I Hate Things That Grow from the Ground
Once I got pregnant, I knew my diet had to change. The meatatarian diet I’ve been following for the past 20 years religiously had to make way for a healthier, more well rounded diet. I didn’t want to have a weirdly deformed baby because I didn’t have enough veggies in my diet. But it would be a big change, since ever since I was a little girl I would sit at the table for hours, not eating my vegetables, with my father stating, ‘You’re not leaving the table until you eat your vegetables!’ to which I would then sit in the dark, staring at these green monsters on my plate. Finally, my parents gave up…they already had one daughter that ate veggies like there was no tomorrow (damn you, Claudine), so they left me alone. Later, when people asked me why I didn’t like vegetables, I would make up some statement like, “I don’t like eating fruits and vegetables because we can’t hear them scream when we pull them out of the earth or off trees. How cruel is that? Abusing them when we can’t even know if they’re in pain?” Of course, that logic is horrible. But that’s how I lived, rarely having veggies. However, once I got pregnant, I knew things had to change.
I didn’t think it would be too hard to do. I mean, I had learned how to eat salads at social events and even have a favorite fruit - the avocado. I started buying apples, bananas, pineapples, salad mixes, brocoli and a whole bunch of other healthy things. I got salads when eating out, and ate any veggies that came as a side.
I thought I would get used to it. I even thought that this pregnancy might change my outlook on veggies and I might even crave them.
Nope.
I still hate them.
It’s torture.
I don’t like the taste of them, I don’t like the texture, I don’t like them, period.
But here I am, munching on a banana with a cup of blueberry yogurt for breakfast (which really isn’t that bad)….because it doesn’t matter that I think, it matters that my baby is getting all the nutrients he can get.
He’s definitely going to hear it from me when he’s out - “Because of you, I had to eat VEGETABLES!!! Now go make me a steak!”
man there are some veggies I love and then some that I loathe
Hey Yano, I tried to post a coomment about this but it was denied for “questionable content”
was it the word “pregnancy?” “Eat?” or maybe just “Eat Veggies?”
SusanG - Usually the warning page tells you what the questionable content is. I get so much spam so there are lot of phrases that are blocked out. Shoot me an email (or post in the tagboard) what it stated as questionable and I’ll look into it!
oh, i love fruits and veggies… but maybe your son will also not like ‘em much and wonder why you tortured him with veggies while he was still on the inside.
Yano, Yano! My Lucas is the same way about vegetables. I love vegetables but when I was pregnant with him, I could not even look at a carrot or lettuce. So for his first nine months of existence, he told me emphatically he hated vegetables. I just gave up and ate chocolate. At age 20, he still won’t eat them so I make him drink pomegranite (sp?) juice.
Here is is the next day and I’ve forgotten what I said
Another Senior Moment. It was something about not forcing your kids to eat veggies and making mealtime a battle field. I did that with Gillian particiularly…she choked on a bit of (veggie probably)) aspirated it, and almost died in my arms. I did the toddler Heimlich manuever…nothing. Then somehow it got disloged as I was racing to the car. Almost lost her. eat chocolate!