This is going to sound crazy, but....

I have a friend who is the same way, no fruits or veggies for him. I would imagine if you make spinach lasagnas or casserole dishes where everything is mixed in you could hide the taste. I wonder if its an unconcious issue, meaning you know there are veggies in something so you convince yourself you wont like it.

blend them up (like with an imulsifier-sp?) with a juice that covers the veggie taste like apple juice. You can do amazing things like that. You may want to try more exotic fruits since the tastes are different. Often your tastes change after adulthood so you may want to try some of them again or try to have friends cook them in without you knowing. They may have some great advice on how to add them to your foods.

:flowerforyou: Maybe you could try a shake, at vitamin mix world they have one with friut, greens, vegetables, and protien and you mix it with anything you want, juice, water, milk!!! Hope that helps!

Eating a lot of spaghetti sauce is actually a good idea (since you seem to like it, and since cooked tomatoes are super healthy).

So here is a suggestion, if you don't do this already, make your own sauce (fresher ingredients, lower sodium) and add a vegetable to the sauce, like squash or eggplant or mushroom or pepper (all "go" with tomato sauce) or even some shredded spinach (or any leafy green vegetable -- kale, chard, etc.) or sliced carrots.

When you make the sauce, use onion and garlic, of course, for flavor and nutrients.

If you don't mind the texture of tomato sauce, look into making pureed soups -- any kind of squash soup is especially tasty. Also good: potato (sweet or white), or carrot. Google for recipes. Someone already mentioned an emulsion blender -- this what you'd need for soup.

That is too bad your family didn't nip this in the bud when you were two. Oh well!

I was never much of a fruit or vegetable eater until I was 15 years old. I ate even more when I went vegetarian from the time I was 16-19years old. A lot of it is inner motivation. When I went vegetarian, I was motivated to try lots of fruits and veggies that I have never eaten before because it was better than eating just meat, dairy, and carbohydrates. I'm an omnivore now, and I love (almost) everything. I see fruits and vegetables as something necessary for fiber content and nutrition. Without them, I'd be incredibly sick and would feel bloated all the time. Isn't that worth trying to eat them?

You have to try a disliked food at least 20 times before you can say you really really don't like it. Consequently if you like NO fruit or vegetables you have an uphill struggle to get over it. Try one at a time - it is a bit soul destroying to think you have to dish up something you don't like over 20 times - and do it for the entire range of fruit and veg - but it might be worth trying a few things. It has to be tried fairly frequently to count. Try nibbling at a fruit over a day

Tried fruit smoothies?

I am lucky in that I love fruit and veg but I totally understand texture as an issue - individually I like bread, butter, milk, cream, sugar and raisins but put them togather in the British classic of Bread and Butter pudding and I heave. Yuk

Wishing you luck

Do you like soups? Maybe try a soup where you blend all the vegies together. I like V8 Fusion, though a lot of people on here seem to be against fruit juices. It doesn't have any extra sugar like their other juices.

I forget the names off hand, but I've seen commercials for sauces and such that have full servings of vegies but they are sneaky for kids who hate veggies. If I remember, I'll get back to you.

Nope, not crazy at all. I was pretty much the same way. Apples were the ONLY fruit I would eat because I didn't like the taste or texture of other fruits. Veggies....yuck. Didn't like them either.... and forget seafood. Most of this is because I am the daughter of what I will call a conservative eater. My mother lives on chicken, beef, pork, potatos and pasta. BUT.......there came a time when I needed to branch out and force myself to give some of these things another chance. I've learned, for instatnce, that I LOVE red and orange bell peppers. The green ones are take it or leave it, but the red and orange...yummy! Carrots are tolerable and I've found that if I cut up some raw brocoli and add in about 5 pieces of bacon cumbled, some carrot strips, a little onion and then mix it up with plain greek yogurt and white wine vinegar, the brocoli salad is quite yummy. Artichokes and Spinach....make a dip and keep it low cal by making substitutions. Those two things together in a heated dip are fantastic! Fruit....I still eat an apple almost every day, but I've learned that I like red grapes and cantelope. Watermelon is good but I've found that yellow watermelon is better! Strawberries are good and my latest revelation....and they are almost in season again is Pomegranates. Oh, they are yummy and I never would have eaten one on my own. The guy I am dating has talked me into trying so many new things, including seafood. Shrimp, crab, lobster, scallops....when prepared the right way are oh so good. Part of it for me was fear of trying new things. Now, I've got myself trained to at least give something a chance, if you don't like it you don't have to finish eating it.....but at least try it! If your out with someone and they are eating something you normally would not eat, ask them if you can try just a small bite. That's how I did it. My mother can't believe the stuff I eat now, lol

Hiding foods from yourself, for the rest of your life, virtually guarantees you will eventually fall off the wagon and gain the weight back. It's just a disengenuous approach to food.

