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I really think that the kids dislike of vegetables starts with how you feed them from the time that they begin eating solid foods. Everyone gives them veggies to start and a lot of parents that I know drifted away from that as soon as their kids were able to eat finger foods. I think that you have to keep vegetables as a consistent part of every meal from 6 months on if you want them to continue eating them and severely limit the amounts of greasy and/or processed foods. I have some friends whose kids will only eat french fries or mac and cheese but it is because these things were introduced early on and the kids learned Yum...grease and no longer wanted vegetables. One of my friends starting giving her kid french fries at 8 months at almost every meal out of convenience and now this is the only type of food he wants. This started to even happen with my son after vacation when he was eating out with us. He normally would scarf down veggies but we fed him from our plates on our trip. After a week of that, he was refusing veggies. It took a while to get him back into the veggie routine but we managed to do it. However, if I am giving him spaghetti, or anything else that he loves, I have to keep the spaghetti in the kitchen until he finishes his veggies because if he sees the spaghetti first, he will refuse his veggies. So, I guess my whole point is that I think that if you keep them on the straight and narrow to begin with, this problem should never come up.