MORE VEGGIES! How can I get more?

Just watch your sodium intake if you do frozen veggies. Many of them are super high... especially those "just for one" veggies.

One more thing. I also take a Fruit and Veggie Complex tablet by Watkins. I eat a lot of veggies, but I just don't think you can get too many veggies.

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I sneak veggies in on my kids in weird ways.... when I cook taco's I put chopped squash in the meat, you never taste it. I add shredded zucchni to pasta dishes, just cut it long like noodles, I puree cauliflower with laughing cow cheese to make cheesy "potatoes", I mix broccoli and cheese with whole wheat rotini for mac'n cheese, I use butternut squash in recipes that use sweet potatoes and I add spaghetti squash to a lot of pasta dishes too. You can't taste spinach in smoothies; celery/carrots will bulk up soup recipes and you can cover ANYTHING with cheese and make it yummy

Great ideas!

Don't snort them. That's a bad way to get more veggies.

one thing in your salads you can include spinach, cut up cucumbers, shreded carots and brocaly

also boiled carrots are delish, I love to hide veggies in things, like peas and corn in mash potato's, or bracoly, peas and cooked carrots in spicaty and celery with penute butter

invest in a juicer or a blender. My gums swell eating raw fruits/veggies so I mix together some and make a nice juice smoothie. I particularly like carrots, raspberries, blueberries, and strawberries together.

Oooh and try Naked juices.

Stirfrys with what ever veggies you like! I use water to steam the veggies add just a bit of soy, hoisin, and or oyster sauce! NO rules, just tons of flavor, fiber, and nutrition!

I'm telling you.. green smoothies! Look at the link I posted earlier & add those greens to a shake. You will NOT taste them! I promise! :flowerforyou: You can add all kinds of things you don't like and you wont taste it!

My fave for bkf is 3 oz spinach, 2 tbsp cocoa powder, whatever sweetener you use, 1 cup of frozen berries, half a cup of milk or soymilk, and half of a banana with 1 tbsp of ground flax seed! put it all in a high powered blender and let it rip! I actually get depressed when I run out!! Tastes like chocolate banana! = D I also love my salad smoothies that taste like guacamole! Just chop up a whole head of romaine heart, and add half of an avocado, some onion, cucumber, celery and a bit of broth, milk, or soy milk and blenderize it to a smooth consistency and it is like guacamole in a glass! A really big glass! Not too many calories either and tons of nutrition! = D Love the green drinks!

If your city has farmers markets you should check them out! Seeing the fresh veggies always inspires me to try things I wouldn't normally have considered. I recently took a liking to kale which is fantastic sauteed with olive oil and garlic. Even my picky sister likes it. Another always awesome veggie that can taste like a treat are roasted red peppers. Just cut them in half add a spritz of evoo and a sprinkle of salt and bake them at 350 till they get nice and soft. yum! Good luck!

Great ideas, everyone!

My new favorite is wilted spinach. Heat a tsp of olive oil in a little skillet, add a clove garlic minced, then a big handful of baby spinach. Just stir a minute til the leaves wilt and remove from heat. I then add a few grape tomatoes. Tastes like garlic!!

Have you thought about green smoothies. There are a million different recipes online for them, but it is a good way to get veggies into your diet. I am not a huge fan of vegetables, but love fruit so I started making these smoothies. I use fresh oj. and a veggie fruit drink like v8 fusion. Then add pineapple, a banana, fresh or frozen berries and as much fresh baby spinach that fills the blender. Blend and drink. If you want to have it as a meal add some protein powder and you are good to go. I have made many varieties of this recipe switching up the fruits and they are all good.

I use a cheese grater and put carrots, zucchini, cucumbers in nearly all my recipes. Sloppy joes, lasagna, soups, they are easy to disguise!

Here is what I have been trying to get more veggies in my diet:

1. Try adding a scoop of Amazing Grass green superfood powder to a fruit smoothie (adding a frozen banana and water makes it quite tasty, but frozen mixed berries are great as well). I got mine at whole foods.

2. Buy chopped frozen veggies and mix them in an omlet as well as pasta sauce (not together)

3. Juicing. Whole Foods and Pressed Juicery make mixes of cucumber, celery, kale, spinach, with pears and apples that sound gross but taste good. Or you can make your own.

4. Find a salad dressing you like that is not too unhealthy (lite ranch, extra virgin olive oil and balsalmic vinegar) and eat with a salad you can grow to enjoy at least a few times a week. Mine is romaine lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, and sometimes feta cheese, walnuts, avocado.

5. Make a dip with low-fat greek yogurt, garlic powder, dill, pepper and eat with raw broccoli, carrots, and cauliflower.

You will feel so much more full with less calories if you pack lots of veggies and some fruit into your day! Good luck!

Why dont you make quinoa? Chop up all those veggies (lots) and mix them in with cooked quinoa, add an egg, and some bread crumbs, and either lightly pan fry them or bake them in the oven

Quinoa is awesome. You can mix it in with anything...sautee it with anything...whatever you want. I make big batches every week and just leave it in my fridge as a "base" ingredient.