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Hmm... Well, Granny, I'd try homemade versions of popular foods (you've probably already done these things, but I'll throw them out here anyway). If your non-veggie kid/granddaughter likes things such as fruit cocktail, canned peaches, fruit salad, applesauce, "personal pies" (like those awful Mrs. Baird's fruit-filled Hot Pocket type things) and things like that, make them at home with less sugar, or whole healthy sugar instead of refined icky sugars. Also, every child that I've been around loooves dipping things.. Baby carrots (or homemade shoestring carrots) in ranch dressing, apple slices in peanut butter, strawberries in yogurt, etc. Dipping is fun 3nodding Just finding the right vegetables to meet weird tastes is usually the key.

But if all else fails, you can "sneak" in fruits and veggies xd Add grated carrots, chopped onion, or minced eggplant to burgers or meatloaf, fry up onions or shoestring squash/eggplant/zucchini with homemade fries, mix fresh fruit into ice cream bowls, jello, or yogurt cups, add fresh fruit to cakes or muffins, whip cooked carrots, squash, ginger, or yams into mashed potatoes.. Endless opportunities that kids never have to know about xd Any vegetables thrown into the blender mixes well with most "normal" foods.

Haha that's kind of funny, because I started fixing my own meals so I wouldn't have to eat processed foods or meat xd Maybe your daughter and I should switch places ninja At least for meal times xd

I don't know how some people go without eating vegetables at all... my boyfriend is a very "meat and potatoes" kind of guy, and he doesn't eat veggies of any kind with the exception of, as the OP said... corn and potatoes (which are carbs, I think?). We're in a long-distance relationship, so the way it works with us is that we each spend a few days or weeks at each other's house once every 2-3 months. Last time I went there I gained almost 10 pounds in 2 weeks because of how much crap there was in his house, and by the time I got home, I was absolutely craving vegetables and fresh fruit... the problem in that situation being that his dad shops at Costco. *shudder*

Anywho, I've actually read that there is a biological reason that children do not care for vegetables, and it's because they have so many more tastebuds than adults do. The reason they have so many more tastebuds is actually a defense mechanism throwback to days long past, where we weren't entirely sure if what we were eating was going to be poisonous or not. If it tasted bitter, it was a bad thing to eat because it was probably poisonous. Most vegetables have an underlying flavour of bitterness--it's not strong enough to be considered a "poisonous" flavour, but it is enough to turn a kid's ~30,000 tastebuds off of it. The reason adults can tolerate veggies much better is because the number of tastebuds adults have is about a third of that number, I believe.

As a kid, I hated veggies no matter how they were prepared, but now that I'm an adult I love a good stalk of broccoli to munch on. I worry for my boyfriend though... I don't think he'll ever really like veggies that aren't carbs in some form. Oh well... time to break out the blender and start pureeing vegetables into his food. whee

Not knowing where your food comes from... how healthy it is; who actually picked/prepared it, how much they got paid, how they were treated... only a few of the many reasons to start your own garden. ^_^ I'm gonna have one in the spring. blaugh

I'm not sure about costco. I know it's a bulk retailer like sam's club. That's about it.

Sometimes its just because people are stupid and they think only meats have flavor. My dad thinks in such a way--but then again, his tastebuds suck.