How do you eat your vegtables?

-Salads are always a go-to for a good dose of veggies. the possibilities are endless here! (if you don't like eating lettuce all the time, there are plenty of salad recipes that don't contain it!)

-also raw veggies with dip! make sure its a healthy dip such as hummus with any carrots, celery, cauliflower, broccoli, etc.

-Make it a priority to have HALF of every meal be a fruit or vegetable! (ex. if you eat 4 meals a day, make 2 half fruit and 2 half vegetable.)

-vegetables always make a great side for any meal. Choose ones that are in season and look up simple recipes online for cooking instructions, how to flavor them, etc.

I hope this helps!! Upping your vegetable intake is a wonderful thing! good for you!

I roast nearly all of my veggies (though I eat baby carrots like they're popcorn).

Set the oven to 400 or 425, toss your vegetables with a bit of olive oil and salt and pepper (can add thyme or other herbs as well), and roast for 15 to 30 minutes, depending on the type of vegetable and how hot you've set your oven.

I do this with cauliflower, broccoli, green beans, fennel, carrots, potatoes, asparagus .... and pretty much any combination thereof!

Bump :bigsmile:

Sugar snap peas dipped in ranch. Crispy, decent subsitute for chips

I dip every veggies in hummus

I don't like to eat raw vegetables but I know it has more enzymes if I do so
I have it in it smoothie. spinach + celery + banana or protein powder = yummy
and I don't like most of the salad.
I like veggie stir fried, veggie in meatloaf, burger.

You can also make a giant pot of roast veggies with or without a meat pot roast. All of these are yummy roasted in a covered pan in the oven:

potatoes (any color, but reds and yukon golds have tasty skins)
cabbage (any color)
onions (any color)
carrots (super duper yummy - the only way I like carrots other than carrot juice)
yellow squash
zucchini
celery
mushrooms - I like shiitakes best, portabellos are also good (hydrate first if dried)
beets would probably be good but tend to be messy
bean sprouts - the long skinny white kind
garlic is kind of a pain to peel but is yummy roasted whole with the top cut off & drizzled w/olive oil

Chop everything up, throw it in a covered oven safe container with a little bit of water, oil, and spices. Bake until house smells good and fork goes through the hardest of veggies easily.

When I started here I realized the only veggie I ate was potato. Fried, mashed, boiled, grilled.......if not for taters I'd have no veggies at all :laugh:

So here is what I did ( but mine was over a few months of learning on here and at other sites) and they all worked for me. I had gotten out of the practice, but now I am almost back to healthy eating.

Buy a good salad bowl crisper, it can be your best friend. Also those little Glad screw on top bowls are needed. (bags do not work as well, I learned the hard way)

On the weekend cut up a large head of Romaine . The greener the better, Iceberg has little nutritional value.
put it in the crisper bowl, ready to grab a handful.

I have radishes in my garden, so I clean up a couple and put them on the side in the lettuce bowl

I then make 5-6 little bowls of
red pepper(also green and yellow)
onion
celery
tomato
zuchini
yellow squash
broccoli
cauliflower

Now let me say, I did not LIKE all of these. Some I hated. But I cleaned them all, and chopped them up in bowls for the week.

When I made a salad, I could just throw on what ever veggies I was in the mood for. Or sneak in something I didn't really like

When I wanted hot veggies, I took a glad square container and put in broc, red and yellow pepper, onion.......and nuked them for 2 minutes.
Or zuch and yellow squash with some tomatoes..........

The combos are endless.

When cooking dinner there were no excuses. I also buy the frozen, nuke in bag veggies for emergency.

Congratulations on changing your life!!

I use lemon juice, olive oil and a pinch of salt in all my salads and veggies. I try to stay away from dressings!

Kidding of course. I live off spinach, cucumbers and baby carrots. I try to stick spinach into 1-2 meals a day because it's so nutrient dense, talk about a super food. Now I understand why Popeye loved it so much. I snack on baby carrots and long English cucumbers. I need to add more veggies to my snacking and I should probably have a salad now and again. I found the greatest thing at the store recently. Up till now I had been buying the 1lb bags of baby carrots on sale which I usually get for about 1.5-1.75 on sale. This past week I saw a 2lb bag at a regular price of $3. Not only that but it has a zippered seal. If I hadn't picked up 3 smaller bags earlier in the day I would have bought myself a bag. The best place I've found to get veggies is in smaller markets and produce only markets. The major grocery stores are usually more expensive and aren't as fresh looking.

I've seen people mention carrots and hummus a lot of times in the past. I tend to eat the carrots on their own as adding ranch dressings and things just skyrockets the calories and they're usually chocked full of crap. I keep meaning to try hummus, one of these days for sure.

Someone mentioned seaweed strips that I absolutely have to try. I recently bought kale so that I can give kale chips a try, can't wait to try those out. I desperately need a substitute for chips.