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

hiding DH would never eat veg unprompted either (although he eats it perfectly happily when it's put in front of him). When I go away I have to make sure to clear the crisper drawer or it'll all just rot. BUT! Miracles have happened! We now have a garden and he's always banged on about wanting to grow vegetables, and his Mum planted a load of cabbages and runner beans for us. He was a bit startled when I went away for a fortnight and the beans didn't conveniently stop growing until I got back, and he kept picking them and putting them in the fridge, until I pointed out that the fridge isn't some kind of immortality capsule, and they would rot in there just as surely as if he hadn't picked them. So he actually Googled how to prepare beans and made and ate them! Maybe you should try something similar

I just don't know how people cannot like veg. Christmas vegetables are my favourite part of Christmas dinner.

My old housemate was a vegetarian that hated vegetables, he lived off chips covered in cheese, and garlic pizza bread. Oh and the occasional bowl of pasta and cheese.

Me, unfortunately. I've had Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) since I was a child. The smell and even thinking about the sight of a lot of foods make me physically vomit. It is very limiting, which is frustrating.

No I have not but I would judge the hell out of them if I did

She won't get scurvy if she eats potatoes regularly, there's enough vitamin c in them to avoid scurvy.

Yes. An old housemate. He'd had a bowel problem in his twenties that gave him extreme anxieties in regards to food.

He stopped cooking completely and would only eat white bread, marmite, cheese, chips, biscuits and occasionally a small cheese and tomato pizza.

When I moved into our house, at this point he'd lived there two years, he couldn't even switch on the oven.

He was around 9 stone and was always tired/coming down with a cold. He's in his mid-thirties now and his health is in very poor shape.

No! This is crazy, surely you'd die very young?

Then again I'm the person who after drunken binges at Uni used to come back and eat a bowl of mange tout in butter 😂

I don't eat that many. Usually only 2 or three portions a day which is lower than the recommended. Very occasionally none at all in a day. I do know of at least one person who doesn't eat any fruit or veg or hardly any.

My nephew, who's in his 30s. He eats ready meals so probably gets a little bit if tomatoes and onions and things but no fresh fruit or veg. He's very tall and has always been like a beanpole but is inevitably starting to fill out now.

We had a chalet guest once who literally eats the same thing every day...

Cornflakes for breakfast
White bread & butter for lunch
Chicken & chips for dinner

Our chalet host made him dinner on her 'night off' because she knew he wouldn't get that in the resort (and guests are not insured to use the kitchen).

My cousin has autism and he eats much the same everyday too with not a vegetable in sight. He will eat bananas, but that's the only fruit he'll eat.

Both are fit & healthy. Skiing bloke was in his 50's & despite having eaten this way pretty much all his life, he was fitter than most of the 30 year olds.

My sister has a very limited repertoire in veg and fruit.

I think she eats apples/bananas/oranges ... I think.

She eats potatoes, peas, baked beans. She might have a salad ... maybe. Other than that she eats no vegetables. She finds it very difficult to eat anything new or different - would never eat any casserole other than basic stew, gets chicken fingers and rice from the chinese.

She is very healthy, looks great, a normal (and constant during her adult life) weight, has 3 healthy children (only one of whom inherited her food issues - rest eat everything).

One of my uncles didn't eat fresh fruit or veg once he'd moved out of home in his 20s. He died of bowel cancer in his late 40s. I don't know how connected the two were.

when I say salad, I mean a leaf of lettuce. nothing else.

Yes but he did ask for ketchup with his roast dinner so I suppose there are some tomatoes in that!?

I can't eat many fruit/veg unless it's blended down to almost non-existent.

It's limiting, it's frustrating, but I'd rather not throw up everything I've eaten that day. I'm unhealthy, I know I'm unhealthy, but I don't know how to "fix it".

I discovered that BIL doesn't really eat veg when I served him a Christmas Dinner. His plate was piled up with meat, trimmings and roast potatoes, which he must have eaten about 20 of. I cooked what I thought was a generous amount of potatoes, (about 6 big ones per person) plus several types of veg, stuffing, pigs in blankets and two types of meat but there were no leftovers because I hadn't accounted for BIL eating so many.

MIL tried to get him to eat his annual single sprout but he declared that now he was over 40 he didn't think he had to.

If people are eating a decent amount of potato they won't get scurvy. Very rich in vit C.

Yes my BIL which worries me as while they are lovely together my Dsis weight has shot up since they met.

He will only ever eat processed foods, so. I fruit/beg, no "proper" meat or potatoes e.g. Mashed. It has to be pies, or pizza, or chicken nuggets or kebabs.

Christmas dinner he only has the pigs in blankets and pudding as the rest is real food. It's just really really fucking odd!

I remember my then housemate telling me his new girlfriend was coming to visit, so I offered to make us all a meal. He happily accepted then on the morning of the meal revealed that she ate no vegetables (I so incredulous that I kept questioning it 'no peas? no carrots? no sweetcorn?!') and only seedless fruit (so my planned strawberry dessert was off the table). I'm vegetarian so this posed quite the logistical problem; I ended up making both chicken and vegetable fajitas and she literally ate white tortillas, chicken and cheese. Not the best meal I've ever served a guest... They are now married, and she does now eat a (fairly small selection of) vegetables.

My dp is 32 and won't eat veg in any shape or form. Lives on pizza, pie and chips, sausage and mash, etc. Any meat with potato, no veg.

I once saw him voluntarily eat a satsuma and I nearly fainted.

Potatoes are pretty nutritious though aren't they? Compared to pasta anyway. I'm sure I read somewhere there's more vitamin c in a bag of crisps than an apple.

Bulletfox - google enteral feeding and total parental nutrition to find out about people who can’t eat

My husband doesn't eat any veg and only eats bananas and the very occasional apple