17 Ways to Eat More Veggies – Part 2

17 Ways to Eat More Veggies – Part 2

It’s vital to include veggies in your meals. Veggies are loaded with minerals and antioxidants that help fight illness. They also help with weight loss owing to their low-calorie content.

Globally, health experts advise individuals to eat multiple servings of veggies each day, although this may be challenging for some. Some find it difficult to consume veggies, while others are uncertain how to cook them. We’ll discuss creative ways to consume veggies so you never grow weary of them.

Photo by Laure Noverraz
Photo by Laure Noverraz

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  1. Make a vegetable omelet

Omelets are a quick and simple way to include vegetables to your diet. Plus, eggs are loaded with nutrients.

Cooked eggs are folded around a filling of cheese, meat, veggies, or a mixture of all three.

Vegetables of many kinds taste excellent in omelets, and they are quite nutritious. Additions include spinach, bok choy, mushrooms, bell peppers, and tomatoes. Try these:

  • Moringa omelet • Waffle omelet with tomatoes and peppers
  • Chickpea omelette
  1. Make savory oats

Oats need not be sweet. Savory oatmeal may help you get more vegetables.

Add fresh fruit, raisins, or cinnamon to it, or eggs, spices, and plenty of vegetables.

This delicious oatmeal dish contains mushrooms and greens for a substantial breakfast.

We all know kale is nutritious, but so are mushrooms. They are rich in protein, D, and B12. This makes them a wonderful complement to a plant-based diet.

10. Tend to a lettuce wrap

You may use lettuce as a wrap or some vegetables as buns instead of tortillas and bread.

Lettuce wraps are often used in low carb sandwiches and bunless burgers.

Also, vegetables like portobello mushroom caps, sweet potatoes, red or yellow peppers, tomato halves, and eggplant slices work well as buns.

A lettuce leaf has just one calorie, therefore lettuce wraps and vegetable buns are a great way to cut calories. Here are a few places to start with lettuce wraps and vegetable buns:

Chipotle lettuce wraps

  • Paleo lettuce wrap
  • Portobello bruschetta

11. Grilled veg kebab

Veggie kebabs are a tasty party food.

To create them, skewer chopped veggies and grill or barbeque them.

It is best to use vegetables that are in season. Get creative with these Cajun-style shrimp and bell pepper kebabs.

  1. Veggie burger swap

Easy to make veggie burgers that may be topped with even more veggies.

Vegetables, eggs, nuts or nut flours, and spices may be used to make veggie burger patties. Veggie burgers often include sweet potatoes or black beans.

Not all vegetarian burgers are veggie-packed. Look for products with vegetables as primary components.

Instead of a bread, wrap your vegetarian burger in a lettuce wrap.

  1. Vegetable tuna salad

For additional taste and nutrition, chopped vegetables may be added to tuna (or chicken or salmon) salad.

Add onions, carrots, cucumber, spinach, and herbs. Olives, red peppers, artichoke hearts and parsley are in this Mediterranean tuna salad.

  1. Stuff peppers

Stuffed bell peppers are baked with cooked meat, beans, rice, and spices.

For a chilly dish, layer cream cheese, sliced chicken or turkey, and spices.

Bell peppers are high in vitamins A and C.

Adding additional vegetables to stuffed bell peppers boosts their nutritional value. It’s easy to customize this Italian-style stuffed pepper dish.

  1. Vegetable guacamole

To make guacamole, mash ripe avocados with lemon or lime juice, garlic, and other spices. But don’t stop there.

Vegetables taste excellent with guacamole. Tomatoes, garlic, and onions are excellent choices. Also great on salads and baked sweet or white potatoes.

This kale guacamole recipe includes cilantro and salsa verde.

16. Veggies in meatloaf

Meatloaf may also help you obtain more veggies. It’s typically prepared using ground beef, eggs, breadcrumbs, and tomato sauce. It’s then shaped like a loaf, thus the name.

Onions, bell peppers, carrots, zucchini, and spinach are all good additions to meatloaf.

You may also create “meatloaf” using chickpeas, carrots, onions, and celery. Chickpeas will substitute meat and still be filling.

17. Make cauli-rice to Eat More Veggies

Cauliflower rice is prepared by pulsing florets in a food processor. It may then be used raw or cooked as a rice replacement. Also used to thicken stews and soups.

Cauliflower rice has just 5 grams of carbohydrates per cup, compared to 53 grams in a cup of white rice.

Cauliflower is also rich in vitamin C, K, folate, and potassium.

Not to mention broccoli, beets, carrots, zucchini, and sweet potatoes.

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