Random vegetable generator

Need a vegetable and drawing a blank past carrots and peas? Press Generate and this random vegetable generator picks one: broccoli, a butternut squash, a bunch of kale, a handful of shallots.

A random vegetable earns its keep in a surprising number of ways. Cooks use it to decide the side dish, or to force some variety into the week's shopping, nudging past the same two greens they always reach for. People trying to eat more veg let the draw set a small challenge: get one, then find a way to actually enjoy it, roasted, sautéed, or blitzed into a soup. Gardeners spin it for ideas on what to plant in the next bed. Parents turn it into a game to coax a picky eater into trying something new, and teachers use it for produce vocabulary and where-food-grows lessons.

Keep the draw on theme with the filter. Choose root for the carrots and potatoes, leafy for the greens, cruciferous for broccoli and its cousins, allium for the onion family, or pod for beans and peas. Leave it open when any vegetable will do.

Every pick shows a photo, handy when a name like kohlrabi means nothing without seeing it. A grid lays a whole crop out for a worksheet or a garden plan, and the wheel spins to one for a reveal a class can watch land.

Every pick is a common vegetable you can find at any market, so it works as much for a dinner plan or a planting list as it does for a lesson.