Help eating more veggies

It's pretty easy. Just eat them. same thing I tell people that need to drink more water - just drink more water. It's really not that hard. seriously, you can't tell me that every vegetable tastes bad to you. Experiement with different vegetables, and different cooking styles. I love raw carrots, but recently tried roasted carrots, and found out I LOVE them My veggies of choice (though I eat pretty much all of them) are zucchini, sweet potatoes, broccoli, butternut squash, spaghetti squash, peppers, mushrooms, peas, green beans, beets, etc.

I also put kale & canned pumpkin in my protein shakes on a regular basis.

Avoid any veggies (frozen) that are covered in any kind of 'sauce' or seasoning. they are loaded with sodium.

The suggestion to make soup is a good one. I big pot of vegetable soup is really delicious this time of year and this is from someone who was never a big veggie eater as a kid. The flavors of all the vegetables blend together so it doesn't taste like any particular vegetable. Plus cooking changes the texture so that might help you some.

Other ways I enjoy veggies:
A cup of steamed broccoli florets on top of my baked potato, with just a little cheddar cheese for flavor
Tossing steamed green beans with a little rice vinegar, sesame oil, and soy sauce
There are some good recipes to add spinach to Italian dishes such a lasagne.

Good luck! I really didn't like veggies as a kid. I remember sitting at the table crying because I didn't want to eat lima beans. Now I find that I miss them if I don't get a few on a regular basis.

I buy bags of frozen mixed vegetables, and stir them into just about anything. Pasta with marinara sauce... and a cup of "Italian Blend" veg. Teriyaki rice... and a cup of "Peking Blend" veg. Pepper and onion stir fry and black beans with Mexican rice. Yadda yadda yadda.

I get lots of vegetables, they pretty much just taste like whatever sauce or marinade I cooked with, and since they're in frozen, I don't end up with a bag of fuzzy moldy glop in my refrigerator if I forget to eat them. Plus, most bags are about $2 a pound (especially if you buy store brand) which is better than the cost of most fresh vegetables.

Well can you give us some examples of what you're eating now?

Try seasoning veggies, steaming them, baking them, ect...think of the vegetables you already like and incorporate them. I'm veg so I eat them alot, of course, like you, there was a time I didn't eat many of them at all..

Try making green smoothies. I get tones of green veggies in my diet that way.

Ditto this. I was never vegetable-averse, but in the past the only way I could think of to consume enough vegetables was in a salad form... and man did I ever get tired of chewing an entire bowl of leaves. A year and a half ago my boyfriend and I invested in a Vita-Mix, and now we have a green smoothie every day with dinner. I think we based it off Dr. Oz's recipe, and it contains:

1/2 cucumber
3 sticks of celery
1-2 cups of spinach
Few sprigs of parsley
1 apple
1/2 to 1 avocado
Chunk of raw ginger
Chunk of raw turmeric
1 tbsp each lemon and lime juice
Enough water to blend

At the beginning, we had to add a bunch of grapes to it because it was a little too bitter and astringent, but now we just drink it as above... it's gotten to the point where I find having grapes in it makes it taste almost too sugary. We drink this just before or just after dinner, because it is pretty filling, and I find it totally refreshing and rehydrating now. You could also start with half that recipe and see how it goes. I find it much, MUCH easier to drink my veggies than to eat them, plus it boosts my water intake too!

The way I learned was to hide them in things I do like and to doctor them up really well.

Blend some carrots into your spaghetti sauce. Mix other veggies with mashed potatoes. Eat a whole lot of Ranch dressing with each bite. Eventually (and doesn't take long), you get used to the taste and you can back off of the doctoring up and hiding.

I now eat carrots raw, tons of salad, broccoli, cabbage, etc. For the first 25 years of my life I was a corn and potatoes girl.

Roasting veggies is a great way to eat them (put veggies in a pan with a bit of olive oil/salt/pepper, preheat oven to 400, and cook until tender and lightly browned). Invest in some really awesome veggie cookbooks. You can find a lot at your local library. My favorites are:

Love Soup by Anna Thomas
The Vegetarian Epicure by Anna Thomas
Appetite for Reduction by Isa Moskowitz
Vegan with a Vengeance by Isa Moskowitz
Plenty by Yotam Ottolenghi

It sounds like you lack confidence in your ability to deal with vegetables, not only in eating them, but also in shopping for them, choosing what to buy, how to cook it - the whole catastrophe. I recommend you think of a type of food that you love. Do you love French food? Buy a comprehensive French cookbook - something that covers soup to nuts - and start making the vegetable recipes from page 1. Just take the 1st recipe with vegetables in it, and make it. You'll know how to make it healthier by leaving out most of the fat, for instance. Then, later that week, gather up your courage and make the next recipe. This way you'll be trying out new vegetables, in a flavor (ie, French) that you already know you love. And don't skimp on the spices. Whatever the recipe calls for, buy those spices. The spices really make the recipes sing. Spices are expensive, but once you have a collection in your kitchen, you won't have to keep buying them and they do last a long time. Check out clearance sections in bookstores - they usually have a lot of cookbooks with big colorful photos in them on clearance, especially after Christmas (because people often buy big photo cookbooks as gifts). If you like Italian, buy an Italian cookbook. If you're not sure what you like, I recommend the Joy of Cooking because it is so comprehensive, with simple recipes. If you keep making each recipe in turn, by December 2013, you'll have confidence to be able to "toss things together" the way previous posters here are describing.

I struggle with the same thing; I'm not a huge veggie fan, but I'm slowly learning to find what I like, make them so I like them, and eat more of them. I think the biggest thing, though, is actually buying them and putting them in the fridge on the shelf right at eye level so it's the first thing I see when I open it up. When I get home from the grocery store, I portion out the raw veggies that I like (I've found I really like baby carrots and snow peas) into baggies to pack for lunches for the week. I add in spinach or some mixed veggies into pasta sauce. I add in spinach to my egg white omelets (and add feta cheese or salsa). I've been making my lunches, and the main thing I make is chicken tenders (skinless, baked) with frozen veggies (there are SO many kinds that are lightly sauced- cheesy, teryaki (sp?), tuscan or asian spiced).

Good luck to you!!!

Roasting, roasting, roasting. They are amazing that way

Cauliflower, sweet potatoes, squash, asparagus, parsnips, carrots. They are all AMAZING roasted, just google roasted <insert veggie here> to get a solid recipe!

also smoothies are good too

try this: (it may be a little high in calories but it will give you tonnes of nutrients)

Orange juice
frozen mango or blueberries or what ever you like
a banana
1/4 avocado
hand full of baby spinach

blend it all up till its smooth... YUM