I have a two-and-a-half year old boy, who is extremely picky and doesn’t eat many different types of food. However, he loves to help out in the kitchen, even with dishes he won’t eat. One dish he’ll help prepare AND eat is sweet potatoes – I’ll slice them, while he lays them on a cooking sheet. Then I’ll help him brush them with olive oil, sprinkle them with brown sugar and bake them. It’s so fun to see how proud he is of himself when they’re done. :)

We love to cook green beans and make a fresh basil pesto to go over the top of them. My kids gobble them up!

this probably sounds weird but I make pinto beans and cornbread, fried yellow squash, and mustard greens. The beans and greens sit on the stove all day till I’m ready to make the squash and corn bread.

Right now, we’re in the middle of garden season – so the kids love going out to the garden and picking zucchini, tomatoes, edamames, and whatever else they can find. We love figuring out new ways to make vegetables fun with seasonings, spices, and different ways to prepare them. When they come up with ideas…they will always eat their creations!

I have strange kids and they love just about any type o veggies. Broccoli is their favorite.

My 2 yr old gal and love making zucchini boats for dinner…slice a zucchini lengthwise, scrape out the seeds, add finely chopped veggies, top with cheese and bake about 40 minutes. Even my husband says YUM!

I love making sweet potato fries for my family. Just chop them up, drizzle with a little olive oil and then pop them in the oven. You can eat them alone, with ketchup or (my personal fave) homemade apple butter. Everyone loves them, but I especially do because they’re actually healthy!

Trees are my kids favorite (aka broccoli). Corn on the Cob is also huge in my family. My youngest comes up for air with her little face covered with corn bits… adorable to see.

Our family loves all the vegetables: we eat them at every meal, alternating those cooked (I like chicory boiled and pan-fried with garlic oil and rosemary, chard boiled and seasoned with oil and lemon, fried eggplant, zucchini casserole, pickled peppers, sautéed mushrooms, potatoes steamed or baked, cauliflower au gratin, etc..) to the raw, delicious salads such as tomato, cucumber, red onion with basil, or salads of lettuce and radicchio.
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my family’s favorite vegetable to eat is mixed greens. Collards, mustard turnip and kale. i cannot get them prepared fast enough before some one wants a sample plate…this has been the case while my kids were growing up and now when my grandkids come over they enjoy them too

My new favorite…..OKRA. Roasted in the oven-removes the “slimy” texture. It is fabuolus.

I have a Farmer’s Market vegetable lasagna that I like to pack full of veggies like spinach, summer squash and carrots. The kids seem to like it.

My 3 year old son is a picky eater, but when he gets the opportunity to pick a veggie from our garden (tomato, green pepper, beans) and then help make a dish with it (like veggie lasagna or toss some into his grilled cheese) he will eat it!

Was there a winner chosen? I haven’t seen it posted yet!