to not understand people who say they don't like vegetables?

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I know several people like this and it drives me bonkers. They are so hard to cook for. It makes my mind boggle. I hear people moaning about what to cook, you suggest something and then you get 'oh I don't like veg' Dig a little and you usually get a list of exceptions such as tomato pasta sauce, or they might eat carrots.

I just flat out do not understand how it is possible to not like every single vegetable on the planet cooked in every single way you can think of? Because that's pretty much an infinite number of tastes. I'm probably being unreasonable with the sneaky thoughts I have about the 'veg' that must have been served up in their house when they were kids to make them feel this way. I'm probably not being unreasonable to worry a little about their health.

But AIBU to want to strap everyone who claims this down and forcefeed them a hundred varieties of scrummy vegetables cooked in a myriad of delicious ways?

No...YANBU. I don't get it, either, but I suppose it depends on upbringing. There was no choice in my house, and my mom always served veg, so if you didn't eat what she dished up, you didn't eat! I abide by the same philosophy in our house...and my kids like most veg, so it seems to be working.

It is mind boggling...but, everybody's taste is different, isn't it?

I would find that irritating, but I don't actually know anyone like that.

You should have got over this by the time you are twenty imo.

my ex rekoned he was allergic to all vegetablees and fruit

but he could eat chips and mushy peas

and I fed him spaghetti bolognese (tomatoes, onion, garlic, peppers..... blended so he thought it was his dry mix packet)

So he was just a complete weirdo...

I don't like some veg or veg cooked til it's mushy (like my mums cooking) but I do eat veg!

Well I reckon it stems from their childhood (groan) in early adulthood.As we progress,anyone who doesn't try and LOVE certain vegetables is a freak

Urnbu!!
My stoopid dp is one of these irritating people, and spent 4 years trying to cook interesting things without veg! Or if I do sneakily put anything in, I have to sit there watching him pick through it, making a little veg mountain on the side of his plate. He's 38 for gods sake! He says he's going to tell dd he's allergic to veg. What a nob! He's lucky I love him, or I'd kill him!!!!

Phew, thanx 4 posting that. I feel better now. Rant ova!

YANBU. There is nothing worse than trying to feed faddy eaters. All adults should like most vegetables. Ignore them and serve them up anyway. Put them in dishes to serve themselves and they can take them or leave them. I wouldn't have married DH if he didn't eat practically everything!!!

DH doesn't like vegetables, and you would be quite right in your sneaky thoughts about vegetables as served in his family home while growing up - his mother's mistreatment of poor innocent cauliflowers has nearly made me cry before.

You know, I had this exact convo with dh this evening!

I was speaking to a friend yesterday who was trying to lose weight. I've lost a bit recently & was trying to give her some tips. She asked for meal ideas & I was rhyming them off to her - she kept saying "Oh, would you have to have peppers in that? I don't like peppers" So I say, no, you can have broc, cauli, whatever you fancy.. "No, wouldn't work for me, I don't like veg"

So then I say, well, you could always just eat a normal din & follow with a big fruit salad, oranges, grapes, kiwi - whatever you have in the house... "See, I can't eat fruit"

What about pasta, some low fat mayo & a bit of tuna? Or perhaps a salad in a lunch box with plenty of cooked chicken?

"I don't think I could do that though, I hate cold pasta and won't eat chicken unless it's just out of the oven"

In the end I give up. I dread to think what faddy eaters her kids are. (They go to same after schools club as my two, so I know what faddy eaters they are!)

My DH WAS like this, and your sneaky thoughts are also right in his case - did not seem to know that a vegetable didn't have to be cooked to a grey mush state before serving. Ten years of feeding him new and interesting vegetables, and he is even gardening with me, LOVES to try new veg!

I would say that because of him though, I am suspicious of anyone who says they do not like any veg and wonder if their mothers' also boiled carrots for 45 minutes before serving so they wouldn't be "too hard."

Dh won't eat fruits. Weird. But he does eat vegetables and everything else.

