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.

My DH is kind of rigid in the opposite way: EVERY meal (ie proper sit down meal, not quick lunch etc) MUST have meat/chicken/fish, a carb, two veg, plus a salad. A veggie meal would not be a meal as far as he is concerned. Ditto a meal without salad, just not allowed. ("Salad" is allowed to be just an avocado though, if you are busy/not that hungry etc).

Luckily he does all the cooking (and meal planning) and is a fab cook, including with veggies! So if he wants to create extra work for himself when I would be quite happy with a far less elaborate array, that is fine by me! His BBQ brussels sprouts are to die for!

Am with you op unless special needs I find fussy adults really annoying.

If anything my young teen girls both really into healthy eating it’s all smoothies and big hipster salads. Tiktok influence not all bad!

Funnily enough they both detest butternut squash which I overdid when they were toddlers - fair enough!

I don't 'like' veg. I eat it because it's healthy, but if cake were healthy and veg weren't I'd quite happily drop it like a stone! I eat a reasonable variety, but like it? No.

Oh, and I wasn't raised on freezer meals - lots of healthy balanced home cooking.

@StellaDendrite

👀Not sure if you are joking or not but i hope you know that potatoes are vegetables.

So you can unblow your mind 🤯😁

I'm sure the poster knows. Potatoes don't count towards 5 a day, they contribute mainly starch. Duh.

An ex colleague of my had a dh who would literally only eat mashed potato and peas.

How anyone puts up with such ludicrous fussiness in a grown man defeats me.

My dh, bless him, eats everything. The only veg I don’t like is fennel - tastes horrible to me. And dill, if herbs count.

BTW, @Sixdegreesofseparation, re the ugliest phrase, yes, 100%.

I’m a bit funny with veg, even though I’m vegetarian. I won’t eat veg if it’s boiled, carrots for example, but roast them with lots of seasoning and I’m all over it. I don’t eat cabbage of any description, but I’ll eat pretty much anything else as long as it’s well cooked and seasoned well.

@Swordfish1

Don't even get me started on the whole won't east chicken if its got a bone in it thing. I know 2 adults like this! But they will eat the exact same bit of chicken if its cut off the bone. It's Bloody loony.

For people who don't eat any veg at all. What one earth do you eat with your roast dinner? Just meat and potato? For me the veg is a really important part of a roast dinner.

I used to love chicken drumsticks but then got food poisoning and spent 2 days exploding from both ends so now I can’t face chicken on the bone at all. In fact I’m not too keen on chicken now in most forms but can eat it in a curry

I definitely think there is an element of learned behaviour with some fruit/veg refusers. My husband and his two siblings all pathologically hate tomatoes. Just touching one will make DH gag, his brother won't eat them, his sister is painfully polite and would probably try to eat it then vomit afterwards. Although they can't remember, one of their parents (now both dead) has to have caused their hatred of tomatoes.

I disagree that it’s how people are raised, or that they’re just fussy. My OH doesn’t like any veg, he tries it regularly but there isn’t one veg he can eat. His parents have always cooked fresh, healthy food and served him veg and apparently he’s never liked it. He wants to, that’s why he tries it but he just can’t!

I have ASD and struggle to eat both fruit and vegetables. I have no idea why, I have a very limited diet. I do try though, and try to 'hide' vegetables in sauces etc.

I love roast veg and eat a lot of it, but I do think there is a time and place for plain boiled/steamed vegetables.

For example, when I'm eating a big roast (eg at Christmas) there is so much rich stuff around that I prefer my sprouts, carrots and peas to be cooked plain so that they provide a contrast to the rest of the food.

No idea. I don't hang round fussy eaters. YANBU

I would have thought you were being U until I had DS2 (now 28) who is a fussy/freaky eater and has an extremely limited diet. Believe me it is nothing at all to do with what he was given as a child and we spent most of his childhood years going to see various specialists. We had to learn that it is his problem not ours but it still worries me as is very limiting for his social life and I can't imagine how he will find a life partner to put up with it.

