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!)

@formerbabe

I often cook up a vat of steamed veg and just enjoy ploughing through. So flavourful

Steamed veg is not flavourful

Boy are you wrong. Yes, it is - it's delicious. I often do this too. I absolutely LOVE steamed broc and could eat a plateful. Also peas.

Have I been brainwashed by the media?

Have I been conditioned

Perhaps...I think humans in hunter gatherer times saw meat as the first choice to eat...they did eat fruits. They ate vegetables too but from what I understand this was when meat wasn't plentiful so very much a second best option.

I just think it's odd that so many women on this thread only desire to nibble on a delicious, delicious steamed leaf what their husbands are happy eating half a cow

I think humans in hunter gatherer times saw meat as the first choice to eat...they did eat fruits. They ate vegetables too but from what I understand this was when meat wasn't plentiful so very much a second best option.

I am no so convinced- the yabba dabba doo idea of caveman - paleolithic and older was dragging home large mammoths and eating huge quantities of meat is a bit of a myth.
Anthropologists suggest that a hunter gatherer diet was more gatherer than hunter, and while large animals would be eaten, the day to day diet was roots, berries, nuts, insects, eggs, grubs, small lizards, fish etc.

I love vegetables, especially from DF’s garden. Sadly I’m still overweight.

I'm jealous of a the people that are apparently full up after a "delicious plate of veggies "
I like vegetables, and like to include them in most meals (apart from breakfast) but a bag of leaves kale or lightly steamed broccoli (on their own) will not fill me up until my next meal especially if that too was gonna be vegetables!
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I love vegetables too. So does my husband. We are both vegan.

I'm not a fruit eater either. It's too sweet. I can have the odd piece once a month or so. I eat a massive amount of vegetables.

I'm not fat. I'm not underweight. I'm normal sized and normal bmi.

the day to day diet was roots, berries, nuts, insects, eggs, grubs, small lizards, fish etc.

That's still more varied than a plate of leaves though.

I’ve been vegetarian since I was 11 and I was the only person in my family that didn’t eat meat. I’ve had flack for this for thirty years now. A lot of people still seem to have an opinion on what I eat. I come from a poor working class background where we weren’t allowed to waste food. You don’t want to know how many times I was made to sit at the table to finish my meat when everyone else had finished. One of my least favourite memories is being made to eat stewing steak and absolutely detesting it. My nan used to hide chicken in my mashed potatoes. Just because I don’t enjoy eating meat doesn’t mean I think every other woman doesn’t, seeing as the rest of my entire family eat it. I haven’t been conditioned to think women shouldn’t eat meat. If anything it was that they should.

So women who like veg are silly little things conditioned to be this way? Oh shut up.

Personally I don't eat meat because I believe farming, and the meat eating quantity of this nation is unethical. My husband enjoys a bloody steak. He also enjoys tofu and vegetables.

@Icenii

So women who like veg are silly little things conditioned to be this way? Oh shut up.

Personally I don't eat meat because I believe farming, and the meat eating quantity of this nation is unethical. My husband enjoys a bloody steak. He also enjoys tofu and vegetables.

I like veg...amongst other things. But when have you ever heard a man say how much he loves steamed greens and could live off it. Why is that?

Personally I find it nauseating to read endless posts from women extolling the virtues of plain veg over all other foods and who couldn't possibly eat a piece of fruit more than once a month... because they're such delicate flowers with teeny tiny appetites. Meanwhile their dh are eating huge steaks

Not sure why you think eating and liking vegetables equals being a tiny delicate flower.

@Icenii

Not sure why you think eating and liking vegetables equals being a tiny delicate flower.

So why don't men desire to live entirely off steamed leaves?

If you find these posts 'nauseating', a nice cup of ginger tea will help that, or just stop reading them!

Well isn't the main demographic women on here? Do you feel nauseated at women saying the could live of gin and chocolate? Or is that socially acceptable?

Cool story, bro.

[quote formerbabe]@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[/quote]
Spinach, legumes, dried fruits - all superior, equal or marginally lower than red meat

Yanbu I love fruit and veg! I am a vegan and my diet is mostly made up of them with some whole grains, nuts and legumes thrown in. Last night I had wholemeal pasta with (vegan) pesto, tenderstem broccoli, petits pois and spinach. I love petits pois so much I had more of them than pasta, pretty much got an allotment just for the ability to eat peas fresh from the plant
I also love corn on the cob, can easily put away several of them!

Re. The flavour - I try to avoid added sugar and salt due to a health condition so when I eat pre-prepared food it tastes soo salty to me (this week’s example being some wraps) whereas for other people it’s normal. It’s just a question of what your tastebuds are used to. I find steamed broccoli and carrots particularly flavoursome. Steaming definitely keeps the flavour better than boiling. Frozen tends to have less flavour than fresh as well, I find.

That said, I never had sprouts as a kid because my parents didn’t like them and when I was an adult and tried them for the first time I was surprised by how delicious they are so I keep some in the freezer all year round now.

I love an oven tray with sweet potato, broccoli, cauliflower, peppers, carrots and courgette roasted with a bit of sea salt and then towards the end i sprinkle feta cheese on top. I can eat that every day of the week. Sometimes I add sautéed mushrooms and polenta, even better. Without feta though it wouldn’t be the same.

@Icenii

Well isn't the main demographic women on here? Do you feel nauseated at women saying the could live of gin and chocolate? Or is that socially acceptable?

I'd think a diet of gin and chocolate was incredibly shit and unbalanced...just as a diet that is entirely steamed greens is unbalanced and completely inadequate.

Just because I prefer veg does not mean I have a teeny tiny appetite unfortunately. I have a massive plateful of food that is mainly veg but I also have carbs and protein. One of my favourite comfort foods is cheese on toast with sprouts on. I don’t just live on salad and I don’t pick at my food. I just don’t like certain textures in my mouth.

Spinach, legumes, dried fruits - all superior, equal or marginally lower than red meat

Dried fruit is basically sugar. Organic, free range red meat is much better that dried fruit from a nutritional point of view.

@formerbabe

You seem to see red meat is a man food

No one else is spouting that nonsense

I love than veg more than red meat. If that makes me pathetic in your eyes, then I’ll take that on the chin.

Presumably the women who extrapolate their love of chocolate and crisps are less pathetic?

@formerbabe

I often cook up a vat of steamed veg and just enjoy ploughing through. So flavourful

Steamed veg is not flavourful

I 💕 steamed veg. I could happily have soup, salad and steamed veg everyday!

Please name one poster on here who has said they live entirely off greens!

Even the Op lists the other foods

And it is true that my DH loves steak 😃 we often sit down for a meal where I happily chomp my veg and he chomps steak