How to make a non-vegetarian eat veggies?

Philippines
November 26, 2011 10:53pm CST
So, I'm a non-vegetarian.. I'm not sure if that's the right term, but I'm the kinda guy that doesn't like veggies no matter how I try. It just tastes like... paper. with some weird flavor. Well, I eat some veggies like. Potatoes... well. Mashed. Corn. Mushrooms and olives on a pizza. Garlic on fried rice. with a lil carrots. I want to try some more, since.. I wanna try living a healthy lifestyle. Any suggestions you might recommend to a VERY picky eater?
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9 responses
• Philippines
29 Nov 11
Hi alifive! Start eating one veggie at a time. I suggest you try cucumber. Make sure to eat it while it is cold. It is so refreshing! Or try carrot sticks. Little by little, you will get used to eating vegetables. I love vegetables except for bitter guard or bitter melon. Ulgh.. I simply despise its taste though I know it is a very nutritious vegetable. I like vegetable salad. Try putting together lettuce, cucumber, carrots and eggs with a mixture of mayo and ketchup sauce. This may be a plain vegetable salad but once you tried it, you will start liking veggies too :)
• Philippines
30 Nov 11
Oh no, I haven't tried cucumber soup either. Just try to eat cold cucumber (raw) and just dip it in a small amount of salt. That is surely refreshing! ^^
• Philippines
29 Nov 11
Hi girl_thinking! Oh my, cucumbers.. I tried this cucumber soup last week, and its soooooo sour, I couldn't handle it. Hmm, I forgot cucumber was, ever since, one of the top veggies I hate to eat. I might not try vegetable salad as I don't eat most of it. Well, not yet at least. I just hope soon I could.
@sedel1027 (17846)
• Cupertino, California
27 Nov 11
Find foods - like lasagna - that you can hide vegetables in or vegetables - like portabello mushrooms that are sorta "beef" tasting - that mimic foods you enjoy.
• Philippines
27 Nov 11
That is really good idea. I haven't tasted portabello mushroom, but the lasagna I have tasted it a dozen times and the one with vegetable in it is quite good.
• Philippines
27 Nov 11
I don't even know what portabello mushrooms are, haha. But I might look for it at my local supermarket and hope I'd love it.
• United States
12 Feb 12
Well what you can do is put the veggies in dishes the disguise the flavor. Like you said you like garlic in fried rice, why not add some frozen corn? peas? broccoli? and put some shrimp or cut up cooked chicken in it? A couple of good things you could try perhaps if you like to bake like zucchini brownies and zucchini breads. You don't taste the flavor at all nor are they noticable. Or if possible what I do with my kids is I puree the veggies, put them in ice cube trays like you would when making home made baby food and just toss in an ice cube of say spinach or sweet potato into a dish. I think too the right spices and oils might help make them more flavorful for you.
@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
16 Dec 11
Veggies on the side - Platter Meal
You are not actually a picky eater, you just don't wanna eat vegetables because they taste bland to you. Well I used to ignore veggies as well but you know what? Having known how veggies benefit my body I started eating and liking veggies. Now if you serve me a platter meal with tiny slices of veggies on the side along with meat as the main dish, I'd eat first the veggies and would even snob the meat. So what can I suggest to you, jut think of the benefit you get out of vegetables and you will surely like it the next time around.
@Gram13000 (443)
• United States
27 Nov 11
Have you heard of the middle eastern dish falafel. That is a great veggie dish it taste almost like meat. It is a large combination of things in a ball and it taste delicious. I really recommend this as a veggie dish to people who eat alot of meat like myself because it gets you just as full and its the closest thing to meat besides potatoes.
• Philippines
29 Nov 11
Heard of it? I Love that thing! I've been born and raised in Abu Dhabi, and that is one of my favorites next to Shawarma! I did not know it was vegetable? Tsk, too bad I'm now in the Philippines..
@topffer (42156)
• France
28 Nov 11
Maybe it is the way you prepare them. If you eat a little carrots, maybe you can try a tasty recipe with carrots, carrots vichy : carrots, butter, a little sugar and a cube of chicken soup and water boiled down in a stove. Or try others and really tasty veggies like chervil or black turnip.
• Philippines
29 Nov 11
Wow, that Carrot Vichy recipe sounds tasty.. I might try that one out! Thanks for the response topffer!
@Galena (9110)
27 Nov 11
vegetables have a lot of flavours. the trick is not to overcook them. maybe steam them lightly so they are just warmed through but still have all their flavour and crunch. try as many as you can find. what about red or yellow peppers, beetroot, fennel, broccolli, aubergine, squash, spinach, chard, there's a lot of delicious veg out there and unless you try it, you won't know if you love it or not. and there's lots of delicious pulses, like chickpeas and kidney beans. chickpeas and cauliflower are yummy in curries particularly. or green beans with potato and spinach are also great in a curry. if you find that veg doesn't have enough flavour, this is a good way round that, by seasoning them a lot. I eat meat, but only a few times a week as I don't buy factory farmed meat, but free range, which is more expensive. so I eat meals without meat most of the week, and meat about two or three times. I don't feel like the meals without meat are lacking in anything, as they're delicious.
@katie0 (5203)
• Japan
28 Nov 11
As a Vegan maybe I can help on how I BEGUN cause I didn't like veggies! LOL Really, so it was not that fun to become Vegan but it's easy: there are tons of tips online to live a cruelty free and lovingly towards animals' type of life and I learned we have to be generous in the seasoning. For example nowadays I use more ginger, mustard, pursely...We think that meat is tasteful but the truth is that we are not generous to put some flavor to other type of things as veggies and greens so when we do it becomes really delicious.
@aquacan (216)
• China
28 Nov 11
Good day. Eating vegetable can bring many benefits. Sometimes we don't like them because we are not cooking it in a right way. Maybe you can find new ways to cook vegetables and make them delicious. Then you would be pleased to eat them. And if you still don't like it, fruits would be a good choice. Since they taste good and contain vitamins and other nutrients too. Or you can make vegetable juice. That may taste better.