You parents out there, how do you get your kids to eat vegetables?

Take a spaghetti squash and throw a little brown sugar on the bastard.

If they don't like that your kids are demons and you should probably trade them for bitcoin.

I'm actually an excellent cook, nice crisp broccoli with butter and a little seasons salt, its delicious, they just don't like it.

Yes u have to start them eating vegetables at the beginning...they will love them

Don't ruin my steak with no god damn PEAS though!

TOO LATE.

IF THEY WERE EATING WHAT YOU WERE FEEDING THEM WHEN THEY WERE FIRST STARTING ON SOLID FOOD, THEY'D ALREADY BE EATING EVERYTHING YOU WANT THEM TO.

IF YOU CAN GARDEN INVOLVING THEM IS ALWAYS A HUGE HOOK. KIDS WILL TRY THINGS THAT THEY GREW AND HARVESTED.

you do the same, tard.

Do they like eggrolls?
How about fried zucchini and ranch dip (spicy or not).
Would they like tempura vegetables with teriyaki?
If you can get past the "all vegetables bad" thing you can make some headway.

If they won't try vegetable dishes, don't give then a lot of attention or offer alternatives. Set the food aside from when they actually get hungry.

You keep it crisp too?

Occam wins again, your kids are just brats.

This is it.
Cooking it right is usually the problem.

raw veggies taste good, carrots, green beans, peas, corn, even potatoes.

But then people cook them and they lose their sweetness. When you overcook them (like canned peas & canned carrots) they start to become bitter. Ever have boiled potatoes-yuk.

GENTLY cook them. just to make them a little soft so they are easy to digest.

And you can always put them in cake, bread, muffins... Who hasn't had CARROT cake or ZUCHINI or BANANA bread?

She would cook them in the microwave! :puke:

too late and ima continue

I personally dislike brussel sprouts if they are just boiled, but fried brussel sprouts with garlic and "greek" spice, for example, is rather nice - just need to chop em in half and fry.

Thanks for your input bro.

You could always try throwing a bit of cheese on.

Don't let them grate cheddar on everything or you'll end up with heifers, but a can of parmesan might do the trick

This

Kids are people too... Too many choices keeps people confused.

Consider The Choices... People choose what they know how to do.

Poutine eating megapleb.

And finally when my picky eater son began trying new foods, we went to a seafood restaurant...turns out he's allergic to shellfish, so I wonder if, on some unconscious level, he was a picky eater because he "knew" he had an allergy...thankfully it's not severe...

Last Edited by BRIEF on 08/11/2020 04:22 PM

Oh ya a veg party platter with a good dip might be handy. Or you can do semi-good things like cheese-wiz celery sticks teehee

You are setting your kids to fail by poisoning them.

Oven roasted vegetables, add cheese and seasoning.

Fried veggies, okra, potatoes, green tomatoes, and squash are the best fried

Grilled vegetables, buttered and seasoned, skewers/ shish kebabs

Raw vegetables, dipping sauces (ranch, sour cream, cheese dip)

Make casseroles, soups, chilis, omlettes, and add vegetables.

Grow a garden with them! It makes them proud to eat the veggies they helped grow and care for. Let them help cook them also, they can add dashes of seasoning or sprinkle cheese, etc

My son has never liked beans or squash. He will only eat beans in chili or green peas in cottage pie. I despise corn but I'll eat it in a Mexican dish/casserole. My daughter loves all types of veggies. Everyone is different.

S'all good bro.

That was what my sister - who raised three - would always say!

I never liked vegtables until I joined the army.

They worked our asses off and served meals full of veg tables and things I'd never liked, like onions, and I scarfed that shit down like I was saving my life.

Now I love veggies man.

Well, it really should be had from a street stand sort of deal for a really authentic taste.. most restaurant poutines are kind of meh. You need the right cut of thick deep fried fries, the right kind of cheese curds, and the right sort of meaty gravy, for the basic poutine. Then of course you can always throw bacon and stuff on it too, to fancy it up, but eh!

Serious, if the kids are meat eaters - make a beef gravy from drippings, carmelized scrapings, flour, butter and beef stock, and have them dip romaine lettuce, celery, lightly steamed broccoli or string beans in that.

Some kids hate green veggies because their parents can't cook for shit, btw. Broccoli tastes horrid raw, but even worse if it's overcooked. Veggies should be green, not grey-brown.

hide them i.e. in meatloaf carrot celery onion diced very fine saute in pan let cool and add to meatloaf

They can be hidden in sauces. gravy etc puree in blender

hide puree in spaghetti sauce

the possibilities are endless on the trickery

Yea I had a love/hate relationship with veggies before starting the gourmet vegetarian cooking job - I'd basically just boil 'em or fry em plain, and that was meh, so I barely bothered making an effort. I also found that my pallete has changed as I got older, wherein things like cabbage rolls used to disgust me as a kid, now I think on them fondly and miss mom's recipe lol

Heart attack on a plate isn't what I'm going for, which is why I don't fry many vegetables, just always seemed to defeat the purpose to me.

Fried squash and fried green tomatoes are really good though.

Yes that's exactly what I meant.. the fast food poutines are barely poutines.. wrong sort of gravy, wrong kind of fries, most likely the wrong kind of cheese. Even McDonalds has a poutine, but iissh, it's pretty terrible!

I've heard that KFC gravy could be pretty decent for a poutine, but I haven't had KFC in decades so I don't remember!