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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]

Not that poster but it is quite difficult to force a kid to consume something.  Sounds like your kids like vegetables though so you got off easy on this one.[/quote]

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