I'm an adult picky eater trying to get into vegetables - any suggestions?

Act like an adult and eat vegetables.

Get over it is the best advice I can give. I hate vegetables too, but I have to force myself to accept their nutritional value and effect on my health.

That being said...dipping the veggies in hummus is pretty good. I also love just throwing them in the frying pan with some oil. Find dishes that they taste good in like baked chicken dishes....

I have some suggestions.. They're a little unorthodox though.

What do you normally eat? If you like hamburgers, chop up some veggies, mix them in with the ground meat, and cook 'em like a regular burger. Start out at a low veg/meat ratio and work your way up.

Learning to cook them will make it a lot easier. Something like zucchini might be a good veggie to get started with.

If it fits with your diet, try sauteed greenbeans or asparagus.

I like to heat up 1 tablespoon olive oil, 1 Tbsp butter, a clove of minced garlic and sautee up asparagus in it. For green beans I'll sautee them in olive oil with almond slices.

Another good one I like is oven roasted brussel sprouts. Take your sprouts, throw them in a bag with olive oil, kosher salt, and ground pepper. Shake that shit up, toss them in the oven at 400F and roast them until they are slightly blackened and crunchy on the outside. Tastes amazing.

Steamed broccoli and cauliflower both taste really great with cheese sauce.

EDIT: Yes I realize that my advice boils down to "make it taste better by adding fat and salt", but hey, it totally works.

Steamed broccoli, oil and salt. Roasted Brussels sprouts with sweet onions, balsamic vinegar, and honey. Steamed or boiled asparagus with butter and salt. Sautéed bok Choy with a little teriyaki sauce. Bake potatos. Oven fries. Celery w/ blue cheese dressing. Sautéed zuchinni with parm cheese, salt, pepper. Cucumber sliced with salt and pepper.

All are simple, but tasty I and mostly healthy.

Try cutting up and grilling zucchini or green peppers first. Or start experimenting with different birds eye frozen vegetables.

I'm in the same boat as you, the only vegetables I've found that I enjoy are ones cooked in some kind of sauce or something. Like for example, one of the meals I eat a lot is shrimp scampi, and I've found if I cook zucchini in with the shrimp they end up tasting pretty good.

So I'd really say your best bet is to cook it in with other things, it works for most vegetables, and while they still aren't my favorite, they aren't nearly as bad as trying to eat them plain.

I love veggies. However a good start are probably sweet potatoes they are super awesome almost everyone loves them.

Honestly the best advice is to just eat it. Sucks but coming from a formy picky eater, it is the fastest and most effective way to do it. The way I did and still do it is just eat the shit out of them as fast as possible and enjoy the rest of your meal. As for snacking, just eat some baby carrots or celery with peanut butter and drink some water.

Roast em with lemon pepper, or sea salt and cracked black pepper. Almost all veggies are great roasted, but broccoli, zucchini, cauliflower, beets, carrots, bell pepper, etc are some palatable ones to start off with. You can also toss them in a quiche, frittata, omelette, or stir fry

Frozen mixed vegetables sautéed in a little olive oil seasoned with Montreal Steak Seasoning. It's good as long as you're not watching your salt.

Roasted cauliflower coated in olive oil and coarse sea salt. You have to cook it till they're almost burnt.

Also, try asparagus. You can sautee that in a pan with some butter, salt and pepper, then coat them with lemon juice. Or, try coating them in olive oil, salt and pepper, and a little parmesan, and cook them in the oven. Asparagus is awesomely delicious.

Also, raw vegetables are going to taste way more vegetable-y if you eat them raw. Try sauteeing some onions, mushrooms, or yellow or orange bell peppers (both very sweet and fruity tasting).

Find a good combo salt seasoning that you like. Get some spray oil to reduce the calories. Sear them well so they get a crunch texture on the outside, either via sautee pan or the oven. Favorites of mine are brussel sprouts charred (sautee or oven until brown on the outside) or broccoli charred (oven for about 30 - 40 mins @ 425)

Here are a bunch of quick and easy veggie ideas you can try:

1. Ants on a log: celery stalks, peanut butter or sour cream, and raisins or cranberries.

2. Remoulade: grate carrots, celery root and beets together. Add vinegar or mayo, salt, pepper, boild eggs.

3. Pancakes: grate carrots and zucchini, stir fry well with onions, let it cool down, then mix in eggs, flour, salt, herbs, and fry the mix in a bit of oil.

4. Protein salad: green peas, red/black/white beans, black-eyed peas, corn, radish, carrots, boiled eggs with a dressing made of yogurt, mayo, salt, pepper etc.

5. Avocados. Straight up, or mixed with onions/shallots, lime, jalapenos.

Go to a good, non-chain restaurant and order several veggie sides. It helps if you know how to cook, so you'll recognize how they were made. Vegetarian restaurants are particularly helpful here, as their veggies have to stand on their own, rather than being an accessory to a steak or whatever.

I used to be a picky eater, and, over time I tried all kinds of things. By going to good restaurants, someone has already tried a number of things and selected the best of those to offer.

former picky eater here too. the first time I started eating broccoli, I had eaten more broccoli in the first week than I had in the previous 20+ years of my life. like many others have said, you just simply gotta suck it up and eat it. a nice tip is to treat it as medicine; you don't eat it because you want to, but because you NEED to.

Most of my diet is vegetables, and one of the easiest ways I have to prepare them that I also really enjoy is in a stir fry :)

I'm not a huge fan of vegetables either but I've started to love eating them roasted. Cauliflower, broccoli, asparagus, carrots, beets. Brush them with a bit of olive oil, sprinkle on some salt, put on a sheet pan and roast at 350 deg for 20-30 minutes. They should come out slightly toasted.