Suggestions for a picky eater?

Anything in particular you don't like about vegetables?

Commonly people don't tend to like them as much because their only experience with them are like... sad boiled carrot pea mixes or iceberg lettuce or something so experimenting with different ways to prepare them and combinations should help in that case. Other than that you could always add them in with other foods such as omelettes or blend them into a smoothie so they don't have to be the meal base at all.

Well, cutting them into very small pieces and mixing them in with either beef or chicken into a stir fry helped me include lots more vegetables into my diet. It's a lot easier than just trying to eat plain vegetables, I think, and hot vegetables are usually more filling and tasty and satisfying than a cold salad.

Also, changing the taste with things like spices (I put black and cayenne pepper in pretty much all my vegetables), olive oil, or soy sauce (of debatable and varied healthiness, but it makes vegetables soo good!) can help make them a lot easier to get down.

Speaking of soy sauce, have you tried bean sprouts? It may be you just don't like the vegetables you've been eating. Like, there are some vegetables with easier-to-stomach tastes and textures? For example butternut squash tastes almost exactly like sweet potatoes, and I don't know if I've ever met anyone who doesn't like carrots. I mean, they're so sweet they may as well be a fruit, but they do have lots of vitamins, so it's better than nothing. My parents used to shred them and soak them in lemon juice for me when I was sick.

Have you tried cooking them in different ways? Or eating them raw? Like, cooked cabbage is disgusting, but raw cabbage is actually pretty edible. Tastes like lettuce, kind of. Raw broccoli, on the other hand, tastes like bad breath. I don't know how people can eat it raw. Depending on whether you oven-roast, pan-fry, steam, or boil vegetables, they end up tasting really different.

Finally, there may be some vegetables you really really just can't stand, and even if you do choke them down, they'll make you sick. I can't eat anything in the melon family, for example, including cucumber. If you eat foods you're kind of not fond of, you may eventually develop a taste for them, but I'd say don't push yourself to eat foods you really detest.

In winter, I find it easiest to get a good serving of vegetables in soups. So many different soups and I find I will like any vegetable in a soup.

The same can be said for stir frys and I also find I like vegetables better in salad, but I don't eat salad as much in the winter.

I'll also eat vegetarian recipes where veggies have been substituted for meat. A lot of times the way the veggies are prepared in those dishes you can't taste them.

Other than that, explore and find what vegetables you like and how you like them prepared. There's tons of different vegetables out there and tons of different ways to prepare them.

Here's a personal anecdote that might help you:

I used to hate virtually all vegetables. If I did eat any, it'd be either corn or peas. After the revised recommendations came out stating that we should have "5 cups" of fruit and veg/day, I decided to start making green smoothies. I started with a 3:2 ratio of fruit:veg, which did a very good job of masking the bitter flavor of the greens I was adding (kale, spinach, celery, etc). I started gradually adjusting the ratio until I got to 3:2 veg:fruit. After about 3-4 weeks of drinking these green smoothies regularly, I started to crave vegetables of all kinds. I now eat and enjoy vegetables on a daily basis. (I still make the smoothies as well, but not as often.)