@ScoobyCat

Nice bit of working -class bashing here, with a side order of the usual disablism crap that people with ASD have to face.

This particular gem is a corker

He's totally neurotypical, has a proper job etc

Yes because people with autism couldn’t possibly get proper jobs could they !

How is this classist?

My MIL fed 4 children during the days of the three day week almost exclusively from the food grown in the allotment. Nothing middle class about that.

My BIL is like this. MIL admits she rarely bought fruit when they were growing up. DH won't eat fruit and his brother never has fruit or vegetable. BIL feel his shoddy diet is part of the reason in has Crohns disease.

He ended up seeing a dietician to learn how to go eat healthy

[quote MishaHarrow]@StanfordPines

It is possible, but the meat and carbs have to be the main course imo. Not just little chunks thrown in.[/quote]
I don’t think you have ever had a decent salad.

I’ve had friends that had to make a big show out of not liking stuff.
Making noises and then sticking out their tongue to taste it like a toddler.
If you don’t like something then that’s fine. If you have ASD etc, fine. But it’s the ‘look at me I’m so special you must watch as everyone panders to my fussiness’ show that some people put on that annoys me.

@StanfordPines

Haha, maybe not. Only ever had the pre made ones you buy from supermarket or pret.

Autistic person here 👋 . I will eat quite a lot of fruit, vegetables & salad but they have to be prepared in the “right” way....eg..fajitas have to have peppers and onion cut lengthways, but in spag bol or chilli they have to be diced very small. I hate salad in sandwiches, and when dressings and other crap are poured all over salad. Raisins/sultanas in rice/cous cous is dreadful from a taste/texture point of view. I think I am MUCH better with food now than when I was younger.

There are some that I just won’t eat though because the taste, texture etc is just not good...grapefruit, aubergine, brussel sprouts, broad beans, peas and raw tomatoes to name a few.

@ScoobyCat

Nice bit of working -class bashing here, with a side order of the usual disablism crap that people with ASD have to face.

This particular gem is a corker

He's totally neurotypical, has a proper job etc

Yes because people with autism couldn’t possibly get proper jobs could they !

Seriously ? I have an ASD son , two ASD BIL and a DF that was he not 72 would most definitely classify. Not to mention we are now most definitely working class. That phrase was not a put down. There has been a lot of discussion that there is a difference between not eating something due to disability and not eating something due to learned behaviour.

Noone has suggested ASD can't get a job.

Noone has suggested its a class issue. My DP are remarkably middle class and eat beige food whereas DP would argue for a long time he didn't even classify himself as high as working class and he eats loads of things.

I hate this. There is enough real issues that are bashing disability and class without making ones up.

For those offended by the boil my piss comment - I did correct myself to broccoli for those who are utterly offended I didn’t realise it was that bad of a saying.

I also tend to use.. makes my shit itch for when I’m really irked.

I don’t enjoy any veg, but as a grown up with a child I eat a wide variety because I know it’s good for me and I want to set a good example. Luckily, this seems to have worked and I have a child who genuinely enjoys veg with broccoli and sprouts her favourites!
I was an incredibly fussy child, but like many things you have to do as an adult you just get on with it and eating veg is one of those things!

@LifesLittleDeciders

For those offended by the boil my piss comment - I did correct myself to broccoli for those who are utterly offended I didn’t realise it was that bad of a saying.

I also tend to use.. makes my shit itch for when I’m really irked.

Ive never heard of boil my pi**....who/where says this?

Haven't heard it in london, lol.

This does not apply to me as I love most veg. However, i am what many would consider a picky eater due to various sensory issues due to being autistic. I also had a very limited diet as a child: deep fried chips with either sausages or burgers every single night as my mum hated cooking.
I can also understand how someone can dislike all veg, despite different textures and flavours, because I am the same with fruit. I can just about tolerate a couple of types, but it’s a big effort. I have tried most types of fruit but I just don’t enjoy any of them.