I'm talking plants for eating so eating CROS doesn't qualify.

Green veggies like peas, green beans, asparagus, broccoli, corn and carrots and cauliflower (although not green would still qualify), brussels sprouts, and others that you want to add...

Veggies that you would eat as a side dish. Steamed, boiled, microwaved, grilled, roasted, blanched, etc.

Things like lettuce, sweet peppers and cucumbers would fall into the salad category so they are not on the table for this discussion.

I'd have to go with my top 5, in order, as:

- #1a, Peas. If not fresh then go frozen, not a fan of mushy canned peas.
- #1b, Green beans. Again, if not fresh then go frozen. Canned green beans if zombie apocalypse. I can do canned green beans if needed.
- #2 Corn. Best is off the cob but if out of season, frozen corn and steamed would suffice as a replacement, canned corn is for making other stuff like soups. Not a big fan of canned corn since frozen corn is readily available.
- #3 Carrots (boiled and glazed), fresh. Canned carrots suck.
- #4 Broccoli (steamed). Fresh or frozen. Do they even sell canned Broccoli? If so not gonna try it.
- #5 Asparagus (grilled or roasted). Again, fresh. Not sure they sell frozen asparagus but I have seen them in cans and have no urge to try them.

My Top 5, not in any particular order:

Broccoli - raw, steamed or even microwaved
Carrots - raw or cooked in any fashion
Celery - prefer raw but okay as an ingredient in main dishes
Corn - on-the-cob with butter and salt
Green beans - any which way but raw

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Potatoes. Technically a vegetable. I'm counting it
Sweet peppers. I've eaten straight up as a side or snack. I deny your salad classification
Peas
Green beans
Summer squash

Various preps, but the best is sauteed in garlic butter. Not too much. I believe tender crisp is the term (not applicable to the taters). Though it detracts from the nutritional value somewhat.

Broccoli, red/orange/yellow peppers, carrots, potato, bok choy, cabbage... corn and peas.

Edit: How'd I forget spinach? Used to request it as a kid... because my sister hated it 😂.

Broccoli
Roma or Romano green beans
Sugar snap peas
Bicolor corn that I grow myself
Yellow summer squash dripping in butter

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#1 Spinach.
#2 Tomato (I know, it is a fruit).
#3 Sweet corn.
#4 Carrots.
#5 Potatoes.

I love'em all except okra, nope, it's ok in soup, but not steamed or boiled. Just do not overcook them.

Consider cooked celery, it's delicious, chard, and other greens besides spinach. Chayote, parsnips, and acorn squash are good too.

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I've never had Okra, probably one of the few veggies I haven't tried. I almost bought seeds once to grow some but decided no. I pretty much like everything else. Yesterday from the garden I grilled some Shi****o peppers, yellow squash, onions, and eggplant.

That reminds me, I've got chard in the garden right now that needs some harvesting.

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no love for cauliflower?
I roast cauli and/or broc a few times a week
also love asparagus roasted or steamed.
Brussels sprouts roasted as well.

greens like spinach, kale, chard...love them.

Pretty much a tie for all other veggies, except eggplant...has to be veeeery soft for me to eat.

See eggplant at farmer's market. Crosses my mind to buy one of those monsters.
By the size of it, it looks like a real time investment.

my father would put it on the grill untill the skin really puckered and would then scoop out the soft flesh, mix it up in a bowl with olive oil, salt and pepper, little garlic powder, sometimes some tahini and make his mother's version of baba ganoush...only his parents were from Romania and called it something very different, something like putlajan,
But it made for a healthy and tasty dip.

+1 on the complete and utter disdain for okra. That sheit is nasty. No, no, no and hell no.

Wife puts it in some of her dishes. She likes it... I can't stand it.

You could wrap it in bacon and Salma Hayek's boobies and I won't eat it. Okay, that was a lie.

Sounds like Eggplant Humus Frank. I think I'll do that.

There is always the classic Italian favorite too, Eggplant Parmesan

My wife makes eggplant parmigiana which is heavenly. She peels the eggplant, slices it into wafers, breads them in egg ad panko/Italian breadcrumbs then fries them before assembling the dish.

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