Any type of vegetables are good to my taste. Fresh can be either bought or home grown. Also use dried on occasion, although opening a tin of kidney beans, for example, is quicker and easier than soaking, boiling for the right time etc. Plus, our neighbour often gives us veg, fruit, salad, coleslaw etc that is a day past use by date, as she knows we'll eat it rather than waste it - or occasionally give some items to our ducks.