Why do you eat veggies?

[freetarian]

I mean when you can have fruit, why would anyone eat veggies? I thought when youre all raw then you will eventually end up on an all fruit diet by default. Cuz when I have the choice between some delicious fruit and some veggie then I automatically grab the fruit. And veggies dont even taste good. So whats the deal behind it?

[Lay-Lay]

What works for one may not work for another. I personally perfer vegetables over fruit. If you sat a peach and some kale in front of me, I would grab the kale 98% of the time. My body craves greens. I love them. So I feel I must need them. I can't not think of too many vegetables that don't taste good to me. I do not do 8 1 1. I do how I feel, but most days I would say it is 50% vegetable, 40% fruit, 10% fats

[Smiley24_7]

For some people, the sugar in fruit can make them tired or doesn't quite satisfy their hunger. I also like the fiber content invegetables and some days, sweet foods just dont seem so appealing. There are also minerals that are abundant in vegetable like iron. I feel a haelthy balance of both is ideal. Now what i mean by balance is what keeps YOUR body in balance. Some need more fruit than veggies or vice-versa. Some are different everyday.

[freetarian]

Interesting...yeah whatever works for oneself is best in any case!!! ;)

[luvnraw]

I love my salads, especially spring & summer in NW Indiana. I do eat sweet fruit sometimes for breakfast and always as my late night snack after dinner but I eat more veggies then fruits. If I have a craving sweets day and eat mostly fruit I am foggy feeling and very tired and sluggish! If I felt better on more then I might eat more though as I am a sweet a-holic! :D

[ljannise]

What tastes bad to you, tastes completely different to someone else.

[dreamrawalwz]

I don't really eat veggies. I eat greens though, and a lot. Greens are not vegetables. They're a completely different food "group" for raw foodists!

[berrymarymac]

I eat mostly fruits, but sometimes I crave just veggies. So yeah, it's different for everyone.

[DavidZaneMason]

Opinion:

-I agree that fruit is a better food for folks....but everyone is on a spectrum and certainly must do what is right for them. And they will! LOL.

-I've eaten nothing but fruit for many years....and I'm the strongest guy I know! :) But I think that spectrum has to be crossed naturally....and in a way that is comfortable for the individual. Stretch but don't tear! :)

-David Mason

[Brianna]

Green leafy veggies are generally more mineral rich than fruits. And either way, sometimes I crave veggies and don't want fruit.

[Coriander74]

I eat fruit whole and salads but prefer to juice/smoothie the rest of the veggies.

[lissomllama]

I enjoy fruit more and eat more of it but veggies, for my body are very important. Dark leafy greens and other veggies (especially green) are important for getting enough minerals and chlorophyl and they align and cleanse the heart chakra. I need to remain balanced in my diet. Balance for me is having a little bit of everything: Fruits, greens veggies, nuts and seeds as long as they are raw and vegan and edible. Of course I prefer the taste of fruits and they are very important but I know I need veggies.

[Revvell]

Why do you eat veggies?

'cuz ah likes 'em. :p

Revvell

[Draginvry]

I'm not a huge fan of veggies, actually. My diet consists almost entirely of fruits (and false fruits).

But everyone's different. For example, I can handle lots of nuts. Some people can't.

[seand11]

but most days I would say it is 50% vegetable, 40% fruit, 10% fats

this must be by volume, not caloricly, right?

[Tirza]

I do like veggies, but when I feel like having something any time during the day, I am far more likely to automatically reach for fruit that I can just eat without any preparation.

This makes me think, because all the stuff you read about anti-oxidants and tumor inhibiting foods, list veggies as the heroes. In fact some alternative people think the sugar from fruit is too intense and even feeds cancer.

I make sure to have a large green smoothie every day, but even that has an apple, a banana half an avocado and pineapple juice in it along with the veggies, parsley, cilantro, spinach.

I am pretty convinced that I need the properties in veggies for my condition, but I do love fruit. I mean LOVE fruit. Victoria Boutenko stresses the importance of greens and even maintains that they should be classed as a separate food group, aside from veggies.

Then again, what are we calling veggies? Anything that grows from a flower on a plant and bears seeds would be a fruit, wouldn't it? That includes tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, zucchini and all other squash and pumpkin, cucumbers, even peas and beans.... Doesn't leave much left after the greens are taken out and made into a separate category. Interesting what we perceive as veggies. So what is really left then? Some of the things that are left are up for question on this board as to whether they are really meant for us as food. Like potatoes which we are having such a hard time making really palatable and digestible on the raw diet. Or the cruciferous veggies that are also very hard for some to digest.

