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Kevin AND Still Waiting, I feel your pain—my boyfriend is the exact same way…plus he’s overweight and so getting some produce into his diet would be really beneficial; but he is so resistant! I think his mom just fed him the same few things over and over and didn’t try to get him to try new things. Now I’m stuck feeling like his mom, trying to make sure he gets at least SOME nutrients in his diet. I know he’s an adult but I also know that he’d be happy eating pepperoni pizza every night if I didn’t take the time out to make green beans (the only veggie he’ll eat) and fruit salad.
I like Still Waiting’s ideas about the whole wheat pasta, etc.
Kevin, the only suggestion I have is to try a vegetable soup with a flavorful broth. My boyfriend loves the pasta fagioli at the Olive Garden, which has a nice tomoto broth, carrots, celery and beans. When I mentioned that he normally won’t eat those things, he said that he didn’t mind them in the soup. I leaned how to make it and he loved it; plus he gets a good serving or two of veggies every time he eats it.

Well,when kids won’t eat their veggies, us moms use stealth to slip it in.. a couple of suggestions: add chopped spinach and grated carrots to meat loaf. I’ve had it with a can of campbells tomato soup mixed in too. I’ve heard of moms steaming cauliflower and mashing it into mashed potatoes, you can’t taste them. you can add diced veggies onto pizza, and the pizza flavor dominates. soups are a great way to get in veggies, add just a small amount at first, and build up over time. You don’t have to secretly put in for your wife, of course. you just can’t taste veggies this way but still get the nutrition, by adding them to another strongly flavored food.

My husband does the exact same thing! It’s aggravating!
The key is just to make different things with the few things they like, and to substitute healthier options. For example, my husband loves pasta, so I slipped in whole grain pasta instead of enriched white pasta–and he never noticed. I used brown rice instead of white, and whenever possible, I slip finely chopped veggies into sauces and stews, and he usually doesn’t notice. If you don’t know it’s there, most people don’t notice. I also cook with alot of chicken instead of red meat, so that when he does eat, he’s eating healthy.
If she likes fruit, makes sure there’s always some around. You can’t really force her to expand her eating habits, except to try to get her to try new foods. Make sure she takes a multi-vitamin every day so that she gets everything she’s missing. Good luck!

If she likes fruit, find a juice bar. Ask them to make a carrot-apple juice drink for her. Carrots are naturally sweet, as is apple juice. If she likes that, next time have them add, to the carrot-apple combo, a stalk of celery or a few leaves of spinach or a shot of wheat grass juice. Keep trying different combinations. Get her to try a carrot-raisin salad, etc. If she’s adventurous, she might wind up to like “the good stuff.”
Sounds like she’s a work-in-progress. Good Luck.