I don't eat vegetables or fruits

Hey Everyone,

Dieting for me is a real nightmare. I do not eat vegetables or fruits. Well, I do like potatoes, corn, bananas and beans if those even count.

All the recipes call for veggies and I gag at the thought. I've tried for years to down veggies/fruits, but the crunch in the lettuce makes my head spin, the smell of cucumber literally makes me gag and I fear tomatoes (unless its ketchup). I blame it on my folks that never forced me to eat my veggies. They tried, but I was grossed out by veggies and fruits even as a kid and they gave up the battle because I would bring up whatever they forced down right at the dinner table.  =(     

All the trauma aside, when I try to lose a few pounds (I'm on a mission to lose 15 right now) I feel as if I have nothing to eat...  Anyone else out there have this problem?  Any alternatives or healthy recipes that I can apply?  I'm not opposed to cooking with vegetables to flavor the dishes, I just can't eat them (when A recipe calls for veggies I cut 'em up huge so I can pick 'em out).

I don't know.. I always thought I hated veggies but I kept trying them and now I like quite a few.  I just now started liking celery but it has to have a lot of peanut butter on it! lol

All I can say is that they are essential and just keep trying them.  Sautee some red peppers and onion in butter spray and try that first.. that's how I started! Good luck

Potatoes, corn, bananas, and beans absolutely count!!!  Do you like sweet potato or only white potato?  It sounds kind of like the crunchiness of the vegetables might be what's distressing you, those are all soft?  There are a ton of recipe sites out there, some of them can be searched by ingredient and then you can find bean recipes, banana recipes, etc.

You might give the other vegetables (the ones that don't actually gag you) another try.  I recommend steaming them until tender.  Assorted baked fruits can be soft and good too.  If you don't like them though, you have a great start with just the ones you have listed there.  I tried a bunch of fruits I had never liked or had when I started dieting (mango, honeydew, cantaloupe, pears, kiwi) and found I liked them very well indeed.

I also made green beans for my fiancee, an affirmed hater of green beans, and he was shocked to find he liked them.  (I expected this though, his mom makes a horrible abomination of a dish that she calls green beans).  People's tastes change from when they are kids!  I know mine sure did!  I think the biggest change for me was green peas.  I remember them being the most horrible, bitter, disgusting taste I had ever had.  I had some a couple years ago and was shocked to find them sweet and delicious.  One word if you do try some, most canned vegetables are not fit for compost and would be rejected by the worms.

what if you steamed carrots or broccoli until they were very tender, threw them in a food processor with some cream cheese or milk, and then mixed in some potatoes to have veggie mashed potatoes?

oh, you sound exactly like me! for the longest time, the only vegetable i liked was corn, and the only fruits i eat are apples, grapes and bananas. i gag at the thought of lettuce. if there is even the tiniest piece of it on my food, i can taste it, and then i can't eat it. it's horrible. i wish i liked vegetables more because i'd have so many more options! my advice to you is what people on here told me. you need to experiment with vegetables and different ways of preparing them. easier said than done, though. so far, i've found that i LOVE asparagus when cooked with a little margarine, salt, pepper, and garlic. i've also found that i like zucchini when it's grilled. that's pretty much the only progress i've made. it's hard, i know, but we just need to try to like them :)

I feel so sorry for all the veggie haters out there.  You are missing so much, and it must be really hard for you to stick to a low calorie plan

Dieting for me is a real nightmare. I do not eat vegetables or fruits. Well, I do like potatoes, corn, bananas and beans if those even count.

OMG! There's two of you!!! My wife won't eat fruit or most veggies. She does well with LOT's of whole wheat bread. Two of her meals a day are whole wheat bread, one with peanut butter and one with Neufchatel cheese.

This drive me wild, I have to eat grapefruit in another room. Oh well, at least no one steals my fruit.

That does sound terribly difficult. I hope you take vitamins.

honestly, i feel like i'd be able to stick to eating healthily if i liked vegetables. it's really hard. there's part of me that wishes more than anything that i could just eat a salad, but i detest lettuce, spinach, anything leafy in general. it makes things really hard. 

Sorry for suggesting this if you've already tried, but as a last resort, try cooking vegetables differently. I used to HATE tomatoes with a passion. But when I recently went to Olive Garden and got a make-it-yourself pizza, the cooked tomatoes on there were delicious. So now I just slice up a tomato, put a pinch of garlic salt on them, pop em in the microwave for 50 sec, and instant low-cal snack/dinner side!

