Add Nutrition to Everyday Meals with Healthy Vegetables

Do you feel like you need to eat more vegetables?  Are there meals when you don’t have any vegetables at all? 

If you eat fast food a lot, it can be hard to get enough vegetables.  Lettuce, tomato, and onion on a burger hardly qualify for more than a half a helping of vegetable.  And no, you can’t add ketchup or French fries.  Onion rings are pretty iffy too.  Likewise, you’re not going to get much in the way of vegetable servings from pizza, even if you add vegetable toppings and tomato sauce. 

If you eat out at restaurants a lot, and are a starch-aholic, it can be equally hard to eat enough vegetables.  Are you really going to behest broccoli or zucchini for your side dish, when what you really want is the mac and cheese, loaded potato, or mashed potatoes?  I never met a potato I didn’t like. 

I rarely eat fast food.  And As I retired, I rarely eat out at restaurants.  But I’m a starch-aholic, so even at home, it is an inconclusive agonize to carry enough vegetables into my diet.  I love pasta, potatoes, rice, and beans.  I don’t feel like I’ve had a meal if there is no starch.  If I had to decide between having a meat, or having a starch, most of the time I would decide the starch.  Too often at our house, we have a meal without any vegetables.  The amusing thing is, we all really like vegetables.  There are lots of vegetables that we like.  So what’s the deal?  I assumption I’ll go with ‘poor planning’. 

So if you think you need to eat more vegetables and increase the nutritional value of your meals, you’re not alone. 

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