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 find picky eaters so irritating.

I don't really liked cooked vegetables although they are ok if they are in things like a pie.

But I eat lots of raw vegetables and happily snack on a bag of cherry tomatoes and can easily get through a bag of carrots in a couple of days. I cut stalks off broccoli, eat them raw, and cook the rest for DH and DS. I've just eaten some raw cauliflower as a snack.

DH eats anything.

DS doesn't like salad, but does eat some limited veg like carrots, broccoli - and amazingly he likes Brussels sprouts, which my DH considers his greatest achievement in life :)

We all eat a lot of fruit though.

I simply can't imagine not eating loads of fruit and veg. You hear of so-called diets who ban them, surely you're setting yourself up for bowel cancer?

BIL has a very high potassium level in his blood and he can't eat bread, potatoes, bananas and obviously anything with high amounts of this which apparently could be very dangerous indeed. His wife is unduly fussy about her own diet and it makes me wonder what exactly they can or do eat. It must be very limiting but isn't all down to their own choice.

Like everything else, if you've not encountered it or experienced it yourself, it's so easy to assume that people are just fussy and could eat anything if they wanted to.

A lot of food issues could be down to sensory processing. There's a world of difference between the genuinely cannot eat that food as it causes violent physical aversion which they cannot control as opposed to just not liking something or not wanting to try it.

I know someone who only eats chips. And by only eating chips I mean literally that, he doesn't eat anything else at all.

So he definitely doesn't eat any fruit!

I find it baffling that people lump fruit & veg into one food group they won't eat/don't like - a carrot is nothing like a grape or a courgette a fresh salad is nothing like cauliflower cheese!

Totally understand people have likes and dislikes but fruit & veg are all different

Yes. I went on a date with a man who only ate steak and chips. Nothing else as far as i know. Just steak and chips.

I'm a fairly healthy eating vegetarian. He didn't think it would be a problem.

There was no reason for him not eating them other than he "didn't like them" as a child and no one had ever made him eat them. He had medical issues as a result. Manchild.

I've never ever seen my dh eat veg. His Sunday dinner consists of meat, roast potatoes, stuffing, Yorkshire pudding and gravy. He's awful fussy. Will only eat potatoes as chips or roast. Will not eat mash or jacket potatoe. Won't eat eggs. Won't eat ham. He will only eat cheese sandwiches. Never eaten salad.

Funny thing is is he is very very rarely ill and he's not had more than a cold for couple of days. Yet I eat healthily with a lot of fruit veg and salad and I take multi vitamins everyday too and at least once a year I get an awful cold that knocks me off my feet for a week! The mind boggles

I knew a man who ate no fruit or veg. He only ate meat, baked beans and chips. He stunk really badly.

It isn't always fussiness. My son has Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder. It isn't something you grow out of, but it can change over time. He won't eat any veg at all. He eats done fruit. He basically eats the same thing every day, no variety day to day. We give him loads of supplements by hiding them in flavoured yoghurt. It is hard for him and for us.

I don't eat any fruit or veg for two weeks in every 8. I have Crohn's, and as my meds wear off my intenstines get inflamed and the stricture on my ileum gets even narrower so that anything bulky moving through my gut is agony. So I pretty much exist on white carbs and some fish and rice and lots of vitamins. I do drink fruit & vegetable juiceduring this period. Many people with IBD, especially those who have had surgery to remove parts of their bowel, or those with strictures like me have to avoid fibrous foods.

It's not nice tbh - I really miss fresh fruit and veg and always raid M&S's salad and cut fruit section when I go for my infusion as I know that when I wake up and feel better and hungry I can safely eat it as the inflammation will have disappeared by the time the fibrous bulk reaches my intestines.

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

That is me, in every particular .

I like all veg except the above-mentioned courgettes and aubergine. Am fine with passata but can't eat anything with lumps of tomato in. Fruity flavours are fine but I can't stand fruit, except for apples and grapes, and even then, I don't choose to eat them (but would if they were presented to me iyswim).

It's a texture thing.

I love fruit, vegetables, salads. Unfortunately I have ulcerative colitis so have had to limit some of these.

It's not about being fussy. Lots of foods I don't really like but eat them happily if presented out of politeness. Some veg make me gag so much. I remember eating asparagus once at a dinner party and there were tears in my eyes. It's no fun and it's nothing to do with being fussy. I also can only eat most 'traditional' veg if with meat.

I will eat most food items and enjoy them however if given the chance I would like to eat just sushi. And perhaps tiger bread

My sister and her two adult boys will only eat tinned carrots, tinned peas and a tiny bit of green cabbage. If we go to a carvery they literally have meat, yorkie, roast spuds and gravy! They don't eat any fruit at all.

I love veg and eat loads of it but I'm allergic to most fruits so tend to avoid it. The only fruit I can eat is melon, bananas and grapes. Sick to death of bloody bananas. Can't eat them any more! 🎗

My late brother never touched the stuff. My mum used to put the veg water in the gravy in the hope that will get him some much needed vitamins. It didnt make him sick.

Yes it's common- I'm a hypnotherapist and see loads of adults for this problem!

I eat very little in the way of fruit and veg. I should eat more really. But I've had no ill effects yet!

My brother in law doesn't.

It's a lot to do with texture rather than taste.

I bloody love fruit and vegetables, but like many of the PPs I have a restricted diet because of IBS and IBD. Insoluble fibre is an issue too, so no beautiful granary bread. I hate fucking food Nazis who police my plate, and mention being fussy or picky. I'm not, just saddled with a malfunctioning gut

I'm not keen on most fruit, but I will eat all vegetables apart from mushrooms. I mean there's some veg I'd only eat to be polite, like raw tomatoes or celery, and some I'll eat but would choose for myself, but mostly I like vegetables. Which is just as well, as I'm vegetarian!

Fruit often has odd textures. Raw pear, citrus fruits, banana. Hate those because of the textures. Cooked pear, orange juice or banana in/on things is fine.

This thread reminds me of The Takeaway Family. They are friends of the family and have take out food every night of the week, on a schedule.

So for example, Monday is Chinese, Tuesday is KFC, Wednesday is Indian, Thursday is Pizza, Friday is Fish and Chips, Saturday is kebab and Sunday they go for a roast at his parents house which is meat, roasties, yorkshires and gravy.

They have four children. It astounds me.

I also have no idea how they afford it.