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What are your 3 favourite vegetables and your 3 least favourite?

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nanna8 Mon 30-Sept-24 13:33:20

My Favourites are aubergine/ eggplant , good potatoes and broccolini
Least favourites are celery, silverbeet and those miniature sweetcorns you get in Chinese cooking.
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EkwaNimitee Mon 30-Sept-24 16:57:56

asparagus, purple sprouting broccoli, British green beans but I like most vegetables
Dislike aubergine, Jerusalem artichokes, okra

Cabbie21 Mon 30-Sept-24 17:17:45

Favourites: carrots, green beans especially runner beans freshly picked
Dislike: beetroot, mushrooms, spinach

Kim19 Mon 30-Sept-24 17:26:39

Yes to beetroot, cauliflower, onions.
Less enthusiasm for carrots, turnip, broad beans.

M0nica Mon 30-Sept-24 17:26:42

Favourites
All brassica, (the whole cabbage family)
All solanum (potatoes, tomatoes, aubergine)
All curcurbita (squashes, pumpkins, courgettes, cucumbers)

Hates
Fennel
Salsify
chillies

gulligranny Mon 30-Sept-24 17:27:04

I enjoy most vegetables but really dislike kale, broad beans and radishes (are they a vegetable?). I've never tried artichokes or okra.

valdavi Mon 30-Sept-24 17:44:27

favourite: aubergines
butternut squash
avacado
Not keen on okra, anything canned, mini sweetcorn

MissAdventure Mon 30-Sept-24 17:50:08

I love just boiled beetroot, so it's still very slightly warm. smile

MiniMoon Mon 30-Sept-24 18:51:02

My favourites; carrots, runner beans, cabbage

Least favourites; Brussels sprouts, broccoli, green peppers.

On the whole though, there aren't many vegetables I won't eat.

Grandmadinosaur Mon 30-Sept-24 18:59:23

Favourites

Asparagus
Beetroot
Cherry Tomatoes

Dislike rather than hate

Aubergine
Fennel
Okra

LisaAN Mon 30-Sept-24 19:13:31

Absolutely love fennel, freshly cooked beetroot and asparagus, preferably the white variety which seems very hard to come by in UK.

I like most other veg, but can’t stand courgette.

Oreo Mon 30-Sept-24 22:44:56

Love: carrots, potatoes and turnips/swedes ā¤ļø

Hate: celery, broccoli and courgettes 🤬

MayBee70 Mon 30-Sept-24 22:50:03

I can never understand why I like courgettes so much as they don’t taste much of anything and the texture ( or rather lack of it) leaves a lot to be desired. But I love them.

MayBee70 Mon 30-Sept-24 22:52:04

Grandmadinosaur

Favourites

Asparagus
Beetroot
Cherry Tomatoes

Dislike rather than hate

Aubergine
Fennel
Okra

My neighbour was going away for a while and gave me a bag of cherry tomatoes ( the ones that are a bit long and thin?) and they were so sweet I couldn’t stop eating them. I don’t usually like tomatoes.

Jane43 Mon 30-Sept-24 22:55:59

Favourites: runner beans, sprouts, tender stem broccoli
Least favourite: aubergine, marrow, broad beans

henetha Mon 30-Sept-24 23:28:37

Favourites are sprouts, cabbage and runner beans. I like plenty of others too.
Dislike broad beans, courgettes and aubergine.

gentleshores Mon 30-Sept-24 23:31:50

I like most vegetables so it's easier to think of ones I don't like!

1) Parsnips
2) Swede
3) That thing that tastes of aniseed (is it Fennel)?

Maybe a throwback to school dinners. But I do remember hating finding what looked like a roast potato was actually a sweet and soggy parsnip as a child.

Favourites:

1) Brussell sprouts - especially fresh from a sprout stick.
2) White Cabbage tossed in butter and black pepper (don't have it often as I hate chopping cabbage and no one else will eat it)
3) Spring greens - also done in butter and black pepper.

nanna8 Mon 30-Sept-24 23:54:43

Nice that I’m not the only one who doesn’t like celery! I can eat it but I have never managed to like it. My family like it so it isn’t hereditary. Not so bad if it is cooked.

Summerfly Tue 01-Oct-24 00:20:34

Rosie51

Like or am happy to eat all vegetables with the exception of aubergines and those small white turnips (described because I know some people refer to the orange vegetable I call swede as turnip) My favourites vary with season, so I couldn't possibly choose just 3 grin Tonight alongside a roast gammon I'll serve a roasted vegetable mix....celeriac, parsnip, potato, butternut squash and onions, with a side of carrot and swede mash. Love them all!

I’d love to come to your house for dinner Rosie. Love all vegetables, especially carrot and swede mash šŸ˜‹

Redhead56 Tue 01-Oct-24 01:27:13

I like carrot and turnip either cooked or raw beetroots the same and cabbage. I eat tomatoes like grapes with sea salt fennel celery and celeriac raw. Not mad about cauliflower or aubergines unless disguised in a sauce I have to be in the mood for broccoli. I grow beans of every description I usually preserve them as chutneys.
I love mushrooms but cooked especially with butter and garlic. I eat peppers raw so full of goodness I could not live without onions garlic and chilli.

HiPpyChick57 Tue 01-Oct-24 12:03:27

I love all veg but if I really had to choose I’d say potatoes cooked in any way shape or form.
Sprouts and cabbage.
Least fave is broad beans but I have been known to eat a few of they’re on my plate.

Frenchgalinspain Tue 01-Oct-24 12:05:29

Favourites:

Green beans
Aubergine
Fennel

Dislikes:

Brussel sprouts
Squash - butternut / pumpkin / acorn squash

recklessgran Tue 01-Oct-24 12:10:16

Favourites
Runner beans
Spring greens
Sprouts

Don't like;
Sweetcorn
Courgettes
Pumpkin [sorry not sure if fruit or veg?]

TheWeirdo Tue 01-Oct-24 12:15:13

LOVES: Peas peas and more peas!

Spinach - not the tinned sort which I tried years ago and it was disgusting and made me physically sick!

Cucumber

YUCK: Aubergine

Asparagus

Anything picked

Gherkins

Piccalilli

NotSpaghetti Tue 01-Oct-24 12:18:20

I wonder why so many dislike aubergines?

Can someone tell us please?

MissInterpreted Tue 01-Oct-24 12:26:49

NotSpaghetti

I wonder why so many dislike aubergines?

Can someone tell us please?

I like them, and I tend to use them in Turkish or Greek recipes. I think they're often overcooked, or cooked badly and that's what puts people off - mind you, the same could be said for a lot of vegetables. Aubergines do tend to absorb a lot of oil, so sometimes they can end up very greasy or mushy. Maybe that's why some people don't like them.