Help.. I hate fruits and most veggies....

when i make soup i steam or roast veggies, puree them and add them to the broth for my kids, i know people who do this in red sauce as well...

Also, you can put a ton of spinach in a fruit smoothie and not taste it.

Probably not what you want to hear, but im proof you dont have to eat loads of fruit and veg to lose fat and get healthier. I never have veg, other than potatoes, and very little fruit. I take my supplements, hit my macros, and keep my calorie deficit, and ive never felt happier, healthier, fitter.

Sure, ill never be 100% healthy, but its a damn sight better than it was!

Fruits + Veggies are way better than multi-vitamins, but multi-vitamins will due if you really can't stand the fruits and veggies. You'll be fine

Forgive me. I wrote this on another forum today for someone with the same problem. I'm just gonna toss what I wrote here:

Peas, corns, carrots. That's like the growing up "blech" triumvirate. I'd say broaden your horizons. Personally, I find canned veggies a huge turn off. They're mushy to me and gross, or they're way over cooked and, again, mushy. I can't afford fresh, so I buy frozen and steam them just enough so they're still crisp. Makes a /world/ of difference in texture and taste.

Also, my boyfriend is picky about his veggies. So I sneak some peas into a chicken risotto. Or I make a low-cal cheese sauce to disguise broccoli. My friend sold me on Spaghetti Squash. You cook it, remove the inner pulp and seeds, and drag a fork down it to get these spaghetti-like strings of squash. Drench it in pasta sauce and some Parmesan or chili topped with onions and a little shredded cheddar, and you can hardly tell you're eating squash. Crisp green beans in a little butter, lemon, and slivered almonds tastes great. Half the battle with veggies, for me, was that I never learned how to season them so they tasted good. Branch out. Cucumbers are a great snack -- just scrape off the green rind so they aren't bitter -- and make a cucumber sandwich. You can find lots of recipes for them. You can also puree cauliflower with laughing cow cheese, and it's like a veggie creamed potato side dish. Lemon pepper spice -- without the salt, which you can add later or to taste -- makes a great addition to giving veggies a little oomph. Or try zucchini pancakes with a little sour cream (you can find these in the freezer section out here already prepared). Spring for a veggie pot pie. They have individual ones that easily fit within a reasonable dinner's calorie limits. Even veggie pizza. A stir fry can be another great way to get some veggies as long as you use a low-cal recipe. Same with fried rice. Eggplant Parmesan is delicious. Bread a slice of eggplant, bake it, smother it in pasta sauce, add some Parmesan. There's spinach ravioli and tortellini too. You can drink low sodium V8. Throw some diced celery in a tuna salad sandwich. If you get a sub, make sure you load it with veggies. Or if you like sandwiches, slap on a leaf of fresh lettuce (not the gross wilted kind you get from drive-throughs) and a slice or two of tomatoes. Like another poster said, if you don't like regular tomatoes, try plum tomatoes, which are firmer and have less seeds and what not. Really, there's so much you can do with veggies that I never even realized until I started looking at healthy recipes. I don't know if that gives you any ideas or helps, but I hope so!

If you google "veggies" and "picky eater," a lot of recipe sites pop up with ways to sneak veggies into food recipes. That's not to say that you can't juice them, mix up powdered drinks, etc. But really, until I started learning what to /do/ with veggies, I hated them myself. But now I know there are things you can do to make them quite delicious. And it's really not that hard. My boyfriend even eats them now.

WHY do you not like them?

Taste, smell, texture, look of them etc.

First you need to figure out what the problem is and then try and fix it.

Some good advice in here already though. I wouldnt try to hide food as such, because you made it you will still know what is in it! And that could lead to psychological dislikes of other foods because you put in something you didnt like.

Start with 1 food and try it different ways.

Ie: Carrot

Carrot sticks in a hummus or dip or cheese etc
Carrots roasted
Boiled carrots in honey and garlic
Grilled carrots - also good with capsicum (peppers)

Is there herbs and spices you like? you could also add those to the veges, roasted vege with a dash of mixed herbs on top while roasting.

Soups are great, i stew up some bacon hocks by themselves, cool them and remove all the meat, change the water and cook up heaps of veges like, leeks, swede, carrot, peas, corn etc. Then i add the bacon meat to it and whizz it all up with a stick blender.

I am a fruit and veggie hater. I will eat apples and put some bananas in my pb sandwich but thats about as far as the fruit goes. I eat del monte corn, but no corn on the cob or of any other types. I do not eat salads, tomatos or any other type of veggies other than some raw baby carrots every 2-3 months and now baked potatos. I even strain the onions out of my ragu. It can actually be misery, I can never find anything to eat when I go out. I'm trying to try new things, until I can I'm just a multi-vitamin and eat cereals or such with the vit a and irons in it, which is usually what I am lacking in. I can not imagine hiding them in my food because I'm sure I would surely start to hate that food as well:)

This shows you how far removed from healthy food the US has strayed. I suggest you get over it, learn to cook and only visit the outside aisles in the supermarket.

I don't like most fruits and veggies either, and they don't like me. Not counting garlic and onions and various spices that go good on hamburgers.

So I take a multivitamin and krill oil as well. Doesn't seem to be doing me too much harm. I do drink grape juice sometimes, but it doesn't always like me, either.

Im not too keen on RAW vegetables but started taking a WHOLE FOOD suppliment that a doctor told me about to help fill in for the lack of raw fruits and vegetables in my diet. A lot of folks think they are really helping themselves by eating cooked vegetables, however outside of the fiber and being being able to convince themselves they are getting enough fruits and vegetable, they arent getting the nutrients out of the vegetable that they need. Heat destroys most of what you need from the vegetables. The 5 -7 servings per day that you are supposed to be taking should be RAW fruits and vegetables...who does that???

The problem with vitimins is that often they end up in your intestine undissolved, plus you do not get the multitude of other nutrients that are in the vegetable or fruit. An apple has a lot more than vitamin C in it. Eat an apple or an orange instead of taking high priced vitamins. Whole food is so much better for you than taking vitamins.

I have been taking Juice Plus in chewable form for the last few months (they also have it in capsules). It is dehydrated whole food fruits and vegetables.. I also occassionally have a Juice Plus complete shake which tastes like a chocolate shake that has the required servings of fruits and vegetables included. This is the only fruit/vegetable whole food suppliment that has hundreds of PUBLISHED clinical studies in medical journals of the great results of this product. Its not a hoax. I do not sell it but I do take it.

This shows you how far removed from healthy food the US has strayed. I suggest you get over it, learn to cook and only visit the outside aisles in the supermarket.

Sir, don't act like you know me please. I cook very well. And I have tried to eat these things since I was a child, and still try to eat them on occasion to "retrain" my taste buds as everyone calls it. So thanks, but no thanks for your "input".

Hi Mandi,

What are your favorite things to cook? It might be easier to start with what you DO like, then figure out how to add veg into those foods. There are a varying opinions about the value of "sneaking" vegetables into foods, but if you start gradually and gently adding vegetables into your diet, it might help. There were some good suggestions about adding pureed vegetables... There are also a few cookbooks designed for people who don't like vegetables--called something like the Sneaky Chef? (As for multivitamins, you can try it but your body won't absorb them nearly as well as the nutrients in food.)

Good luck!!