Who is eating a lot of VEGETABLES!?

maserati185
maserati185 Posts: 263 Member
edited September 24 in Food and Nutrition
Okay. I'm trying to figure out how to add more vegetables do my daily diet. Any tips on how you go about it? Anyone using a frozen variety you like? Do you sautee them? Add a certain ingredient? I generally add spinach to my sandwiches or omelletes but I know there's more I could be doing.

Thanks!

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  • cmrich0511
    cmrich0511 Posts: 31
    I'm lucky, because I love veggies and so do my kids ; my husband, not so much so I have to sneak some in lol. Anytime you make something with a sauce (say, pasta w/ a marinara or tomato sauce) you can puree other veggies up into the sauce like carrots, cauliflower, etc. Or just saute them and add to pastas, or add them to casseroles.

    Try eating some veggies as snacks. The age-old carrot & celery stick idea is never one to toss out the window. And if that seems too boring, take your celery, fill the center with a little peanut butter and maybe throw on a few raisins.

    Also, the Wal-Mart Great Value frozen veggies that are steamable are pretty awesome.. even the ones that come sauced aren't too bad! They have a broccoli w/ cheese sauce that says its 50 calories for 1 1/3 cup serving and that will fill a LOT of room on a plate.

    If you eat a big breakfast, you can add veggies to your eggs. Other than just omelets, you can do scrambled eggs with mushrooms, green onions, bell peppers, tomatoes, and maybe some meat. Or you could even do that same variation and instead of scrambling or making it into an omelet, you can make an egg bake casserole style.
  • WifeMomDVM
    WifeMomDVM Posts: 1,025 Member
    Well, not a lot, but I try. I love bell peppers - I put them in my eggs. I also love to dip raw bell pepper strips into hummus! Yum, yum, yum!

    Spinach salad topped with walnuts, blue cheese, strawberries, blue berries and fat free poppy seed dressing.

    Steamed brocolli is another favorite chuck raw brocolli into a collander, put in pot, put water under collander - put lid on pot - turn heat on high and set timer for 10 min. Broc will be steamed fresh perfectly every time!!!!

    Roasted asparagus (drizzle with a little olive oil sprinkle with salt and pepper and bake on alum. foil lined pan @ 350 for 10 min)

    Baked sweet potatoes - can't go wrong there!

    Those are my go to veggies!

    One more - baby carrots, brocolli, sugar snaps, and sliced squash steamed the way I do the brocolli above are also super yummy!!
  • KokomoJoe
    KokomoJoe Posts: 435
    I love veggies. I usually make a wrap or salad for lunch. I eat raw carrots, cucumber, peppers and zucchini with almond butter or home made hummus or guacamole. Roast sweet potatoes, butternut squash and turnip in the oven. Then there's the stand bys of broccoli, cauliflower and peas. I make a potato's mixture my mashing cauliflower with some sweet potato and use that where I would have had mashed white potatoes. Lower in carbs and tastes great.
  • taiyola
    taiyola Posts: 964 Member
    Im going to also take note of these tips - I definitely need to eat more veggies! I do actually quite like vegetables as well.
  • Nigel99
    Nigel99 Posts: 498 Member
    I love my veggies, so I'm mixing it up all the time how I'm eating them. I'll sautee or roast some peppers with a meal quite a bit, steamed asparagus with some pepper and lemon juice are pretty tasty. I eat baby carrots pretty regularly as snacks, as well as the old celery/peanut butter (Crazy Richard's 100% natural) combo. Adding a slice or two of tomatoes to a sandwich, or with your protein is a good way to get in a veggie, and add some more flavor.

    I've used fresh for the most part, but I have also used Pictsweet brand frozen veggies quite a few times. As long as they don't have the added sauce/butter/seasonings, they won't have the extra sodium and sugar that is so prevalent otherwise.
  • topazz9
    topazz9 Posts: 26
    vegetables <3
    since going raw vegan ive been craving more and more veggies. zucchini "pasta" (raw zucchini cut into thin strips with blended tomato, basil, and sea salt for marinara sauce) is one of my favorites. dehydrating vegetables is a great way to get more veggies in too, dried zucchini, sweet potato, peapods, and peppers make excellent chips.
  • KokomoJoe
    KokomoJoe Posts: 435
    I forgot to add (the zuch pasta made me think of it) is spaghetti squash. I love that. poke some holes with a knife and bake in the over for about an hour.
  • aree2525
    aree2525 Posts: 38 Member
    Have you tried green bean casserole- 120 calories for 1/4 the 11x8 cake pan? Or broccoli soup- 30 calories for a bowl, or squash soup -80 calories for a BIG bowl- you also get extra water!!? There was also a girl on here who posted one for baked low calorie egg rolls- 78 calories! I made mine and decided to save on calories and just ate the filling- 240 calories for the whole pan!!!! Great taste, Low calorie! YUM!!!!!! So much more flavor than even high fat foods like pizza!
  • coronalime
    coronalime Posts: 583 Member
    I add fresh spinach and peppers to my egg in the morning.
    I usually have a salad for lunch
    I usually have a vegetable for dinner

    Example:
    Egg, spinach, peppers and laughing cow wedge on a piece of gluten free toast
    lunch: salad (a whole bunch of veggies)
    dinner: spaghetti squash, tomato sauce, broccoli and chicken
  • Mike523
    Mike523 Posts: 393 Member
    I have at least 2 cups of veggies with both lunch and dinner. For some meals it's a big salad with Romaine lettuce or mixed greens, tomatoes, cucumbers, olives, peppers, celery, avocados, etc. (or any combination of the above). Sometimes I saute veggies in a pan with a little bit of EVOO and seasonings - zucchini, squash, asparagus, green beans, spinach, tomatoes, snow peas, eggplant, peppers, etc. Sometimes I roast veggies in the oven at high heat - I'll make zucchini and squash sticks and line them up on a lightly oiled baking sheet with seasonings. Works great with asparagus and green beans too. Spinach and asparagus work great in scrambled eggs too...

    I also usually have veggies as part of my snacks throughout the day, such as some grape tomatoes or celery or peppers with hummus, or celery with natural peanut butter, etc.

    I'm not a big fan of broccoli, so I only eat it occasionally - usually steamed.
  • maserati185
    maserati185 Posts: 263 Member
    Thanks for all of the ideas, everyone!
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