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Help! I Hate Vegetables!
So you know you should eat more fruit and veg but you just don't like the stuff. What can you do?
Here are some suggestions that might help.
Next time you go to a supermarket, take a wander around the fruit and veg aisles. Fruit and vegetables were designed to attract us to them by their shapes, colours, textures and smells as well as their lovely tastes. Try to appreciate all these things - except for tasting them of course! You can't just go round taking bites out of everything. But enjoy those lovely colours - greens, oranges, reds, yellows and purples. Find a smooth and shiny aubergine and pick it up and stroke it (do this while no one is watching or you may get arrested!). Sniff a ripe pineapple. All this lovely stuff is just crying out, "Eat me! Eat me!"
While you are wandering around, make a note of the fruit and veg you like or can at least tolerate. You may be surprised to discover you don't hate all of it at all. Buy the things you do like and eat a lot of them. You may hate carrots, for instance, but like grapes and strawberries. Why not eat them along with your main meal as a side salad? It may not be conventional, but who cares?
Try preparing vegetables in different ways. You may not like cooked carrots, but they are quite different raw. You can actually eat a lot of vegetables raw and they are better for you - mushrooms, carrots, cauliflower, mange tout and sugarsnap peas. They are nice with a dip too, but don't forget that a lot of dips are calorie filled! Look out for supermarket bags of these vegetables ready prepared. They are sometimes called Crudites which just means they are raw, not obscene!
Don't despise frozen vegetables, even if you were told they are not as good as fresh ones. In fact, they are often better as they were picked and frozen within a short space of time, whereas fresh ones have usually been hanging around for quite a while. So even if the only vegetables you like are peas and sweetcorn, buy a bag of each and eat them at every possible meal. It also means that you won't have to do all the tedious scraping, peeling and slicing required by fresh vegetables.
Tinned vegetables are OK too if you like them. Sweetcorn, peas, carrots ... All contain the vitamins and minerals you need.
If you like the more expensive fruit such as the aforementioned grapes and strawberries, it's worth trying to find a cheaper place to buy. You can try one of the cheaper supermarkets (Aldi, Lidl, Netto) or a local market. Another good place is an Asian supermarket, if you have one near. They are also usually cheaper for rice and any ingredients for Asian cooking.
If you really still can't find anything you like, try these ideas:
Drink a fruit smoothie every day. The trouble with smoothies is that they are often packed with sugar so you will need to do a bit of research to find a truly "healthy" one.
Eat tinned fruit if you like it. It often has lots of sugary syrup with the fruit, so try to find fruit tinned in natural juice instead.
Drink lots of pure fruit juice every day. it's not as good as eating the fruit but it's better than nothing.
Eat dried fruit if you like it - raisins, sultanas, apricots, dates. You can try adding them to your breakfast cereal.
Eat vegetable soup as often as possible, preferably fresh or tinned rather than a packet. Even better - make your own!
Even if you don't like fruit and veg, you need to try to start liking them. They are packed with essential vitamins,minerals and fibre ( to help digestion). They can help prevent some serious illnesses such as cardiovascular disease, strokes and even some cancers.They are also relatively cheap, especially vegetables, and they are delicious - honest!
You might find more ideas on this webpage:
:http://www.nhs.uk/change4life/pages/adult-5-a-day.aspx
Here are some suggestions that might help.
Next time you go to a supermarket, take a wander around the fruit and veg aisles. Fruit and vegetables were designed to attract us to them by their shapes, colours, textures and smells as well as their lovely tastes. Try to appreciate all these things - except for tasting them of course! You can't just go round taking bites out of everything. But enjoy those lovely colours - greens, oranges, reds, yellows and purples. Find a smooth and shiny aubergine and pick it up and stroke it (do this while no one is watching or you may get arrested!). Sniff a ripe pineapple. All this lovely stuff is just crying out, "Eat me! Eat me!"
While you are wandering around, make a note of the fruit and veg you like or can at least tolerate. You may be surprised to discover you don't hate all of it at all. Buy the things you do like and eat a lot of them. You may hate carrots, for instance, but like grapes and strawberries. Why not eat them along with your main meal as a side salad? It may not be conventional, but who cares?
Try preparing vegetables in different ways. You may not like cooked carrots, but they are quite different raw. You can actually eat a lot of vegetables raw and they are better for you - mushrooms, carrots, cauliflower, mange tout and sugarsnap peas. They are nice with a dip too, but don't forget that a lot of dips are calorie filled! Look out for supermarket bags of these vegetables ready prepared. They are sometimes called Crudites which just means they are raw, not obscene!
Don't despise frozen vegetables, even if you were told they are not as good as fresh ones. In fact, they are often better as they were picked and frozen within a short space of time, whereas fresh ones have usually been hanging around for quite a while. So even if the only vegetables you like are peas and sweetcorn, buy a bag of each and eat them at every possible meal. It also means that you won't have to do all the tedious scraping, peeling and slicing required by fresh vegetables.
Tinned vegetables are OK too if you like them. Sweetcorn, peas, carrots ... All contain the vitamins and minerals you need.
If you like the more expensive fruit such as the aforementioned grapes and strawberries, it's worth trying to find a cheaper place to buy. You can try one of the cheaper supermarkets (Aldi, Lidl, Netto) or a local market. Another good place is an Asian supermarket, if you have one near. They are also usually cheaper for rice and any ingredients for Asian cooking.
If you really still can't find anything you like, try these ideas:
Drink a fruit smoothie every day. The trouble with smoothies is that they are often packed with sugar so you will need to do a bit of research to find a truly "healthy" one.
Eat tinned fruit if you like it. It often has lots of sugary syrup with the fruit, so try to find fruit tinned in natural juice instead.
Drink lots of pure fruit juice every day. it's not as good as eating the fruit but it's better than nothing.
Eat dried fruit if you like it - raisins, sultanas, apricots, dates. You can try adding them to your breakfast cereal.
Eat vegetable soup as often as possible, preferably fresh or tinned rather than a packet. Even better - make your own!
Even if you don't like fruit and veg, you need to try to start liking them. They are packed with essential vitamins,minerals and fibre ( to help digestion). They can help prevent some serious illnesses such as cardiovascular disease, strokes and even some cancers.They are also relatively cheap, especially vegetables, and they are delicious - honest!
You might find more ideas on this webpage:
:http://www.nhs.uk/change4life/pages/adult-5-a-day.aspx