You say it's 90% about the texture, but the entire spectrum of fruit and vegetables incorporate a huge variety of textures. Steamed broccoli's rough texture is nothing like the smooth texture of a roasted sweet potato is nothing like the juicy burst of a ripe blackberry.

Honestly, if you've eaten this way your entire life, it's a mental block more than a physical aversion. You are retraining yourself right now to lead a healthy lifestyle. Why not approach food with the same curiosity? My husband, when we met, declared that he hated certain fruits and vegetables. After prodding him, I discovered it was because of the way they were presented to him as a child. I love asparagus, but only fresh asparagus; if I had only been exposed to the canned monstrosity that he endured as a kid, I wouldn't have liked the vegetable either. If I thought all cherries tasted like the artificially sweet marinated Maraschino cherries, I would have avoided them as well.

The point is, discover the true taste of fruits and vegetables. Look up five different ways to prepare a sweet potato, and see if you like any of those recipes. Same with spaghetti squash. Have you roasted chick peas with spices before? How about mixing diced strawberries with balsamic vinegar and cracked black pepper? Ever tried a mango salsa on grilled pork? The variety of food out there is endless!

And if all else fails, watch Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations. You can find clips on YouTube. After seeing some of the awful things people eat every day, and endure (think raw ostrich egg coated in dirt), that fresh spinach and grapefruit salad won't look so bad!

This is bizarre to me. My mom tricked us into eating veggies (she would tell us little elves lived in the green and white trees [broccoli and cauliflower] and we had to eat them to find them). Of course we never found the elves, but we ate all the trees to make sure! All that really taught us is that Mom's weird, and sometimes lies. But we did discover we loved our vegetables.

On the flip side, my 13 year old cousin will take a bite of veggies, and hold it in his mouth til he's ready to cry and gag because his mom won't let him just spit it out and he refuses to swallow. It's the dumbest thing I've ever seen in my life.

I really don't understand you anti fruit and veggie people. These foods are so tasteful! Why do you torture yourselves by not enjoying them? I worked with a girl once who had never tried any fruit not a strawberry, bananna, mango. nothing! She said her parents never made her eat fruits and veggies so she doesn’t have a taste for them. What a shame!!!!!! There’s no way id ever want to try to survive on fish sticks and spaghetti

hey you should try acupuncture or even hypnosis it sounds like a mental thing to me

I have never been a big fruit and veggie eater but I don't have a total dislike of these things. Anyway, if you put a couple of frozen bananas in a blender and blend, it blends up like soft serve banana ice cream so you feel like you are eating ice cream. Sometimes I add a little chocolate syrup to really make it like ice cream. I hide strawberries or peaches in smoothies made with milk. I freeze all of my fruits so when you mix with a cup of milk, it is like a strawberry milk shake etc. The fruit in Choboni Yogurt kind of disappears when you stir the yogurt so I can do fruits that way. I found a Whole Fruit Popsicle that is good but very fruity. On vegetables, I can handle string beans when I saw how low in calories they are and I like the sweet peas. Good Luck

I'm sorry, I have to say I doubt it's 90% a texture thing if you can't have juices. The wide variety of vegetables available to us indicate it is likely not a texture thing, either. Mashed cauliflower has the same texture as spaghetti sauce. The wide variety of vegetables availabl to us also lead me to believe it is not a taste issue, since not all vegetables taste the same. I don't know what to tell you, since it seems as though this is a mindset.

(My brother was this way, until he was 20, and tried broccoli, and loved it. Now he eats so many vegetables it would choke a horse. He says now that he realizes it was absolutely a mind thing, and nothing else, no matter what he claimed for years.)

(Edit to add: and you can be perfectly healthy without eating fish, fruit, or vegetables, so why force yourself?)