Vegetables

kirstyreanne

Do you spend half your life raking through pizzas, sandwiches, casseroles etc... picking out akk the bits you can't eat?

Yip!
I had a ham & pineapple pizza for tea tonight & even though I love the taste of the pineapple I can't bring myself to eat it.

Glad I'm not the only one like this, my family think I'm a bit strange!

crana999

Sarahsaver wrote:

Supposedly you only have to try something 15 times to re-educate your tastebuds

Well.. I don't like peppers (capsicums). I never have, but since I'm vegetarian if someone else cooks a meal or you go to a canteen the veggie choice very very often has peppers in it... so I have eaten them countless times (if they're big I pick them out but I often can't be bothered) and I *still* don't like them. I'd really LIKE to like them, but I don't.

Bogof_Babe

Crana I agree entirely about peppers. I quite like (or should that be tolerate?) the *flavour* of them, but great big chunks just make me think (and later suffer) indigestion.

I've been known to pick them all out of a bag of salad leaves (all that they had left at the Co-op) and re-shred them into miniscule bits, then disperse them throughout the rest of the meal.

It is one big downside of trying to follow a veggie lifestyle - I live in dread of the "stuffed pepper" option being the only thing on the menu! Luckily I am not a strict veggie, and hubs doesn't mind peppers, so we get by!

crana999

I know! They seem to think we all love them..

I don't really like the flavour, I'll just eat them if it's inconvenient/impolite to pick them out. For a stuffed pepper though I'd probably either just ask for the filling on its own or just eat the filling on its own and leave the pepper. Unless I was going to really upset someone who had cooked it for me.

It's a shame, I'd really *like* to like it, and celery too (the only other veg I've tried I don't like). But maybe there is hope, I used to hate cucumber until about a year ago and then I tried it again and really like it now :-)

Bogof_Babe

Have you tried celery (raw of course) thinly sliced in a cream cheese sandwich? That's the only way I like it, and it does taste lovely. More so in a bought sandwich for some reason - possibly because there is generally mayonnaise in there as well. The celery really brings out the taste of the cream cheese, which can be a bit bland.

Not worth buying a whole head of celery for, but if you can scrounge a stick...;)

crana999

I might try that when I go home, but I just really, really dislike the taste. I don't even like the smell. So I'm not sure it will help..

AussieLass

I have been reading your posts with interest about your aversion to vegatables. Not really the taste but the feel of them in your mouth. My youngest who is 21 is exactly the same. When he was about 4 he started disliking all his veggies. I thought it was just a stage as we & our other two all love our veggies no matter how they are cooked. But he never grew out of it and is still the same. Won't even try anything.
I'm glad to hear that you are at least wanting to try. I hope you get there, as I can't imagine life without all those yummy veggies.

Oh..peanut butter spread in celery is good too. Great to put in school lunch boxes and just to have a nibble on.

Jay-Jay_4

I don't know at what point it started with me .

My Mum's a true 'old styler', lots of proper food, veg, homemade really tasty, healthy stuff. It's not like I was brought up on junk and never 'learnt' to eat vegies, I just went off them at some point and that was that.

I think as you get older it gets harder to avoid veggies, especially when you're cooking for a family, so it's easier to try to like them.

The things that I will never eat are lettuce, raw onions and peppers. The hardest thing is lettuce as it's nearly impossible to buy a sandwich/burger or anything ready-made in a shop. I've spent so many lunch times with an opened sandwich on my knee, raking off slimy, mayo coated, lettuce .

I make enchiladas but I sieve the sauce so that I don't have the peppers and onions. I've tried eating them but they spoil the whole thing, I hate that crunching feeling in my mouth.

I still envy those who can eat a salad :rolleyes:

nickinoo

I have been veggie for about 14 years but I only started enjoying my veg after many, many years. My hubby turned veggie just before xmas, he hated peppers back then but he's addicted to them now & would happily eat them at every meal. I still hate cucumber & raw tomatoes (no problem with them cooked though), I hated celery until recently but now enjoy it cooked-suppose I am finally growing up

Queenie

As I've said before over time, my husband was strictly a tinned carrots and tinned peas only man, when I met him

Our tastes alter over the years (or so my mum told me! LOL ) and using that priniciple I have managed to encourage my husband to eat a variety of *real* vegetables instead of processed. How? The meatloaf I make (from Bernadine Lawrence cook book: "How to feed your family ..... ") has meat, stuffing, grated carrot and grated onion in it. Casseroles have hidden other veggies such as swede and parsnips. BBQ time and I bbq the large cap mushrooms with garlic butter, chargrill courgettes and sweetcorns.

Vegetable puree's are another means of serving vegetables which make the texture more palatable and when I mash swede with carrots, I add a sprinkling of .... nutmeg.

Ok, this has taken several years to accomplish; the trick is to introduce one or two things per month. If you don't enjoy the texture/flavour cooked on way, cook it another way

I'm still rather proud of the fact that, last week, we *all* sat down to Vegetable Curry (mushrooms, leeks, red pepper, onions, carrots, potatoes, tomatoes, courgettes).

I used to know someone who couldn't eat vegetables ... cooked!! He ate them all raw - cauliflower and everything.