I married that man eight years ago. Actually, he did eat iceberg lettuce salads with horrific hothouse tomatoes and wax-covered cucumbers. Ick.

His mom would cook things to absolute mush or deep-fry them. He never had a GOOD vegetable until I showed up.

Now he eats whatever vegetables I cook and loves them. He is very open minded.

:lol: Daniel's mom barely cooked a day in her life.

Her specialty was frozen family dinners you'd cook in the oven.

My DH's mom (this is getting into an MIL-slamfest) :dizzy: said those were 'trashy food' AND YET, they had McD's three nights a week and usually once on weekends. DH is 40, so this is long before salad and yogurt were on the menu...it was Big Macs all around. When the Monopoly game was going on, it was EVERY MEAL, breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Remember when they would have the 10cent hamburger promotions? They would buy the max everyday and freeze them.

I cannot even imagine....

So far:

Delicata squash
Crazy-shaped, yellow cherry tomatoes

My dh has become something of a LC Chef (also proud to report that he's stopped sabotaging my diet/woe since a long heartfelt talk - read: HUGE fight!:D) Anyhoo - he made some kind of LC side dish salad that I used for a main meal 2 days straight - had all kinds of veggies in it that I didn't recognize . . . will find out what they were when I have time.;)

ETA: It was called "Greek Side Dish" - he said it took him forevah to find the veggies for it. It was YUM - but prolly could wait a couple of months b4 trying again, ya know?

Have you tried spagetti squash? You cook it (slice in half and bake) then with a fork, scoop out the squash into long 'spagetti strips', and garnish with your favorite sauce. If you don't over-cook it, the texture is very pasta-like.

I am not a huge fruit/veggie fan, so this will be a real challenge for me. I promise to try something new at our family Thanksgiving dinner on Monday.

Even I failed the challenge, but it was because I did not find anything I had not tried at the grocery this week! If they had red bananas, I was going to try those, but no luck!

Well, I tried something new this Thanksgiving....my dh's aunt made a bean crock pot casserole....and I had some....only because of this challenge. It wasn't too bad. Sorry, no new fruits to try...unless you count pumpkin pie...which I didn't have.

Hi all,

Thanks for all the squash suggestions, I can't wait to try them out.

This weekend I had parsnips (surprisingly yummy!), brussels sprouts (my intuition was right - ew!) and broccolini (not as good as broccoli, but okay). I can't believe I did it!