To not understand how a fully grown adult..

[LifesLittleDeciders]

Doesn’t like any vegetables at all?
I was just watching a video about a man who wanted to find recipes he could eat that don’t contain vegetables as he doesn’t like any veg.

I mean come on.. there’s as many flavours in different vegetables as there are colours in the world.. yet he would proclaim to ‘hate all colours’

I just don’t get it. Kids I sort of understand; especially when they descend from fussy parents. But I just think ‘grow up’ when I read about adults not touching vegetables. I’m not talking about “I don’t like broccoli or carrots” - won’t eat vegetables at all.

And the “salad? Do I look like a rabbit?” Slur that comes from people

Who won’t eat anything remotely green or healthy, that saying really boils my piss. Just say no thank you?!

I know IABU as it’s none of my business but it just made me roll my eyes and would be interested to hear others opinions on it.

I don’t like many fruit or veg but for me it stems from childhood. I was fed ‘freezer food’ & rarely had veg, my palette is very ‘childish’ eg favourite food is pizza or sandwiches.
I do try & eat it though, especially because I have kids & need to show them a good example! But I don’t enjoy it at all, I wish I did!

I dislike most veg. I try to make the effort to eat the ones I tolerate sometimes though (none I actually enjoy eating though)

You've described my husband. He'll eat carrots at a push with Sunday roast, that's mainly to set a good example to the children. Nothing else. I highly suspect he has sensory issues and possibly undiagnosed autism, as his food tastes are very limited in general (though has got better over the years), and also has other sensory issues. It's difficult, sometimes frustrating as hell, but there's not much to be done about it. He's not rude about it though, but no he will not eat veggies at all.

@Rainbowdino my DP is like this; very much was brought up on beige food, frozen pizza, onions rings, chips ect. He was a bit skeptical when we brought a house and the buying of freezer food is for emergencies only 😂 It didn’t take him long to get used to me cooking fresh food every day; but he was never a veg-hater I don’t think, he just preferred freezer food as it’s easier and ‘it’s still nice’ - while I was brought up with everything cooked fresh and learned to cook basic very young; the lack of freezer food I ate as a child has reflected as an adult as I don’t like to eat it, I will only have a frozen pizza or some chicken nuggets ect if I’m being really lazy or if it’s too late to cook one evening.

I definitely think it’s the way people are brought up you are right.

I like most vegetables but the only fruit I will eat is apples, it's an issue of the texture for me, fruit that is soft or squishy or pulpy or seedy or wet makes me gag!

@Rainbowdino

I don’t like many fruit or veg but for me it stems from childhood. I was fed ‘freezer food’ & rarely had veg, my palette is very ‘childish’ eg favourite food is pizza or sandwiches. I do try & eat it though, especially because I have kids & need to show them a good example! But I don’t enjoy it at all, I wish I did!

I was also raised on freezer food by a very fussy mother, but I love veg. The trouble is, many people like myself were brought up on any fresh vegetables being boiled to death, properly cooked stuff is amazing in comparison. I'd rather a plate over nicely cooked vegetables over the meat, and often rather the vegetarian options when eating elsewhere.

There are people with sensory issues, but I don't think anyone can have sensory issues about ALL textures and colours because that would mean they cannot eat even non veg stuff. And even without that we all have dislikes, like mushroom texture for example, but that's usually just couple of things.
So it's just... Some level of stubborness imo with mix of loving the attention if someone says they can't eat ANY vegetables?

I battled this with my dsd. She was in her twenties and had refused to eat any fruit or veg her entire life. Her parents had just shrugged and left her to her own devices. I couldn't understand it.

I tried everything I could think of to tempt her but by then she automatically said "I don't eat fruit &veg" and wouldn't try. She wouldn't even eat carrot cake.

Boils my piss has to be one of the ugliest terms you could choose to use just sayin

My little brother, 45 now, has never eaten a vegetable in his life yet proclaims to hate them and will only eat potatoes if they are jacket potatoes or roasted yet does all the cooking in his house and always makes sure his daughter eats a varied healthy diet with lots of vegetables,

@Sixdegreesofseparation

Boils my piss has to be one of the ugliest terms you could choose to use just sayin

Do you have anything to contribute on the actual question or are you just here to tone police the OP?

