I can't stand veggies... help!

Creamy soups are a good option. Broccoli & cauliflower blend well in soups. An immersion blender is very helpful.

You can actually mash cooked cauliflower in with mashed potatoes. Start with 1/4 cauliflower to potato....cauliflower is really mild in flavor.

Mashed rutabaga or parsnips. Parsnips have a flavor very similar to carrots.

Squash is good mashed (ok, technically a fruit).

amcook4 wrote: »

Try different preparations of vegetables. Growing up all veggies were boiled, then covered with butter & salt, they all tasted like the same mushy mess. Now I eat veggies all of the time, and I very rarely boil them, usually roasted, stir fried, grilled, put into soup, etc.

Yes, keep trying different preparations of veggies. Have you tried roasted veggies with garlic and herbs?

You said you like soups, what about curries? I love curried veggies.

As for Potatoes I get almost all my carbs from them, I eat a couple pounds a day. They go great for controlling hunger so I don't binge on anything else. This guy pretty much proved that potatoes aren't as bad as everyone says: http://20potatoesaday.com/ Like TimothyFish said, it depends on what you put on the,.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/search/search-results.html?searchTerm=vegetable+soup&form=global&_charset_=UTF-8

I am a picky eater, and I hate trying new things. But I do anyway, because my diet was ridiculously restrictive. Example: I hated tomatoes, never ate them. In reality, I had never had a tomato - I had bits in food and that was it. So I bought a couple tomatoes and cooked it up several different ways. I tried it raw (which I like, with salt) I tried it pan fried with garlic (this is my favorite) and I also tried it just boiled in with my stew (not so good) - the things about tomatoes that bothered me before were the unknown scariness of newness, and that the insides look like boogers. It still bothers me, but now I know I like tomatoes and can add them to my meals. I would suggest doing something like that with vegetables. Go to the store and once a week pick a new vegetable. Try it a number of different ways, and try to keep an open mind about it. There will be certain things you will always hate, but you will start to come across things you can tolerate or even enjoy!

One way to introduce new veggies is through a mild soup, to mute the veg flavor even more chop up a potato and include it when you add the veg:

Really easy veggie soup:

• Dice 1 Onion & Saute in a Soup pot with a bit of Coconut or Olive oil until translucent
• Add a few cloves of minced garlic, stir til fragrant
• add Spices (Salt Pepper & Ginger is a good one) (Salt, Pepper & Thyme) (Salt, Pepper & Italian Herbs) (For your main spice just smell around until you find something you like, Curry, Cumin, Rosemary, etc...)
• Add chopped veg of your choosing: Cauliflower, asparagus, butternut squash, broccoli, mushrooms, tomatoes, Zucchini, etc... stir to coat in spices and onions and garlic
• pour in 1 quart/litre of stock (veg, chicken, beef, I use chicken stock 99% of the time)
• bring to a boil, reduce to a simmer for 45-60 minutes
• blend until smooth (careful it's hot!) either with immersion blender or in a pitcher blender

Uselessly_Irrelevant wrote: »

the things about tomatoes that bothered me before were the unknown scariness of newness, and that the insides look like boogers.

This made me spit out my coffee laughing Tomato boogers! My mom hates tomatoes for the same reason.

I really don't have any advice for you OP, I hated veggies growing up but I started eating them as an adult and kept experimenting with different kinds and different preps and now I eat them all the time and love them. But they all have different textures and flavors to me, I have never thought of "veggies" as one thing...

Another way that has helped me learn to like vegetables is that I signed up for a farm CSA share this year. Basically I bought a share of a local farm, and every two weeks I get a box of a wide variety of vegetables, many of which I had never had. Since I paid a decent amount of money for it, I would challenge myself to find ways to cook all of the things we got. Until this summer I had never had chard pasta or rutabaga hash, but I actually liked most of what we came up with, and now I have a wider range of veggies to chose from.

So don't eat veggies. Eat what you do like. Take a vitamin and some fiber. No big deal.

I can eat corn (steamed) and potatoes without problem. I personally eat baked sweet potato fries almost everyday. Just with a little olive oil and seasoning (and sometimes a little ketchup). I also love baked potato wedges, again a little olive oil and seasoning (no ketchup required).

But in order to get green veggies in my diet, I have a green smoothie daily (3 cups spinach or kale or a mix of both, 1.5 cups of frozen fruit, a little juice or water, and a bit of honey to sweeten). It helps me meet my veggie and fruit goal and it makes enough to keep me full until my mid-afternoon snack.

Juicing is another good option.

And think about baking with veggies. Kale chips are so tasty. Also think about using zucchini to make breads and muffins. It's good stuff.

Do you like meatballs, meatloaf, or similar? A good way to get veggies in is to cook until soft, mash them a bit and add to your ground meats.

I love veggies and can't imagine not eating them every day but I agree with what some have said, you can't force yourself to like them. I cannot stand avocado, makes me gag, revolting stuff. Experiment, try them roasted with a bit of olive oil or blended into soups, hide them in stuff if that is what works, if you absoutley can't do it then don't stress about it, get your goodness from other sources.

I used to be the same way until I completely re-vamped and cleaned up my diet. Now I love veggies! I mostly like them roasted with seasonings. I started slowly, trying one veggie at a time a couple of months after cleaning up my diet. I didn't love them all but I liked a lot more than I did before.

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