Have you ever met an adult who doesn't eat

[lottieandmia]

Any fruit or vegetables at all? I have a friend who says she never eats any fruit or vegetables at all.

I have never heard of this. I think surely it's very bad for your health. And limiting

But I rather get those vitamins etc from fruit... as far as I know, there is nothing in peas that pears might not have?

My husband can't eat any fruit at all he has an allergic reaction and all of his mouth swells up. But he makes up with it with more veg. I always put a lot more on his plate as I worry about vitamins etc

I have Crohn's and can't eat anything with skins on, or anything that hasn't been cooked for ages. My body can't break them down and it causes a great deal of pain. Any fruit or veg that is high in fibre, has seeds, skin, or produces a lot of gas is out of the question. Narrowing and scar tissue of the bowel means that partially digested food can cause a very serious blockage, which can lead to complications and er death I suppose. Ended up in an ambulance because of some carrots and cabbage ffs, not my finest moment.

Ds has oral allergy syndrome and can't eat raw fruit and vegetables. Some cooked are fine but not all.

My DH doesn't eat any fruit, veg or meat. Hasn't done since he was a toddler. The thought of it makes him gag and he says he would physically vomit if he put any in his mouth. In terms of meals he lives solely off carbs and cheese, though can eat sweets, crisps and chocolate fine. It's very limiting.

Interesting thread. Diet aside I've always said he has autistic traits and this is just another to add to the list!

I could quite happily leave all except potatoes, parsnips, mushrooms and onions. And maybe salad on sandwiches and the occasional portion of green beans. I only eat a wider range regularly because I had to set an example when dd was little, and because I know they are good for me. Can't remember when I last ate fruit though.

It's not that I don't like them, but they aren't filling. And I eat either because I need the food, or because I love the taste. So it doesn't come naturally to eat eg cabbage because I don't love it, and don't feel full after eating it either so it's a bit pointless. But I'll put it on the plate through habit. Plus if I temporarily stuff myself with a load of low calorie veg at a meal time, I either don't get the quantities of carbs & protein I need, or I have to eat again later which is a pain.

I think humans will survive and flourish even if they aren't eating mounds of spinach every week - you don't actually need a massively varied diet to be healthy.

A life without veg saddens me lol.I love it...I can't be alone??

I have a college that doesn't touch anything that is green or weird looking like sweet potato she always complain in how she can. It loose weight but she binge in carbs and fags. As well a dear friend that don't eat veg or fruit his little daughter is the same sadly he's been for a triple bypass. I guess that skipping lunch and eating a whole tube of ice cream don't do any good. Is more common then you think people eat lots of process food with no much nutritional content and suffer in the long run

Another Crohn's sufferer here. I have to be very careful about what fruit an veg I eat. I can get very ill with certain ones or too much of the ones I can manage to digest. Low fibre diet for me for the rest of my life.

I know that I look picky and unhealthy to others who don't know why.

It's very judgmental to assume people are doing it by choice.

A friend of mine is in his late 20's and hasn't eaten any fruit or veg since he was a baby. He's weirdly proud of it.

He's very slim and I think he thinks that means that he's healthy but he smokes, drinks, eats terribly and couldn't run for a bus.

"It's very judgmental to assume people are doing it by choice."

As far as I can see the only judging on this thread is aimed solely at people who do it by choice. I think by now posters are very aware on how eating fruit and vegetables are a no no for crohns and UC sufferers or other digestive issues.

I agree, Lonicera. Obviously people who have been told on medical advice not to eat fruit and veg are in a different category.

I'm still baffled by those who say that all vegetables make them gag. Vegetables don't all have the same texture, taste or smell, and many are quite different prepared one way from another way. I remain convinced that some people have a bad experience with vegetables as toddlers or very young children (maybe choking or just never getting vegetables prepared in a tasty way) and never manage to get past it. Surely CBT would help in many cases? It really isn't normal or healthy to have a diet that includes next to no vegetables. Fruit is not so essential, but vegetables are so good for us, as well as being delicious if prepared well.

