What vegetables do you like?

dee_thurman

lettuce (romaine and spinach)
carrots
celery
cucumbers

I am looking to add more vegetables to my diet... I am willing to give almost anything a shot but I am a somewhat picky eater.

What do you think?

cwolfman13

I don't think I've had a vegetable that I didn't like....

my household staples are:

broccoli
green beans
cabbage
greens
cucumber
asparagus
brussels sprouts
carrots
peas


I like broccoli steamed or roasted...green beans blanched...cabbage sauteed or raw on a salad...sauteed greens...cucumber raw...asparagus roasted or sauteed...brussels sprouts roasted...carrots roasted, raw, or in soups and stews...peas blanched.

mbaker566

cucumbers, sugar snap peas, asparagus, fresh spinach-no cooking, ew. green beans

TeaBea

If you like carrots.....look for parsnips. The 2 are closely related (look for "white" carrots).

Bok Choy (Chinese celery) has a mild flavor, and no strings.

Fresh green beans vs. canned. No contest....fresh wins. Steam these until "almost" tender, add salt & butter. Yum!

Cauliflower (related to broccoli) has a very mild flavor. Roasted is delicious.

I love snap peas or snow peas. I can eat these raw.

Anyway, different cooking methods will open you up to different flavors. I hate boiled Brussels sprouts, but roasted ones are yummy.

pdwyer569

spinach, kale, asparagus, cauliflower, zucchini, cucumber, lettuces, bell peppers, onions

Don't forget your fruits, though.

Avocados, bananas, tons of berries (blueberry, raspberry...etc) are some of my fruit staples as well.

Hope you find some new veggies you like!

ValerieMartini2Olives

Pretty much any.

I found the vegetables I HATED as a kid (brussels sprouts, cabbage, asparagus, etc), I now love as an adult. Why? Because my mom would always overcook the hell out of them and they would taste nasty. I cook them the way they're supposed to be cooked and they taste great.

Buckeye_Dave

Sugar snap peas, especially raw. My favorite by a mile....

dee_thurman

what grocery store can you find parsnips and boo choy? Thanks for the thoughts.

Sabine_Stroehm

I love love love vegetables.

There have been a few chinese mustards that I don't love.
And if they aren't prepared well, they aren't tasty.

Staples in my diet:
kale, spinach, broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, artichokes, asparagus
romaine lettuce, butter lettuce,

and then green beans, snap peas, legumes (depending on your definition)

I love fermented vegetables too!

Today's lunch is a cream of broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts made with soy milk casserole that hubs threw together. While we didn't have any, it would be fabulous with some andouille sausage, or ham thrown in.

vivmom2014

I'm currently wild about butternut squash soup because it's so filling and delicious.

I also love spaghetti squash, cut in half (seeds scraped out), brushed with olive oil, salt & pepper and roasted in a 400 oven for about 40 minutes. You scrape the squash out in strands and they make a great base for sauces. Or you can then mix the spaghetti squash with black beans, lime, cilantro, rice & chipotles and stuff the shells, return to the oven and bake until hot. (Or just stuff it with anything you enjoy - could go in a different direction and mix the squash with Parmesan cheese and nuts...)

Roasted cauliflower = delicious.

Red pepper strips cut & dipped in Ranch dressing.

Green beans boiled until crisp-tender and dressed with butter & lime juice.

lucys1225

I love just about all vegetables...as long as they're roasted. Roasted cauliflower, broccoli, peppers, zucchini, asparagus, brussel sprouts, green beans, spaghetti squash.

TeaBea

dee_thurman wrote: »

what grocery store can you find parsnips and boo choy? Thanks for the thoughts.

I find these a lot of places. Wal-Mart even. Parsnips are the harder of the two to find.

Look for the parsnips (in a plastic bag like carrots) by other miscellaneous root vegetables......beets, rutabaga, kohlrabi, and so on.

Look for Bok Choy by the Chinese veggies....if you find Napa cabbage, fresh bean sprouts, or shiitaki mushrooms you are in the right area.

Stop1510

I like most veggies too but I don't really fix them. Just to try and get some in my diet I have been buying bags of the vegetable medley at Wal-Mart, which is baby carrots, broccoli florets, and cauliflower florets. I use nonfat plain Greek yogurt mixed with the powdered Hidden Valley Greek Yogurt Dip mix as a dip so it's a pretty filling snack.

The_Weaze

Raw carrots
Raw celery
Romaine lettuce
Sweet potato
Raw spinach

bri170lb

The only vegetable that I don't like is red beets. Ever since I was a kid. They just taste like dirt to me. I try them often. I really want to like them because they are so pretty.

Stop1510

@bri170lb try them cut in half and sprinkled with cinnamon and put a little bit of honey on each half then bake them cut side down for 40 minutes at 350 degrees. Also, the greens are yummy steamed.

TeaBea

Stop1510 wrote: »

@bri170lb try them cut in half and sprinkled with cinnamon and put a little bit of honey on each half then bake them cut side down for 40 minutes at 350 degrees. Also, the greens are yummy steamed.

Last time I made beets (yum!) I boiled them. Good, but kind of a pain. I will try roasted beets next time. Root veggies are great roasted...shoulda known.

juliebowman4

It's easier to name the ones I don't like:
-onions
-raw tomatoes
-brussels sprouts
-raw mushroom

JustMissTracy

I'm like Julie above, love most veggies...only exception would be mushrooms (which I HATE!), artichokes and eggplant, and I could probably be persuaded to eat eggplant if someone made it for me, and knew what they were doing...lol.

ald783

I've gotten really into cauliflower after not really caring for it for awhile. I like it as is or I also buy the Birds Eye steamer bags of buffalo cauliflower, and what's not good covered in buffalo sauce? You can also kind of "hide" cauliflower in things or in different preparations like pulsing it in a food processor and making it into cauliflower "rice" or adding it to mashed potatoes.

