Vegetables & Salads.....Yuk!

Ever since I was a child I absolutely hated vegetables and salads to the point where eating them made me feel sick.

With some it was the texture and with most it was the taste.

As a grown adult, I still cannot bear to eat veg or salad with a few exceptions being carrots (they have to be boiled beyond recognition!) and the odd leaf /tomato here and there (as long as in something like a burger). I don't have a problem with chopped tomatoes in a lasagne (no mushrooms thank you) or a chilli (no kidney beans).

To be blunt, I'm a right pain in the backside when it comes to food when veg or salad are involved.

There are many other no no's such as most types of fish (sampi and believe it or not, calamari I love). Live, kidney, the list goes on.

I would love it if I wasn't so fussy. I'd really appreciate the nutritional value of veg in particular, but I just cant do it.

Do other community members have similar dislike / hatred of veg & salad?

Parents
  • 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)

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  • 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)

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