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

I used to work with someone who didn't eat any veg and pretty much no fruit except apples. And even then he would only have one apple every other day. He was so pale and always had a cold.
i can only think of a couple of veggies I don't like and I could eat fruit all day long. I can't imagine what I didn't eat them.

If she eats potatoes that's a vegetable, and I bet if you asked for more detail you'd find she isn't counting things like onions in other food, tomatoes on things like pizza/pasta, drinks containing fruit juice and so on. It's still not great, but I'd be surprised if she really ate no fruit or veg at all.

I also wonder if people with a very limited range of foods take daily multivitamins which would probably help stave off a lot of issues.

Me, like Tesla I was diagnosed as having ARFID at 9 years old. I eat corn on the cob and potatoes but no other fruit or veg. It's not through choice, I wish I could and I cook and prepare meals with lots of veg etc for my husband and son but the thought of actually eating them makes me feel physically sick. When i was pregnant I bought a nutribullet and made a smoothie every day just to get some fruit into me. But to drink it id have to hold my nose and knock it back in one go. Then feel like I was going to vomit for a good hour after drinking it. I'm not over weight either and do enjoy a lot of different types of food, I just prepare my meal in a separate pan and ask for my meals to be served without things such as the salad or veg if in a restaurant .

I don't like many 'traditional vegetables' - carrots, swede, peas, sweet corn. I would love to enjoy but some of them literally make me gag like a child on the other hand I love salad, onions, pepper etc & love all fruit.

Tinkly There are probably quite a few people who ward off scurvy solely due to consumption of potatoes (as chips) plus the tomatoes in the sauce on their pizza and in ketchup.

My ex. Also wouldn't eat pasta, noodles, any kind of sauce, cereal or milk. Made a big deal about it all the time, everywhere we went was hampered by it. He smelled awful, his skin was very bad and he was heavier than he would have liked because he ate nothing but starch and junk food. But he had no intention of changing, I think he felt it was part of his personality and he somewhat enjoyed the attention he got from it.

I understand having food issues, I'm a vegetarian and have a phobia towards, specifically, bananas and roast chicken. A good friend of mine cannot handle fish because of a genuinely terrifying experience when she was younger involving a river of recently dead fish after spawning season. But beyond that I lose a lot of respect for a person who won't at least try to get a handle on their food issues.

I worked with a guy who was charming, intelligent, well educated, high up, middle class, family man, always immaculately presented...but had the palate of a toddler. The only vegetable he would eat was peas. He had a sense of humour about it though, which I liked.

My dh now (since he met me) eats most vegetables. Aubergine and courgette are a no-go though.

Fruit - he only eats apples, but not cooked ones. He won't eat tomatoes but will eat passata. He'll drink orange juice and eat things like lemon cake, but cake with pieces of fruit in it/on it he won't touch.

I just though he was a bit fussy/spoiled but it's almost like a phobia. I once asked him to pass me the tomatoes and he did, but almost threw up. Plums would have been worse.

I love most fruit, apart from melons, mangoes, plums. I'll scoff apples and oranges and passionfruit.

But I do hate veg. Ever since a traumatic childhood illness, anything green, saucey, too soft, too exotic, too spicy, makes me ill. I don't like veg touching other foods on my plate either, but I'm getting better at that.

I've been getting a lot better and can tolerate certain veg, but I don't like it. I wish I wasn't fussy, and I'll be polite at gatherings, but I am. I think my mum did an excellent job. I'd basically only eat bread and chicken until I was 9ish, but she didn't make it in to a huge deal, and eventually I was able to try foods without it being a horrific experience.

I wish that people who can't stand 'fussy people' and like to talk about other people's eating habits could feel the physical, gut wrenching fear that new foods brought / still bring to me.

Phew, didn't mean to rant.

Also, I have a condition that involves frequent bouts of nausea too strong for me to handle eating solid food, so I do a few days with a meal replacement shake so I don't lose too much nutrition. Ex wouldn't even swallow a multivitamin once in a while because it made him gag, supposedly.

I have a friend in her early forties who is like this, she can't abide any veg or fruit, only eats bland meat and potatoes, even moans about having a cheese and tomato pizza (i.e. It's got tomatoes in it).

Funnily enough she seems fairly active and healthy. She used to run a beauty business.

And she is famous round here for NEVER getting hangovers, even if she's had a proper session.

My ex. He lived on bacon sandwiches, cheese on toast and McDonalds. It was truly unbelievable. He said he couldn't stand the texture of any fruit or veg at all.

Amusing all these presumably non vegetarians eating beige food which was the complaint about veggie food a few years back!

My husband will eat one vegetable and one piece of fruit a day. He does it by closing his eyes, popping it in, chewing furiously until it's gone then having a big gulp of water.

I found it amusing when I first met him, now it makes me want to murder him.

My sister. She eats roast potatoed, the occasional bit of raw carrot or celery and that's it. Won't eat tomato based sauces (or any sauce in fact, other than soy sauce). Scented fruits like peaches and melon make her feel sick, even just the smell. She lives off plain meat and plain carbs.

She is not the healthiest but not as unhealthy as she probably should be given her diet.

I have a friend who is a vegetarian who doesn't eat fruit or veg.

Most of his meals are cheese or eggs based, He'll have risotto or pasta, occasionally stretch to pesto. I've seen him pick peas and small pieces of onion out of a risotto.

He's in his mid-40s.

Two of my team are married to men like this. I can't get my head around it, would be a total deal breaker for me.

Yeah my best friend. She only eats beige food and plain meat. Can't eat any fruit or veg/ any sauces etc just plain carbs and plain meat. Her family thinks it's funny but I think it's quite worrying!!

my gran never ate a vegetable in her 84 years! She lived on chocolate, meat and potatoes and had a very healthy life! x

Potatoes are a vegetable...

My ds 22 hasn't eaten fruit or veg since he was about three. He has ASD and a severely restricted diet and always has had. He has taken multivitamins since he was 9 when he could swallow a tablet. His diet consists of a certain type of burger, dairy milk chocolate, coca cola (only from 500ml bottles), the odd chip shop sausage (from certain chip shops) and the occasional McDonalds plain hamburger and fries. He's slim, healthy and has no fillings surprisingly.
He has had specialist input repeatedly over the years that has had no impact whatsoever. He went into hospital a couple of times believing that they could widen his repertoire and was discharged both times having had nothing pass his lips other than bottled water and the weight loss becoming concerning. It's compounded by him never actually feeling hungry so it is easier to refuse when you never feel hungry.

Yes my annoying partner. Mainly he eats burgers, pizza, fried chicken,chips, chocolate and crisps washed down with coke and doesn't put a pound on!

My DP's DSis and BIL are vegetarians who don't eat vegetables. They live on cheese and tomato pizza and cheesy fajitas. We once went out for a meal and walked past a load of amazing looking restaurants staring at endless menus (it was Sydney, we'd flown over for a visit) until they found one they were happy with. Even then they looked at their food really suspiciously when it arrived. It was a complete PITA to be honest, I think I'd just stay in!

I know someone who couldn't eat veg (or anything much other than offal ) as part of a health issue. Thankfully it was short-lived.

I used to know someone who took great pride in saying that she didn't like fruit and veg and would pass on sharing bowls of veg at dinners etc with much face-pulling and 'yuck' noises. I don't understand that; who thinks that behaving like a toddler is funny or admirable?

I'm glad we're no longer in touch.

I have ulcerative colitis so before I had my surgery I was very limited due to having to follow a low fibre diet.
I still don't eat much fruit though, mainly because there aren't many I actually like