im a vegitarian who doesnt eat vegtables does anyone no what i can eat thats healthy?

Question

im fed up of living on junk food, i feel tired and dizzy too often now. im 5ft and 6.5 stone, and 22 yrs old. ive always been tiny but since i become a veggie again haven been tired alot, i was a veggie years ago but went back to meat coz it was too unhealthy for me, i wanna be a veggie coz i cant bare to eat animals but i wanna eat health and i cant eat veggies as i hate them!!! help!

well i am quite shockedby some of the answers, i have never eaten vegatables and havent eaten meat for a year now but was a veggie for 4 yrs before... just because i dont eat vegtables doesnt mean im not a veggie!! not my fault they named it veggie!!!! LOL
i dont eat meat coz i cant bring myself too, i try but then think of the animal suffering and dieing just for me to eat it and feel sick, its just my feelings i cant help that, im not against people eating meat i just cant myself... i do want to eat vegtables but i just hate the taste texture and everything about them!!! i do eat potatos if that helps.. i dont no why some people have been soo nasty but basically i cant help not liking veggies and not wanting to eat meat, i was just asking if anyone knew of anything else i can eat thats heathly...... and i noticed one of you commented on my spelling, well that cant be helped i aint going to go though this and make sure everythings spelt perfectly just for you!!!!!!!!!!!!

someone just wrote that 6.5 is dangerously thin!! what the hell, i am natuarally a petite person, my mum and dad are tiny. i have size 2 feet tiny boobies and tiny everything!!! im not that weight because of what i eat, that bits just me!

also id like to no as some people have stated if being a veggie and not likin veggies means i have a eating disorder???

cavorim ive reported you because saying my mums was lousy cook is wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! im sorry but you just dont insult peoples mums, you wouldnt do it to my face so dont do it on here!! im just a person whos always hated veggies but no cant bare to eat meat as i just love animals sooo much that when i try to eat it i think of them and get put of... im wanting to be more healthy thats why im asking advice not to be insulted!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

I'm saddened by some of the answers here. How can you tell the girl she's not a vegetarian because she doesn't like vegetables? She doesn't eat meat for ethical reasons, not because she doesn't like it per se.
Firstly, you should start eating balanced, and that doesn't mean that you have to eat loads of vegetables that you hate. Aren't there ANY that you like? For instance, you can eat potatoes, sweet potato, margarine, breads, all kinds of nuts and pulses and try meat-replacements ie. such as soy products and quorn. Both of these, soy & quorn, are rich in vitamins and proteins. Lack of protein could very well be the main reason you feel tired and dizzy.
Secondly, go to your GP and have a general check-up. Especially have your blood sugar and -iron content tested. And take some vitamin supplements.
Lastly, stay away from the junk food!

Answer 2

I'm sorry sweetie, but you're going to have to suck it up and learn to eat some veggies. It is 100% impossible to be a healthy vegetarian without eating at least some actual vegetables. Yes, some of the meat substitutes are quite tasty, and will help you on the protein side, but you'll be missing out on a whole lot, and most of them contain an inordinately high amount of sodium chloride. Okay for now, but bad for your health long term if you subsist entirely on them.

As I see it, you might be going about this the wrong way.

When I first became a veg, I also didn't eat diddly squat for vegetables. I lived on bread and fake meat for a few months. However, I finally got sick enough of eating just that stuff that I finally gave a few different veggies a try, and found that I didn't hate them so much anymore. I gradually kept adding in new ones, and now have a healthy broad range of food choices. You could try working them in that way.

Another option would be to go back to meat, partially at least, and try incorporating veggies into your meaty meals and phase out the meat part. My sister is currently doing that, because she also is a former hater of veggies. She still doesn't like all that much, but she is starting to eat at least some willingly, and is down to poultry and fish in her diet. If nothing else, it's a lot healthier.

I hope you can learn to love the green stuff.

Answer 3

You really do need a balance diet. What nutirents you don't get that are present in meat you must find elsewhere. I'd suggest buying a decent book (not just a receipe book but a healthy eating book).

I'm not a huge fan of vegetables either but my sister is a vegy; here's a couple of tips:

Cook vegeables slowly in casserolles or stews - they taste so much better and you dont feel as if you are eating veg.

Make soups - a brilliant way to get your 5 a day. You say you don't like vegetables but I bet you fon't mind tomato soup?!

Eat pulses. I love chickpeas (dont be put off by the name they are more a bean than a pea). I find they are a great meat replacement as they are filling with a great texture.

Cook and eat currys. Spicy, full on flavoursome dishes like this make most vegetables bearable.

The point is - forget any notion about a load of boiled veg on your plate. Get creative in the kitchen.

