Veggie side dishes my kids will eat

Just keep serving them. Kids are hardwired to prefer sweet tastes to bitter ones, so carrots, corn and sweet peas will likely be "gateway" vegetables to more bitter ones like broccoli and spinach. Their tastes will evolve over time. You could try roasting broccoli, cauliflower, etc., which carmelizes the natural sugar in the vegetables and might make them more palatable to your kids.

This is just my opinion, but I don't see any point in covering vegetables in sweet, salty or fatty sauces to make kids like them. You're ruining the health value and the kids still aren't developing an actual taste for vegetables.

I mix them into almost everything I cook. Chili, spaghetti sauce, stir fry, fried rice, and pasta all have extra veggies when I cook them. My kids love raw vegetables, so I often put out a plate with a mix.

Do your kids like Mexican food? I like lots of vegetables in burritos, mexican rice, and tacos. I made a really yummy quinoa mexican casserole the other day that was filled with vegetables that I found here. quinoa enchilada bake

I usually serve vegetables cooked into the meal, but green beans, roasted asparagus, and roasted cauliflower have always been my kids' favorites.

My daughter has always been picky, but at 21, she manages to find lots of vegetables to eat. At 6, she'd make herself throw up.

Oh Brina with our son about the same age it was tomato sauce (ketchup)!

Vegetables of every description were always served but DS and DD were not expected to everything but they had to eat something every time.

Now as an adult he eats every vegetable grown. All at their own pace.

I know this is silly, but we called some things with funny names. Little tress=broccoli, tall trees=asparagus. Oh and you can eat them with your fingers! To this day, my kids-24, 21, 18, call them by those names and eat them.

I agree with the roasting suggestion. Also season with some lemon juice, garlic, kosher salt, red pepper flakes if they can do a bit spicy. A sprinkling of parmesan cheese and roasted. I love carrots roasted also. DD always had some sort of texture issue with some things cooked so raw or roasted worked for her.

My son is a picky eater. He will eat broccoli, cauliflower, asparagus and raw carrots. That's about it. I can get him to drink smoothies with spinach or kale in them. I will also add carrots and beets when juicing and he will drink that. You can always juice or blend vegetables and add them to broths or sauces.

For dd some veggies need to be raw (broccoli, carrots, cauliflower), some roasted (squash, carrots, potatoes, green beans brussel sprouts), some bbq (squash, zucini), and others steamed (green beans, peas, carrots).

I do candied yams and roasted yams.

Carrots can be served any way.

Broccoli and cauliflower can only be raw.

You just have to play around with how it is cooked. And be consistent. Cook.it that way a few times. Not just once.

Eta: spinach and kale in soups, spinach in salads.