veg/fruit box alien food and yucky things.. help!

RAS

Hi

Might be worth reading this http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2lw8qKp7NFf7N7mhbXmsY34/why-do-some-people-put-on-weight-and-not-others-and-can-we-change-it

Not really about the weight issue but the biomesphere. Our guts tend to contain the microbes that are good at dealing with what we eat. If we eat stuff for which we do not yet have the required supporters in our bellies, we struggle. Eat the new stuff for a while and the microbes change and we can eat a wider range.

Subject of course to the basics like not eating stuff to which we are really (genetically) intolerant like coeliacs or those with dairy intolerance (15% of the population) or real allergies that need avoidance.

Ilona

Hello. Suggestion. Cancel your veg box and only buy what you want to eat from a supermarket or a greengrocers. My friend used to have a box delivered and ended up giving half of it to me because she kept getting things they didn't like or never got round to using. Send me your spinach, I can't get enough of it, cooked or raw.
Ilona

LameWolf

Anne_Marie wrote: »

Spring onions....sort of.

When you cut the top off an onion, place it in a small dish of water, and keep it moist, it will grow green spring onion like shoots which you can chop up and use, and it's free. I've got some on the go just now.

Thank you for that - I shall give it a go. :money:

Spendless

VfM4meplse wrote: »

I see it as our OS duty to torture you with all the delicious things you can do with a cauliflower

I know you're not a curry fan, and it's probably not one that a cauli-virgin would even contemplate making at home, but I dare you to try this if you ever eat at an Indian restaurant: gobi paratha . Indescribably blimmin' delicious.

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Recipe here for anyone brave enough to give it a go.

I've looked on a few restaurant menus near me and they don't have it as I was going to give it a try next time I went. Is the cauli normally inside the bread as per the description rather than served with it at the side as per the pic?

pigpen wrote: »

.. this is why I started getting the veg boxes to force myself to eat other things..

I did wonder why given you have a large family and a lot of restrictions within that. I think if you dislike cauliflower then nothing you can do will make it palateable to you. People could give me as many 'delicious' recipes they could find for sprouts, wouldn't change that I think they taste like somethig the devil spawned.

VfM4meplse

Spendless wrote: »

I've looked on a few restaurant menus near me and they don't have it as I was going to give it a try next time I went. Is the cauli normally inside the bread as per the description rather than served with it at the side as per the pic?

No, it's incorporated into the bread and v delicious it is too. I just picked a picture with a raw floret garnish for added effect

If your local does other varieties of stuffed parathas and also serves cauliflower as a veg dish you could ask the chef if they might make one for you especially?

pigpen

Ilona wrote: »

Hello. Suggestion. Cancel your veg box and only buy what you want to eat from a supermarket or a greengrocers. My friend used to have a box delivered and ended up giving half of it to me because she kept getting things they didn't like or never got round to using. Send me your spinach, I can't get enough of it, cooked or raw.
Ilona

But then I would never try anything new and it does all get used.. though I did send DIL home with 1 of the cauliflowers today.

I did get fresh stuff delivered from Tesco but not only was it triple the price most of it was fit for the bin when it got here.. I'm paying less and getting more produce of edible quality and new things to try.. there is less waste on the whole... last week we had the cauliflower sent to DS1 and I have 4 pears left..

The spinach is going down.. I chuck a handful in everything.. and only the 5 year old picks it out.. she's not a snail don't you know!!? lol

VfM4meplse wrote: »

I don't think its any co-incidence that your kids are such picky eaters.

The only one I would pay any attention to, foodwise is DS3 - and that would be to match his carbs with his insulin. Otherwise a healthy balanced diet would suit you all.

Most of the stuff is easy to avoid.. not putting gravy on ones dinner isn't picky eating at all.. they really aren't that bad, they eat pretty much anything and everyone is served up the same and they eat it or go without.

and his insulin is matched to his carbs so he eats whatever he likes its just a fair bit of calculating and weighing for me.

RAS wrote: »

Hi

Might be worth reading this http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2lw8qKp7NFf7N7mhbXmsY34/why-do-some-people-put-on-weight-and-not-others-and-can-we-change-it

Not really about the weight issue but the biomesphere. Our guts tend to contain the microbes that are good at dealing with what we eat. If we eat stuff for which we do not yet have the required supporters in our bellies, we struggle. Eat the new stuff for a while and the microbes change and we can eat a wider range.

Subject of course to the basics like not eating stuff to which we are really (genetically) intolerant like coeliacs or those with dairy intolerance (15% of the population) or real allergies that need avoidance.

This is why I am continuing to force myself to eat new things.. the children aren't the problem, I am. I know this, I'm not deluded in any way. I have come a very long way from the cocktail hotdogs and tinned peas, carrots and new potatoes.. everyone has certain things they prefer not to eat which is fine but they must be tried.. and especially as the taste senses change throughout life it is all different at different stages of life.. so I keep trying.

historically we did not have lactose in our diets once we were no longer breastfed as infants so most of the adult population was lactose intolerant.. as milk and dairy has continued to be consumed into later life we have kept the ability to produce the enzymes to break that down so it is actually a very small percentage that are now truly lactose intolerant.

I admit I did not eat a single green vegetable (other than tinned peas) until I was 22.

pigpen

Anne_Marie wrote: »

Get making yourself some soup and freeze in mug sized portions, rather than using cup-a-soups with all those additives!

Another thought re your veg box, can you not tell them that you don't want a particular veg like cauliflower? I know that I had this option when I used to get veg boxes.

I cannot for the life of me make edible soup.. I have tried and tried and used loads of recipes and begged advice but it is all tasting like dirty dishwater no matter what I do.. I cant make carrot cake either (though that is a waste of carrots!)

suki1964

pigpen wrote: »

I cannot for the life of me make edible soup.. I have tried and tried and used loads of recipes and begged advice but it is all tasting like dirty dishwater no matter what I do.. I cant make carrot cake either (though that is a waste of carrots!)

Seriously, soup is easy, esp since the stock pots came out. I use them all the time and never had a soup fail

Tell us what soup you would like to try, and we will come up with a fool proof recipe, exact measurements and timings. Once you make one good soup, the rest follow

I'm like yourself, I never did veg, and still prefer not to. Like you I force it in. I do like root veg, carrots, parsnips and beets I love. I guess that's because they are sweet and have a firm texture

Green veg I do my best to avoid. I like sweetheart cabbage, finally shredded and saut!ed in a pan of buttered water. Cauliflower I can do if covered in sauce and a good crunchy topping, broccoli, kale etc - not a mission

Salad veg I manage and I will chop up the likes of beans and peas raw into it, as once again the texture is manageable when raw

If it wasn't for soup I wouldn't get the selection of veg my body needs into me. Hubby loves veg broth. I can't abide it. So I make a pot, serve his as broth and blend mine into a smooth soup which I can stomach

I know you don't do spice, but I find if I cook a veg Indian style say, I much prefer it.

Come back to us with soup, we will get you there

VfM4meplse

pigpen wrote: »

I cannot for the life of me make edible soup.. I have tried and tried and used loads of recipes and begged advice but it is all tasting like dirty dishwater no matter what I do..

suki1964 wrote: »

Seriously, soup is easy, esp since the stock pots came out. I use them all the time and never had a soup fail

I am inclined to think its a taste-bud idiosyncracy rather than recipe fail!