I did introduce our children to vegetables early on (in their first year), so I know that a lack of familiarity did not cause the hassle of them not liking vegetables in their toddler and kindergarten years. The problem I have found is that when I serve the vegetables along with other food groups (i.e. at dinner with rice and a protein food group for example), they eat everything but the vegetables. But, I have figured out how to get our 4 year old and 5 year old to *eagerly* eat their vegetables. I give them a plate of raw vegetables with or without a dip right before dinner - a time when I have found them down right starving. They gobble them down every time! It’s so much easier for me to do this than to sit there at dinner for an hour or two begging them to finish! I usually slice and cut a bunch of vegetables on Sunday and keep them in containers to user for the rest of the week in lunches or for pre-dinner snacks.

These are some of the vegetables that I feed our children raw for a pre-dinner snack:

Broccoli
Cauliflower
Cucumber slices
Celery
Carrots
Zucchini slices
Grape tomatoes slices in half (so they are not a choking hazard)
Sliced bell peppers (red, orange, and yellow and sweeter than green)

Only sometimes do I give them a dip, like Ranch, Blue Cheese, etc.