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it astounds me how many of you/how many of your dhs dont eat veg

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nailpolish · 27/09/2007 13:07

soemtimes i wonder how you can be healthy without fruit and veg
i love it
it amkes up about 50% of my diet, and dhs and my dds
i think its the most important food group

there are a millions ways to cook and eat it

tsk

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CountessDracula · 27/09/2007 13:34

Even my dog eats tons of veggies
We get through bucketloads
WTF DO you eat if you don't eat veg?

yaddayah · 27/09/2007 13:36

sausage rolls

stopping drinking froot shoots as I heard a rumour they contain fruit

yeuch

ladylush · 27/09/2007 13:38

Well I would eat sauces eg tomato based. Would eat sauces with veg in - just wouldn't eat boiled veg apart from potatoes.
Now the only veg I don't like is anything from the squash family, fennel and brussel sprouts.

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nailpolish · 27/09/2007 13:39

yes im interested too in what accompaniments folks have with their lamb chops if they dont have vegetables...

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ludaloo · 27/09/2007 13:40

I cook vegetables...my DC eat various bits and bobs...dh eats peas...I don't eat veg at all. Well I'll eat potatoes, and that's about it.
I think it stems from being forced to eat them as a kid..and I get very anxious at the thought. I actually have an uncontrollable gag reflex with veg, which is actually quite embarrassing. It sounds like a cop out, but its true!

SmartArse · 27/09/2007 13:40

Good point, CD. What on earth do you eat if fruit and veg are excluded from your diet (apart from cake, of course)? I can't imagine eating just meat/fish and potatoes of an evening.

ladylush · 27/09/2007 13:42

I never ate lamb chops either

Bink · 27/09/2007 13:42

Ds and I went to the Wellcome Collection's exhibition on the heart (amazing exhibition, finished now, but anything they do will be worth seeing) & they had a board of heart-attack statistics.

One of them was: what percentage of males ages 19-25 eat their recommended daily amount of fruit & veg? And the answer (we loved this) was

ludaloo · 27/09/2007 13:43

I make a sunday roast...and have started doing leaks...I can just about stomach them...

SmartArse · 27/09/2007 13:44

Bloody hell, Bink! Really? Perhaps men just don't cook for themselves ... they wait until they find a partner to do it for them.

Another reason why women are superior, of course ...

princessmel · 27/09/2007 13:47

I hardly eat any veg. except potatoes and sweetcorn! Unless I'm at my mums or the inlaws and they've cooked it.
dd hardly eats any veg, the odd pea maybe. She eats fruit though. ds is not bad with both.

Bink · 27/09/2007 13:48

We had exactly that Bloody hell response too (though ds is quite polite so he just said That's amazing) - & we talked about how utterly tiny the number of veggie youths must be to be statistically invisible like that.

princessmel · 27/09/2007 13:52

Ok just re read my post and it looks like I only eat pots and sweetcorn. I eat other veg too but not often. I like sugar snap peas, leeks, onions, peppers, and eat salad.

Sunshinemummy · 27/09/2007 13:54

DP didn't eat much veg when I met him but, now I've found loads of interesting veg recipes, he loves veg and will ask for his faves.

ladylush · 27/09/2007 13:55

oh forgot I don't like sweetcorn either

Chirpygirl · 27/09/2007 13:59

I love it, DH hates it.
Over the last 7ish years of living together I have managed to get him to eat tomato sauces and spinach in pasta sauces but that is it.
He was spoilt as a child by his gran as she had him after school and wouldn't make him eat anything he didn't want to.

He ate at home but said he hates the texture, it makes him feel sick, and having eaten MIL's veg, I can see his point

Niecie · 27/09/2007 14:09

We do eat fruit and veg but probably not as much as we should. DH will eat most veg but I don't like much of the leafy stuff. Generally we stick to broccoli, peas, carrots, green beans, onions and pepper (although DS takes those out). We all have a bit of salad although the boys won't eat lettuce yet.

DS1 refuses to eat any fruit at all except orange juice and apple strudel. This is particularly depressing as up to the age of 4 he ate it all but one by one they got crossed off his list until there are none left. Can't explain why. He just says he doesn't like them and I suspect, doesn't even believe that he used to!

DS2 has fruit for desert every night and will try most of it although he isn't into vegs and the only way to get him to eat them is to say no pudding.

DH doesn't eat fruit much except the odd banana during the day and the odd fruit desert. He does drink OJ though.

Problem is there are other things we like more - I always thought cake was a major food group!

CountessDracula · 27/09/2007 14:09

God I don't boil veg
I steam them
(other than spuds which I almost never eat anyway)

I STILL don't understand WHAT you eat if you don't eat veg

Don't you just feel all ill and full and stodgy if you eat nowt but meat and spuds>

CountessDracula · 27/09/2007 14:09

Those of you who say you don't really..
can you pls list me what yopu have eaten over the last week?

CountessDracula · 27/09/2007 14:18

so the fruit and veg I have eaten last few days....

Sunday
Blueberries and raspberries breakfast
Spinach, watercress and carrots lunch
No supper as went out for massive lunch, just an apple (and a couple of biscuits)

Monday

Lunch ? watercress, beetroot, tomatoes, rhubarb
Dinner - Pasta sauce including
Tomatoes, celery, onion, carrot, peppers
Blueberries, raspberries and blackberries for pud

Tuesday
Breakfast ? apple
Lunch ? Tomatoes, salad with celery, cucumber, tomato, rocket
Dinner ? Nothing much as went out for huge lunch, had a bit of cheese and some celery and toms and a satsuma

Weds
Lunch ? cucumber
Pm ? 2 satsumas and lots of grapes
Dinner ? Duck stir fry with pak choi, peppers, mushrooms, chilli, water chestnuts, spring onions, courgette, carrot (I love chopping!)

Today
Breakfast ? Satsuma
Lunch ? Watercress, tomatoes, rhubarb

Chirpygirl · 27/09/2007 14:19

This week we have had
Pasta bake
Chicken tikka massala
Sausages and mash
A lot more pasta...that's mostly what we eat!
Chicken stroganoff with baked potato
Roast Lamb and potatoes

I always cook veg for DD and I but just don't put it on his plate.

Chirpygirl · 27/09/2007 14:21

Also, he has lunch while he is at work so god knows what he eats, I have salads and fruit during the day so that at nighttime I can just make pasta/rice/potato accompanied dishes without it being too much of a faff.
It pisses me off but he is an adult, he knows it's unhealthy, and I can hardly send him to the naughty step for not eating it!

CountessDracula · 27/09/2007 14:25

yy but what veggie content in all those things?

How can you just eat lamb and potatoes it sounds horrid!

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nailpolish · 27/09/2007 14:27

also, we dont eat meat more than 3 times a week. mainly becasue of the cost

i think i fyou have meat every night your shopping bill must be huge

and i worry about the health aspects

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marthamoo · 27/09/2007 14:35

Ds1 won't eat fruit at all - nothing - though he will drink pure orange and apple juice. I don't know why - he ate plenty of fruit as a small child, but around the age of 2 just declared he didn't like it and hasn't touched it since (he's 10). It does worry me a bit - I wish he liked it (it would balance out his lunchbox a lot more, for one thing) but as he will eat most vegetables (including spinach and sprouts!) I don't stress too much.

And ds2 will choose fruit over crisps or a biscuit so it's not my fault