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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m Middle Eastern. We eat lots of vegetables and kids love it. The “healthy” meals serve in schools taste terrible and Michelle Obama’s entire Lets Move program was poorly executed. Who eats raw broccoli? It tastes disgusting. Undercooked vegetables taste disgusting as well. For broccoli sautee it in olive oil and garlic until soft or roast it in the oven. It needs to be cooked well. Vegetables shouldn’t be a side anyways. They should be incorporated in the meal. Same with beans. There are so many wonderful vegetable filled stews in Middle Eastern cuisine. The vegetables cook for a long time and taste delicious. Cook your vegetables people and actually learn how to cook! Kids will eat anything if it tastes good and they try it enough times.  Also salads don’t need to be dosed in some disgusting dressing. Instead how about just lemon and olive oil and salt? Maybe a little bit of garlic. School meals can be healthy and delicious. But they aren’t. And it’s quite baffling that people don’t understand this.[/quote]

I grew up in deep South.  People are under the impression that Southerners don't eat vegetables.  Actually, they do.  We, too, cook them a long time.  I grew up not particularly liking vegetables, but there was not a meal in my house that did not include at least one vegetable.  
Diners and cafeterias in the South traditionally offered a meat and "three."  Cafeterias also offered a "vegetable plate" that was composed of three or  four side dishes and cornbread or biscuit.  (Admittedly, one of the sides might be mac n' cheese.)
I am always surprised at people who don't cook veggies.  FWIW, I like my green beans cooked a very long time.  They should be olive green.

But, I agree with PP about raw brocolli.  (Unless it is slathered in Ranch).

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Middle Eastern PP here. Yes I agree! Green beans should be olive green. Otherwise they taste like grass lol[/quote]

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