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!)

@Readandwalk

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

You declare this on a discussion site.

Eating disorder.

Wow. That is ridiculous. What a spiteful comment.

When I make a roast, it’s accompanied by a fuck tonne of vegetables, only problem is the next day 💨
I do love vegetables, but I couldn’t live with just eating them.

I adore mashed Swede with butter.

Whoops I guess that type makes me a carnivore!

Typo - ffs

@PolkadotGiraffe

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.

That’s interesting and I agree

I can’t relate to anyone saying steamed veg is bland. A plate of steamed broccoli, carrots and asparagus let’s say - bursting with flavour and each very different

@Readandwalk

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

You declare this on a discussion site.

Eating disorder.

You should have adhered with your username

It's odd how triggered some people are by someone liking veg. If it was cheese or chocolate we would all be clambering over eachother to say how delicious it is. I agree with taste buds numbing to sugar, I have a super sweet tooth and drastically cut down on sugar as I was eating a ridiculous amount; everything tastes different now, and things which didn't seem that sweet before now taste ridiculously so.

If someone said they would only or mainly eat chocolate and cheese though that probably wouldnt be encouraged?

@Fizbosshoes

If someone said they would only or mainly eat chocolate and cheese though that probably wouldnt be encouraged?

“Given half the chance I’d live on chocolate! But I don’t as can be seen by detail of my diet”

Swap chocolate for veg and that’s what the OP is saying

I could live off veg if I had enough nice recipes, not just plates of steamed veg. They are delicious tho and I was the luckiest of picky child, honestly couldn't have been worse. Only carrots, rarely enough, until 21.

I love veg too, cabbage sprouts broccoli you name it, however I do have it with something else
Meat or fish or eggs or similar and I’m not skinny I could probably eat it alone
Hungry now had loads of sprouts last night
And broccoli and my stomaxh isn’t thanking me this morning

because I live with a husband who has a greater appetite than me

Isn't it funny how it's always this way round...not to mention the posters on here who could live off veg but their husbands love meat.

I think a lot of women are conditioned to be this way.

Some of my favourite foods are vegetables: Brussel sprouts and green beans, steamed with olive oil, love them!
Roasted parsnip also.
I love all other types of food too: goodeat, fish...bit some veg are delicious (in my opinion they have to be steamed, not boiled!). I wouldn't like them boiled as much. I think a lot of people don't know how to cook vegetables well and that's why they don't like them

To all people saying that vegetables are not filling...yes, they are not very feeling on their own, but you can make them into a filling plate of food. We tend to eat steamed broccoli with tahini as a dressing on top. We tried it once in a restaurant and we loved it, it goes so well together and the tahini is definitely going to fill you up.

Yes or a satay sauce on stir fry broccoli and mushrooms... Yum.

Ooh, me too! I cook a huge saucepan of greens for dinner and eat them all for dinner (with a bit of butter, olive oil, salt and sometimes a squeeze of lemon). It's usually half to a whole pack of kale with a carrot, or broccoli, or spouts... or anything green. Then I have that with maybe some rice or potatoes and some sort of protein.
But the veg is the main and best part!
But I'm nowhere near underweight and slightly overweight, according to my bmi.

I love vegetables. IMO a meal isn't complete without them but I eat them as part of a meal with a protein element and usually a carb element.

Plain, steamed vegetables are dull. Add a bit of seasoning and drizzle with a little extra virgin olive oil and they become the food of the gods. Stir frying or roasting vegetables also elevates them from something ordinary to a whole level of deliciousness.

What do you eat with your vegetables?

@formerbabe

I look at a plate of veggies the way my husband looks at a steak

@myhobbyisouting. May I draw your attention to this comment by a pp.

I only mentioned him as he’s the one I eat the vast majority of my meals with, not because I think women don’t like to eat red meat. Maybe I could alter it to how a dog looks at a steak but I don’t have a dog, so he was the first example I could think of.

So silly, women conditioned to think so I assume the poster knows her husband and it's the same here, dh couldn't care less if never saw another vegetable while I salivate over my ratatouille. Sexist I know

Lightly cooked dark green spring cabbage.
With a little salt- nothing else.
Just heaven.
In fact cabbage in any form is lush.

@formerbabe

because I live with a husband who has a greater appetite than me

Isn't it funny how it's always this way round...not to mention the posters on here who could live off veg but their husbands love meat.

I think a lot of women are conditioned to be this way.

Men are generally physiologically bigger than women Higher calorie need (RDA) So surely makes biological sense that men often have bigger appetites than women and eat more

Broccoli with soy sauce and wasabi.... heaven

@rolopolo2000

Well considering women have periods they should crave red meat far more than men just for the iron content, but no apparently all their men love steak but they don't.

Hmmm

I think a lot of women are conditioned to be this way.

I am not sure what factors come into play here.
In my early 20s I loved read meat, rare steaks, I doubt I could eat a steak these days.
Its not an ethical issue, I will happily eat battery eggs and some dairy, but it feels aesthetic somehow.
I am not squeamish either, I can clean squid or gut a fish, and would prefer to eat either rather than a t bone steak.
Given a choice between tofu or beef I would choose the tofu every time.
I remember feeling quite ill last christmas when we had cooked hunks of dead cow and pig in the fridge for days.
Have I been brainwashed by the media?

Have I been conditioned