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I have been struggling with what to eat for years. All advice has been taken on board. However nothing on this earth will get me to eat vegetables except for carrots and peas. So my question is am I doomed because I hate veg. Also having eaten low fat for forty years I struggle with the high fat produce too. I just don't think it's healthy sorry
I have been struggling with what to eat for years. All advice has been taken on board. However nothing on this earth will get me to eat vegetables except for carrots and peas. So my question is am I doomed because I hate veg. Also having eaten low fat for forty years I struggle with the high fat produce too. I just don't think it's healthy sorry
I don't think you are doomed but you are just giving yourself fewer options.
What about having them incorporated into other meals, like adding peppers, courgettes, leeks into a chilli or casserole.
Using broccoli in a broccoli and stilton soup, butternut squash and red peppers as a soup.
Broccoli and cauliflower with a cheese sauce.
Don't shoot the messenger.
I have been struggling with what to eat for years. All advice has been taken on board. However nothing on this earth will get me to eat vegetables except for carrots and peas. So my question is am I doomed because I hate veg. Also having eaten low fat for forty years I struggle with the high fat produce too. I just don't think it's healthy sorry
Apart from limiting your options, as @Leadinglights said, you're also making management of your diabetes more challenging than it needs to be. How are you with salad? I was never a great fan but now I love my salads and have them several times a week with some chicken, fish or an omelette.
I have been struggling with what to eat for years. All advice has been taken on board. However nothing on this earth will get me to eat vegetables except for carrots and peas. So my question is am I doomed because I hate veg. Also having eaten low fat for forty years I struggle with the high fat produce too. I just don't think it's healthy sorry
Green leafy veg is fantastically healthy. Could you try something like a roasting tin recipe with a few greens in the recipe? You hardly taste them then. You can also try greens with sauces. They really are amazingly good for you.
As @Leadinglights suggested, cooked or served in a different way can make them more palatable.
Also tastes change. Nothing could have shocked my mother more than the day my brother told her he'd enjoyed braised kidneys that day in college. Nothing on earth would have persuaded him to try kidneys at home after hating them for years.
If you choose to experiment a little you may find you expand your menu
As @Leadinglights suggested, cooked or served in a different way can make them more palatable.
Also tastes change. Nothing could have shocked my mother more than the day my brother told her he'd enjoyed braised kidneys that day in college. Nothing on earth would have persuaded him to try kidneys at home after hating them for years.
If you choose to experiment a little you may find you expand your menu
Never in a million years would I eat black pudding but we were in Ireland and I opted for pigeon breast with boudin noir, and thought ir was quite nice but my OH said 'you know what that was' black pudding, I was horrified.
Can't stand kidneys or even the residual taste in steak and kidney. My aunt was horrified that the first meal in hospital she was offered after having a kidney removed was steak and kidney pudding.
@snowball12 what is it you dislike about vegetables?
Is it the taste, the texture, the colour, the idea of them being “dirty” or the challenge of cooking them or something else?
Most of these things can be changed such as adding spices or cheese to change the flavour or cooking in a different way to change the texture or try a different type of veg - swede is very different to broccoli which is very different to mushroom which are very different to peppers …
Maybe you could set yourself a target to try a different veg each week rather than going full on vegetarian or meat and 5 veg on a plate for every meal.
Never in a million years would I eat black pudding but we were in Ireland and I opted for pigeon breast with boudin noir, and thought ir was quite nice but my OH said 'you know what that was' black pudding, I was horrified.
Can't stand kidneys or even the residual taste in steak and kidney. My aunt was horrified that the first meal in hospital she was offered after having a kidney removed was steak and kidney pudding.
if given black pudding or any offal I could eat it out of politeness, but they are not a meal choice I'm keen on, and would never choose such stuff as an option
But yes, another example of enjoying an avoided food 🙂
if given black pudding or any offal I could eat it out of politeness, but they are not a meal choice I'm keen on, and would never choose such stuff as an option
But yes, another example of enjoying an avoided food 🙂
Well you could pass black pudding over to my plate, love BP & haggis. Kidneys, best to ask for lambs kidney as they are not as strong tasting as pigs or cows & lot less chewy.
Green veg is great mixed with other veg in a wok, cook on high temp add seasoning plus soy sauce sweet chilli sauce cream blue cheese stir then serve, really tasty & you can add meat of your choosing.
I appreciate you all trying to help. I don't like the taste of any green veg and I never have. The smell of them cooking is enough for me ( hubby loves them ). Spices are out due to IBS also garlic and onions. I have to eat very plainly or my IBS flares up!!! I used to love cooking but my husband does it now. I do like tomatoes and cucumber but not lettuce of any kind. I simply can't eat a salad without being hungry an hour later despite how much protein I eat. Love fruit but have to be careful with that now. Love eggs for brunch ( can't eat until 11 ish but I have always been like that ) but eggs every day???? As I said I am doomed lol
Green leafy veg is fantastically healthy. Could you try something like a roasting tin recipe with a few greens in the recipe? You hardly taste them then. You can also try greens with sauces. They really are amazingly good for you.
Foods that people tolerate with various gut issues does seem to be very individual even looking at lists of foods which are recommended there are differences depending on whose list it is so all you can do is test your tolerance to each food, you may find a small amount mixed with other things will be OK. Quite a few people have mentioned that by cutting carbs that their IBS is improved
I appreciate you all trying to help. I don't like the taste of any green veg and I never have. The smell of them cooking is enough for me ( hubby loves them ). Spices are out due to IBS also garlic and onions. I have to eat very plainly or my IBS flares up!!! I used to love cooking but my husband does it now. I do like tomatoes and cucumber but not lettuce of any kind. I simply can't eat a salad without being hungry an hour later despite how much protein I eat. Love fruit but have to be careful with that now. Love eggs for brunch ( can't eat until 11 ish but I have always been like that ) but eggs every day???? As I said I am doomed lol
Ah, I didn’t realise you had IBS. You’d have to be careful with any experimentation then. Perhaps try tiny portions of different green veg until you find one that’s ok? Lettuce is quite ‘rough’ on the bowel so I wouldn’t take that as an indication.
There are also salad veg like pea shoots (very mild taste) and Lambs Lettuce, which is more like leaves than lettuce and is also mild.
I was diagnosed with IBS 30-odd years ago and although it flares up now and again it's been nowhere near as bad over the last 2 or 3 years. I firmly believe that's down to the overhaul of my diet that my T2 diagnosis effectively forced on me, otherwise I have no explanation as to why something that gave me so much grief for so long is now so docile that most days I'm not even aware I have it.
