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

No wonder cancer is such a problem :(

for people like myself where it's a texture thing, I don't think it's the texture of the veg that's the issue as there's, as has been pointed out, lots of different textures
it's the limited amount of textures that our mouths can handle without being sick or gagging.
it isn't just fruit and veg. can't stand processed foods (chicken nuggets, cheap burgers, anything chewy or gritty like thick Gammon or crap sausage and cathedral city cheese or juicy chicken).

I am jealous of people who can just eat anything and enjoy it. glad to see it isn't just me on this thread who can't deal with many textures.

Yes, and heart disease and type 2 diabetes. People with normal guts need to have lots and lots of fibre in the diet for the gut to go on working normally, and the more varied the diet the better, as I understand it.

@fleshmarketclose
Snap ! My son exactly ,and I get so frustrated at people who think he's just a faddy eater .if I didn't buy the foods he eats he would soon eat something else .NO HE WOULDNT ,HE WOULD STARVE .
Add to this the fact that he now has type 1diabeties( no he did not develop it because he is a faddy eater😡) and you can imagine how hard it is to keep his diabeties under control.
Even if it meant a hypo and then coma,he could not eat anything not on his 'food list'.

We stayed with a couple for a couple if weeks when we were moving areas. We knew they weren't big on fruit or veg but by day 5 we were like naughty children smuggling fruit into our bedroom and munching on grapes and apples and strawberries.
We really didn't want to offend them but macaroni cheese every night was getting hard to swallow.

We offered to cook but after the list of things they didn't like there wasn't much else. Meat potatoes pasta and cheese was the order of the day

If I had my way, I would never eat veg. But I do always eat some with every dinner. More for DC benefit. I love fruit & salad though. But I hate the smell of all veg especially when cooking 🤢.

"But I hate the smell of all veg especially when cooking"

All veg?

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

I can.

Unless there are medical reasons for not eating, at least reasonably, healthily then I'd be wondering what other poor judgements were being made.

It seems rather childlike to totally refuse fruit and vegetables to the almost certain detriment of one's health.

I rarely ate veg until about 5 years ago - now eat veg almost every day (am 45)
rarely ate fruit either
Never had scurvey, but I do hope it won't cause me any problems as I get even older!

When I married my ex I had to have a buffet rather than a sit down meal so he would eat something. We could never just go out for a meal they had to have mac cheese or pizzas.

It's such a breath of fresh air being able to go anywhere with dp now.

We are doing blw right now and she eats anything infront of her. Usually goes for the veg first

I knew someone who claimed to hate vegetables. How can you hate all vegetables?

I eat very very few portions of fruit or veg. I have serious IBS and those foodstuffs (as well as everything apart from fresh air) make me extremely poorly.

I miss fruit, salad and veg...

To those people who hate the texture of fruit & veg have you always had this issue from childhood?

Yes.

My sister doesn't. She doesn't like them generally but will eat some if my mum puts them in her roast or stew. She would never choose them for herself though

"We could never just go out for a meal they had to have mac cheese or pizzas."

^^this is why it would be a deal breaker. No going out for an Indian or a Chinese, no tapas, no other countries' cuisines. God how boring.

I have only ever seen DH eat 1 banana

His mum didn't bring him up properly feed him healthy foods

I blend fruit and veggies into meals and he loves home cooked meals too bad him mum never made any

Yes my DH - bar some tomato sauce and mushrooms on pizza. He is still fairly healthy at nearly 40 . The dc and I eat a normal amount of fruit and veg though.

@lonicera when we were younger it wasn't a problem but as we got older it really was one.

I kept thinking how can I teach a child to eat properly when it's father doesnt. But we had no kids together.

Dp doesn't like tomatoes or broccoli but will put chopped tomatoes in bolognese because I like them and he'll just eat them.

My DH - very very limited intake of veg. Basically potatoes and tomato based sauces.

He does have crohns though and although this wasn't a conscious thing for him - it seems to be quite common for people with crohns to avoid lots of different fruits and veg because they can cause flares... so whether he did it on a subconscious level??

It causes him so much anxiety and lots of stress - it can be really hard to find food when we're out or abroad sometimes.

I don't eat green veg, as they leaves a horrid metallic taste in my mouth, which sets off a reaction like when you hear nails scrape down a blackboard or you touch silver foil onto a filling.

Yes, people think I'm fussy and laugh at me when I remove every scrap of green from my plate before eating (looking at you, DB who deliberately serves up the Christmas dinner carrots with the same spoon as has just been used for the Brussels sprouts).

To those who are 'infuriated' by or 'can't help judging' fussy or picky eaters [as distinct from people with a condition or reaction that affects their choices] - what's it to do with you?

I mean, fair enough if you're cooking for them and they're expecting you to change your menu to accommodate their choices. But if it doesn't affect you or your own health, live and let live surely?

I have quite a limited range myself [although I do like green veg] but I don't expect people to work around me. My choices, therefore it's up to me to deal with it.

I live alone, fortunately.

Some people have sensitive tastebuds -- vegetables etc taste more bitter to them. I have this " problem" and cannot bear most green vegetables such as cabbage, sprouts, spinach, etc. Kale tastes vile to me. Legumes such as peas and beans are OK as they are sweeter. I have trained myself to eat broccoli but some days can't face it. Damned inconvenient!
I'm amazed so many people don't ever eat fruit and veg at all

My fussy sons used to ask for their meals without all the 'shit' i.e. Healthy vegetables that I added to the meals for them, my ex and I and daughters.
But makes me laugh now as I see that their wife/partners cook them much more veg and they clear their plates!!!

(Although son No 2 would eat kilos of broccoli he loved it)