Answer 4

I know exactly how you feel as I am vegetarian but don't like most vegetables. I do like some though which helps! However I have the opposite problem to you, someone once described me as "chunky for a vegetarian". Anyways I have been encouraging myself to try new vegetables by mixing very small bits with stuff I do like. For example I chopped broccoli up into small pieces and mixed it with pasta, cheese sauce and sweetcorn. You can actually train your tastebuds this way. Pasta is a good staple - have you tried different tomato sauces to see if you like those? From your description of being tired and dizzy I'd say you probably need to increase your intake of iron and protein. You can get iron tablets and the following also will give you protein: eggs (again I am so fussy I just eat the whotes!), cheese, and soya products (anything from veggie sausages to Linda McCartney pies. Look in the Holland & Barrett health food section). Finally you don't mention fruit but whole fruit, juices and smoothies are also really good for you. Hope all this helps, you need to give the iron tablets a few weeks to work.

Just to add I forgot to mention houmas. I hate chickpeas but love houmas and falafel. Neither of them resemble beans or peas, they are delicious and really good for you. Which leads me on to say try food from different cultures, I often eat vegetables in curry, or turkish food etc that I don't normally like.

Also ignore anyone on here who is trying to put you down, you are doing a good thing and are a better person than them. You just need to experiment and find out what suits you and what you are comfortable with.

Answer 5

So, you don't eat meat and you don't eat veggies but live on junk food.... what's in the junk food???? chemicals and cardboard? Have you tried beans, pulses, rice, pasta? Why don't you like veggies? Is it because you cook them too much? Try stir frying them or steaming? They retain their goodness and flavour. I can't believe you don't like any veggies! If you're a veggie you need to make sure you get a balanced diet with all the vitamins and minerals you need. It's not a case of just cutting out meat. You could always ask a dietitian or your doctor for help.

Maybe you should try eating the veggies a bit more and stop being so fussy!

Answer 6

Wow, sorry about all the rudeness here. That isn't what this forum is suppose to be about. It's good that you want help and have asked for it. I know what you mean about vegetables, there are only a few that I do like and I'm trying to incorporate more into my diet. With carrots I put a little raw brown sugar and margarine on them after they are cooked. I love spinach and I prefer the frozen kind when I eat it cooked but you can eat spinach raw if you want. In fact I like just about all green, leafy vegetables and they are very healthy for you. In salads or boiled then have some corn bread on the side. Do you like salads at all? They are fun to make because you can throw just about anything you want to in them. Broccoli and cauliflower I like raw better than cooked. Just try small portions of many different kinds cooked and raw till you find the ones you like. For more recipes go to vegcooking.com

There is more to being a vegetarian than eating vegetables, though. Eat fruits, brown and wild rice, beans, peas, lentils, and pastas (not made with eggs), healthy breads (also not made with eggs).

Edit: Hey, I was just cleaning up the kitchen after dinner and realized that I left out fried vegetables. I usually use olive oil for frying, some people use the extra virgin, but I use regular olive oil because it doesn't smoke as bad. There are a variety of healthy oils to cook with, like canola, and safflower oils they are a little cheaper to use. The veggies I like fried are: eggplant, mushrooms, zucchini, okra, and green beans.
I like making fruit pies using raw sugar in the filling and vegetable shortening in the crust.

Answer 7

Aww How Cute. This Is What I Eat

Well You Could Have:-

Jacket Potatoe With Cheese And Sweetcorn
Pasta With Pesto Sauce !!
Chappati's With A Kidney Beans Curry (You Must Try This)
Vegetable Soup Wih Buttered Bread...

Damn Im Hungry. Brb

Answer 8

I didn't like vegetables either but knew that I had to eat them so I did. You have a responsibility to think about your diet... not to look good but just to generally be healthy and feel better about yourself. I found it a lot easier to eat vegetables since I started ordering from an organic box scheme. The vegetables not only tasted much better but having a different selection delivered every week made me get more excited about eating them. They send you information about organic farming and recipes etc so once you learn more about them you'll probably gain more of an understanding and will want to cook them.

You said that you went back to eating meat because your vegetarian diet was too unhealthy but it's important on any diet to eat vegetables... they have unique health benefits. Eating meat won't make up for not eating vegetables because they're entirely different and even meat eaters should eat vegetables.

You could also try drinking vegetable juice... it won't be enough and you'll have to eat normal veggies too but it will make up one of your portions a day.

Sorry to say this but you really need to grow up a bit and just do what's best for you... There are lots of things I don't like but I still eat them. Once you get used to them they're not so bad and you'll learn to be less picky.

Good luck!

Answer 9

Hey, I know it can difficult.I'm appalled too at some of the responses of people here. But try and keep in there.There's usually a solution if we keep looking and trying hard enough.

I suffered from lot of tiredness myself for a while as a vegan, and ate veggies by the tonne! It might be something medical and unnrelated to diet,so worth checking out.

I don't know what veggie foods u do like,so hard to make recommends.But consulting with veggie friendly dietician would maybe be the best way to go - they could make specific recommends for you. Might be worth looking at various ethnic cuisines as well, as they have foods that you might like you might not be familiar with at the moment .

Keep in there :-)

Answer 10

Try quorn. It's a meat substitude that alot of people love. It means you can have things like spaghetti bolognaise and sausages. They do lots of different sorts. Things like cous cous are great as low in fat but gives you energy. Pulses and beans are also good for energy and give you the protein you lack when you go without meat. Get some recipe books they will really help for ideas.