NEW Delicious & Easy Ways to Enjoy Vegetables

From a health standpoint, vegetables are an unbeatable food: naturally nutrient-rich; better tasting than a vitamin pill; low in calories; high in fiber and packed with disease-fighting phytonutrients. All types of vegetables can be nourishing and delicious.

To maximize your health with vegetables, nutrition experts suggest at least 3 to 5 servings per day – but why stop there? With so many ways to enjoy spring-time goodness, you could easily eat vegetables at breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks.  Here are a dozen daily ways to treat yourself to good health!

  • Asparagus: Saute in olive oil with garlic and a hit of lemon zest for a refreshing and seasonal dish. Roasted asparagus is a great finger food for snacking on!
  • Broccoli and cauliflower: Versatile and very healthful – eat them raw (with dip if you like) or cooked, in a salad or even a slaw.
  • Carrots: Sweet, crunchy, good for your teeth, eyes and heart! Perfect raw (as a snack or salad) or cooked in a stew.
  • Peppers: Green, red, yellow, orange or even purple! Enjoy peppers in a salad, stir-fry, or casserole or as a snack.
  • Spinach: A salad of baby spinach leaves with pears or apples can turn anyone into a real spinach lover.
  • Onions: The zesty onion family (scallions, leeks and garlic, too!) offer some powerful antioxidant nutrients.
  • Beets: If you’ve never liked beets, try them in a new way – like roasted, grilled or lightly steamed in the microwave. They increase inflammation-fighting nitric oxide.
  • Mushrooms: Just a mushroom or two adds rich flavor to a casserole, soup, stew, stir-fry or even a tossed green salad.
  • Leaf and romaine lettuce: Rule of thumb for a healthy salad – the darker green or red the lettuce leaves, the more nutrients you get.
  • Green beans: beans offer some fiber and a little bit of protein, along with vitamins and minerals.
  • Tomatoes: Cooking increases the availability of some tomato nutrients – so enjoy sauce, paste or cooked tomatoes.

Many people don’t eat vegetables until dinner. Make a commit to your health – Check off the new ways you want to try to enjoy more veggies during the day:

Add vegetables at breakfast by:

Adding vegetables like spinach, mushrooms, onion, green or red peppers to an omelet

Add vegetables at lunch and snack by:

Try lettuce wrap or veggies bun

Lettuce wraps can be a part of several types of dishes, and are often used to make low-carb sandwiches and bunless burgers.

Additionally, many types of veggies, such as portobello mushroom caps, sliced sweet potatoes and sliced eggplant make excellent buns.

Make veggie smoothie  – Smoothies make for a refreshing breakfast or snack.

Fresh, leafy greens are common smoothie additions, such as in these recipes, which combines fresh fruits, protein and healthy veggies, making it a refreshing and delicious meal.

Experiment with veggie noodles

Veggie noodles are easy to make, and a great way to get more veggies in your diet. They’re also an excellent low-carb substitute for high-carb foods, such as pasta.

They are made by inserting vegetables into a spiralizer, which processes them into noodle-like shapes. Try zucchini, squash, sweet potato or carrots.

Try zucchini lasagna

Traditional lasagna is a pasta-based dish made by layering lasagna noodles with sauce, cheese and meat. It’s tasty, but it’s also typically very high in carbs.

A great way to prepare this delicious dish so that it has a lower carb content and more nutrients is to replace the lasagna noodles with strips of zucchini.

Zucchini is a rich source of B vitamins and vitamin C, in addition to trace minerals and fiber.

Make cauliflower rice

Cauliflower rice is significantly lower in carbs than regular rice, with only 5 grams of carbs per cup, compared to 45 grams in a cup (158 grams) of rice.

Additionally, cauliflower is significantly higher in nutrients than rice. It is particularly high in vitamin C, vitamin K, folate and potassium.

Add a bag of sugar snap peas, carrots, peppers, celery and/or zucchini sticks to your snack

Add extra vegetables to soup

Choose kale chips or nori instead of potato chips

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