Anyone else could happily live on veggies?!

[Gimmeveg]

It’s an odd one. I’ll grant you that!

But anyone else really love veggies above any other type of food.
Steamed broccoli
Steamed Brussels sprouts
Courgetti
Carrots etc

I’m underweight but always have been, as is all my family. I don’t have veggies for breakfast (muesli / porridge / scrambled egg that kind of thing), lunch is soup or a chicken salad or a salmon wrap, snacks are fruit and nuts (could happily live off fruit too I think but the sugar stops me!), but come dinner I often cook up a vat of steamed veg and just enjoy ploughing through. So flavourful. I’ll always incorporate something else but only because I have to in order not to lose weight.... something like chickpea curry, salmon fillet and rice etc. But veg is just so delisch!!

Am I alone?
My visiting cousin says.... weirdo! (Fondly I hasten to add!)

I wish I enjoyed vegetables more than I do. The truth is that I don't care for their flavour on their own. They need something with them meat, cheese, carbs, salty or spicy sauces to make them taste appealing to me.

Theres loads of raw vegans and fruitarians that live off large amounts of fruit daily just fine so i wouldn't worry about that i agree about veg though i love it steamed with just a little butter on i dont get people who say its bland veg has so many amazing different flavours unless you stew it to death

I love veg and could live off them with little bother if I had to, I prefer them jazzed up a little with even salt and pepper though.
I think it depends on how you cook them (if at all) over cooked veg is much less palatable than something crisp and fresh but lightly steamed IMO.

A heap of Brussels with gravy and roast potatoes and a ton on mint sauce is one of my most loved comfort foods.

I do really enjoy vegetables and eat large portions, but as part of a meal, not just on their own. Having said that, there are delicious ways of preparing them - stir fried tenderstem broccoli with garlic, ginger and soy sauce, roasted spiced cauliflower, green beans with olive oil and lemon juice . . I'm happy to eat plain boiled green veg with a tasty main dish, but I don't find them particularly lovely on their own.

Mm, just thinking of new potatoes, onion, carrots and petits pois stewed in a lot of butter - now that's seriously good!

Just eat what you like. It’s really that simple.

@Fizbosshoes

I like vegetables (most of them) but wouldnt want to only eat them. I'm amazed were on page 3 and no ones mentioned the potential for strong winds on a vegetable-only diet including chickpeas and beans.... or am I the only one that childish?

You take the good with the bad

Yes! I don't eat veg alone because I know I will still be hungry after it but I do love a big pile of mixed veggies - there are so many flavours!

I’m a vegan so literally all I eat is plants. Lovely, delicious veggies

Lovely, delicious veggies smile

I like fruitees too despite the fact I might as well nom up sweeties

YY about flavourful - it's flavourSOME surely?

I love vegetables but unless they're an accompaniment I prefer them with butter, gravy or cheese or cheese sauce. It's pretty much all I ate as a vegetarian teenager.
I have them at breakfast too, I can't stomach the usual breakfast foods but I love a Caesar salad or fried courgettes with a bit of halloumi,

I really don't like much fruit at all. I think because it's usually cold and wet.

As as vegan I do!

@BertieBotts

YY about flavourful - it's flavourSOME surely?

I wrote flavourful,and that’s what I meant!

Collins dictionary def attached

I'm amazed were on page 3 and no ones mentioned the potential for strong winds on a vegetable-only diet including chickpeas and beans.... or am I the only one that childish?

When you first go fully vegan it is a bit of a shock Luckily most people with healthy guts find everything settles after week two, though I gather people with IBS etc may need more trial and error

Favourite meals are steamed brocolli with a sprinkle of cheese, courgettes with butter and lemon and big tray of roasted med veg with pesto mayo. 😋

Well I like veg but I like other things just as much, and I wouldn’t just eat it steamed and planned all the time. Raw veg, or veg cooked any other way, is much more flavourful than steamed or boiled too.

I’d happily never eat a vegetable again if they weren’t necessary to health.

My younger daughter is like this (small child still). She only wants to eat peppers, tomatoes, green beans, cucumber, carrots. Even most fruit is too sweet for her and she shuns chocolate, cake, ice cream, jelly etc. She would rather eat olives. Opposite of the older one!!

My friend is the same and has been seen childhood. For her, even peppers or tomatoes would be far too sweet. Different taste buds I think - a certain proportion of the population don't enjoy sweet things?

Lucky you though if a healthy diet tastes great to you!

There is also a recognised effect where the more sugar you eat, the less you taste it. It used to be an incredible and rare luxury but now... not so much.

That's why people quickly adjust to reducing sugar in their tea/ coffee etc, tastebuds are malleable, or rather than brain's interpretation of the signals from them are.

So I am guessing OP that you probably really taste the flavours of the vegetables, whereas to a palette used to copious amounts of sugar and MSG etc they taste bland. What's so interesting is that taste, like sight and hearing, is all so subjective.

I eat a lot of veg because I know it's good for me. I'd live off brownies, poutine and ice cream if I could.

I really like veg and incorporate them into all my meals but I prefer them raw

I'm a vegetarian so I do live off veggies, have done for 25 years.

If we're going for the humble brag here, I'm actually cool with not eating much at all: I pretty much live off coffee and Vit D supplements.

I do enjoy cooking and eating properly every couple of days or so: I'm also a very good cook and enjoy cooking for people and occasions.

I never eat breakfast, very rarely eat lunch and only eat a meal at dinner that isn't a sandwich or something because I live with a husband who has a greater appetite than me. I don't like chocolate or sweet things: I'll reach for olives rather than sweets.

And no, I'm not teeny tiny: I'm 5'9" and about 70kg. I just eat when I'm hungry, which just happens to be not very often.

I practically do. Usually add lentils, tofu, quorn, beans and pulses etc....
But One of my meals will just be veg, I love them!

You're underweight. Your favourite meal is steamed vegetables.

You declare this on a discussion site.

Eating disorder.