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?

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  • 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.

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

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