Eating new foods is very difficult for some people. I think vegetables in particular are a challenge, especially if you’ve had a bad experience with them. Many people have memories of a certain food, prepared in a less than optimal way, that they were required to eat as children. How traumatic! With all my sympathy, I still encourage you to eat your vegetables. Unless you’re an Inuit, eating the organ meat of sea mammals, there’s no way to really be healthy and meet your minimum nutritional requirements without eating plants. Keto isn’t all steak and eggs, my friend. If you’re living a low-carb lifestyle, the nutrient fortification of packaged, carbohydrate dense foods of the Standard American Diet has to be replaced with something. Vegetables need to be a part of your healthy diet.
To anyone who still says, “But I don’t like them!” I would say, how do you know? Have you tried them all? Baked? Sauteed? Raw? Covered in cheese?
Change is hard, but staying stuck in the same bad habit is worse. Give yourself some grace and then be brave. Pick one vegetable to try. Do your homework. Read about different ways to prepare it. Visualize yourself enjoying a vegetable you’ve purchased and prepared. Follow through on your plan. Discover something at least tolerable. Commit to being the kind of person who tries. The biggest road block to your success isn’t the taste, it’s the aversion in your own mind.
Pro Tip: cook with bacon fat. Everything is better with bacon.
