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

A friend is a GP and diagnoses scurvy not infrequently. She says it's usually in one of two groups: the alcoholics, or the extreme beige-food eaters. They are also massively constipated.

I recently made a fellow vegetarian friend and was looking forward to having her round for dinner. She managed some sweetcorn fritter things, though ate more batter than anything, picked the vegetables out of the stir fry and basically ate spicy noodles, and then picked the bluberries out of the fancy little compote thing I'd made. I was very

I'm one of those adults its texture for me. and no matter what i try, mash, boil, roast, raw, steam it makes me phusically vomit. doctors won't help just tell me to take a multivitamin.
it is limiting as I often wish I could just grab a banana and go or eat what others are eating... or not order the plain chicken and chips everywhere I go.
but it's a real thing. I do try. but I vomit without fail.
I can handle shredded spinach hidden in mash which I do.

If it is texture why don't you use a blender instead?

Well I don't get bored as I don't see it as a restricted diet. I have the same as other people just minus the veg... So stir fry with just chicken and noodles, pie and mash with no veg on the side, pasta with just sauce and meat etc.

A landlady of mine had a lodger who ate nothing but bread and salami.

@lonicera
I've tried blending. with tonnes of gravy. still makes me sick. probably something psychological but nobody is willing to help. begged a dietician in tears when I was pregnant but she said the same as docs. multivitamin.
I can manage smoothies but I'm type 1 diabetic so fruit is hard to carb count (insulin injection is 1unit to 10g of carbs) so sometimes it'll make me high, sometimes low. so tend to avoid that.

Same here Unihorn I eat a very varied range of food. Even if I'm eating at a friend's I've never had anyone cook something seperate for me, they just leave the veg out. If I'm having a takeaway etc I ask for my main course without any veg through it, it's never been a problem

I can't believe some people would class not eating veggies as a deal breaker in a relationship though

I don't understand why it is all veg and all fruit. As someone pointed out upthread a banana is nothing like a grape, and a pea is nothing like a carrot.

I must admit that I struggle to understand why someone could hate all fruit and vegetables on a taste and texture basis.

Why not buy a Nutribullet and blitz everything if it is a texture thing?

"I can't believe some people would class not eating veggies as a deal breaker in a relationship though"

Because when I cook there are many recipes that I make that contain vegetables, and DD is vegetarian, and I'm not a restaurant so I won't cook a selection of meals.

no idea why, @Lonicera
I think if I could figure out why, I would be able to overcome it. along with all the other people who suffer through it.
it's not just being a fussy child who wants cake over carrots.
it's depressing and v. limiting and embarrassing. and having people who say to just eat it, try it, this that and the other because they don't understand is frustrating.
most people who are like me, have and will try anything to begin to enjoy other food groups. but for some it's just not that easy. perhaps it's an eating disorder?? who knows. I've read books, tried every vegetable in the supermarket, all ways of blending and cooking, I can find a tiny piece of veg in my pasta and I just know it's in my mouth and I can't eat anymore.

always had the problem
always trying to fix it.
I suppose people can't understand because they are fine with it. nobody of an adult age actively chooses to limit themselves to beige food for fun.

its texture for me. and no matter what i try, mash, boil, roast, raw, steam it makes me phusically vomit.

The texture of all fruit & veg are different though... a banana is nothing like a raw carrot, corn on the cob is nothing like a satsuma

And I totally get not liking a particular food because of the texture, egg whites make me heave!

Nine portions? Bloody hell! What have you eaten

That's about what you're supposed to eat I believe. Five or whatever the government is recommending now is pretty much the bare minimum.

I'd be the size of a house if 70-80% of what I eat wasn't a plant

A colleague of mine has developed a fructose allergy meaning they can no longer eat fruit or veg. They used to love veg and salad and suddenly can't eat any of the things they enjoy,

I can't imagine having to only eat white bead, chips, cheese and a very limited diet

I can't believe some people would class not eating veggies as a deal breaker in a relationship though

Massive food fussiness in general would be (and has been) a relationship deal breaker for me, I enjoy cooking, I enjoy going out for meals and when I'm on holiday I like trying local foods I haven't had before - someone who would only eat egg & chips isn't going to enjoy any of that

Interesting that the first few pages were mostly anecdotes about men not eating fruit or veg, then all the posters with IBS/autistic kids/texture issues came in.
Of course I don't judge those who have genuine issues with fruit and veg, it must be very bloody irritating! But the people like a PP mentioned who just go "I don't liiiiike green stuff" just sound infantile tbh. Passing the veg at a meal accompanied by "yuck" noises? Seriously? How fucking childish.

