Vegetables & Salads.....Yuk!

Yes, I can’t stand aubergines either

I don’t either but it’s a good way of bulking up daal.

I like some beans and cooked tomato but even I can’t stand tinned baked beans A local Italian cafe used to make their own but I couldn’t bring myself to try them.

As I said, both are like eating slugs, even removing them from pre-made sandwiches, I still know they have been there, my wife loves both but I don’t even like the same knife being used for something else afterwards.

I was with you on tomatoes and baked beans but I like cucumber a bunch.

I think those two and aubergines are pretty much the only vegetables I'm not okay with. I see vegetables as being relatively low in energy so they give me less anxiety. 

I don't like cucumber either! It's so... soggy.

Baked beans are just evil along with tomatoes and cucumber, another one is cottage cheese, it even looks like vomit!

I actually love vegetables generally but the ones I don't like, I really HATE. Like tomatoes. I can't stand tomatoes, and they're all over everything. The gunk in the middle makes my skin crawl but even just the smell and the flavour in things is horrible.

The worst vegetable/pulse for me is baked beans. I know they're really popular but the texture feels wrong to me and they have the misfortune to be paired with my other nemesis, the tomato. I can't even bear a slight whiff of baked beans and if my partner has beans on toast he has to wash everything up as soon as he's done because even looking at the leftover sauce on the plate makes me heave.

I can eat a salad but it has to be made to my own tastes. Lettuce with spring onion finely sliced over it is okay, cheddar cheese, a boiled egg and red pepper with some ham and that’s it. The ham must have no fat, Salad fruit and veg on its own is pointless. Tomatoes are okay from tins and used in cooking, Sauces or soup. Actual tomatoes or cucumbers are like eating slugs. 
Vegetables likes are peas but only petit pois, cabbage with mash is fine along with roast potatoes and fine French beans. I can eat carrots in a cottage pie but prefer them to have been tinned, that way they taste of nothing and have no texture left. I can still remember Sunday roast as a child, it was the low point of every boring Sunday, the veg would be put on to cook from mid morning, mother would get up early to put the meat on, it was never undercooked! 

I found I prefer warm veggies but don’t like cold veggies. I’ll very rarely eat a salad and if consists of lettuce and carrot  but the carrot has to be thin. But give me veggies warm any day. Sweetcorn, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, peas mash potato

I only like carrots raw

As a child, I absolutely detested vegetables and salads. If I had a roast dinner, my plate would consist of meat and gravy without all the usual trimmings. I had absolutely no problem eating chips, but it wasn't until my late teens that I began to enjoy eating roast potatoes, jacket potatoes, or boiled potatoes.

It wasn't until I became a mother in my early twenties that I felt able to eat and enjoy things like peas, carrots, sweetcorn, etc. I'm now in my late forties and will eat sandwiches containing lettuce and cucumber, but would struggle to eat salad.

Due to high cholesterol,  I am trying to make more of an effort to switch to a healthier diet, but it's not easy when so much of what I enjoy food-wise falls into the category of beige food.

No but I try to follow a diet based on my blood group and suggests my blood group, type A, should be largely vegetarian. It suggests people who have type O blood are basically your stereotypical Hunter gatherer and therefore should eat the sort of food you could hunt or gather. It may just be therefore that you have type O blood instead of being because you are autistic. (I’m not aware of any link between blood group and chance of being autistic)