I've always been a picky eater, maybe largely due to the complete lack of options when I was little (though my younger brother seems not to have been similarly afflicted). It took me months of repeated, effortful attempts back in uni before I could stomach eating a banana, for example. I'd probably recoil at raw carrots in the same way other Westerners would towards eating insects, unfortunately.

I like broccoli, and I suppose cutting florets off a head of that is something cooking-like that I occassionally attempt. But it's a hassle so I usually get broccoli intending to do it then don't. I've tried to get precut small florets before, but they're way more expensive and still huge and in need of cutting up!