NEVER ate veggies or fruits! Help!!!

you could try incorporating fruits and veggies with other thing instead of eating them by themselves. perhaps you can work up to eating them on their own. there may be some vegetables out there you have never tried before that won't have that weird aftertaste, same with fruits. sometimes i have to force myself to eat some veggies (like broccoli!). i guess you could say i treat that like a daily vitamin. i hope this helps you!

Try Bare Fruit Apple Chips! They're so delicious and kinda like chips. Also, you could bake sweet potato fries and it might make the veggies not taste so bad

I understand completely. The only difference is that I have always loved fruits, but I hated vegetables of every kind.

It was a really slow process for me as far as vegetables go. I had to try one thing at a time and basically force myself to eat it, masking the flavor in any way that I could until I got used to it. I started with raw baby spinach in a "salad" (really it was just a bunch of raw baby spinach with a bit of sweet dressing) and then put it on different things (sandwiches, burgers) in really small amounts. Once I got used to that, I added another veggie. I'm now up to being okay with spinach, carrots, peas, green beans, and romaine lettuce. Getting ready to work on sprouts. Ew.

I'd say that going about fruit would be the same way.

Eat them IN other things so it masks the taste. Look for recipes (and then share if you find any) that uses veggies inside other, more flavorful foods so it seems less like eating veg.

Even still, I eat my vegetables before everything else on my plate so the other food items might chase away the flavor of the veggies...

While you get used to the taste of fruit, try mixing it with yogurt or dipping it in honey. That may help.

Veggies, you can try carrots or celery with peanut butter. As far as salads, try a variety of dressings (in moderation). Also, try cooking things like asparagus or brussel sprouts or broccoli in the over with a LITTLE BIT of olive oil and garlic.

I don't know if these suggestions will help or not but it's certainly worth a try. Good luck!

One good way to start out is with milder/sweeter stuff (apples, bananas, peas, carrots). Also, you can chop stuff really small and start mixing it into sauces or foods that will help disguise taste/texture (ie spinach or zucchini in mashed potatoes or spaghetti sauce).

Basically, (and I'm not being condescending here) treat yourself like a baby. The same way you introduce those things to a baby/small child, is the way you need to approach it. Small doses, mild flavors, and disguising them. Might try getting a cookbook geared for getting kids to eat healthy (several out in the last few years, but I can't think of titles at the moment) - they have lots of great ideas on how to blend tastes and disguise stuff.

It takes sometimes up to 10 tries of a particular food to develop a taste for it. I expect some of it at this point is the lack of development of specific taste buds (there are several different kinds that do different jobs - sweet, salty, bitter, etc). And some of it is probably just a mental block. So if you KEEP trying them, you'll eventually get to where you can handle some, and even like them! Just keep working on it.

I like to take a sweet potato and cut it into "fry" sized pieces, then spray it with a little cooking spray and toss it in a mixture of garlic powder and chinese five spice powder (abbout a tsp of each). I bake it in the oven until tender (about 30 mis) and they are DELICIOUS. I doubt you could even tell they were a vegetable.

I hope you find something that works!

So like what have you lived on all this time? If you've eaten anything other than meat, you have eaten vegetables. It's a matter of how they are prepared. And if you haven't recognized them as veggies, they've been highly processed and that is the taste you are evidently used to. Try small bits at a time and a great flavor enhancer such as ranch dip made with sour cream, fat free if you can stand that. Use less and less until the veggies begin to grow on you. I believe it's just a matter of you getting used to real fresh food without tons of processing and chemicals. Enjoy!

I 100% completely understand where you are coming from. I only like three fruits (grapes, bananas, blueberries) and I can stomach a select few vegetables (lettuce is not one of them...no salad for me!) However, it is not the taste that bothers me, it is the texture. I'm extremely picky about the textures of my food.

I'm not sure if I have any tips to help you eat more of these healthy foods, but I can tell you what I did. I stopped saying "No" when people offered me new fruits and vegetables. The worst that could happen was that I hated it, and then I'd never have to eat it again. I've found a few vegetables that I used to turn my nose at that I actually enjoy. Another thing my mom did was add cheese to my broccoli and cauliflower to give them a more mushy, creamy texture. Once I got used to it, I eliminated the cheese and now happily eat fresh, steamed broccoli and cauliflower (broccoli is actually my favorite vegetable now). Lastly, I steam all my vegetables. This makes them more "mushy" and soft (aka. I'll eat it) because its the crunchy/veiny/leafy textures that I find off-putting.

Since you know it is the aftertaste that you don't like, try cooking the vegetables in different ways and adding different dressings/oils/spices/seasonings. You should eventually find a combination that alters the taste and makes the vegetables more pleasing for you. I wish I had advice for fruits, but alas, they are not really things you cook and I just haven't found a way to willingly eat them (besides fruit pizza...I do enjoy me some fruit pizza).

Puree your fruits and veggies and mix in with sauces, chilies, gravies, soups. Works really well. Check out Deceptively Delicious recipes from the library by Mrs. Seinfeld. ; ) Love those recipes. but let the spinach brownies cool completely before eating!

I was kind of thinking along the same lines. I was thinking about how babies are introduced to fruits and veggies. They are introduced veggies first and one at a time to test for allergic reactions. My kids often spit out their 1st taste but eventually got used to every veggie/fruit offered. I read somewhere that it takes 7 tastes to get used to a new flavor. So keep trying! And, if all else fails go for the spinach brownies!