Hi all, I'm new here, whoo hoo! I must say that I am really excited to see a category called Veggie Challanged. I knew there had to be more people like me in the world and I've finally found them!
The only vegetables I ever ate growing up was corn and potatoes. I was 26 before I ever ate lettuce and that's only because the guy I was going with loved salad so I thought I'd try it. I ened up liking it, but it was only ceasar salad I liked, finally I am able to appreciate a good iceberg lettuce salad. Yeah I know, no nutritional value, but hey, baby steps. Now I can manage to eat lettuce almost by itself as long as I have a little fat-free dressing or salsa on it. Salsa is a great salad dressing for very few calories and has the bonus of being a vegetable. Still not crazy about chunky salsa. I can eat carrots cooked now in small amounts but that's because they turn sweet when cooked. I can also tolerate some green or red peppers as long as they are chopped up in very small pieces. I like green onions (or the green part anyway), dehydrated onions, and I can handle spinach in salads now or I can hide it in eggs or soup too, it's not all that bad. I still hate green beans and I don't think I will ever like them. Sweet Potatoes are a new find, I had them the first time as french fries and they were pretty good, then this past Thanksgiving someone made a different type of sweet potato casserole that I thought was good, not the typical with marshmallows, ick.
One way I have managed to eat zucchini other than in bread is to slice it really thin, cut up some carrots really thin and chunks of potoates and a few peppers and boil the heck out of them. This basically renders most of the vegetables flavorless. Actually this might not be good because I might be taking away all the value of eating vegetables with this method. Anyone know?
Not sure if this helps or not but at least you know there is another challanged person out there.