Vegetables YUCK!

I am also a veggie hater. Even covered in yummy cheese or hidden in things I can taste them. Of course, with me it's also a texture issue. I can tell you that after repeated exposure, I have grown to tolerate some things I would never eat. I still don't eat many raw veggies. You won't catch me eating baby carrots or cauliflower or biting into a tomato. I have found that I can tolerate peppers and onions if I saute them until they're mushy. Also, Veg-All (while high in sodium) is pretty good cooked for a long time with enough spices and butter. Beans. I actually like a lot of different kinds of beans. Green beans, pinto beans and black beans. I season them to death and enjoy them. Basically, eat the ones you like and add a new one in every now and then. You might find some more you like! The sugary junk tastes so much better at first, but once you start cutting most of it out, you will start to crave more healthy things. Take small steps, it won't happen all at once.

I've never been a huge vegetable fan either. I have learned to like(tolerate) several, but I will never be a big fan...you just have to suck it up and eat them at least a few times a week. What about salads???? I adore fruit and love it all, wish I could get away with eating just that instead of veggies. LOL

Try juicing them.

Try sweet potato fries! I just cut up a sweet potato in fry sized strips (with skin), drizzled olive oil on them, added some salt and plopped them in the oven for about 30 mins. Perfect to make you feel like your eating junk food, but you're really being healthy. Ok, ok so maybe the dollop of sour cream I dipped them in wasn't "healthy."

Plantains are delicious too. If I can ever find them again, I swear I'll buy 100.

As for green leafy vegetables, I know some people make chips out of kale greens. I tried it, and it wasn't my thing. But hey, it may work for you!

I would say start with a vegetable that you think you might be able to tolerate - for example, broccoli - and look up recipes that include it. Most importantly, look up different ways to cook it. I HATE raw broccoli - I want to gag when I eat it - but I love steamed broccoli so, so much.

I'd see if that helps at all. There are many different ways to cook/prepare things; you don't have to just grab some vegetables and chow down. Just experiment, see if you can find something you can tolerate, and keep trying different vegetables in the same way.

The Bird's Eye or Green Giant steamers that are lightly sauced are good. You can also try V-8 Fusion juice, it tastes just like fruit juice but has veggies in it. I personally like the sparkling and tea kinds.

I thought I wasn't eating enough vegetables, and there are plenty of other things I like better and plenty of vegetables I won't eat, including some that make me physically ill (undiagnosed allergy?). But when I started recording vegetable servings on the USDA site (http://www.choosemyplate.gov/ Super Tracker, which isn't as easy or friendly to use as MFP, but good in other ways) and SURPRISE, I discovered that most days I was actually getting my vegetable servings in some other ways. Try some of the following and the other suggestions that have been made. Research shows that few people (adults or children) like new food the first time they try it. I forget how many times it usually takes...

Some ideas:
* vegetable lasagna (or regular lasagna with some spinach or zucchini added, you're also getting the tomato sauce)
* salad with lots of stuff besides lettuce (lettuce is boring!) This one may not work for you at first
* artichoke hearts
* scrambled eggs or omelets with some of mushrooms, diced and sauteed onions, artichoke hearts, tomatoes, spinach, olives (start with just a little bit and add more veggies as you get used to them)
* pickles
* asparagus with a mustard sauce or mango salsa
* roasted tomatoes with garlic in olive oil
* very fresh corn on the cob - steamed
* Chinese pea pods - steamed, boiled or raw
* bean and rice burrito with spicy vegetable salsa and avocado
* carrots baked with honey
* vegetable dumplings
* lettuce wrapped around barbeque'd sliced beef, rice and other spicy vegetables (Korean dish)
* kim chee (comes in a variety of spice levels, pick one depending on how hot/spicy you like things)
* mashed potatoes
* beets - sweet
* mashed peas and mint dip (with crackers or carrot sticks)
* baba ganoush
* eggplant lasagna

There are entire cookbooks based on putting vegetables into foods in ways you don't taste them. Chick peas instead of flour to make cookies, etc.

And while you may not like one part of a vegetable or eating it prepared in one way, you may like it another. Some people like the "flower" part of broccoli; others prefer the stems. Some people like cooked carrots; other people only like them raw. And there are many ways to sneak small amounts into other things you eat... carrot cake, zucchini bread, onions in sauces and soups.

There are a lot of great suggestions here already...I would definitely start off with sweeter veggies, like carrots and sugar snap peas. Steam them lightly and add a tiny bit of butter. Steaming them brings out the sweetness, and butter...well, self-explanatory.

Also, baby greens (lettuce mix) are sweeter than other leaves. If you're willing to try a salad, that might be something you can tolerate. I used to only tolerate veggies, but now I like them. Like, not love, mind you. I mix them into my food rather than eating them raw...raw veggies are hard for many people to eat, so you're not alone there! Best of luck! :flowerforyou:

P.S. Steamed edamame with garlic salt is AMAZING!!

Vegetable soup is good. I hate eating veggies in actual vegetable shape, but if you pick the veg you hate the least and make them up into a pot of spicy soup then blend until smooth you get to eat multiple veggies without any of the pain. And you can add pasta to the soup afterwards for a bit of extra yum.

oh! now i have no idea the calorie count or whatever but how bout V8 juice? The kind that tastes like fruit but also has carrots hidden in it and stuff?

I have heard of using black beans in brownies (you grind up the beans first)...google that and give it a try!