I like beets. My latest is eat slices of cooked and cooled down beets with wasabi and Kikkoman soy sauce. I know it sounds weird. Lol A Japanese friend introduced me to this and I've been hooked!

I eat lots of veggies and less meat. I eat eggs and cheese, you don't have to kill the animal to obtain those. I got kinda lazy for a while, and when I saw my doc last week my bp is up and so is my cholesterol. So I am tweaking my diet a bit, adding more fish and less processed food. I was eating lots of crackers with hummus. The crackers are gone, now it is carrots and celery with hummus. I'm also walking a mile or more most mornings. I will keep walking until it gets too hot or I find a new job. I'm not looking for a job yet, and maybe I will decide to just retire. I won't be looking until the end of July as I have other stuff coming up, and a crap ton of appointments with various medical offices.

I grew up on salami sandwiches on white bread, canned corned beef hash and other atrocities but several years ago I segued, for health reasons, into an almost completely plant based diet and I love it. It was difficult, giving up overprocessed foods, and especially sweets, but I feel so much better. I don't eat sugar anymore. I pass up sweets at parties, since I figured out that the only reaction to a cupcake is another cupcake... and another. I eat a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables, and like you, I have learned to love them. Highly processed foods now taste like chemicals and sugar to me and I no longer crave them.

While I'm not found of beets, they do have amazing health benefits. So does sauerkraut... and a combination of the two seems to be extremely beneficial.

A few years ago, I adopted a whole-foods, plant-based (WFPB) dietary plan. I slimmed down, my blood pressure lowered, my energy increased, and my tastes changed so I crave fruits and vegetables, no longer caring for heavily processed food-like products. But, no matter how much I like roasted vegetables and salads and homemade soups and stews, I cannot convince myself that I like beets. I know they're nutritious and have tremendous health benefits, but I loathe the flavor — no matter how they're prepared — and I've given up trying to add them to my diet. More power to you if you've been able to flip that switch, because I've tried repeatedly and failed every time. (I can eat the beet greens, though, just not the root.)

Good luck on your journey. Here in the UK we have a tradition of eating beetroot picked in vinegar, often with spices added. I don't know if you have it in the USA. The pickle tastes quite different from the fresh root and is truly wonderful, especially with salad or in sandwiches, and you get the benefits of the vinegar too.