Help... I hate veggies! Super picky eater!

2»

Replies

  • Camsdette
    Camsdette Posts: 32 Member
    Try a green smoothie maybe? I throw two carrots and two handfuls of spinach in with a bunch of fruit, and all I can taste is the fruit smoothie part. Ideally you should have a good blender for this, and don't let the color throw you.
  • NicoleStanton2
    NicoleStanton2 Posts: 1 Member
    So I tried the hypnotist. Didn't work. I've never been able to eat fruits or veggies or most whole grains. The texture gets me long before the taste does. I can eat something that tastes bad, I cannot for the life of me keep something down that is mushy, grainy, crunchy, or slimy. I tried the hypnotist last summer and all it did was make me hate plant matter more. I hated the energy I was spending trying to eat, just to throw up and feel weak and shocky for the next few hours just to do it again at the next meal time. I started avoiding eating because I couldn't stand to throw up again. At this point, I need a way to find balance without someone telling me I just need to cook it a different way. has anyone found a way to balance the diet without that annoying plant matter?
  • Hearts_2015
    Hearts_2015 Posts: 12,031 Member
    edited March 2016
    So those of you that say you hate veggies and fruit you don't care for any of these:

    How about chopped up veggies, cut up small added to omelets? on Pizzas? Tossed in pasta sauce (which is a fruit BTW..tomatoes) do you like any berries? Strawberries, blueberries? Fresh or even frozen in a smoothie, add some spinach or kale and a 1/2 a frozen banana even if you have to close your eyes... wonder if you could eat that or at least have someone make it and give it a shot, or at least a sip? ;)

    I love veggies and fruits, There's millions all over the world I haven't tried but so many that are so wonderful. Pineapple, Pomegranates, all sorts berries, fresh peaches, nectarines, ....the list goes on...

    Hope you're all picking up ideas from one another or checking out the web.... they are so healthy but to make someone eat something they despise doesn't seem worth it.

    Oh...no wine drinkers? grapes = fruit = wine ;)
  • eldamiano
    eldamiano Posts: 2,667 Member
    What you do is grow up a bit and stop being picky.....
  • erimethia_fekre
    erimethia_fekre Posts: 317 Member
    My grandma use to tell me that if you didn't like something it's because you haven't tried it enough. Lol

    You don't like what you won't like. Why force yourself
  • Eastern_Echo23
    Eastern_Echo23 Posts: 198 Member
    As a vegan of 3 years i know what your going through... When i decided to switch my lifestyle i hated veggies at first. But it gets better i promise! Dr. Neal Benard (who i highly recommend), says that it takes about 14-21 days for your taste to change. So what i recommend is eating veggies for 2-3 weeks every day...Over time you will start to love the way they taste... I know it doesn't always work, i can't eat sugar beats without gagging, but for most other veggies i've found my taste changed quite fast.

    It also works that way with quitting sugary, salty, and fatty foods... Just change to your desired diet for 2-3 weeks and then your taste will change.
  • RonanByrne
    RonanByrne Posts: 2 Member
    Baby steps is all I can recommend. I never ate a green until I was in my mid twenties. I started with raw peas, worked my way up to cooked peas and mangetout.

    Lettuce was one thing I couldn't face, I had bad memories of stray lettuce pieces making their way into my plain cheeseburgers. I did try small pieces of rocket (arrugala for the Americans) hidden in sandwiches and then a few small pieces on the side of my plate like a "salad".

    I couldn't eat onions either but I started caramelising a little finely diced onion in my lasagne sauce and worked up from there. I still don't like raw onion but it wouldn't ruin a salad for me.

    Grilled or roasted veg are amazing once you build up to them. Try roasting carrots in plenty of olive oil with some herbs and salt. Once you grow to love it you can cut back on the oil, think long term.

    I can eat anything now but it did take a couple of years of effort. I had to remind myself to add new things and keep increasing the serving sizes of things had already tried. There comes a tipping point where you're no longer forcing yourself and you end up enjoying and craving some crunchy veg. I now notice how bad I feel if I end up eating beige food for an entire weekend and come home dying for some high fibre veg.

    Why not try throwing broccoli, peas, corn, apple and walnuts in a big bowl and make your own version of a waldorf? you could pile that high without overloading on calories. It would also be a great dish to drop a small bit of something else into.

    Best of luck
  • HealthyGinny
    HealthyGinny Posts: 821 Member
    kim_mc wrote: »
    I want to eat veggies so bad! I am jealous of people that can fill their plates with veggies and eat all that food for such low cals and all kinds of healthy vitamins!

    I have hated veggies all my life and I'm a super picky eater!

    I can't eat a piece of lettuce without gagging, so a salad is out of the question. It sure would help when going to a restaurant if I could get a salad. As I've gotten older I can now force myself to eat some veggies but they have to be a certain kind, cooked a certain way.

    Nothing crunchy for sure! I steam broccoli until it's mushy. I love corn but I don't think that's really a healthy veggie. I will eat green beans and peas but they have to be canned.

    Anything else is a NO!.

    I tried over and over again to "aquire" a taste for them but no luck.

