Hi Shelley
Here are some ways in which I eat my veggies - hope you will find something in there which you like
- Since you like V8 you could try looking into making juice with fresh carrots, celery and other veggies. You can control the sodium and make sure that you don't lose the fiber.
- Cauliflower tastes good when boiled and then mashed (tastes like mashed potatoes). You could add some butter spray or even a little real butter to it. Eat it with some chicken or fish.
- Aubergine tastes good when sliced thin, sprayed with some olive oil spray, seasoned with spices and then baked till crispy.
- frozen spinach can be added to virtually anything without altering the taste of the original dish e.g. in pasta sauce, in your eggs, on your toast with some fat free cheese etc. Just keep a bag in the freezer and pull it out whenever you can.
- Some veggies can be used in baking muffins and breads - grated carrots, zucchini and pumpkin.
- Check out an asian supermarket and try those veggies in stirfries with shrimp and a tasty stirfry sauce. Some nice veggies are mange tout, sugar snap peas, mung beans sprouts, shitake/oyster or straw mushrooms, bak choi, chinese cabbage etc.
-take a portabello mushroom, brush it with olive oil/ balsamic vinegar and basil. Broil it and melt a slice of cheese on it. Sandwich it between a burger bun.
- On Sunday morning use PAM spray and fry yourself up some eggs, tomatoes and mushrooms.
- Stuff veggies and make them mere containers for your favorite foods. e,g. take a green pepper, fill it with something tasty like, minced turkey, crab or whatever and bake it for a while.
- Buy raw food cook books. They have some interesting recipes that make even veggies exciting.
Sorry I went on but I am always willing to convince people to eat their veggies if they can. They are my favorite food. Take care and I hope you reach your goal soon.