Texture is a thing for me too, i cant eat anything that doesnt go completely smooth when you eat it, like bread etc, bar overcooked carrots and really ripe bananas i dont know of a veg or fruit that goes like that when you eat it.
As for not wanting to cater in a relationship, my family have always eaten a wide variety of everything, i get served it i eat the bits i like, never caused them or me a problem. The only thing i really wont eat is curry because i hate spicy so i family is having curry i just make something else, again no hardship for anybody involved.

DH thinks he doesn't, however I still haven't told him that the 'secret family recipes' i used to cook for the kids when they were toddlers all contain hidden vegetables and he often asks for them.

To those saying their child has ASD and won't eat fruit or veg - I think this is very common. I did say the thread is about (non autistic) adults. I have a severely autistic dd and she went through a phase at 4/5 where she would only eat weetabix, yoghurt, ice cream and chocolate cake. It took a very long time to break this behaviour down. Luckily she now eats everything but believe me I get it - she won't do anything she doesn't want to do.

The thread is about grown adults who seem otherwise normal.

I can't believe some people would class not eating veggies as a deal breaker in a relationship though

It wouldn't be an absolute deal breaker for me but it would be a major con. However, that's partially because I'm vegetarian - and many people, of course, feel exactly the same way about that, which is fine.

I don't .....unless you count potatoes and the very occasional banana....

I have ulcerative colitis with an ileostomy (a stoma bag).....I cannot digest fibre at all, and so cannot eat fruit or veg....it severely restricts other foods too - tough meat such as steak is a no-go, spicy food gives me terrible pain so i avoid etc...

today i ate -
bfast - 2 white toast & peanut butter
lunch - 1 white roll, ham
dinner - 2 white bread with a fried egg & tomato ketchup
bedtime - cup of tea & a french fancy ....washed down with lansoprazole for the inevitable tummy pain!

its so boring....

i also suspect i have ARFID as i was fairly bad & beige in the 20 years before i became ill.....

I know, it just seems a massive quantity of food.

“Massive food fussiness in general would be (and has been) a relationship deal breaker for me, I enjoy cooking, I enjoy going out for meals and when I'm on holiday I like trying local foods I haven't had before - someone who would only eat egg & chips isn't going to enjoy any of that”

That’s me sooperdooper. We had a fabulous holiday in Sicily this year. It would have really spoiled the holiday if we had had to eat in the same restaurant every night because it was the only place that did steak and chips for example.

Latetobreakfast1 that sucks. I have a friend with UC and she has to be careful as well. The OP wasn’t referring to people like yourself though, but people who are just fussy.

It would have been a dealbreaker for me unless my partner had a medical reason for not being able to eat a wide range of food. I love food of all types and would have bitterly resented having to buy and cook mostly beige food or else having to accept that we couldn't share interesting meals, and not having a completely free choice of restaurants and takeaways.

As for saying you eat the same as everyone else, just not the veg, that wouldn't work here. We do sometimes have meals that are lump of protein, dollop of carbs, one or more vegetables but we much more often have meals where the carbs and protein are all mixed up with lots and lots of vegetables. By the time you'd picked the veg out, there wouldn't be much left.

I wonder what's at the bottom of this psychological difficulty with a whole food group. How would it work in India, say, where so much of the food is entirely vegetarian? Or Italy, where there are vegetables at every meal?

This'll be outing but my ex husband is a very fussy eater (or was he may have changed)

He would only eat:

Bread
Cheese
Jam
Macaroni cheese
Cheese pizza
Variations of cheese and bread.
Crisps (ready salted)
Chocolate

Would only drink milk/fizzy drinks. No hot drinks.

I know a few adults that have appalling diets, they are like the people you see on tv shows that only eat a very small selection of fried/breaded/battered foods and sweets, maybe a baked bean if they're feeling adventurous. It's absurd and I often wonder how it happens.