how do you get your veggies?

Eat 'em 2 clementines/tangerines, red pepper, carrots, banana and an apple every day for me. If I eat salad, then that's my just extra. But 80% of my daily snacks come from fruits and veggies.

Salads with tons of veggies make up a good part of my veggie diet. We also grill assorted veggies with a touch of olive oil and spices...the usual players: zuccini, squash, peppers, onion, mushroom, corn, tomato, broccoli (that's right, we tried grilling broccoli and it was deelish!). Snacks can include celery, carrots, etc. Sometimes, I make a tuna salad and eat it on a wedge of red pepper. And (finally), last night I had a large sweet potato for dinner, which was very filling, delicious, and low-cal (about 160). You could also add more veggies than usual to a sandwich, like cucumbers (or is that a fruit?), sprouts, peppers or anything else you can think up! They say fresh veggies are better than frozen, and frozen is better than canned (from a nutrient-rich viewpoint). Hope this helps!

I eat them as a part of my meals. Like the Birds eye steam fresh or green giant steam in the bag (yes, frozen). But they usually have GREAT flavor (as opposed to boring) and so I look forward to them.

This however is not for those of you watching sodium intake.

I eat a salad with my dinner every night and usually fix some sort of steamfresh. i love them and they are so easy!!!
asparagus is super yummy too!!!

Salads with tons of veggies make up a good part of my veggie diet. We also grill assorted veggies with a touch of olive oil and spices...the usual players: zuccini, squash, peppers, onion, mushroom, corn, tomato, broccoli (that's right, we tried grilling broccoli and it was deelish!). Snacks can include celery, carrots, etc. Sometimes, I make a tuna salad and eat it on a wedge of red pepper. And (finally), last night I had a large sweet potato for dinner, which was very filling, delicious, and low-cal (about 160). You could also add more veggies than usual to a sandwich, like cucumbers (or is that a fruit?), sprouts, peppers or anything else you can think up! They say fresh veggies are better than frozen, and frozen is better than canned (from a nutrient-rich viewpoint). Hope this helps!

Great idea on the tuna with the pepper! That is so going to be my lunch today...yummm!

I buy a lot of frozen veggies (unsauced!). They have the same nutrition (or better) as fresh, they're super easy to prepare (pop 'em in the microwave for a couple of minutes), and they don't spoil in a week if you don't use them. They're also cheaper than fresh (I can get a pound of spinach for like $2 frozen, but that would cost me along the lines of $10 fresh... and my understanding is your body can get more nutrition out of cooked spinach, anyway). Today I have 1.5 cups of steamed broccoli with my chicken & black beans for lunch. I have strawberries for a mid-morning snack, and I'll have another couple of servings with whatever I decide to do for dinner. I'm on a reduced calorie diet, so I'm not aiming for as many servings as I would eat on maintenance calories, but I still like to get somewhere in the ballpark of 3-6 servings of veggies per day.

Also, special side note, try to make your veggies count. Vegetables like lettuce and cucumbers and mushrooms don't have a huge amount of nutrition. While I like those vegetables (and LOVE mushrooms) and I do eat them a lot, I don't really count them as a serving of vegetables... because I'm not getting very much out of them, you know? And, like someone else pointed out, I guess a cucumber is fruit. And mushroom is fungus, so I don't know exactly where that puts it. :laugh:

I used to have a juicer but left it in Cali I need a new one. You could get a whole days worth of veggies in a juice cocktail.
Glad you pointed out the need for veggies, thanx!

I NEVER use to eat veggies, now that I started this new way of eating (diet) I double my grocery of veggies so that I can prepare one of them as soon as I get home. 2 bags of carrots, 2 bunches of brocolli, 2 of eveything. I steam and/or roast 1 and leave the other for later cooking. Once I have all my steamed veggies or roasted, I put them in tupperware in the fridge and all day I snack on them. Just a minute in the microwave and spray butter (0 cal.) You can sprinkle salt lightly. I eat veggies now at everymeal and snacks because I have them prepared in the fridge already.

My late night snack tonight was:

3 oz. carrots
1/2 c Zuccini
1/2 c yellow Squash
1/2 c brocolli

Total cal. 93:happy:

I have a tupperware container that i fill every morning before work with a mix of raw fruit and veg and snack on it between breakfast and lunch

in it usually is carrot, green beans, cucumber, cherry tomatoes and grapes, i some times add apple, pear, mushrooms, snow peas, capsicum.... what ever is in the fridge

my girlfriend hides them in my food

my girlfriend hides them in my food

Giggle....My mom use to try this - it never worked for her.

I have a hard time with veggies because I have a hard time eating them raw (they make my stomach feel 'weird', I don't know how else to explain it! Ha ha!), and I don't always have time to cook. I've actually started microwaving my salads. BUT one awesome thing I've discovered is: Green Monsters! Also known as a smoothie with spinach! Sounds gross but you really have to try it, you CANNOT taste the spinach!

The basic recipe (that I use) is:
1 cup vanilla almond milk (or vanilla soy milk)
1 small or half large banana, (can be frozen)
2 -3 large handfuls of spinach (basically fill the blender)
ice

Blend away! It honestly just tastes like bananas and milk! And you've got two generous servings of green veggies in there. You can do a lot of variations on this too, any kind of fruit works well, and other greens like kale (though it tastes a bit stronger), I know some people add carrots, and you can mix it up with juice, yogurt, protein powder, flax meal, etc.

I ate mine mostly raw like baby carrots,cauliflower,cucumbers,sweet bell peppers and salads

my girlfriend hides them in my food

heyyyyy :laugh: