I HATE VEGETABLES!!!

Lesa_Sass

Hide them in smoothies. Here are some great recipes for them and you can not taste the veggies.

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Lifting_Knitter

Grate and add to the foods you all ready like?
Works for my kids when they are being difficult

exactly my thoughts.

Sweet_Potato

How are you preparing them? People tend to corral vegetables into the realm of side dishes when they really shine as a main course. For example I just made a moussaka last night with eggplant and tomatoes that was excellent, and asparagus risotto the night before. I would do things like that.

jr1985

I hear ya! while I have finally gotten to the point where I can at least tolerate most vegetables... I would much rather be eating a bacon cheeseburger.

You don't have to just jump in cold turkey you know... If you want pizza... make a tortilla pizza in the over with a whole wheat flour tortilla, and throw some sauteed veggies on top too.

Sauteed Onions and peppers have always been the easiest for me to incorporate into my food... They add an awesome flavor to things.

Try mixing in some zucchini into your pasta... Or go ahead and put some cheese sauce on your broccoli... Or eat an awesome healthy salad with a kick but salad dressing and cheese to help round it out... you don't have to just eat a pile of plain veggies... food network website is great for recipe ideas too...

mazdauk

Try the Pampered Chef hot broccoli dip- it got me eating loads of veggies. Most veg taste better with cheese - but of course that adds calories and defeats the object! So try hiding them in pasta bakes etc.

Sweet_Potato

This sounds more reasonable than anything else. I have tried veggies other ways and they still taste so bad to me. The working out thing is a slow start for me, but I think that's how it's suppose to happen. Slow and steady wins the race...right?

My doctor says you have to try new food 17 times before you learn to like it. Don't know how true this is but it works with my kids, they eat a much greater variety of vegetables now. But there are always going to be some they don't like.

I don't know if you need as many as 17 tries, but you can definitely train yourself to like something. Fish used to make me gag, but I got myself to love it (I started with sushi, which is less fishy, and worked my way up to anchovies ).

rduhlir

The first thing you need to do is stop seeing this as a diet. If you want to get healthy, then be healthy.

If you are having issues with veggies why not try getting them by juicing them? I am not saying to go to a juicing diet, but if you don't like veggies why not make a veggie/fruit drink to go alongside?

Marie_25

LMAO!!!! Great!! :0))

FitGuyWillDoIt

Great ideas! As some people have noted, sauces are good. I do that and I feel like a brilliant chef. I've been vegan for three years and find it a lot easier than dealing with meat.

One tip I would like to add is check out Vegetarian Times magazine. This month they are highlighting 5 ingredient chili recipes. They take 30 min. to make! I've uploaded, "Black Bean Chili with Fire-Roasted Corn - Vegetarian Times Mag" and made it public.

Also, try sauteing garlic, onions, or scallions then tossing in your veggies and seasonings. I've found they stay crisp and get some nice flavor. It's also easy to do.

Mamalea32

Try: Shredded carrots in your omlet, veggies in chicken soup, on pizza, roasted veggies with provolone inside a melty and delicious pita pocket, mashed cauliflour, mashed sweet potatoes, add mashed carrots to your mashed potatoes, cucumbers on your sandwich, broccoli slaw, tiny chopped celery in your tuna or turkey salad, thinly sliced butternut squashed steamed with light butter or salt substitute.... there is so much more to veggies than a garden salad. Can you tell that I like veggies? I am the only person in my household that actually enjoys them so I must get creative or else I have to cook seperate meals, which is time-consuming and ridiculous.

zilea

I'm going to speak from my own experience here. Your body is born knowing what foods are right for it. If you had grown up eating the foods your body needed, your brain would be listening to the messages your body sends it when it needs certain nutrients that come from particular foods. But, in our society, we are tending to train our brains to not listen to our body's needs. The trend has been, instead of feeding our bodies with fuel to function well, we simply fill our stomachs with whatever salty, greasy processed swill the big companies are promoting our way.
After years of eating this way, ignoring what our body tells us it needs, our brain just becomes disconnected from these communications.

I never hated all vegetables. I always loved some, like spinach, asparagus, broccoli... However, there were many that I did not like much or not at all. Back in 2006, I had a raw, vegan friend who was very encouraging to me on making a food lifestyle change. I had begun a new early childhood education job in Jan., which had me in and out of classrooms every day, exposed to whatever bugs were going around, and I'd been sick with one flu or cold bug after another for most of the year. I was so freakin' sick of being sick and tired and was beginning to despair that I'd never get my usual vitality and high energy back.

