No, Seriously: How do you learn to eat vegetables?

Broccoli is by far our most loved vegetable.. boil with some garlic salt. -- Toss with olive oil and bake at 350f with a light sprinkle of salt/garlic salt until edges start to brown. -- Raw plain, or raw with ranch dressing to dip them in.

#2) Green beans - With a little olive oil and garlic salt.. baked in the oven at about 350f until a little crispy at the edges. -- Boil with garlic salt works fine too. -- They are pretty good raw.. good finger food when you're looking for a snack for watching a movie.

#3.) Boiled cabbage -- boil with some garlic salt. -- Cut into strips, toss with olive oil and black pepper and bake at 350f turning occasionally until a little soft, but you're not going for crispy with cabbage.

#4.) Turnip greens - I grow turnips just for the greens.. I cannot stand the actual turnip. Get water up to boil stuff the cut, de-stemmed, leaves in.. pack them down. Add garlic salt and some liquid smoke. Perfection.

#5.) Zucchini or yellow squash -- Skillet cook with either a little olive oil or 0-calorie butter spray (they sweat a lot so you don't need much of either), garlic salt and brown.

#6.) Collard greens -- Cook the same as turnip greens

#7.) Avocado -- Natures mayo. Mash and add a few drops of lemon juice to keep them from turning brown. Keep refrigerated and use quickly.. they go bad fast. High in calories though.. so use sparingly. I have been using avocado instead of mayo.. a lot of times I'll salt it. It's just a lower than mayo and I have to believe it's better for you.

#8.) Bell peppers -- Sautee on a skillet with olive oil and salt. Add to omelets.

#9.) Mushrooms w/onion -- Sautee on a skillet with olive oil and garlic salt.. these are heavenly.

#10.) Snow/snap peas. Kids just eat these raw until they are gone. This is like my kids substitute to chips.

Some veggies you can have as desserts. Yes, sweet! I love to take and chop butternut squash into 1/2 inch cubes, pan fry on low in a tsp of olive oil till tender then coat with a tsp of brommel and brown yogurt spread and a tsp of maple syrup, sprinkle with cinnamon and enjoy! or add a little brown sugar.

Also take one bunch of lacinato kale, remove ribs, chop, simmer covered on low in 1/2 in water till tender. Drain water then add in a tbs of brown sugar a tsp of brommel and brown, stir to coat till sugar is disolved. I like to top with toasted sesame seeds that I grind in a mortar and pestle and finely chopped candied ginger. I know this recipe sounds strange but I cooked it several days in a row after I first had it. Seared Ahi goes great with this.

I am simply horrified that any parent would raise their child without any vegetables in their diet.
I find that utterly shocking and sad.
I don't think hiding veggies and making them into juices and smoothies for kids is an ideal solution either, as then they will still grow up with an aversion to eating veggies.
Fortunately, my mother always gave us vegetables, and we never had any issues with eating them.

How did I learn?

step 1) Mother raised me right.

Vegetable subterfuge for most things and make yourself eat a little bit here and there on their own. I love vegetables but my husband is not a fan. Over the years I've snuck them into so many things he has no idea how many he's eaten! But I also present them in dishes where they are the main part or I present them solo. Over time he and the kids grew used to eating them and now even he likes some of them. He's not a veggie lover like I am but he will tolerate the majority and even likes a good salad or peppers and onions in things.

Hide them as much as you can so you can get them in.
Repeated exposure will wear you down over time.

You may never love them but you might grow to enjoy some of them. Experiment with cooking or eating them raw too because it completely changes taste and texture. Everyone in my family will gulp down a big green smoothie as long as they taste fruity so I blend all kinds of greens into those. Soups, pureed and used in breads and muffins, pureed and hidden in soup or finely chopped and hidden in casserole type dishes all work for hiding vegetables.

This sounds really stupid... But I actually convinced myself that I liked broccoli. I read an article a few years ago that the brain can be quite "dumb" sometimes and if you tell yourself something over and over again, it is possible to actually start believing it! I decided to try it on a whim because I hated broccoli but I did need to eat some healthy vegetables (I grew up only liking meats and fatty foods). I never expected it to actually work but it did and now I love having broccoli! I still have a strong dislike of some vegetables such as mushrooms and eggplants, but no one ever said you had to like all of them

As some other people have already said, I found vegetables really easy to eat when you cut them into really fine pieces and hide them in with other food as well.

most people don't get texture issues with foods. I have them too so I get it.

If you like them with butter, keep eating them with butter. Just measure it and count the calories. A little fat helps veggies absorb better.

Try roasting veggies like butternut squash and sweet potatoes in just a little coconut oil, cinnamon, and sweetener. It doesn't take much of any of them.

Think about the fancy restaurants in your area. Look up their menus online, see what looks good, and then do some googling to figure out how to make it.

Keep trying different kinds of vegetables, cooked in different ways, with different spices, until you find what you like. Really, there are lots and lots of different kinds of vegetables in the world, with different tastes, textures and nutrient values. Look up recipes, there are gazillions on the interwebs, keep experimenting until you find what you like.

There is a lot of great advice here on how to make delicious vegetables dishes, but I think the fundamental problem here is that you need to realize eating isn't all about satisfying your pallet--it's about getting nutrients. We're living in this society where we only want to do what we find pleasing (and there is soooo many self gratifying options that makes this drive very easy to fulfill), and we totally forget that sometimes there are important qualities in the world other than those that we prefer.

Yes, a lot of it IS yummy, but you can't just cut out an entire food group because it's displeasing---that's like allowing kids to stay up late all night and eat candy because they'd rather do that then brush their teeth and go to bed. The best way to learn to like vegetables is to change your expectations and conceptions about food.

I love vegetables. Just do. But there are some I don't like so I don't eat them. I only like cooked carrots so I only eat cooked carrots. I only like cooked cauliflower so I only eat it cooked. I don't like brussels sprouts so I only eat them on thanksgiving when my mom roasts them with bacon (I will eat almost anything with bacon,lol). I love stirfry, I love sliced bell peppers, I love tomatoes and sliced onion in a salad. I LOVE sweeet potatoes any way, particularly roasted and dusted with cinnamon. I love spinach, either the baby variety in a salad or cooked with other veg. in a pan so I eat it a lot (or even scrambled into an egg or two).