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Does Not Like Veggies

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Geannie

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Hi my stepson is turning 16 November and T1 diabetes,diagnosed 1.5 year ago...he doesn't eat veggies and mostly eating bread from breakfast to lunch and only 1 apple per snack. When we make dinner he will rather eat salad than any veggies. Sometimes directly afte dinner his blood sugar level will fall as low as 3 and then he will stuff himself with a whole chocolate slab. If we go out for dinner he will eat a whole magarita pizza of 30cm....he only dance once a week and are not very active otherwise...only walking from one class to the next at school...
 
Hi and welcome @Geannie

If salad ingredients is his preference over veg then so be it, but if he's having hypo's after dinner then it looks like he needs to reduce his meal-time insulin or improve his carb counting skills, probably best he speaks with his diabetes care team about this.
 
Sorry no idea about the blood sugar, with relation to type 1 diabetes, but plenty of experience with teenage boys not liking vegetables!
Mine are fine now, thank goodness.
Things I did was making home made dips, with vegetable crudites, pepper, celery, carrots for when they came in from school starving. Doing dinners with 'hidden' veg, so bolognaise with lots of chopped pepper, carrot, onion and celery. Casseroles with veg in, I'd always put finely chopped peppers in a curry. Then with dinner I would always serve a very small portion of veg that I knew they didn't hate, and so no pudding (usually a yoghurt) unless they ate that tiny portion of veg.
 
If he eats salad would he have some raw veg that you can include in salads - like carrot, pepper, green beans? Another thing that some veg-dodgers will eat is frozen peas.
 
@Geannie. Tell him if he doesn't eat what you put in front of him you're going to get a paying lodger for his bedroom.
 
Unfortunately, eating vegetables won't make up for lack of exercise and eating too much bread, chocolate, and pizza.
 
I also used to hide veg in meal, grated carrot and stuff like that in spag bol. I used to make soups with loads of veg and just wiz it with a billy mixer.
 
Stir fry is a good way to present veg to make it a bit different.
 

Hi, it's good he likes salad, but some people do not like the taste or the smell of cooked vegetables, has he tried raw ? Carrots, cauliflower, sugar snap peas, peppers are delicious raw and you could make or buy a small tub of dip for him to dip the veg in, crudites, delicious Good luck..
 
dawnmc said:
I also used to hide veg in meal, grated carrot and stuff like that in spag bol. I used to make soups with loads of veg and just wiz it with a billy mixer.
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"Hiding veg" in a meal to a carb counter is somewhat like not having enough lifeboats on the Titanic?
 
I didn't like veg either, and I'm an OAP not a teenager. But I found that disguising the taste with grated cheese, lots of butter or gravy/sauce helped. I have now quite got to like them.
 
I do mix some veggies into the food but he take it out and refuse to eat it. I'm really worried and only have every 2nd weekend with him and he is already in this reluctant routine...
And if I want to get to understand the complications as he do not adjust his insuline amount when he eats.

Its stays the same and it does not add up for me as does not take in the amount off carbs required for the insuline amount. His eyesight are also deteriorating and when I try to spell out that the intake and insuline must balans his father said we must not create fear....
 
Jaylee said:
"Hiding veg" in a meal to a carb counter is somewhat like not having enough lifeboats on the Titanic?
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I obviously understand that..he's a child. Aren't there loads of green stuff to go in soups, doesn't take much imagination.
 
dawnmc said:
I obviously understand that..he's a child. Aren't there loads of green stuff to go in soups, doesn't take much imagination.
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Sorry Dawn. Just reread my initial comment. & empathise with the nature of your reply!
I ment no disrespect to you, merely a light comment pointing out to the OP that disguising carbs makes it difficult for an "insulin user" to get to grips with..?

Personally, it would be benificial for the lad to sign up here. Talk to T1s his own age & also glean some info from some T1 "veterans". Just let him ask away!
Not forgetting a wealth of T2s knowledge on "the good, the bad, & the ugly" diet wise...?!!

I'm all for empowering the individual in question.
 
@Geannie. Wasn't aware that you only see your stepson every other weekend. I think you are doing great just by caring and trying to help him.
Keep telling him, I doubt he'll listen, teenagers by nature want to prove the rest of the world is wrong and they know all there is to know.
Fortunately he'll grow wiser and realise that all the information you've given him over the years is a good base for him to start to develop in life.
Good luck and keep on at him, he could realise sooner rather than later.
 
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