Healthy Eating and Recipes

I'm ok with tomatoes and mushrooms, but I have gone off peppers and onions as they give me bad indigestion. I don't like boiled vegetables either.

Do you like crunchy vegetables? What about coleslaw, sweetcorn, carrot sticks (raw or lightly cooked), salad with iceberg lettuce, raw cauliflower florets, cucumber and radishes, a stir fry with bean sprouts & water chestnuts, or roasted parsnips?

Protein is important, and if you're trying to lose weight meat or vegetarian protein (without breadcrumbs or batter) in your main meal is ideal. Minced beef or pork can be dry fried without oil and any fat that comes out can be drained off before adding a sauce. If you're not good at making sauces, you can add passata with herbs or one of the jars of sauces - you can get some with hidden veg in now. If you can't stomach meat, try the quorn alternatives. You  could also replace potatoes with extra veg, or have noodles or sweet potato instead.

For lunches, you could replace bread with crunchy seeded ryvita with a topping of your choice, or have a ham, tuna or cheese salad without tomato in, or a wrap.

Natural yogurt is good for breakfast - you can add a small portion of high fibre cereal, some oats, or some fruit to it.

For snacks, you could have cheese chunks with some chopped fruit such as apple or melon, a handful of nuts, or a small portion of vegetable crisps.

Good luck and hope you can create a diet plan which works for you.

I love sweetcorn. I eat lettuce and can force myself to eat cucumber. I like a lot of cooked veggies, like carrots and swede, broccoli, the usuals, but not so much raw cause I prefer them soft haha. But I will eat grated carrot! It’s so annoying I wish I could just be a grown up and eat grown up things

If you like cooked broccoli & swede and grated carrot, I'd say you are pretty grown up - Lots of kids don't like those. I still don't like grated carrot and I'm in my sixties!

We're all different and we all enjoy different tastes and textures. 

If you like cooked broccoli & swede and grated carrot, I'd say you are pretty grown up - Lots of kids don't like those. I still don't like grated carrot and I'm in my sixties!

We're all different and we all enjoy different tastes and textures. 

TheCatWoman said:

but crispy, the smell, the sound of it crunching and feel of it shattering in my mouth was a total nasty overload

I'm the other way. I get a pleasure overload with crispy things.

The texture. I’ll add like onion powder to stuff, but won’t eat crispy onions either… but I think that’s more me associating them with normal onions so my brain says nope. I do eat the finely chopped onions on a Big Mac though

I don't ike sweetcorn and coleslaw gives me such terrible wind. I love swede but unfortunately it no longer loves me. I'm quite limited in what I can eat due to allergies and intollerances and I don't think I'd be any help to you as from your list you don't like the things I love.

Textures in foods are a bit strange, for example when I did eat meat, I couldn't stand crispy bacon, I was never a huge fan at the best of times, but crispy, the smell, the sound of it crunching and feel of it shattering in my mouth was a total nasty overload. I never liked crackling for the same reason, or crispy skin on anything. If I ate meat it would either have to be a stew where it was falling off the bone, or still have blood coming out of it, just cooked to the right side of wanting to drag it under the table and sit growling over it.

Is it the tast or the texture of onions you dislike?