Thanks!  Good luck!  I actually only started eating and cooking some of these foods myself just within the last few years (my eldest is 8) because I joined a local shared harvest (CSA) and was given vegetables that I’d just pass by in the stores (I think since I hadn’t grown up with them and wasn’t quite sure what to do).  Now, the kids and I love finding something new in our bin because they’ve found that they really like some of the things they’d never tried before.  I believe you need to give the kids a chance.  Give them the opportunity and they might surprise you (or others) at what they actually will eat.