Adding protein and veggies?

they have the V8 fruit veggie juices? would you like something like that?

or you could just take a multivitamin and fiber and forget about it

some easy ways to hide veggies: spaghetti sauce, chicken pot pie, can you eat them in soup? smoothies

for protein: eggs (or egg whites if you are worried about fat/calories), cheese, meat (leaner meats like tuna or other fish, chicken, turkey if worried about fat/cals) greek yogurt

Chicken breast is lower calorie and has a ton of protein....in fact the real serving size of chicken breast has less calories and more protein than a lot of protein powders. Pork tenderloin also is lower calorie with higher protein content. Add a serving of it here and there. Beef jerky has tons of sodium but it does not have a ton of calories and lots of protein. you have to make sure you don't eat too much though as that can be easy to do

I feel sad for you that you don't liek vegetables. Can you chop them up finely and add them to other foods? Or blend brocolli or cauliflower to add to pasta sauce (throw some chicken in)? I have never blended veggies but I have heard it's a good way to sneak in vegetables.

What about mashing up avacado with steamed asparagus to make your own low-cal guac? There are a few recipes for it floating around the internet you could find.

I do not recommend taking a multivitamin to replace not eating veggies. You should be able to get most of your vitamins from your food. Multivitamins should be a supplement, not a replacement.

Speaking of kale - while I've never tried it I've seen a few people send out recipes for kale chips where you take kale, cut it up, throw some olive oil on it and bake it. could be another option

what about sweet potato fries? you can also make sweet potato chips!

Speaking of kale - while I've never tried it I've seen a few people send out recipes for kale chips where you take kale, cut it up, throw some olive oil on it and bake it. could be another option

what about sweet potato fries? you can also make sweet potato chips!

Kale is one thing I probably won't ever try. Many people have told me it has a bitter flavor. Bitter is one flavor I just don't do. This is the reason I hate greek yogurt and refuse to eat it no matter how good it is for me.

Don't say never. I heard (key word ) that when you bake them with the olive oil and presumably add salt (at least i would since I love salt.....) and bake them they aren't bitter...

If you have a good blender, you can mix vegetables into your fruit smoothies, and it comes out tasting just like fruit. You could have that instead of the protein powder shake, because green leafy vegetables actually have a good amount of protein in them.

I used to hate veggies as well, but I have slowly added them in over the past year and a half, and now I like things I never thought I would. Asparagus, Zuchinni, Brussel Sprouts, etc. If you roast them in a pan, or pan fry them in a little EVOO on the stove with the right seasonings it tastes wonderful! And they are all low calorie. I also am a big fan of edemame. There is a Steamfresh brand in the frozen food section, easy to make, and you add a little sea salt and pop em in your mouth. Adds protein for not a lot of calories!

Good luck on your journey, and I would just say to keep trying veggies. Cook them different ways until you find a way you like (They have become my best friend on my journey!)

I normally use diced cauliflower and mushrooms for bulking up dishes. They hardly have a flavor, and it's easy to mask with other ingredients. I make this one chicken dish where I use cream cheese to make a thich sauce. Add cauli and mushrooms to that and it's just damn good. Same goes for spinach, which by weight is the most nutritious thing out there. Kale chips don't taste bitter, and you can make a teensy batch (snag a couple leaves off a bag of kale to prep at home) to see if you like them. It's not about taste, really, but texture. They shatter in your mouth!

Parsnips can be sliced thinly and fried like chips. Turnips can be sliced thinly and used like potato slices in an au gratin dish. You can also always top your cauliflower or broccoli pieces with cheese. Try making cauliflower mac and cheese. It's an imitation food, but it's so delicious.

Have you tried stuffing chicken with veggies? I sometimes get thin sliced chicken breast and put ricotta, spinach, and tomato there, roll it up and bake it.

You can also "rice" cauliflower into small pieces and make a fried rice. The flavor of the soy sauce overpowers any veggie flavor (which there's hardly any of to begin with!) and just tastes like fried rice. Texture is different, though. Not bad, just different.

And then there's the blending of veggies. You can always blend up veggies with some cream or some liquid and use that as thickening for your sauces or pour it into soup or ontop of chicken. When you make your veggies into a sauce, it's hard to complain about them.

I by no way mean to make this sound insulting, but there are tons of books out there for moms with picky kids. They teach you different recipes to trick your kids into eating veggies and some of them include blending them right into cheese sauce for mac and cheese. You should take a look at some of these books. They're highly valuable if you want to start incorporating veggies but have a very serious distaste for them.