You'd be surprised what a difference cooking vegetables and adding herbs, seasoning and cheese to vegetables makes. As for fruit, try incorperating it into things, such as some fresh berries in yogurt, topping your waffles with strawberries or blueberries, or making smoothies! I really hope you can find a method for eating fruits and veggies, they're an important factor in a healthy diet.

Yes, I agree with muttlover!  I like my vegetables and some fruit cooked! The only veggies I can stand cold are salads and celery. Try cooking until soft and add lots of seasoning.. you will slowly began to like some.

Star fruit tastes like jelly beans.

I know you feel too. In college I've actually taken on a bit of liking to broccoli But only if it's cooked and with pasta (preferable alfredo sauce but I've gotten to the point now where I can do without). The only other vegetable I eat is corn and sometimes I have potatoes. Lettuce is the worst for me which makes sandwiches a problem as most of them here are premade. Pefrhaps try making a vegetable broth for soup or something like that. Or try fruit smoothies. I am better with friots then vegetables. I like apples, grapes, and strawberries the best. I like banana in smoothies but not plain. You can work around your  fruit vegetable dislike by tring them in different ways with different foods. Last year if you told me that I'd eat broccoli once a week in colelge I would have laughed at you!  

Hmmm, I can see what you are saying regarding how I feel about fish. I hate fish, I won't eat it at all... The smell, the texture, just everything about it totally grosses me out. I have even tried to like it and admit that it tastes pretty good but still get grossed out because of how it is conditioned in my head.

I would suggest making very small steps to put fruits and veggies in your diet... very small ones. Like put a few berries in your cereal and so on. Gradually add it in and you should, over time, be able to tolerate them then actually like them then love them... I swear!

BUT if you are the way I am about fish that definitely won't work for you... At least I don't think. In that case it isn't about your taste buds, it is about how you have been mentally conditioned to feel about veggies and fruits. I would suggest going to a behavioral therapist who could help you re-condition yourself to not feel so strongly against fruits and veggies... Just because you can't go through life healthily, in my opinion, without those two.

Goodluck!

I had the same problem.

I chose to kick myself in the pants with the Cabbage Soup Diet. (google it) You can only do this for a week. You buy everything you need ahead of time.

1.) BREAKS FOOD ADDICTION (Especially carbs)

2.) PAINFUL (it's not an easy diet...take off on days 3 & 4 if possible)

3.) WORKS! I lost 14 lbs in 7 days.

4.) Gives you a head start so that you can move to lower portions / low cal.

5.)  LEAN CUISINE's are my friend. I use crushed red peppers to spice things up and make the higher veg ones more palletable. I am hooked on POT STICKERS, SESAME CHICKEN, and ORANGE PEEL CHICKEN (mmmm).  These guys have good VEG CONTENT and help you get your veggies down with the sauces.

6.) V8 Juice (cmon! You can down a can)

7.) Make Salad. Use spinache leaves, Feta Cheese, Green Olives, 1-Tbsp Olive Oil, maybe some baby carrots. Mix it all up...You will be surprised how good it is. (And good for you!)

Blend some boiled cauliflower with milk and salt/pepper... Tastes just like mashed potato.

Do you like any tomato products besides Ketchup?

worth a try-  Cut off top andscoop out the middle of peppers/tomatoes/zuchinis or any other vegetable you fancy, and fill with a mixture of cooked rice and minced meat.  Put top back on like a lid.  Drizzle with olive oil and bake in the oven for 30 mins.  Fabulous!

I believe fruits and vegetables are EXTREMELY important for good health -- they have all of those phytochemicals which aid in preventing/fighting disease and aging. If for no other reason, I eat them because of that. I think it's highly possible to learn to like them. There has to be at least a couple of them that you could LEARN to like.

Get yourself some "Nature's Seasoning" by Morton and try it on all of your veggies. When I put that on broccoli, I call it "cheesecake." It's THAT good! haha

Forgot to mention that when preparing the filling mixture (rice and minced meat)  also stir in the part of the vegies you scooped out, cut up finely.  Also add finely cut up onion. 

I thought it was pretty ironic how I was reading this post eating a stalk of celery...

Some people walk over and say "Why are you eating Vegetables so early in the morning?"

They make me feel good, thats why!