How Can I Be Vegan When I Don't Like Vegetables?
Jim Moore • April 28, 2019
The vegan food world is full of delicious possibilities!
An interesting circumstance, but an easily solved challenge!
Plant-based eating includes a large variety of delicious and nutritious food choices. Including a large assortment of vegetables. With that cornucopia of wonderful options in mind, you could try:
- Experimenting with some lesser known vegetables - Knowing what vegetables you don’t enjoy, perhaps find some alternatives that share a different textural and/or taste profile than those on your “Nope, don’t like that list”.
- Inco r porate small amounts of vegetables into recipes for other dishes - adding vegetables to recipes for plant-based meals with strong flavors may help you acclimate to eating vegetables and provide you their nutritional value while minimizing their taste and texture.
- Get creative with your preparation and cooking - don’t like baked squash? Try grilling it. Don’t enjoy mashed potatoes? Try cubing a potato and air frying it. Don’t like slices of cucumber? Try using a tool to make cucumber noodles. Changing the preparation and cooking of a vegetable will alter both its taste and texture and perhaps to a degree that you will enjoy it.
- Heavily season your vegetables - adding savory, hot or sweet seasonings to the vegetables that you don’t otherwise enjoy may create a flavor profile that you do find appealing.
- Eat vegetables sparingly - a healthy plant-based diet must include the nutritional components that come from eating a wide variety of foods including those found in vegetables. Tracking your diet with an app like My Fitness Pal and evaluating the number of vegetables you need to eat to meet your nutritionally needs may help you plan your meals to minimize the inclusion of vegetables.
If your commitment is to enjoy the healthier, happier, kinder way of life that eating vegan provides, use the energy of the commitment to be creative in your approach to getting the vegetable nutrition you need. The vegan world abounds with delicious possibilities!
Peace and Health to You always.
This article first appeared on Quora: https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-be-vegan-if-I-dont-like-vegetables/answer/Jim-Moore-21
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