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09-22-2017, 09:55 AM | #16 |
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Re: Creative ideas for more veggies
My kids would rather snack on veg than have them at meals. Dips help, like hummus, salsa or french onion dip.
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Does your family like salads? A meal salad is a good veggie based meal. I make mine with less lettuce/greens and more other veggies both for cost control and because my kids have trouble eating a lot of greens.
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09-22-2017, 12:26 PM | #19 | |
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We do homemade pizza and I put out a mix of toppings and encourage tasting them raw and then cooked on the pizza. This is a good way to use up small portions of leftovers and works best when we have a guest, btw. I make pictures with food sometimes. Nothing pinterest level in quality, but it cracks her up to say "hahaha, I'm eating the dinosaur legs." Dr. Prager's brand veggie burgers are win for DD1, as are the spinach and broccoli potato products. |
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09-22-2017, 12:28 PM | #20 |
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Re: Creative ideas for more veggies
I've been doing the Autoimmune Protocol, and one of the suggestions is to use pureed cooked white sweet potato as a soup and gravy base. I love white sweet potatoes!
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09-22-2017, 12:59 PM | #21 |
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Re: Creative ideas for more veggies
I have never heard of or seen those! Off to google.
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09-22-2017, 02:16 PM | #22 |
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Re: Creative ideas for more veggies
One thing that has helped to up the veggies that my kids will eat is to have build-you-own dishes that include lots of different veggie choices. We do taco salads or nachos almost once a week and I put out tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, scallions, radishes, celery, carrots, olives, and any other veggie I can scare up whether or not it's traditional. With enough sour cream my youngest will even eat some.
We do Asian lettuce wraps the same way - seasoned ground beef or turkey served in romaine leaves with carrots, celery, cuke, peas, etc. One thing I picked up from the THM cookbook is to use okra in smoothies (mainly in place of banana) and to thicken sauces. It works particularly nicely in crockpot dishes and soups to thicken and keep them from breaking. My 10 year old hates the sight of okra, but loves my tomato soup and I just don't have the heart to let her know that it's about 1/3 okra.
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09-22-2017, 03:01 PM | #23 |
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Re: Creative ideas for more veggies
They are called Oriental Yams here at the regular grocery store. If you have an international market, they might carry them.
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09-23-2017, 02:22 AM | #24 |
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Re: Creative ideas for more veggies
Pretty much whatever I have on hand. For the immune boosting qualities, almost always at least two whole onions and a whole head of garlic. Cooked and pureed in to the broth it dissappears. I've added carrots, sweet potatoes, broccoli stalks, any kind of squash (zucchini, pumpkin, butternut, etc), and probably other things that I'm not thinking of right now. Pretty much anything that will cook down. Puree it up and it just makes for a nicely flavoured thicker broth.
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09-23-2017, 07:10 AM | #25 |
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Re: Creative ideas for more veggies
These are wonderful ideas! Veggies are on my mind as well lately,especially with two in school and bringing home colds. Zucchini lasagna is delicious but only one child will eat (some) of it. |
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09-29-2017, 07:15 PM | #26 |
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Re: Creative ideas for more veggies
So I added 8oz of chopped fresh mushrooms and a finely chopped orange bell pepper to the taco meat tonight and it sure was extra tasty. I'm not sure I could go back to just ground beef. It added such a wonderful flavor. Even the kids commented on how yummy it was.
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09-30-2017, 04:59 PM | #27 |
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Re: Creative ideas for more veggies
I made potato soup tonight, but forgot to buy some cauliflower to add. I'm so bummed I forgot. I did, however, shred up the last of the kale from the garden, diced up a red bell pepper, and a jalapeno from the garden and added those to the soup. So I got some extra veggies in there besides the regular onions and celery.
Must remember the cauliflower next time.
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09-30-2017, 05:18 PM | #28 | |
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Kale is $1 a bunch at Whole Foods right now Now I have 3 bunches of 3 different types to use!
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$1 a bunch for kale? Awesome. I'll have to check that out if I can get to that part of city. Save
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09-30-2017, 09:29 PM | #30 |
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Re: Creative ideas for more veggies
I made chicken pot pie tonight.
Chicken Peas Crust But the sauce was 3 cups veggie broth 3 celery stalks 1 carrot 8 oz mushrooms Spices Pureed the broth and veggies otherwise my kids won't eat mushrooms NO need to buy cream of mushroom of cream of chicken soup Much healthier and tastier
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