@Mintjulia

I battled this with my dsd. She was in her twenties and had refused to eat any fruit or veg her entire life. Her parents had just shrugged and left her to her own devices. I couldn't understand it.

I tried everything I could think of to tempt her but by then she automatically said "I don't eat fruit &veg" and wouldn't try. She wouldn't even eat carrot cake.

I mean, by her 20s it's surely her own choice unless it impacts others? I don't like fruit, and I'd feel very uncomfortable if I was at my father's house and my stepmother absolutely insisted I eat some blackcurrant pie or cherry bakewell, or tried some freshly picked strawberries with cream, all presented with a sad face.

@Sixdegreesofseparation
Sorry..

It really boils my broccoli.

I get what you mean we all dislike certain foods but to refuse to eat any vegetables is unusual as a adult .
My dd is like this but will eat peas , he would refuse to eat salad /pasta / jacket potatoes etc .
He is a pie & chips man and won’t change .
He was actually concerned that my db was and I quote ‘ looked after ‘ by his girlfriend because he had pasta . That’s not food for him , my db is a trained personal trainer very into fitness and healthy eating . My dd doesn’t understand and I don’t think it’s he doesn’t like it it’s that he won’t try it . He grew up in the 60s but it was home cooked meals and yes as a kid he may have hated veg but as a adult you try other foods .

@brumboo yes normally but she was diagnosed with a serious illness and I thought a more varied and nutritious diet might help. She sadly passed away the following year.

My (now mid 20s) nephew is like this, and it wouldn't bother me apart from his performance eating and ewwwing over other people eating veg or anything more interesting than beige food - and even then he picks the middle out of bread, roast potatoes etc.
He's totally neurotypical, has a proper job etc but has this as part of his identity almost

[quote Mintjulia]@brumboo yes normally but she was diagnosed with a serious illness and I thought a more varied and nutritious diet might help. She sadly passed away the following year.[/quote]
I'm sorry to hear that. Though seems worse now in all honesty, the poor girl was seriously ill, I'm sure the last thing she cared for was eating foods she evidently always disliked.

Me too @Picklypickles! I like sharp, crisp apples and I can force down the odd banana, but all other fruit makes me heave. I wish this wasn’t so as fruit looks and smells so appealing, but I know trying to eat it will end in disgusting gagging noises and watery eyes. Thankfully I’m fine with most vegetables.

I hated broccoli when I was growing up, and wasn't keen on carrots. Once I started contributing to the cooking in my teens, I realised that it was possible to cook these vegetables without turning them to mush, and that I actually really liked them.

I think it's perfectly possible for people to genuinely hate all vegetables (though I think they're mad). However, I wouldn't believe them unless I knew they'd actually tried properly cooked ones.

I’m really not a fan of veg.

Nothing to do with how I was raised, we were always given lots of fruit and veg but I really just don’t like it.

I’ll eat peas, runner beans, broccoli and mushrooms but hate pretty much everything else.

Love fruit and love salad - I’ll eat salad until the cows come home, I usually have a portion of salad instead of veg

The mistake is thinking you have to like vegetables to eat them. You’re an adult, you should be able to take your medicine even if it’s not very nice. I dislike most veg but I force them down for health reasons.

Agreed. I occasionally look in the SlimmingWorld forum for recipe ideas and come across so many people who are struggling to follow the plan as they claim to dislike all fruit and vegetables but like chips and fruit pie, are they ok?

I agree with you entirely. I eat all veg except some mushrooms and DH does too. Freezer stuff is only for emergencies or a blue moon here precisely because I don't want DS to grow up with a poor diet.

My BIL is like this. It drives me crackers, because he will nag and bully his kids to eat veg and then sit there with a plate full of beige.

We had a bland diet as children all veg was peas when I went to my nans it was cabbage occasionally we had cauliflower sprouts were Christmas only i went to catering college they showed us broccoli I said so its like green cauliflower? He asked if I had seen it before I said seen yes eaten no my tutors were horrified I was a vegetarian at the time 😂