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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I will give context later, just curious, of these foods, if your kids ate them would you have consider them to have eaten a vegetable?

Black beans
Small bits of onions, peppers, garlic cooked into the back beans
Small quantities of spinach (visible) stirred into another dish
Handful of spinach mixed into a berry smoothie (not visible)
[b]Raw spinach as the base for a salad
Purple cabbage slaw
Corn[/b]
Avocado
Tomatoes
[b]Cucumbers[/b] 
Mango
Mango salsa with red onions and cilantro visible in it
Slices of red peppers
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Bold is what “counts” for my kids. I require minimum 5 servings of vegetables and fruits a day as recommended by pediatrician, which usually means 1 serving of vegetable with lunch and 2 with dinner. Other things on your list would count in theory (eg spinach in smoothie, spinach in dish) but it doesn’t sound like you are meeting the serving volume required. [/quote]

Require??? Oh my.[/quote]

Yup! Have you not gotten the same recommendation from your ped?[/quote]

We don’t create food hangups in our house.  Our kids are athletes and have leaned what foods fill them with better energy than others. They’re learning to be in tune with their bodies are not doing something just because mom is requiring them to do so.  We also teach them that you do your best so somedays at dinner your veggie may be the sauce on the pizza![/quote]

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