Im pretty limited in what i like in veg. Its a taste and texture thing. Potatoes, lettuce, carrots, pumpkin, corn are my stock standard. Dp gets me to try other stuff but i dont take to often lol
cauliflower and broccoli must be drowning in cheese sauce
I refuse to eat real bananas, texture is foul. But banana cake, lollies, milkshakes, love it
Cooked peas, eww, frozen are fine
Fruit depends, has to be high quality and sweet. Like if my strawberries arent sweet enough i add sugar.

I worried about my kids diet...they won't eat veg...eldest has just started eating sweet corn and occasionally peas but reading this I think they will be fine lol.
They both eat plenty of fruit...youngest would rather berries and melon over sweets so I suppose they get everything they need from the fruit they eat.

So I asked my husband this last night gasp after reading this thread and that very good point being made - how can he claim to not being able to eat any fruit or veg because of the smell/texture when they all feel and taste different? How he can exclude them all?

Him: "eh... well... I've tried them all and I don't like them"
Me: "you've tried ALL the fruit and vegetables?"
Him: "yeah"

He did snigger a bit when he saw my expression after this ludicrous statement. It really is a psychological thing which he claims stems back from when he was a toddler and went to hospital. He didn't like the hospital food so when he got back his mum fed him whatever he wanted and it's been like that since. She claims to have tried everything to get him to eat properly. Its a VERY touchy subject and in terms of getting help from it he really needs to accept it's a problem first. But he falls into that category of "There's nothing wrong with me so what's the problem?"

I don't have crohns or UC but my not eating them is not by choice - it's the worst phobia I have, alongside needles. It's mainly a texture thing, there are a few I can handle. My stepfather did force feed me cabbage when I was little and then made me eat it for breakfast the next day - that didn't help. I have really really tried but can't do it - retching, crying, actual vomiting if I do get some some down. It's absolutely awful. Hate being like this but try finding proper help for this as an adult. Wish my mum had pushed it when I was a kid but she never did.

And I should add, my twins (12 months) eat lots of fruit and veg and love it so far - initially I would gag just preparing it for them and I still struggle to clean up the mess but determined not to pass on my phobia.

My friends son is encouraged not to........he has cystic fibrosis and there just arent enough calories in fruit and veg (( which he loves ))

I know a woman who doesn't eat fruit and veg. She lives on chicken, bread and chocolate and occasionally Lazangne.
She is morbidly obese and has terrible health.
She won't even pick veggies out of things or just not eat them if they're on the plate. She's about 60 and I'm surprised she's lived this long.

My husband eats no fruit at all, and no salad. The only veg he will eat other than potatoes and mushrooms are peas and carrots. He doesn’t like them but will eat one carrot stick and a dessert spoonful of peas if they are put on his plate.

I hide other veg in things. In the pasta sauce we are having tonight will be onion, red and yellow peppers, sweet potato and butternut squash. But he’ll eat that as it will all be blended into a tomatoey sauce and he won’t know they are there.

He will drink orange juice as long as it is as unlike real orange juice as possible (long-life, made from concentrate, and with no bits). He also takes vitamin tablets.

One of my sister's wont touch any fruit or veg, and most of her diet is made up of takeaways (requested with no veg) and cereal with a shit tonne of sugar on. That's it. Needless to say she is extremely overweight, always poorly and both her children have the same diet.

Jesus I couldn't be bothered to blend veg into sauce for an adult, that's far too much like hard w

Hard work! As was finishing to type that post, obviously

A life without veg would be awful (have just had an amazing Sunday lunch with steamed carrots, broccoli, sprouts (yum) and a cauli cheese too. Almost my favourite bit about Sunday lunch. Having said that, I haven't eaten a single piece of fruit in months. In fact it was June, on holiday in Greece, we had melon and peaches with Greek yoghurt for breakfast.