2011-07-29, 11:06 PM
I was gonna type this at work, but i had stuffs to do:
The first thing you need to do is open your food palette; Open your mind to new foods and different tastes and textures. If you go in with a pre-existing notion that what you are going to eat will taste like crap, then it WILL taste like crap. But if you go in thinking "I'll try it; it doesn't look like crap an smells good" then you'll have a more non-biased tasting. Like my parents always say: Try it once without any pre existing notion of what it willo taste like. If you absolutely hate the taste or texture of it, then you don't have to eat anymore. If you like it, well, you've found something new.
Another method you could try is to mix your veggies in with stuff a little at a time. Know and tell yourself that you will eat at least (__) much veggies today at dinner and then slowly work more and more veggies into your diet until you're satisfied with the amount. So instead of just having a steak, you can have a steak with a mushroom and onion sauce with a side of spinach. Or start even slower by adding 1 leaf of lettuce to that sandwich that you eat every day. If you do something too drastic (say making a spaghetti sauce with chunky tomatoes an onions and putting spinach and squash in it), that may overload your mind and warp your mentality into "the damned veggies made the spaghetti taste like crap."
Or you can do what i do an just eat it with something else. Don't like the squash? put some of those mashed potatoes on top of a small slice of squash and eat them together. Hate bananas? Make banana bread and put some jelly on it. It works for me all the time (though i don't have many foods that i dislike. I mainly hate to eat stuff that seems gross to me like seas snails or sea cucumbers [which are not the best texture in the world])
The first thing you need to do is open your food palette; Open your mind to new foods and different tastes and textures. If you go in with a pre-existing notion that what you are going to eat will taste like crap, then it WILL taste like crap. But if you go in thinking "I'll try it; it doesn't look like crap an smells good" then you'll have a more non-biased tasting. Like my parents always say: Try it once without any pre existing notion of what it willo taste like. If you absolutely hate the taste or texture of it, then you don't have to eat anymore. If you like it, well, you've found something new.
Another method you could try is to mix your veggies in with stuff a little at a time. Know and tell yourself that you will eat at least (__) much veggies today at dinner and then slowly work more and more veggies into your diet until you're satisfied with the amount. So instead of just having a steak, you can have a steak with a mushroom and onion sauce with a side of spinach. Or start even slower by adding 1 leaf of lettuce to that sandwich that you eat every day. If you do something too drastic (say making a spaghetti sauce with chunky tomatoes an onions and putting spinach and squash in it), that may overload your mind and warp your mentality into "the damned veggies made the spaghetti taste like crap."
Or you can do what i do an just eat it with something else. Don't like the squash? put some of those mashed potatoes on top of a small slice of squash and eat them together. Hate bananas? Make banana bread and put some jelly on it. It works for me all the time (though i don't have many foods that i dislike. I mainly hate to eat stuff that seems gross to me like seas snails or sea cucumbers [which are not the best texture in the world])