Of course I was a picky eater. I say it was because my parents didn't know how to cook. I still can't stand canned vegtables.
You are better off without the canned vegetables, preservatives (including sodium), and water that has the nutrients.
Thank you so much for posting a positive article about education. FReepers will find some reason to say this is bad, wrong, horrible or abusive.
I loved vegetables as a kid, as long as they were raw or lightly cooked. Chinese food was good, as they knew how to cook vegetables without turning them into mush. I still prefer veggies cooked just enough to make them tender. Canned veggies? Yuck! Frozen are OK, though.
Not recipes this time, but a good article about children growing their own veggies to encourage them to eat them.
Why do you have to cook perfectly good veggies?
No doubt her experiences were shaped by the Great Depression.
Note! the vegetables are strictly ornamental.
All that "organic" crap is contaminated with all kinds of nasty third world bacteria.
I'll take mine picked, packed and canned by robots, thank you.
We like canned, we like fresh, we like frozen.
I ate veggies growing up, and my kids (and hubby) eat them also. They have no choice , not that they really try not to anyway. I never made a big deal, and since we eat them and don't make faces etc., they just consider it part of the meal.
I grew up w/ 3 older brothers, and we were on the poor side, so when the food went on the table, you were hungry and you ate, no matter what it was.
Lots of canned veggies etc also growing up. And worked in the garden weeding and such every Saturday morning, after breakfast and before cartoons. And onions in the pantyhose, lol, hanging under the house.
Kids in English speaking countries have traditionally hated vegetables because they have good taste.
The unspeakable things one can do to vegetables by following pre-1980 Anglo-American means of cooking them are truly vile. (Does anyone remember the deadly pressure cooker? and what it did to perfectly wholesome greens, turning them into grey vitamin-free mush with only the nasty-tasting fraction of their natural flavor left in?) Quite frankly I still hate vegetables the way my mother cooked them.
LOL you too? (the hard one was mid-bite and her asking if "Babe" was bacon... ). Also... we read her a book called Little Pea (she hated peas), about a little pea in a pea family who hated the family dinner - candy, candy, candy, but ate it all so she could have her favorite dessert: spinach. My daughter tried a sweet pea later and decided that "all peas eat candy!"