A lot of it does seem to stem from over-cooked veg in childhood (as in dh's case), and he now won't eat veg if given a choice.

His parents still use a pressure cooker to cook veg when we go over for Sunday lunch. As a result, I can no longer stand cauliflower. I loathe broad beans and cabbage is vile when cooked this way.

However, I love cabbage when I cook it myself or when my mum cooks it.

I hate Okra, broad beans and most dried beans as I hate the texture. Love fennel, cauli, celeriac though.

If it's because they were overcooked in childhood serve them raw in salads.

YANBU, how can you not like ALL veg. Unless it's celery, anyone who LIKES celery is just weird.

I dont like veg, but I eat it,
even brussel sprouts yuk, yuk, yuk,
simply to set a good example to my kids, who I must say, eat almost everything, yay

I'm weird-I like celery! I hated brussel sprouts as a DC but love them now.

I love love love veg.

But I won't eat green fruit. [/picky]

I like some veg, carrots, sprouts, cabbage, hate cauli, bleuh.

Ds won't touch fruit but eats any veg going. Dd will only eat raw veg but loves any fruit and shovels down loads. She'll eat cucumber like an apple too.

I love celery. Not cooked though. But cooking celery is odd, unless it's for a sauce or stock.

dh was like this

when i met him aged 18 he didnt eat any fruit or veg, except tinned or boil in the bag. And he would stretch to an apple crumble.

His mum simply never gave him fresh fruit or veg.

He came to live with me at my parents where my mum would cook evrything from scratch and within a year he would eat veg put on his plate. Now, 12 years later he asks for it and takes 3 peices of fruit to work everyday.

But if he had been stubborn he probablty would never have eaten it, believing he didnt like fruit or veg.

Picky eaters piss me off TBH, especially when they come to eat at my house. YANBU

Frankly, unless you're genuinely allergic or vegetarian/Jewish/Muslim etc, it's just plain rude not to eat what's put in front of you, even if you hate it.

I would even eat okra (yuk) or star fruit (double yuk) if they were put in front of me.

All other fruit and veg are totally yum, and I think people who don't like it are weird!

YANBU. Fair enough everybody has one or two things that they really can't stand but claiming to dislike all vegetables is just attention seeking because they want you to have to make a special effort to please them.

This is me.
I'm weird, it's true. I cannot bring myself to eat veg.
The thing is I really really wish I could! It makes me feel like a freak sometimes, why can't I just be normal and eat properly?

According to my mum I ate normally (veg as well) up until having the MMR injection, then that was it, no more proper food. I lived off nothing but weetabix for weeks.

I remember a childhood of mum crying, mum and dad arguing about trying to get me to eat.

Now I'm an adult I try to make myself try new things but I still have this mental block.

I genuinely don't know how people eat stuff they don't like just to be polite. I would puke in the attempt.

I like peas and thats it when it comes to veg. I can only eat them when they are really small and cant taste them. I WANT to like more veg, but I really cant bring myself to. List of foods I dont like are:

Carrots, brocilli (sorry cant spell it), cauliflower, sprouts, peppers, courgettes, beans (runnner, green or otherwise), tomatoes (although will admit to liking them in a sauce such as in spag bol etc, but not actual tomatoes), cucumber, lettuce, sweetcorn, mushrooms, cooked onions (only like them raw).

There are others, just cant think of them right now. This stems from being forced to eat this kind of thing when I was little so really cant eat them now. I openly admit Im a fussy eater and as a consequence I turn down any invites of people cooking for me. If DH cooks something for us as a family with an ingredient in I dont like, I WILL pick through my food and take what I dont like out.

I do like most fruits, not oranges though. I wish I did like more, but I really dont. Ive tried and dont like.

Please feel free to suggest anything I may like and if I havent tried it I will do, but Im sorry but in general I dont like most veg.

Since I left home though I have got better, and now actually eat things I wouldnt have dreamed of 15 years ago, but not most veg.