Writing when I should be asleep

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Over dinner last night, I read Eat food. Stuff you like. As much as you want. by Michelle over at Fat Nutritionist, and it occurred to me that I want to like vegetables, not least because my body seems to ask for them on a semi-regular basis... but I don't know what to do with them. When I was a kid, veggies came from a can and were served as-is (which is to say, disgustingly). I don't have the experience to evaluate a veggie-centric recipe for whether or not I'll like it, and as a result it's proving difficult to bootstrap myself up to preparing meals with them as often as I'd like.

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[milkymoon]

That is an awesome article, seriously. I tend to not cook as many vegetables as I should, mostly because...well, there's a lot of association with them being 'foisted' on, and the texture of some uncooked vegetables is a bit...meeeeh.

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Meh, shoulds. For the first six months or so when I moved out on my own, I probably didn't eat anything more veggie-like than mushrooms and hot peppers because my folks had told me to do otherwise for a good long while. It was just a bit confusing when my body first requested veggies after that - by way of an unexplained food craving that I had to walk through the nearest grocery store's produce section, sniffing the food, to nail down. (Target turned out to be raw cauliflower, which I didn't realize had a smell before that.)