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.

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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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.

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

Roma or Romano green beans

Sugar snap peas

Bicolor corn that I grow myself

Yellow summer squash dripping in butter

#1 Spinach.

#2 Tomato (I know, it is a fruit).

#3 Sweet corn.

#4 Carrots.

#5 Potatoes.

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

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.

That's funny the CBID censor bot thinks S*H*I*S*H*I*T*O is a bad word. 😂

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.

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.

There is always the classic Italian favorite too, Eggplant Parmesan