How to eat more veggies?

I just...eat them!?! Add a couple more servings to each meal, or juice them. It's really not that hard. If you don't have a juicer, I'd add them to a protein shake. Spinach blends well with vanilla protein powder.

The roasting tips are very helpful thank you

I just mix it all up with my rice so... you can't avoid them.

(By that I mean, you -can- avoid them but it would take tremendous effort to do so.)

Breakfast- add spinach or mushrooms to scrambled egg.
Linchpin- base around veg soup or salad
Dinner- add veg to pasta sauce, or stir fry, or curry. Or the famous cauliflower pizza base!
Snacks- carrot sticks with humous, celery sticks and peanut butter, cherry tomatoes, aubergine dip

Smoothies are a good way to get in a bunch of veggies, especially if you don't particularly like veggies, because you can at least partially hide their flavor with fruits and other things.

I never used to eat many veggies, but I forced myself by bringing a cup of broccoli or cauliflower to work in place of potato chips. Then I added a cup of carrots. I kept adding one thing at a time, and in the process, started to like the taste. Note, I like raw veggies. Cooked veggies are okay if done right, but more times than not I prefer them raw.

Now I'm at the point where I really like veggies, provided that they're mixed in with something else. In other words, I like salads. Today's salad (copied from today's lunch diary):

Kale - Raw, 1 cup, chopped
Snow Peas/Pea Pods, 1/2 cup
Carrots - Raw, 0.5 cup, chopped
Sunset - Gourmet Medley Tomatoes
Tyson - Grilled & Ready Grilled Chicken Breast Tenderloins, 6 oz.
Pennsylvania Apples - Large Golden Delicious Apple, 1 apple
Fruit - Pear Bartlett - Raw - Medium, 1 pear
Bob's Red Mill - Black Chia Seeds Whole, 1 Tbsp
Bob's Red Mill - Whole Ground Flaxseed Meal (W/est. Potassium), 2 Tbsp
Nutiva Organic Hemp Protein - Organic Shelled Hemp Seed, 1 Tablespoons
Famous Dave's - Sweet and Spicy Pickle Spear, 3 spear

That's an 857 calorie salad with 62 grams of protein. It weighs a little over 3 pounds. (I've been meaning to weigh one of my salads and I finally remembered to do it this morning.) I only got through half of it at lunch. I'll be eating the rest of it for dinner tonight.

In short, mix your veggies with other things you like. The contrasts in taste and texture can make for some great combos.

+1 on the V8 recommendation, it's how I started eating them. Now I can't get enough! V8 Hot and SPicy Low Sodium is my breakfast of choice.

Play with spices. Do REALLY small servings to see if you like what you are trying before wasting a lot. Roasting is a great method.

If you have a salt tooth, try balsamic vinegar. I use it all the time. Tastes salty but no sodium.

cooked cauliflower, mix with sauteed garlic and throw in blender.. now you have "alfredo" sauce, or substitute for "cream of" soup to mix in a casserole with rice, pasta or quinoa (plus more veggies!)

Prepare them better... no over-boiling unless you're making puree.
Roasting and grilling can be yummy.
Eat them with other things you like. I like mac&cheese or toasted cheese better when they have tomatoes and sometimes a few leaves of fresh spinach. This works for many sandwiches... they are more filling and can taste better with some additional vegetables (and maybe some mustard).
Vegetables add flavor and texture to soups and lasagna.
Use spices.
Cinnamon on sweet potatoes. Basil with tomatoes or mushrooms. Rosemary baked with potatoes, carrots and parsnips.
Instead of a salad with the same old 2-4 ingredients, try adding some others -- avocado, pine nuts, mixed greens, cherries, very thinly sliced radishes, zucchini, pickles, salsa.
Speaking of which, vegetable salsa goes well with many things -- use it as a sauce when baking chicken -- the chicken is moist and it adds flavor.
Chop up a cauliflower or head of cabbage and cook it in an Indian curry sauce.
If steamed or boiled vegetables are too bland (I often think so) add pepper or lightly sprinkle with grated Parmesan or Romano cheese. Some miso can also be good -- put it may add more salt then you want.
Try some vegetables you've never had before. Sometimes it takes a second or third taste to get used to something. So if you're not sure, you may want to try it again, but if you hate it, move on, there are plenty more vegetables.
Try different varieties of the same vegetable -- not all potatoes, squash, etc. are the same.
Eggplant is good breaded and baked, eggplant ratatouille or casseroles.
Casseroles, stews or jambalaya are good places to add vegetables. Okra can make a great thickener, but I hear it can be tricky to cook well.
Look on vegetarian and other recipe sites for recipes that look yummy. Try them.

I don't have a problem at all with vegetables, and I find it pretty easy to cook and eat them. There are two very simple recipes I tend to make:

Mashed sweet potatoes with spinach: Boil the sweet potatoes with the spinach, then mash the sweet potatoes, add the spinach, salt, pepper or your favorite seasonings.

Mashed Cauliflower with cottage cheese and peanut butter (may sound disgusting, but it's actually pretty darn good).

Either way, I like to just eat them plain. You know, boiled broccoli, tomato salads, raw carrots...

You can always make fruit and vegetable smoothies as well.

Leave the dirt and the pesticides on them it adds flavor.

Vegetable soup! Get some of any veg you have at hand and some herbs/pepper/salt, simmer it all in a pot of stock for 30 minutes and blend. Yummy, nutritious, low cal and you get a lot of servings.

I really like Skinny Taste's Broccoli Macaroni and Cheese, and you could add cauliflower to that too.

Other than that, I just found some veg that I like and figured out how I like them cooked. I enjoy boiled carrots, peas, sweetcorn and broccoli, chopped up small and boiled together. Make dinners that you can chuck lots of veg into, for example spaghetti bolognaise, casseroles, stir fry, risotto, omlettes.

Juice them, blend them, roast them, stir fry 'em, put them in a soup, cut 'em up and load them into my salad, or just eat them raw, or raw and dipped in no-oil hummus.

Liquid dinner eh?

1) Substitute spinach for iceberg lettuce on sandwiches.
2) Add a bit of chopped spinach to scrambled eggs.
3) Add some canned pumpkin (PURE pumpkin.not pumpkin pie filling) to chili (I've done this with no effect on flavor)
4) Add fiber to your brownies by adding a can of rinsed black beans pureed with a cup of water. This will replace the oil leaving you with a moist lower-cal higher-fiber brownie.
5) You might also look for the SNEAKY CHEF book at your library and one written by Jessica Seinfeld on how to "hide" vegetables in your food using purees. I can't vouch for how good the recipes are though..we own the book but still meaning to try 'em out as I'm not good at making/freezing lots of purees in advance as the book suggests.

cooked cauliflower, mix with sauteed garlic and throw in blender.. now you have "alfredo" sauce, or substitute for "cream of" soup to mix in a casserole with rice, pasta or quinoa (plus more veggies!)

Cant wait to try the substitution of the cauliflower for "cream of" soups... casseroles, here I come! Thanks for sharing.

Agreed, I am pretty stoked to try this, thanks!