By Oct. of that year, I was ready to do whatever it took to get better, so I started listening to my friend a bit more. On Jan. 1, 2007, I began an experiment on my body and went to a mostly raw food and mostly vegan lifestyle. I kept a small bit of raw cheese in my intake and sometimes had sushi or other raw or nearly raw fish on a salad. I really wasn't too hard on myself if I wanted something not quite raw or not quite vegan, but I stayed pretty close to about 95% raw.

I started experimenting with green smoothies as a means for getting larger amounts of green leafy vegetables into my body. When I'm working, I'm often on the road, away from my kitchen, so I came up with a way to be able to make a bit ahead and transport them, while keeping them fresh.

I started out with raw spinach smoothies, mixing it with raspberries, raw organic coconut, lemon, orange, some banana (Gives them a nice creamy, sweet texture/taste), and raw, organic cacao, and I would sweeten them somewhat with raw honey and/or agave nectar. This became my favorite smoothie, and really the only one I loved. However, you cannot eat the same greens every day, so I had to do smoothies with other types of green leavies.

I used celery (Great with strawberries and bananas!), lettuce, kale, bok choy, beet greens, dandelion greens, parsley, etc... I experimented with what combinations I liked best. Some didn't turn out so great, like dandelion greens or arugula with anything sweet, like fruits. Ugh! Those peppery tasting leafs are better in zesty (V8 like) smoothies. Anyway, if I didn't like a flavor combination, I just didn't make that one again. The main thing is to get as many fresh, raw, organic, green leafy vegetables into you as you can.

At first, I would sweeten the smoothies (Except dandelion greens or arugula, as stated above.), but after a while, this became unnecessary, as my tastes changed. I used less and less honey or agave nectar, 'til I was no longer using anything but fruit to sweeten my smoothies.

The remarkable thing for me though, is how much my cravings changed. When I began the raw lifestyle and eating green smoothies, I did not care much for celery, parsley, kale, raw bok choy, etc. After a couple of months, I started getting cravings for those things I used to not like at all. I would be driving home from a job and not be able to get celery out of my mind. I'd have to go to the store and buy some celery, get it home, and make a smoothie with it for dinner. Crazy!

I was the healthiest I've ever been in my life, for two years. My old energy came back and I trimmed right down to a size 6 and stayed there without even trying to diet. I ate lots of calories and much of that was fat calories, in the form of avocados, nuts, and seeds, but had no issues with gaining weight. I used an Excalibur food dehydrator and made extremely healthy cookies, chips, etc... for my road treats. I loved it!

Then my work load became too much and my schedule got so out of whack. I lost all balance in my life and no longer had time to create the great raw snacks I'd been making to keep a large variety in my diet. I was still making and drinking my green smoothies, but I reintroduced cooked starches into my life, in the form of organic, whole grain chips and whole grain breads and the like. I gradually gained weight and over an almost 4 year period, put on some 50 pounds, even though I kept drinking about a quart of green smoothie each day.

Though weight gain sucked, I never got back to the sicky, no-energy state I'd been in through 2006, which I credit to the consistent intake of green smoothies in my diet. I know that raw foodism is right for me and that I must limit my intake of grain based carbs. They just go right to my butt.

I finally got back to eating more raw foods in Jan. of this year and I began working out as well. I've lost nearly 20 pounds since Jan. 5 and I'm feeling so strong.

Anyway, the point I wanted to drive home with this long story was, you CAN change your food preferences. You just have to make yourself eat those things you KNOW are good for you. After you've done that for a while, your brain will begin listening to your body's signals again, the way it is right and natural for it to do. Cravings are meant to let us know what our body really needs. Getting cravings for junk (Not going to even add the word "food" to the term, because it isn't food, really.) is about the lost communication between your body and your brain. You can retrain them to communicate again and then you will begin to get cravings for the foods you once thought you hated. Really! I know it's hard to imagine this, but it is so true.

I wish you great strength and conviction as you are going through this transition. That period is the hardest, in our society. Do whatever it takes, with being your healthiest, your goal...and the slimming will just come naturally.

Truth!

smh1067

I don't like them either. I just work with the few I do like and then hide the rest from myself. You can add low flavor veggies to smoothies (a few cooked carrots or sweet potoato, a little cooked squash, even a handful of spinach!) or even the same ones to spaghetti or pizza sauce shredded or pureed up or even added to soup. I've found shredding carrots or dicing veggies up really small and adding them to foods I already like helps because then you don't get a big chunk of a flavor you don't like. I add shredded carrots to things like pasta salad and fajitas or quesidillas. It kind of introduces you to the flavor slowly (even if you only put one tiny chunk of that veggie in your meal the first time, you only have to eat it once). It sounds rediculous, but it really does work. I've taught myself to eat the veggies I do eat doing these things and gradually increasing the size of the chunks to get myself use to the flavor over time.

