Healthy Food Without Veg

zarazara

I'd just tell him to grow up. Veg is good for us.Pies and chips are not. Simple. Make veg curries,veg pasta sauces and veg soup.

maman

If he likes Indian food, almost all veg taste would be masked by the curry sauce. If he likes Chinese type food would he eat veg if it had generaous amounts of ginger, soy, five spice in a stir-fry?

McKneff

zarazara wrote: »

I'd just tell him to grow up. Veg is good for us.Pies and chips are not. Simple. Make veg curries,veg pasta sauces and veg soup.

Its not a case of growing up.

Could you, on a daily basis eat something (5 of) that you didnt like

Trying to eat veg, and believe me I have tried actually makes me retch.

gilly1964

Someone not eating veg is a difficult one as meals IMHO are so boring.

I have a colleague who is the same apart from tinned marrowfat peas, but he does eat fruit and drink juice. Does your BF eat fruit?

My colleague starts the day with

Porridge and banana, glass of juice, or at the weekend has cooked and has a portion of beans with it.

Lunch is jacket potato and baked beans or coleslaw - because he doesn't think coleslaw tastes like veg :rotfl:

Dinner is the struggle for his wife, he tends to have meat of some sort, doesn't do curries, spag bol etc as they are "foreign" and mashed potato or roast potatoes with Yorkshire pudding and tinned peas, but then he has a pudding, some sort of fruit crumble and another fruit juice.

The only rule his wife has is I will cook what you eat but don't expect me to go without - so she has 2 nights each week where she has food from the spicier side of life.

Diversity is the key, but please do not pander to him and definitely don't hide the veg - he is a grown man.

My theory is he just has not found a veg he likes.
Try stir fries, roast veg, different flavourings on the veg

Hope this helps

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Drea wrote: »

:rotfl: I love it! Today I was planning some slow cooked stew, I think I might just sneak in some blended carrots and onions

So, did he act like you were poisoning him, or did he eat it without realising he was consuming the dreaded veg?

(and don't tell him now, or he will announce grandly that he knew but had it to make you happy - and will be suspicious of everything you cook)

Drea

Okay, I have sat down and spoken to him tonight. He has agreed to start trying things and we think that putting veg into a sauce might be a good start rather than having clumps of veg on a plate as a side.

Soo he has agreed to a potato curry with bits of cauliflower (cut up quite small) and even a little bit of spinach! What an outcome!

Drea

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

So, did he act like you were poisoning him, or did he eat it without realising he was consuming the dreaded veg?

(and don't tell him now, or he will announce grandly that he knew but had it to make you happy - and will be suspicious of everything you cook)

He ate it

I haven't told him but he has said he doesn't mind veg blitzed, it seems to be a texture thing for most of them...

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Potato curry - with a few spinach leaves and something for sweetness - mango/pineapple chutney, blitzed cooked apple, banana or mango - blitzed in the sauce will be a gentler introduction to the bitter flavours of some veg.

Broccoli is often much sweeter now than it used to be, especially if it is cooked right. And the steamer is your friend, as it makes veg more tender without it turning to mush.

tinkerbellsmum_2

i don't like veg either i eat potatoes and mushrooms. i eat lots of fruit
i lost 2 and a half stone earlier this year.
i have things like jackets and cheese, omlettes, quiche with no base, oven cooked scotch eggs made with low fat sausage, sherperds pie with baked beans in.
if you look at this link you may find some recipes
http://www.minimins.com/slimming-world/
the reason i have directed you to slimming world is so you can look at the meal idea you don't need to be on there diet to get ideas from there meals
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2250349716&v=photos&ref=ts

caledonian_princess

Does he like mushrooms? I've always found them to be a good meat substitute, either for total replacement or just to eke out the meat. A lentil based curry sauce with veg blended into it is good and could have things such as boiled eggs or mushrooms added to give a little more substance.