[juliebove]

I mean when you can have fruit, why would anyone eat veggies? I thought when youre all raw then you will eventually end up on an all fruit diet by default. Cuz when I have the choice between some delicious fruit and some veggie then I automatically grab the fruit. And veggies dont even taste good. So whats the deal behind it?

I guess I'm the opposite of you! I have never cared for fruit. Even as a child I'd try to get out of eating it because it tasted so bad to me. Yes, I would eat apples on occasion. Sometimes I'd eat pears. I only liked them very ripe. Or canned and covered with chocolate sauce or served with cottage cheese. I'd eat bananas only if they were so green you could hardly peel them and only then if they had a thick coating of crunchy, colored sugar. Actually it was the sugar I was after. I might eat a slice or two of the banana, but all of the sugar. I'd eat some berries as I was picking them. I'd spend all day in the woods picking huckleberries for a pie. Tried a piece of canteloupe at a camping thing once. I liked it. But I never had it at home because my mom couldn't stand the smell of them in the house. So I only ever ate them at restaurants and such. I might eat grapes on occasion, but most of the time I didn't care for the taste. I made a frozen dessert out of pineapple. I liked it okay, but not enough to want to make it very often. And I liked grapefruit.

Now vegetables were another matter! I loved them! We had a huge garden when we lived in Wichita, but when we moved to the Seattle area, we were living in a rental house and had no garden. I hated that. As soon as we bought a house, I insisted on planting a garden. I was too young to do it all myself at first, so my dad and some neighbors helped. I ate everything we grew! And when I got a few years older, I did it all myself. My best friend had a huge garden at her house so we were never lacking for fresh vegetables during the summer. When I got my first apartment, I was told I could do whatever I wanted with the tiny yard behind it. I put in a rose garden and a vegetable garden. I've tried to grow vegetables everywhere I lived because there is nothing more delicious to me than homegrown stuff.

As a child, we dined out a lot. I loved going to places with salad bars. If that was an option, I always had that for my dinner and nothing else. If I ordered something else, I had a green salad. At home, we always had green salad in addition to our other veggies.

Anyone and everyone who knows me knows how much I love veggies. I was once banned from making salad for a week because I ate an entire head of lettuce while doing so. My mom made me walk up to the store and get another one.

On holidays, and sometimes other times, we always had a raw veggie platter. My parents always left it sitting there after the rest of the table was cleared because I'd keep eating and eating them. Sometimes I ate so many of those that I didn't want my other food. And I'd keep on eating those veggies right through dessert. Often turning down the dessert because all I wanted was those.

When I go to potlucks, I bring salad or a raw veggie platter of some sort. On car trips, I bring veggies in my cooler. During cross country moves, I am always on the lookout for places that sell salads or raw veggies. I once went wild when I discovered we were staying near a Walmart with a grocery dept. I used a plastic knife to cut them up. Alas, the next place we stayed had no fridge in the room so I had to throw them out when we got there.

I've been to three dieticians and all three told me I was eating too many vegetables. One of them really pushed me to eat fruit as well. The other two said I'd be best off not to eat fruit because I have diabetes. This was a relief to me because it's difficult for me to eat things I don't like.

My dislike for fruit has only gotten stronger as an adult. I became very ill once in either Reno or Las Vegas (can't remember which) at one of those "All You Can Eat" buffets. I hate those things, especially for breakfast because they are usually loaded with pastries and fruit and very little I will eat. But the meal was free, so we went. I'd gone through buffet once, picked at the little I got and was still hungry. So I went back and got a slice of canteloupe. After eating it, I got the most horrid stomach pains. I was in agony and couldn't move. I drank coffee back then. I had to keep asking for more coffee in an effort to stall so I wouldn't have to get up. That was the end of melon for me! I did try to eat it a few times, but the pains always began. Then I noticed the pains beginning with apples and pears. No more of those either.

There was a period of time when I ate muffins that I made from applesauce, dried fruit, nuts, oatmeal, whole wheat flour and a few other ingredients. I didn't necessarily like these, but at the time I felt the best thing for me was a vegetarian low fat diet and these worked in terms of weight loss. I also used to force myself to eat some kind of hot cereal made of oat bran that tasted disgusting but kept me full on a small amount of it till lunch time. This was prior to getting sick from fruit.

