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[quote=Anonymous]Good for you for trying something new! Be gentle with yourself and maybe think of yourself as a toddler when it comes to food, so if it works for little kids it might work for you.

maybe start with canned fruit? a lot of kids prefer that taste and texture.

Or fruit in smoothies or popsicles? You can start by blending it with ice cream, yogurt, or milk and then gradually moving to more fruit. Fruit purees can also be good stirred into oatmeal or pancake batter, or you could try something like banana bread, carrot cake, or zucchini bread.

Do you like pumpkin pie? Maybe try making it without the crust, and then look for recipes that use less fat and sugar. Once you like pumpkin, there are a lot of recipes where you can add it, and the canned stuff (regular pumpkin, not the pie filling) is pretty healthy and easy to use.

What fruits or veggies do you like? Do you tend to like them better if they are raw, roasted, mashed, etc.? That might help us.

You can mash some cauliflower with mashed potatoes, and eat that with chicken and gravy.

Or finely chop/shred stuff and add it to meatballs, burgers, or taco meat (tomato paste, mushrooms, carrots, frozen chopped spinach, onions). At first, try a ratio of like 1 part veggies to 10 parts meat and grind the veggies really small. Eventually you can increase the amount of veggies and add more texture. Same with tomato sauce--start by blending up some jarred roasted red peppers or a bag of the frozen peppers and onions (thawed) and then gradually over time add more texture and taste.

I find that adding some frozen butternut squash puree to homemade mac and cheese doesn't change the taste too much and the color is the same. And frozen chopped spinach is small enough that when you add it to stuff you don't get much of a texture or taste change.

Best of luck with this! It won't be easy, and it's ok to have certain veggies you still don't like after a lot of tries. As long as you have some produce in your diet, you'll be doing fine.[/quote]

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