Dear Veeky Forums how do I get past my pickyness? I want to eat more vegetables and sauces and that sort...

Dear Veeky Forums how do I get past my pickyness? I want to eat more vegetables and sauces and that sort. Do I just need to suck it up and eat it?

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Are you literally four years old?
Millennials were a mistake

If you make a smoothie you can literally suck it up.

Don't this one on Millennials, paw-paw, your generation started this shit.

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Well I would agree that the problem probably started while I was very young. I realize how silly it is an am now trying rectify it

Look up different ways to prepare them. Vegetables that aren't cut/cooked properly can taste a lot worse. And don't think you have to eat vegetables with nothing on them. I usually put salt and vinegar on any steamed vegetable, I love it. You can use lemon instead.

But yeah you kind of just have to suck it up and eat it to a point too. If you're only used to eating bread, cheese, and meat you'll feel overwhelmed by the bitter flavors of most vegetables but after a while you'll learn to appreciate them.

It's easy to laugh at her but she says that her parents left her with some people who forced her to eat food that she didn't like, and made her throw up. People will laugh at her for crying when she's trying to eat the green vegetable at the end of the video but it's not really funny, she has some mental health issues that she needs help with.

People with poor diets make the mistake of thinking you cook vegetables with little/no fat. Learn how to cook vegetables with a lot of fat and then scale back.

Vegetables can taste good without any added fat though. Especially if you're having a fatty main dish, a vegetable side dish tastes better if it's something acidic with no added fat, in my opinion.

Agreed but for someone who considers pizza a staple a more realistic habit changing option is starting with cooking with more fat than usual and a cooking method that produces a texture they enjoy the most.

Stir fry my friend.

If you like general tso's chicken then find your nearest thai place and look for the stir fry part of their menu

You get a meat and starch you like and can fill you up...and it's dotted with all sorts of new veg you can try as you eat it, and if you don't like them you can just pick them out

Then work your way up to pad thai, and all of a sudden you're eating cuisine mon ami!

>Get a degree in spiceology
>Make even steamed broccoli taste like the best shit ever

where

Memeversity.
But for real, spices really do a whole fucking lot, they can change the taste of any vegetable radically. Experiment to find the ones you like the most, can't really specific advices since it's too subjective.

starve yourself

watch foodporn involving vegetables

Salt and spice the shit out of your veggies.

Instead of doing peas do peas + olive oil + salt/pepper + lemon juice and it'll change the texture and flavor into something you might actually like.

>starve yourself
Yeah pretty much, I was in army bootcamp and there were like workouts 3 times a day. By dinner time, I'm just chugging down whatever food is presented, even the spicy stuff I don't usually eat. My body was in a state of "if I don't eat I die"

But steamed broccoli tastes good with just a little vinegar and salt

>Do I just need to suck it up and eat it?

Yes.

That and learn how to prepare the vegetables in different ways. For the longest time I thought I hated certain foods but it turned out it was simply the fact that my mom couldn't cook those foods properly. Once I learned not to overcook them I had no problem.

I used to be a picky eater, couldn't eat spaghetti as a child without throwing up due to straight-up mentality. But in my teenage/adolescent adult years, I figured that if people can survive off the things they do, maybe food preference is purely subjective. So I started being an adventurous eater, and now I will try almost anything at least once, and enjoy exotic things that even my parents (who teased me over being a picky eater as a child) wouldn't even stand to look at.

tl;dr it's a state of mind unless you're actually allergic or otherwise biologically incapable of eating it.

That's how people get fat though. They realize that you can cook veggies in a ton of lard to get rid of the "yucky veggie taste ick" instead of growing a palate and learning to appreciate bitter foods or different planty textures. It's better just to go whole hog and start eating goddamn salads.

Get some steam fresh vegetables, microwave them and eat them.
Don't be a pussy and repeat.
Eventually start looking up ways to properly cook some fresh veg and repeat.

Essentially suck it up until you like them. Have vegetables with every meal until you feel like a meal is incomplete without them.

Are there any good cookbooks for vegetable based things? There's a library close to me so I have a decent selection.

Minestrone is a good way to get vegetables into you
I make mine all organic with the following ingredients
>Tomato
>Potato
>Carrot
>Celery
>Parsley
>Kidney beans
>Cucumber
>Leak
>Garlic
>Onion
>Bit of pepper, no salt
>Chicken stock
Don't put bacon in it like a pleb, you can eat it with some macaroni pasta if you want but it's good enough to eat vegetarian

Or if that's too much, steam up some vegetables with your next meal, which takes nothing but chopping up a few different sorts of veges and letting them steam over boiling water.