I've gone from eating only corn to eating corn, potatoes, bell peppers, mushrooms, onion, celery, spinach, carrots, squash, zucchini, kale, cucumber, sweet potato, avocado, leeks, and tomatos. Not saying I sit down and eat all of these with a fork with gusto, but they make it into my diet (and by diet I mean the types of food I eat, not that I'm on a diet). Some veggies remain small, some only get eaten in smoothies, some veggies don't make the cut at all (beans and peas still make me gag). Do the best you can do. I know fruit has a lot of sugar, but I can't get on board with the argument that sugar is sugar is sugar because a banana and a cookie will never be on the same nutritional plane for me.

Like other posters have said, it's not a "diet," it's a lifestyle change. Find ways to eat healthier that you can stick with long term. And you know what, you can have a burger and fries if you want it that bad, just plan it into your day. If you set something off limits, you'll want it even more and it's not realistic to say you'll never eat a burger again. When you know you can have it, you might realize it's not worth the extra calories and not want it as much. If you feel like you're hungry all day, try losing at a little slower of a rate and then you won't feel so deprived. It'll take longer to get there, but at least you'll get there instead of getting frustrated and giving up. It's just figuring out what works for you personally. If vegetables never work, then they never work. Find other things that do.

mili5726

Learn how to make green smoothies. They are delicious and you can put all sorts of greens in them without the taste

MelissaFrost12

I know exactly how you feel.. I can't stand vegetables and quite a few times I've found them to come straight back up after I've eaten them..
I bought a nicer dicer!!
It is fantastic, it cuts food so small and I've been putting mushrooms, carrots and onion in dishes I love like spag bol, lasagne and cottage pie.
I've been doing it in stuff like this to try and have red meat too. I am also a fussy eater and am trying to condition myself into eating vegetables..
I also study psychology and I've found that conditioning works, and apparently so does heroin, but I wouldn't recommend that one lol..

Just put the vegetables on your plate anyhow and tell yourself everyday that vegetables are good and that your going to beat that horrible green and your no longer gonna be afraid.. Sounds stupid but it really does work if you try

anjsdav

Cut out sugar or drastically reduce the amount of sugar you consume then vegetables will taste a heck of a lot better. This is the same advice I received a few years ago from one of the owners of a Jamaican restaurant that lost over 50 lbs. It did it and now I crave what I once thought was bitter and yucky. It just took several months of reduced sugar intake for my taste buds to adjust. Hope this helps.

MightyDomo

In all honesty you sometimes have to eat what you don't like to start liking it.

I didn't always like seafood/fish or all veggies, even some meats I wasn't very happy to eat but over time I got used to having them and learned to enjoy them and now I found that I more than enjoy a few of them... I love them!

I grew up a steak, potatoes and carrots girl (my dad made it quite often) and breakfast was toast with PB, Jam or Cheese Whiz to give you an idea of how expansive my likes were back then.

bumblebums

Sometimes, the difference between what you will and will not eat is 36 hours. (No, I am not suggesting you starve yourself. It's just that the word "hate" seems awfully strong for one's feelings towards foods.)

stratcat45

I suggest you visit these sites and get some ideas on new recipes or how to sneak veggies into other foods you eat:

www.skinnytaste.com
www.greenlitebites.com
www.danicasdaily.com
www.emilybites.com
www.hungrygirl.com

There are many more out there!!

Also find a diet plan that works for YOU! Though I use this site, I follow the Weight Watchers plan mostly because it denies me absolutely no food.

Moneyinthejar

I am somewhat in the same boat, so I bought a Nutribullet (part of the Magic Bullet family of products). Every morning I add 1.5 cups of spinich, which has no taste (you can use whatever vegetables you want btw) and 1.5 cups of mixed fruit (whatever mixture you like), add cold water, blend and I have a delicious smoothie that tastes great and I have managed to get in a ton of fruits and veggies. I will eat other veggies throughout the day, but this at least get's in a good chunk for me right off the hop.

LadyJos

Try juicing and/ or smoothies as well. I'm not a big veggie either either but but making smoothies with Kale, broccoli, spinach etc and adding fruits to sweeten. Lots of recipes out there to get you started. Good luck