Just don’t drink too much carrot juice or your skin will turn slightly orange. You have to drink several glasses a day for an extended period for it to happen, but it happened to my wife’s friend.
Devilman, I know exactly where you are coming from. I have the same taste (or lack of) in veggies. Basically, I only eat potatoes. (was told that peas are a bean and corn is a grain, so they don’t count, even though I like both)
I was physically forced to eat a tomato by my Mom and Grandmom when I was a kid. Yuck, Yuck, Yuck. Not sure if that’s what did or not. For me, it tends to be the texture that gets me the most. I tend to gag just from the feel of a veggie or fruit in my mouth.
So… Tomato paste (a la pizza) is considered a veggie? I wonder if my girlfriend will buy that. I’ve been trying to convice her that pizza is the perfect food. (bread, veggie, meat, dairy) 
** Wooba ** wrote:
“My question really was is it OK to eat chunks of raw vegetables? I was planning to cut up things such as carrots and sprouts into small pieces and swallow them with water like pills. However some friends of mine suggested that this is even worse because without chewing them my stomach would be creating too much acid to compensate. Anyone know if my idea is a good one?”
I personally do not think this is a good idea. I think your friends are right. If you don’t chew your food properly (or at all like you are suggesting), you will get a horrible stomach ache… or worse… long-term stomach damage requiring medical intervention.
To all of you who absolutely HATE veggies… do you usually eat raw, canned, or frozen veggies?
These types can be very unpalatable.
Please try lightly stir-frying some fresh veggies with olive oil and garlic. You might actually like the flavor. ** Or, maybe you could buy a vegetable cookbook or a vegetarian cookbook and try to find some recipes that sound good to you. ** Ones that mask the flavor of the veggies in lots of sauces and spices.
** Theios ** wrote:
"So… Tomato paste (a la pizza) is considered a veggie? I wonder if my girlfriend will buy that. I’ve been trying to convice her that pizza is the perfect food. "
Tomato paste is considered a fruit, because a tomato is a fruit (isn’t it???) but it is healthy for you because of the nutrient Lycopene (see my above post about tomatoes) .
However, I would have to agree with your girlfriend. I don’t think pizza is the perfect food. Although it can contain all of the 5 food groups, pizza is usually VERY high in cholesterol and saturated fats, due to the high-fat meat and cheese.
Sorry to hijack your posts for just a moment, but it sounds like a tomato is a vegetable after all… maybe.
From the University of Illinois Agriculture Department…
**TOMATO–FRUIT OR VEGETABLE? **
"Botanically speaking, the tomato you eat is a fruit. So is a watermelon, green pepper, eggplant, cucumber, and squash. A “fruit” is any fleshy material covering a seed or seeds.
Horticulturally speaking, the tomato is a vegetable plant. The plant is an annual and nonwoody. Most fruits, from a horticulture perspective, are grown on a woody plant (apples, cherries, raspberries, oranges) with the exception of strawberries.
In 1893, the United States Supreme Court ruled the tomato was a “vegetable” and therefore subject to import taxes. The suit was brought by a consortium of growers who wanted it declared a vegetable to protect U.S. crop development and prices. Fruits, at that time, were not subjected to import taxes and foreign countries could flood the market with lower priced produce. "
Humm… I’m 33, my cholesterol is fine and I’m within the correct weight range for my age/height. So… Could the ranch dressing that I dip my pizza in be counteracting all the normal pizza badness?
(Ouch! Who threw that?! Can’t you see I was just kidding?)
Theios
Your just kidding I know, but I just want to make sure that I didn’t offend you!!!
I think its totally fine that you eat pizza!!! 
I was only remarking that it IS high in fat and cholesterol.
But many people, like you, have a great metabolism and also can process cholesterol very quickly and efficiently. So, even if you often eat high cholesterol foods, you will have a low cholesterol.
No worries. I wasn’t offended in the slightest.
I do actually dip my pizza in ranch dressing though. Yes, it’s horribly fattening and bad for me. Yes, I thank my lucky stars that I can still get away with this health/weight wise.
Uh… I think I should apolagize for the hijack. Let’s get back to the veggie alternatives for us veggie-phobes
I have to ask:
people like this. What do you eat?
