NY Resolutions

[settiai]

I haven't really made any New Year's Resolutions the past few years, but in a way I think that I've accomplished more in the past year than I have in... well, ever. I'm finally out of Tennessee and living on my own. I'm paying my own rent, my own car insurance, my own health insurance (well, I have been for the last two years, if you can call the

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[janetlin]

Regarding the fruits and vegetables - I too just basically don't like the taste and texture of them. But I've got some twice-daily vitamins (supplements, technically, I guess) that give a daily dose of fruits and veggies. I also take a fiber supplement since pill form doesn't cover that as well as eating them whole. There are grown-up ones and chewable kids' ones that taste citrusy and actually kind of nice.

[settiai]

I'm going to keep trying different ones in hopes of finding some more that I like (so far, I've discovered a handful). I might have to go the supplement route, though, because I'm definitely not getting some of the vitamins that I need.

[janetlin]

I've found that cucumbers and squash are pretty good with butter and sprinkled with brown sugar (but then I imagine that pretty much anything wouldn't be hurt by butter and brown sugar ;). Might defeat the purpose as far as weight loss goes, but at least it gets the nutrients and fiber into you.

And I never liked brown rice but am trying to switch because it's better and a friend clued me into throwing a stick of cinnamon in to boil/simmer away with it and it actually does help.

[settiai]

I actually like raw cucumbers, as long as I have something to dip them in. Light ranch dressing works well. As for squash, I've hated them for years - except we've had squash soup and ravioli at work the last few days, and they were both delicious. I'm thinking that my tastes toward that particular gourd might have changed since the last time I ate it.

There's a restaurant near by parents' house back in Tennessee, this little steakhouse called Sarge's Shack, that has delicious brown rice. There are onions and peppers cooked with it, and - while I've never quite been able to replicate their recipe - I've found that adding those gives it a really good taste.

[janetlin]

As I get older and cook more of my own food, I'm discovering that a lot of my food dislikes are because I just didn't like the way my parents prepared it. Broccoli was a _huge_ discovery for me: it's actually really good if you don't steam the hell out of it. Imagine! lol They always did brown rice plain and by itself on the side but yeah I imagine if it had other stuff in it like onions and things it would be better.

And yes, raw veggies dipped in ranch was pretty much what my folks had to resort to in order to get me to eat any.

[settiai]

Broccoli's one of those foods that, cooked or raw, I still can't force myself to eat. There's just something about the smell and the texture... *makes face* Nope. My tastes haven't changed that much, not yet at least.

My family had white rice, plain and by itself on the side (or served with roast/stew meat/etc. and brown gravy, which is yummy even if I hated it as a kid), and we only had brown rice on special occasions when we went to Sarge's. I think that's the big reason I grew up loving it and hating white rice.