Incorporating Veggies

It depends on what you like. You can throw spinach in chilli or stir fry or vegetable soup if you like any of those things. You can try to follow up leafy greens with something you like.

For example, I tend to be anemic, so every couple of weeks, I need to eat chicken livers. I don't particularly enjoy this, but I do know that I get to eat a piece of chocolate if I get through the chicken livers.

I hated oatmeal when I started, but found ways to make it slightly tolerable, such as maple syrup, added nuts, stuff like that. As the time has passed, I've slowly reduced the amount of maple syrup and stuff and now I can tolerate oatmeal. I'll probably never get truly excited about it, but now I can eat it without wanting to gag.

I hope this helps.

I love spinach with mushrooms and cream as a side dish. When at home, I replace the cream with a bit of coconut milk. Also yummy.
Otherwise, soups are the way to go. Throw you elected leafy green with a potato, an onion and vegetable stock. You can top it with a little olive oil and some pumpkin/sunflower seeds. It changes everything.

I make a smoothie with spinach, protein powder, almond milk and a little pineapple. It turns out a pretty green color and tastes pretty good too!

I'm a huge fan of smoothies with a lot of kale or spinach, enough to alter the taste. But for my children I put in enough to benefit them but still leave the taste hidden. Also, I almost always shred veggies and put them into other foods. Even sweet treats that I bake for others. They are never the wiser, and I feel good that there was broccoli/spinach/zucchini in that muffin they just ate!

I'm working on incorporating a lot more vegetables into my diet and it is a work in progress. I've stuck with it before and over time it gets easier. One of the things that make it easier for me is masking it. There are a lot of soups/stew recipes out there as well as a surprisingly tolerable vegetarian chili recipe.

http://homestead-and-survival.com/how-to-make-dr-fuhrmans-easy-3-bean-vegetable-chili/

kale: put it in a smoothie and you'll never know the difference except for the green color
spinach: put it in spaghetti and other pastas, rice dishes or anything you can flavor up with other ingredients
broccoli: put it in casseroles and make sure you steam it well first, that way you won't get the crunchiness (although as a lover of the stuff the crunchiness rocks)

Most of it you can chop up in thin strips and then mix in your salads.
Some of the leafy greens you can also mix in soups, pasta and different sauces.
Another good way of preparing kale and spinach is to cook it with potatoes and a little bit of garlic, serve with some nice fish.

There's nothing saying your veggies HAVE to be leafy greens. There are benefits to them, but if you hate leafy greens, get your nutrients other ways.

If you're like me and don't like veggies at all, you'll have to experiment to find something you can eat. Most of my veggies are salads with baby spinach, carrots and peas. I've tried roasting them, grilling them, cooking with various things, and I just don't like most veggies. I found a way of cooking carrots that I actually like and not just accept, and sweet peas don't actually taste like much so I'm ok with them. And leafy greens with mild flavors function more as a vehicle to get tasty salad parts to my mouth. XD But the point is, I do eat them, even if I'm eating a very limited selection.

About all I can advise is to look for unusual ways to cook them. Avoid canned veggies unless you have NO other choice. Frozen works well because they last longer. You might look through your grocery's freezer section to find frozen veggie sides. I know of several like buffalo cauliflower and ranch broccoli, as well as seasoned mixes that aren't too bad. Try getting a bag of something like that and see if you like it.

Sometime I will use a food processor to make vegetable purees to add to sauces, soups, or baked goods. It is a great way to sneak spinach past a child as well.

When I drank smoothies I liked adding 1 banana, juice and random other fruit plus as much spinach I could stuff into the blender. It looks awful (usually looks brown) but tastes good. Banana hides the taste of almost ANYTHING!

You can also hide green veggies in spaghetti meat sauce, chili's, omelettes etc. Anything with loads of spices.

I second the cauliflower rice idea, I had some today, although it's a bit difficult to make when you're first starting out.

I refuse to drink veggies. I will not mix them in a blender.. that is just nasty.

I eat 4 cups of veggies a day. I stir fry veggies almost every night, rather it be with chicken for fajita night or squash and onions sautéed in a pan, stuff peppers, sauté cauliflower broccoli and carrots, or boil carrots, make salads, or veggie casserole zucchini tomatoes and onions, steam broccoli, crockpot with potatoes/carrots/onions, celery and beef for pot roast. And the celery is great with peanut butter on it or cream cheese.

And kale is nasty and is outlawed in my house. I made a soup with it in it, and it not only looked nasty, the texture was nasty and did not do anything for tasted of the soup. The next night tried a salad and it was like over peppered tough to chew lettuce.

Get creative with your veggies and spice them up with garlic, use onions and different spices.

Do some searching for uses for cauliflower and zucchini. Pizza crust. Chips. Mashed "potatoes." Grilled cheese. It sounds so incredible, I really can't wait for these things to be in season again.

I just made a corn and black bean "meatloaf" that honestly would have been even better with spinach, onion and peppers, but I didn't have those (woe). Broccoli and cheese is an A+ low-carb snack and you can even make it into a nugget (pulse in food processor with enough egg to hold together, roll in breadcrumbs, bake or fry.)