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Login Here Signup Here Signup using FacebookI am switching to raw slowly for health reason. Some raw foods taste so delicioous but others don't. It just take me a long time to transfer from cooked to raw foods because I am very picky.
I do not like many vegetables. How can I overcome and learn eat it? Any suggestions or recipes that would fits as a picky eater. I am left out when I was looking for recipes, most of them won't fit my taste buds. I really want eat more vegetables but I have to find something to cover that taste in order to able eat vegetables. I only enjoy most is breakfast and desserts including fruits. Maybe few nuts as meats. Some salad with dressing if it does not taste like a vegetable.
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i think liking vegetables is a learned thing. I used to hate even the smell of broccoli and now i eat a head of it every other day. My suggestion is picking one veggie at a time and sampling recipes that use it until you find one you like, after a while you will develop a liking for that veggie. Once you like that veggie, pick another, and go to town.
Also if you've never made one before- start making green smoothies. Start with little greens and lots of fruits at first then as you go, up the greens and decrease the fruit. You will find yourself craving greens and your body will love them.
Eat fruit more and you will start to like more veges in time.
When I was young I HATED veges! If my mother could see me now she would not believe I am a raw vegan who eats mostly raw veges!
I still won't touch raw tomatoes or raw okra. Blech.
My BF, who is such a good sport and really trying to eat well, doesn't love the taste of veges raw, either. I give him a green smoothie every morning, sweet with bananas and apples and let him eat whatever he wants for lunch (I don't even ask) and he eats dinner with me, and might or might not snack on something unhealthy aster dinner.
We have a big salad and try out recipes together and like I say, he is such a good sport.
The point is, as long as you are getting SOMETHING healthy in you, you are eating less unhealthy foods.
One thing I can say is that with many recipes, the veges taste much different when they are prepared.
Fast for a day and then eat veges. Things taste much better when you are truly hungry. True hunger changes the way things taste to me and the things I crave.
Keep trying and don't give up. You cannot fail at this and there isn't any hurry, so there is no need to worry. Have an apple and keep studying raw food and nutrition. The more you know the more you will want to eat raw. :)
I also agree with the smoothie recommendation. I quickly came to like foods I initially hated through green smoothies.
green smoothie, soup, cracker, pasta!
my husband hate greens (he's vegan more than ten years, i know he's wired) but he loves them.
you can eat a lot of greens and they are so yummy and fun!
My question is what do you eat when you aren't eating raw?
Dr. Neal Barnard (Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine) says in one of his books that it takes about three weeks to change your taste buds so that ew flavors or textures become normal. He uses the example of milk: if you usually drink regular milk, and you switch to 2%, it tastes awful at first, but after three weeks of nothing but 2% you'll find that regular milk tastes awful. If you keep drinking regular while you try 2%, the 2% will always taste terrible.
My point (I do have one) is that until you aren't eating the other stuff, you won't have the chance to develop a taste for the new stuff. Eating "clean" in general I find improves all your senses, including taste.
Also, raw organic veggies, when they're in season and at their peak, have tons of flavor - very few veggies are improved by cooking, in terms of taste (winter squashes and eggplant are all I can think of). So if you don't like cooked veggies, this doesn't mean you won't like them raw.
Another tip is to toss in flavor boosts like garlic, ginger, nama shoyu, olive oil, agave syrup, sesame seeds...thinly sliced fennel, onion, cucumber, cabbage, red pepper, with agave/lemon/nama shoyu and black sesame seeds...yum.