can eat raw chives, basil, mint, thyme, cilantro, oregano and rosemary...straight from the source. Maybe you are like me and just don't know it yet.

penrbrown

It's all in preparation.

Start by experimenting with recipes. I HATE VEGETABLES. I hate them so much. They make me feel lousy. They taste lousy. Just I hate everything about vegetables... but I find if I prepare them in certain dishes I can tolerate them.

So, for example, swap out the pasta for rice. Throw in vegetables with the rice. Instead of soy sauce maybe use some curry or some other spices that make the rice yummy, yummy! Throw a side of chicken breast and WHA LA. A nice little meal with meat, grain and vegetables all together.

But really, in the end, introduce vegetables slowly into your diet and figure out what to do to make them appetizing. This is gonna take real effort on your part but once you start to figure it out it'll get easier. Good luck!

*she says as she munches on raw carrots*

penrbrown

Also, wanted to add that this is a simple case of what we eat what we know. You have acquired a taste for carbs and your body now craves them. But you'll have to completely retrain your body and your tastebuds to get used to new foods. Losing weight and getting healthy is not JUST about modifying what you eat and retraining your body, you have to retrain your brain AND your tastebuds too! What a challenge! But you can do it if you decide to.