When I was pregnant, the dietician insisted that I eat 5 servings of fruit per day. I tried! Oh how I tried. I was limited to those fruits that didn't give me stomach pains. But even then, I was never ever able to bring myself to eat a whole serving. Eating this stuff was really torture to me and did not make for a very enjoyable pregnancy. Many meals were spent in tears as I attempted to force myself to eat the fruit.

After my daughter was born, I still attempted to eat fruit because I didn't want my daughter to be a picky eater. Yet like me, she doesn't like most fruit. So I just didn't push the issue.

Through trial and error, I discovered that cooked fruit does not seem to give me an upset stomach. I have apple and pear trees here. Two years ago, I canned a ton of pears and applesauce. I could eat these things several times a week without getting stomach pains. But I could not eat a whole apple or pear. I did find that I could eat maybe 1/2 of an apple or pear thinly sliced on a salad and not get the stomach pains. But to eat just the fruit I'd get sick. A fellow diabetic surmised that I might be reacting to the sorbitol in the fruit. If I eat food sweetened with sorbitol, I get the same sort of stomach pains. I can chew a piece of sorbitol sweetened gum with no problem. But if I have several pieces of the gum, I'm in pain.

Today, I ate a cherry. That was my only piece of fruit. A lone cherry. I picked it from the tree in the front yard. It was sweet. Very sweet. Too sweet and very ripe. One was enough. I just didn't want any more, even though there were plenty of them within reach. But I did eat a lot of veggies today. I had peppers, carrots, onions, tomatoes, lettuce and zucchini. Zucchini isn't a favorite, but I don't dislike it either. There are some things I dislike though. I just don't eat those.

Every time I see a post like yours it makes me wonder, because I really do prefer the veggies. But then, we're all different. And before anyone calls me on this, by vegetables, I am referring to those foods we commonly eat as such. I did take biology and I do know that a tomato is techically a fruit.

[Lay-Lay]

this must be by volume, not caloricly, right?

Yes, that is correct!

Breakfast Is a smoothie in order to get my Macca down, LOL!
& 2 or 3 pieces of fruit or a slice of melon

Snacks Celery, Carrots, Cucumbers, sweet fruits, half runners, kale, etc

Lunch/DinnerI usually eat too large beds of greens, one at least will contain some fat whether nut based or avocado, etc.

[CAdreamer]

It's all about 'balance' and 'moderation' for me

[Ka-Yun Yoon]

so u can jus live off fruits? or jus fruits and veggies? isn't that kinda unhealthy? I mean, no carbs or proteins,,, how's that work? I think I'd get sick. but yeh, I luv fruits, but kno I can eat to much, I'm hav'n a hard time eat'n all the veggies, I like romane lettice, carrots, tomatos (actually a fruit, and avacados,,, fruits also), and bell peppers, but since I can't eat cooked veggies, I hat cabbage and zucchini/summer squash now ><. Don't we need to eat nuts/seeds and beans/leguments/peas also to stay healthy?

[mcasburn]

Unless you count tomatos and avocados (which I think I could live on, given the chance), I actually prefer veggies.

My sweet tooth is fading as I get older, and I often find fruits far too sweet. Now, don't get me wrong... I can eat blueberries and mangos all day long, but I have to KEEP EATING THEM to keep my energy up; most fruit energy fades really quickly for me. I eat avos because the fat stays with me for several hours.

I love broccoli, cauliflower, kale, chard, romaine, spinach, arugula, cress, squash, cukes, radishes, beets, green beans, peppers, green onion, carrots, corn... how many of those are actually fruits?

[rawpriestess]

I eat almost all fruits, withnuts and seeds.


I don't eat much veggies or greens.

I will eat onion, and lettuce most days, but usually only a couple of slices of onion, and a few leaves of lettuce.

I eat tomato most days, and orange juice, and dates (when in season) and pineapple or mango.

so mostly I eat fruits. I love them.

If my tastes, change, so might my foods, I'm okay with whatever happens.

[lissomllama]

I classify fruits and veggies in a culinary sense when I eat them, not in a botanical sense because for a fruit to taste like 'fruit' to me, it has to be sweet or sweet/sour and for a veggies to be classed as a veggie by me, it has to taste more 'green' and chlorophyl rich or even a bit bitter. Tomatoes have a sweetness, yes but to me they are a veggie because they have a more 'veggie' taste. So this may not be scientifically correct but this is how I see the things I eat as far as taste goes. I think that alot of people in US society feel this way as well, at least everyone I know personally, does.