What do people have against vegetables?

I don't know! I eat quite a few because I like them and I need a decent sized meal and a person can eat a lot of veggies for the calorie load.

People like what they like but the people that really make me chuckle are the full assed grown adults that whine about not liking them, how to eat them, what to do. All the hand wringing. Seriously? You are an adult. Eat a carrot if it is important to you, simple as that. It won't kill you obviously. If you don't care - just don't eat it but then don't come crying for someone to either validate you or let you in on the great veggie caper where we all know the secret to making them taste like M&M's or Doritos. lol.

I do large trays of roasted vegetables...carrots, potatoes, cauliflower, brussel sprouts...

I also include vegetables in my pasta casseroles such as spinach, I also do turkey burgers with zucchini and grated carrots.

Then there is V8 juice that I drink every morning...2 servings of vegetables and a bunch of potassium.

I fruits and veg. I cook almost all of my food from scratch, so it's easy to incorporate vegetables. I can see how it might be more convenient to eat a bunch of processed crap for meals if you're super busy, but you can still squeeze in snacks of raw baby carrots, apples, cauliflower, etc...

Old habits, I guess.

I like most veggies that look and taste like they do in their original form.

Many people are maligning cauliflower which one of my favorites. (Hint try it roasted, you'll never go back to steamed).

Totally agree, one of my favorites too, especially roasted. The poor cauliflower shouldn't be blamed for the misuse.

To the OP, I just posted on another thread today that it took me until I started learning to cook myself, in my 20s, to realize I really liked vegetables, since we tended to eat them canned or overcooked. Now when I cook (which this weight loss thing has caused me to prioritize again) I love vegetables not only because they are good, but also because they are quick and easy. But if you aren't used to cooking them, you might not buy that.

Also, although my mother disliked cooking and wasn't much good at it, we ate balanced meals as a family that aren't that different--more carbs, never meatless, mainly--than I eat today. It's possible more people today just grew up never eating vegetables?

I eat cucumbers like apples. Put one in your bag and voila! There is your snack.

Who doesn't love vegetables? I live on a farm with a large organic garden and wonderful, flavorful, heirloom varieties of produce. I cannot understand not loving vegetables, UNLESS all you've had is frozen or canned, or overcooked; those things are horrid.

A vegetable once shot my father.

True story.

I'm not against vegetables, in general. What I am against is people telling me "Do this. It's good for you." I'm not a child; I'm an individual with my own likes and dislikes. As long as I'm paying for my own food, I'll eat whatever the hell I want, and I'll not care what the sanctimonious masses have decided is good or bad for me.

I don't know. I know I need to eat them more. It just seems sometimes that they don't fill me up as much as something else would, and I have a sweet tooth, so it's not always my first choice... I know I need to eat more of them though... but I can eat a ton of them and still be hungry. Go figure.

For anyone looking for ways to get more veggies in their diet- If you haven't already seen it, there is a great tool out to make noodles out of Zucchini or other veggies. I found it at Walmart in the 'As seen on TV' section. It is called Veggetti. I must say, if you don't like the mushiness that Zucchini can get when you boil or stir fry it, then definitely try this tool. I can take one zucchini, spiral cut it, put it in a glass covered dish with some garlic, and microwave it for 2 minutes. Comes out amazing! You can add whatever meat you want to it, or use it in the place of spaghetti, with meat and sauce. Or just eat it as is. So easy and tasty. And not mushy at all. It is interesting how the taste changes, just by cutting them into a different form.

It has 2 sides, for spaghetti on one side and fettuccine noodles from the other side. I prefer the wider noodles myself.

I am going to try it with a cucumber next.

Ok let me start by saying I am not one of these people that thinks everyone needs to eat "clean" and cut out all the "junk" in there diets. I love pizza and burgers and ice cream still.

If I don't exercise my calorie goal is 1300 a day and I would starve during the day if I didn't eat a bunch of veggies with each meal, but I see many people's diary's on here where they are lucky to have one vegetable all day. I mean there are lots I don't like either but there are many ways to hide the taste like cauliflower popcorn, or in your pasta or rice dishes. Also there is lots of talk about macro nutrients which I get but what about all your vitamins and minerals that lead to a well balanced diet?

One of the reasons I am asking is I just had my physical today and though my doc is encouraged by my progress she did make a point of asking if I was eating the recommended servings of fruits and veggies and getting enough calcium. So just wondering.

Plain and simple? I don't like them. I couldn't stand them as a kid. Made for some tough times for me because my mother was the you'll eat what I fix type and she and my brother actually *enjoy* the taste and texture of most veggies and fruits even if she's boiled them to death. We rarely had fresh anything veggie wise (except tomatoes from my grandpa's garden), and this includes canned spinach and asparagus and all of that wonderous nastiness.

I still truly cannot stomach a lot of preparations of veggies. It's a combination of taste and texture that gets me. Not everyone perceives vegetable tastes the same way, just like some people think cilantro tastes like soap - I think most veggies are extremely bitter. I gag on fresh broccoli and cauliflower. I can barely choke down raw carrots. To top it off, I never cared for ranch or most salad dressings, so you couldn't get me to touch those things even drowned in dressing. I don't do raw blueberries, blackberries or raspberries, either. If I eat fruit, my apples must be extremely crisp, bananas yellow with no brown or green and the list goes on and on.

That being said, I aim for 10+ servings of fruits and veggies per day and probably average 8+. I recognize the benefits of eating these things, so I've found ways to make them enjoyable for the most part. This week for lunches I'm eating chicken and vegetable tikka masala and each portion has 5 servings of veggies - zucchini, mushrooms, and carrots marinated in tikka seasoning and tossed with masala sauce (tomato). I've found salad dressings I like and I've learned that I can eat a good amount of salad if it has plenty of protein and dressing on it. I make smoothies with 5+ servings of frozen fruit and maybe even some spinach thrown in. Several years ago when I first started trying to incorporate more veggies and fruits, I had a lot more corn and potatoes and smoothies than other things, but I've grown and the more I try things, the more I find them enjoyable.

I know what you mean. I don't eat clean, not in the slightest. I think it's a lot of what you were brought up with. Being half French, veggies at each meal were a standard thing for us. I generally feel as though a meal is missing something if there aren't any vegetables in some form. But I've known plenty of oeople who never ate veg apart from with their Sunday roast or some mushy peas with their fish and chips (that's the English side of the family).

As for counting macro nutrients like carbs, well I kind of ignore that in vegetables and fruits. I just try to eat a balanced diet. I'm old fashioned. My gran never counted carbs and lived to be 100. No-one ever got fat eating too much broccoli and apples.