I don't like veggies

I know, it's a tough one.  I HATE veggies, period.  Anyone else in this boat?

Have you tried things prepared different ways?  I know I hated veggies for the longest time because my cooking-impaired mother liked to serve them steamed-to-mush with no additional flavorings.

Then I discovered roasting...and stir frying...and asian cuisine...and grilling...and the myriad of spices, oils and other seasonings that could make them yummy. 

I feel so sorry for all the people who can't eat their vegetables.  You must get so hungry!  I fill up on low cal veggies and I'm never hungry any more.

my mother was/is a very healthy cook and eater, so I grew up on fresh, steamed and even worse, uugh, blanched green crap.  the thought repulses me.  I hate crunchy veggies even more than mushy ones.  I can handle the occasional carrot from a stew or boiled broccolli with butter and salt, but that's it.

No one else suffers from this???

I am so sad for you tinker...  I love veggies.  I mean I think they are smashing!  My favorite foods are veggies!

I used to hate most veggies when I was little.  But I like to try new things and now I love most veggies. I try green olives once or twice a year, but I still don't like them.

I DO get hungry and the calories add up quick when you don't eat veggies.

suggestions?  anyone else go through this and find a way out?

When I was growing up, I thought veggies were corn, green beans, carrots and peas.  Boy, have I learned differently!  Now salads are one of my favorites, and there are so many things to put on them!  Maybe just try a different one everytime you go to the grocery store or farmer's market.  Try it steamed, or raw, find out what you like.  (or trick yourself like I tricked my kids and use them grated as fillers in sauces!  Like grated zucchini and carrots in spaghetti sauce or chili)

think of it this way.  I have a child's pallet when it comes to veggies.  mush and drown them and I can get them down.  Now where's the health in that? 

My nutritionist suggested treating me like a child as well, so I did try carrots in chili and in sauce once, but eeeuuwww.  :)

corn - ok; green beans- only boiled and smothered; peas - only in pot pie.

hey star - any specific directions/spices?  I'm cooking inpaired as well. :)

wonder if you could try adding some veggies to a smoothie and maybe you wouldn't even notice they were there...

blended up with banana, frozen berries and fruit juice.... you might lick your lips and think, there's veggies in here?

tinker, i'm there with you. i like very few veggies. my husband and i are horrible about eating vegetables. but, i've managed to lsoe weight and select a healthy diet for myself, so i'm not freaking out about it. i want to find some good recipes to try b/c we want our kids (that don't exist yet) to learn to eat veggies when they're young, but i'm there with ya. in general they're yucky

no more excuses - well I wish I didn't have excuses :)

I woudn't go for a smoothie, because the sugar count would be too high compared to the enjoyment of it.  If I'm going to sor my blood sugar it best be for something that soars my tastebuds, too.

But that's quite a suggestiong I never would have thought of on my own!  :)  ty

lisaD - can you give me examples of what you eat?

http://vegweb.com/index.php?board=489.0

It's a vegan site (but we are talking about veggies after all).  That link should take you to the "Quick and Easy Veggies" section of the site.  However, all the recipes are vegetable-heavy for obvious reasons.  I swear by this site.

so you don't eat fruits either?

no, but not for lack of actually liking them.  When I eat fruit my sugars soar and it's difficult to come down from high glucose.

I know it prob sounds crazy to healthy eaters, but if I'm going to deal with high sugar or make room in my eating for high sugar items, it won't be for a banana or a peach.

thanks for the website!  I'll see if I can find anything I can handle

Have you tried veggies with light dressing for a snack. I tend to enjoy mine with low-fat italian.

I HATE vegetables. I'm a supertaster and have tried and tried to learn to like them.

Veggies I like: corn, potatoes, onions if sauteed or roasted, lettuce if DROWNED in dressing, Le Seur very small early young green peas (that's what the can says), spinach if hidden in food, cucumber when the mood hits me.

Veggies I am learning to like: snow peas (don't actually taste when in a Thai or Chinese dish), bean sprouts (don't actually taste), green onions (just 1-2 on each dish got me used to them), cabbage in Asian dishes in small amounts, roasted soft carrots (pick up the meat flavor).

Veggies I will NEVER be able to eat: brussels sprouts, cauliflower, brocolli, cabbage (boiled), snap bean/green beans, squash, raw tomato, olives, pickles, peppers, hominy, raw carrots, artichoke, beets, greens.

Tips on eating veggies: Since vegetables are important to our weight loss (and, like you said, we're always hungry from meats and carbs and processed foods), here are the only ways I get veggies in.

1) Get a juicer! Drop in 1 raw carrott and a handful of pineapple chunks (or something else citrus). Experiment with different flavors. Makes eating a carrott much easier! My favorite is Carrott, Orange, and Kiwi together, but I'm allergic to kiwi. This is how I found out, actually. :\

2) Hide the veggies! When my husband makes our meals, he usually just throws some fresh spinach (bundles are REALLY cheap from the store) into a chopper and chops it to bits. Then sprinkles some into whatever food it is (soup, bread, salmon patties, you name it!). Spinach will easily take on the flavor whatever it's dropped into and you don't even notice it, especially in bread. If making hamburgers, just add some chopped uncooked spinach to the meat as you smoosh it around. Spinach is REALLY good for you and worth finding a way to eat it!

3) Trick Salads! As mentioned on another post, pour some salad dressing on a plate. Put a salad in a separate bowl. Before each bite, dip your fork into the dressing (the side of the fork that will hit your tounge) and then put the lettuce on it. When you put it in your mouth, the dressing will hit your tounge and you won't taste the lettuce at all. :)

4) Roast! Buy a lean pork roast or whole chicken at the store. Put it in a baking dish. Get some aluminum foil and make a rectangle with walls but no top, that will fit into the dish with the pork. Put onions, carrots, and mushrooms in the foil. While the pork or chicken roasts, so will the vegetables (and a fungus) taking in the smell of the meat, but not getting drenched with fat.

I hope I've helped a little. As a kid, I used to sit at the table for hours until my parents got tired of waiting for me to eat my then-cold brussels sprouts or brocolli. I want to like vegetables, because my body needs them. But they taste so terrible (and my husband is practically a gourmet chef). He's also a genius at hiding veggies and not telling me til I've eaten a cup of them, which is fine by me.

Oh, and when juicing carrots, you can also just add sugar-free orange juice/drink to it instead of juicing an orange, since I see that glucose levels concern you. Good luck. It's an uphill battle, but I actually crave carrots now!

ty ty ty - that's exactly the type of thing I'm looking for

I ate my broccoli last night :)  I used low fat butter and lots of pepper

Wow! You-guys hate vegetables even more than I do.  Yes, stir frying makes a huge difference.  A drop of olive oil and a bit of balsamic vinegar and suddenly you've got real food.

I will contribute a recipe for carrots that I found:

http://fooddownunder.com/cgi-bin/recipe.cgi?r =17282

This Australian recipe website is really quite good.