Vegetables? Eww Yuk

All of those are on my list plus more. I will eat carrots but only raw. And I will choke down corn if I have to. But I love fruit. Any kind of fruit. Oh and I'll eat spinach. But that's about all I'll eat in the vegetable category.

My first honest response is something along the lines of...GROW UP.
Upon further thought....I was right the first time.

Shame, thats actually terribly sad!
There is so much yum in that list!

Beets.

They taste like dirt.

I am so glad not to be the only one that feels this way about beets.

That said, I live in a country where they eat lots of beets, and nowadays just suck it up and eat them when they're served. It's fish I can't get the hang of eating :sick:

I love all vegetables, it's just as well...I'm vegan :laugh:

I LOVE vegetables! Everything but okra, and cooked tomatoes ( I love tomatoes if they are homegrown heirloom varietals and raw)..

My Eww Yuck list;

protein powder, whey powder, any "powder" pretending to be food.
Mac and cheese (Gaaah!)
Mexican cuisine
quest type bars
milk!!
nearly all chips, cheetos, doritos, nachos, that dry crunchy cardboardy stuff.
Tomato sauce, ketchup, tomato paste ( Gaaah!)
rice cakes ( *kitten* child of styrofoam and cardboard)
All fish except salmon. Canned tuna is NASTY.
Juice of any sort, except for mango nectar, preferably Egyptian ( the best).

Especially Costco's Organic lowfat Kirkland milk. I don't know what it is, but that milk tasted different from other milk and not in a good way. I stopped drinking milk because I wanted to cut down on animal products, but also overtime, I just stopped liking it. Also, I can't tell the difference between when the milk smells fine or when it's expired, lol. It smells gross either way. When I do drink nondairy milk, I rarely drink it straight. It's usually part of something like pancakes, smoothies, or cereal (and I'm picky about which milk I use for my cereal. I also don't drink the left over milk (I used to). I either dump it or add more cereal if there's enough).


The list also reminds me of these bars I never liked- those Nature Valley Oats n Honey granola bar. I also don't like orange juice (oranges in general, actually) and I can get sick of grape juice pretty quickly.

Hahaha. Kale in a smoothie. Spat it out , quit that ****. Though I think I will give it a shot again actually looking up recipes this time The OP's do not like list is very long, but it appears she likes and eats way more veg than I do!!

Have you tried masking the taste of kale with fruits? 1 cup of kale, 1 cup of frozen berries, half a banana, 2 scoops of vanilla protein powder, 1 cup of nondairy milk. Blend the kale and milk first, then add in the rest and blend again. I had this today and you'll taste more of the fruit than the kale if you actually taste the kale at all.

I am the total opposite. I will not even go to a restaurant unless they have at least a few side order options of vegetables. I feel totally incomplete without my daily vegetables. I love them, and thank goodness I do as they help bulk out meals quite nicely, as well as containing so many nutrients (depending on the vegetable of course). Oh, and avocado is a fruit, not a vegetable. Same goes for tomatoes.

It's the same for me, too. I need my fruits and veggies to make my meals feel complete.

The same goes for zucchinis and squash, too. Even nuts are fruits- pretty much anything with seeds.

I love vegetables! All vegetables! Raw, roasted, grilled, boiled, steamed, stir fried, BBQ'd, mashed, grated, sautéed, made into burgers, blended into smoothies....yum!

Me too.

I love most fruits but hate most vegetables. I like raw carrot, pickled beetroot, and potatoes if they count, but I don't like the taste of any other veg. I wish I did, for the healthy aspect, I just can't stand the stuff.

I think your error is in expecting to like them. You have been allowed to think (by your parents, I guess) that liking a food is relevant.

it's an error borne of not having any famines when they were growing up to teach them that having food at all is a bonus, and liking it is completely off the charts super double bonus.

When we raise children to eat a food, we offer it 10 times. At the 10th time the child will have started to get used to the mouth feel, gotten over any 'ick' reactions he might have had, (ick reactions are psychological and happen to teenaged girls who are developing affectations in an attempt to look 'cute', also. They are not physiological and they are not relevant to survival. They are only able to survive in an environment where survival itself is already guaranteed.)

So anyway, choose the vegetables you DO like, write a list of them, and every week buy one more vegetable, and try it ten times. I don't mean that silly 'teeniest bite with the tips of the teeth' gobshyte I've seen teenagers do. I mean chuck a whole mouthful in, think of England and eat it as fast as you can, and swallow it.

you do that ten times and by the 10th time you will have worked out all of your difficulties and gotten over your dislike. Remember: it's 100% psychological and your parents let you get away with that. Or, to put it another way, you were spoiled. If you can 'unspoil' yourself by the time you have children you can save them from your problem, which is that having limited yourself in terms of what food you will eat, you've cut out all the non-fattening ones and are left only with the fattening ones.

I was going to say exactly this!! You need to try it, REALLY TRY IT, AD NAUSEUM until you like it. And you WILL like it eventually. I used to hate a million foods--now the only thing I truly won't touch is salami..and that's because I haven't really tried to like it because I don't need another processed cold-cut I enjoy. I hated everything from cream cheese to pot pie to pepperoni to guacamole to onions (every which way)...and I honestly 'pretended' to like vegetables (but I'd never choose to eat anything but carrots, broccoli, and cauliflower). Now I eat everything, and anything, and the weirder the better. And all of the foods I listed as having hated---probably my favorites now.

You just need to keep eating it no matter what...you'll like it. Eventually...you will. Your body is trained to do that.

Now durian fruit...well perhaps we won't gain that much of an ability...but seriously...even then!

And I second how annoying it is to go out with people who won't eat/try anything. Like legit, we went to this vegan restaurant and this girl we were treating ordered VEGGIE LO MEIN. IT IS EXACTLY THE SAME AS ANYWHERE ELSE- No fake meat involved.

And guess what...she wouldn't eat it. She claimed it "tasted funny" (because there was no grease). I have eaten lo mein from just about every place in a 20 mile radius and it tastes EXACTLY the same.

Your mind is really where it's all happening...


(also...try pot! get the munchies! you'll eat anything then! dill pickle potato chips anyone?? or fried chicken and waffle chips? gosh....those really tasted like having a stroke *aka, like burning hair*)

Hahaha. Kale in a smoothie. Spat it out , quit that ****. Though I think I will give it a shot again actually looking up recipes this time The OP's do not like list is very long, but it appears she likes and eats way more veg than I do!!

Have you tried masking the taste of kale with fruits? 1 cup of kale, 1 cup of frozen berries, half a banana, 2 scoops of vanilla protein powder, 1 cup of nondairy milk. Blend the kale and milk first, then add in the rest and blend again. I had this today and you'll taste more of the fruit than the kale if you actually taste the kale at all.

Hey thanks, I might try this!

I just have to buy the non diary milk, berries, bananas and kale first :laugh: How do you measure kale in cups? I normally just yank off the leaves or I can weigh them?

I get kale that is usually chopped. If they aren't, you can just chop or rip them into pieces so you can fit them into a measuring cup (I use one of the 1-cup measurers). Weighing them isn't necessary and usually a handful would equal that amount.

With this smoothie, I use the kale more as a means to get more vegetables in my meal rather than tasting it (even though I don't mind the taste of it, lol). Imo, mostly veggie smoothies are bitter and nasty :P.