Anti-Vegtables

Eeek - wish I could help but I don't have a clue. I love my fruit and veg so that's not been the problem for me...mine is very simply liking salty stuff and heavy carbs. I'm sure someone on here though will be able to help!

Its deff holding you back...I used to hate lots of foods, but when they give you results, you will start to like them. V8 has too much sodium. v8 is a no go too.

My wife tried to get me to eat asparagus for nearly 20 years. I finally gave in and its my favorite vegetable. I just remember hating it as a child lol. I'll eat just about any vegetable i can get my hands on. I've even started eating greens. Be like Mikey on the old Life cereal commercials. Try anything!

I'm not a veggie lover by any stretch but I've been trying to add more options to my diet by getting a little creative:

1 - I add raw baby spinach leaves to my turkey wraps
2 - I eat green bell peppers, cucumbers or baby carrots with hummus
3 - Steam up some frozen veggies and mix in with brown rice

I used to hate asparagus too, but that was because my mother used to buy the canned stuff, whereby the fresh lightly steamed veg is lovely.

I think a lot of us have a view of veggies that were cooked till all the flavour and texture was boiled out of them, and it put us off? Maybe you could give yourself a challenge of trying one vegetable a week, research cooking it and move on to another one?

Also you can add grated carrot to lots of things as well as other finely cut vegies, and tinned tomatoes can be used in lots of dishes.

It is well worth persisting!

GG

For most people, it just takes trying them repeatedly. You CAN train your tastebuds for most things. Typically, you can adjust to things you dislike within about 10-15 tries. So start with the ones you don't dislike AS MUCH as others. Try cooking them in different ways. Pick one and eat it at least a couple of times a week for several weeks, even if you can only stand a bite or two. Gradually, you can learn to tolerate them - and most people find that they actually learn to LIKE at least some of them.

Just eat lots of the veggies you do like.

I'm kind of picky with what I'll eat so I eat tons of corn, and green beans.

can you puree them and add them to other things...Jessica Seinfeld does have a book out where she gives tips to hide veggies like that in her kids favorite things and thus making the reciepes more healthy too while getting her kids to eat it.

I think she even breads her chicken in a veggie puree before puts the breadcrumbs on and bakes it

I shred tons of veggies and put it in a turkey meatloaf and it is moist and good.

If you eat pasta sauce, you can puree lot of things and hide it in the sauce

I also hide veggies diced in chili or taco meat and when you eat the taco you can barely tell there are veggies in the meat mix

Also if you make any muffins or pancakes you can add shredded veggies just make sure you add a pinch of salt to the shredded veggies and then let them sit on the counter in a strainer to drain a bit of the veggie's excess water before adding them to a mix

My aunt used to make an awesome shredded veggie pizza with zucchini and yellow squash and it was all so small and hidden under the sauce us kids never knew we were eating healthy.

too bad you have such bad memories related to the healthy stuff...maybe you can turn it around for your kids by having a garden and finding new ways to love them

Sometimes if you go into something with a negative thought, you will hate it. If you sit there and think how gross and horrible vegetables taste, more and likely, most of them will taste gross and horrible. Try to think of the benefits you will get from eating your veggies. Maybe you should check out some healthy vegetable recipes. There is always more than one way to prepare a veggie and you might find one that you really like.

I'm in the same boat as you. I HATE veggies .. to the point, that I don't even like lettuce. I don't mind having romaine lettuce in a salad - but I'm so picky about it. The slightest taste of iceberg lettuce makes me gag. True Story.

The only veggies I'll eat are "corn" (yes, I know it's a starch), and broccoli & cauliflower - but ONLY if it's in my Mom's Broccoli & Cauliflower salad lol. I'm ridiculously picky and try new things from time to time, but nothing ever sticks.

I may try out the vitamins someone else suggested - that sounds like a wonderful idea!

*tried mashed cauliflower.. it was gross.. but I heard you can add in mashed potato flakes and "wean" yourself off of them. Which I may try to do again!*

...anything else is a no go!

Why?

I'm pretty sure it has something to do with being "punished" with vegtables as a kid. I remember crying, gagging, practically throwing myself on the floor over vegtables at a young age. I'm working on it but they are just gross to me.

So there's a bigger issue (punishment) behind the symptom (which is not liking veggies), it seems.

I gave myself a healing package a year ago. Quit this and that, started sports again and commenced eating healthy. Did a much feared health check and also sought advice from a psychologist to figure out why I had gotten stuck in the first place. It was really good to do that because I realized that I had been deceiving myself with nonsensical lines of argument. I went after the nonsense, and truly, from then onwards the rest was easy.

That might be an idea to consider. Because, believe me, vegetables are delicious hehe.