Do you eat as many veggies now as your mother made you?

Ralphy1

Ralphy1

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I remember not being able to leave the table until the veggie of the day was eaten at the evening meal, these might be peas, carrots, or spinach. Now I eat more and less of the potatoes and meat that I would find on my plate as a child...
 

When I was a kid we had to eat our veggies to get dessert. I hated most of them, but I did like green beans, raw carrots, raw peppers, celery, corn, beets. That's about it.

I eat a TON of veggies now, every day. I eat a big salad daily which includes spinach leaves, tomato, cucumber, pepper, celery and sometimes radishes. Dinners are usually a vegetarian curry/chili made with some of the following veggies: aubergine/eggplant, courgette/zucchini, onions, peppers, cauliflower, green beans, asparagus, pumpkin, sweet potato, peas, mangetout, etc. I should eat more broccoli (not good in our curries).
 
I can still remember some awful veggie battles with my mom when I was young. You had to finish everything on your plate. I think broccoli and brussel sprouts were my least favorites; they'd make me gag trying to get them down. Now, part of it was probably that my mom was not the best cook. Lots of these vegetables were just awful, heated right out of a can or a jar or a frozen package.

Today I'm more adventurous, but still probably could do better. We were out for dinner at a friend's home recently and she served roasted brussel sprouts. They weren't bad. Who knew???
 

Bobw235 said:
I can still remember some awful veggie battles with my mom when I was young. You had to finish everything on your plate. I think broccoli and brussel sprouts were my least favorites; they'd make me gag trying to get them down. Now, part of it was probably that my mom was not the best cook. Lots of these vegetables were just awful, heated right out of a can or a jar or a frozen package.

Today I'm more adventurous, but still probably could do better. We were out for dinner at a friend's home recently and she served roasted brussel sprouts. They weren't bad. Who knew???
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My mom overcooked veggies and they were usually out of a can. Peas from a can - gag! I didn't realize peas were good until I had some fresh ones as a adult. I didn't even try brussel sprouts until I married my Scot - he makes them perfectly.
 
We kids had a trick to find out if eating the veggies were worth whatever was for dessert. We'd ask my mom what was for dessert, but usually she wouldn't tell us. So we'd nose around the kitchen to see what there was - cake, ice cream, pie, etc or was it just some fruit cocktail out of a can.
 
I like fresh veggies steamed or stir fried till crisp. I think many of our mothers over cooked them way back when. I know my mom did and I did, too, until I learned better. I didn't care for food at all when I was young and ate what I had to.
 
My mother belonged to what I called "The Glasgow school of cookery". She boiled everything to within an inch of its life and probably poured most of the nutrients down the sink. I'm a devout omnivore, but probably eat a lot more veges now. I cook everything (with the exception of peas and beans) from fresh.

Apologies to all Weegies who cook properly.
 
Capt Lightning said:
My mother belonged to what I called "The Glasgow school of cookery". She boiled everything to within an inch of its life and probably poured most of the nutrients down the sink. I'm a devout omnivore, but probably eat a lot more veges now. I cook everything (with the exception of peas and beans) from fresh.

Apologies to all Weegies who cook properly.
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My husband who grew up in Glasgow said his mother did not overcook the veggies, but usually stretched them by making a soup. She would make kale, cabbage, swede, carrots, peas, butterbeans, tomatoes.
 
I hated veggies as a kid. My Mom was slick, once the food was put on my plate I had to eat the ones I hated first and she knew exactly which ones they were. Looking back it seems to me she even doubled up on the portions of most hated veggies. As some of you mentioned I think it was the method of cooking that didn't help. They were boiled into a gray mush. No such thing as tender crisp. Moms idea of a salad was some lettuce with mayo. I don't think it was just my Moms way of cooking. I have a collection of very old cookbooks. All of them advise cooking the heck out of vegetables. One mentioned boiling peas for at least 20 minutes. Today, I love all veggies and nothing better than a huge chefs salad with every conceivable vegetable. A little olive oil and balsamic vinegar and I am in 7th heaven.
 
I was a picky eater to begin with, and like Ruth, hated veggies. Many times my mother would make me sit there at the table when everyone left until I at least ate some of the vegetables....well, that usually ended with her getting disgusted with me and sending me away on a bad note. Even now I'm not crazy about veggies, but I do eat them much more often than I did when I was young and prepare them a little more interestingly than they did back in the day.
 
My mother used to make broth that you could stand your spoon upright in. This type of cooking suited her as you could just chuck everything in a pot and boil it till it attained a uniform texture! I wonder who taught her to cook? Father had an allotment and grew a lot of our own vegetables. In later years, he acquired two large greenhouses and a consignment of damaged glass panes. Being a glazier to trade, he restored the greenhouses and grew large quantities of tomatoes and other salad vegetables. He also had a grape vine in one.

We grow as many veges as we can, and we also help our friends who own a market garden. We get paid with organic vegetables and fresh free range eggs. Together we also have raised our own traditional breed pigs for pork, and recently they have started to establish a flock of pedigree sheep.
 
Yes, I eat plenty of veggies now and my mom used to have a plentiful veggie garden when we were growing up and we had good stuff which was expertly prepared.
 
As a kid I hated brussel sprouts, broccoli, egg plant, squash, cauliflower, rutabaga, but loved corn, spinach, string beans, potatoes.

As a adult now, Ireally like ALL veggies except rutabaga.

My mother found out that I would eat any veggie if it had a cheese sauce of some kind.
 
When I was a kid we ate basic vegetables that could be grown in our area. This time of year we had many, many meals that I call farm stand dinners. Sweet corn, new potatoes, cabbage, beets, etc... as cooked vegetables and a basic salad of cucumbers or tomatoes in AC vinegar with salt, pepper and a dash of sugar.

Today I still eat a considerable amount of low carb vegetables. I really miss the fresh peas in the spring and the new potatoes in the fall!
 
We had a huge vegetable garden growing up. Most nights it was just vegetables at dinner. I never liked cooked cabbage growing up (I guess it was the smell), but I love it now. Still cannot stomach beets! I guess I am from the "old school"...dinner consists of a meat, a vegetable and a starch.
 
I eat a huge amount of vegetables now, and have for most of my life. I guess I'd class myself as a semi-vegetarian, as I eat very little meat and almost no red meat at all.

I like most all vegetables except eggplant (it's the texture), rutabagas, and I'm not fond of cooked cabbage, either. I eat it raw, though, in salads. Don't eat canned veggies if I can help it, with the exception of corn (as an ingredient in something) and chickpeas (garbanzos) and sometimes pinto beans as an ingredient in something else if I don't have the time or energy to cook them myself.

I like vegetables in stir fries, or steamed crisp, or grilled, pretty much any way but boiled. Fresh tomatoes from the garden -- yum!
 
I love veggies. They are my favorite. I eat more veggies than my family ever did I believe, though they always had them at every meal except breakfast. I can't think of a vegetable I don't like if it's prepared the way I like. I tend to prefer green veggies.
 

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