I posted this in another thread and thought maybe you could all help me put my head on straight.
Cooked vegetables do not FEEL right to me, especially if they are re-heated. I make myself feel like they're healthy if they're freshly cooked.
I don't know what the deal is. I made a taco turkey meat and cabbage dish the other night. It was phenomenal and we had leftovers. I'm now unlikely to eat the leftovers because now I'm convinced they have no nutrients. I'm currently eating leftover butternut squash and it feels wrong, like I'm eating nothing or worse, because it's sweet it must be unhealthy.
But it doesn't matter how I FEEL about it, right? My body still knows I'm putting nutrients into even though I can't get past this.
I realized in that other thread that the reason I have these issues is probably because my mom always boiled our vegetables for a half hour in a full pot of water and even as a young child I knew that meant the nutrients had all been cooked out. I KNOW better than this now. I know my cooking methods are correct, but I just can't get past the notion that vegetables should be raw. And I don't find them filling when they're raw.