Vegging on Veg

mommyshortlegs

How do you incorporate vegetables into your diet?

Often I lunch on crisp romaine salad (experimenting with new ingredient combinations to shake things up), or a warm salad such as spinach, feta, tomato, and basil, with or without spaghetti squash. In warm weather I am prone to green smoothies for breakfast -- I wish there was a cold weather equivalent. I occasionally buy brussels sprouts and avocados (guacamole is my favorite application of the latter). Cucumber slices, celery sticks, bell pepper strips, and baby carrots I dip in Greek yogurt-based Ranch dip, peanut butter, salsa, or homemade hummus. For quick dinner sides I pull from the freezer corn, peas, sugar snap peas, broccoli, or a Normandy blend. Spinach and mushrooms frequently make an appearance in my eggs, or my eggs make an appearance in my spinach patties. I can't get enough of portabella "pizzas" and could eat carby butternut squash and sweet potatoes for days. Summer squash and zucchini I sauté with onion. Today's lunch: puréed broccoli soup.

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Bonus question: What vegetable should I try?

Firefox7275

Consider red cabbage or aubergine (eggplant) - many people don't eat enough from the blue/ purple family. I like South Asian vegetable curry with the aubergine, cheese coleslaw (red onion, carrot shavings) with the cabbage. I also love Chinese or Thai style stir fries, soups, sauteed veggies with yoghurt and cheese, mediterranean tomato red wine and vegetable sauce.