    So does anybody have any suggestions or is anyone a picky eater like me? Is so, what do you do????

    I do know picky eaters!! You can cook yourself some spaghetti and hide some cubes of vegs in them (yellow or orange bell peppers work great for that, as well as mushrooms). You can make light green smoothies (I love using spinach leaf and cucumbers as they don't have a strong taste, and then use tasty fruits such as mango, kiwi or strawberries, or pineapple). Or you can mix some pureed vegs with mashed potatoes also.
  • RainbowFlwrPowr
    RainbowFlwrPowr Posts: 1 Member
    Kim, I am the exact same way. I do not eat veggies, with the exception of potatoes, but I also don't eat fruits with the exception of Bananas and Apples. What I have done is cut back on the unhealthy aspects of my diet and started eating smaller portions. For example, I eat a lot of chicken, before I started my diet/exercise process fried chicken was my favorite. Instead of getting fried chicken now, I get grilled chicken. Instead of french fries, I get a baked potato.

    I have also incorporated a lot of fiber into my diet using fiber supplements. This helps my digestive health remain healthy despite my "unusual" diet. I would also recommend vitamins to help get a lot of the nutrients you don't get from the veggies.

    Feel free to add me and I will offer additional advice as you need it. Just know that I am not a professional dietitian or fitness expert, and I am pretty new to all this.

    Good luck!
  • Ws2016
    Ws2016 Posts: 432 Member
    kim_mc wrote: »
    I want to eat veggies so bad! I am jealous of people that can fill their plates with veggies and eat all that food for such low cals and all kinds of healthy vitamins!

    I have hated veggies all my life and I'm a super picky eater!

    I can't eat a piece of lettuce without gagging, so a salad is out of the question. It sure would help when going to a restaurant if I could get a salad. As I've gotten older I can now force myself to eat some veggies but they have to be a certain kind, cooked a certain way.

    Nothing crunchy for sure! I steam broccoli until it's mushy. I love corn but I don't think that's really a healthy veggie. I will eat green beans and peas but they have to be canned.

    Anything else is a NO!.

    I tried over and over again to "aquire" a taste for them but no luck.

    So does anybody have any suggestions or is anyone a picky eater like me? Is so, what do you do????

    The Ninja or Bullet could be your friends. Otherwise add the veggies to othwr recipes. I put spinach in almost everything and as such it is both formless and tasteless.
  • scolaris
    scolaris Posts: 2,145 Member
    I would explore hypnotherapy if I were you. The life you are describing would make me sad. Veggies have amazing health benefits & are a great source of eating pleasure. Plus you have to constantly self identify as picky whenever veggies are served in social settings, which would cause me a great deal of anxiety.
  • Hearts_2015
    Hearts_2015 Posts: 12,031 Member
    scolaris wrote: »
    I would explore hypnotherapy if I were you. The life you are describing would make me sad. Veggies have amazing health benefits & are a great source of eating pleasure. Plus you have to constantly self identify as picky whenever veggies are served in social settings, which would cause me a great deal of anxiety.

    Removing 2 complete food groups.... several of the most colorful ones at that. Sorry you guys are having a hard time, none of you were made to eat a bite or two at the dinner table when you kids? I find that sad too.... you're missing out on so much color which means health, flavor and variety. :'(

    Some good tips given, sorry I don't have many suggestions, I'm a bit speechless, I had no clue how many ppl actually hated every single veggie and fruit there is. I know some ppl hate Kale but to hate every veggie/fruit in the world. I wonder how that's possible in a way, I have not explored them all so I don't know that I dislike or enjoy some of them myself.

    So no mashed potatoes, no spaghetti sauce, pizza? Are you all serious about hating every single fruit and veggie, now I'm just going by the posts I'm reading...

    I hope you take the opportunity to give something new a try ... your body will love you for it! :)
  • lesleyloo7879
    lesleyloo7879 Posts: 439 Member
    I throw my veggies in my blender and make a smoothie with them to sweeten it I use banana and some frozen fruit works like a charm
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    I find that stir-frying my various veg with my whatever meat softens the veg texture and shares the umami of the meat with the veg.
  • MinmoInk
    MinmoInk Posts: 345 Member
    I used to be this way with a lot of foods. Just sit down, take nibbles of the thing you don't like a few times a week until you start actually liking it. I did this with olives, pickles, plain yogurt, and other pungent things. I will probably move onto beets next. Not everyone who enjoys vegetables has always enjoyed them. Take the time to train yourself and stop thinking of yourself as picky. That's treating yourself like a child, your an adult and you can take a little bit of discomfort to reap benifits. That's what life is about :)
  • msf74
    msf74 Posts: 3,498 Member
    Have you ever been assessed for Sensory Processing issues?

    It may be worth considering seeking specialist advice along these lines if gradual exposure to different tastes and textures doesn't do the trick.
  • fishshark
    fishshark Posts: 1,886 Member
    i dont have much advice because i have always loved veggies. As a kid i would fight for thr broccoli and artichokes green beans corn carrots. Grew into as an adult loving squashes, onions, asparagus.. pretty much everything except mushrooms. Just keep trying.
This discussion has been closed.

Categories