I know squash is technically a fruit but it's also versatile and delicious and healthy... my favorites are butternut, spaghetti and pumpkin.

I also sneak spinach into a lot of things, and really like it in smoothies. They look weird but taste delicious.

You don't have to like every veggie but it helps finding a few more you don't mind at least!

lemurcat12

Pretty much all of them. I can't think of any I don't like right now, although some are better than others. (I like eggplant, but I agree it needs to be prepared well and that can be challenging until you learn some things to do with it that you like, and ideally that don't require tons of oil or cheese, of course.)

I try to eat seasonally when possible, but we are entering the time when it's not. At the moment I eat lots of broccoli and cauliflower, zucchini and yellow squash, green beans, brussels sprouts, and whatever else looks good, as well as lots of greens (spinach, kale, chard, mustard and beet greens, collards, and lots of Asian greens, among others) -- I tend to have a broccoli and spinach omelet for breakfast a lot, although I try to vary it up with zucchini and kale or whatever. For more seasonal things, at the moment that means lots of winter squash of various sorts and root vegetables (celeriac, turnips, carrots, parsnips, etc.). I also really like leeks and fennel.

Ooh, should have mentioned beets. (I need to not edit after reading other posts, as I'm sure there are many other favorites I forgot too. Seriously, OP, try different ones and experiment with a good vegetable cookbook or explore a site like 101cookbooks.com for ideas.)

MsJulesRenee

I never ate a mushroom growing up, my patents hated them so they never cooked with them. Not until I moved into my own place with my own kitchen did I realize that mushrooms are absolutely delish! I bought them on a whim one day to try em and never looked back.

OP, mushrooms are like sponges so they cook best with other strong flavors like beef or garlic. If you are going to try them

Lounmoun

Try them different ways. Sometimes cooking method makes a big difference in how something tastes.
Have your vegetables in soups, pasta sauces, stir fries, or casseroles. Try roasted or grilled vegetables.
Look up different vegetable recipes.

I like a lot of vegetables. I prefer fresh or frozen vegetables. The only canned vegetable I like is canned tomato.

spinach
zucchini
sweet potato
white potato
onion
carrot
tomato
peppers
broccoli
cabbage
corn
pumpkin
asparagus
green beans
celery

kommodevaran

Raw: Kohlrabi, rutabaga/swede, broccoli, cauliflower, romanesco, carrots, cucumber (fresh and pickled), beets (only fresh!), green salad (lettuce, romaine/cos, ruccola/rocket, every one), kale, asparagus.
Prepared: Potato, sweet potato, onion, garlic (more of a herb/spice, maybe), celery, parsnip, celeriac(celery root)/parsley root, snap peas, squash/zucchini, pepper/paprika, butternut squash/pumpkin, corn, artichoke, mushrooms, green peas, green beans, spinach, edamame. I've not decided in brussel sprouts yet. Once slathered in butter it was really nice; other times just nasty. Oh, and Jerusalem artichoke. And canned tomatoes and beans, lol I'm editing too

bri170lb wrote: »

The only vegetable that I don't like is red beets. Ever since I was a kid. They just taste like dirt to me. I try them often. I really want to like them because they are so pretty.

Beets are a somewhat aquired taste, as they do have an earthy flavor. But it's not at all unpleasant.
You can try the yellow beet or chiogga beet first, they are even sweeter, and even prettier, have less earth flavor, and a lot less messy.

treehopper1987

Almost any vegetable I've tried, if prepared the right way is tasty. A lot of what we keep in our house:

spinach, carrots, peppers, onions, broccoli, cauliflower, beans of all sorts, potatoes...

recently I found I love Brussel sprouts.... We also occasionally use bok choy, chard, kale, water chestnuts, garlic, tomatoes have to be cooked (no way around this for me)

I have been trying to find recipes for squash and sweet potatoes to like them

I guess you could say I like to experiment with what I have at hand...

healthy_hermione

All of them pretty much. I buy bags of mixed vegetables. Corn, peas, carrots, green beans, Broccolli, lots of beans, etc

Lourdesong

I love veggies. Even the one's that aren't my favorites, if on my plate or in my fridge I'd still eat them or figure out a way to incorporate them into a dish in an unobtrusive way, e.g. kale, purple cabbage.

Staples in our fridge/freezer though are green cabbage, spinach, carrots, onions and chives, celery, potatoes, peas, garlic. I also buy squash and rutabaga fairly regularly. I do enjoy looking the produce section for interesting and new-to-me imports.

HeidiCooksSupper

We about 1/2 fill our cart with veggies before we leave the produce aisle. This week's haul included yellow summer squash, sweet potatoes, russet potatoes, celery, carrots, green cabbage, red cabbage, mushrooms, red bell peppers, green bell peppers, radishes, leaf lettuce, spinach, ... oh, and a bag of onions to layer under the turkey to provide steam.

I usually have on hand parsley (curly and Italian), cilantro, etc. but they looked lousy this week. We'll "satisfice" with winter-hardy marjoram from the pot out front and some frozen basil from last summer's pots. Also ginger and garlic.

And Steamfresh frozen veggies were two-fer this week so restocked the freezer with corn, green beans, and peas.

Last week was our Trader Joe's week so I had 3 kinds of mushrooms: white, baby bella, and shitaki.

Hubby's idea of an evening snack is a big bowl of raw fresh veggies. He's lost 70 lbs. since we got married. Wish I could say the same. I've got to learn to think of veggies as a snack.