I'm being lectured about my health again and how I should eat less meat and sugar, but I hate vegetables so much. How can you eat 'em without gagging?

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Seriously they're so gross. e. e Is there even a way to eat them without gagging? (Putting fruit in salads don't help me either it still tastes nasty to me.)

Levin · Accepted Answer

(this turned out a bit colourful for me, but let's go with it...)

You shouldn't have to force these things down you. They're just normal... food, I mean seriously, what the fuck? If anything they provide a contrast to the 'yummy' stuff, too much of the same thing is boring, even if it's fucking tasty. Suck it up, ultimately. You'll get used to it.

Anyway, like any sphere of existence, you need to learn how to live in a balanced way. You probably don't give a fuck about your health, because you're at an age where it's bountiful. I guess it's a case of whether you want to learn the hard way. Sadly people don't pay heed when things are niggling, but only when something seriously goes wrong.

Also, if your body is not feeling brilliant currently (which I'd suspect it isn't, subconsciously), then learning about the affects of the foods you are eating may be helpful. In certain senses, meat and sugar are good foods, in that they have a very potent effect on your body. Meat is contracting and strengthening, sugar releases that tension. If you eat a lot of one, you'll probably feel the need to eat a lot of the other as a counteraction. Eating a lot of sugar plays havoc with your endocrine system, as your body releases a lot of hormones to deal with the spike in blood sugar. Anyway, it's that which causes you to feel really drowsy after having a (high glycaemic) meal. Naturally this will effect your moods, you might feel ratty and irritable for periods throughout the day, for example, as your body attempts to detoxify. If you eat lower glycaemic foods (such as whole grain bread instead of refined white flour), then you'll feel your moods be a lot more stable.

As I always say, if you eat processed, chemicalised, synthesised crap, then that's what you become. You feel like shit. Eventually you become a slave to the medical system, and then you're really fucked...

Avenuewriter · Accepted Answer

Vegetables on their own are always going to be disgusting. I am very much like you on that front. I avoid most vegetables like the plague. Sadly, I'm a diabetic so it's kinda out of my hands when it comes to eating. The trick is to mix them in with things you like just enough to mask them. Thus, you get a more filling meal with less of those harmful, yet amaze-balls, meats and sugars. For instance, I tend to mix in broccoli with tons of melted cheese or mac n cheese. Or take something with a lot of sauce and mix in some veggies. You can find tons of recipes that do this while also being delicious. Not all of them are gonna work but if you work at it and tweak them just enough you can get it to work.

rsstanford · Accepted Answer

I been a vegetarian for 3 months and I will say that salt and black pepper become your best friend when eating veggies if you can't stomach veggies put cheese on every vegetable. Like feta cheese and tomatoes are good. Broccoli and cheddar cheese. As for carrots maybe somet

Eyeofthestorm · Accepted Answer

Have you tried cooking vegetables? It really makes them taste way less strong. Also, putting cheese on broccoli is very good. I hate vegetables too, but if I cook them and heavily season them I can stomach them.

Aizou · Answer

You just need to find a way to prepare them so that you like them. As an examble.. if you don't like champignons, you could try lightly roasting them on a pan untill they shrink (liquid leaves them) and then proceed to pour cream (low fat if you must) over them. You'll get an amazing champignon sauce. ^.^

Nik1hil · Answer

Well problem is not there.
Vegetables today are grown on fertilizers and sprayed with pesticides, it changes there taste to shit! Try buying vegetables from organic farm or grow vegetables in your own home Garden and then taste them, trust me they will taste much better each them fresh they will taste better then meat...

bdoran22 · Answer

veg dips. fried pickles,
I tried a deit onces it was to cut my sure down to what your allowed per a day. which is 45g. A morning coffee made regular had 25g of sugar. So who ever trying to get you to eat heather it takes baby steps. Read whats on a package and try just cutting down on sugars to 45g a day and you see a better you and not have to worry about your veg problem.

HoneyButterCup525 · Answer

You will start eating vegetable when you start to understand what really goes on in your body,...

I always hated eating fuckin veggies man it tasted like ass to me, but going through some medical problem due to my poor diet iv become pretty sick and told myself 'if only I ate my veggies' lol..

And there are all sorts of veggies out there, I boil my veggies and add chicken to them it tastes alottt better!

mutedaisy · Answer

Sometimes you just can't eat some things. I can't eat plantains, bananas, or tomato sauce without puking. I don't force myself. Check into the Paleo diet, that might be a better diet for your eating habits.

TheOldMan59 · Answer

At your age the decisons you make about diet will affect you big time. All the foods you enjoy are basically going to kill you. You can still eat poultry but try to eliminate red meat from your diet. Sugar is a killer but you probably need to wean yourself off it slowly because it is highly addictive. Quit drinking soda pop/fizzy drinks now, they are poison. Drink fruit juice instead.

TripleAce · Answer

If you mix the right fruits with veggies in a shake it should taste ONLY like fruits! Fruits overpower the taste of veggies

Drooogie4 · Answer

You just gotta season them right.  And they'll be your new favorite thing

Anpu23 · Answer

I'm a vegetarian, and can't imagine eating meat. To each their own.

RJGraveyTrain · Answer

There are nutrient shakes out there that you can drink.

Mesonfielde · Answer

There are all kinds of vegetables out there. You could try carrots instead of broccoli.

Phoenix98 · Answer

Well how do you normally eat them? raw, cooked, boiled, broiled, steamed etc?

rgb008 · Answer

Smoothies. Blend fruit with some vegetables. Probably won't be able to taste it.

Blazera · Answer

Keep trying, you're bound to find one that you like...

RedThread · Answer

What about cooked vegetables? Do you like stews?

Noxifer626 · Answer

I feel you girl. We two are abattoir people.

Sabretooth · Answer

i wouldn't.

Anonymous · Answer

mix em in a mixer :)

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