:confussed:
to me, because I LOVE veggies, I am stunned by people with your problem. I can’t imagine it.
so for dinner, is it a huge slab of steak and that’s it?
just curious.
For me, I eat some form of Beef, Lamb, Chicken or Pork with some form of potatoe or white rice. Fair quantities of bread also (usually pita bread)… Occasionally I eat those packets of noodles you get for a quarter… Then occasionaly fish n’ chips and the occasional egg based food, such as an omelete. I eat lots of cereal.
That just about sums up my diet…
I think it is a phobia (and no need to defend your parents; everybody makes mistakes and babies don’t come with instruction tags) because you react with disgust to all veggies. Since the texture seems to bother you, why not gradually try to add some baby-food vegetables? They’re just mush; they don’t actually have a texture.
Just trying to help.
Another kindred spirit here. Only I am, supposedly, a “vegetarian”… one who has trouble eating vegetables. I don’t hate the, and fruit, half as much as I used to. Partly, I think, because my taste buds are dulling with age, and partly because I’ve forced myself to like some. I actually enjoy perfectly ripe papaya as well as sweet potatoes. Still, it’s an effort to eat one vegetable and fruit a day, let alone the recommended servings. I definitely recommend learning different ways to cook vegetables. Also, there are fruit leather-ish bars by Sun Rype that are the equivalent of a cup of fruit AND a cup of vegetables, and they taste like candy!
Aha, now here’s an idea; if you like rice, then very finely chop a red pepper (little rice-sized) pieces, lightly fry it and mix it in with the cooked rice; if that sounds a bit too adventurous, then try it with something a little milder tasting first, like carrot or Courgette(Zucchini).
What about onions; do you like them?
I find this bizarre. How can you NOT like vegetables and fruit? And if you’re not eating them, are you simply eating starch, fish/meat (don’t say you don’t like fish, either) and fat and I guess sugar and nothing else?
In the long run, you could be doing yourself very real harm, even if you’re trying to compensate by using vitamin and mineral supplements. For example…
I’m no vegetarian, but I’m pretty sure that the adult human body is essentially designed to live mainly off fruit/veg/grains, with relatively small amounts of meat/animal products. We’re extremely resilient, but by the time you’re in your 50s, you could find your diet coming back to haunt you.
** Hemlock ** wrote:
I'm no vegetarian, but I'm pretty sure that the adult human body is essentially designed to live mainly off fruit/veg/grains, with relatively small amounts of meat/animal products. We're extremely resilient, but by the time you're in your 50s, you could find your diet coming back to haunt you.
I totally agree with you
((and I majored in nutrition in college )).
By the way, here is the USDA Food Pyramid. You should honestly try to follow it if you can.
Yeah, maybe it’ll kill us. Or maybe it won’t.
Frankly, and this may surprise some folk, but I don’t give a monkey’s left knuckle.
If it kills me, then I’ll be dead. If it doesn’t kill me, then I’ll be alive for a bit longer.
Huzzah.
Guanolad,
I have to say that I agree with you… these days it seems everything can kill you… I guess my friends harping on at me about the long term effects is what has me a bit worried…
But why live life forcing food I hate down my throat so I can gain maybe a few more years? I’d rather just enjoy what I eat…
Er, pet peeve time.
A phobia, by the classic psychological definition, is an intense, irrational fear of something that greatly interferes with a person’s ability to go about their everyday life.
As these posters’ aversions to fruit and vegetables do not cause them any great distress or prevent them from having satisfying personal and social lives, they are not a true phobias.
Simply not liking something or being unable to tolerate something is not enough to make it a phobia.
Also, hypnosis is a relaxation method, and is unreliable for changing ingrained behaviors.
From Dictionary.com
I think it suits just fine. Just because it doesn’t fit the second tier doesn’t mean it isn’t a phobia.
It’s not always as simple as that something might kill you; that wouldn’t be so bad if it was just a case of dropping stone dead one day, but the prospect of dying of bowel cancer is not something to be shrugged off (IMO).
Still, it’s your body and I wouldn’t want to be labelled dietist.