Learning to like raw veggies?

maryannprt wrote: »

aeloine wrote: »

TeaBea wrote: »

Snap peas are by far my favorite raw veggie.

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A bit of a stretch - but I grew up eating green jello with an assortment of chopped veggies. Celery, cabbage and shredded carrot. Orange jello with shredded carrot & crushed pineapple.

(More) convenient cooked veggies? I bring fresh green beans to work and steam them 3.5 minutes in a ZipLock Zip-N steam or Glad-Simply Cooking bag.....rinse and reuse.

wat?

Jell-O with vegetables? Carrots and pineapple??? Are we not going to talk about this?

Honey, we don't want to talk about it. Those of us who lived it are still trying to forget.

I wouldn't say that, personally. I was alive for the heyday (b. 1955). Weird, but not always disgusting.

I kind of think lemon and lime Jello of that era may have been a little less sweet (or maybe just less strongly flavored). I'm not totally sure, because I haven't tasted it lately . . . I've been vegetarian since 1974, and Jello isn't.

People around here still make foods (salads? dunno what to call them!) that mix things like cottage cheese, fruit, cool whip, and Jello - not a molded thing like the old ones, but soft. Does nowhere else have these? I obviously don't eat them (knowingly!) but others seem to like them. (As an aside, I don't even consider Cool Whip a food. Yuck!)

Back on topic: OP, maybe start with lightly cooked (steamed or blanched) veggies, and work your way toward raw. Or try things you've never had before, so don't have preconceptions about - I dunno, maybe celeriac, jicama, hakurei turnips, . . . ? These days, you can go to a big produce market, see something you've never had, look it up on your phone to see how to eat it, and buy it. What's the worst that can happen? It's a fun, cheap adventure!

dip, its all about the dip.

Savory vegetable aspics (essentially, veggies in homemade gelatin cooked from animal parts) was a fancy thing long before Jello was invented. Of course, the Jello people looked for ways to encourage people to buy and eat more Jello, so they ran recipes on packages and in ads for updated aspics using fruits and sweet-friendly vegetables (and fruits),since the Jello flavors were all on the sweet side. They fell out of fashion partly as they became associated with past decades and older generations, and partly because people started shaming each other for food shortcuts that relied on packaged convenience foods (only to start eating way more carry-out than the generations that used the convenience food shortcuts alongside a home-cooked protein, a home-cooked starch, and probably at least one other home-cooked veggie). A lot of the recipes were made with mayonnaise or mayo-esque "salad dressing," or marshmallows, I suspect because they were the product of Kraft recipe developers or Kraft recipe contests that required you to use at least three Kraft products.

Try blanching your veggies then eating them chilled. They'll be neither too soft nor too hard, but chilled like raw veggies would be. I've done this with carrots, cauliflower, broccoli and green beans.